Receipts for purchases, 1806-1809.

Various accounts and receipts for personal items, ship provisions and equipment, while Gosselin in command of HMS LATONA (1781) and then HMS AUDACIOUS (1785), dated between January 1805 and February 1809:

(1) Account of expenses including wine, food, porters and boat hire at Lisbon (John Sampson), January 1805.
(2) Account of expenses for washing, livestock and food at Barbados (A. Clarke), August 1806.
(3) Accounts including livestock and groceries at Plymouth, March and April 1808.
(4) Accounts of expenses including claret and Rhine wine, livestock, food and boat hire (Robert Dickson and Nathaniel Martin) at Gothenburg, May and June 1808.
(5) Accounts of expenses including food and jewellery at Lisbon (John Harkney and A. Meyers), November and December 1808.
(6) Account of Mr Clitherow’s expenses at Lisbon, undated. Including details of items purchased from Richard Kelway & Son, sailmakers, Richard Power & Sons, merchants, and William Shirley & Co, carpenters.
(7) Accounts including receipts for glass and crockery, cutlery, groceries, clothes and linen purchased at Portsmouth, July 1808 and February 1809.

Record Details

Item reference: GSS/7; MSS/76/108 MS1976/108 MSS/76/108
Catalogue Section: Personal collections
Level: ITEM
Extent: 35 items
Date made: 1806-1809
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London