Box 17

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Accounts and bills to Holmes & Fowle, dated 1771-1772, related to operation of the sugar house, and trade of sugar, molasses, and rum. Includes wages to sugar house workers Prince, Boston, and Cato.

Scope and Contents: Nathaniel Holmes, 1728-1774 Accounts current, bills, receipts, orders to pay, survey, account of stock, memoranda, estate and ships' papers. Items before 1735 reflect Holmes as "joyner", documents from 1735-1745 detail his distillery business, and records from the mid-1740s celebrate Holmes' increasing success as merchant. Vessels named include brigs Two Sisters, Victory; sloops America, Betty, Biddeford, Defiance, Desire, Fox, Good Intention, Good Understanding, Mermaid, Molly, Plymouth,...

Scope and Contents: Nathaniel Holmes, 1728-1774 Accounts current, bills, receipts, orders to pay, survey, account of stock, memoranda, estate and ships' papers. Items before 1735 reflect Holmes as "joyner", documents from 1735-1745 detail his distillery business, and records from the mid-1740s celebrate Holmes' increasing success as merchant. Vessels named include brigs Two Sisters, Victory; sloops America, Betty, Biddeford, Defiance, Desire, Fox, Good Intention, Good Understanding, Mermaid, Molly, Plymouth,...

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Includes bills to Holmes & Fowle for sugar from Francis Cabot & Co., Bartholomew Rand, Nehemiah Somes & Co., and others, and memorandum of debts owned them in 1771.

Scope and Contents: Nathaniel Holmes, 1728-1774 Accounts current, bills, receipts, orders to pay, survey, account of stock, memoranda, estate and ships' papers. Items before 1735 reflect Holmes as "joyner", documents from 1735-1745 detail his distillery business, and records from the mid-1740s celebrate Holmes' increasing success as merchant. Vessels named include brigs Two Sisters, Victory; sloops America, Betty, Biddeford, Defiance, Desire, Fox, Good Intention, Good Understanding, Mermaid, Molly, Plymouth,...

Scope and Contents: Nathaniel Holmes, 1728-1774 Accounts current, bills, receipts, orders to pay, survey, account of stock, memoranda, estate and ships' papers. Items before 1735 reflect Holmes as "joyner", documents from 1735-1745 detail his distillery business, and records from the mid-1740s celebrate Holmes' increasing success as merchant. Vessels named include brigs Two Sisters, Victory; sloops America, Betty, Biddeford, Defiance, Desire, Fox, Good Intention, Good Understanding, Mermaid, Molly, Plymouth,...

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List of merchants and associates of Holmes & Fowle, circa 1772, including Elizabeth Lee and William Vans of Salem, Amasa Davis, Enoch Brown, Thomas Boylston, Henry Blasdell, and Samuel Gardner.

Scope and Contents: Nathaniel Holmes, 1728-1774 Accounts current, bills, receipts, orders to pay, survey, account of stock, memoranda, estate and ships' papers. Items before 1735 reflect Holmes as "joyner", documents from 1735-1745 detail his distillery business, and records from the mid-1740s celebrate Holmes' increasing success as merchant. Vessels named include brigs Two Sisters, Victory; sloops America, Betty, Biddeford, Defiance, Desire, Fox, Good Intention, Good Understanding, Mermaid, Molly, Plymouth,...

Scope and Contents: Nathaniel Holmes, 1728-1774 Accounts current, bills, receipts, orders to pay, survey, account of stock, memoranda, estate and ships' papers. Items before 1735 reflect Holmes as "joyner", documents from 1735-1745 detail his distillery business, and records from the mid-1740s celebrate Holmes' increasing success as merchant. Vessels named include brigs Two Sisters, Victory; sloops America, Betty, Biddeford, Defiance, Desire, Fox, Good Intention, Good Understanding, Mermaid, Molly, Plymouth,...

Scope and Contents: Nathaniel Holmes, 1728-1774 Accounts current, bills, receipts, orders to pay, survey, account of stock, memoranda, estate and ships' papers. Items before 1735 reflect Holmes as "joyner", documents from 1735-1745 detail his distillery business, and records from the mid-1740s celebrate Holmes' increasing success as merchant. Vessels named include brigs Two Sisters, Victory; sloops America, Betty, Biddeford, Defiance, Desire, Fox, Good Intention, Good Understanding, Mermaid, Molly, Plymouth,...

Scope and Contents: Nathaniel Holmes, 1728-1774 Accounts current, bills, receipts, orders to pay, survey, account of stock, memoranda, estate and ships' papers. Items before 1735 reflect Holmes as "joyner", documents from 1735-1745 detail his distillery business, and records from the mid-1740s celebrate Holmes' increasing success as merchant. Vessels named include brigs Two Sisters, Victory; sloops America, Betty, Biddeford, Defiance, Desire, Fox, Good Intention, Good Understanding, Mermaid, Molly, Plymouth,...

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Receipts to Holmes & Fowle for sugar, rum, and molasses to be shipped to Baltimore on the schooner Elizabeth and the sloop America, and receipts from other merchants, dated 1770-1771.

