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- 4 Jun 1746-7 Jul 1789 (Creation)
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1 folder, containing 8 items
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Documents relating to the building of the company barge.
Folder is split into several subfolders:
i: article of agreement between the Company and Alice Hall, shipwright's widow, for rebuilding the barge, 4 Jun 1746.
ii: agreement and draft agreement between the Company and Thomas Miller, shipwright, for rebuilding the barge, 6 May 1766 [2 items].
iii: agreement and draft agreement between the Company and Richard Roberts, barge builder, for rebuilding the barge,7 Jul 1789; attached is a receipt for two hundred pounds, 8 Jan 1790 [2 items].
iv: proposal for building a new barge by George Searle, barge builder, undated [c 1788].
v: sketches for a barge, undated [2 items].
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Language of material
English
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Latin
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Related units of description
List of subscribers for the building and finishing of a barge and barge house, 2 Jun 1679, in call of the livery volume 1 [TSC/C/09/01]
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The family boat-and barge-building business of George Searle operated in Lambeth from c1763 to the early 1830s.