Amory family papers, 1697-1882.
Material type:
Mixed materialsLanguage: English, Portuguese Description: 650 items; 5 containers; 1.8 linear feetSubject(s): - Amory, Rebekah Holmes, 1700-1770 -- Correspondence
- Amory, Rufus Greene, 1760-1833 -- Correspondence
- Belcher, Jonathan, 1682-1757 -- Correspondence
- Eliot, Samuel, active 1770 -- Correspondence
- Mullin, Alan -- Correspondence
- Oursel, Nicholas -- Correspondence
- Penhallow, Samuel, 1665-1726 -- Correspondence
- Ramsey, Ann -- Correspondence
- Ramsey, James, active 1720 -- Correspondence
- Emery family
- Holmes family
- Amory's & Taylor -- Correspondence
- Jonathan & John Amory (Firm) -- Correspondence
- Commerce -- History -- 18th century
- Commerce -- History -- 19th century
- Distilling industries
- Imports
- International trade
- Merchants -- Ireland
- Merchants -- Massachusetts -- Boston
- Merchants -- South Carolina
- Shipbuilding
- A petition formerly processed and cataloged separately in Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection as the Papers of John Amory was added to the collection in 2000.
Open to research.
Correspondence, letterbooks, wills, a petition, financial material, printed material, and other papers of the Amory family. Papers of Thomas Amory (1682-1728) chronicle his years in transatlantic trade, the early history of trade in the Americas, and the status of the Amory estate. Papers of Thomas Amory (1762-1823) consist primarily of a business letterbook, 1798-1799, and of commercial correspondence, 1802-1804, relating chiefly to Amory family commercial activities in importing, shipbuilding, and distilling.
Correspondents include Rebekah Holmes Amory, Rufus Greene Amory, Jonathan Belcher, Samuel Eliot, Alan Mullin, Nicholas Oursel, Samuel Penhallow, Ann Ramsey, James Ramsey, the Holmes family, and the firms of Jonathan & John Amory and Amory's & Taylor.
Members of the Amory (Emery) family, a merchant trading and shipping family of Ireland, South Carolina, and Boston, Mass. Chiefly the papers of Thomas Amory (1682-1728), and his grandson Thomas Amory (1762-1823).
Collection material in English and Portuguese.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009224
A petition formerly processed and cataloged separately in Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection as the Papers of John Amory was added to the collection in 2000.
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