Examples (Details)
Manuscripts relating to CHINA TRADE (overview)
Accession #: 81.12
File #: Logbook 81.12
For the vessel THOMAS SCATTERGOOD, a merchant ship to the “Orient” that traveled from February 1, 1831 – Nov. 7, 1831 with a home port in Philadelphia
MSS 771a (H.C. Hayes 43 Oversize)
Crew contract for the voyage of ship DOROTHEA to Canton and back to Philadelphia under Captain Patrick Hayes, 1805
MS. 634 (HC Hayes 35)
Letter to Patrick Hayes, Capt. GEORGE WASHINGTON, at Canton from officer Dougherty at [?] concerning sale of Ginseng.
Ms. 560 (H.C. Hayes 30)
Letter of advice..from Wm. Jonas Keen about voyage to Canton under Capt. Hayes and profitable exchange of 2 kegs of tobacco given him and for sale of his rum allowance.
Ms. 683 (H.C. Hayes 2)
Journal of Patrick Hayes, aboard ASIA, commanded by uncle John Barry on voyage to Canton…journal…ends before arrival at Canton.
Accession Item No. 65.76 (V Etting, Benjamin. Bound Volume 65.76)
Journal of Benjamin Etting.
Journal of voyages to Canton 1822-23, 1824 & 1825, 1831, 1835, 1837. (48 leaves, handwritten)
Customs and manners of doing business in Canton. 1821. (41 leaves, handwritten)
Accession –Item No. 81.83 (V Green, John, Capt.)
Journal, EMPRESS OF CHINA, 1784-1785 and Ledger, China voyage, 1784
Copy, EMPRESS OF CHINA manifest, John Green, master, from Canton.
Etc.Packet found in the back of the handwritten guide Manuscripts relating to CHINA TRADE
17.8 (p. 5). The China Trade is mentioned a lot in the biographical works on Robt. Morris, Elisha, Kane, John Barry, Thomas Truxtun, and Stephen Girard.
17.34 (p. 6) China trade was often a family affair. Prominent clans were Waln, Archer, Blight, Donaldson, Hallowell, Hollingsworth, Lewis, Perit, Ralston, Smith, Sword, Thomas, Tiers, Tolland, Wagner, Wetherill, Wharton.
17.72-72 (p. 8) Morris, Wm. Duer of Phila, and Daniel Parker of N.Y. sent the EMPRESS OF CHINA loaded mostly with ginseng, some specie, some furs, and a few other things to China. Captained by John Green it left from N.Y., Feb. 22, 1784, with great fanfare. It was very well received in Canton by the cohong…
17.9 (p. 9) Stephen Girard left about 200,000 items of correspondence about the China Trade (this is the largest documentary archive on the Phila. China Trade – perhaps something of this could be borrowed from the Girard College or whoever is holding this.)
17.70 Between 1784 and 1788 four voyages set off to Canton from Philadelphia. They were second only to the EMPRESS in commercial importance. These were ALLIANCE, UNITED STATES, CANTON, and ASIA.
17.71 CANTON – the first completed Philadelphia - Canton passage, 1785. Thos. Truxtun was master. Carried ginseng and specie.
17.116 (p. 9) The Philadelphia Merchants became involved in the opium trade to some extent because it was an alternative to trade item. Only a few abstained for moral reasons.
19.93 (p. 10) One after another the China traders took to the seas: Commodore Thomas Truxtun’s Canton; Commodore john Barry’s Asia; Samuel Archer’s Coromandel; Willing and Francis’ Bengal; Jesse Waln’s William Penn; Sephen Girard’s China Packet, and his North American and Superb, and then, from 1790 on, his major fleet named after philosophers: the Rousseau, the Montesquieu, the Helvetius, the Voltaire.
The Barry-Hayes Papers: A Descriptive Guide
(Page 1): John Barry was a naval hero of the American Revolution…Barry’s career also included a stint within the developing China trade of the late eighteenth century when he sailed the ship Asia to Macao…
Patrick Hayes, John Barry’s nephew and adopted son…As a merchant captain, he carried on an extensive, international shipping, trading at ports in France, Portugal, Cuba, China, and South America. The business papers of Patrick Hayes present important information on American trade, particularly the China trade and the opening of trade with South America.
(Page 7): Patrick accompanied his Uncle John Barry on a voyage to China in 1787 aboard the Asia…After 1806, Hayes participated in the China trade as an investor rather than a master.
(Page 8): Thomas Hayes followed his father’s choice of a maritime career…In 1817 and 1818, he sailed to China.
(Page 10): Michael Hayes was Patrick Hayes’ brother who immigrated to Philadelphia with Patrick. He was apprenticed to Captain John Rossiter of Philadelphia, sailing to China between 1793 and 1800 (China Trade Catelogue, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1984).
(Page 12) it should be noted that the Hayes family correspondence was geared toward business and the dissemination of family news and greetings...Thus [Elizabeth Hayes’] letters to her husband handle both family matters and the economic activities which support it. “Family Correspondence Received” then embraces the health of the immediate family and extended family, the social and material environment the Barry and Hayes’ families enjoyed, current mercantile affairs of the family, trade in the Caribbean, China, and South America…
(Page 13) [Series I – the John Barry Papers (J.B.)] The postwar period (1785-1794) includes…documents concerning [Barry’s] China voyage with Thomas Truxton on the ship Asia (four items).
(Page 14) [Series III – Patrick Hayes Papers (P.H.)]. The diary recounts Patrick’s 1787 voyage to Macao aboard the William Vicary with Commander John Barry; on the George Washington (1803-1804); Dorothea (1805-1806).
(Page 15) [Series IV – Elizabeth Keen Hayes Papers (E.K.H.)] She would insure the cargo for [Patrick Hayes, her husband] the cargo for him and take care of the family’s financial business in her husband’s absence, particularly during his involvement with the China trade.
Series I, John Barry Papers
Series III, Patrick Hayes Papers
Series IV, Elizabeth Keen Hayes Papers
Series VI, Thomas Hayes Papers
Also Addendum: Series III (box 14), Series IV (Box 14), Series VI (Box 16)