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.