Crommelin & Sons to Lopez. August 2, 1774
Item
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Collection
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Aaron Lopez papers (P-11)
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Location
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Box 14, folder 30, doc. 12
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Title
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Crommelin & Sons to Lopez. August 2, 1774
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Date
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1774-08-02
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Creator or Sender
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Daniel Crommelin & Sons
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Location (creator or sender)
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Amsterdam (Netherlands)
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Recipient
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Aaron Lopez
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Location (recipient)
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Newport, Rhode Island (USA)
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Language
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eng
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Synopsis
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Crommelin & Sons updates Lopez that they negotiated the two remittances Captain Hathaway had made on Lopez’s account (on Cooptad & Rochusen and Whaly Hudig, both of Rotterdam). They lament the “bad treatment” that Captain Clark met in Suriname – “but the distrust of that collony is so very great, that without their having taking some measures tho’ hurtful to trade, most of the inhabitants would have been ruined”. Uriah Hendricks of New York sent them a bill on Lopez account, which was protested for none acceptance and seems that it will not be paid. They cannot dispatch the goods Lopez’s desires to have by the sloop Betsey “as in the present circumstances of time, when we see the British parliament taking such violent measures to bring the Americans to their terms, and are at a loss to guess where they will end, and of that fatal consequences they may be attended to both parties”.
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Existence and location of originals
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Newport Historical Society, vol. 16, no. 69
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Access points: subjects
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Betsey
