Box MSS VF 39
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Boston custom house memo book, 1800-1806 Digital
FOUND IN:
Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School
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Collection:
Vertical file collection on finance – collection and care of funds
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Series:
Series III. Taxation - customs and excise (folder C)
Item — Box: MSS VF 39, Folder: 17Identifier: Mss:92 1671-1896 File
Scope and Contents:
Memoranda book in several hands containing duties collected coffee, rice, Havana sugar, rum, Hyson tea, and other commodities imported to Boston, dated 1800-1806. The volume was created by custom house officer John N. Welch in pen, and continued in pencil by an unknown person. Names referenced include merchant Nehemiah Parsons, S. Gibson & Co., and Captain Samuel Topliff. There are also records of labor payment. Both Welch's name and the initials S.H.W., Long Wharf, Boston, are inscribed...