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BODDINGTON AND COMPANY


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 CLC/B/227-029

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: BODDINGTON AND COMPANY

Date(s): 1790-1812

Level of description: Collection

Extent: One production unit.

Name of creator(s): Boddington and Co | West India merchants

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

The plantations were acquired in 1837 by Boddington and Company (Samuel and Thomas Boddington and Richard Davis), West India merchants, of 9 St Helen's Place, Bishopsgate.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers relating to sugar plantations on St Christopher (St Kitts), West Indies, owned by Boddington and Company, merchants.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Deeds, letter of attorney and map.

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:

Deposited in the Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section, which 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
Plantation records | Documents | Information sources
Sugar plantations | Plantation economy | Agricultural economics
Sugar trade | Food trade | Trade (practice)

Personal names

Corporate names
Boddington and Co | West India merchants

Places
Saint Christopher and Nevis | Caribbean