'Ship. Arabia. Factor'

Title:

'Ship. Arabia. Factor'

Date:

1696/1708

Description:

Ledger of the Arabia Factor(Captain Abraham Jackson), to accompany her voyage to Mocha, 1701-03.The ledger contains the accounts of pay and other financial records of each of the ship's crewmembers.There is a list of the ship's crew, giving quality [rank] and wages on folio 71.The volume also contains miscellaneous (inserted) accounting papers relating to certain other East India Company ships, circa 1711-15, on folios 4-64, and folios 120-121. These papers include: passenger property lists (folios 4-5); lists of wages; notes and calculations; lists of ships; accounting and wages records of the ships Tankervile[ Tankerville], Aurengzeb, Hallifax[ Halifax], Kathrine[ Katherine], Abington, Mary, Howland, Montague, Toddington, Success, Rochester,and Sarum; certificates of the examination of goods (folios 49-63, passim); wages records of the Arabia Merchantand London; manifest of goods to be laden aboard the Grantham; and wages records of the St George(folios 120-121).1 volume (133 folios)There is an alphabetical index of names on folios 65-70, which refers to the accounts of individual crewmembers within the volume, in accordance with the original foliation.Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 93; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The volume includes a sequence of blank pages, ff 94-133, which have not been digitised.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Accounts ledgers
Wages

Extent:

1 volume (133 folios)

Rights:

Open Government Licence

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000001320.0x000062_ar
81055/vdc_100000001320.0x000062_en
IOR/L/MAR/A/CLXX

Is part of:

British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers

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