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John Atkinson papers 1742-1876 1812-1840 Atkinson, John papers

Title: John Atkinson papers 1742-1876 1812-1840 Atkinson, John papers

This collection contains business and personal papers of John Atkinson and his family, with the bulk of the items documenting their postwar business ventures in commercial trade, land speculation, and investments in the Bellows Falls Canal Company. The letters also describe contemporary reactions of British merchants before, during, and after the Revolution; events in New York City during the War of 1812; and domestic and social situations of a prosperous nineteenth-century family.

ArchivalResource: 265 items

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Atkinson, John, 1742-1823. John Atkinson papers, 1742-1876, bulk 1812-1840.

Title: John Atkinson papers, 1742-1876, bulk 1812-1840.

This collection contains business and personal papers of John Atkinson and his family, with the bulk of the items documenting their postwar business ventures in commercial trade, land speculation, and investments in the Bellows Falls Canal Company. The letters also describe contemporary reactions of British merchants before, during, and after the Revolution; events in New York City during the War of 1812; and domestic and social situations of a prosperous nineteenth-century family.

ArchivalResource: 252 items (1 linear foot) and 13 oversize documents.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/526125754 View

Proprietors of the Privateer Brigantine General Sullivan. Records of the Proprietors of the Privateer Brigantine General Sullivan, 1777-1781.

Title: Records of the Proprietors of the Privateer Brigantine General Sullivan, 1777-1781.

Minutes of meetings, receipts, accounts, and other papers relating to the business of this group, organized in Portsmouth, N.H., in Nov. 1777, for the purpose of preying on the British West Indies trade. The proprietors included Joshua Wentworth, George Wentworth, Moses Woodward, Nathaniel Folsom, John Taylor Gilman, and Robert Parker. The minutes record that the General Sullivan was commanded first and unsuccessfully by Thomas Dalling and later by Thomas Manning, whose prizes included the brigantine Charlotte.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (58 pages).1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79449912 View

Atkinson, John, 1742-1823. John Atkinson papers, 1742-1876, bulk 1812-1840.

Title: John Atkinson papers, 1742-1876, bulk 1812-1840.

This collection contains business and personal papers of John Atkinson and his family, with the bulk of the items documenting their postwar business ventures in commercial trade, land speculation, and investments in the Bellows Falls Canal Company. The letters also describe contemporary reactions of British merchants before, during, and after the Revolution; events in New York City during the War of 1812; and domestic and social situations of a prosperous nineteenth-century family.

ArchivalResource: 265 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/635470322 View

New Hampshire. Board of War. New Hampshire Board of War deportation certificate, 1784 Feb. 07.

Title: New Hampshire Board of War deportation certificate, 1784 Feb. 07.

Certificate of New Hampshire Board of War, represented by John Penhallow and Joshua Wentworth in Portsmouth, issued to Capt. Daniel Jackson of the schooner Union, certifying and directing him to deport William Vance and John Stinson, loyalists, to Nova Scotia for their unauthorized return to New Hampshire.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71014792 View

Wentworth, Joshua, 1742-1813. Letter, 1777 Dec. 15.

Title: Letter, 1777 Dec. 15.

Commissary and naval agent, Portsmouth, N.H.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70926518 View

Wentworth family. Larkin papers, 1745-1814.

Title: Larkin papers, 1745-1814.

Correspondence, shipping papers, including protests and testimonies of lost cargo, deeds, legal agreements, bills and receipts, and military papers relating to the American Revolution. Family members represented include Hugh Hall Wentworth (1740?-1774), shipping merchant who was appointed lieutenant governor of Grenada in 1768 and Joshua Wentworth (1742-1813), commissary and naval agent in Portsmouth, army officer during the Revolution, and supervisor of New Hampshire, appointed by George Washington in 1791.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft.

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Wentworth family. Papers, 1720-1940.

Title: Papers, 1720-1940.

Correspondence, documents, tax receipts, and miscellaneous papers of the Wentworth family of Portsmouth, N.H.; together with correspondence of Lawrence S. Mayo concerning his gift to the state of the site of Governor John Wentworth's house in Wolfeboro, N.H.

ArchivalResource: 246 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70963927 View

Wentworth, Josh. Note, 1792 January 30, Portsmouth, N.H.

Title: Note, 1792 January 30, Portsmouth, N.H.

Verifies "capacity" of Leverett Hubbard to convey property.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. 9 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3536120 View