The Frozen Water Trade (Text Only). Gavin Weightman

of Boston sheriffs armed with warrants for the execution of debt, and managed to load up a ship and slip out of port on 1 November 1815, bound for Havana. His mother, perhaps a little repentant about demanding too large a share of the proposed Rockwood mortgage, sent him some sweetmeats and a few shirts to see him on his way. Frederic, destitute and still living the life of a single man in lodgings, did not thank her. He had only one thing on his mind: the new and revolutionary ice-house he was going to construct in Havana which would finally set the trade on a proper footing and make him his fortune.