17040403STA00

1704, April 3

Stade

Burgomaster and city council of Stade issue a sea pass for the hucker Hoffnung of 24 lasts, on behalf of skipper and owner Hinrich Gossman, for a journey from the Geeste near Carlsburg to Shetland with tobacco, corn brandy, salt, barrel hoops, rye meal, fishing gear such as hooks and lines, and other commodities, and back with salted fish, butter and other merchandise; to be back in Bremen on 23 September 1704.

Stade, Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv Stade

Rep. 5a Nr. 3757

Fächer 227-230, no. 23

One folio

Paper

stamped 158, with pencil 153.

Stamped on the back with a paper sheet

High German

Stamped with the coat of arms of the bishopric of Bremen and surrounding text: ZWOLF LUB. SCHILLING, above: N. 5..


See Claus Tiedemann, Die Schiffahrt des Herzogtums Bremen zur Schwedenzeit (1645-1712) (Stade 1970), App. 11, no. 688.