Lot 29
EAST INDIA COMPANY
Antiquarian Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 23 September 2000 from 12:00 BST
Description
EAST INDIA COMPANY
CAMERON ( CAPTAIN PETER, of the Hon East India Comany). .... A COLLECTION OF 13 SHIPS LOGS, LEDGER, INVOICE BOOK, WATER REPORTS AND MISCELLANEOUS NOTES, c 1799-1829, all in contemporary calf and folio. (18)
The Collection comprises:-
A) Log Books of the ships of the Honourable East India Company 1799-1826, consisting of:
1) Ship "Ceres"... sailing to China 1800/1801
2) Ship "Cerse" .... sailing to China 1802/1803
3) Ship "Ceres"..... sailing to China 1804/1805
4) Ship "Ceres" .... sailint to Bombay 1806/1807
5) Ship "Walmer Castle"... sailing to China 1808/1809; bound with
Ship "Earl of Balcarras".... sailing to China 1816/1817.
6) Ship "Ann"...... sailing to Madras 1810/1811
7) Ship "Ann"...... sailing to Madras 1812/1813
8) Ship "Ann" ...... sailing to India and Sumatra 1814/1815
9) Ship "General Hewitt"... sailing to Bengal 1818/1819
10) Ship " London" .... sailing to China 1819/1820
11) Ship "Earl of Balcarras" .... sailing to Bengal and China 1821/1823
12) Ship "Earl of Balcarras" .... sailing to China 1824/1825
13) Ship "Earl of Balcarras" .... sailing to China 1825/1825
all with Peter Cameron starting as the 4th Officer through to Captain
B) Ledger of Peter Cameron's Private Trade for the ship "London",( includes reference to the Hon Sir T. Stamford Raffles in connection to financial support) .... 1820/1822
C) Private Trade Invoice Book for the "Earl of Balcarras", detailing goods bought for Export...... 1821/1823
D) Water Reports for:
i) The Honourable East India Company Ship "General Hewitt", written by 3rd Officer Alexander Bell..... 1818
ii) A collection of Water reports for the "London" by 3rd Officer Thomas Penfold...... 1820/1821
iii) The Honourable East India Company Ship "Earl of Balcarras" by 3rd Officer John Griffiths ..... 1824/1825
E) Peter Cameron's gold braided Captains Hat..... in original fitted tin box.
*** see illustration
Footnote
*** Captain Peter Cameron (1777-1843), was the third son of Sir Ewen Cameron , second Chief of Fassifern in Invernesshire. After leaving Aberdeen University he entered service with the East India Company and his first recorded voyage was as 4th Officer on the "Ceres", (see log-book above) at the age of 22 under Captain Stevens, rising to Captain of the "Ann" (1810), as First Mate aboard the "Earl of Balcarras" under Captain Jamieson (1816) and finally as Commander of the "Earl of Balcarras" on its fourth voyage. He retired in May 1827 at the age of 50 and went to reside at Blackheath with Samuel granger and eventually becoming Captain of the Blackheath Golf Club. He died at his home at 6 Eliot Place on 4th October 1843 aged 66. An obelisk to the memory of Captain Peter Cameron is to be found in Fort William.