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• Author/Creator:Rivera, Jacob Rodrigues, ca. 1717-1789.
  
• Title:Letter, Newport, [Rhode Island], 13th September 1785, to "Capt. Nathaniel Briggs. Master of the Ship the Three Friends favourd by Capt. Duncan, on the Coast of Africa".
  
• Physical Description:A.L.S. 2 fols., 30.5 x 19 cm.
  

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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: Hebrew +38
    
  • Status:No information available 

   
• Notes:With a long postscript, unsigned, by another hand. Endorsed by the recipient, Capt. Briggs.
  Purchased from The Aldine Book Co.; their sales-catalogue "Americana-Judaica & Hebraica" [Brooklyn, 1938?] no. 1917, on the Alexander Kohut Memorial Fund, 1939.
  
• Summary:Letter relating to trade in African slaves.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Letter, Newport, [Rhode Island], 13th September 1785, to "Capt. Nathaniel Briggs. Master of the Ship the Three Friends favourd by Capt. Duncan, on the Coast of Africa", General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
  
• Subjects:Slave trade--Africa.