Notice for Commission Business of J.D. Townes & Webb.

• imprint_number: 1820.084
• title: Petersburg, July 31, 1820. Permit us to inform you, that we have formed a connection in business, under the firm of J.D. Townes & Webb, in the general commission & auction line, as heretofore conducted by J.D. Townes, to whom a residence of 12 years has given an intimate acquaintance with the productions of this and the adjoining state, viz.: tobacco, cotton, flour, wheat and Indian corn, with which this market is abundantly supplied. …
• sequence_number: 84
• year: 1820
• place_issued: Petersburg
• issuing_press: Uncertain
• author: J.D. Townes & Webb [firm].
• notes: Only known copy, held by the American Antiquarian Society, lacks a colophon; with multiple presses then operating in Petersburg, it is impracticable to attribute this item to any one of them, so the indeterminacy here.
  
  
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