Collection search - Pocket ledger of Robert Rainford [textual record]

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Pocket ledger of Robert Rainford [textual record]

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Date:

1779-1796

Reference:

R11426-0-8-E, MG54-No74, Volume number: 1--2

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

103553

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Pocket ledger of Robert Rainford
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Date(s):

1779-1796

Place of creation:

United Kingdom

Extent:

0.3 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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The item consists of a pocket ledger of Robert Rainford, recording business transactions of Blundell Rainford and Company. Included are alphabetical lists of bondsmen; lists of the adventures of various vessels carrying sugar, rum, cotton, mahogany, logwood, indigo, silver, gold, coffee, and African slaves; and lists of bills of exchange, commissions and discounts.

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Rainford, Blundell and Company

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Rainford, Blundell and Company : Blundell Rainford and Company appears to have been a shipping firm, probably of Liverpool, England, engaged in the African slave trade, and the West Indian trade of such items as sugar, rum, cotton and woods.

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General note:

Documents created in: Great Britain. The book is believed to have been presented to William Bentley as a token of esteem and friendship on the death of a sea captain with whom Bentley was in contact as a result of his imports for the medicine factory founded at Brougham. Ontario, in 1842 by William and James Bentley, great grand-uncles of Mrs. Millie M. Taylor. The ledger was received in 1980 from Mrs. Ruth Turner of Lakefield, Ontario, on behalf of her mother's ( Mrs. Millie M. Taylor) estate. The material relating to William Elliot Wright formerly described here was transferred in 1979 to MG 24 F 94, files 1-4.
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Rainford, Blundell and Company - Finance, 1779-1796 Blundell Rainford, 1779-1796

Slaves - Africa, 1779-1796

Slave trade, 1779-1796

Ship registers, 1779-1796

Ships - Cargo, 1779-1796

Sugar trade, 1779-1796

Great Britain - Commerce - West Indies, 1779-1796

Silver, 1779-1796

Rum, 1779-1796

Bills of exchange, [1779-1796]

West Indies - Commerce - Great Britain, [1779-1796]

Shipping - Great Britain, [1779-1796]

Cotton trade, 1779-1796

Mahagony, 1779-1796

Logwood, 1779-1796

Indigo, 1779-1796

Gold, 1779-1796

Coffee trade, 1779-1796

Shipping - West Indies, [1779-1796]
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Private

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MG54-No74
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG54 No74] 1--2

[Consultation 90 Open]

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The original documents in volume 1 have been withdrawn from circulation as a protective conservation measure. Substitution photocopies in volume 2 are available for consultation and reproduction purposes. Photographic reproductions from the originals may be made for exhibition or publication projects.

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