Records, 1821-1910.

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Records, 1821-1910.

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The material in this collection provides a record of vessels, customers, cargoes, shipments of goods, costs, and profits associated with Abraham Bell and Co. and its successor, Abraham Bell and Sons. Such products as cotton, potash, flaxseed, turpentine, tobacco, textiles, woolen goods, shawls, buttons, glassware, Irish whiskey, earthenware, sheathing cooper, and watches are represented in an account book, two invoice books, and a letterpress book, correspondence, bills, receipts, and drafts. Three of the bound volumes contain the label of Prior and Dunning, stationers, NewYork, N.Y. The fourth contains the label of Prior and Browne. Also included is material related to the Bell family. Eighteen pocket diaries kept by an unknown man and woman (but most probably by Saunders Coates and his wife Rebecca Bell) between 1867 and 1892 document their routine activities. They noted such things as the weather, taking drives, calling on neighbors and relatives, purchasing items for their home, playing croquet, and receiving letters from friends and business associates. An account book kept by Eliza Hough Jackson Bell records income received from Abraham and John Bell and miscellaneous expenses. The volume also contains a record of quilts, comforters, and pincushions she made, including one for then President Benjamin Harrison. Melissa Rebecca Chambers Bell compiled a memorandum book of poems and sayings with religious and historical themes. Documents pertaining to Bell family homes include a list of furniture and household items burned in an 1835 fire, and specifications for building a house in Bayside in 1870. As well, the collection includes some genealogical information.

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Abraham Bell and Son.

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Coates, Saunders.

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Coates, Rebecca Harvey Bell.

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Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901

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Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901) was a Republican politician who served as the 23rd President of the United States from 1889 to 1893. He was both preceded and succeeded in office by Democrat Grover Cleveland. From the guide to the Benjamin Harrison letter to George C. Baker, 1888, (Brooklyn Historical Society) John Harrington Farley, born in Cleveland in 1845, was a Democratic politician who served three terms on Cleveland's city council (1871-1877) and two terms as its mayor (...

Dorr, James R.

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Bell, Eliza Hough Jackson, 1813-1901.

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Bell, Melissa Rebecca Chambers.

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Abraham Bell and Co.

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Abraham Bell and Co. was a firm of Quaker shipping and commission merchants in New York City. The earliest listing of Bell as a merchant in New York city directories is 1804-1805. The Abraham Bell to whom most of the material in this collection relates lived 1778-1856. He had several sons, at least one of whom was a partner in the firm. The firm had trading contacts in Belfast and Dublin, Ireland, and Liverpool and London, England, as well as in the United States. Although the firm imported and ...

J.T. Rockwood and Co.

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Bell, Abraham, 1778-1856.

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