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Formal title:
Tillinghast Family Business Records
Extent:
5.5 Linear Feet
Date range:
1747-1880 (1796-1840)
Abstract:
The Tillinghast family business records consist of correspondence, accounting records, ships' papers and business books documenting the maritime trade and other commercial activities of Providence sea captain and merchant, Joseph Tillinghast (1734 – 1816) and his son, William E. Tillinghast (1777-1817). The records also include documentation for the firm Gorton & Tillinghast, founded by Joseph Tillinghast and William E. Tillinghast with Benjamin E. Gorton (1765-1822). Other business ventures include real estate investments and involvement with the Potowomut Mill.
Repository:
John Carter Brown Library
Collection call no:
Ms. Tillinghast
Inventory:
Series Correspondence
File Box 1 Correspondence, January 8th, 1772
1772-01-08
Item Box 1 Folder 1 Copy of Elisha Reynolds' and Robert Potter's division of their cedar swamp bog
1772-01-8
...and 384 other matches
Formal title:
Brown Family Business Records, Part Two
Extent:
605 boxes
Date range:
1750-1890
Abstract:
This is Part Two of the Brown Family Business Papers, consisting solely of accounting records for each iteration of the Brown family business. For correspondence and maritime records, please refer to Part One of the finding aid.
Repository:
John Carter Brown Library
Collection call no:
BFBR02
Inventory:
Series Accounting Records
File Box 741 Folder 1 Accounting Records, Miscellaneous Items
n.d.
File Box 741 Folder 2 Accounting Records, Miscellaneous Items
1766-1773
...and 5875 other matches
Formal title:
Brown Family Business Records, Part One
Extent:
881 boxes
Date range:
1750-1900
Abstract:
This is the first half of the finding aid for the Brown Family Business Records. The aid is divided into three series: accounting (which is mostly preliminary; please see Part Two for more robust accounting records), correspondence, and Maritime and Shipping records.
Repository:
John Carter Brown Library
Collection call no:
BFBR01
Inventory:
Series Accounting Records
File Box 1 Folder 1 Spermaceti Candle Works
1771-1774
File Box 1 Folder 2 Spermaceti Candle Works
1771-04-1783-05-13
...and 7265 other matches
Formal title:
Prices Current Collection
Extent:
9 folders
Date range:
1766-1825
Abstract:
Repository:
John Carter Brown Library
Collection call no:
MD2.1-9
Inventory:
Item Sirs Already for some Years, it has been my view, to retreat from Business, which I now realize . .
1799-12-31
Item [Voght & Sievcking] Sirs Our Mr. Voght, leaves entirely with the beginning of this month all bank and commission business in Europe . . . [Hamburgh]
1793-07-01
Item [Ross & Vaugn] The independence of the United States of America, opens a new extensive Field of Business for this Country . .
1784
...and 8 other matches
Formal title:
John Russell Bartlett papers
Extent:
12 Linear Feet
Date range:
1832-1886
Abstract:
The collection encompasses the years 1832-1886, consisting of personal correspondence comprised of loose letters, drafts of various manuscripts and clippings, two hundred and thirty-six watercolor paintings and drawings from the Mexican Boundary Commission Survey and eleven folio volumes from the Mexican Boundary Commission.
Repository:
John Carter Brown Library
Collection call no:
JRB Papers
Formal title:
John Carter family papers
Extent:
0.5 linear_foot
Date range:
1769 – 1917 (1769-1844)
Abstract:
Correspondence and other papers related to Providence printer and newspaper publisher, John Carter (1745 – 1814), and his family.
Repository:
John Carter Brown Library
Collection call no:
Carter papers
Formal title:
Continental Currency Collection
Extent:
2 boxes
Date range:
(1770-1806)
Abstract:
Repository:
John Carter Brown Library
Collection call no:
MS Curr
Formal title:
Charles Henri Hector, Count of Estaing Papers
Extent:
.42 Linear Feet
Date range:
1778-1779
Abstract:
Repository:
John Carter Brown Library
Collection call no:
MS D'Est

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