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Amory family. Amory family papers, 1697-1894.

Title: Amory family papers, 1697-1894.

Amory family papers, 1697-1894, consist of business, estate, and personal papers of the Amory family and related Coffin and Sullivan families of Boston, Mass. Business papers pertain to the multi-generational family merchant establishments Jonathan and John Amory; Amory, Taylor, and Rogers; Cutler and Amory; John and Thomas Amory; and Jonathan and Thomas Amory and Company. Included in the collection are correspondence, shipping papers, estate inventories, wastebooks, account books, cash books, invoices, letterbooks, bills, and receipts. Correspondents include merchants John Rowe, Enoch Greenleaf, Cotton Tufts, Obadiah Curtis and London merchant houses Forsyth, Smith & Company and Harrison & Ansley, among others. Materials related to Jonathan and John Amory and Amory, Taylor, and Rogers are of particular importance as they document the struggle Boston merchants had with the Stamp Act, British taxation, non-importation, and parliamentary encroachments on the colonies and trade. Personal papers of the Amory, Sullivan, Cutler, and Coffin families include extensive papers detailing family trusts and estates; family real estate holdings; wills and deeds; account books; commonplace-books; and newspaper clippings. Family correspondence includes letters between Thomas and Rebekah Holmes Amory with Thomas's sister Ann Ramsey; letters from Quebec distiller and Loyalist John Coffin to his daughter Elizabeth Coffin Amory and son-in-law Thomas Amory; and correspondence between Mehitable Sullivan Cutler and her husband James Cutler, father Mass. gov. James Sullivan, brother William Sullivan, and daughter Mary Ann Appleton. Also included are letters from James Cutler to his brother-in-law and rector of Trinity Church in Boston, Dr. Samuel Parker; letters from Maria Foster to her aunt Mary Ann Appleton; and Civil War letters from Col. Thomas J.C. Amory of the 17th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment and his brother Capt. Charles B. Amory of the 24th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment to their father, Jonathan Amory and uncle James S. Amory. Also included are the diaries of Mehitable Sullivan Cutler Amory and Thomas Coffin Amory. Other correspondents include Thomas Amory (1682-1728), Thomas Amory (1722-1784), Jonathan Amory (1726-1789), John Amory (1728-1803), Jonathan Amory tertius (1770-1828), Thomas C. Amory, Jr. (1767-1812), Thomas Coffin Amory (1812-1889), Rufus Greene Amory, Stephen Deblois, Elizabeth Amory Deblois, Benjamin Cutler, and Austin and Deblois family members. The collection also includes extensive genealogy of the Amory family, including 19th century transcriptions of early family papers and correspondence; material gathered in Europe in 1871; genealogical notes; and a biography of Amory, Sullivan, and Coffin family members written by Gertrude E. Meredith.

ArchivalResource: 181 cased vols. (4 extra tall), 3 boxes, and 5 oversize boxes (disbound volumes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53784224 View

Amory Family Papers, 1697-1882

Title: Amory Family Papers 1697-1882

Merchant trading and shipping family of Ireland, South Carolina, and Boston, Massachusetts. Letterbooks, correspondence, wills, a petition, financial papers, printed matter, and other material pertaining chiefly to Thomas Amory (1682-1728) and his grandson, Thomas Amory (1762-1823).

ArchivalResource: 650 items; 5 containers; 1.8 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009224 View

Amory, Francis, 1766-1845. Karolik-Codman family papers, 1714-1964

Title: Karolik-Codman family papers, 1714-1964

The Karolik-Codman papers consist of the interrelated Amory and Codman families of Salem and Boston, Massachusetts specifically those of merchants and real estate investors John Amory, Henry Codman, and John Amory Codman. The collection consists of family and business correspondence, financial material, genealogical information, diaries, estate papers, account books, recipe books, commonplace books, newspaper clippings, and printed material. The remainder of the collection relates to Martha Catherine Codman and her husband Maxim Karolik's career as a musician and art collector including correspondence, business papers, sound recordings, slides, and newspaper clippings documenting many of his activities. Also included are expense books and account books of Boston merchant and goldsmith Rufus Greene, 1728-1777; a copy of the diary of Catherine Green Amory, 1775-1776; photostatic copies of correspondence of Salem merchant and loyalist Benjamin Pickman to his family while he was living in England during the Revolution; historical materials including the letterbook and account book of William Fisher, 1761-1770 and the rent and account books of Benjamin Lamphear, 1803-1848; and genealogical material relating to the Amory, Cartwright, Codman, Derby, Greene, Robison, Rogers, and Willard families collected by Martha Pickman Rogers Codman and her daughter Martha Catherine Codman Karolik. Some family correspondents include Mary Amory Bethune, Francis Amory, Thomas Robison, Richard Cartwright, Hannah Codman, Stephen Codman, Joseph Bennett, John Codman, and Ogden Codman, Jr.

ArchivalResource: 32 boxes, 34 vols, 3 oversize boxes, and 10 offsite storage boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/262555741 View

Lovering-Taylor Family Papers, 1727-1926, (bulk 1776-1888)

Title: Lovering-Taylor Family Papers 1727-1926 (bulk 1776-1888)

The Lovering-Taylor families of Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.; and Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Correspondence, diaries, financial papers, business records, legal papers, biographical and genealogical material, clippings, printed material, and other papers chiefly of Joseph Taylor (1745(?)-1816), merchant and Loyalist, relating to business and trade during the Revolution, the Loyalist cause, mercantile insurance, and French spoliation claims. Other family members represented include William Taylor (1714-1789), Abigail Taylor Amory (born 1739), Charles Taylor (died 1837), Hannah Jones Welles Taylor (1776-1845), Mary Taylor Lovering (born 1813), Charles T. Lovering (born 1846), and members of the allied Amory (Emery) and Welles (Wells) families.

ArchivalResource: 2,000 items; 11 containers plus 2 oversize; 4 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012186 View