Manuscripts
Thomas Adams papers
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Thomas Adams papers
Manuscripts
The collection is made up of account books, notes, articles of agreement, and correspondence.
mssHM 81300-81396
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Thomas Adams papers
Manuscripts
The collection is made up of account books, notes, articles of agreement, and correspondence.
mssHM 81300-81396
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Benjamin Adams and Thomas Adams collection
Manuscripts
The majority of the material in the collection concerns the financial interests of Benjamin Adams and Thomas Adams in Jamaica. Benjamin Adams was owed a significant sum by Jamaican landowner George Noble. Upon Noble's death (ca. 1790), Adams entered into proceedings via attorneys James Corne Pownall and David Duncomb to recover his debt. The process was severely complicated by the revelation that the cane plantation overseen by Noble, known as the Lottery Estate in Trelawney, Jamaica, was not actually owned by him. After Benjamin Adams' death in 1792, the affair was taken up by the executor of his will, his brother Thomas Adams. The collection consists of autograph letters and copies, statements of bills and accounts, estate dealings and promissory notes; included is correspondence with, among others, William Cruden, William Morton Pitt and David Ross.
mssHM 83630-83688
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Adams, Thomas, of Alnwick. Letter to Mr. ----- Godwin
Manuscripts
Lime Street, London, Eng. (1 p.). Draft letter. Followed by additional draft letters & an account to: David Ross ; Duncomb & Pownall (Firm) ; copy of David Ross, approx. 1716…, account with the estate of B. Adams, 1796-1800 ; the whole: 4 p.
HM 83665
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Phinehas Adams Papers
Manuscripts
This collection contains 200 items of the family of Phinehas Adams of Connecticut and Ohio. The bulk of this collection contains letters, manuscripts, documents including Connecticut and Ohio land deeds, documents, personal and business affairs of the Adams and their relatives, chiefly concerning land transactions; everyday life in Ohio in the middle of the 19th century. There are also genealogy notes relating to the Adams and Bennett family in ephemera; 1 map; and several printed items.
mssHM 79415-79479
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Thomas Adams letter to Granville Sharp
Manuscripts
An autograph, signed draft letter from Thomas Adams to Granville Sharp; the letter is a retained copy, heavily corrected and annotated. An extensive letter which covers multiple topics including the militia, legal matters, political business, estate business (Adams lists the many trees he has planted on his Eshott Hall estate), and the African Prince John Henry Granville Naimbanna, who died in 1793.
mssHM 83693