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'Ship. Arabia. Factor' [‎10r] (24/278)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (133 folios). It was created in c 1701-c 1703. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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Ledger of the Arabia Factor (Captain Abraham Jackson), to accompany her voyage to Mocha, 1701-03.

The ledger contains the accounts of pay and other financial records of each of the ship's crewmembers.

There is a list of the ship's crew, giving quality [rank] and wages on folio 71.

The volume also contains miscellaneous (inserted) accounting papers relating to certain other East India Company ships, circa 1711-15, on folios 4-64, and folios 120-121. These papers include: passenger property lists (folios 4-5); lists of wages; notes and calculations; lists of ships; accounting and wages records of the ships Tankervile [ Tankerville ], Aurengzeb , Hallifax [ Halifax ], Kathrine [ Katherine ], Abington , Mary , Howland , Montague , Toddington , Success , Rochester, and Sarum ; certificates of the examination of goods (folios 49-63, passim); wages records of the Arabia Merchant and London ; manifest of goods to be laden aboard the Grantham ; and wages records of the St George (folios 120-121).

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1 volume (133 folios)
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There is an alphabetical index of names on folios 65-70, which refers to the accounts of individual crewmembers within the volume, in accordance with the original foliation.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 93; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. The volume includes a sequence of blank pages, ff 94-133, which have not been digitised.

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