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Merchants.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Alvan B. Doolittle papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064927712]
Identifier: 4062
Scope and content Papers consist of personal and business correspondence; legal documents concerning properties and lawsuit, including records from the years 1857-1859 when Doolittle was a justice of the peace; correspondence and documents concerning Nebraska Territory land agreements with the Omahas (Indians); bills and receipts for lumber (some shipped by canal), horses, and various merchandise; a few insurance policies; some items concerning Granger town and school business; and materials relating to...
Dates: 1837-1893.

Benjamin Fowler daybooks

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064926821]
Identifier: 4113
Scope and content

Four daybooks of Benjamin Fowler, a Yonkers, Westchester County, New York merchant, including a general mercantile account book, 1807-1813; volume dealing primarily with the purchase of the sloops Belvidere and Emaline, 1810-1823; volume containing record of payments and earnings on the purchase of the Emaline, 1817-1824; and volume containing records of Fowler's dealings with another businessman, 1814-1857.

Dates: 1807-1857.

Heard and Peck Invoices

 Collection
Identifier: 6687
Scope and Contents

Invoices for goods purchased from druggists and dyestuff dealers. Includes billhead of Rudyard & Whittelsey, druggists, castor oil, Prussian blue, etc., Oct. 9, 1828; billhead of William A.F. Pentz, May 31, 1820; and billhead of B.A. Armitage, hosiery, gloves, etc., Oct. 6, 1825.

Dates: 1820-1825

John March Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: 6728
Abstract

Ledger from John March, a seller of yarn and cloth in Maine.

Dates: 1815-1818

Lyman A. Spalding papers

 Collection
Identifier: 522
Abstract

Contains correspondence, manuscripts, records, and publications related to the career of Lyman A. Spalding, a nineteenth-century Quaker merchant and abolitionist who lived in upstate New York. He was co-editor of the newspaper Plain Truth and established the newspaper Priestcraft Exposed and Primitive Christianity Defended.

Dates: 1811-1864 (bulk)

Martin, Knight and Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: 6767
Abstract

Notification of change of business ownership and letter regarding market situation in Havana for cotton, coffee, sugar, and other products. Also printed report, "Havana prices current for 1 Nov. 1823, forwarded by Martin, Knight & Co."

Dates: undated

Matthew Brown letter book

 Collection — Volume 1: [Barcode: 31924065436572]
Identifier: 1420
Scope and content

Letters pertaining to the purchase and sale of foodstuffs, drugs, hardware, and other merchandise including ashes for the manufacture of potash; to payment and collection of debts; to tax payments and land sales; to a project for establishing a glass making concern near Rome, New York; and related business matters.

Dates: 1804-1818.

Robert Pollock letters

 Collection — Manuscript box 5 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065240453]
Identifier: 805
Scope and content Four letters by Pollock to a brother in Scotland; the first from Lake Mills, Wisconsin including instructions on how to prepare for emigration, advice as to costs, prices, clothing, household utensils, and other matters, and advice as to the exact procedures to be followed on the trip from New York, Albany, Buffalo, and the West in order to escape "runners," and to avoid the dangers facing uninformed immigrants; the second letter from Cambridge, Wisconsin describing his failure as a grain...
Dates: 1848-1869.