Business records, 1816-1885 (inclusive).

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Magoun, Thatcher, 1775-1856. Business records, 1816-1885 (inclusive).

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Business records, 1816-1885 (inclusive).

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269589280

Abstract

Papers of Thatcher Magoun, Sr., and Thatcher Magoun, Jr., merchants of Boston and Medford, Mass., relating to trade in many parts of the world. Includes correspondence, journals, waste books, ledgers, invoice books, and ships' books. The Magouns sent their ships to ports in Europe, South America, West Indies, Chincha Islands, India, Singapore, Honolulu, Manila, San Francisco, and southern ports in the United States. The commodity most extensively dealt in was guano, which they procured from the Chincha Islands and shipped to Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Havre, and Great Britain.

Extent

6 linear ft. (40 v., 11 cases, 2 boxes)

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Harvard Business School, Knowledge and Library Services/Baker Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7174647

Harvard Business School, Knowledge and Library Services/Baker Library

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Rufus Candage was born in Blue Hill, Maine in 1826, the son of Samuel and Phebe Candage. He went to sea at age eighteen, sailing along the coast of New England and then on voyages to the West Indies and to Europe. He served as master of the brig Equator and the ships Jamestown of New York and Electric Spark and National Eagle, both of Boston. He spent twenty-three years as a sailor, retiring in 1867 to Brookline, Mass. Rufus Candage died in 1912. From the description of Papers, 1808-...

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