Papers, 1765-1908.

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Papers, 1765-1908.

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Business correspondence, legal documents, bills and receipts, and ships' papers (packets, merchant ships, and passenger ships), of Thomas Bennett (ca. 1790-1865), ship captain; business and personal correspondence, legal documents, financial records, notebooks containing labor accounts, customer orders, and production records, and other papers, of his son, Thomas, Jr., (1820-1898), superintendent of Wamsutta Mills, New Bedford cotton textile manufacturer; and correspondence, wills, and legal and estate papers of other family members including Robert (1746-1818), John (fl. 1772-1773), James (fl. 1800-1804), and daughter and brother of Thomas, Jr., Clara (1853-1929) and Robert (1829-1905) Bennett.

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Old Dartmouth Historical Society Library

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Old Dartmouth Historical Society Library

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Bennett, John, active 1772-1773

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Bennett family.

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Residents of New Bedford and Fairhaven, Mass., chiefly involved in shipping and manufacturing. From the description of Papers, 1765-1908. (Old Dartmouth Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 28412769 ...

Wamsutta Mills

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Incorporated in 1846; first mill opened in 1849 under the supervision of Thomas Bennett, Jr.; it was a cotton manufacturer primarioly producing cotton shirting and sheeting which operated in New Bedford, Mass., for over 100 hundred years. From the description of Wamsutta Mills minutes, 1874-1901. (Old Dartmouth Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 159940561 ...

Bennett, Robert, 1746-1818

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Bennett, James, active 1800-1804

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Bennett, Clara, 1853-1929

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Bennett, Thomas, 1820-1898

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Bennett, Robert, 1829-1905

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Robert Hazlet Bennett was born in Baltimore, Maryland on July 26th, 1826 and left Baltimore for California on January 26th, 1849, on the ship "Jane Parker", stopping ten days at Rio de Janeiro, ten days at Callao and Lima, Peru and arriving in S.F. on July 21st, 1849. Bennett joined Washington L. Kirby of Baltimore in 1849, in the firm "Bennett & Kirby", a general store. Burned out by the two first great fires of S.F. they relocated and went into the hardware business. The third S.F. fire bu...

Bennett, Thomas, approximately 1790-1865

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