Gregory, John

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Ledger kept by Boston merchant John Gregory from 1788 to 1796, recording shipping, wholesale and retail trade, and consignment of commodities like dry goods, flour, salt, rum, molasses, iron, tobacco, furs, spermaceti candles, whale oil, and pot and pearl ashes. The volume contains barter accounts with shoemakers, hatters, and other tradespeople. There is also a company account with Boston merchant Mark Pickard, with whom Gregory founded the business partnership Gregory & Pickard in 1796, and an account with merchant James Scobie, a partner in voyages of the schooner Sally, ship Hope, and brig Aurora. Other names in the volume include Elizabeth Hinckley of Marblehead, Massachusetts; Priscilla Adams of Salem; Joanna Winslow of Plymouth; Margaret Coffin, a teacher, and her husband Captain Joseph Wyer of Nantucket; merchants John & Thomas Amory, Stephen Higginson (1743-1828), Ebenezer Parsons (1746-1819), and James & Thomas Lamb, bookseller Ebenezer Larkin, store owner Dolly Carnes, and shop owner Abigail Gendell of Boston; insurance agent William Morland (1728-1818) and Sarah Tappan of Newburyport; Dewhurst & Co. of New York; Hewes & Anthony of Philadelphia; and Isaac Polock of Savannah, Georgia. There are additionally accounts related to shipping ventures to England, Europe, and India, as well as an account of impost paid on vessels like the schooner Dolphin, and ships Minerva, Charlotte, and Little Cherub. Boston rope-maker William Tyler was paid in hemp and other goods for rigging the ship Hope in 1793; and Mary Hoffman of Boston bought unspecified goods for cash and hops she provided. The account...

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