Thomas Fayerweather incoming letters

Scope and Contents Contains letters to Thomas Fayerweather from James Porter and William Blair Townsend of Boston, Fayerweather’s nephew Pyam Blowers in Ipswich, William Read in Philadelphia, and Moses Titcomb of Salem. In a letter dated from Boston, January 23, 1760, Samuel Phillips most likely the husband of Elizabeth Blowers, Fayerweather’s niece, asks Fayerweather to sell Cato (a person enslaved by Phillips), a...

Scope and Contents Contains letters to Thomas Fayerweather from Pyam Blowers, and his wife Elizabeth Blowers in Liverpool, regarding their move to England in 1765, and his voyage to the coast of Africa, as well as from Elizabeth Lomatt, her mother, who writes she has been forced to take a job after the death of her husband and asks if Pyam Bowers left any effects to his widow and child. Other correspondents are Henry Atkins of Boston and Stephen Sampson & Ephraim Spooner of Plymouth, who write about...