nen 32. 0. 0
1 pc. Striped Do. 20. 0. 0
1 red Skin 1. 0. 0
2 pc. Cambrick 40. 0. 0
1 pc. Fustian 10. 0. 0
1 Coarse Table Cloth and 2 Napkins 1. 0. 0
1 Box of Glass 1. 0. 0
2 Large Pewter Plates or Dishes 4. 0. 0
1 Mettle Salver 15. 0
1 Brass Coffee Pot 1. 0. 0
3 Pewter Measures 15. 0
24243 lb. of Varinas[6] Tobacco in Packs at 20d. 2020. 5. 0
37127 lb. of Tobacco at 8d. 1237.11. 4
44 Ozs. and 16 p.w. Gold at L24 p. Oz 1091. 4. 0[7]
463 Ozs. and 12 Gr. Silver at 33s. p. oz. 764.
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L61631.12. 2

[Footnote 4: Up to 1800 cigars were almost unknown in the continental
colonies; North American smokers used pipes. In the West Indies,
however, where Columbus in his first month encountered the cigar, and
in South America, the cigar was the customary form and the pipe was
almost unknown.]

[Footnote 5: Dowlas was a coarse fabric of linen; fustian, mentioned
just below, of cotton.]

[Footnote 6: Varinas is a district in Venezuela from which came a
tobacco especially good for the making of cigars.]

[Footnote 7: This sum should apparently be L1075 4s. Also, the sum
total, below, is not quite correct; but, even in depreciated Rhode
Island currency, it was a sum worth contending for in prize courts.]

Given under Our Hands at Newport this 8th Day
of June 1745.

Signed by
WM. STRENGTHFIELD.
WM. MUMFORD.
GEORGE WANTON.

[Endorsed:] An Acct. of Dutch Ship _William_
Cargo a Prize.

_162. A Proctor's Account. 1745._[1]

[Footnote 1: Massachusetts Historical Society.]

Zachariah Bourryau Esqr. Dr. to John Smith.

Foster Cunliffe Esquire[2] and others Owners of the Ship Called the
_Angola_[3] whereof George Smithson lately and Philip de Anieta
afterwards was Master and her Tackle, Apparel and Furniture and Also
of the Goods, Wares and Marchandize