Manuscript memoir bound with string, in French, detailing Tureaud's employ as supercargo aboard the Alert, an American merchant vessel which departed Baltimore for the port of Vera Cruz in 1801 and his subsequent life in Louisiana. Narrative describes...
Description:
Augustin Dominique Tureaud, born October 23, 1764, in La Rochelle, France. He fled San Domingo after a slave revolt, and moved to Baltimore where he sought to make his fortune in maritime trade. After a failed commercial voyage to Vera Cruz in 1801, T...
Subject (Geographic):
United States., United States, Latin America., Latin America, New Orleans (La.), Port Royal (Jamaica), and Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave, Mexico)
Subject (Name):
Bringier, Marius Pons., Tureaud, Augustin Dominique, b. 1764., Tureaud, Elizabeth Louise, b. 1788., Wood, Trist., Alert (Ship), Spring Bird (Ship), Crescent (Ship), and La Seine (Ship)
Subject (Topic):
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Naval operations, Yellow fever, Merchant marine, Merchant mariners, Commerce, Social life and customs, Description and travel, and History
Printed options contract, completed in manuscript, relating to a potential purchase of shares in the Compagnie d'Ostende by Joannes Kramp. The contract includes signatures from Kramp, Jean Van Lancker, and Joannes Carlo Wittebol
Description:
The Compagnie d'Ostende (also called the Keyserlijcke Indische Compagnie) was a chartered trading company, established in 1722 in the Austrian Netherlands (now Belgium) to trade with the East and West Indies. The company was dissolved in 1731.
Subject (Geographic):
Belgium, Antwerp, and Antwerp (Belgium)
Subject (Name):
Kramp, Joannes., Lancker, Jean Van., Wittebol, Joannes Carlo., and Compagnie d'Ostende.
Subject (Topic):
Capitalists and financiers, Finance, Merchants, Options (Finance), Stocks, and Commerce
Holograph diary kept by Porcher while commander of the HMS Sparrowhawk during its voyage from England to British Columbia by way of South America, through the Straits of Magellan, from Callao to the Hawaiian Islands, and from Honolulu to Esquimalt Har...
Description:
British naval officer who entered the service in 1837, was appointed captain in 1868, retired in 1872, and died in Germany in 1878. Porcher served on various ships on voyages to Australia, the Orient, and the Middle East, where he prepared drawings fo...
Subject (Geographic):
British Columbia., British Columbia, Vancouver Island (B.C.), Esquimalt (B.C.), and Northwest Coast of North America
Subject (Name):
Porcher, Edwin Augustus., Seymour, Frederick, 1820-1869., Great Britain. Royal Navy., and Sparrowhawk (Ship)
Subject (Topic):
Voyages and travels, Voyages to the Pacific coast, Mines and mineral resources, Coal mines and mining, Gold mines and mining, Lumber trade, Indians of North America, Commerce, Description and travel, Politics and government, Social life and customs, Missionaries, and Fur trade
Holograph diary kept by Porcher while commander of the HMS Sparrowhawk during its voyage from England to British Columbia by way of South America, through the Straits of Magellan, from Callao to the Hawaiian Islands, and from Honolulu to Esquimalt Har...
Description:
British naval officer who entered the service in 1837, was appointed captain in 1868, retired in 1872, and died in Germany in 1878. Porcher served on various ships on voyages to Australia, the Orient, and the Middle East, where he prepared drawings fo...
Subject (Geographic):
British Columbia., British Columbia, Vancouver Island (B.C.), Esquimalt (B.C.), and Northwest Coast of North America
Subject (Name):
Porcher, Edwin Augustus., Seymour, Frederick, 1820-1869., Great Britain. Royal Navy., and Sparrowhawk (Ship)
Subject (Topic):
Voyages and travels, Voyages to the Pacific coast, Mines and mineral resources, Coal mines and mining, Gold mines and mining, Lumber trade, Indians of North America, Commerce, Description and travel, Politics and government, Social life and customs, Missionaries, and Fur trade
Holograph diary kept by Porcher while commander of the HMS Sparrowhawk during its voyage from England to British Columbia by way of South America, through the Straits of Magellan, from Callao to the Hawaiian Islands, and from Honolulu to Esquimalt Har...
Description:
British naval officer who entered the service in 1837, was appointed captain in 1868, retired in 1872, and died in Germany in 1878. Porcher served on various ships on voyages to Australia, the Orient, and the Middle East, where he prepared drawings fo...
Subject (Geographic):
British Columbia., British Columbia, Vancouver Island (B.C.), Esquimalt (B.C.), and Northwest Coast of North America
Subject (Name):
Porcher, Edwin Augustus., Seymour, Frederick, 1820-1869., Great Britain. Royal Navy., and Sparrowhawk (Ship)
Subject (Topic):
Voyages and travels, Voyages to the Pacific coast, Mines and mineral resources, Coal mines and mining, Gold mines and mining, Lumber trade, Indians of North America, Commerce, Description and travel, Politics and government, Social life and customs, Missionaries, and Fur trade
The papers are almost entirely concerned with Macartney's embassy to Russia in 1764-1767, and include notes, memoranda, drafts of the trade treaty he negotiated, and a final copy; accounts of travel in Russia and general descriptions of the country, i...
Description:
George Macartney was born in Ireland and educated at Trinity College. In 1764, Lord Holland proposed him as envoy extraordinary to Saint Petersburg for the negotiation of a trade treaty. Knighted before departing England, Macartney returned in 1767 af...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., Great Britain, Russia., Russia, and Siberia (Russia)
Subject (Name):
Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796. and Macartney, George Macartney, Earl, 1737-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Diplomatic and consular service, British, Diplomatic and consular service, Russian, Diplomats, Commerce, Foreign relations, Politics and government, Court and courtiers, and Description and travel
