Peter Harrison shipping agreement (RLC.Ms.553)

This collection contains a printed agreement filled in and signed by ship master Captain Peter Harrison in Newport, R.I. on November 15, 1740, for John Freebody to send thirty-eight Spanish pisstoly [sic] of gold to Mrs. Susanah Harriss of London, England, on the Ship Leathly. This document is possibly the earliest evidence of Peter Harrison’s presence in the American British colonies.