Newport Historical Society Library special collections, ca. 1639-[ongoing].

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Newport Historical Society Library special collections, ca. 1639-[ongoing].

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Newport and Rhode Island genealogical materials, including correspondence, diaries, and genealogies; records of the oldest Quaker congregation in America, encompassing minutes of meetings, disciplines, vital records, and manumissions, including the Robinson papers, a comprehensive mss. collection chronicling the history of a prominent Newport and Philadelphia family; account books of Aaron Lopez, other merchants, and shipowners, documenting the history of the Jewish settlement in Newport, mercantile success, and international trade; account books detailing rum and slave traffic and daily business transactions of furniture maker, Job Townsend; church records; maps; atlases; newspapers; town records; ships' logs; and correspondence of many Newport families.

1050 linear ft.

Newport Historical Society

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Newport Historical Society

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Lopez, Aaron, 1731-1782

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Colonial merchant and shipper, Aaron Lopez was born in Portugal in 1831. He immigrated to Newport,Rhode Island in 1752 where he was engaged primarily in the whale oil and candle business, although healso dealt in livestock, groceries, rum, ships, clothing, and slaves. During the 1760s and 1770s, he builtan extensive transatlantic mercantile empire and on the eve of the American Revolution, Lopez wasNewport's leading merchant and taxpayer. During the Revolution, he supported the colonials and wit...

Newport Historical Society

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This collection covers a large range of musical styles, notational format, and publishing methods beginning with examples early musical notation. Initially, music of the Western World was largely transmitted orally and remembered with varying accuracy, eventually sparking attempts to create a more cohesive, reliable form of written notation (Boorman). The resulting system, largely dated to the 1100s, used four lines and stemless notes whose shapes, fill, and relation to...

Townsend, Job, 1699-1765

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Robinson family.

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