Box 71
Container
Contains 1 Result:
William Prescott accounts, 1788-1794 Digital
FOUND IN:
Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School
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Collection:
Samuel Abbot business papers
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Series:
Series I. Financial records
Item — Box: 71, Folder: 5Identifier: Mss:761 1754-1819 A122
Scope and Contents:
Contains correspondence and records related to settlement of Benjamin Abbot’s estate, administered by William Prescott of Salem, dated 1788-1794. Abbot died intestate in Hollis, New Hampshire, and owed payment of a bond to his brother Samuel Abbot, which he secured with a mortgage on lands in Hollis and Pepperell. Topics of letters to Samuel Abbot from Prescott’s son, William Prescott, Jr., include an action by Oliver Lakin to obtain part of the mortgaged land, and debt his father...