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Title Accounts of Clothing and Provisions Taken on Board the Bark Peru
Reference MSS 10, Folder 66
Library Nantucket Historical Association
Collection Account Books Collection
Date 1851-1855
Description Invoices of the various items of clothing and provisions that were taken on board the whaling bark Peru. Document also includes the rates of pay owed to the crew on their return, and a letter to the captain of the vessel giving instructions.
Document Type Accounts, Business Records, Correspondence
Theme(s) Trade and Commerce; Employment and Labour
Keywords sperm oil, whaling, voyage, invoice, crew, accounts, wages, money, debt, payment, clothes, clothing, provisions, food, rice, salt beef, molasses, butter, sugar, bread, tea, cargo
Countries USA; Chile
Ports Nantucket, USA; Talcahuano, Chile
Ships Peru
Additional Information Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Nantucket Historical Association catalogue.
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