Gedney Clarke of Salem and Barbados
Transatlantic Super-Merchant
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16309999 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephanie D Smith (0000-0002-4947-9070, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 499 |
| Publication date | 2003-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The New England Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-4866 • E-ISSN: 1937-2213 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1559842 |
| OpenAlex | W2325960724 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
rpHE greatest failure ever happened here: thus did 1 John Hawksworth describe the financial collapse of Gedney Clarke Jr. of Barbados in a letter of June 1774. For forty years, the Gedney Clarkes, father and son, had occupied prominent positions among Barbados's merchant and planter elite.' Now their reputations and their fortunes lay in ruins. I have heard, Hawksworth went on to inform Philadelphia merchant James Pemberton, that [Clarke Jr.] will fall short from one hundred to one hundred & fifty thousand pounds short pay
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| Citations per year | 0.32 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2007 - 2017 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |