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

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Details of T 70/29
Reference: T 70/29
Description:

Document type: letters.

Recipient(s): Royal African Company.

Recipient(s) location: African House, London.

Sender(s): company agents and governor’s council at CCC [Cape Coast Castle] and other African forts; agents and captains in London, Bristol, and Birmingham; administrative offices in London.

Sender(s) location: Cape Coast Castle; London; Gambia; Whydah [Ouidah, Benin].

Subjects: departures and arrivals of trade ships; shipment and trade of enslaved people and valuable goods; dealings with the French and Dutch; personnel salaries, disputes, and deaths; invoices and receipts; accounts of trade and transfers; requests for, and shipment of, supplies and enslaved people; bills of loading.

Original reference: first.

Note: 1105 on back cover. Contains also the outward letters for 1750-1764
Date: 1751–1763
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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