Receipts, Canton in China, 1784-1786.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Green, John, 1736-1799.

Contributor:

Molineux, Frederick.

Hubbart, Samuel.

Gilchrist, James.

Norris, Charles, 1765-1813

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

Morris, Robert, 1734-1806.

Morris, Robert.

Empress of China (Ship).

Merchant ships--United States--18th century.

Merchant ships.

Guangzhou Shi (China)--Commerce--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Early works to 1800.

Guangzhou Shi (China).

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Commerce--China--Guangzhou Shi--Early works to 1800.

Philadelphia (Pa.).

United States.

Genre:

accounts

receipts (financial records)

Manuscripts, American.

Manuscripts, Chinese.

Penn Provenance:

Library of Frank Godey, 1928.

Physical Description:

1 v. (72 leaves)

Other Title:

Receits

Place of Publication:

1784-1786.

Language Note:

In English and Chinese.

Summary:

Receipts on the account of Captain John Green for two voyages of the ship Empress of China, written primarily in the hands of F. Molineux (1784) and Samuel Hubbart (1786). Most transactions took place in Canton, China, with signatures and notations of Chinese merchants in Chinese on each receipt. Includes trade items purchased for Robert Morris. Signatures in the volume include John Green, Charles Norris, James Gilchrist, and others.

Notes:

Title from f. 2 "F. Molineux Receipts Canton in China October 8, 1784"

Notebook has been disbound and preserved.

Blue cover titled "Receits" with Chinese characters.

Receipt on f. 68v includes the names, Charles Norris, Capt. [John] Barry, Mr. [William] Turn Bull and Doctor [Benjamin] Franklin.

Publications about:

English text of receipt book was transcribed and published in Samuel W. Woodhouse, "The Voyage of the Empress of China," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 63 (1939):30-36 and in Philip Chadwick Foster Smith, The Empress of China, Philadelphia Maritime Museum, 1984, pp. 259-265.

OCLC:

155925152