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Jabez Huntington account book

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Description: This account book is attributed to Jabez Huntington, a merchant who supplied American and French ships between 1779 and 1781. The document records transactions from Huntington's store and includes the names of privateer and prize vessels, seized goods, captains and other naval personnel, and payments for goods supplied to the Americans and French. Some of the people mentioned in the memorandum book include Captain Frederick Calkins, Colonel Christopher Leffingwell, Captain John Deshon, and British Loyalist Thomas Fanning. The volume contains loose pages, receipts, and bills.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1779-1782.
Call number: mssHM 84506
Creator: Huntington, Jabez (1719-1786)(Opens in new tab)

Great Britain, Privy Council order to the governors and garrison commanders at Minorca and Gibraltar concerning Captain Fortunatus Wright and other privateers

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In this order the Privy Council directs the governors and garrison commanders at Minorca and Gibraltar to seize Captain Wright and any other privateers who may have seized goods belonging to Turkey.

mssHM 70722

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Dixon Green Colliery account book

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Account book recording payments relating to colliery expenditures between January 1779 and January 1782. The book records payments for wages, access by land and water canals to the mines, repairing old channels and cutting new ones, etc. There are numerous names recorded of the various workmen.

mssHM 84076

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Theodore Barrell commonplace book

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Commonplace book that Theodore Barrell put together between 1804 and 1846. The bulk of the manuscript is written in the same hand, most likely Theodore Barrell. Included are copies of letters (1775-1778) addressed to Colburn Barrell; devotional prose and poetry (1780-1781) including those by Dr. George Newbern Barrell; miscellaneous writings of Robert Sandeman; a plan of the Paul Alley Sandemanian church in the Barbican in London; and copies of letters (1780-1783) by Walter Newbern Barrell. The poetry and prose provide an insight into the devotional culture of the Sandemanian churches in New England and in Britain, especially in London and Perthshire, Scotland. The letters cover the events in Boston and Halifax during the American Revolution from a loyalist perspective. Walter Newbern Barrell's correspondence relates news from London, including those of the Gordon riots and their immediate aftermath.

mssHM 83496

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Account and fee book

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Autograph manuscript signed. Volume contains accounts of legal fees due with a chronological arrangement and alphabetical index in back. Volume also includes account balances titled "Personal estate in account" and "with Real estate" which are copies, with some variations, of "Personal stock for Lands and slaves sold" and "By Lands and slaves Bought" in Jefferson's account book, 1764-1779 (HM 5572). These pages mention enslaved persons Myrtilla, Sandy, Ursula, George, Bagwell, a second George, and Waggoner Phill. Also present in the volume are accounts for goods, services, rent, travel and other expenses with Joseph Neilson, Joseph Anderson, John Day, John Brewer, Will Beck, Isaac Jackson, the Treasury of Virginia, the Wine Company, Philip Mazzei, the Albemarle Salt company, William Rice, Stephen Willis, Anthony Giannini, the estate of Peter Jefferson and various Jefferson family members, Dabney Carr, the estate of Bathurst Skelton, and others. Some labor expenses listed include enslaved labor; William Rice's account, for example, mentions stonecutting work by Jupiter Evans ("18 days work of Jupiter on Shelby's tombstone"). Volume also contains "Statement of my debts when I went to Europe" and balance accounts for 1791 and 1794. Some accounts in this volume duplicate listings in the 1764-1779 account book (HM 5572). A few pages have penciled sketches of landscapes and houses. (373 pages)

HM 836

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Huntington, Ebenezer to Jabez Huntington

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Letters from Ebenezer Huntington to Jabez and Andrew Huntington describe his experience in the Revolutionary War and his political and social activities from 1810-1830s. Collection also has some documents and manuscripts.

HM 3663

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Huntington, Ebenezer to Jabez Huntington

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HM 3669

Jabez Huntington account book

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