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- Fanning_&_Coles abstract "Fanning & Coles was a firm engaged in the Old China Trade trade from 1798 to 1815. It owned large sailing ships and acted as commission merchants, transporting $40,000 of tea a year from Canton, China to New York. The firm also traded seal skins gathered from South America and the Pacific ocean while sailing to China (Maritime fur trade). On the 1798 voyage of the Betsey they caught 100,000 seals which were sold in China. On several voyages they discovered new uncharted islands such as Fanning Island and Palmyra Atoll. The firm built the 290 ton Tonquin. The firm sold the Tonquin to John Jacob Astor's Northwest Trading Company for $37,000 in 1810. The Tonquin was sent to the Northwest to trade furs.The partners were Edmund Fanning, sea captain, and Willet Coles financier. Willett Coles also owned a manhattan rum distillery with his father Stephen Coles. He is listed in 1811 as a founding member of a group that chartered the original Bank of America in NY. Coles was one of the first presidents of the New York City Fire Department (1808). The Coles were descendants of original settler Robert Coles who founded the settlement of Glen Cove, NY. ( originally called Musketa Cove)Coles and Fanning secured permission President James Madison for an expedition to the Fiji Island to buy rare woods for trade with China.Sources are the books written by Edmund Fanning on the voyages of the Betsey, national archives of the USA, presidential documents of Jefferson, Monroe and Madison.".
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- Fanning_&_Coles comment "Fanning & Coles was a firm engaged in the Old China Trade trade from 1798 to 1815. It owned large sailing ships and acted as commission merchants, transporting $40,000 of tea a year from Canton, China to New York. The firm also traded seal skins gathered from South America and the Pacific ocean while sailing to China (Maritime fur trade). On the 1798 voyage of the Betsey they caught 100,000 seals which were sold in China.".
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