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OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION

 

Creator:         Clarke, Benjamin, 1730-1811.                                   

Title:               Account book

Dates:             1769-1812

Call No.:         Fol. 247

Acc. No.:        58x6

Quantity:        1 volume

Location:        5 K 10

 

 

 

BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT

 

Benjamin Clarke was a brazier in Boston, Massachusetts.  Born on Jan 1, 1730 (old style), he was the son of Benjamin (a felt maker) and Miriam (Kilby) Clarke.  He graduated from Harvard in 1750 and settled in Boston.  He served as a constable and later, clerk of the market.  Clarke was a prosperous businessman.  Although described as a merchant, he specialized in brasses.  In 1764, he was a member of the Society for Encouraging Trade and Commerce; in 1768, he signed the merchants' non-importation agreement, and the next year he signed the petition protesting the sending of the Regulars to Boston.  Shortly after, Clarke parted company with the Whigs and signed a loyalty oath to Gov. Hutchinson and Gen. Gage. At the outbreak of the war, he retired to Nantucket and then moved to Norwich, Connecticut.  Clarke later returned to Boston, Mass., where he was made a Justice of the Peace in 1784.  Clarke died in 1811, a bachelor.

 

Benjamin’s brother and sisters were Miriam (1723-1774; married Jonathan Mason); Sarah (born 1726; married Ebenezer Backus); Mary (1728; married John Cutler); and Christopher (born 1732).  All these, or their spouses, are mentioned in the account book.  In settling Benjamin’s accounts, mention is made of “my late father, Benjamin Clarke, deceased.”  Since the merchant Benjamin is not known to have had children, it is not clear who was settling his accounts, although it may have been his brother Christopher, who was settling the accounts for the heirs of his and Benjamin’s father, those heirs being the younger Benjamin’s brother and sisters. 

 

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT

 

Records debits and credits accrued by Clarke from 1769 to 1812, when all his shop accounts were settled.   Although cash transactions dominate the book, a variety of merchandise is noted, including pieces of iron and brass, hemp, gunpowder, hardware, window glass, linen, sail cloth, and nails.  He sold nails, brads, and glass to watchmaker Gawen Brown, and nails, sheep shears, and brass kettles to Benjamin Dolbeare, a pewterer, brazier, and merchant.  Clarke dealt with a number of prominent Boston merchants as well as people in Amherst, New Hampshire; Providence and Newport, Rhode Island; and Baltimore, Maryland.  He invested in several venture cargo exploits, which he called "adventures," to such places as St. Petersburg, Russia and Amsterdam.  Clarke listed the profession of his customers a number of the entries.  He had transactions with braziers, cutters, metal-workers, housewrights, rope makers, merchants, a truckman, a chair maker, a stationer, a schoolmaster, and three "peruke" makers.  The last three paid Clarke by shaving him and dressing his wigs.  Several entries in the volume highlight Clarke's relationship with John Skinner and Nathaniel Austin, two prominent pewterers.  From 1770 to 1776, Clarke turned over a ton of old pewter to John Skinner.  In return, he received 28 dozen quart pots, 96 dozen pint basins, 3 dozen gill porringers, 6 dozen half-point porringers, 18 dozen large pint porringers, and 15 dozen porringers, not specified as to size.  Similar arrangements were made with Austin.

 

Some names in the account book have family relationships mentioned.  In fact, many of the people with whom Benjamin Clarke had dealings were related to him by marriage.  Especially, nephews and husbands of nieces are found, as well as his own sisters and brothers.  His extended family included, among others, the surnames Mason, Doane, Dunn, Prince, Cutler, Foster, and Backus.

 

   

 

LANGUAGE OF MATERIALS

 

The materials are in English.

 

 

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

 

Collection is open to the public.  Copyright restrictions may apply.

           

 

PROVENANCE

 

Purchased from Baldwin's Book Barn.         

 

ACCESS POINTS

 

People:

            Austin, Nathaniel, 1741-1816.

            Dolbeare, Benjamin, 1711-1787.

            Skinner, John, 1733-1813.

            Brown, Gawen, 1719-1801.

            Clark family.

 

Topics:

            Brass.

            Business records - Massachusetts - Boston.

Cookware.

Dry-goods.

Glassware.

            Hardware.

            Ironwork.

Kitchen utensils.

Metal-work.

            Pewtercraft.

            Shipment of goods.

            Ships - Cargo.

Textile fabrics.

            Wholesale trade - Massachusetts - Boston.

Decedents’ estates - Massachusetts - Boston.

            Boston (Mass.) - Commerce.

            Account books.

