Accounts of Samuel White, 1783, Aug. 8 -- 1785, Feb. 3.

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Accounts of Samuel White, 1783, Aug. 8 -- 1785, Feb. 3.

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Accounts of sales, receipts, and credit that Samuel White kept from Aug. 8, 1783 to Feb. 3, 1784. The sales records include the names of White's customers, (including Paul Revere and John Hancock), goods and prices. Also includes records of shipments and deliveries to the Bell, Success, and Hawk as well to the Live Oak, Enderby, and other merchant ships and "for the use of Hancock's warf." Also includes records of legal expenses of lawsuits involving the Bell. The manuscript opens with the "Inventory of the Effects in the possession of Samuel White. Received by ship Bell Capt. Robt. Birrell."

176 pages, 42 cm., bound ledger.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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Revere, Paul, 1735-1818

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