Thomas Coffin Amory papers

Scope and Contents Contains copies of Thomas Coffin Amory's correspondence to merchants, agents, ship captains, and other individuals, regarding trade and consignment of goods and endorsement of notes, dated 1797-1798. Correspondents include Portland, Maine, merchants Samuel Waldo (1764–1798), James Deering (1766-1850), and Thomas Hodges, Robert Hazlehurst & Co. of South Carolina, Farris & Stocker of Newburyport, Massachusetts, Israel Thorndike (1755-1832) of Beverly, Massachusetts, and Samuel Breck,...

Scope and Contents Contains copies of letters from Thomas Coffin Amory to merchants, agents, and ship captains, dated December 1798 to March 1799. Included are letters to Ebenezer Stocker about the hiring of a carpenter to build a ship Amory was financing with Perkins & Higginson, insuring mercantile voyages, and trade of commodities like salt; and letters to James Stewart & Co. and James Deering regarding the trade and costs of coffee, pot ash, and fish. To Jacob Sheafe (1749-1829), an American naval...

Scope and Contents Contains copies of letters from Thomas Coffin Amory to merchants, agents, and ship captains, dated March-June 1799. Correspondents include Ebenezer Stocker, to whom Amory wrote about coppering a schooner and Russian entry into the War of the Second Coalition, as well as sending a small undefended schooner with cocoa to the Bay of Biscay in the Celtic Sea; Amory recommended avoiding the route if no protection from the United States Navy or Marine Cutters were available, and selling the cargo...

Scope and Contents Contains copies of letters from Thomas Coffin Amory to merchants, dated June-October 1799, including Ebenezer Stocker, James Stewart & Co., Coffin & Otis, and Boston merchant William Gray (1750-1832). Topics include stocking his store, the trade and consignment of beer, fish, coffee, sugar, pearl ash, and cochineal, and the status of mercantile voyages from Boston and Newburyport, Massachusetts, to Jamaica and ports in the southern United States. Amory also discussed accounts current...

Scope and Contents Contains copies of letters from Thomas Coffin Amory, dated October 1799 to April 1800, to merchants including Ebenezer Stocker, Martin Maden, and James Stewart & Co., regarding trade of fish, cocoa, cochineal, and sugar, as well as particulars of his business relationship with Thomas Handasyd Perkins, insurance, and ventures of Perkins' ships Franklin, Massachusetts, and Thomas Russell. Letters to Stocker discuss voyages to Havana, Batavia, Veracruz, Mexico, Moscow, and London. He also...

Scope and Contents Contains copies of letters from Thomas Coffin Amory to merchants, dated April 1800 to January 1801. Correspondents include Ebenezer Stocker, Weeks & Tucker, James Hunter & Co., and Philadelphia merchant Isaac Hazlehurst, Jr. (1742-1834) regarding consignment and trade of sugar, raisins, wine, lumber, copper, and iron, the pricing of certain commodities, movement of mercantile vessels, issuance of debenture certificates, condemnation of ships, and market shortages. Other topics...

Scope and Contents Contains copies of letters from Thomas Coffin Amory to merchants, dated January 1801 to March 1802, regarding trade and consignment of goods such as cocoa, pot ash, tar, fish, and New England rum, capture of a ship belonging to another merchant by British privateers off Canada, insurance, prices current in Boston, and naval blockades in Italian ports. Correspondents include Ebenezer Stocker, Hunter Robinson & Co., Canadian firm Forsyth, Smith & Co., and New York merchants J. Lenox...