(MARITIME) Jenckes Amos T Book of letters and memoranda of a

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(MARITIME.) Jenckes, Amos T. Book of letters and memoranda of a supercargo in the East Indies trade. 81 manuscript pages. 4to, original wrappers; minor wear, one leaf and part of another excised. Vp, 1800-06

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Amos Throop Jenckes (1778-1809) was a Rhode Island merchant. This volume includes copies of Jenckes's orders from Providence merchants Megee & Corliss and Brown & Ives and other correspondence relating to his voyages to Batavia, Java as supercargo aboard the ships Resource and Eliza. The volume also includes numerous memoranda meant to guide a young captain making his first voyage to the Far East: an 1800 memorandum titled "Articles to be obtain'd in the East Indies which are most likely to afford profit in America," and "Memo of articles to be obtain'd in China (Canton)"; a note on Sumatra suggesting that he "sift the pepper & take 800 empty gunny bags to transport the same"; and notes on trading in Calcutta. The first item in this volume is an 1806 protest recorded by several American seamen who sailed from Charlestown, SC to the Rio de la Plata, with the intention "to proceed from thence to the Coast of Africa," but found themselves stranded at Rio de Janeiro. An unusually lively record from the heyday of Rhode Island's mercantile power.