FROM QUEBEC TO MADEIRA HUNT (Captain Thomas, of the Aurora, bound for Madeira)

Attractive Bill of Lading for "Four Hundred & Twenty Five Pipes, Three Hundred & Thirty Hogsheads, and Three Hundred & Fifty Quarter Cash White Oak Packs being numbered and marked as in the Margin", consigned by Lester & Morrogh, "to be delivered in the like good order ... (all ... dangers ... of the seas and of navigation ... excepted)", to "Messrs Newton Gordon & Murdoch" in Madeira, with the details of the freight charges "payable in Bills on London at par", pleasing woodcut of a ship at the head, printed with manuscript additions, 7½" x 9½", the Aurora "now riding at Anchor in the Harbor of Quebec", 25th October

Given the war with France, Madeira was an important stage for re-victualling British ships bound for the West Indies.

Item Date:  1800

Stock No:  56119      £245

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