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

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Details of T 70/15
Reference: T 70/15
Description:

Document type: abstracts and letters.

Recipient(s): Royal African Company.

Recipient(s) location: African House, London.

Sender(s): merchants, captains, and agents posted in the Caribbean and Cape Coast Castle [Ghana].

Sender(s) location: Jamaica; Barbados; Cape Coast Castle; Ophra, Arda [Allada, Benin]; Nevis; Virginia; Taccerada [? Takarada, India]; James Island; Montserrat; Sherbrow [Sherbro Island, Sierra Leone]; Bence Island [Bunce Island, Sierra Leone].

Subjects: bills of loading, credit, invoices, and bills of exchange; departures and arrivals of trade ships; shipment and trade of enslaved people; shipment and receipt of valuable goods, cotton, and sugar; factory goods in Ophra; transfer of goods within the Caribbean; personnel changes, deaths, and wages; requests for supplies; encounters with the Spanish; itemised lists of sales and receipts.

Original reference: [none].

Date: 1678–1681
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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