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Custom house accounts for wharfage payments, 1730.
William Jefferies imported a cargo of great bugle beads, coral beads and other glass beads. These were probably intended for the trade cargo of a slaving voyage. Coral beads were especially prized in Benin, in West Africa.

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Date: 1730

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