Bill of lading for a cargo of coffee bound from Cayes, Saint-Domingue to Nantes : manuscript.

Format:

Manuscript

Contributor:

Debauve, Jean-Louis, former owner.

Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Coffee industry--Haiti--Les Cayes.

Coffee industry.

Haiti--History--To 1791.

Haiti.

Shipping--Haiti--Les Cayes--History--Early works to 1800.

Shipping.

French colonies.

Genre:

bills of lading

Blank forms.

Manuscripts, French -- 18th century.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by magistrate, historian, and literary critic Jean-Louis Debauve (1926-2016; stamp, Des Archives et Collections de J. L. Debauve, verso).

Sold by Samuel Gedge Ltd (Hanworth, Norwich, United Kingdom), 2025.

Physical Description:

1 item (1 leaf) : paper ; 18 x 24 cm

Production:

Les Cayes, Haiti, 1790 July 7.

Contained In:

Miscellaneous Manuscripts. Box 26 Folder 33

Summary:

Printed document, decorated with a woodcut of a merchant vessel within a shield, completed in manuscript. Records the shipping of plantation coffee from the port of Cayes, on the French Caribbean island colony of Saint-Domingue (in modern Haiti), to the French port of Nantes. Bears the printed name of "Bontant, Fruchard & Compagnie," a trading company in Cayes, which has been crossed out and replaced in ms. with a merchant named "Chevalier." Nicholas-François Fruchard is recorded as a Saint-Domingue coffee planter, with Nantes relatives recorded as owning several slave-trading ships.

Cited as:

Bill of Lading for a Cargo of Coffee (Misc Mss Box 26 Folder 33). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1530413843