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IOR/G/17/1 Part 2 ff.222-237
- Record Id:
- 041-000175934
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000175832
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000746.0x0003bb
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100083570755.0x000038
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/G/17/1 Part 2 ff.222-237
- Title:
- General Letters from John Sarson and Francis Dickinson at Mocha to William Phipps, Governor of Bombay
- Scope & Content:
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A copy of a general letter, and a further accompanying letter, from John Sarson and Francis Dickinson at Mocha to William Phipps, Governor of Bombay, dated 31 May 1723 and 10 June 1723.
The letter dated 31 May 1723 covers matters including: ships arriving at Mocha and departing Mocha; goods which had arrived at Mocha from Europe and India; the procurement of goods in Mocha for sale in Europe; the trade of the East India Company in general at Mocha, and relations with the Governor of Mocha and the Imaum [Imam]; repairs to the Mocha Factory building; and factors, writers, officers and soldiers of the Mocha Factory, and the Factory accounts.
The letter dated 10 June 1723 concerns events and news from Mocha since the letter of 31 May, including: the arrival of the ships Craggs and the Prince Augustus; the loading of the ship Barrington with coffee, and the probable dispatch of this ship the next month, and the dispatch of the Craggs soon after; and their enquiries into what had happened to a ketch sent from Bombay to Socotra.
The letters were received via the ship Craggs on 27 May 1724.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000173250
036-000175832
040-000175833
041-000175934 - Is part of:
- IOR/G : East India Company Factory Records
IOR/G/17 : Factory Records: Egypt and the Red Sea
IOR/G/17/1 : Letters and Accounts from Mocha
IOR/G/17/1 Part 2 ff.222-237 : General Letters from John Sarson and Francis Dickinson at Mocha to William Phipps, Governor of Bombay - Hierarchy:
- 032-000173250[0017]/036-000175832[0001]/040-000175833[0102]/041-000175934
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/G
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item (16 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1724
- End Date:
- 1724
- Date Range:
- 27 May 1724
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)