Smith family. Papers, 1764-1833.
Title:
Papers, 1764-1833.
This collection of papers contains letters, deeds, bills, receipts, promissory notes, an auction notice, and papers gathered by the Smith family between 1764-1833. Many items pertain to Edward Smith's shipping business during the 1770s-1790s. Edward apparently owned, or co-owned, a number of boats, including the Sloop Poley, the Schooner Freedom, the Schooner Betsey, the Sloop Nancy, and the Schooner Eagle, which made a trip to the West Indies in 1788-1789 under the direction of Edward, Jr. A number of the bills and receipts document repair work done to the various vessels, supplies brought on board for trips, lists of cargo, and such shipping papers as bills of entry and writs of attachment. Other items belonging to various family members regard land use in exchange for services, rent, or transfer of land. Items addressed to Israel Smith include "one share of the York library," bills for the building of a new meeting house, an order for the school commissioners to pay for the school teacher's salary, and an auction notice for 300 acres of land along the Penobscot River. One letter reprimands an unnamed individual for stealing rocks and mowing private property. The many bills and receipts document the exchange of such goods and services as boot legs, strapping, lining, an axe, salt, sugar, molasses, various nails, candles, allspice, shoes, carding wool, wallpaper, cider, cart wheels, mowing, lamb, rum, boarding, stones, codfish, tobacco, sawing lumber, tea, boards, shingles, wharfing, cotton, corn, and cows.
ArchivalResource:
1 box [ca. 150 items] ; 26 cm.
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