Hi Elizabeth, what source are you transcribing? In case someone needs to
go to the actual copy.

    Thanks, Marian

-----Original Message-----
From: ELIZABETH RUSSO 
To: [email protected] 
Date: Saturday, January 15, 2000 9:15 PM
Subject: Slave-trading? WRAGG, ROTHMAHLER, DYMES, RHETT, HUTCHINSON,
PHIPPS, HUME, LEYDELL, MEREWETHER, RUDDOCK, PHIPPS, DAY, HERON, ARNOLD


Can someone explain how transactions such as these work?  It seems that
>one group is guaranteeing payment to a second, on behalf of a third for
>a cargo of slaves. I am unsure as to the conditions of the bond at this
>point in the transaction.  Among other things. Who are the buyers?  The
>sellers? The financiers? I bow to the historians...
>
>Book Bb, p. 59 JOSEPH WRAGG & JOB ROTHMMAHLER, merchants,
>21 Nov. 1720 THOMAS DYMES, merchant, WILLIAM RHETT, ESQ. &
>Bond (copy) JOHN HUTCHINSON, gentleman, to BENJAMIN PHIPPS
> residing in Charleston, mariner, & commander of the Raymond, galley,
>in penal sum of L3000 of Great Britain, conditioned for payment of L1500
>on 1 June 1722.  Witnesses:  ROBERT HUME, JAMES LEYDELL, JOHN
>MEREWETHER.  Before THOMAS HEPWORTH.  JOHN CROFT, Register.  "Pay the
>contents of the within to CAPT. JAS. DAY or order.  No:  RUDDOCK."  "Pay
>the contents to MESSRS. HERON & CO., it's mine, JAMES DAY."  (On June
>1722 SAMUEL WRAGG paid L1500 to [sic] in full of bond to JOHN HERON CO.
>& GEORGE ARNOLD.)
>
>Book Bb, p. 60 JOSEPH WRAGG & JOB ROTHMAHLER, merchants,
>21 Nov. 1720 THOMAS DYMES, merchant, WILLIAM RHETT, ESQ. &
>Bond (Copy) JOHN HUTCHINSON, gentleman all of Charleston,
> to BENJAMIN PHIPPS, mariner & commander of The Raymond, galley, now
>residing in Charleston, in penal sum of L3000 of Great Britain,
>conditioned for payment of L1500 on 1 Aug. 1722  Witnesses:  ROBERT
>HUME, JAMES LEYDELL.  Before THOMAS HEPWORTH.  SAMUEL WRAGG'S signature
>witnessed in London by THOMAS HODGKINS.  ROBERT YONGE, Register.  PHIPPS
>assigns his interest in the Lord [?] ("being the remainder and in full
>for a cargo of slaves") to NOBLEST RUDDOCK.  RUDDOCK assigns his
>interest to GEORGE ARNOLD.  Witnesses to both assignments:  RICHARD
>BUTLER, THOMAS CROGAN.  ARNOLD received L1500 in full.  The 2 foregoing
>copies produced by SAMUEL WRAGG, merchant, of London, were attested in
>London 21 Sept. 1722 before JACOBUS DUNNIDGE, NP.  ROBERT YONGE,
>Register.
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