| Notes: | IOR/G: East India Company Factory Records (1608-1858). A 'factory' was a trading post where a number of merchants, or factors, resided. When company ships arrived at the factories, ships' merchants were thus enabled to exchange goods for trading immediately instead of having to wait to make deals with local merchants. Factories were run by a chief factor and a council of factors. The 'Factory Records' is an artificially-created sub-fonds; the records of individual Company factories consist mainly of consultations (records of administrative decisions and of correspondence), diaries (records of daily activities), letters received, copies of letters sent and collections of papers on particular subjects.
AMDigital Reference: IOR/G/40/20.
Reproduction of: Miscellaneous: Letterbook of Sir William Norris, ambassador to the Great Mogul, Mar 1701 to 5 May 1702 1701-1702.
The British Library
Description based on online resource (viewed on July 5, 2019).
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| Summary: | Description: IOR/G/40: Factory Records: Miscellaneous, 1608-1727. 29 volumes.These records contain material on various factories including Anjengo, Armagon, Bombay, Fort St George, Masulipatam, Petapoli, Surat and Tanjore.
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