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Nicholas Brown & Co. to Hopkins, Esek
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Publication/Creation:
- Providence, RI: 1765-07-19
Creators and Contributors:
- Nicholas Brown & Co. (creator)
- Hopkins, Esek, 1718-1802 (recipient)
Description:
- Physical Description:
- 2 p.
- Abstract:
- On July 17, 1765, the Brown brothers finally received a letter from Esek Hopkins, sent from Africa in May, describing his progress in acquiring a cargo of captives. (A second letter, written in March, arrived subsequently.) The news revived the hopes of the financially overextended brothers, who had feared that the Sally was lost. On July 19, they wrote two letters to Hopkins, one of which they directed to Africa and this letter, which they sent to Barbados in the hands of a Rhode Island ship's captain named Joseph Tillinghast. In both letters, the Browns offered information about market conditions in different colonies and reiterated their request that he return to Providence with "five likely boys for our use at 13 or 15 years old." In this letter, they also asked Hopkins to forward up to half the proceeds realized from the sale of his cargo immediately to them in Providence, as "we shall be much in want of Cash." The letter appears never to have reached Hopkins.
- Call Number:
- BFBR 643-2, item 7 (JCB Manuscript ID)
Genre(s)
- letters (correspondence)