            Braziers.

Merchants.

Pewterers.

           

 

 

NAME INDEX TO FOL. 247 (acc. 58x6)

 

Note: pages are numbered 1-107 (double page spreads), however, the front fly leaf has been designated with the letter p.A.

 

Ship names are in italics.

 

Abbe, S.     1

Ackworth, Charles (Capt.)    46

            [from London]

Adams    101

Addarton, Samuel (Capt.)   19, 33

            [from Norwich]

            [surname also spelled Adarton]

Allen   95

Allen, James    slip laid in at p. 95

Allen, Jeremiah, esq.     95

Allen, Jonathan    34

Amory  - see also   Cutler & Amory 

Amory & Greenleaf     63

            [merchants, of Boston]

Amory, Jonathan, III    94

Anderson, Andrew, & Co.  – see  Andrew Anderson & Co. 

Anderson, James    50 

Andrew Anderson & Co.    50

            [of Greenock]

Andrews, Benjamin     32

Andrews, John   50

Ansley  - see  Harrison & Ansley   

Ap[illegible] (Mrs)    77

Arnold, Welcome    43

            [merchant, of Providence]

Asbey, James    50

assembly subscription    10

Atkinson  - see  Smith & Atkinson   

Austin, Benjamin    28

            [loan officer in Massachusetts, of Bank of the United States]

Austin, Nathaniel    21

            [pewterer, of Charlestown]

 

Backus, Benjamin     67

            [nephew, of Norwich]

Backus, C.    47

            [possibly Christopher Backus, nephew of B. Clarke]

Backus, Christopher    81

            [of Norwich, Conn.]

Backus, Sarah   36

            [probably sister or niece of B. Clarke]

Backus, Sarah Clarke    67, 70, 81, 87-88

            [mother of Benjamin and Christopher Backus, sister of Benjamin Clarke]

Bailey – see Bayley

Bakast, Joseph    80

Baker, Mary    64, 100

            [maid servant at Capt. Dunn’s]

Balch, Joseph    4

            [sailmaker, of Boston]

Balch, Thomas (Rev.)    11

            [of Dedham]

Bank of the United States    28, 47, 89

            [in Boston]

            [also referred to as United States Bank]

Barker, Josiah    8

            [of Nantucket]

Barnard   - see Wheelwright & Barnard   

Barbes, Henry    46

Barnebas Russell & Co.       68

            [merchants, in Dartmouth]

Barney, Jonathan    78

Barrett, Dorcas     62

            [of Boston; may have been a servant in Clarke family]

Barrett, John, esq., & Sons     20, 30, 47

            [merchants, of Boston]

Barrett, Phebe    66

            [nurse to sister Cutler (Mary Clarke, wife of John Cutler); of Boston]

Barry, James    95

Bartlet    1

Bartlett, Enoch    1

Bartlett, Mary    100, 106

            [maid servant]

Bass, Henry    50

Bayley, Thomas    36

Benjamin Green & Son    1, 42, 46, 54

            [see also Green, Benjamin]

Bernard, John, esq.    2-3

Betsey (brig)    77, 79

Betsey (sloop)    20

Bird, Ebenezer     48

            [house wright, of Dorchester]

Black, Adnrews    50

Blackman, John    44

            [of Boston]

Blanchard, Caleb     p.A

Blanchard, Edward    83

Blewer [?], S. S.    50

Boscawen    1

Boston Exchange Office Bank    69

Bowdoin & Reed    77

Bowers, J.    97

Bowers, Phineas    65, 79

Bowers, Samuel    10

            [of Boston]

Bowes, Nicholas     25

            [bookbinder, of Boston]

Bowes, William     1, 12

Boyd, Peter (Capt.)    3

Boylston, Richard     1

Boylston, Thomas    50

Bradford, John    77

Breck & Hammatt    26

            [merchants, of Boston]

Breck, Samuel    27

            [merchant, of Boston]

Bridge, Mathew (Rev.)    60

            [of Framingham]

Bridges, Lydia    74

            [of Boston; possibly a servant to Clarke family]

Briggs, James & Thomas    79

Brimmer, Herman    88

Britania    1

Brown & Francis     85

            [merchants, of Providence, R.I.]

Brown, Daniel    65

Brown, Enoch    11

Brown, Gawen     71

            [watchmaker, of Boston]

Brown, Rogers, & Brown     49, 75, 84, 92

            [merchants, in Providence, R.I.]

