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Title Ship's Papers: Canton
Reference MH-20, Box 1, Folder 3
Library Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum
Collection Benjamin Shreve Papers (1793-1848)
Collection Series Shipping Papers
Date 1817-1820
Description Documents include correspondence relating to the goods that are to be purchased and traded, as well as shipping papers concerning the ship Canton. There are also many invoices and receipts of transactions.
Document Type Shipping Papers, Correspondence, Accounts, Business Records
Theme(s) Trade and Commerce; Employment and Labour
Keywords receipt, trade, cargo, health, vessel, voyage, sugar, tea, cassia, merchant, investment, supercargo, wages, maritime flag signalling, signal, purchases, sales, money, freight, chinaware, crew, invoice, nankeen
Countries China; USA; France; India
Places Boston; Marseille
Ports Guangzhou, China; Salem, USA
Ships Canton
People Joseph Peabody; Benjamin Shreve
Additional Information Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Peabody Essex Museum catalogue.
Copyright Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum