- Title Information
- Title
- Brown, Nicholas to John, Joseph and Moses Brown
- Subtitle
- September 12, 1764
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Brown, Nicholas
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- creator
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Brown, John
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- recipient
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Brown, Joseph
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- recipient
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Brown, Moses
- Name Part:
Date
- 1738-1836
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- recipient
- Genre (aat)
- letters (correspondence)
- Origin Information
- Place
- Place Term:
Code (MARC Country Code)
- riu
- Place Term:
Text
- Providence, RI
- Date Created
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- 1764-09-12
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Physical Description
- Extent
- 2 p.
- digitalOrigin
- reformatted digital
- Abstract
- Letter from Nicholas Brown to his brothers, John, Joseph, and Moses, September 12, 1764, discussing various trading ventures, including the voyage of the Sally, which had sailed from Newport a day or two before. In the letter, Nicholas proposed planting a story in the local press about the depressed "state of the Rum Trade upon the Coast of Ginea" in hopes of discouraging other Rhode Island merchants from dispatching ships for Africa. If the ruse was tried, it did not work: more than two dozen Rhode Island ships cleared for West Africa in 1764.
- Related Item:
Host
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- Title Information
- Title
- University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice
- Identifier:
COLID
- 17
- Identifier:
URI
- http://dl.lib.brown.edu/slaveryandjustice
- Identifier:
Local
(displayLabel="RIHS Manuscript ID")
- Moses Brown Papers, MSS 313, B1c, F6
- Identifier:
METSID
- 1160761812419418
- Access Condition:
rights statement
(href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/")
- No Copyright - United States
- Access Condition:
restriction on access
- Collection is open for research.