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Reference NoAHB/1/7/1/13
TitleAberdeen Harbour Board: Letter from John Anderson from Rispond, Loch Eriboll, Bonar Bridge
DescriptionLetter about purchasing some old sugar Hhds [ Hogsheads, huge wooden barrels/casks in which some half a ton or more of soft runny raw sugar was transported from the cane fields of the West Indies to the UK ports and then to the nearby sugar refineries, 18th-19th centuries.] to be cut down into herring tubs and what shore dues will be charged for this.
Date17 November 1829
Extent1 letter
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