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Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

 Organization

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Charles Apthorp correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-27
Abstract

Letters to London merchant John Thomlinson, mainly related to the financial arrangements, sale, and shipment of merchandise to Boston. Apthorp was born in England in 1698 and educated at Eton College. He was later appointed by the English government as paymaster and commissary of the land and naval forces quartered in Boston. Apthorp also became one of the most distinguished merchants in Boston during the 1730's until his death in 1758.

Dates: 1738-1751; Majority of material found within 1738 - 1739

Samuel Wentworth papers

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT box-Ayer-MS-972
Abstract Fifteen letters and two documents, 1738-1742, concerning the ships and cargos of Samuel Wentworth, a Boston merchant and the brother of New Hampshire governor Benning Wentworth. Much of the material, which is all addressed to John Thomlinson, a London merchant who handled Wentworth's affairs in England, concerns the payment of bills and the settlement of debts; the insurance, cargo, and sale of the ship "Snow Tryton"; the loss of the ship "Snow Lucitania" and resulting insurance claims; and...
Dates: 1738-1742

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  • Subject: Merchants -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History -- 18th century -- Sources X

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Appraisals -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- 1701-1750 1
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Boston (Mass.) -- Commerce -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources 1