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Shipping -- Rhode Island -- 18th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

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Aaron Lopez papers

 File — Box Multi-Collection Box: [Barcode: 31116021976532]
Identifier: 003-02-24
Scope and Contents This collection contains correspondence, bills and notes, and shipping receipts including for various provisions such as dry goods, preserved beef, women’s shoes, spermaceti candles and oil, rum and pitch. Of particular interest is a letter of apology to Lopez from his son-in-law, Abraham Pereira Mendes, that notes, “I have so inhumanly assaulted and cruely treated [Lopez}…past follies…being so numerous and heinous…” which followed a family disagreement between Mendes and Lopez....
Dates: 1756 - 1775