17080412STA00
1708, April 12
Stade
Burgomaster and city council of Stade issue a sea pass on behalf of Johann Otto Bossaw, for his ship St. Catharina of 18 lasts, under command of skipper Lorenz Kruse, for a journey from the Schwinge to one or more ports in Shetland with salt, beer, tobacco, brandy, fishing lines and other commodities, and back with salted fish, clipfish, herring, fish oil and other commodities.
Stade, Niedersächsisches Landesarchiv Stade
Rep. 5a Nr. 3762
Fächer 227-230, no. 26
One bifolio
Paper
Stamped 56
Sealed with a piece of paper
High German
Stamped with the coat of arms of the duchy 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. 990.