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Bills of Lading : Manuscript, Mercantile Papers;document 1728-1788

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Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2012.
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1 online resource
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Adam Matthew Digital (Firm)
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Summary
Description: Nine printed bills of lading, completed in manuscript, for ships bound for Marseilles, including those for Le Décidé bound from Salonika, 1728; St Jean l'Évangéliste, from Istanbul, 1733; Le Benjamin, from Smyrna, 1763; Sainte Marie, from Port Maurice, 1765; La Fortune, from St Pierre, Martinique, 1765; La Napolitaine, from Naples, 1778; L'Aimable Marguerite, from Smyrna, 1779; S. Giovanni Battista, from Genoa, 1787 and 1788. Also includes a similar bill of lading for La Vièrge de Grace, bound from Marseilles to St Malo, 1729. Merchandise carried included raw cotton, yellow wax, fish, oil, vinegar, soap, coffee and silk.
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A bill of lading is a document that is issued by the transportation carrier to the shipper acknowledging that they have received the shipment of goods and that they have been placed on board a particular vessel which is bound for a particular destination and states the terms in which these goods received are to be carried.
AMDigital Reference: MS464.
Original Version
Reproduction of: Bills of Lading 1728-1788.
Location of Originals
Senate House Library, University of London
Copyright Note
Senate House Library, University of London
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