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HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY BUTTONS, A HISTORY

This research is a work in progress and will be updated intermittently.

The Trade Good of buttons was one commodity of exchange that the Hudson's Bay Company traded in [reference]. The earliest reference to a HBC button was from 1683 (or 1682), which mentioned reordering the same amount as the previous year (1681/82) [reference]. There were undoubtedly earlier HBC button-related records than this, yet this date shall serve as a starting point for HBC buttons. HBC was founded in 1668/70... The first shipment was in the year 16??, from Gravesend (?) to ?, via the ship ?, captain ? [references]. This shipment does not mention buttons, yet does shoe the inventory of goods, stores, and provisions [references]. The 1681/2 shipment would have been the (#) shipment [reference], in the (blank) year since HBC's (creation?) [reference]. Next, buttons are first noted on an 'invoice of ships merchandize' in 1686 (?). This included (blank) number of (type/material/etc.), aboard the ship (blank), from Gravesend to ?, leaving on ?, and arriving at ?, on ? [reference]. Overall, between 1668 and 1821, nearly one million buttons were shipped to North America by the HBC [reference].