LEWIS, NATHANIEL AND BAILY, ALEXANDER (MERCHANTS AND SHIPPERS)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 CLC/B/227-115
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: LEWIS, NATHANIEL AND BAILY, ALEXANDER (MERCHANTS AND SHIPPERS)
Date(s)	: 1711-1712;1716-1717
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: One production unit.
Name of creator(s)	: Lewis and Baily | merchants and shippers

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Business partners Nathaniel Lewis and Alexander Baily were merchants and shippers, based in Charleston, South Carolina, USA.

John Pope was a merchant, possibly of Bristol from internal evidence.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Accounts ledger of Lewis and Baily, merchants and shippers, 1711-12; with accounts of John Pope, merchant, 1716-17.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

One volume.

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:

Found in offices of Antony Gibbs, Sons and Co, Liverpool in 1909. Original provenance unknown. Deposited in the Manuscripts Section of Guildhall Library by Antony Gibbs and Sons in 1963. The Guildhall Library Manuscripts Section merged with the London Metropolitan Archives in 2009.

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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.