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Diverse Cloths and Goods Go On Sale In Savannah Store
A December 15 shipment aboard the ship Thomas Gibbons is offered for sale at John Hill's store on Caske Trace. The inventory includes a wide range of textiles such as blacks blues browns olive and mixed cloths, flannels linens cotton shirtings laces shawls muslins cambrics and ginghams. Hardware cutlery blankets blankets and various houseware items plus sugar coffee and naval stores. Also listed are gun powder shot and a case of fowling pieces. The note mentions daily arrivals and sale by invoice package or piece by J S Walker with payments via bills on New York Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Gibbons
John Hill
Bates
London
Georgia
Savannah
Hugh Taylor Robt. S. Sayre
Augusta
Bristol
Florence and
Barcelona
Russia
Marseilles
Jackson
Josh Hyson
L. P. Tenneiffe
Liverpool
Ann
Philadelphia
B. Orly & B. No
New-York