Copy of General Letter from Bombay Castle to Robert Cowan, Chief, and Factors at Mocha
IOR/G/17/1 Part 3 ff.367-374
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The record is made up of 1 item (6 folios). It was created in 24 May 1726. 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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A copy of a general letter from Bombay Castle to Robert Cowan, Chief, and the factors at Mocha, dated 28 October 1724.
The letter mostly concerns matters relating to the following: ships which had arrived at Bombay from Mocha, and ships which had departed Bombay for Mocha; the sale of goods from Europe and India at Mocha; investment in coffee for export by the Mocha Factory An East India Company trading post. ; the trade of the East India Company in general at Mocha and Beetlefuckee [Bayt al Faqīh], and relations with the Government of Mocha and Beetlefuckee; factors, writers, officers and soldiers of the Mocha Factory An East India Company trading post. , and their accounts; and the Mocha Factory An East India Company trading post. accounts, which were to be sent to Bombay yearly.
It was received via the ship Greenwich , 24 May 1726.
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- 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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- IOR/G/17/1 Part 3 ff.367-374
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- Number 5
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- 24 May 1726 (CE, Gregorian)
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- IOR/G/17/1 Part 3 ff.367-374
- Title
- Copy of General Letter from Bombay Castle to Robert Cowan, Chief, and Factors at Mocha
- Pages
- 367r:374v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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