Lot 941
[New Orleans] J.B. McCarty, letter of payment to Thomas Mcintire, dated 16 Nov. 1782 and received March 1783 in Havana via Seagrove, Spanish text. E300-500 Note: McCarty is considered to be one of Louisiana's great planter barons. He was a merchant, owned a sawmill, purchased American goods on commission for planters, collected debts from planters, and supplied implements to them. He was related to both Miro' and Pontalba. There were a dozen systems for smuggling. American or British merchants could send goods destined for New Orleans through French Santo Domingo or Spanish Cuba in ships which carried papers attesting that the vessel was owned by a Spaniard, generally a resident of New Orleans acting as the alleged owner. An in-law of Governor Miro', J.B. Macarty was up to His powdered wig in such semi-legal, quasi-legal, and illegal schemes for circumventing the rules, as were many merchants. Ref.: Christine Vella, Intimate Enemies, pgs.
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