Accounts and miscellaneous papers concerning the ‘Royal Charlotte’., 1797-1826.
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows: (i) Pay-bills, 1816, 1818-1820. Those for 1816 are for Thomas Robertson's salary only. (Folio 1.) (ii) Boatswain's, carpenter's, and gunner's demands and accounts, 1816-1820. (Folio 21.) (iii) Lists of defects to be made good, 1817-1819 (Folio 62.) (iv) Certificates of pilotage, 1817-1820. (Folio 74.) (v) Miscellaneous accounts and papers, 1804, 1815-1820, including a leaf from a log-book, a record of ships boarded, and abstracts of wages and beer-money. (Folio 90.) (vi) Domestic accounts, 1819-1826, of Susan, widow of Captain Robertson. (Folio 131.) (vii) Miscellaneous papers of Susan Robertson, 1797-1825, undated, including legal documents concerning the ‘Ceres’, owned by her first husband, James McIntosh, and a memorial concerning her application to Trinity House for a widow's allowance. (Folio 148.)
Dates
- Creation: 1797-1826.
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Conditions Governing Use
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Extent
173 Leaves ; Folio and under.
Arrangement
173 folios.
Repository Details
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