Scope and Contents: Nathaniel Holmes, 1728-1774 Accounts current, bills, receipts, orders to pay, survey, account of stock, memoranda, estate and ships' papers. Items before 1735 reflect Holmes as "joyner", documents from 1735-1745 detail his distillery business, and records from the mid-1740s celebrate Holmes' increasing success as merchant. Vessels named include brigs Two Sisters, Victory; sloops America, Betty, Biddeford, Defiance, Desire, Fox, Good Intention, Good Understanding, Mermaid, Molly, Plymouth,...

Scope and Contents: Contains a list of debts due to the estate of Nathaniel Holmes, copied from his ledgers, from Apthorp & Hancock, Thomas Hollis, John Codman, Alexander Scammell, and other merchants, mariners, laborers, and tradesmen from cities like Boston, Philadelphia, Newport, Rhode Island, London, and Casco Bay, dated 1750-1773. There is also an account book of Holmes and the estate, dated 1753-1774, recording sales of rum, molasses, sugar, indigo, nails, dry goods, and other commodities, shipping,...

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Includes several accounts of Nathaniel Holmes with the estates of John Harrod, shoemaker Nathaniel Hodgdon, Theophilus Dimock, and Elijah Cushing, dated 1758-1774.

Scope and Contents: Nathaniel Holmes, 1728-1774 Accounts current, bills, receipts, orders to pay, survey, account of stock, memoranda, estate and ships' papers. Items before 1735 reflect Holmes as "joyner", documents from 1735-1745 detail his distillery business, and records from the mid-1740s celebrate Holmes' increasing success as merchant. Vessels named include brigs Two Sisters, Victory; sloops America, Betty, Biddeford, Defiance, Desire, Fox, Good Intention, Good Understanding, Mermaid, Molly, Plymouth,...

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Contains papers related to voyages of the brig Two Sisters to Philadelphia and Newfoundland, dated 1761-1763, including accounts with shipmaster Gideon Smith, Nathaniel Holmes, and John Dobel, and a bill from Peter Cumber for painting and work by his enslaved man.

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Includes invoices of flour, sugar, bread, and West Indies rum shipped on the account of Philadelphia Quaker merchant Reese Meredith, Nathaniel Holmes, Samuel Smith, and John Dobel on the brig Two Sisters, and consigned to Dobel in Newfoundland in 1761, as well as a portage bill and receipts for crew wages.

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Invoice of furniture shipped to Joshua Winslow & Company in Boston on the Union by London merchant Thomas Plumsted in 1739; some of the goods were purchased by Nathaniel Holmes.

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Account of sundry goods on the brig Victory, such as clothing, and an order to the quartermaster for payment from men who received the items, from an unknown merchant.

Scope and Contents: Nathaniel Holmes, 1728-1774 Accounts current, bills, receipts, orders to pay, survey, account of stock, memoranda, estate and ships' papers. Items before 1735 reflect Holmes as "joyner", documents from 1735-1745 detail his distillery business, and records from the mid-1740s celebrate Holmes' increasing success as merchant. Vessels named include brigs Two Sisters, Victory; sloops America, Betty, Biddeford, Defiance, Desire, Fox, Good Intention, Good Understanding, Mermaid, Molly, Plymouth,...

Scope and Contents: Nathaniel Holmes, 1728-1774 Accounts current, bills, receipts, orders to pay, survey, account of stock, memoranda, estate and ships' papers. Items before 1735 reflect Holmes as "joyner", documents from 1735-1745 detail his distillery business, and records from the mid-1740s celebrate Holmes' increasing success as merchant. Vessels named include brigs Two Sisters, Victory; sloops America, Betty, Biddeford, Defiance, Desire, Fox, Good Intention, Good Understanding, Mermaid, Molly, Plymouth,...

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Includes accounts of Andrew Cazneau and Joseph Rhodes & Company with John & Le Grand Cannon of Stratford, Connecticut, related to imports of molasses to Connecticut and Rhode Island, and Rhodes' account against George Stacy & Samuel Brown related to a voyage of the sloop Plymouth to Port-au-Prince, dated 1763-1765.

Scope and Contents: Nathaniel Holmes, 1728-1774 Accounts current, bills, receipts, orders to pay, survey, account of stock, memoranda, estate and ships' papers. Items before 1735 reflect Holmes as "joyner", documents from 1735-1745 detail his distillery business, and records from the mid-1740s celebrate Holmes' increasing success as merchant. Vessels named include brigs Two Sisters, Victory; sloops America, Betty, Biddeford, Defiance, Desire, Fox, Good Intention, Good Understanding, Mermaid, Molly, Plymouth,...

Scope and Contents: Nathaniel Holmes, 1728-1774 Accounts current, bills, receipts, orders to pay, survey, account of stock, memoranda, estate and ships' papers. Items before 1735 reflect Holmes as "joyner", documents from 1735-1745 detail his distillery business, and records from the mid-1740s celebrate Holmes' increasing success as merchant. Vessels named include brigs Two Sisters, Victory; sloops America, Betty, Biddeford, Defiance, Desire, Fox, Good Intention, Good Understanding, Mermaid, Molly, Plymouth,...