Don Juan Stoughton family papers, 1794-1872.

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Don Juan Stoughton family papers, 1794-1872.

Papers of Don Juan Stoughton (1734-1820), businessman and Spanish consul to Boston, Mass., including business correspondence, insurance policies (1811) for ships travelling between Boston and European ports, accounts, invoices, receipts, and legal and personal papers, including poem (1816) in Spanish honoring Stoughton's birthday; papers of his wife, Anna Margaretha Langmack de Neufville Stoughton (d. 1837) including correspondence, personal legal papers, financial papers, and papers regarding the settlement of her husband's estate; papers of Louisa Cecilia Mathilde Stoughton Watson, Louisa Stoughton Watson Clarke, Thomas Evans, Anna Cecilia de Neufville Linzee Evans, and Laura and Anna M. Stoughton Watson; travel diary (1867-1868) of William B. Clarke; business letters (1820-1852) relating to Stoughton family members received by attorney Josiah Cooke; letters (1820-1821) received by Bishop Jean L.A.M. Lefebvre de Cheverus; and miscellaneous papers. Includes business correspondence (1796-1820) between Don Juan Stoughton and Asher Robbins, William Sullivan, Daniel Webster, and others relating to financial matters, Stoughton's diplomatic duties, political affairs in Europe, commerce between Boston and Spain, the transport of money from the Spanish colonies in South America to Spain, piracy, law suit concerning the ship Pastora, captured in Cádiz, Spain, and activities of Goleta Emilia, Antelope, and other vessels; accounts regarding law suit of Spanish schooner Nuestra Señora de la Cisa; receipts for tomb in the cemetery at West Cambridge, Mass., and pew rental at Church of the Holy Cross, Boston; legal papers regarding Havana, Cuba sugar sales, and the family property at 24 Franklin Street in Boston; contracts and other legal papers relating to the marriages of Anna M. Langmack to her first husband, John de Neufville and second husband, Don Juan Stoughton; Revolutionary pension papers concerning the death of John de Neufville; and correspondence between Anna M. Stoughton by daughters Mary de Neufville Linzee and Louisa Cecilia Mathilde Stoughton Watson, son-in-law Adolphua Eugene Watson, and granddaughter Anna Cecilia Linzee.

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