We Moses Penniman of Brantrey [i.e. Braintree] in the county of Suffolk & province of Massachusetts Bay in N England cordwainer & Rebecca wife of the said Moses having this day rec[eive]d of Charles Apthorp of Boston : agreement, 1738 Dec. 13.

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We Moses Penniman of Brantrey [i.e. Braintree] in the county of Suffolk & province of Massachusetts Bay in N England cordwainer & Rebecca wife of the said Moses having this day rec[eive]d of Charles Apthorp of Boston : agreement, 1738 Dec. 13.

Contemporary copy of an agreement, Dec. 13, 1738, between Moses and Rebecca Penniman of Braintree, Mass., and Charles Apthorp, a Boston merchant, regarding the sale of a Southampton County (i.e. Hampshire), England, estate, "Brookhouse", which Rebecca Penniman had inherited from her first husband, Benjamin Edmonds.

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

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Penniman, Moses.

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Apthorp, Charles, 1698-1758.

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Charles Apthorp was born in England in 1698 and educated at Eton College. He was later appointed by the English government as paymaster and commissary of the land and naval forces quartered in Boston. Apthorp also became one of the most distinquished merchants in Boston during the 1730's until his death in 1758. From the description of Bills of lading : provisions sent to Louisbourg in 5 sloops, 1746 Aug. 26. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 36376467 ...

Thomlinson, John

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