Research Catalog

Title

The case of Jasper Cullum, 1657-1719 (bulk 1711-1719)

Author

Cullum, Jasper.

Details

Description

34 items; 38 cm. or smaller.

Summary

Ms. legal documents, court papers, correspondence, promissory notes, etc. Include the will of J. Thomas Cullum, dated 1657. Include also one printed broadside with docket/caption title The Case of Jasper Cullum (also cataloged separately as Arents 95-2a; RLIN id NYPG95-B823).

Subjects

• Merchants
• Textile fabrics industry > England > London > Early works to 1800
• Tobacco industry > Virginia > Early works to 1800
• Tariff on tobacco > Great Britain > Early works to 1800
• Bankruptcy > Great Britain > Early works to 1800
• Corbin, Thomas
• Lee, Richard
• Cullum, J. Thomas
• Cullum, Jasper

Note

• Title from case.

Biography (note)

• Linen draper in London, who through his business transactions with Virginia merchants, including Richard Lee and Thomas Corbin, became security for their duties on tobacco and subsequently had his goods and effects seized by the Crown under writs of extent against the bonds of security.

Processing Action (note)

• Cataloged

Call Number

Arents 95-2

OCLC

NYPW95-A13

Author

Cullum, Jasper.

Title

The case of Jasper Cullum, 1657-1719 (bulk 1711-1719)

Biography

Linen draper in London, who through his business transactions with Virginia merchants, including Richard Lee and Thomas Corbin, became security for their duties on tobacco and subsequently had his goods and effects seized by the Crown under writs of extent against the bonds of security. He was declared bankrupt and imprisoned in the King's Bench for more than four years.

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Occupation

Merchants.

Research Call Number

Arents 95-2