Captain Jeremiah Green, 1703- . Distiller
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Finding-Aid for the Green Papers [00216]Collection Description
Papers, 1752-1789
7 items
Access: Open
These papers include the book of Captain Jeremiah Green, distiller, Boston. Signed receipts for business and personal cash disbursements, mostly for molasses, in the handwriting of the receiptors with three or four separate receipts per page, numerous entries on separate pieces of paper tipped in at the inner margin of the leaves, and additional entries pasted onto existing, unused pages, all in chronological order. Two entries pasted on inside back cover. Signature of Green on first sheet. Collection of autographs of distinguished Boston merchants of recognizable, important families, though not, perhaps, the most well-known as implied in the catalogue. Collection includes: Thomas Boylston, Abraham, Fuller, Isaac Gridley, Jabez Hatch, Jacob Wendell, Thomas Gray, Joseph Lee, Oliver Wiswell, Abraham Wendell, William Chesebrough, Harrison Gray, and Joseph Wadsworth. Collection also includes Green’s account book: Boston. 1752: April 2 - Dec. 1789. 1 item (165 pp.); 7 1/2 × 6 1/2 in.: Bound, unfinished calf, metal clasps. Titled in black ink, or burned in, on front cover /Book of Rents: began 1784/. There are also various receipts of purchase, ledgers, accounts, and a letter from J. Crosby to Green, in which he informs him that he plans on spending time with his family before he ships out from New York.
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Green, Captain Jeremiah, 1703- . Distiller