Green, Samuel, 1767-1837. Samuel Green papers, 1793-1842.
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Samuel Green papers, 1793-1842.
Chiefly family letters of Samuel Green, Elijah Green, and William Green, students at Brown University, to Timothy Green, New York, N.Y. and Worcester, Mass.; business and personal correspondence of Timothy Green re land speculation in Ohio, Virginia, and North Carolina. Including thirty-three letters, 1791-1813, business papers and correspondence of Samuel Green, Columbia, S.C., to Timothy Green, Provindence, R.I., Worcester, Mass., and New York, N.Y., re orders for mercantile supplies and drugs; debate over paper money; political situation in R.I. and S.C.; social activities in Columbia, S.C.; trade possibilities in Nashville, Tenn.; purchase of nearly ten thousand acres of pine barren lands near Columbia or Camden, S.C.; and offer made to the North American Land Company. Eighty-five letters, 12 Apr. 1793-21 Dec. 1797, Columbia, S.C. and London, England, S. Green to Timothy Green, Providence, R.I. and New York, N.Y., re recent fire and its destruction, outbreak of smallpox in Columbia, S.C., disturbances with Indians, hopes for a bright future in Columbia, S.C., potential relocation to Augusta, Ga., ordering medicines and books, crops and rain, planting indigo, and sending slaves to work on the [Columbia] Canal, and appointment as postmaster of Columbia, S.C. Twenty-seven letters, 3 May 1795-9 May 1801, Columbia, S.C., to Thomas Green, New York, N.Y., re profits from land speculation including the Yazoo Company, [James] Gunn's Company, and [William] Blount's Company, meeting and investing with Thomas Fitzpatrick in Georgia lands, the debt the United States owed S.C., work as postmaster in Columbia, S.C., mercantile interests in Columbia, S.C., economic conditions, crops, social activities in Charleston, public opinion re Jay Treaty, and selling his interest in a tannery. Letter, 21 Dec. 1797, from Thomas Green, London, England, re his arrival and business prospects, the prospects of an invasion, immigration, and rumors of massive tax increases; letter, 22 Feb. 1802, New York, N.Y., Timothy Green to Charles M. Lide, Columbia, S.C., re his business since a recent court case, and suggesting Samuel Green as postmaster of Columbia, S.C. Also including letter, 20 Mar. 1813, Columbia, S.C., S. Green, to Mrs. Timothy Green, re his brother's winter travel, her lack of information on business matters, and anxiety for her and the children in T. Green's absence; letter, 15 Apr. 1842, Columbia, S.C., F. W[illiam] Green to John W[roughton] Mitchell, re a recent fire and the its destruction.
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