Indian Antiquary Vol 61

Author(s): Richard Carnac Temple, Charles E A W Oldham, S Krishnaswami Aiyangar, Devadatta Ramkrishna Bhandarka
Publisher: Swati Publications

Page 323

SEPTEMEER, 1932] THE SCATTERGOODS AND THE EAST INDIA COMPANY
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Next year, when my mony comes to your hands, after my debts are all paid, send to Mr. Williamson 10000 rupees and home about 2000 pagodas; the rest imploy in stock or respondentia as you judge most for my advantage.
Memorandum: dont forgett to send home the bills of loading in your hands of mine and Mr. Chamberlin to send home on sundry shipps.
The Governor has forgott to pay me my part of a chest of ophium that he owed me on account of the ophium I deliverd him the last year, and he has a great many receipts, which please to aske for. Mr. Tomson will deliver them up, for I doe not care to lett any thing stand out.
I have deliverd Mrs. Ramsdon a slave girl called Christiana, which I have desired her to sell to the shipping for Manealla or any Portugees &ca., and orderd her to pay you the
mony.
I have likewise delivered you a note signd by Mr. John Raworth for to deliver me 100 Tale worth of gold on the safe arrivall of ship Ann.(28) When she comes you may speak to Mr. Raworth about [it], for I have given him such another on our ship Amity, so it will signify nothing. I have left with Mrs. Walker a very small parcell of China ware [which] she will tell you of when you talk with her about [it], and with Mrs. Langelier(29) my cott(30) and curtins to sell for my account.
If my two brothers[s] should want any mony to carry on any voyage forward, pray assist them what you have of mine and hope you will doe the same of yours
(Signed) J. SCATTERGOOD.
[NOTES ON DOCUMENT No. 62.]
(1) Up to this point the entries are the same as in Document No. 49.
(2) Padre Paulo de Saa died at Madras in August 1715.
(3) See p. 148. The Mary seems to have been commanded by both John Ouldham and William Hamilton. On 1 July she arrived from Fort St. David under Ouldham and in September her Muhammadan and Armenian freighters petitioned the Council for reparation for damage sustained to their goods. The affair was referred to "those Gentlemen that have been most conversant in the cases of freighters on English ships, as Messrs. John Scattergood, Benjamin Walker, Capt. Wm. Hood and Capt. Richard Williams. They all in general declare that they never knew any damage allow'd to Moors or Armenian freighters, let it arise any ways whatsoever......and to make this matter more clear Mr. Scattergood declares that there were a great number of the freighters bales damag'd on the St. Andrew, Capt. Thos. Greenhaugh, that time he was supracargo of her to Surat, and nothing allow'd for it " (Consultation at Fort St. George, 13 September 1715). Captain John Ouldham died at Madras in the following December.
(4) See Document No. 32 note (14).
(5) In the previous year the amount on this ship was Rs. 500.
(6) In the previous year the amount was Rs. 2,000.
(7) This seems to be a sum remaining for the voyage of the St. Andrew.
(8) For the George (not St. George) and the Shah (Shaw) Allum, see p. 148.
(9) These figures differ from those in the previous year in Document No. 49. (10) See p. 146 for this transaction.
(11) This is the only reference made by Scattergood to the result of the voyage of the Dubs of Cambridge. (13) See p. 146.
(13) Mr. C. E. A. W. Oldham suggests that "potoca" represents Port. pateca (see Dalgado's Glossario), which itself probably represents Hindi pataká, or patika, the former meaning a sash or waist-cloth, and the latter a turban-cloth.