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Title Merchant Correspondence
Reference MSS 110, box 8, folder 4
Library Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum
Collection Barton Family Papers, 1677-1897
Collection Series Samuel Barton (1804-1840) Papers
Date 1832-1839
Description Business correspondence in connection with various vessels and transactions.
Document Type Manuscript, Correspondence
Theme(s) Trade and Commerce
Keywords voyage, ship, vessel, finance, accounts, invoice, expenses, goods, merchant, merchandise, cargo, freight, sales, prices current
Countries USA; Russia; India; UK; France; Spain
Places Gibraltar; London
Ports Salem, USA; Boston, USA; St Petersburg, Russia; New York, USA; Kolkata, India; Marseilles, France; Cadiz, Spain
Additional Information

Samuel Barton (1804-1840) was born in Salem, the first child of John Barton, a merchant. He began work as a clerk for shipping merchant Joseph Peabody. In 1827 Peabody appointed Barton, along with Captain Thomas M Saunders, supercargo of the George. Barton remained supercargo for seven of the George's nine voyages to India. Barton worked with such notable merchants as Joseph Peabody, Daniel Perkins and Gideon Tucker. Together they conducted prosperous trade in Indian silk and indigo, and shipped opium from China and Turkey.

Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Peabody Essex Museum catalogue.

Copyright Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum