The American Negotiator: Or, the Various Currencies of the British Colonies in America

This is the third edition of J. Wright's 'The American Negotiator,' published in London in 1765. This book contains tables reducing the various currencies of the British American colonies and the West Indies into English money, accounting for exchange rate fluctuations. It also includes tables for converting Irish currency to Sterling and for interconverting colonial currencies. A significant feature is the approximately 50-page list of subscribers to all three editions (1761, 1763, and 1765), which includes numerous Jewish merchants and prominent figures like Benjamin Franklin, offering insights into transatlantic trade networks and financial practices of the time. The book is complete with lxxx, 80, and 326 pages and bound in its original leather cover.

Associated People/Businesses

  • Moses De Costa / demattos, Isaac / Franks, Moses (major transAtlantic trader) / Hart, Abraham / Hart, Henry (note he is a card maker...connection to the later Harts in PA. ?) / Hart, Moses / Mendez de Costa, Isaac / Solomons, Henry

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