?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(SLAVERY and ABOLITION.) Autograph account sheets for the slave vessel Renard, kept by Master Peter Dordin for William Vernon [of Rhode Island]. 2 sheets, one a large bifolium, the other a half from another bifolium, listing the purchases made for the account of William Vernon in the West Indies. Np, 1762
A detailed accounting listing sugar and rum as expected, but also detailing the purchase of cedar planking to re-deck the ship as well and sundries and provisions. Dordin must have purchased the items listed with money collected from the sale of slaves. The rum purchased was more than 20,000 pounds sterling. Dordin was a notorious slaver who frequently worked for the Vernons, who traded in slaves. See Swann sale 1888, lot 11, for a long letter from Vernon Jr. to his father regarding the sale of slaves - Dordin is mentioned in that letter.l
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