17070413STA00
1707, April 13
Stade
Draft for a sea pass on behalf of Johann Otto Bossow, for his ship Der weisse Schwan of 48 lasts, under command of skipper Hans Heldt, for a journey from the Schwinge to Hillswick in Shetland with salt, beer, brandy, mead, meal, fishing lines, hooks, tobacco, stoneware and other commodities, and back with salted fish, herring, fish oil, butter, tallow and other commodities.
Stade, Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv Stade
Rep. 5a Nr. 3761
Fächer 227-230, no. 25
One bifolio
Paper
Stamped 212
Draft
Latin
The draft also refers to a sea pass for another ship of Johann Otto Bossaw, de fliegende Mercurius of 30 lasts, under command of Cordt Warner, for a journey to Porto in Portugal with iron, steel, flax and other commodities, and back with “schmack” and other commodities.
See Claus Tiedemann, Die Schiffahrt des Herzogtums Bremen zur Schwedenzeit (1645-1712) (Stade 1970), App. 11, no. 892.