Crommelin & Sons to Lopez. August 2, 1774
Item
Holding institution
Collection
Aaron Lopez papers (P-11)
Location
Box 14, folder 30, doc. 12
Title
Crommelin & Sons to Lopez. August 2, 1774
Document Type
Date
1774-08-02
Creator or Sender
Daniel Crommelin & Sons
Location (creator or sender)
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Recipient
Aaron Lopez
Location (recipient)
Newport, Rhode Island (USA)
Language
eng
Synopsis
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”.
Existence and location of originals
Newport Historical Society, vol. 16, no. 69