Catalogue description Document type: abstracts and letters. Recipient(s): Royal African Company. Recipient(s)...

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Details of T 70/2
Reference: T 70/2
Description:

Document type: abstracts and letters.

Recipient(s): Royal African Company.

Recipient(s) location: African House, London.

Sender(s): merchants and agents posted at various locations in the Caribbean, Africa, and ports in Britain, Ireland, and continental Europe.

Sender(s) location: Cape Coast Castle; Gambia and Fort James; Barbados; Whydah [Ouidah, Benin]; Jamaica; Sierra Leone; Sherbrow [Sherbro Island, Sierra Leone] and York Fort; Nevis; Antigua; Liverpool; Fyal [Faial Island, Portugal]; Rotterdam; Cork; Montserrat; Jamaica; Commenda; Falmouth; Portsmouth; Plymouth; Whitehaven, Bristol; Amsterdam.

Subjects: new arrivals at forts; condition and whereabouts of trade ships and slavers’ equipment; appraisal of personnel; shipment and receipt of goods and supplies; shipment of valuable goods and enslaved people; debts to the Royal African Company; fort supply levels and requests; trade of African pepper (“Mallagetta”); invoices and bills of exchange.

Original reference: [none].

Date: 1707–1713
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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