Shipping Account Book and Personal Diary, 1813-1862.

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Shipping Account Book and Personal Diary, 1813-1862.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/727064644

Account book includes the accounts of ship Marmion (captain was John Gardner of Boston); recipes for home remedies; sermon notes (1831) of various ministers; and a personal diary (1862) of a woman whose husband had recently died. Also includes loose letter to Henry J. Stevens in Boston (1861).

1 volume.

Peabody Essex Museum

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SNAC Resource ID: 8096467

Peabody Essex Museum

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Marmion (Ship)

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Gardner, John, 1796-1870

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Various.

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Thorndike, Israel, 1755-1832

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Shipping merchant of Beverly, Mass. For many years Thorndike was a partner with his brother-in-law Moses Brown and George Dodge in the shipping firm of Brown and Thorndike, engaged in trade with the West Indies, the East Indies, and Calcutta, as well as with England and the Mediterranean ports. Business was moved to Boston in 1810. Thorndike served in the state legislature and was an early investor in manufacturing enterprises in New England. In 1818 he secured the important library of Americana...