Townsend, Bronson & Co. letters, notes, and receipts, 1810-1821.

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Townsend, Bronson & Co. letters, notes, and receipts, 1810-1821.

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Letters, notes, and receipts 1810-1821, concerning the shipment of salt and other freight on the Great Lakes. Includes circular letters from several Montreal firms regarding market prices and importation of specific goods; the coasting license of Jacob Townsend & Co.'s Schooner Catharine, signed by Erastus Granger, District of Buffalo Creek, 6 Mar. 1811; and a scale of transportation prices for the year 1820.

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Buffalo History Museum, Research Library

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Buffalo History Museum, Research Library

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Granger, Erastus, 1765-1826

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Superintendent of Indian affairs in Buffalo, and collector of customs for the district of Buffalo Creek. From the description of Provision return for seventeen Seneca Indians, 1812 Oct. 17. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 33113616 ...

Sloan, James, 1789-1868.

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Came to Black Rock from Pennsylvania in 1810. Worked as a boatman on the Niagara River and Lake Erie, for the government during the War of 1812, and as a stone contractor during the construction of Buffalo Harbor. From the description of James Sloan reminiscences, 1842-1865. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 173260164 ...

Thompson, Sheldon, 1785-1851

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Horace Gates & Co.

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Norton, Heman.

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Lester, Taylor & Co. (Montreal, Québec).

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Townsend, Bronson & Company.

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Warehouse and forwarding business founded in 1810 by Jacob Townsend, Alvin Bronson, and Sheldon Thompson, operating in Oswego, Lewiston, and Black Rock. Before the War of 1812, and for several years after, Townsend, Bronson & Co. and Porter, Barton & Co. conducted almost all the transportation business on the Great Lakes, including salt, furs, Indian annuities, and military supplies. From the description of Townsend, Bronson & Co. letters, notes, and receipts, 1810-1821. ...

Colt, Jabez.

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Townsend & Coit (Buffalo, N.Y.).

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