            [includes Brown & Rogers]

Browne, John    22, 54-55

            [of Boston]

Bruce, Stephen    34

Buchanan, John, & Sons – see John Buchanan & Sons

Buell    3

Buell, David    1

Burgess  - see also  Geyer & Burgess 

Burgess, Abraham    71

              [merchant, of Boston]

Burgess, William    14, 71

            [merchant, of London]

Burling & Van Wyck    26, 39

            [merchants, of Baltimore]

Burn, Michael    36-37

            [of Boston]

Butler (Capt.)    1

Butler, John    1

Byfield, Nathaniel (Capt.)    1

 

Cabot – see also   Prince & Cabot   

Cabot, Andrew    23

            [merchant, of Beverley]

Cabot, Francis, Jr.    56

            [merchant, of Salem]

Calef, James    34

Campbell, Catherine    62

            [widow of John Campbell]

Campbell, John     62, 72

            [farrier, of Boston; see also Catherine Campbell]

Campbell, Mary    72

            [widow of Patrick Campbell]

Campbell, Patrick    72

            [farrier, of Boston; see also Mary Campbell]

Capen, Hopestill    50

Carpenter, Gardner    81

Carthwright, John    78

Cary – see also   Ripley & Cary   

Cary, Edward     66

            [rope maker, of Nantucket]

Carrol, John    10

            [of Sutton]

Carry [?], Nathaniel    57

Cate [?], James    50

Caverly, Jane    75

            [maid servant with Capt. Samuel Dunn]

Ceres (brig)    17

Champlin, Chris.    77

Champion Dickason & Co.    59

Chapman, Hannah     71

            [of Boston]

Clarey, Prince    100

Clark, Jabez    54, 70, 72

            [of Windham, Conn.]

Clarke  - see also  Davis, Gray & Clarke   

Clarke     39, 50, 101

Clarke (brother)     23

Clarke, Asahel    3

            [of Lebanon]

Clarke, Asahel, Jr.    20

            [of Lebanon]

            [surname also spelled Clark]

Clarke, Benjamin    34, 36, 42, 59, 64, 70, 74, 77, 87-88, 90, 95, 97, 99-100, 102-104, 106

            [estate records on p. 36, 87, 104]

Clarke, Christopher    67, 93, 98, 100, 106

            [brother, of Boston; p. 67: statement of Benjamin’s support of Christopher and his family; p. 98: mentions wife]

Clarke, Ebenezer    41

            [of Needham]

Cleland, William    28, 96

Clement, Thomas    36

Cleverly  - see  Green & Cleverly    

Codman, Isaac   1, 18, 46

            [merchant, in Charlestown]

Codman, John    1

Coffin (Capt.)    83

Coffin, Alexander    66

            [ship master]

Coffin, Kezia    57

Coffin, Richard  (Capt.)  34, 48, 62

            [of Nantucket]

Coffin, Shubl.   41

            [merchant in Nantucket, in partnership with Chris. Starbuck]

Coffin, Timothy    57

Coffin, William, esq.    53

            [apothecary, of Boston]

Conant, William (Col.)    85

            [of Boston]

Connor - see   O’Donnel & Connor   

Coole Smalley & Co.    75, 92

            [of St. Petersburg]

Cookson, Samuel    31

            [gunsmith, of Boston]

Coolidge  - see Fosdick & Coolidge

Coolidge, Joseph    88  

Cotton, Daniel    50

Courtney, Thomas    16

            [tailor, of Boston]

Cowell (Mrs)    36

Cowell, Mary   36-37

            [of Boston]

Crosby, Daniel    15, 24

            [peruke maker, of Boston]

Cummings, Daniel    100

Curtis & May    53

            [shopkeepers, of Boston]

Curtis, Joseph    44

            [of Roxbury]

Curwen, Samuel, esq.    4

            [of Salem]

Cushing & White     3

            [merchants, of Boston]

Cushing, Jacob (Rev.)   8

            [of Waltham]

Cushing, John    93

Cutler & Amory     21, 88, 95

            [merchants, of Boston]

Cutler, Ann    18

            [of Boston]

Cutler, Benjamin Clarke    59, 69, 88, 91, 95-96, 99, 101, 106

            [nephew of account book keeper]

Cutler, James    28, 47, 88, 94-95

            [B. Clarke’s nephew; of Boston]

Cutler, John    5, 36, 79, 87, 104

Cutler, Sarah    81

            [widow of nephew Benjamin Clarke Cutler]

Cutler, Zaccheus    1, 58

            [of Amherst, New Hampshire]

 

Daggett, Daniel    26

            [of Rehoboth]

Dalton, James (Capt.)    13

            [of Boston]

Dana, Dexter    101

Davenport, Addington     22, 53

            [peruke maker, of Boston]

