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Revised Aug 27 2021

Providence Logbook Feb 21, 1793

Remarks in Port Morant

1793 February

Thursday 21 Ditto Weather. Unbent the Main Sail and Jibb. Sailmakers repairing Sails and Boatswain about the Rigging.

  Landed the remainder of the Plants the whole amounting to

105 Breadfruit
2 Vayhee
23 Nanka
14 Rattah
8 Jamblang
4 Jambo Iremavah
13 Jambo maree
5 Mango
5 Namnam
2 Blimbing
3 Chermailah
3 Lemon China
1 Breadfruit bears Seed from Timor
10 Plants from Seed of Namnam, Nanka, Sow and others
7 Peeah
5 Peenang Beetle luxeries of the Malays
2 Seeree boah
2 Seeree down
2 Bughnah Kanangah Perfumes used by the Malays
2 Cosambee
2 Bintaloo
1 Poorah,oee a Tree, the Bark of which makes Cloth of Otaheite
3 Almonds
3 Oraiah
10 Ayyah
3 Saow
7 Avvee
2 Coffee
1 Dwarf Peach
3 Mattee Produce the fine red dye of Otaheite
12 Ettow
2 Tick The Hard Timber
1 Nutmeg
268 Total landed here in the finest order.
110
136
109
623 Total landed at Jamaica for which the Chairman, Mr. Shirley, gave a receipt.
Among these fine Plants landed at Port Morant, I took care to have placed in the general Deposit, my Six large Breadfruit Trees which were Seven feet high. The General Depot at Bath was to have 66 Breadfruit Plants and all the others marked off, and at the General Depot at Easts Garden 30 Breadfruit Plants besides a Proportion of ever other sort.

Seeds left with Mr. Wiles Mountain Rice of two Sorts Peeah Avvee Saow or Sow Rattah Ettow Tooteree Ahootoo Almonds Mangos

Here follows an Account of the result of my Voyage showing an exact Statement where every Plant was landed.

Kind of Plant Plants
landed
at
St. Helena
Plants
landed
at
St. Vincents
Plants landed at Jamaica
Hendersons
Wharf for
County of
Middlesex
Greenwich
for County
Surry & gen'l
Depot
Port Morant
for Surry
& general
Depot
Savannah
la Mar
for County of
Cornwall
Otaheite
Breadfruit 12 331 84 75 105 83
Rattah, a kind of Chesnut 4 25 5 9 14 5
Ayyah, Jambo Iremavah of the East 5 38 6 18 10 7
Avvee, a kind of Apple 2 9 " 3 7 "
Oraiah, a fine Plantain " 3 " " 3 "
Vaihee, a Mountain Plantain " " " " 2 "
Peeah, Sago Root 2 7 " " 7 "
Cocoa Nutt " 4 " 2 " "
Ettow, form a Red Dye 4 7 " " 12 "
Mattee, ditto 1 3 " " 3 "
Poorah,ow, Cloth Plant " " " " 1 "
New Guinea
Sao or Sow a kind of Plumb " 2 " " 3 "
Timor
Breadfruit " 2 " " " "
Ditto which bears Seed " " " " 1 "
Mango 2 15 4 4 5 4
Jamblang " 10 " 7 8 "
Jambo Iremavah 4 5 " " 4 "
Jambo Maree 2 9 " " 13 "
Blimbing " 2 " " 2 "
Chermailah " 3 " " 3 "
Karambolah " 1 " " " "
Nonerang, or Lemon China 1 3 " " " "
Cosambee " 2 " " 2 "
Nanka 4 40 10 14 23 10
Namnam " " " " 5 "
Pomegranates " " " 2 " "
Seereeboah or long Pepper, Beetle luxury 2 2 " " 2 "
Seereedown, ditto 2 2 " " 2 "
Peenang or Beetle Nutt 2 4 " " 5 "
Namnam, Sow Nanka & others raised for Seed " " " " 10 "
Bintabo | Perfumes " " " " 2 "
Dangreedah | Shrubs " 2 " " " "
Bughnah Hanangah | Trees 1 3 " " 2 "
St. Helena
Plantain " 3 " " " "
China Orange " " " " 3 "
Dwarf Peach " " " " 1 "
Almonds 2 2 " " 3 "
Coffee " 5 1 2 2 "
Gwanah 1 " " "
St. Vincents
Nutmeg " " " " 1
Tic or Jattee, Hard Timber of the East Indies
brought from Timor.
" " " " 2
50 544 110 135 268 109
Total 1217 Plants

[The "'s are not ditto marks. They were used (inconsistently) to signify a blank cell.]


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