Proprietors of the Boston Pier, or Long Wharf records

Includes deeds of land to tailor Daniel Rea, and his son, painter Daniel Rea, Jr., of Boston, from William Story, Sampson Salter, and mathematical instrument maker William Williams, as well as related letters and documents of George Homer, administrator of Daniel Rea, Sr.'s estate.

Correspondence of George Homer, the Boston Inspector of Police, and others, respecting regulations about buring coal on Long Wharf and residents' complaints about ashes.

Accounts include rents received from stores on the wharf, from Daniel Sargent, William Shattuck, and others, and bills of disbursements.

Includes letters to Jacob Homer from other merchants about consignment sales of his salmon and West Indies shipping.

Includes accounts with Charles Sigourney, Caleb Loring, Samuel Adams and others, as well as orders to George Homer.

Includes votes by the Proprietors about matters like forbidding storage of hemp and oakum, building a brick store on the wharf, notices of meetings, and accounts of meeting attendance.

Includes receipts from Stephen Sewall for printing advertisements, Cesar Humphrey for two freights of ballast, and a gondola sold by Mungo Mackay (1740-1811) signed by Hezekiah Prince. Accounts of dividends in 1794 contains sums to shareholders like Margaret Phillips, Oliver Wendell, and Sarah Gray.