Scottish Trade with Africa and the West Indies in the Early 18th century, 1694-1709 - Volumes
Volumes
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Accounts and registers of subscribers, stocks and shares
Documents relating to the subscribers including: Subscription Books, Stock Journals, Receipts from Shareholders, Account of the several payments made by sundry Proprietors and the invested stock, Current Account of Stockholders, Register of Share Transfers, Calculations of Sums due by Shareholders, List of Proprietors and of Debts due by the company (1707-1709), Stock Ledger, Promissory notes and Letters from shareholders asking for certificates (1707). Read more →
Sundry other Company cash books and accounts
Includes: Cash Ledgers with indexes, Journals, Cash books and the Copy Book of Accompts. (See also the accounts of the ships' captains, lists of expenses in connection with the building of ships and in fitting out, maintaining and refitting ships to be found under The Committee of Equipping Ships' minute book and related documents) Read more →
Miscellaneous key documents relating to the Company's history
Tracing the history of the Darien Company through three phases: from its establishment in 1695, to the rumours of disaster, and finally to its dissolution in the early eighteenth-century. Includes the Act of Scottish Parliament creating the Company, Lists of Counsellors and Directors, diaries and journals, instructions from the court of Directors to the Council of the colony, Royal Proclamations, reports, and cases concerning claims to the Equivalent. Read more →
Further miscellaneous documents relating to the Company
Miscellaneous papers and documents organised, where possible, by creation date. Includes 3 alphabetical indexes of names (possibly shareholders) and sundry items such as cloth, drinking and looking glasses, iron girdles and hand grenades. Also a bound volume of documents entitled "Papers concerning the Darien Expedition, 1699" Read more →
