Lawley family collection, 1839-1990.

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Lawley family collection, 1839-1990.

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Papers and volumes of the Lawley family of Massachusetts. Collection contains personal papers including correspondence, legal papers and ephemera of George F. Lawley, Frederick D. Lawley, and George F. Lawley, II. Collection also contains business papers of the George Lawley and Son, and F.D. Lawley shipyards, located in South Boston, Neposet, and Quincy, Massachusetts. Business papers include vessel records such as cost sheets, scantlings, information on owners, etc.; and wage records including lists, time sheets and petitions.

ca. 500 items.

G. W. Blunt White Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7685820

G. W. Blunt White Library

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Lawley family.

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George Frederick Lawley was born in 1823 and emigrated to the United States in 1851 with wife Martha and sons George Frederick and Edward Ainge. In the 1860s the Lawleys established a small boat yard at Scituate and within a few years they established a larger yard at South Boston. In 1885 they built the sloop PURITAN with defeated the English cutter GENESTA in the fifth match for the America's Cup. The next year the firm built another cup defender, the MAYFLOWER, which defeated the...

Lawley, Frederick D. (Frederick Damon), 1878-1953.

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F.D. Lawley, Inc.

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Lawley, George F. (George Frederick), 1848-1928.

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Lawley, George, 1823-1915.

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George Lawley & Son Corp.

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Lawley, George F. (George Frederick), b. 1901.

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