Letterbook of Greg & Cunningham, 1756-57, Merchants of New York and Belfast
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- Author(s) Truxes, Thomas M (ed)
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2001
- Pages 430pp; illus
- Publisher Oxford University Press for British Academy
- Place Published Oxford
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Transcriptions of 338 letters sent by the New York house to its network of business contacts notably at Belfast but also London, Liverpool, Rotterdam, Philadelphia, etc, etc. Also contains an introduction [pp1-93] having sections; 'The context' - New York City / Belfast / 'Irish-America trade' / The Seven Years War; 'The partnership and partners' - Thomas Gregg / Waddell Cunningham; 'The letterbook' - 'The correspondents' / 'Exports' / 'Imports' / 'Credit and bills of exchange'; 'The management of ships' / 'Smuggling'; 'Methodology'. Appendices provide transcriptions of partnership deeds, partners' will, etc.