Rowland Hazard I daybook, 1790-1792 Digital
Scope and Contents
Daybook of Rowland Hazard containing entries for general merchandise sales in Charleston, and accounts related to shipping and trade of cheese, indigo, spermaceti, rice, oats, salt, rum, and tobacco, on the sloop Friendship and schooner Fatigue. Expenses included draying, shipping, and coopering merchandise for Thomas Hazard and others, and charges for commissions. Among the names of merchants, customers, and associates in the volume are other Hazard family members, Ayrault & Winthrop, George Champlin, Maria Frasier, Zaccheus Collins, Burrill & Slocum, Robert Elam, Pepoon Otis & Co., William N. Rhodes, William J. Robinson, Moses Larzedas, Frederick Wolf, Joseph Rumney, Ann Elizabeth Saylor, Gershon Cohen, John Champney, Thomas Dennis, Orange Webb, Hallett & Bourne, John and Jabez Porter, Theodore and Samuel Gaillard, and Eleanor Marsh.
Dates
- Creation: 1790-1792
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research. Materials stored onsite. Please contact specialcollectionsref@hbs.edu for more information.
Extent
115 linear feet (220 volumes, 124 boxes)Physical Location
MANU
Creator
- From the Collection: Peace Dale Manufacturing Company (Organization)
Repository Details
Part of the Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School Repository
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