IOR/F/4/2280/116920

This item consists of copies of correspondence, consultations, and minutes cited in, or enclosed with, political letters from the Government of Bombay. These political letters appear in IOR/F/4/2280/116915. The correspondent is Major Samuel Hennell, British Resident in the Persian Gulf. It is the fifth in a series of five items on the trade in enslaved people.

The item concerns the request of the Court of Directors of the East India Company that Hennell forward them copies of the treaties between the British and the shaikhs of the Arabian Coast of the Persian Gulf concerning the trade in enslaved people. Copies of the treaties in English and Arabic with the following shaikhs are included:

• Shaik Sultan bin Suggur Chief of Ras el Khymah and Shargah [Shaikh Sulṭān I bin Ṣaqr al-Qāsimī, Shaikh of Ra’s al-Khaymah and Sharjah]
• Shaik Abdoollah bin Rashid Shaik of Amulgavine [Shaikh ‘Abdullāh bin Rāshid al-Mu’allā, Shaikh of Umm al-Qaywayn]
• Sheik Abdool Azeez ben Rashid, Chief of Ejmaun [Shaikh ‘Abd al-‘Aziz bin Rāshid al-Na‘īmī, Shaikh of Ajman]
• Sheik Muktoom ben Buttye, Chief of Debaye [Shaikh Maktūm I bin Buṭṭī Āl Bū Falāseh, Shaikh of Dubai]
• Shaik Saeed bin Tahnoon, Shaik of the Beniyas, Chief of Aboothabee [Shaikh Sa‘īd bin Ṭaḥnūn Āl Nahyān, Chief of the Banī Yās, Shaikh of Abu Dhabi]
• Sheik Mahomed bin Khuleefa Chief of Bahrein [Shaikh Muḥammed bin Khalīfah Āl Khalīfah, Shaikh of Bahrain].

The item contains a contents page and the title page of the item contains the following references: ‘Draft no 154/49’, and ‘Collection No 1 of No 160’.