COLLECTION
Identifier: Mss:911 1777-1917 File
Vertical file collection on public safety institutions
Military and port inspection, 1777-1795 Digital
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Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School
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Collection:
Vertical file collection on public safety institutions
Scope and Contents
Contains a 1777 receipt and household inventory to Captain Eliphalet Sawen of Braintree, Massachusetts, for nine days of training, signed by Isaac Thayer; a 1779 commission of Levi Tower as a lieutenant in the Alarm Company of Cumberland, Rhode Island, signed by Governor William Greene; and a 1795 New York port inspection certificate to Franklin Robinson for duties on tea he freighted from Canton on the ship Ontario.
Beef inspection book, 1800 Digital
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Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School
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Collection:
Vertical file collection on public safety institutions
Scope and Contents
Account book maintained by Boston customs inspector David Marston recording duties collected on beef in 1800. Also contains expenses like wages paid to coopers and other workers. Names in the volume include Boston merchant Willard Gay, Captain William Hammond, and Jonathan Trask.