The financial impact of war in the eighteenth century upon the corps of naval officers has not been systematically studied. Nor have the opportunities of a naval career to exploit such sidelines as trade, money-lending, and land purchases in the colonies, where officers spent much of their time, been looked at carefully. The present study analyses in detail the fortune of a single naval officer, Admiral Sir Peter Warren, whose principal wealth came from prize money: the capture of enemy vessels in wartime. He emerges as a new type of entrepreneur, with his feet well planted on both sides of the Atlantic, equally at home in the financial circles of New York, Boston, Charleston, Dublin, and London. Owing to the mobility of his naval career he became familiar with the economic prospects in these scattered places, while he possessed the necessary imagination to take advantage of their commercial opportunities. Mobility also enabled him to select personally the agents who served his varied interests. Neither his widow nor his heirs had the same advantages, nor did they possess the same degree of business sense, with the result that his fortune, invested internationally, was eventually repatriated to England.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-278) and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 332
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- e-uk---
- ISBN
- 0773501703 9780773582255
- LCCN
- HG172.W27
- LCCN Item number
- G9 1974eb
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- DLC
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- DLC
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xvi, 292 p., [8] leaves of plates)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00230142 (OCoLC)767670938 (CaOOCEL)436086
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- DLC
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- CONTENTS 8
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 10
- LIST OF TABLES 12
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 14
- CURRENCY EXCHANGE RATES 15
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 16
- Part I: Introduction 18
- 1 Introduction 20
- 2 Peter Warren and the Origin of His Fortune 24
- Part II: America 44
- 3 American Estates I: Manhattan Island, Fort Edward, and Cortlandt Manor 1731-1787 46
- 4 American Estates II: Mohawk Valley Settlement 1736-1787 86
- 5 Money Lending in New York 1731-1795 112
- 6 Money Lending in New England 1739-1805 126
- 7 South Carolina Interests 1731-1771 136
- Part III: England and Ireland 144
- 8 Estates in Ireland 1712-1791 146
- 9 Estates in Hampshire 1747-1789 160
- 10 Money Lending in England and Ireland 1727-1774 178
- 11 Investments in the London Money Market 1735-1772 210
- 12 Conclusion 230
- APPENDIX A: WARREN GENEALOGY 236
- APPENDIX B: WARREN'S NEW YORK BOND LOANS 1725-1769 237
- NOTES 242
- BIBLIOGRAPHY 294
- INDEX 312
- A 312
- B 312
- C 313
- D 314
- E 315
- F 315
- G 315
- H 316
- I 316
- J 317
- K 317
- L 318
- M 318
- N 319
- O 320
- P 320
- Q 320
- R 320
- S 321
- T 322
- U 322
- V 322
- W 322
- Y 325
