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Preferred Citation

John Allen's Account with William Dawkins, 1721-1722, Manuscript # 1950.3, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Acquisition Information

Gift, 1950.

Alternative Form

Microfilm available.

Scope and Content Information

Tobacco sales account of Col. John Allen of Virginia with William Dawkins, London agent. Colonel Allen's tobacco was brought in a ship called Molly, and sold to a number of London tobacco dealers, including Mrs. Susan Walker, James Thurston, Abraham Franco, John Lampe, Daniel Minett, John Selwyn, and Richard Brocas and Co.

Index Terms

Persons:

• Dawkins, William.

Subjects:

• Tobacco industry.
• Tobacco merchants.