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Custom house accounts for wharfage payments, 1730.
Charles and Christopher Scandrett imported a cargo of great bugle beads. These may have been intended for the trade goods of a slaving voyage.

The Society of Merchant Venturers is a Bristol-based organisation, which was formed in 1552 as an elite body of merchants involved in overseas trade. The Society still exists today.

Date: 1730

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