Records relating to estate, real estate, and private investment management, 1765-1945 (inclusive).

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Records relating to estate, real estate, and private investment management, 1765-1945 (inclusive).

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General investment records, chiefly account books and statements, of Seth Adams of Providence, R.I., 1823-1863; Robert A. Taylor of Baltimore, Md., 1830-1844; Samuel Sheafe of Portsmouth, N.H., 1835-1849; Henry Grew of Boston, Mass., 1851-1862; Milton Judd of Tyringham, Mass., 1855-1883; estate of Samuel P.P. Fay of Boston, 1857-1866; Samuel T. Morse and Henry Lee Morse of Boston, 1874-1894; Henry P. Bowditch of Brookline, Mass., 1890-1911; Ella Lyman Cabot of Cambridge, Mass., 1913-1936; and two volumes from Boston, 1854-1907, including a ledger of the Wigglesworth family. Records of real estate investments: letters of Robert Morris concerning the North American Land Company, 1789-1799; records of Kittredge and Maynard of Boston, 1831-1837; correspondence of Nathaniel Gordon of Exeter, N.H., 1847-1871; and correspondence and other papers of William H. Fernald of Davenport, Iowa, 1885-1945. Records of estate management, chiefly account books and legal papers: Hall family of Medford, Mass., 1765-1840; William Bant of Boston, 1776-1779; Edward Whitman of Henniker, N.H., 1808-1810; William Howland of New Bedford, Mass., 1833-1879; Emery family of Springfield, Mass. and later of Scarsdale, N.Y., 1841-1846 and 1902-1923; Henry Burroughs of Boston, 1846-1863; James Bolton of Richmond, Va., 1853-1861; estate of James K. Wyman, 1854-1877; and trustees under the will of Ebenezer Francis of Boston, 1858-1892. Also included are records of estates administered by Nathan Nichols of Malden, Mass., 1818-1837: Samuel Pain, Hannah Floyd, Captain Richard Williams, and John Nichols.

ca. 4 linear ft. (28 v., 13 boxes)

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Harvard Business School, Knowledge and Library Services/Baker Library

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Morris, Robert, 1734-1806

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Robert Morris, Jr. (January 20, 1734 – May 8, 1806) was an English-born merchant and a Founding Father of the United States. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania legislature, the Second Continental Congress, and the United States Senate, and he was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution. From 1781 to 1784, he served as the Superintendent of Finance of the United States, becoming known as the "Financier of the Revolution...

Hancock, John, 1737-1793

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John Hancock (January 23, 1737 [O.S. January 12, 1736] – October 8, 1793) was an American Founding Father, merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is remembered for his large and stylish signature on the United States Declaration of Independence, so much so that the term John Hancock or Hancock has become a nickname in the United S...

Wyman, James K.

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Nichols, Nathan

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Bant, William.

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Morse, Samuel, 1587-1654

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Fernald, William Linwood

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Taylor, Robert A.

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Sheafe, Samuel, 1785-1857

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Merchant, of Portsmouth, N.H. From the description of Letter, [ca. 1812]-[1814]. (Portsmouth Athenaeum Library & Museum). WorldCat record id: 70927219 ...

Bowditch, H. P. (Henry Pickering), 1840-1911

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Bowditch (Harvard, A.B. 1861; M.D. 1868) studied physiology in Leipzig with Carl Ludwig, whose laboratory was the center for physiological study. He returned to Boston in 1871 and taught physiology at the Harvard Medical School; was appointed as first George Higginson Professor of Physiology; and with the establishment of the first physiological laboratory, brought German technological methods to the U.S. He helped in planning the Harvard Medical School and was active in public affairs, includin...

Floyd, Hannah.

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Judd, Milton.

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Cabot, Ella Lyman

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Author and educator, Ella Lyman Cabot was born into one prominent Boston family and married into another; her husband was Dr. Richard Clarke Cabot (1868-1939). She taught ethics and applied psychology at Boston private schools and directed the Sunday school at Unitarian King's Chapel. Cabot published seven books on ethics and childhood education and had privately printed a 3 volume biography of her parents. From the description of Papers, 1855-1934 (inclusive). (Harvard University). ...

Grew, Jane Wigglesworth.

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Fay family.

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Williams, Richard S., Jr.

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Richard Williams was a Pitt County, N.C., physician and slave owner. From the description of Richard Williams daybook, 1847-1869 [manuscript]. (East Carolina University). WorldCat record id: 667271236 ...

Hall family.

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Upjohn, Richard, 1802-1878

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Richard Upjohn (1802-1878) was an English-born architect who practiced in Boston and New York City. He designed Gothic Revival churches, including Trinity Church in New York City, houses and civil buildings. He was founder and first president (1857-1876) of the American Institute of Architects. From the description of Richard Upjohn and Richard Michell Upjohn papers, 1839-1914. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122598054 ...

Francis, Ebenezer, 1775-1858

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Adams, Seth

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Perkins, Aaron, 1792-1881

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Burroughs, William James

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Epithet: of Sloane MS 4034 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001030.0x00027a Genealogist, local historian, and rice planter, from Brunswick, Ga. From the description of Papers, 1872-1938. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19276876 Epithet: Advocate General in India British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001030....

Wigglesworth family.

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Nichols, John A., 1939-....

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Student at University of Maine. From the description of Folklore paper, 1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70951950 ...

Howland, William G.

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Dana, Richard Henry, 1851-1931

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Gordon, Nathaniel, 1826-1862

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Nathaniel Gordon was a lawyer in Exeter, New Hampshire. From the description of Papers, 1855-1859. (New Hampshire Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 54497232 ...

Morse, Henry Lee, 1852-1929

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Whitman, Edward B.

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Grew, Henry, 1781-1862

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Wyman, Thomas Bellows

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Emery family.

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Bolton, J. L. (James Linden), 1906-

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Pain, Samuel.

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Fay, Samuel P. P. (Samuel Phillips Prescott), 1778-1856

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Beal and Warden.

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Burroughs, George W., 1849-

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Ship joiner, of Boston, Mass. From the description of Papers, 1871-1923. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70950263 ...