On the invoice itself the date is lost but the postmark is 6 June 1838
Thomas Jones, Penmachno
Bought of George Crosfield & Co
Payment in Two Months
I Tun (a barrel) Molasses & 1 Bag Rice
The goods
are listed
6 Lumps (sugar)
½ Cwt (a hundredweight) of currants
Total cost was £26 and 11 shillings
from Conway Castle, bag and shipping
It is
signed at the bottom - Geo Crosfield
The big hole in the middle
is where it was stored on a spike.
Documents
like this were not put in envelopes but folded and the address written on the
other side. Note that there is no stamp
– it was not until 1840 that postage stamps (Britain had the first stamps in
the world) were introduced. So the
sender – George Crosfield – has written
his name on the side of the address area to indicate that he would pay the Post
Office.
Robert David Roberts, the original owner of Edge House, started his career working for Thomas Jones.
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