Davies, William (Capt.)    1

Davis, Aaron    44

            [of Roxbury]

Davis, Caleb (Deacon)    53

            [of Boston]

Davis, Edward (Capt.)   6, 77

Davis, Elias    26, 39

            [ship master]

Davis, Elijah     68

            [of Dorchester]

Davis, Gray & Clarke    77

            [seems to be partnership of Solomon Davis, Ellis Gray, and Benjamin Clarke]

Davis, Isaac    7, 28, 73, 79

            [son of Solomon Davis; of Boston]

Davis, Solomon (Capt.)    p.A, 2-3, 6, 19, 23, 28, 77, 79

Dawes (Judge)    97

Dawes, Thomas    36

Dean, John    34, 49

Deblois, Gilbert    61

            [merchant, in Boston]

Deblois, Gilbert, Jr.    26

            [in Baltimore]

Demmett, Joseph    50

De la Lande & Fynje    83

De Serilly (M.)     77

            [at Paris]

Devens, Richard, esq.    43

            [of Boston]

Deverson, William     1

Dispatch (sloop)    20

Doane (Mrs)    59

Doane, Elisha    69, 91

            [merchant, of Boston]

            [B. Clarke’s niece Jane Cutler married a man named Elisha Doane]

Dolbeare, Benjamin, esq.    14

Dolphin (brigantine)    6, 23, 77, 79

Donald, Jr.    50

            [of Greenock]

Draper, Richard    34

Drummond, Adam    50

Duguid, William    50

Dumesnil, Anthony    60

Dunlap, Andrew    95

Dunn (Capt.)    2, 16, 94

Dunn (Mrs)    85

Dunn, S.    69

Dunn, Samuel (Capt.)    69, 87, 89, 92, 93, 95-96, 100, 104, 106-107

            [Junior or Senior not specified]

Dunn, Samuel, Jr. (Capt.)    49, 84

            [of Boston]

Dunn, Samuel, Sr. (Capt.)    17, 28

            [of Providence, R.I.]

            [reference on page 17 also mentions his wife]

Dutton     1, 35

Dutton – see also  Hubbard & Dutton 

Dutton, Isham & Day    55-56

Dutton, Ebenezer    54-55

            [of East Haddam]

Dutton, Hubbard    71, 87-88, 104

            [of Lebanon, Conn., married to B. Clarke’s niece Abigail Backus, daughter of Sarah Clarke Backus]

Dutton, Timothy    54-55

            [of Colchester]

 

Edgerton (Capt.)     p.A

Edgerton, Benjamin    1

Edwards & Greenough    77

Elliot, Samuel   50

Ellsworth, Jonathan    34

 

Faneuil, Benjamin, Jr.    54

Farnum, Nancy     90

            [of Boston; B. Clarke was her guardian]

Favourite (brig)   26, 39

Fay (Capt.)     1

Fellows, Nathaniel    10

            [of Boston]

Felton, Joshua     62

            [blacksmith, of Roxbury]

Ferriter, Elizabeth    85

            [maid servant with Capt. Dunn]

Fisher, John     71

            [of Needham]

Flagg   50, 80

Flint, James    1, 32

            [of Windham]

Folger, Timothy    47, 50

Foord, Elisha     49

            [of Marshfield]

Fosdick & Coolidge    86

            [merchants, of Boston]

Fosdick, Alvan    86

Foster (Capt.)    6

Foster, Jo.   89

Foster, Joseph    69, 88, 95-96, 98-99

Foster, Thomas     22

            [of Boston]

Foster, William    29, 83, 89

            [merchant, of Boston]

            [includes William Foster & Co.]

Francis    -see   Brown & Francis    

Franklin, Samuel    17

            [cutler, of Boston]

Franks (Messrs)     50

            [of London]

Frazier, John (Capt.)    34

Frothingham, Benjamin    39

 

Gardner, James     1, 27

            [truckman, of Boston]

Geyer & Burgess    70

            [merchants, in Boston]

Geyer [father of Frederick William]    80

Geyer, Charles    80

            [brother of Frederick William Geyer]

Geyer, Frederick William    34, 48-50, 80

            [merchant, of Boston]

            [married to daughter of Duncan Ingraham]

Geyer, Martin    80

            [brother of Frederick William Geyer]

Gibbs, George    26

Gill  - see  Scott & Gill  

Goldthwaite, Joseph, esq.     69

            [of Boston]

Gooch, William      25

            [glazier, of Boston]

Grawle, Abigail    85

            [of Boston, possibly servant to Clarke family]

