Newton & Gordon collection 1762-1819 1762-1775, 1815-1819 Newton & Gordon collection

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Newton & Gordon collection 1762-1819 1762-1775, 1815-1819 Newton & Gordon collection

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This collection contains incoming business correspondence to the Madeira merchant firm Newton & Gordon (also Newton, Gordon & Johnston and Newton, Gordon & Murdoch). Correspondents from New York and Virginia discussed international trade, finances, and the prices of foodstuffs and wine in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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William L. Clements Library

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William L. Clements Library

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Newton, Gordon & Johnston.

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Newton & Gordon

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Around 1745-1748, the merchant Alexander Johnston sent Francis Newton (d. 1805), a clerk, to the island of Madeira, where Newton established a wine-trading firm. Around 1758, Newton entered into a partnership with Thomas Gordon, another of Johnston's protégés. Other partners included William Johnston, Thomas Murdoch, and a man by the name of Scott. Their agent Thomas Newton was based in New York City in the 1760s and 1770s. The firm was later known as Newton, Gordon, Cossart & C...

Newton, Gordon & Murdoch.

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Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607

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Epithet: son and heir of Robert Newton of Chaddesden, co. Derby, gentleman British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000978.0x000257 ...