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‘A Relation of the Manner of Mr. Cowan's abusing the Company in their Investment of Coffee at Mocho in the Year 1726.’ [‎531v] (12/12)

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Ref: IOR/G/17/1 Part 3 ff.526-531

The record is made up of 1 item (6 folios). It was created in c 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 document setting out how Robert Cowan, when Chief of the Mocha Factory An East India Company trading post. , with the aid of John Gerrard, Second of the Mocha Factory An East India Company trading post. , was accused of purchasing coffee for his own private account at a cheaper price than the East India Company would have been expected to pay, and therefore serving his own interests whilst neglecting the Company’s interests. It includes copied extracts of correspondence between Cowan and Gerrard, and between Gerrard and Francis Dickinson of the Mocha Factory An East India Company trading post. .

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‘A Relation of the Manner of Mr. Cowan's abusing the Company in their Investment of Coffee at Mocho in the Year 1726.’
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