Thomas Lamb papers, 1795-1865.

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Thomas Lamb papers, 1795-1865.

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Mainly the business papers of Boston shipping merchant Thomas Lamb: correspondence, circular letters, bills of lading, freight lists, articles of agreement, accounts, bills and receipts, bonds, financial memoranda, insurance policies, all related to his shipping interests in many American and European ports, Havana (Cuba), and Canton (China). Correspondents include shipmasters David and James W. Low, Benjamin Leach, Briggs Thomas, John Boit, Charles Hunt, and Charles A. Ranlett; Duxbury shipbuilder Levi Sampson; merchants George, Jonathan M., and William Wright; James Ingersoll; Russell Sturgis; Russell and Co. (Canton), father-in-law W.G. Eliot, Sr., brother-in-law W.G. Eliot, Jr., and other Eliot family members. Also, account books of the Boston firm James and Thomas Lamb for the Northwest coast-Canton voyages of the snow Sea Otter (1795-99), brig Hazard (1796-99), and ships Alert (1799-1801), Derby (1806-12), and Pearl (1809-10). Some other Lamb family members are represented briefly in the collection.

20 boxes and 1 oversize container.

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Ranlett, Charles A.

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Leach, Benjamin, shipmaster.

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Eliot, William Greenleaf, 1811-1887

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Eliot, William Greenleaf, 1811-1887

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