Dictionary of source types
The Libro de Cuenta y Razón is an account book mandatory since the promulgation of the Mercantile Code of 1829 and used until the end of the sailing shipping. In it, the successive crew agreements of a ship were written down by the shipmaster. In the following pages the master detailed the entries of the payments made to each man in the different ports in detail (advances before embarkment and successive payments) , and the final settlement upon landing or end the trip. This is a scarce document, scarcely preserved, but very interesting because of the information that provides of the inside of crews.
In the same book it is possible to find more than a trip, with different crews and routes. The informations is dispersed along different pages so has to be treated in order to combine different entries for the same man. Sometime are incomplete.
- crew list
- role/profession on board