Silas Peirce & Co.
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Wholesale grocery and shipping business located at 59 and 61 Commercial St. in Portsmouth, N.H.
From the description of Records, 1827-1870. (Portsmouth Athenaeum Library & Museum). WorldCat record id: 70925723
Silas Peirce (1793-1879) founded a wholesale grocery house in Boston, Mass., in 1815. It retained his name under various proprietors and is known today as S. Peirce & Co. Peirce was also a successful importer of foreign fruit and dealt in wine, tea, tobacco, and oils. Prominent in the Massachusetts militia, he was also a city alderman.
From the description of Business papers, 1822-1870. (American Antiquarian Society). WorldCat record id: 191285934
Wholesale grocery and shipping business located in Portsmouth, N.H.
From the description of Shipping papers, 1828-1866. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 79371956
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- Freight and freightage
- Grocers
- Grocery trade
- Merchants
- Merchants
- Purchasing
- Railroads
- Shipping
- Weighhouses
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- New Hampshire (as recorded)
- Portsmouth (N.H.) (as recorded)
- Charlestown (Mass.) (as recorded)
- New Hampshire--Portsmouth (as recorded)
- Massachusetts (as recorded)
- New Hampshire--Portsmouth (as recorded)
- Boston (Mass.) (as recorded)
- Boston (Mass.) (as recorded)
- Massachusetts--Boston (as recorded)
