17050600STA00
[1705, June]
[Stade]
Friedrich Bossaw to the Swedish general-governor in Stade: request for a sea pass for his ship Stadt Stade of 35 lasts, under command of skipper Crispin Bornmann, for a journey from the Schwinge to Lerwick or another harbour in Shetland with ballast, coarse salt in barrels, beer, brandy, flour, fishing lines, linen, tobacco and other commodities, and back with salted fish, butter, fish oil, herring, stockfish and other commodities.
Stade, Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv Stade
Rep. 5a Nr. 3757
Fächer 227-230, no. 23
One bifolio
Paper
Stamped 305, in pencil 294
High German
Stamped with the coat of arms of the duchy of Bremen and surrounding text: VIER LUB. SCHILLING, above N. 3. Endorsed: Friedrich Bossaw, bürger und kauffmann in Stade bittet umb benöthigten Seepaß auf sein Schiff die Stadt Stade genandt, für den Schiffer, Crispin Bornmann, auch hiesigen bürger, volck und Ladung. Sambt anliegender original Certification. Unterthänigst.
See Claus Tiedemann, Die Schiffahrt des Herzogtums Bremen zur Schwedenzeit (1645-1712) (Stade 1970), App. 11, no. 720.