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Account books, letterbooks and memorandum books for the brig Canton.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Houqua, 1769-1843.
- Canton (Ship : 1835-1874).
- New Hazard (Brig).
- Alcohol.
- Coffee.
- Commerce.
- Compradors.
- Cost.
- Fruit.
- Ginger.
- Linguistics.
- Porcelain.
- Sales.
- Shipbuilding.
- Shipping.
- Ships--Cargo.
- Silk.
- Spices.
- Sugar.
- Tea.
- Weights and measures.
- China--Guangzhou.
- Massachusetts--Newbury.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Production:
- [Place of production not identified] : [producer not identified], 1816-1817.
- Summary:
- Two books of accounts for the ships Canton and New Hazard. They give details of costs for supplies, cargo and services in China, as well as information on the dimensions of the ships and the identity of the merchants involved in the trade.
- Notes:
- AMDigital Reference: MH-20, box 8, folder 1
- Collection: Benjamin Shreve Papers (1793-1848)
- Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Phillips Library catalogue.
- Title from publisher's website.
- Description based on publisher metadata (viewed October 30, 2024).
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