[BRITISH EAST INDIA COMPANY]. PEARSON, James, Capt. Partially printed document signed (“James Pearson”), London, 12 April 1815. One-page, folio (483 x 318 mm), on vellum, accomplished in manuscript, docketed on verso, original wax seal and duty stamp, old folds, minor soiling. A BILL OF SALE FOR THE SHIP “UNION”. The British ship, Union, was built in 1803, at the Randall & Brent Shipyard. The Union was classified as an Indiaman, a general term for any sailing ship under license to the East India Companies of the major European trading powers. As one the merchant vessels for the British Honourable East India Company, she would have run mainly between England, the Cape of Good Hope, and Cape Horn, stopping at the ports of Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta. The Union made eight voyages between 1803 and 1819, when she was broken up and sold her for salvageable parts. The last of two voyages, from 1815-16 and 1817-18, were under her new co-owner, Captain Edward Johnson.