Gray – see also  Davis, Gray & Clarke   

Gray, Ellis    6, 23, 77

            [merchant, of Boston]

Gray, John    2

            [rope maker, of Boston]

Gray, Lewis    2, 39

            [merchant, of Boston]

Gray, Thomas    50

Green    3

Green & Cleverly     88

            [of Boston]

Green, Benjamin    3

Green, Benjamin, & Son - see   Benjamin Green & Son   

Green, Jo.    1

Green, John    57

            [printer, of Boston]

Green, Nathaniel    23

            [of Boston]

Greenleaf   - see also  Amory & Greenleaf    

Greenleaf, Thomazin    16, 100

            [maidservant at Capt. Dunn’s]

Greenleaf, William    77

Greenough  - see  Edwards & Greenough   

Griswold  - see also   Phelps, Griswold & Co. 

Griswold & Hillyer    72

 

Hall, James    1

            [ship master]

Hall, Stephen    25

            [of Boston]

Hallowell, Robert, esq.    22, 95

Hammatt  - see  Breck & Hammatt   

Hammond, E.    50

Hannah [schooner]    3

Harlow, Ebenezer    3

            [ship master]

Harris, Daniel   50

Harris, Jeremiah (Capt.)    35, 55-56

Harrison & Ansley    59, 94

            [in London]

Harrison & Co.    59

            [may have been in London]

Hartshorne, Oliver    90, 102
            [of Boston]

Harvard College    82

Hatch, Davis (Capt.)   20

Hatch, Paul    1-2, 32, 50

Hatch, William (Capt.)    35

Hauteval, Lewis    56

Hayden, John Webb    9, 52

            [of Boston; seems to have worked for Clarke 1772-1775]

Haynes, Israel    11

            [of Sudbury]

Hays, Moses M.   95

Hazell & Jarvis    1

Henshaw, Joshua, esq.    30

            [of Boston]

Hero    66, 83, 89

Hewes & Mackay    103

Hewes, Daniel    95

Higgins, Christian (Capt.)    2, 32-33, 35, 47, 54-55

Higgins, Silvanus     1

Higginson  - see also  Jackson & Higginson  

Higginson, Henry    61

            [merchant, of Boston]

Hill, Henry     69, 82, 95

            [distiller, of Boston]

Hill, Samuel Webb    64

Hillyard, Pettibone & Co.   46

            [also spelled Hillyer; see also Phelps, Pettibone & Hillyer]

Hillyer  - see also  Griswold & Hillyer   

Hillyer, Pliny   55

Hitchins, Mary    51

            [of Boston; she seems to have been a servant to the Clarke family]

Hodshon, John    6, 34, 49-50, 59, 66

            [merchant, in Amsterdam]

            [also John Hodshon & Son]

Hodson, Thomas    78

Holbrook, Jirah    36, 64

            [of Boston]

            [surname also spelled Holebrook; first name also spelled Jireh]

Holbrook, Samuel    14

            [schoolmaster]

Holland, John    34

Holman, Charles    106

Homer – see also   Kneeland & Homer   

Homer, Jacob    26

            [bricklayer, of Boston]

Hope (bark)    56

Hopkinson, F.    47

Houghton, Israel    46

How, Edward    23, 77

            [rope maker, of Boston]

Howard, Samuel (Capt.)     25

Hubbard & Dutton   2, 32-33, 35, 47

            [of East Haddam]

            [see also the individual Hubbard Dutton, who lived in Lebanon, Conn.]

Hubbard & Green    56

Hubbard, Daniel & William  3, 27

            [merchants, of Boston]

Hunt, John     28, 46, 74

            [brazier, of Boston]

Hunt, Shrimpton     74

            [of Boston]

Huntington, Ebenezer, esq.    11

            [of Norwich]

Huntington, Jedediah   p.A, 19, 35, 56

            [of Norwich]

Hussey, Joseph    8, 58

            [of Boston]

Hyde, David   50

 

Inches [?], Henderson    77

Ingraham, Duncan (Capt.)   30, 34, 50

            [of Concord]

            [his daughter Susannah married Frederick William Geyer]

Ingraham, N.    97

 

Jackson & Higginson    41

            [merchants, in Boston]

Jackson, Charles    96

Jackson, Joseph     3, 19

Jacobson, Howard    1

            [ship master]

James & Shoemaker     68

Jarvis – see also   Hazell & Jarvis   

Jarvis & Russell   6

Jarvis, James    89

Jenkins, Thomas    48, 78

Johann [?], Andrew    2

John    46

John   100

John Buchanan & Sons     50

            [merchants, in Greenock]

