Wendell family business records

Scope and Contents Ledger of John Wendell, Jr., dated 1797-1802, containing cash accounts and accounts related to real estate transactions with residents of various New Hampshire towns including Lyman, Wendell, Springfield, and Portsmouth, and his accounts as administrator of his son John Wendell's (1757-1799) estate. The cash accounts show monies borrowed and received for family and other expenses, state notes liquidated, and payment to E. Moulton by land in Moultonborough. John Wheelock (1754-1817),...

Scope and Contents Ledger of notes and interest, probably kept by John Wendell, Jr., and his son, George Wentworth Wendell, dated 1796-1803. Names in the volume include Isaac Young, William Gage, and Moses Sargent of Wendell, Massachusetts; David D. Stickney and David Moulton of Lyman, Maine; James Hogg; and James Brocklebank of New London, Connecticut. One page includes a reference to Albany, New York, merchant Philip Kiliaen van Rensselaer (1747-1798). Names inscribed on the endpaper at the front of the...

Scope and Contents Account book kept by merchant and ship owner Joshua Peirce, Jr. (1670-1743), dated 1725-1734, in Canso, Nova Scotia, where he operated a fishery. Records are primarily related to trade in Great Britain, Europe, the West Indies, and other port cities in Canada, and supplying the Canso fishery. Peirce's shipping business concentrated on importing salt from Spain and equipment for the fishery, as well as rum, tobacco, molasses, and sugar; and exporting lumber and merchantable fish. Other...

Scope and Contents Account book of Joshua Peirce, Jr., in Canso, Nova Scotia, dated 1722-1724. Included are daybook entries of shipment or sale of salt, rum, tobacco, nails, powder, cordage, rope, pitch, turpentine and other commodities brought into Canso, and exports of cod fish, as well as accounts against the sloop Dolphin, the schooners Return, Fortune, Monk, and Temperance, and captains and merchants who traded with Peirce or shared shipping interests. Additionally there is an invoice of lumber and refuse...

Scope and Contents Volume of letters by Daniel Rindge (1731-1799) written from 1748/9 to 1750. Included are letters to London agent John Thomlinson and a memoranda of dry goods Rindge ordered, and to Halifax, Nova Scotia, merchant and naval storekeeper Joseph Gerrish (1709-1774) regarding trade of mangos, logwood, oil, molasses, shipment of coal to Boston from Louisbourg, and vessels traveling to Casco Bay and the West Indies. Rindge additionally references activities of Prince and Jenny, who were probably...

Scope and Contents Journal and ledger primarily of the estate of Joshua Peirce, Jr.'s son, physician Joshua Peirce 3rd (1700-1754) of Portsmouth, and a mill at Nottingham, New Hampshire, that was probably owned by the Peirce family or relatives, dated 1754-1759. The volume may have been kept Peirce's brother, Daniel Peirce (1709-1773; Harvard AB 1728) and contains various accounts with the estate that overlap with mill transactions and general trade. A few entries relate to voyages of the schooners Monk and...

Scope and Contents Ledger of cider mill owner and tavern keeper Samuel Sloper, of Blandford, Massachusetts, dated 1773-1802. In addition to cider accounts, there are charges for general merchandise bought or sold by Sloper, such as rum, indigo, dry goods, books, sugar, paper hangings, spectacles, nails, and boards. Moses Michael purchased a chest lock, salt, and blank account book, and Thankfull Black traded her services spinning and weaving for dry goods and copperas. There are also entries related to medical...

Scope and Contents Account book kept by Jedediah Smith, a farmer, judge, distiller and cider mill owner in Blandford, Massachusetts, dated 1786-1814. Included are memoranda of farm work and debts, accounts and charges for sawing, drawing logs to a mill, weaving, acting as a bondsman, potatoes, rye, wheat, and corn, slit work, and boards, and payment by day labor, carpentry, blacksmithing, and other work. Names in the volume include Major Timothy Hatch, John Bancroft, John Lloyd, Jane Warren, Timothy Simons,...

Scope and Contents Volume of documents related to the estate of Portsmouth mariner William Furnald, dated 1791-1803. Included is a copy of his will, which bequeathed to his wife Mary her legal share of one-third of his real estate; to the women his enslaved, Rose, and her two sons, a dwelling house and land; and to his son William, all of his lands, tenements, personal estate, and the remaining two-thirds of his real estate. If his son died without issue, his inheritance passed to William Furnald Pulsever, son...

Scope and Contents One bound volume of seven logbooks for voyages of the sloop Endeavor, the brigs Nancy, Maria & Eliza, Hero, and Gustavus, the schooner Mary, and the ship Charles, maintained by George Frost Blunt (1761-1831) of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, from 1783 to approximately 1826. Initially Blunt was a sailor, then a mate, and he became a captain in 1788. The primary destinations for most of the vessels were the West Indies, Spain, and Great Britain, with cargo that included beef, hoops, staves,...

Scope and Contents Unidentified New Hampshire ledger, dated 1737-1770, possibly kept at one point by cooper Jeremiah Wheelwright (1698-circa 1770), of Portsmouth. A note in the volume references a "memorandum of my child John Wheelwright," and there are accounts with other family members and Wheelwright relations like Elisha Plaisted. Included are accounts with John Wendell, Hugh Hall Wentworth, Daniel Rindge, Samuel Sherburne, John Wentworth, and Jotham Odiorne, which primarily concern mercantile voyages,...

Scope and Contents Unidentified New Hampshire daybook, dated 1743-1766, possibly kept by a member of the Peirce family. The volume, which is labeled as accompanying ledger D, contains accounts related to general store sales; labor; supplying ships; voyages to the West Indies; and support of British forces during King George's War. A number of entries note roundtrip travel by the author to Nottingham, New Hampshire, where the Peirce family owned land and were involved in milling. In October 1744,...

