Family papers, 1631-1859.

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Family papers, 1631-1859.

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Personal, legal, and business papers of Greenough family members and related families, mostly in Boston, Mass., in shipping, business, and the law. Primarily the papers of merchant Thomas (1710-85), lawyer and merchant David S. (1752-1826), lawyer David S. (1787-1830), and David S. Greenough (1814-77). Related families include Clarke, Doane, Erving, Holmes, Shrimpton, Stevens, Stoddard, and Yeamans families. Collection contains correspondence, bills, receipts, inventories, estate papers, wills, insurance policies, shipping papers, surveyor's plats, and deeds to lands in Boston and Conn. Volumes include ledgers and other financial record books, household expense accounts, Antigua plantation accounts, surveyors' notebooks, diaries, farm diaries, household inventories, estate accounts, writ books, and dockets.

44 boxes, 3 v., and 4 oversize boxes.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7306140

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Doane family.

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Shrimpton family.

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Stevens family.

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Greenough, David Stoddard, 1787-1830.

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Holmes family.

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Greenough family.

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Yeamans family.

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Greenough, David Stoddard, 1814-1877.

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Stoddard family.

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Erving family.

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Greenough, David Stoddard, 1752-1826.

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Greenough, Thomas, 1710-1785.

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Thomas Greenough (1710-1785), son of John and Elizabeth Greenough, a famous instrument maker, the deacon of Boston's New Brick Church, and a signatory to the Boston Non-Importation Agreement. In 1734, he married Martha Clarke. The couple had ten children, among them John Greenough (1742-1781), an importer and a justice of the peace in Wellfleet, Conn. and Martha (b. 1736) who in 1767 married Capt. John Stone. After Martha's death in 1749, Thomas Greenough married Sarah Stoddard, daughter of Davi...

Clarke family.

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