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Bright family. Papers, 1672-1897.

Title: Papers, 1672-1897.

Correspondence, legal papers, business papers, certificates, and other papers of the Brown family, of Watertown, Mass., Jonathan Brown, Timothy Cutler, the Bond family of Watertown, the Bright family of Waltham, Mass., and Jonathan Brown Bright. Includes material relating to Brown's transactions as town treasurer of Watertown, Bright's business ventures and investments including speculation in the Mississippi and Arkansas Land Company, and family matters. Correspondents include Charles W. Eliot, Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, and Francis C. Lowell.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16634220 View

Jackson, P. T. (Patrick Tracy), 1780-1847. Patrick Tracy Jackson papers, 1766-1869.

Title: Patrick Tracy Jackson papers, 1766-1869.

Business papers, 1766-1869, of Boston merchant and textile manufacturer Patrick Tracy Jackson and his father Jonathan Jackson, as well as estate papers, including those of Francis Cabot Lowell. Jonathan Jackson business papers consist of account books of the partnerships he undertook as a Newburyport merchant, including Jackson & Bromfield; Jackson, Tracy, & Tracy; and Jackson & Higginson. His partners included John Bromfield, John Tracy, Nathaniel Tracy, and Stephen Higginson. Account books kept by Jackson, Tracy, & Tracy reflect the impact of the Revolution on trade; include privateering and distill house accounts; and contain ships' accounts, including the brigs Elizabeth, Hibernia, and Pallas, and the sloops Mermaid, Conway, and Lively. Patrick Tracy Jackson business papers consist of account books containing records of personal bank accounts, transactions with other merchants, trade in a variety of goods, and stock in textile companies including the Boston Manufacturing Co. and the Merrimack Manufacturing Co., as well as records of the brig Vancouver and the Union Canal Lottery. Estate papers include records, inventories, and accounts of the Francis Cabot Lowell estate, Louisa Higginson trust accounts, and Gardiner Greene estate accounts.

ArchivalResource: 34 cased v., 4 extra tall v., and 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54538900 View

Boston Manufacturing Company. Records, 1813-1930 (inclusive) [microform].

Title: Records, 1813-1930 (inclusive) [microform].

Treasurers' correspondence (one box), 1863-1929; records of directors, 1813-1909, and stockholders, 1813-1874; semi-annual reports containing general financial statements, summaries of production costs, amounts produced, and values of products, 1835-1888; payrolls, 1817-1872; tax reports; and other papers relating to the production of ginghams, zephyrs, shirtings, draperies, hosiery, and other cotton goods. Includes papers of the Waltham Textile Co., 1926-1928; and a few letters of T. Jefferson Coolidge, Edmund Dwight, A.M. Goodale, Arthur T. Lyman, and John A. Sweetser, treasurers.

ArchivalResource: 22 linear ft. (182 v., 11 boxes, 15 envelopes, 1 case)Copies: 1 microfilm reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/229894354 View

Francis, Ebenezer. Ebenezer Francis legal documents, 1809-1823.

Title: Ebenezer Francis legal documents, 1809-1823.

Agreements, accounts, and deeds of Ebenezer Francis related to his acquisition of lands in Boston. Included are agreements and accounts related to the building of the Boston Custom House by Uriah Cotting, signed by Francis, Cotting, Harrison Gray Otis, Francis Cabot Lowell, and Samuel Appleton; a deed from Lucy Knox for a tomb in the Central Burial Ground; and a deed from David Sears for a parcel of salt marsh land in Roxbury.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/670214754 View

Grant, Mary, d. 1827. Correspondence, 1810-1834.

Title: Correspondence, 1810-1834.

Correspondence of Mary Grant, daughter of British author Anne MacVicar Grant, begins shortly after the Lowell family stayed with the Grants in Scotland in 1810. Leaving their children with Anne and Mary Grant for boarding and schooling, Francis C. Lowell, Hannah Lowell, and her sister Harriet Jackson travelled in France and England until 1812. Anne and Mary corresponded with the Lowells, reporting on Susan's and John's progress. Later letters of Harriet Jackson and Mary Grant concern mutual friends and social, religious, and literary happenings in Britain and the U.S. Some figures discussed include Joanna Baillie, Thomas H. Gallaudet, Rev. Francis Parkman, and George Ticknor.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18422265 View

Lowell, Francis Cabot, 1775-1817. Francis Cabot Lowell papers, 1742-1894 bulk 1794-1817.

Title: Francis Cabot Lowell papers, 1742-1894 bulk 1794-1817.

Papers of trader and pioneer manufacturer Francis Cabot Lowell (1775-1817). The collection consists of 9 boxes of loose manuscripts and 9 bound letterbooks and account books. The collection contains material on Lowell's Harvard years, his travels in Great Britain and Europe, Boston social life, economic conditions in the early 19th century and trade during the War of 1812. There is a small but not insignificant amount of material on Lowell's early manufacturing ventures. Other family members prominently represented in the papers are Charles Lowell, John Lowell III, Hanah Jackson Lowell, Mary Jackson Lee, Charles Jackson, Patrick Tracy Jackson, William Cabot and Francis Cabot II. Other important correspondents include Samuel P. Gardner, Elizabeth P. Gardner, Henry Lee and Anne Grant.

ArchivalResource: 9 boxes and 9 volumes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9891701 View