Amory family. Amory family papers, 1697-1894.
Title:
Amory family papers, 1697-1894.
Amory family papers, 1697-1894, consist of business, estate, and personal papers of the Amory family and related Coffin and Sullivan families of Boston, Mass. Business papers pertain to the multi-generational family merchant establishments Jonathan and John Amory; Amory, Taylor, and Rogers; Cutler and Amory; John and Thomas Amory; and Jonathan and Thomas Amory and Company. Included in the collection are correspondence, shipping papers, estate inventories, wastebooks, account books, cash books, invoices, letterbooks, bills, and receipts. Correspondents include merchants John Rowe, Enoch Greenleaf, Cotton Tufts, Obadiah Curtis and London merchant houses Forsyth, Smith & Company and Harrison & Ansley, among others. Materials related to Jonathan and John Amory and Amory, Taylor, and Rogers are of particular importance as they document the struggle Boston merchants had with the Stamp Act, British taxation, non-importation, and parliamentary encroachments on the colonies and trade. Personal papers of the Amory, Sullivan, Cutler, and Coffin families include extensive papers detailing family trusts and estates; family real estate holdings; wills and deeds; account books; commonplace-books; and newspaper clippings. Family correspondence includes letters between Thomas and Rebekah Holmes Amory with Thomas's sister Ann Ramsey; letters from Quebec distiller and Loyalist John Coffin to his daughter Elizabeth Coffin Amory and son-in-law Thomas Amory; and correspondence between Mehitable Sullivan Cutler and her husband James Cutler, father Mass. gov. James Sullivan, brother William Sullivan, and daughter Mary Ann Appleton. Also included are letters from James Cutler to his brother-in-law and rector of Trinity Church in Boston, Dr. Samuel Parker; letters from Maria Foster to her aunt Mary Ann Appleton; and Civil War letters from Col. Thomas J.C. Amory of the 17th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment and his brother Capt. Charles B. Amory of the 24th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment to their father, Jonathan Amory and uncle James S. Amory. Also included are the diaries of Mehitable Sullivan Cutler Amory and Thomas Coffin Amory. Other correspondents include Thomas Amory (1682-1728), Thomas Amory (1722-1784), Jonathan Amory (1726-1789), John Amory (1728-1803), Jonathan Amory tertius (1770-1828), Thomas C. Amory, Jr. (1767-1812), Thomas Coffin Amory (1812-1889), Rufus Greene Amory, Stephen Deblois, Elizabeth Amory Deblois, Benjamin Cutler, and Austin and Deblois family members. The collection also includes extensive genealogy of the Amory family, including 19th century transcriptions of early family papers and correspondence; material gathered in Europe in 1871; genealogical notes; and a biography of Amory, Sullivan, and Coffin family members written by Gertrude E. Meredith.
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181 cased vols. (4 extra tall), 3 boxes, and 5 oversize boxes (disbound volumes)
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