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Sullivan Dorr Papers, 1799-1852

Title: Sullivan Dorr Papers Sullivan Dorr Papers 1799-1852

Sullivan Dorr (1778-1858) was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Ebenezer (1739-1809) and Abigail (Cummingham) Dorr (1762-1796).Early in life Sullivan was engaged in the fur trade on the northwest coast of the United States and at the age of twenty, he went to Canton, China to follow mercantile pursuits. Much of his business was for the firm of J.& J. Dorr; based in Boston and owned by his brothers, Jonathan and Joseph. He stayed in Canton for five years (1799-1803) and upon returning to the States he settled in Providence and became a prosperous merchant. He resided in a home he built in 1811 on the northeast corner of Benefit and Bowen Streets.

ArchivalResource: 0.75 linear feet

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Du Pont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel, 1739-1817. ALS : Du Pont de Nemours to Nicklin and Griffith : dated Paris 7 thermidor 13 (26 juillet 1805)

Title: ALS : Du Pont de Nemours to Nicklin and Griffith : dated Paris 7 thermidor 13 (26 juillet 1805)

ArchivalResource: [4] p. ; 24 cm.

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Ship New Jersey letter : Atlantic Ocean, to father and mother, [Boston, Mass.] : ms., 1849 May 2 to Aug. 18.

Title: Ship New Jersey letter : Atlantic Ocean, to father and mother, [Boston, Mass.] : ms., 1849 May 2 to Aug. 18.

Contains account of passenger's journey on the Ship New Jersey to Calif. around Cape Horn during the Calif. gold rush, describing the trip from Boston to Lima, Peru. Also includes information about other California-bound ships, the Sea Eagle, the Walter Scott, the Brooklyn and the shipwreck of the John A. Sutter.

ArchivalResource: 4 p.

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Thompson, Celia Crocker, 1874-1965. Henry R. Crocker miscellany : carbon copies of TD, [19??].

Title: Henry R. Crocker miscellany : carbon copies of TD, [19??].

Three typed items related to Crocker, including a Boston Journal interview with Charles G. Stumcke of Dorchester, Mass., about his trip from Boston to San Francisco around Cape Horn on the ship New Jersey in 1849, the same ship taken by Crocker's cousin, Capt. Allen Swift Crocker; a historical overview of the Crocker family, with most of the focus on Henry R.; and a copy of a letter written by Capt. Allen Swift Crocker from Vera Cruz, Mexico, to his parents in Waquoit, Mass. on April 4, 1847. A note attached to the second item, dated Apr. 8, 1953, is signed by Celia May Crocker Thompson, daughter of Henry Robinson Crocker.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (0.1 linear ft.)

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