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Vernon family. Records, 1738-1829.

Title: Records, 1738-1829.

The material in this collection records imports, exports, and orders of goods generated and/or received by the Vernons. Such products as rum,sugar, molasses, wine, cheese, indigo, nails, glass bottles and flasks, wigs, cotton, cloth, candles, flour, chocolate, coffee, dry goods, and kitchenware are represented. Import fees and percentages received by commission merchants are often recorded. Letters detail such facets of trade as problems with credit, payments lost in the mail, spoilage of food products, and transportation of goods. Other items in the collection document costs associated with operating ships and brigs. Some of the bills and receipts are for personal products needed by members of the Vernon family, including clothing, shoes, lighting equipment, a coffeepot, and items for the kitchen. There are two bills for schools attended by Vernon children.

ArchivalResource: ca. 240 items (1 box).

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Cornelius C. Moore papers, Moore (Cornelius C.) papers, 1922-1970

Title: Cornelius C. Moore papers Moore (Cornelius C.) papers 1922-1970

The papers of Cornelius C. Moore Esq., an avid silver collector, contains correspondence and photographs that relate directly to Moore's silver collecting. Additional material includes documentation on a number exhibitions in the 1960s for Moore's silver collection. The collection was the basis for the publication of the art-history book, "American-Silver 1670-1830: The Silver Moore Collection at Providence College." Rhode Island Bicentennial Foundation and Providence College, (1980).

ArchivalResource: 3 box(es)

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George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760. Order, 1737 Apr. 09.

Title: Order, 1737 Apr. 09.

Order, issued at Westminster, appointing a committee to assemble at Hampton to adjust the boundaries between the Province of New Hampshire and Massachusetts Bay.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70976744 View