Alsop family business correspondence and legal and financial records, 1837-1903.

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Alsop family business correspondence and legal and financial records, 1837-1903.

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Primarily accounts of sales of goods at Lima, Peru, and Valparaiso, Chile, by the American firm Alsop & Co., 1838-1840. Cargoes included textiles, clothing accessories, flour, chairs, lumber, tobacco, rum, sherry and Madeira. The correspondence includes business letters to Alsop & Chauncey, Mr. Alsop, and Mr. Chauncey, but the bulk of the correspondence is in relationship to the Alsop Claim against Chile. In this claim the United States sought to get the company reimbursed funds that were owed to them by Bolivia and then Chile. The correspondence is between a Nathaniel A. Prentiss and George S. Boutwell. The case was finally settled in 1911. One item among the letters that is of particular interest are minutes of the Board of Trustees of the African M.E. Church in Middletown, 1882, concerning the church's debts. Additional financial records consist of a receipt to J.W. Alsop and bills to Mrs. Richard Alsop, 1868- 1877. Also includes a plot map for the Estate of George Penny showing the "Brewery" and "Tuell" lots along the Connecticut River and the Connecticut Valley Railroad, 1877.

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Alsop, J. W. (Joseph Wright), 1804-approximately 1878

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Alsop, Richard, 1761-1815

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Prentiss, Nathaniel A.

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Alsop family.

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Alsop & Chauncey.

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Boutwell, George S. (George Sewall), 1818-1905

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George Sewall Boutwell (1818-1905) was an active political figure and lawyer all his life. Initially a Democrate, his antislavery leanings made him a prominent Free Soiler who was elected Governor and susequently reelected by the dominant Massachusetts Free Soil coalition in 1851-1852. He became a lawyer and founder of the Massachusetts Republican Party, later being a Radical Republican in Congress and among the most forecful opponents of President Andrew Johnson. Boutwell served as Secretary of...