Sulu and the East India Company

Articles of friendship and commerce record the East India Company dealing with the Sultan of Sulu as a treaty-making ruler.

Date

28 January 1761

Document type

Treaty reprint

Issuing authority / creator

Sultan of Sulu; Alexander Dalrymple for the East India Company

Citation

Johannes Willi, The Early Relations of England with Borneo to 1805 (1922), Appendix II, pp. 137–138.

Why it matters

The treaty places British commercial access within an existing Sulu political order more than a century before the North Borneo Company.