Johnson    101

Johnson, Eleazer (Capt.)   60

            [of Boston]

Johnson, Josiah    73

            [of Buckland]

Jones & Peirce    60, 91

Jones [?], Ichabod    55

Jones, Robert, esq.    30

            [merchant, in London]

Jones, Sally     29

            [of Boston; she seems to have been a servant to the Clarke family]

Jones, William    13, 28, 95-96, 99

            [merchant, of Providence]

Joseph Rotch & Sons    20, 33

Joy, John    41

            [house wright, of Boston]

 

Kingman, David   46, 58

            [of Bridgewater]

Knap [?] (Capt.)   59

Kneeland & Homer    36

Knutton, William    36, 38

            [soap boiler, of Boston]

 

Lamb, James    77

Lambert (Capt.)    59

Lawrence, George (Capt.)    57-58

            [of Nantucket]

Leonard, Benjamin   50

Leonard, Zebulon    36

Lewis, Jonathan Clarke    2, 29, 46, 66

            [of Groton and Rutland]

Lloyd, Henry, esq.    45, 50

            [of Boston]

Lock & Wilders     1

Long, John   101

Lopez, Aaron    77

Lord    35

Loreing, Israel     29

            [house wright]

            [surname is perhaps Loring]

Loring (Capt.)    79

Loring, C.   50

Loveland, Solomon (Capt.)    56

Low, James    50

Lowell, John, Jr., esq.   95

 

Mackay  - see also  Prince & Mackay  (which includes Mackay, Prince & Mackay) 

Mackay, Mungo    65, 94, 101

            [merchant, of Boston]

            [includes Mungo Mackay & Co.]

Mackay, William    50

Marquand, Joseph   12

            [merchant, of Newburyport]

Marshall, William    72

            [shop keeper, of Boston]

Marston, John    96

Mason    75

Mason, Jonathan   36, 43, 53, 87, 92, 95, 104

            [not specified as to whether Junior or Senior]

Mason, Jonathan, Jr. , esq.   28, 88, 95

Mason, Jonathan, Sr.    11

Mason, Miriam    53, 87

            [deceased; wife of Jonathan Mason, sister of Benjamin Clarke]

Massachusetts Bank    59, 88, 95, slip laid in at p. 95, 96, 107

May  - see also Curtis & May

May, John & Joseph    73

            [shop keepers, in Boston]

Maylem, Edward    11

            [mason, of Boston]

Mayo, Joseph, esq.    57

            [of Roxbury]

McGaw, Jacob    1

McNeill, Archibald    39

            [of Boston]

McNeill, William    50, 78

            [rope maker, of Boston]

            [also William McNeill & Son]

Merrick, Tilly    77

Migner, John    36, 68

            [of Boston]

Miliker, John   46

Miller, William    18

            [house wright, of Boston]

Mollineux, William    6

            [of Boston]

Moore, Hugh    34

Morton, Ichabod Capt.)    3

Mulliken    1

 

Nancy (sloop)    34, 48

Neef, Michael    80

            [farrier, of Boston]

            [surname is perhaps Neff]

Neptune     1

Nesbitt, Arnold    50

Newell, Aaron   50

Newell, Daniel    2

            [of Dudley]

Newell, John   50

Newell, Timothy    50

Nicholson, Thomas (Capt.)    17

Nolen, Thomas     34

Norton, John, III    34

 

Obed    100

O’Donnel & Connor   36, 72

            [soap boilers, of Boston]

Oliver, Eb.    77

Otis & Thaxter      53, 96, 107

            [house wrights, of Boston]

 

Paoli    1

Parker, Ann    69, 96

Parker, Samuel   88

Parker, Thomas, Jr.    27

            [of Boston]

Parkman, Breek    45

            [of Westborough]

Parkman, Samuel    69

Parmerle, Benjamin    1

Patty (sloop)    55-56

Peirce, David    13

            [of Gloucester, Cape Ann]

Peirce, Edward    62

            [house wright, of Dorchester]

Peirce, Moses    19

            [from Norwich]

Peirce, Nicholas, Jr.    21, 96

            [mason, of Boston]

Perkins, Henry    11

            [chair maker, of Boston]

Pettibone    3

Pettibone  - see also Hillyard, Pettibone & Co. and also Phelps, Pettibone & Hillyer

Pettibone, Ozias    2-3, 19-20, 32, 35, 46, 54

            [of Simsbury, Conn.]

Phelps    3

Phelps, Pettibone & Hillyer    55

Phelps, Elisha    19-20, 32, 46, 54, 72

            [of Simsbury, Conn.]