Scope and Contents Ledger of Nottingham, New Hampshire, sawmill accounts, dated 1759-1762, likely maintained by a member of the Peirce family or a business associate. The volume contains payments to day laborers for work at the mill and building a dam in Barrington; sales of lumber, farm tools, tobacco, and corn; cash accounts and expense accounts; a spinning account with charges to Thomas Palmer, Thomas Tash, and others; accounts of the estate of Joshua Peirce; and Barrington Farm accounts....

Scope and Contents Pages from a daybook corresponding to Ledger VA-3, recording general store sales and expenses, mill operations, and shipping, dated 1759-1762. The records were likely kept by a member of the Peirce family. There are charges for lumber, corn, shot, powder, bullets, tobacco, and sugar; taxes; and wages of laborers at Nottingham, mending the grist mill, and working at the dam in Barrington. Entries include Benjamin Stokes, Daniel Warner, John Gardner, John Pendexter, the town of Nottingham,...

Scope and Contents Volume of accounts, daybook and ledger entries, and memoranda, probably kept by John Wendell, Jr., dated 1794-1799. Many entries concern mercantile voyages: there are payments for customs duties on coffee, sugar, and indigo on the schooner Industry, and glassware and rum on the brig Blossom; and accounts for the ship Lydia and schooner Charlotte. Names in the volume include Thomas March, Captain Samuel Lamphear, cobbler Richard Low, Captain Edward Gove, Captain Edward Sargent, John Shapley,...

Scope and Contents Copy of the will of merchant Nicholas Paige and his wife and Anna Paige of Boston created in 1703. Beneficiaries of their estate include Nicholas Pridex of Barbados, Sarah Gerrish and her husband, Lieutenant John Gerrish, Reverend Michael Wigglesworth (1631-1705; Harvard AB 1651) and Reverend Samuel Willard (1640-1707; Harvard AB 1659) of Boston, and Ann Dudley, daughter of Governor Joseph Dudley (1647-1720). The document also bequeaths to John and Sarah Gerrish an enslaved or indentured boy...

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Contains deeds of the Lewis and Goldthwait families of Boston, dated 1735-1884. Includes two 1735 quitclaim deeds for a dwelling home and land from Boston mariner Samuel Lewis and his sister Elizabeth Goldthwait to their brother Philip Lewis, and a 1757 quitclaim deed from Thomas Lewis to his mother Lydia Lewis, all of which were entered into the Suffolk County Records of Deeds in 1772.

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Letters written from West Point, New York, from Mary Goldthwait to her sister-in-law Esther Dorr in 1799. Topics include her dissatisfaction with her social opportunities and desire to move to Boston, news about family and friends, and her brother John Dorr's business. There is also an undated note to Miss Goldthwait from Mr. Cunningham declining to visit with her the day after they danced at an unspecified event.

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Contains papers of the Gowen and Goldthwait families, dated 1774-1783. Includes a marriage certificate of Joseph Gowen and Martha Goldthwait; articles of agreement between Colonel James Robertson and Richard Letchmore to lease Letchmore's distillery and store house as a barracks for British soldiers; and copies of Joseph and Martha Goldthwait's wills and estate papers.

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Contains papers of the Gowen and Goldthwait families, dated 1785-1797, including estate records and copies of deeds and a power of attorney from Joseph Gowen, a Boston apothecary. There is also some genealogical information about the family.

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Contains letters and papers of Boston merchant John Dorr (1770-1855) and the Dorr family, dated 1783-1821. Included are a 1783 letter from Nathaniel Cunningham regarding the peace achieved between the United States and Great Britain, and copies of 1799 letters to J. Peters and Joseph Peirce from Dorr regarding matters of politics and business.

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Contains papers and letters of the Dorr family, dated 1797-1844. Included are a 1797 power of attorney from the partnership of John and Jacob Dorr to Samuel Adams Dorr to enable him to collect debts on their behalf, and a 1798 memorandum of articles of agreement between the members of the Uniformed Corps of Ward No. 12 of the Massachusetts State Militia, written by Samuel Adams Dorr.

Scope and Contents Contains deeds of land in Massachusetts and Connecticut to John Barrett from Moses Holt, Isaiah Barrett, and others, lease agreements to Barrett's land, and financial records, dated 1765-1786. There is also a deed to Sarah Barrett, John Barrett's wife, from John Hancock for a tract of land in Boston. Additionally includes invoices and inventories of merchandise belonging to John Barrett & Sons, when the firm moved to Salem, and a March 1786 issue of Boston Magazine, with the name Mr....

Scope and Contents Contains letters to John Barrett, or John Barrett & Sons, primarily from other merchants, dated 1775-1785, including Michael Saunders of Salem, who wrote regarding the company's existing inventory of nails and bundles of steel, and Robert & Nathan Hyde of Manchester, England, and Butlers & Mathew of Cadiz, Spain, who sought remittance of the balance on Barrett & Sons' accounts. There are a few copies of letters from Barrett & Sons regarding debts. Also included is a copy...

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Contains records of the estate of Sarah Barrett, dated 1798-1801, including a bill for medicines and attendance from 1791 to 1798 by physician Aaron Dexter (1750-1829; Harvard AB 1776); receipts from Elizabeth Cunningham for interest in her stock in the United States Bank; extracts from her will and probate documents; and accounts current with Samuel Barrett, Henry Hill, Benjamin Hammatt, Saunders & Lang, the heirs of Susannah Bowen, and executors John Barrett and Elisha Sigourney.