Box MSS VF 38

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Two letters from John Livingston (1750-1822) of New York to merchant George Burroughs (-1819) of Boston concerning stock investment, debts, and real estate, dated 1791-1796.

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Account of shares owned by the estate of Boston merchant Thomas Russell (1740-1796), dated 1800. His investments included the Union Bank, Massachusetts Bank, United States Bank, Charles River Bridge, and the Middlesex Canal.

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Copy of a French government document, dated 1795, ordering payment to Captain Isaac Williams for participating in an unnamed mission for the cause of French liberty.

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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.

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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.

Scope and Contents: Contains assorted financial records generated during the Revolutionary War, dated 1776-1779, including a receipt to mariner Jacob Wildes (1726-1822) of Arundel (now Kennebunkport), Maine from Noah Cluff for serving as a substitute for Wildes’ son in the Continental Army; schedule of losses, or “an account of the loss I sustain’d while the British troops were in Boston in the year 1775” by an unknown merchant, including a “negro man they cary’d away”, steps to his stores, and his boat; a bill...

Scope and Contents: Includes a 1781 bond between Benjamin Hill, master of the sloop Abigail, and Nathan Miller, her owners, both of Rhode Island, with United States Treasurer Michael Hilligas, commissioning her as a privateer. Other owners of the eight-gun vessel were Samuel Broome and Lebanon Bradford. Also contains undated signaling instructions for American ships, and a copy of an agreement regarding rations of daily subsistence to be issued to American and British prisoners of war. There is additionally a...

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Correspondence, bills, and other papers of Jonathan Faulknor (-1795), a Royal Navy officer, dated 1754-1759. Included is a letter regarding his deployment on the HMS Albany in 1755.