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Title Papers Related to Margaret Perkins Forbes
Reference Ms. N-49, box 18
Library Massachusetts Historical Society
Collection Forbes Family Papers
Collection Series Robert Bennet Forbes Papers, 1768-1889
Date 1834-1849
Description Includes details of shares, bonds and investments, and a transcript of a letter written by Margaret to her husband on the occasion of his capture while on-board the Coquette.
Document Type Correspondence, Manuscript, Accounts, Business Records
Theme(s) Social Life
Keywords accounts, trustees, railroad, finance, business, investment, letter, family
Countries USA
Ports Boston, USA
Additional Information Margaret Perkins (1773-1856) married Ralph Bennet Forbes in 1799, and had three sons (Thomas Tunno, Robert Bennet, and John Murray) and four daughters (Emma Perkins, Margaret Perkins, Mary Abbot, and Cornelia Frances). Her husband died in 1824, and her eldest son Thomas Tunno was drowned five years later in a typhoon while working in Canton in the family business. Funds from both men's estates were used to build a home for Margaret and her daughters in Milton, Boston.
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