Melatiah Bourn papers

Includes attorney's fees collected by Silvanus Bourn.

List of charges to Silvanus Bourn for court fees he incurred serving as an attorney in 1740.

Contains accounts of Silvanus Bourn in 1759 with Thomas Hancock, as well as Melatiah Bourn, related to purchase of two guns, foodstuffs, and dry goods, a loss on the schooner Hawk, and tax on land in Gorham Town.

Includes Silvanus Bourn's account with William Bowdoin (1713-1773) related to land transactions, and an account with Melatiah Bourn in 1760 related to purchase of flour, sugar, hardware, and dry goods, and payment of wages to soldiers under Bourn's command at Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Includes accounts of goods sent to Halifax, soldiers' wages, and Silvanus Bourn's debts to Thomas Hancock, William Townsend, Colonel Thiving at Halifax, and others, dated 1761.

Includes an account of payment and receipt of money on Silvanus Bourn's account, dated 1764. The record shows payments to Hannah Bromfield, and Boston merchants John Rowe (1730-1797), Thomas Hancock, and Solomon Davis, among others, as well as cash received from Nathaniel Stone, James Bowdoin (1726-1790; Harvard AB 1745), chaisemaker Adino Paddock (1727-1804), and bookseller Daniel Henchman (1689-1761).

Contains accounts and bills of Silvanus Bourn from 1737 to 1762, including an account from William Bowdoin for rent of one-sixth of Naushon Island; a bill to Abraham Jacob Lansing (1720-1791) for tailoring and a pair of "Indian stockings"; a bill to Bourn from Lieutenant James Hambleton for supplies sent to Halifax; and an account with Melatiah Bourn that references a whaling voyage of William Attwood.

Memoranda of dry goods, flour, and other merchandise delivered by Silvanus Bourn to assorted persons including Thomas Walker, an African-American named Marck, Samuel Emmes, and John Winslow, and memos of payments and debts, dated 1752-1762.

Contains orders to pay Elizabeth Hill of Halifax, Daniel Wing of Sandwich, Stephen Nye, Silvanus Bourn, and others, dated 1758-1760.

Contains promissory notes from Captain Benjamin Kent and Daniel Wing to Silvanus Bourn, and from Bourn, in Halifax, to Captain Abraham J. Lansing, Henry Stone, and William Jeffray, as well as to Boston merchants Jonathan & John Amory, dated 1743-1761.

Contains bills to the estate of Silvanus Bourn from Deborah Wood for pies, cakes, washing, and other services in Halifax, and an account from Paul Mendall for tax on Quabbin land, paid by sale of a fifty acre lot, dated 1759-1764.

Memoranda of rights to land in Gorham Town, and other bills and accounts related to Melatiah Bourne's legal services, dated 1761-1773.

Includeds a 1763 account between Major Joseph Gorham (1725-1790) and Richard Curson of New York, with whom Gorham left a cask with six suits of regimental clothing and a valise belonging to Captain Benoni Danks (circa 1716-1776).

Accounts of consignment sales of fish, furniture auctioned, rum sold in Philadelphia, and invoices of dry goods imported from London merchants Champion & Dickason, dated 1767-1777.

Accounts and memoranda, dated circa 1752-1764, including a settlement referencing Captain Ebenezer Frost's West Indies voyages, wages of soldiers in Silvanus Bourne's company at Halifax, and goods delivered to Benjamin Holmes like tobacco, corn, and staves.

Includes accounts related to voyages to England and assessment of Melatiah Bourne's property, which included his house, store, one enslaved person, a horse, and ownership in a schooner, dated 1752-1758.

Includes accounts of money received to pay wages of soldiers on Bourne's roll, accounts against Major Joseph Gorham, and an account of land partitioned between Bourne and the estates of James Bowdoin, Daniel Rogers, and Samuel Dummer, dated 1760-1764.

Accounts of Melatiah Bourne with Benjamin Gerrish and Joseph Gray, dated 1767-1769, related to freighting fish from Halifax and consignment sales.