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ITEM — Volume: 5 Identifier: Mss:446 1742-1919

Hazard and Ayrault daybook, May 2, 1796-July 1804 Digital

Scope and Contents

Daybook of containing accounts of West Indies voyages financed by Peter Ayrault, Joseph Winthrop, and Rowland Hazard and trade of tobacco, nankeens, coffee, rum, whale oil, salt, sugar, and lumber. Among the vessels referenced are the sloops Laura, Maryland, and Martha, ships Canton and William, and schooner Hibernia. The volume contains some loose material, such as a bond of Ayrault and Winthrop to pay duties on goods imported on the sloop Martha from Cap-Français in 1799. Expenses related to shipping ventures included hire of enslaved people or black laborers and insurance. An account against Jonathan Barney in February 1797 related to a voyage of the sloop Union lists a bond for “2 Negros & a Mulatto.” There are also distillery accounts and entries for notes, bills payable and receivable, and the Bank of South Carolina. Names in the volume include LaMotte & Chisolm, Casper C. Shul, Roux & Hill, Brown & Ives, Sims White & Son, George Champlin, Seth Delano, Isaac Peace, Joshua Brown, Ahab Arnold, whaling merchant William Rotch, Jr., Thomas Rotch, Jeremiah Briggs, Henry Andrew Hein, John Earl, Brown, Benson & Ives, Joseph Otis & Co., Joseph Winn, and Junno & Cox.

Dates

  • Creation: May 2, 1796-July 1804

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

Repository Details

Part of the Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School Repository

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