Copy of General Letter from Mocha to the President and Council of Bombay
IOR/G/17/1 Part 3 ff.356-357
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The record is made up of 1 item (2 folios). It was created in 25 Mar 1725. 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 copy of a general letter from Mocha to the President and Council of Bombay, signed by Robert Cowan, John Gerrard, Thomas Rammell, John Style, and Francis Dickinson. It is dated 11 August 1724.
The letter reports the following: the departure from Mocha of the ships the London , the Greenwich , and the Duke of Cambridge ; the London loaded with coffee; Robert Cowan and John Styles (also spelled John Style) travelling to Bombay on the Greenwich ; the worn plate of the Mocha Factory An East India Company trading post. being sent on the Greenwich to be reformed in Bombay; and John Sarson travelling on the Duke of Cambridge . The letter also states that the small arms of the Factory An East India Company trading post. were in need of repair, and were therefore being sent to be changed.
It was received via the ship London , 25 March 1725.
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- 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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- IOR/G/17/1 Part 3 ff.356-357
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- 25 Mar 1725 (CE, Gregorian)
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- IOR/G/17/1 Part 3 ff.356-357
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- Copy of General Letter from Mocha to the President and Council of Bombay
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- 356r:357v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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