Industry, John Peters, Newport to Mole Saint-Nicolas, 1769
Item
Year
1769
Title
Industry, John Peters, Newport to Mole Saint-Nicolas, 1769
Vessel name
Vessel type
Brigantine
Captain / Master
John Peters
Owner (vessel)
Aaron Lopez
Owner (cargo)
Aaron Lopez
Anchor
Newport, Rhode Island (USA)
Destination
Mole Saint-Nicolas, Hispaniola (Haiti)
Cargo
10 boxes of spermaceti candles, 4 kegs of hogsfat, 4 kegs of tallow, 9 1/2 barrels of jamaica rum, 16 barrels of ship bread, 14 barrels of shad, 49 barrels of cod, 10 barrels of lamp oil, 71 barrels of rosin, 70 barrels of beef, 2 1/2 barrels of beef, 16 1/2 barrels of pork, 76 kegs of sounds and tongues, 37 cheeses, 55 inches 1/2 of oak plank, 75 inch and 1/4 of oak plank, 40679 foot pine boards, 10875 pine shingles, 3600 of sugar hogshead staves, 93 shaken hogsheads, 2700 1/3 hogsheads of hoops, 4 pieces of blue curtain calico, 2 riding chairs and hardness, 14 horses, 20 sheep and fodder, 6 kegs cherry rurh?, 20 water hogsheads, and 30 boxes of spermaceti.
Consignee
Manuel Rodrigues
Chronology
Bill of lading: December 29, 1769
Details
Instructions to the captain: December 29, 1769 (the same date of the bill of lading)
In Mole Saint-Nicolas: Captain Peters is instructed to deliver the cargo to Manuel Rodrigues agreeable to bills of lading, who will deliver Peters a cargo of molasses and etc. There also is a possibility that the merchant Abraham Sarzedas will send sugar to Lopez.
Access points: locations
Access points: persons
Sources
American Jewish Historical Society, box 2, folder 6, doc. 29 and 30.
Author
Lara Rodrigues