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.
Sources
American Jewish Historical Society, box 2, folder 6, doc. 29 and 30.
Lopez to Peters. December 29, 1769
Author
Lara Rodrigues