Commerce of Rhode Island, 1726-1800
Series: Collections of the Massachusetts historical society -- v. 69-70; Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society -- v. 69-70
Publisher: The Society
Published: 1914
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Rhode Island -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783; Rhode Island -- Commerce; Newport (R.I.) -- Commerce
Notes: "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 contributed the larger part."--Prefatory note, v. 1