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| Schoff Revolutionary War Collection |
| Charles Goore Letterbook |
Goore was a Liverpool merchant with substantial interests in the Virginia tobacco trade. His letters to other merchants in England, members of Parliament, British naval officers, customers, and friends, discuss the the effects of the American Revolutionary War on trade. Goore was dealing in hemp, flagstones, and ironware, as well as tobacco.
The Schoff Revolutionary War Collection contains the letterbook of Charles Goore, British merchant, 170 pp.
He was also active in whaling ventures off Greenland. When this industry, like the tobacco trade, declined during the war years, he tried to place seamen formerly in his employment in the British navy. Goore's letters reveal a compassionate, intelligent man; the correspondence contains comments on the effects of the war on trade, the practice of impressment, privateering, and technical matters relating to navigation.
Gift of James S. Schoff, 1976
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