Phelps, Griswold & Co.    46

Phillips    1

Phillips, Benjamin     1

Phillips, Isaac (Capt.)    70

            [rope maker, of Boston]

Phillips, William    44

            [shopkeeper, of Boston]

Phillips, William, Jr.    p.A, 84, 88

            [merchant, of Boston]

Piemont, Jean    15

            [peruke maker, of Boston]

Pope    50

Pope, Edward    50

Pope, Samuel    47

            [blacksmith, of Boston]

Porter, james    1

powder house     1, 46

Prentice, Amos    46

Prescott, Oliver (Dr.)    15

            [of Groton]

Price, Aaron    46

Prince & Cabot    43

            [merchants, of Boston]

Prince & Mackay    91-92, 96, 103

            [merchants, in Boston]

            [includes Mackay, Prince & Mackay]

Prince & Pattin    78

Prince (Capt.)    47

Prince (Mrs)    63, 93, 97

Prince, Elizabeth (Mrs)    69, 92, 94, 101, 106

            [niece of B.Clarke; widow of Capt. Job Prince]

Prince, Job    93, 95, 97, 100, 102

            [neither Junior nor captain specified; estate records on p. 97, 102]

Prince, Job (Capt.)   69, 78, 83, 94, 105

            [estate records on p. 105]

Prince, Job, Jr.    47, 89

            [merchant, of Boston]

Prince, Rebecca    89

            [niece of B. Clarke; Rebecca Cutler Prince was the daughter of Mary Clarke and John Cutler, and wife of Thomas Prince]

Prince, Samuel    97, 101

Prince, Sarah Dunn   101

Prince, Thomas (Capt.)     2

            [of Boston]

Prince, Thomas I.     92, 96

Procter (Miss)     34

Procter, John    29

            [shop keeper, of Boston]

Putnam, Nathan    23

            [of Sutton]

 

Quincy (Mrs)     82

            [mother of Samuel Quincy, Jr.]

Quincy, Josiah, esq.    82

            [of Braintree; this is the Josiah Quincy who lived 1710-1784]

Quincy, Samuel, Jr.    82

            [student at Harvard; grandson of Josiah Quincy]

 

Rallion, Augustin    71

            [hairdresser, of Boston]

Ramsden, Samuel    49

Rathbun, John    46

Rea, Uriel     68, 80

            [merchant, of Dartmouth]

Read – see also  Reed

Read    16

Read, Thomas, Jr.    1

Reed – see also  Read

Reed  - see  Bowdoin & Reed   

Reed, Abraham   50

Reed, John     31

            [of Boston]

Reiley, Luke    62

            [farrier, of Boston]

Remington, William   18

Rice, John    36

            [does iron work]

Rice, Robert    1

Richards (Capt.)    1, 20

Richards, James    20

            [ship master]

Richardson, Jeffrey     69

            [rope maker, of Boston]

Richardson, Josiah    10

            [of Sudbury]

Ripley & Cary    33

            [of Windham]

Ripley, John    1

Robbins, Robert (Capt.)   36, 64

Roberts, C. A.    49

Rockwell (Capt.)    1

Rogers – see also Brown, Rogers, & Brown

Rogers   101   

Rogers, Daniel    46

Rogers, Jeremiah    48

            [ship master]

Rogers, Mary    80

            [surname possibly Rogen]

Rose, Peter    50

Ross & Mill     50

            [of London]

Rotch, Joseph & Son  - see Joseph Rotch & Son 

Rotch, William   59, 78, 80

Row, Joseph (Capt.)    1

Ruggles, John    13

            [house wright, of Boston]

Ruggles, Robert    34, 50

Russell  - see also  Jarvis & Russell  

Russell, Barnebas, & Co.  - see Barnebas Russell & Co.  

Russell, Edward     1

Russell, Jeffrey    88

Russell, Jo.    26

Russell, Joseph    56

Russell, Thomas    50

 

Sampson, Cornelius    50

Sargent    63

Sargent, Daniel    86

            [merchant, of Boston]

Savage (Mrs)    96, 99

Scollay, William, esq.     95

Scott & Gill    25

            [of Boston]

Searle, George    77

Sears, Richard    50

Selkrig, James & Robert    29

            [merchants, of Boston]

Shuing [?], James    16

            [baker, of Boston]

Sibley, Nathaniel    51

            [of Sutton]

Sigourney, Elisha   75

            [of Boston]

Sigourney, Peter    29

            [founder, of Boston]

Skinner, John    5, 65

            [pewterer, of Boston]

Sleight, Mathew (Capt.)   50, 80

Smalley – see Coole Smalley & Co.

