Letterbook : of B. & J. Bussey, Boston, 1795 April-Sept.

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Letterbook : of B. & J. Bussey, Boston, 1795 April-Sept.

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Copies of outgoing business letters, including some itemized memoranda of goods (principally textiles) ordered or shipped, with Boston prices added as postscripts. The letters document the company's relationships with business associates in the coastal and transatlantic trade, the passages of named ships, and occasionally the travels of members of the Bussey family. Pages, in wrapper, numbered 375-482.

1 item (71 p.), in folder ; 37 cm.

Boston Athenaeum

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SNAC Resource ID: 7773686

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Bussey, Benjamin, 1757-1842.

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Benjamin Bussey was born in 1757 in Stoughton (later Canton), Massachusetts. He served in the American Revolution seeing service at Saratoga and rising to the rank of Quartermaster. About 1779 he went into business as a silversmith in Dedham, Massachusetts and he married in 1780. By 1792, when he moved to Boston, his business had expanded into trading in a variety of goods. He was highly sucessful and in the following years engaged in overseas trade as well. He retired from business...

B. & J. Bussey (Firm)

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