Commerce of Rhode Island, 1726-1800.
Series: Collections of the Massachusetts historical society. 7th series--vol. IX-X [whole no. 69-70
Publisher: The Society
Published: 1914
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Rhode Island -- Commerce.; Newport (R.I.) -- Commerce.
Description: "The letters and papers printed in these volumes formed a part of the commercial correspondence of four generations of a Newport mercantile house. The earlier letters were of the Redwood family. The house of Ayrault of Newport entered about the middle of the eighteenth century as also that of Lopez. To the second half of the century, the firms of Lopez and Champlin contribute the larger part"--Prefatory note, v. 1.