'Ship Severn 1744'

Title:

'Ship Severn 1744'

Date:

1742/1757

Description:

Ledger of the East India Company ship the Severn[Captain Joseph Collier/Richard Dorrell]. The ledger appears to be for the ship's first voyage, which was from England to Batavia [Jakarta] and back, since all of the entries cover the period 1742-1744, with the exception of one entry dated January 1757, which notes a payment into the Company's Treasury.The ledger contains the accounts of pay and other financial records of each of the ship's crew members, including details of fees paid to Greenwich hospital (this was a hospital in the older sense of the word, serving as a home for retired sailors).Also included in the ledger is a piece of blotting paper (folio 58).1 volume (69 folios)There is a roughly alphabetical index of names on folios 3-8, which refers to the accounts of individual crewmembers within the volume, in accordance with the original pagination.Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 71; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Accounts ledgers
Wages
Sailors

Extent:

1 volume (69 folios)

Rights:

Open Government Licence

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000001399.0x00019f_ar
81055/vdc_100000001399.0x00019f_en
IOR/L/MAR/B/139F(1)

Is part of:

British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers

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