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Field name | Value |
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Collection Reference Number | GLC01450.195.02 |
From Archive Folder | Documents Relating to 1781 |
Title | Accounts for Joseph Ingersoll |
Date | 7-23 July 1781 |
Author | Ingersoll, Joseph, (fl. 1781) |
Document Type | Business and financial document |
Content Description | Lists payments by "Joseph Ingersoll & Co." to various men. Each man signs attesting that he has received money from Ingersoll for various reasons. The payments include buying a number of ships at auction. The ships were the "sloop Bazil...Ship Elizabeth Snow Fly & sloop Marcia." The payments total near 30,000 pounds. The men signing are James Tileston, William Wyen, W. Scallon and Samuel Newhall. Also named in the document as being included in these accounts are Moses Little and Nathaniel Tracy. Not signed by Ingersoll. Ingersoll may be the same Joseph Ingersoll who owned the famous "Bunch of Grapes" tavern in Boston and died in 1789. |
Subjects | Revolutionary War Privateering Finance Maritime |
People | Ingersoll, Joseph (fl. 1781) Little, Moses (1724-1798) Tracy, Nathaniel (1751-1796) |
Place written | Newburyport, Massachusetts |
Theme | The American Revolution; Merchants & Commerce; Naval & Maritime |
Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859 |
Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |