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America, Russia, Hemp, and Napoleonstrings, England played quite an important part in this trade. 14Scandinavia would continue in its role as the logical halfwayhouse for Russo-American trade. Swedish and Danish vesselswith Russian goods aboard would be commo n arrivals in ourports. For the rest of the eighteenth century most Americanvessels would find it more convenient to stop in Gothenburgand Copenhagen and trade for Russian goods there. 15 Themarket for the products w e were peddling was surer in Scandinaviathan in Russia, and Russian goods were nearly asplentiful there as in the country of their origin.But Russo-American trade had irrevocably begun. Merchants—Muscoviteand Yankee—had met and politelysounded the depth of each other's purse. An d they had agreedto do business.1. Wharton, Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence, VI, 249.2. Cresson, Dana, p. 244; James B . Hedges, The Browns of ProvidencePlantations: Colonial Years (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press,1952), p. 218.3. Letter from Francis Dana to Robert Livingston, 13 June 1783, O.S.,St. Petersburg, in Letters of John Jay and Francis W . Dana, Vol. II, inNational Archives, Papers of the Continental Congress; Rigsarkivet,Rigsdagsgarden, Copenhagen, Denmark, Sundtolreg 1783, 1. bd. 2,P- 357 r ­4. "Daniel McNeill," Dictionary of American Biography, ed. DumasMalone (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933), XII, 149-50.5. Francis Dana to Robert Livingston 19 May 1783, O.S., St. Petersburg,in Dana Papers (Massachusetts Historical Society); Dana to Livingston,13 June 1783, O.S. , St. Petersburg, in Letters of John Jay and FrancisW . Dana, Vol. II, in Papers of the Continental Congress.6. Despite the English or American ring to the names "Kingston" and"Norwood," her port of registry was St. Petersburg. She was probably anEnglish ship operating under a Russian flag. Rigsarkivet, Rigsdagsgarden,Copenhagen, Denmark, Sundtolreg, 2. Vol. 2, p. 28 V ; no. 292.7. The Boston Gazette, 15 December 1783, says Dana and Allen returnedon the ship "Empress of Russia." Cresson's biography of Dana says44