Smith (Capt.)    4

Smith & Atkinson    54-56, 68

            [merchants, of Boston]

Snelling, Jonathan    34

Soames, Nehemiah (Capt.)    14

            [merchant, of Boston]

Southack, Francis    27

Sparrow, James     1

Spear, David   6

Spear, Josh.    6

Spooner, George    35

            [merchant, of Boston]

Spooner, William    8

            [of Dorchester]

Sprague, John, esq.    97

Stanwood, Joseph   12

            [of Newburyport]

Starbuck, Chris.    41

            [merchant in Nantucket, in partnership with Shubl. Coffin]

Stoddard, Sampson    1

Stow, Edward    77

            [rope maker, of Boston]

Sturgis, R.    83

Sturgis, Russell     74

            [hat maker, of Boston]

Sullivan, Daniel    80

Sumner, E.   97

Sumners, Seth (Capt.)    68

Symmes, Thomas    1, 19-20, 32-33

 

Taber, Stephen    50

Tate, John    68

Taylor, William    8

            [merchant, of Boston]

Thayer  - see also  Tucker & Thayer   

Thayer, Gideon    44

            [tallow chandler, of Boston]

Thayer, Nathaniel & Fra.   13

Thayer, Ziphion     24, 33

            [upholsterer, of Boston]

Thaxter  - see  Otis & Thaxter     

Thomas    1

Thomas. E. & I.      81

Tidmarsh, Giles     30

Tiley, Samuel (Capt.)    20, 46, 54-55  

Tilley, William    26

            [rope maker, of Newport, R.I.]

Timmins, John     66

            [merchant, of Boston]

Tinker    35

Todd, William    4

            [merchant, of Boston]

Tracy, John   77

Trumbull, David    70, 72, 104

            [of Lebanon, Conn.; heir to Sarah Clarke Backus, sister of B. Clarke]

Trumbull, Jonathan     1, 46, 71

            [of Lebanon, Conn.]

[Trumbull,] Sarah    70

            [daughter of David Trumbull]

Tuckeman, Abraham    31

Tucker & Thayer    101

Tucker, Thomas Tudor   28

            [treasurer of the United States]

Tucker, Joseph     24

            [administrator]

Tudor, William    50

Tufts, Cotton (Dr.)    69

            [of Weymouth]

Turner, William     10, 101

            [of Boston]

 

Union Bank in Boston    92

 

Van de Honsell, John     49

Van Wyck   - see  Burling & Van Wyck   

Vernon, Fortesque (Capt.)    56, 66

            [merchant, in Boston]

 

Waldo, Daniel     1, 40

            [merchant, of Boston]

Walker     1

Walker, Bezaliel    36

Walker, Timothy    1, 46

Walley, T. [?]     34

Wallis, Samuel    1, 31, 46

            [of Boston]

Ward, Jonathan    1

Washburn (Capt.)    56

Welch, John    77

Weld, Aaron    51

            [of Stourbridge]

Welles, Samuel, esq. (the Honorable)    57

            [deceased, of Boston]

Wendell & Co.    78

Wendell (Judge)    90

Wendell, Oliver    7

            [merchant, of Boston]

Westmoreland      1

Wheat, S.    1

Wheat, Samuel C.    1, 3, 55-56

            [of Norwich]

Wheatley, Nathaniel     32-33

Wheeler, Josiah

            [house wright, of Boston]

Wheelwright & Barnard    25, 54, 78

            [coopers, of Boston]

White  - see also   Cushing & White  

White, Charles    50

White, John (Capt.)   46

            [from London]

White, Timothy    7

            [stationer, of Boston]

Whitman, Davis    101

Whitworth, Richard    71, 80

Wier, Robert    23

Wiglesworth, Edward (Col.)    58

            [of Newburyport]

            [surname should probably be Wigglesworth]

Wilders  - see   Lock & Wilders

William    46

William McNeill & Son – see  McNeill, William

Williams, Israel    55

Williams, John Foster     34  

Williams, T.    99

Williams, William    1, 19, 71

            [of Lebanon, Conn.]

Wing, Nancy    51

            [she seems to have been a servant to the Clarke family]

Winslow, Benjamin    48

            [shopkeeper, of Boston]

Winslow, Isaac, esq.    90

            [deceased]

Winslow, J.    55

Winslow, John    p.A, 55, 63, 76

            [of Boston]

Winslow, Joshua    54

Winslow, Nicholas    32

            [tailor, of Boston]

Woodbridge, William    93

            [schoolmaster, of Medford]