The Opium Society: dividend transfers to shareholders in Patria, 1756-1794

<p>The dataset contains the dividend payments to about 100 shareholders of the Opium Society (Amfioen Sociëteit) of the Dutch East Indian Company (VOC) between 1745 and 1795. Also included in the dataset: personal data on the shareholders, their relations (family relationships) and information on the bills of exchanges and missive. The data was collected as part of a project of the postgraduate course Historical Information Processing, Leiden University.</p>