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JALFON, Abraham D Z (fl 1807-1820)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/227-105

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: JALFON, Abraham D Z (fl 1807-1820)

Date(s): 1815

Level of description: Collection

Extent: One production unit.

Name of creator(s): Jalfon | Abraham | fl 1807-1820 | general merchant

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Jalfon was a general merchant, of the Jamaica Coffee House, St Michael's Alley, Cornhill, fl 1807-1820.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Business papers of merchant Abraham Jalfon, including various accounts, invoices and receipts, accounts of packing charges on bales and cases, and annotated catalogues of sales at East India House of spices and textiles.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

One box of papers.

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:

These papers were donated to the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library in 1961. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note:

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: January to May 2011.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Business records | Documents | Information sources
International trade | Trade
Merchants | Mercantile personnel | Personnel | People by occupation | People
Overseas trade | Trade (practice)
Spice trade | Trade (practice)
Textile industry | Manufacturing industry | Industry

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
City of London | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe