Moses Brown papers

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Includes captain's orders and letters from merchants who consigned goods to Moses Brown. A letter from Captain Stephen Holland in Port-au-Prince references the Haitian Revolution.

Scope and Contents Includes a number letters to Moses Brown from Captain William Picket after the ship William arrived in Charleston, South Carolina, regarding sales of Brown's lumber and hardware, prices of rice, and efforts to load the vessel with freight for Europe and Russia. Picket notes in one letter that he had two people inoculated after they were exposed to smallpox. Correspondence from a Hamburg, Germany, agent references the war between England and France and trade advantages of American...

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Includes a letter to Moses Brown from Charleston, South Carolina, merchant J. Winthrop discussing the arrival of a French ambassador to the United States with news of war between England, France, and Holland. There is also a letter from Lisbon agents John Bulkeley & Son referencing the impact of the war on trade.

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Includes a letter from Thomas J. Beatty of Georgetown, Maryland, expressing interest in buying two of Moses Brown's ships and proposing terms of a West Indies voyage. There is also a receipt from the crew of the ship William for their wages. A letter from Brown to Captain Chandler references his dealings with Samuel Coates, who was brokering the sale of one of Brown's ships in Philadelphia.

Scope and Contents Includes a letter from Cadiz, Spain, agents Dom Terry & Comp. regarding a truce between Algeria and Portugal and dangers posed to Brown's ships by privateers. After conferring with associates in Gibraltar, the firm believes that "a peace with them pirates will now be difficult to make, which exposes a great number of American citizens to perpetual slavery, and humanity shudders for their fate." Goodair & Co. of Lisbon similary write about the negative impact on American trade in...

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Includes a letter from William Orne of Salem reporting that England had instructed its privateers and men of war to capture neutral ships carrying French goods.

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Includes letters to Moses Brown from Captain William Picket, bound from London to Russia, a letter from Samuel Blodget of Haverhill that mentions progress on his canal, and a letter from Hallowell, Maine, shipbuilder Benjamin Guild discussing a vessel under construction. A letter from the U.S. consul in Cowes, Thomas Auldjo, informs Brown the brig Polly had been detained six weeks because she lacked a manifest for her tobacco, but she was returning to Newburyport with 80 tons of salt.

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David Barnard of Nantucket asks Moses Brown to send him two anchors made of Philadelphia iron. William Gray of Salem discusses chartering a ship.

Scope and Contents Captain Joseph H. Woodman writes from St. Lucia about selling cargo of fish, shoes, flour, rum, and other goods to the government, and terms of payment in cotton, coffee, and sugar, as well as the loss of his lumber due to bad weather and poor treatment of Americans by the French following ratification of the Jay Treaty. Martin Parry of Portsmouth discusses the fate of Edmund Randolph (1753-1813), who resigned as Secretary of State after a scandal involving his relations with the French...

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Captain's orders from Moses Brown and letters to Brown from Stephen Holland and other merchants related to shipping and trade of molasses, iron, and hemp. There is also a letter from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, merchant Martin Parry regarding the potential for war between the United States and Great Britain and debates in Congress about treaties.

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Topics are West Indies trade and market conditions and prices current in various ports. Also a circular from Leghorn, Italy, dated October 20, about French capture of the city and impact on English merchants and commerce.

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John Hill Woodman letter to Newburyport merchants Brown, Wyer & Tracy, which was enclosed with an account of sales of the company's goods in St. Lucia and St. Bartholemy.

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Topics include terms of business with foreign agents and loans from Moses Brown's bank.

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Topics include privateering, impact of the French Revolutionary Wars on trade, and scarcity of cash.