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Ledger of the brig Comet on a voyage to Canton.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shreve, Benjamin, 1790-1839.
- Comet (Ship).
- Bills of lading.
- Commerce.
- Commercial products.
- Cost.
- Dyes and dyeing.
- Factories.
- Freight and freightage.
- Gunpowder.
- Investments.
- Invoices.
- Linguistics.
- Merchants.
- Porcelain.
- Prices.
- Sales.
- Shipping.
- Ships--Cargo.
- Silk.
- Sugar.
- Supercargos.
- Tea.
- Wages.
- China--Guangzhou.
- Massachusetts--Boston.
- Massachusetts--Salem.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Production:
- [Place of production not identified] : [producer not identified], 1821-1823.
- Summary:
- A series of instructions to Benjamin Shreve, supercargo of the Comet, from various American merchants. They discuss the current market for Chinese goods in America, and give instructions on what he should purchase in Canton, depending on prices there. The ledger also contain the individual accounts of these different merchants, and information on the ship's expenses.
- Notes:
- AMDigital Reference: MH-20, box 8, folder 9
- 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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