Business instruments collection

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Includes a Supreme Court approbation related to the case of Ansyl Farel versus William Betts, dated 1799.

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Bills of exchange from New York, London, Hanover, Germany, and Florence, Italy, primarily addressed to British merchants, dated 1748-1812. Included is a 1780 bill of exchange issued by the United States Continental Loan Office to John Jacobs for interest due on a loan certificate, paid in money advanced by the French government.

Scope and Contents Bills of exchange dated from 1782 to 1792. Included are orders for payment in Spanish milled dollars to Richard Woodhull by Joseph Pynchon of New Haven, Connecticut, and to George Champlin of Newport, Rhode Island, from his sister, Katherine Hulburne, addressed to Boston merchant Isaac Winslow; and a certificate from Boston merchants Samuel Parkman, Mungo Merkey, Joseph Coolidge, and Joseph Foster stating their opinion regarding the rate of exchange for public bills on Paris, with a note...

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Contains orders to pay, promissory notes, and bills of exchange from merchants in New York, Boston, and Newbury, Massachusetts, dated 1792-1810. Included is a bill of exchange John Hancock sent to Philadelphia merchant John Gardiner, Jr., and an order to Boston merchant John Blanchard to pay Redmond Hackett of Trinidad for his bill of exchange.

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Includes a bill from Nathaniel Sherburne of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to Major Samuel Livingston in 1787 requesting bushells of corn be delivered on John Wendell's order, which Wendell would settle "in a day or two."

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Includes a bill of lading for salt shipped by Portsmouth, New Hampshire, merchant Archibald Macpheadris from Cadiz, Spain, to Cork, Ireland, in 1722.

Scope and Contents Includes several bills of lading for furs exported to England from New London, Connecticut, and another unspecified port in 1752, and bills of lading for merchandise shipped to merchants Ingraham & Bromfield of Boston, Watson & Cassoul, and others, dated 1782-1783. There is also a 1780 bill for a ship that contained the belongings of Captain Adam Winthrop (1748-1774; Harvard AB 1767), who died at sea, to be delivered to his brother William Winthrop (1753-1825; Harvard AB 1770) in...

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Includes a 1778 insurance policy taken out by merchant Richard Derby, Jr. (1712-1783), of Salem, Massachusetts, on a voyage of the schooner Neptune from South Key, North Carolina, to Bilbao, Spain, underwritten in Boston by Joseph Barrell (1739-1804), Tuthill Hubbart, and Samuel Allyne Otis (1740-1814; Harvard AB 1759), among others.

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Includes sample of Massachusetts Bank Company notes, dated 1780.

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Sample promissory note issued by the Massachusetts Bank Company in 1799.

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Includes checks issued by Andrew Clow & Co. and E. Duluth & Wachsmuth from state and federal banks in Philadelphia in 1790-1794

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Includes a printed sheet of mostly blank checks issued by the U.S.B. Office of Discount & Deposit in New York with the exception of one check made out to George Turnbull in 1792.

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Includes a copy of a 1724 quitclaim deed from Boston mariners Eleazer Darby and Michael Martin, shipwright John Jones, victualler Samuel Greenleaf, and their wives, to mariner Jonathan Bull, releasing their claims on his father John Bull's property, and extracts of registrar records related to land in Plymouth, Massachusetts, deeded from Abiel Shurtleff to physician Lazarus LeBaron (1698-1773) in 1730.

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Execution of judgment recovered by Westford, Massachusetts, tanner John Nutting, from James Nutting and cordwainer John Fox in 1739.

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Contains estate inventories of John Drewry, Benjamin Tower of Attleborough, Massachusetts, Deborah Tower of Cumberland, Daniel Stuart of Edgartown, and cabinet maker Luther Fuller of Needham, as well as other accounts and papers related to estate administration, dated 1678-1798.

Scope and Contents Includes estate papers of Charles Harvey, Blasingame Harvey, Sr., Daniel McNeil, and Charles Coates, of Georgia dated 1800-1801, and later records dated to 1814. An inventory and appraisal of Charles Harvey's estate lists six enslaved women and girls and one enslaved boy, valued from $150 to $400: Phillis, Rose, Hannah, Jude, Aggy, Lucy, and Jacob. An inventory of the McNeil estate listed three enslaved girls, Violet, Cate, and Rose, as well as spinning wheels, plantation tools, and guns....

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Includes an invoice of mock tapestry hangings shipped from London to John Clarke in Boston in 1713.

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Includes a lease agreement from James McHard to merchant Samuel Blodgett of Haverhill, Massachusetts, in 1789.