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Title Business Correspondence
Reference MH-6, box 1, folder 2
Library Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum
Collection Thomas Wigglesworth, Jr (1814-1907) Papers
Date 1838-1840
Description Correspondence between Wigglesworth, Mr White and George Basil Dixwell, and letters of instructions to supercargoes with receipts, from Wigglesworth to Warren Gould and George R Minot.
Document Type Correspondence, Manuscript
Theme(s) Trade and Commerce
Keywords skins, ship, voyage, trade, cargo, goods, cost, profit, indigo, dye, report, bill of lading, silver, supercargo, purchase, saltpetre, silk, chocolate, instructions, invoice, shipping, freight, merchandise, shellac, oil, gunny cloth
Countries India; USA; Malta; France; Egypt
Ports Kolkata, India; Boston, USA; Philadelphia, USA
Company Baring Brothers
Ships Yentoo, Lehigh, Mary Kimball
Additional Information

Thomas Wigglesworth Jr, a lifetime resident of Boston, was born 1 July 1814, the youngest son of Thomas and Jane Wigglesworth. He never married. The Wigglesworths were a prominent Massachusetts family. Thomas Sr was a wealthy merchant, well-known for his business integrity and acuity in the Calcutta and East India trade. After graduating from Harvard in 1833, Thomas Jr read law for a time, before deciding to involve himself in his father's counting house, along with his brother Edward. After a long career in trade he retired and turned his attention to his property in Boston, and generously donated to the arts for the rest of his life. He died in 1907.

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