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Perkins and Company, Canton: 1803–1827

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

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America's first ship to enter the port at Canton was the Empress of China, a New York ship; Major Samuel Shaw of Boston was supercargo. Six months out from New York she arrived at Macao on August 23, 1784. Others of the earliest American visitors to China include Captain Robert Gray sailing the Columbia; ship Hope, James Magee, Master; and the Grand Turk of Salem, Ebenezer West, Master.

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Business History Review , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , March 1932 , pp. 1 - 5
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1932