Lamb family papers, 1750-1971.

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Lamb family papers, 1750-1971.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/30699203

Papers of Lamb family members, in particular the Boston merchants James Lamb (d.1781), his sons James and Thomas Lamb, and Thomas Lamb, Jr., and the firms they represented (James Lamb & Sons, James & Thomas Lamb), consisting of family and business correspondence, financial records, insurance policies, ships' papers, and other materials mostly related to their shipping interests between Boston, domestic ports, Europe, China, and other ports. Also some Federal (Arlington) Street Church records (1730-1813); an 1834 sermon by Ezra S. Gannett; financial records for shipmasters Charles Hunt, David Low, and James Magee; memoranda book of William Porter; notes on trade at Canton, China and other eastern ports; papers and volumes of Benjamin W. Lamb, including notes on trade at St. Petersburg, Russia (1803-04); accounts for the ship Alert (1803-06); Hannah D.E. Lamb's Civil War soldiers' charity accounts (1861-67); papers relating to the Boston Marine Society and the Boston Pier or Long Wharf Corp.; genealogies of the Lamb and Ridgway families; commonplace-book of Caroline Lamb, and much more. (Cont'd) Other papers of the related Rotch and Lawrence families include diaries (some describing travels in Europe) of Annie B.L. Rotch, Katharine B.L. Lowell, Edith Rotch, and Aimee R. Sargent; commonplace-books of Annie B.L. and Joanna Rotch; scrapbooks; letters of Francis Olmsted from Europe to his daughter Caroline (later Sargent); and misc. family correspondence.

26 boxes and 1 oversize box.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7288747

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Alert (Ship)

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Lamb, Benjamin Waldo, d. 1839.

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James Lamb and Sons (Boston, Mass.)

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Sargent, Aimee Rotch, 1852-1918.

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Rotch, Annie Bigelow Lawrence, 1820-1893.

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Hunt, Charles, shipmaster.

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Lowell, Katharine Bigelow Lawrence, 1832-1895.

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Lamb, Hannah Dawes Eliot.

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Boston Marine Society

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Boston Pier, or the Long Wharf Corporation.

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Gannett, Ezra S. (Ezra Stiles), 1801-1871

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American Unitarian divine. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Messrs. Monroe & Co., 1850 May 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269564796 Ezra Stiles Gannett (1801-1871) graduated from Harvard College in 1820, and from Harvard Divinity School in 1823. He served as an overseer of the University from 1835 to 1858. Ordained in 1824, Reverend Gannett became an assistant minister at the Federal Street Church (Unitarian) in Boston and became its pastor...

Olmsted, Francis, 1791-1846.

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Lamb, James, d. 1781.

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Ridgway family.

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Lamb, James, 1746-1822.

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Rotch, Joanna, 1826-1911

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Magee, James, 1750-1801.

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Lamb, Thomas, 1796-1887.

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James and Thomas Lamb (Boston, Mass.)

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Lamb family.

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Low, David, shipmaster.

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Arlington Street Church (Boston, Mass.)

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Unitarian Universalist church. Founded in 1729 by Irish immigrants who used a presbyterian form of church government. In 1786 it adopted a congregational polity. Known first as "the Presbyterian Church in Long Lane" and later as the Federal Street Church. In 1862 the church moved to a new building on Arlington Street in the Back Bay section of Boston, and its name became the Arlington Street Church. Mixed files of correspondence and collected resources on social and religious movements. Resource...

Lamb, Thomas, 1753-1813.

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