An interesting group of letters from an English merchant based in Cádiz, Spain to a Philadelphia merchant and shipbuilder, touching on a variety of trans-Atlantic business matters, European politics, and the ill-fated 1733 Spanish flotilla (in which the author had a stake but was insured) wrecked by a hurricane off.....
An important dos-à-dos manuscript comprising the personal and governmental ledger of a long-standing governor of the Connecticut Colony, and, in a different and earlier hand, a technical treatise on fortifications—together providing an extraordinarily granular portrait of material life, legislative expenses, and defensive concerns in colonial America. This unusual manuscript comprises.....
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A manuscript receipt documenting Benedict Arnold’s activity as a lumber merchant just a few years before the American Revolution. This document records the sale of twenty-three planks of mahogany wood (comprising 2,284 feet) from Jamaica, which were received in Liverpool on August 2nd, 1771. The wood was transported by the.....