Joshua Gee

Joshua Gee (1667-1730) dan kasuwan Biritaniya ne, dan talla ne kuma marubuci a fannin tattalin arziki wanda ya fi mai da hankali kan kasuwanci.

Gee sananne ne da littafinsa mai suna The Trade and Navigation of Great Britain consider'd wanda aka fara bugawa a London, 1729, kuma yana da bugu 20 a duk duniya.Groenewegen, Peter. "Gee, Joshua (1667–1730)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/63632. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)

 Rayuwar farko 
An haifi Joshua Gee a shekara ta 1667 mai yiwuwa a Landan. Mahaifinsa, John Gee (1635–1704) na Moyvoughley, ɗan Quaker ne daga Yorkshire.[1] Babu wani bayani dangane da iliminsa. 

 Dan kasuwa 
A Landan, yana dan shekara 27, Gee ya zama kwararren Kamfanin Kayayyakin Kaya ta hanyar siya (ba tare da yin aikin koyo ba) kuma dan ƴanci a London. A shekara ta 1700 ya riga ya yi ciniki tare da yankunan Amurka.

A cikin 1715, Gee da Augustine Washington sun kafa Kamfanin Principio. Ƙungiya ta ƙwararrun masanan ƙarfe na Biritaniya, 'yan kasuwa, da ƴan jari hujja ne suka goyi bayansa. Principio ya samar da bakin karfe na alade da bakin ƙarfe a cikin lardin Maryland da lardin Virginia don siyarwa a Ingila.[3] A shekara ta 1723 Gee da abokan aikinsa sun mallaki ko sarrafa fiye da eka 12,000 na fili a Arewacin Amurka mai dauke da ma'adinan ƙarfe.

A cikin 1708, Gee da wasu mutane takwas sun ba William Penn jinginar gida a gidansa na Colony of Pennsylvania don samun kuɗi don biyan bashi. Bugu da kari, ya kasance mai ba da shawara akai-akai ga hukumar ciniki da shuka.

 Rayuwa ta sirri 
A cikin 1697, Gee ya auri Sarah Hart (1673/4–1704), 'yar tela a taron Peel Quaker.[1] Suna da 'ya'ya biyar, William (b. da d. 1696), Joshua (1697-1777), Yahaya (1699-1719?), Maryamu (1701-1702), da Sarah (1703-1740).[1].

A cikin 1706, shekaru biyu bayan Saratu ta mutu, Gee ya auri Anna Osgood (d. 1730), gwauruwar Salem Osgood kuma surukar John Osgood, ɗan kasuwan siliki da lilin Quaker. Anna tana da 'ya'ya mata biyu daga aurenta na baya, Rebecca (1695-1783) da Anne (b. 1699). Sun kara da ‘ya’ya hudu; Sama’ila (1707–1746), Elizabeth (b. 1708), Osgood (b. 1710), da Maryamu (b. 1713).[1].

Gee ya mutu a cikin 1730 a wurin wanka a Hampstead, Ingila