Diary and Consultations of Mr John Geekie, Agent of the East India Company at Gombroon [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] in the Persian Gulf, commencing November 1728 and ending January 1729

Content

The item is in the form of a diary (ff 3-24), which contains records of consultations at the [East India Company's] Gombroon [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] Factory An East India Company trading post. . The Chief Agent, John Geekie, and the Factory An East India Company trading post. Council members, including Edward Clift and William May, headed the consultations. They recorded the daily activities, the administrative decisions made, letters received and sent, as well as visits to and from the Factory An East India Company trading post. .

Among the main details and issues recorded in the diary are the following:

• The trading activities of the Dutch and the French in the region
• Lists of certain commodities and their prices in Persian currencies
• Records of the activities of a certain Arab Shaikh named Rachid [Rashid], and his Arab supporters
• Records of letters received from various merchants and Persian officials
• The Dutch-Aphgoons [Afghan] dispute
• The arrival of the wool caphila A train of travellers; a caravan; or any large party of travellers. [caravans] from Carmenia [Kerman]
• The death of a person named Mynheer Tlaam [?]
• The payment of customs
• The murder of the Dutch Chief by a Persian servant
• The appointment of John Horne as the new Chief of the Gombroon Factory An East India Company trading post. .

The consultations also include records of visits exchanged between Factory An East India Company trading post. members and Persian officials and merchants, such as Baroo Caun [Baru Khan] and Abdullah Caun [Khan]. There are also reports of ships' arrivals and departures, including the Britannia , and the Victoria Frigate . From Gombroon the ships sailed mainly to Ormuz [Hormuz, also written as Ormuse], Bombay, and Bunder Bouchier [Bushire].

Extent and format

1 item (21 folios)

It is part of

Diaries and Consultations of Messrs John Geekie, John Horne, and William Cockell, Agents of the East India Company at Gombroon [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] in the Persian Gulf, commencing 20 November 1728 and ending 31 July 1737.

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Ref: IOR/G/29/5

Arrangement

The papers are arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the diary.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Diary

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/G/29/5/1

History of this record

Date(s)

20 Nov 1728-1 Jan 1729 (CE, Gregorian)

Places

Ormuz

People & organisations

Victoria

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Diary and Consultations of Mr John Geekie, Agent of the East India Company at Gombroon [Bandar-e ʻAbbās] in the Persian Gulf, commencing November 1728 and ending January 1729, British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/G/29/5/1, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100098364806.0x000007> [accessed 27 November 2024]

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