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added miscellaneous cargoes from the North to the overladen
wharves of Wilmington.

The following table illustrates the business of Wilmington
from December 1, 1851, to December 1, 1852:

COASTWISE ExPpoRTS FROM WILMINGTON FROM DECEMBER 1, 1851, TO
DECEMBER 1, 1852.

Sawed timber, 17,135,889 feet $272,585.77
Pitch-pine timber, 1,025,202 feet 12,815.01
Spirits turpentine, 96,277 barrels 1,707,999.75
Rosin, 320,219 barrels 560,383.26
Tar, 17,522 barrels 35,044.00
Pitch, 6,660 barrels 9,157.00

Turpentine, raw, 63,071 barrels 220,748.50
Cotton, 12,988 bales 454,580.00
Rice, clean, 2,300 casks 37,375.00
Rice, rough, 64,842 bushels 58,357.80
Peanuts, 93,255 bushels 93,255.00

Corn, Indian, 5,663 bushels 3,009.64
Staves, 27,000 105.00
Cotton yarn, 2,434 bales 97,360.00
Sheetings, 1,702 bales 102,120.00
Flax seed, 165 casks

Flax seed, 1,253 bags 6,052.25

Sundries 320,613.86

Coastwise total $3,991,561.84
Foreign exports 549,107.74

Total coastwise and foreign $4,540,669.58

A FEW OF THE PRINCIPAL ForREIGN EXPoRTS ARE SUBJOINED.

Lumber, feet 15,201,000
Timber, feet 2 383,814

33,596

The class of merchants and professional men of those days
was highly respectable and respected; nearly all were men of
education and refinement, and they were always keenly inter-
ested in public affairs. I note from memory some of the more
important business men and firms of importers, commission
merchants, and shipbrokers, physicians, bankers, and lawyers
who were established between Orange Street and Red Cross
Street on the river front, along Water Street and Nutt Street,
and uptown:

T. C. & B. G. Worth James H. Chadbourn & Co.
N. G. Daniel Kidder & Martin
Pierce & Dudley Joseph H. Neff

Early Years

C. W. Styron

James D. Cumming
W. H. McKoy & Co.
Houston & West

J. R. Blossom & Co.
A. H. VanBokkelen
J. E. Lippitt

H. B. BHilers

J. L. Hathaway & Utley
A. W. Coville
DeRosset & Brown
Murray & Murchison

James T. Petteway & Co.

Ellis & Mitchell
Hall & Armstrong
W. H. McRary & Co,
M. McInnis

Avon E. Hall

Harriss & Howell
J. & D. MacRae & Co.

B. G. & W. J. Monroe
Clark & Turlington

Henry Nutt
Cc. H. Robinson & Co.

A. D. Cazaux
Alexander Oldham
Smith & McLaurin
O. G. Parsley & Co.
Joseph H. Flanner
W. B. Flanner
James I. Metts, sr.
G. O. VanAmringe
H. P. Russell & Co.
P. K. Dickinson

Thomas D. Walker, president
Wilmington & Manchester

Railroad.

William S. Ashe, president Wil-
mington & Weldon Railroad.

John Dawson

P. W. Fanning
John S. James

W. C. Bettencourt
Zebulon Latimer
Adam Empie
Thomas C, Miller

Thomas H. Wright, banker

Joshua G. Wright
Gilbert Potter
James S. Green
William A. Williams

Rankin & Martin
Anderson & Savage
O. P. Meares

W. B. Meares
George Davis

W. A. Wright
Robert Strange
Duncan K. MacRae
Samuel J. Person
DuBrutz Cutlar
Griffith J. McRee
Alexander Anderson
Dr. E. A. Anderson
Stephen Jewett
Timothy Savage

H. R. Savage

L. A. Hart

George Myers
Charles D. Myers

J. S. Robinson
Hedrick & Ryan

J. S. Williams
James Dawson
Richard J. Jones
Dr. J. Fergus McRee
Dr. J. F. McRee, jr.
Dr. James H. Dickson
Dr. F. J. Cutlar

Dr. William J. Harriss
Dr. John D, Bellamy

Dr. William George Thomas

Dr. F. J. Hill

Dr. John Hill

Dr. W. A. Berry
Dr. J. C. Walker
John Wood

Dr. F. W. Potter
Dr. John Hampden Hill
Louis Erambert
Col. James G. Burr
Alfred Alderman
James S. Alderman
Edward B. Dudley
James Owen
Alexander MacRae
Asa A. Brown

E. P. Hall

Joseph H. Watters
Rev. Father Murphy
Rev. John L. Pritchard

S. D. Wallace