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Title Ledger of Ship Janus
Reference MSS 165, box 7, folder 3
Library Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum
Collection Tucker Family Papers, 1680-1878
Collection Series II. Gideon Tucker Papers
Date 1822-1826
Description Accounts, receipts and correspondence relating to merchandise shipped on board the Janus.
Document Type Manuscript, Shipping Papers
Theme(s) Trade and Commerce
Keywords commodity, merchandise, trade, business, bills, finance, cargo, freight, shipping, accounts, supplies, food, sales, invoice, ship, voyage, goods
Countries USA; Russia
Ports Boston, USA; Salem, USA; Kronstadt, Russia
Ships Janus
Additional Information

Gideon Tucker (1778-1861) was born in Salem, the son of Salem merchant John and Lydia Tucker. After attending grammar school in Salem, he became a clerk for the merchant Joseph Peabody and became Peabody's partner after 1801. They owned 25 vessels together. In addition to these, Tucker owned several vessels and invested in various shipping ventures with his brother Samuel and Andrew Tucker. During the War of 1812 he served as an aide-de-camp to Major Gideon Foster. In 1804 he married Martha Hardy Goodhue.

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Copyright Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum