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Commerce of Rhode Island, 1726-1800 Boston

974.5 RI475c

1. Rhode Island--Comm. 2. Newport, R.I.-Comm.

The Society, 1914-15.

The Society

Rhode Island

1914 - 1915

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 Ayault 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.