Records, 1835-1841.

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Records, 1835-1841.

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Business correspondence, portage bills, shipping receipts, and accounts of freight and disbursements; including documents relating to voyage of ship Sarah Sheafe, Captain William H. Merry, master, from New York to Charleston and Trieste (Italy) in 1838-1839. The ship's portage bill lists the names of the crew and the freight account records the delivery of 1,060 bales of cotton in Trieste. Also including letters from Charleston merchants John Fisher; L.D. Fordyce and Company; and Higham, Fife, and Company; also including receipts for goods shipped from New York to Charleston; accounts of cotton shipped from North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida; and portage bill, 1836, for voyage of the ship Splendid from New York to Mobile to Liverpool.

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7449828

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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L.D. Fordyce and Company.

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Bell, Abraham.

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Fisher, John C., 1922-....

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Merry, William H., Capt.

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Abraham Bell and Company (Firm)

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Wholesale merchants, importers, and cotton brokers based in New York City; owned by a family of Quakers, this firm exported cotton from the Southern United States and brought back Irish and English immigrants in the 1830's and 1840's; the firm sailed vessels between Europe, New York, and Charleston, S.C., or Mobile, Alabama; the firm shipped goods south from New York, transported cotton to Europe, and traded across the Atlantic with Liverpool, Ireland, or the Mediterranean; the firm specialized ...

Higham, Fife, and Company (Charleston, S.C.)

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