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    <title>Amory family papers, 1697-1882</title>
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  <abstract>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.</abstract>
  <abstract>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 &amp; John Amory and Amory's &amp; Taylor.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>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).</note>
  <note>Collection material in English and Portuguese.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009224">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009224</note>
  <note>A petition formerly processed and cataloged separately in Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection as the Papers of John Amory was added to the collection in 2000.</note>
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      <namePart>Amory, Rebekah Holmes</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1700-1770</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Amory, Rufus Greene</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1760-1833</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Belcher, Jonathan</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1682-1757</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Eliot, Samuel</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">active 1770</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Mullin, Alan</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Oursel, Nicholas</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Penhallow, Samuel</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1665-1726</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ramsey, Ann</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ramsey, James</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">active 1720</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Emery family</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Holmes family</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Amory's &amp; Taylor</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Jonathan &amp; John Amory (Firm)</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Commerce</topic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>18th century</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Commerce</topic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>19th century</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Distilling industries</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Imports</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>International trade</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Merchants</topic>
    <geographic>Ireland</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Merchants</topic>
    <geographic>Massachusetts</geographic>
    <geographic>Boston</geographic>
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    <topic>Merchants</topic>
    <geographic>South Carolina</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Shipbuilding</topic>
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      <namePart>Amory, John,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1728-1803</namePart>
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      <title>Thomas Amory papers</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Amory, Thomas,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1682-1728</namePart>
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      <title>Thomas Amory papers</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Amory, Thomas,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1762-1823</namePart>
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