[Sca-cooks] shipping manifests and port records

[Stefan li Rous]

Bear commented:
> Shipping manifests (other than those in the Archives of the Indies in 
> Seville) might be a little hard to find.
> Port records, on the otherhand, especially those in England, should be 
> fairly
> plentiful.
A shipping manifest is the record of what items were shipped on one 
voyage of a ship, correct? How detailed are these? Do they actually 
detail what was shipped? Or just a general description or maybe only 
the shipper and the amount of cargo shipped?

What do you mean by port records? And how do these differ from a 
shipping manifest? How far back do such records exist?

Stefan
(Even if I can get them, I probably can't read them...)
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