BENEDICT ARNOLD SELLS LUMBER TO THE BRITISH
VIA THE SOMETIME SLAVE SHIP UNITY, 1771

A manuscript receipt documenting Benedict Arnold’s activity as a lumber merchant just a few years before the American Revolution. This document records the sale of twenty-three planks of mahogany wood (comprising 2,284 feet) from Jamaica, which were received in Liverpool on August 2nd, 1771. The wood was transported by the.....