IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/227-115
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: LEWIS, NATHANIEL AND BAILY, ALEXANDER (MERCHANTS AND SHIPPERS)
Date(s): 1711-1712;1716-1717
Level of description: Collection
Extent: One production unit.
Name of creator(s): Lewis and Baily | merchants and shippers
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Business partners Nathaniel Lewis and Alexander Baily were merchants and shippers, based in Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
John Pope was a merchant, possibly of Bristol from internal evidence.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Accounts ledger of Lewis and Baily, merchants and shippers, 1711-12; with accounts of John Pope, merchant, 1716-17.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
One volume.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright to this collection rests with the City of London.
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Found in offices of Antony Gibbs, Sons and Co, Liverpool in 1909. Original provenance unknown. Deposited in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library by Antony Gibbs and Sons in 1963. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note:
Date(s) of descriptions: January to May 2011.