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

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Details of T 70/6
Reference: T 70/6
Description:

Document type: abstracts and letters.

Recipient(s): Royal African Company.

Recipient(s) location: African House, London.

Sender(s): merchants, agents and officers posted in Africa and the Caribbean.

Sender(s) location: Gambia and James Island; Sherbrow [Sherbro Island, Sierra Leone] and York Fort; Cape Coast Castle; Commenda; Succondee [Sekondi Zongo, Ghana]; Annamaboe and Charles Fort [Anomabu, Ghana]; Whydah [Ouidah, Benin] and Williams Fort; Sierra Leone and Tarsa Island [Tasso Island, Sierra Leone]; Dixcove Fort; Shido [Shido fort, Gomoa Fetteh, Ghana]; Accra; Uncon Valley; Cape Lopez [Gambon]; St Thomas [? St Thomas Island, Caribbean]; River Manah; Bahia, Brazil.

Subjects: correspondence from aboard trade ships; fort repairs; shipment and receipt of supplies; transfer of inventories, invoices, accounts, and council minutes; departures and arrivals of trade ships; requests for supplies and men (soldiers); dealings with the French and Dutch; trade and appraisals of valuable goods and enslaved people; personnel deaths and changes at forts.

Original reference: No 2.

Note: 1124 on front cover
Date: 1714–1719
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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