S. Griffitts Morgan business records

S. (Samuel) Griffitts Morgan (1816-1893) was a supercargo on the clipper ships, Flying Cloud, John Jay, Sea Serpent, St. Lawrence, and others, and sold a wide variety of goods in San Francisco, California in the gold rush days. Many of these commodities were consigned to him by Grinnell, Minturn, and Company of New York. He also did business with Simmons, Hutchison & Co.; Donald McKay, Boston, Massachusetts; Nye, Perkins and Company, China and with his uncle, Charles Waln Morgan of New Bedford. Early in his career, he moved to New Bedford , Massachusetts where he worked as a clerk in the office of his uncle, Charles Waln Morgan. He later was partner in the firm Pope & Morgan a commission business based out of New Bedford. In 1849 commission merchant Thomas S. Hathaway sent him to function as a supercargo on the ship John Jay to San Francisco. In San Francisco he established the firm Morgan & Hathaway. Grinnell, Minturn & Co. of New York were the largest consignors of Morgan & Hathaway. Morgan conducted business with Nye, Perkins & Company of Canton (now called Guangzhou), China and firms in Valparaiso, Chile for whale oil, turpentine, and other commodities. Morgan returned to New Bedford in the mid-1850s and died in 1893.