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Title Miscellaneous Ships' Papers
Reference MSS 110, box 8, folder 7
Library Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum
Collection Barton Family Papers, 1677-1897
Collection Series Samuel Barton (1804-1840) Papers
Date 1826-1832
Description Papers, correspondence and accounts in connection with various vessels.
Document Type Manuscript, Shipping Papers, Accounts
Theme(s) Trade and Commerce
Keywords voyage, ship, vessel, finance, accounts, invoice, expenses, goods, merchant, merchandise, cargo, freight, sales, prices current
Countries India; USA
Ports Boston, USA; Salem, USA; Kolkata, India; New York, USA
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.

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