Rec'd New York March 2nd – 1801
of Nich's Anthony One Hundred
and Seventy Seven Dollars on
Account of Hides and Skins
Doll 177 John Hilliker
Received New York 21 Dec'r 1803
from Mr Allard Anthony one
Hundred & Fifty Dollars and
fifteen Cents on Account
$150..15 J & G DePeyster
(James W. DePeyster {Feb 23, 1745 – Feb 12, 1812} and his son Gerard affluent early New York Merchants of Dutch ancestery, A British Loyalist, James W. left New York for Curacao during the American Revolution returning in the mid to late 1780s. He owned James W. DePeyster's and Co, an import company. [Johannes De Peyster came to “New Amsterdam” New York City from Haarlam, Holland in the mid 1600s.] James W. DePeyster's painting by relative Charles Wilson Peale is in the possession of the San Antonio Museum of Art)