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Invoices etc., Notebook of Thos. Hyam : paper booklet of 24 folios, incomplete: Items...

Catalogue reference: HW/97/2

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This record is a file about the Invoices etc., Notebook of Thos. Hyam : paper booklet of 24 folios, incomplete: Items... dating from Aug - Sept 1721.

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HW/97/2

Date

Aug - Sept 1721

Description

Invoices etc., Notebook of Thos. Hyam : paper booklet of 24 folios, incomplete: Items include wines (madeira, etc.) ginger, molasses, sugar, tobacco, logwood, cloth, etc.

"Form of a certificate for a ship that hath produced a certificate in the plantations of bond given in Gt. Britain to return to Gt. Britain only" (i.e. compelling ships to land colonial products in Britain alone) p.25.

Agreement for hiring a ship: Thos. Hyam of London, merchant, hires of J. Nicholson of London, woodmonger & others, the George, 300 tuns, master Thos. Clarke, to take 16-18 keels of coal (each keel containing 8 chaldrons) from Newcastle to Copenhagen, at price of £8.6.8 per keel, plus 5 guineas primage .... p.38

Instructions by owner, Thos. Hyam, to Jas. Jacob, master of the sloop Amity: roughly the plan is to take a load of corn to Lisbon, pick up a load of salt & take it to Rhode Island, take a loading of provisions at New York & take it to Jamaica, & bring back a fine freight, not sugar or cotton, but gold, pieces of eight elephants teeth, tortoiseshell, etc., the whole trip to take about 8 or 9 mouths. But the captain is allowed a great deal of discretion. Instructions by Thos. Hyam to Elisha Gibbs, master of the sloop Unity, to deliver logwood to Hamburg.

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English

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