The East India Trade of Providence From 1787 to 1807
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" In the May of that year (1799) she cleared for Batavia. Ac cording to the " Instructions to the Supercargoes, " they were sent direct to Batavia "to procure a cargo of the best Java Coffee, the latest growth to be preferrd with Sugar of the first quality sufficient to ballast the Ship and no more, poor Sugar will not answer to bring to this Country. . . . We put on board the Ship toward paying for her cargo six Kegs and two Boxes Dollars containing fifty-two thousand Dollars. " It is further ...agreed that the captain (Olney) shall receive $1500 on the completion of the voyage, and five tons privilege in the ship. A communication from Batavia in October, 1799, reports the ship loaded with coffee and sugar, and ready to start for home. Returning, she reached Providence, March 22, 1800. The John Jay sailed on her fourth voyage to India, May 15, 1800, and returned in July, 1801, bringing a cargo from Canton valued at $318, 315. 08. She sailed from Newport on her fifth voyage, October 5, 1801, carrying a cargo of Canton white sugar, to bacco, rice and nankeens to Amsterdam, at which port the supercargo was instructed to take out a cargo to the Indies for the Dutch East India Company on commission, since, at that particular juncture of military and commercial disputes, direct trade was forbidden.
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