Difference between revisions of "House of Battier, Zornlin & Co"
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1783 - Described as merchants in 10 Devonshire Square. (Longman: [https://books.google.dk/books?id=YlxrtWABujwC&pg=PA197&lpg=PA197&dq=Battier,+Zornlin+%26+Co&source=bl&ots=ZUYsky6CHP&sig=YAUoPKvfrq1_Q-JQglfDGnvgdVQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi76__Tw6TXAhWN-6QKHUojB5AQ6AEINDAD#v=onepage&q=Battier%2C%20Zornlin%20%26%20Co&f=false The New Complete Guide to All Persons who Have Any Trade Or Concern with the City of London..]) | 1783 - Described as merchants in 10 Devonshire Square. (Longman: [https://books.google.dk/books?id=YlxrtWABujwC&pg=PA197&lpg=PA197&dq=Battier,+Zornlin+%26+Co&source=bl&ots=ZUYsky6CHP&sig=YAUoPKvfrq1_Q-JQglfDGnvgdVQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi76__Tw6TXAhWN-6QKHUojB5AQ6AEINDAD#v=onepage&q=Battier%2C%20Zornlin%20%26%20Co&f=false The New Complete Guide to All Persons who Have Any Trade Or Concern with the City of London..]) | ||
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| + | 1788 - The company name appears on a letter from a French slave captain in Accra to Le Havre via London. "Manuscript transit mark" applied ([https://www.spink.com/files/catalogue/16036.pdf Spink.com]) | ||
1792 - Bill of exchange drawn by [[Andreani, Count]] on Battier, Zornlin & Co was sent by [[Jefferson, Thomas]] in Philadelphia to [[Donald, Alexander]]. ([https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-24-02-0034 Founders Online]) | 1792 - Bill of exchange drawn by [[Andreani, Count]] on Battier, Zornlin & Co was sent by [[Jefferson, Thomas]] in Philadelphia to [[Donald, Alexander]]. ([https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-24-02-0034 Founders Online]) | ||
Revision as of 04:11, 4 November 2017
London-based company/merchant house (DNA: DAC, Negotie-journal, 1789-1791, no. 589-590)
Actors
Timeline
1781 - Described as merchants in 10 Devonshire Square. (Bailey's Northern Directory)
1783 - Described as merchants in 10 Devonshire Square. (Longman: The New Complete Guide to All Persons who Have Any Trade Or Concern with the City of London..)
1788 - The company name appears on a letter from a French slave captain in Accra to Le Havre via London. "Manuscript transit mark" applied (Spink.com)
1792 - Bill of exchange drawn by Andreani, Count on Battier, Zornlin & Co was sent by Jefferson, Thomas in Philadelphia to Donald, Alexander. (Founders Online)
1797-5-31 - Bought goods from the East India Company for export. (Henchman: Observations on the Reports of the Directors of the East India Company ..)
1799 - Bankrupted - described as a big Swiss firm. (Margrit Schulte Beerbühl: The risk of bankruptcy among German merchants in eighteenth-century England, p. 15)
1821-3-21 - Bankrupted - described as located in Devonshire Square, Bishopsgate-Street, London. Battier and Zornlin are described as merchants, dealers, chapmen and copartners. (The London Gazette, Part 1)
Notes
See Hoppit, Julian (1987), Risk and Failure in English Business 1700-1800, Cambridge University Press, pp.156-160.
