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Title Seth Low & Company Correspondence and Accounts
Reference MSS 193, box 1, folder 2
Library Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum
Collection Low Family Papers
Date 1830-1853
Description Correspondence with other merchants and individuals relating to goods bought and sold.
Document Type Manuscript, Correspondence, Accounts
Theme(s) Trade and Commerce
Keywords bill of lading, ship, voyage, vessel, supplies, cargo, freight, merchandise, goods, prices, food, oil, cigars, tobacco, sandalwood, ginseng, tortoiseshell
Countries USA; China; UK
Places London; Providence
Ports Philadelphia, USA; New York, USA; Baltimore, USA; Boston, USA; Salem, USA
Ships Mary Clark, Martha Maria
Additional Information

Seth Low (1782-1853) was a Salem merchant who moved to New York in 1829 and established Seth Low and Company, a prosperous shipping firm. His son Abiel Abbot Low (1811-1893) founded a company under his own name, A A Low and Brothers, which specialised in the China trade. Another son, Edward Allen Low (1817-1898), worked for Russell and Company in Canton.

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