Isaac Bell papers, 1787-1940

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Series I: Letter Books and Account Books, 1787-1856

This series includes one letter book / account book, and one additional account book.



Box 1 Letter Book / Account Book, 1790-1856, 347 pages

This item contains 466 draft and copies of letters in bound letterbook, p. 34-347. This contains Bell's commercial and social correspondence with shipping agents in Great Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Holland, Germany, China, Canada, as well as in the United States. The correspondence concerns Bell's business arrangements, the various cargos he shipped and their disposal, political affairs affecting the shipping trade, laws and treaties of various countries to be dealt with, taxes, embargoes, piracy, threats of war, and other pertinent events.

Letters to various recipients contained in this volume are listed alphabetically in the container list.


Box 1 Amory Callender & Co. (New Orleans)


Box 1 Jonathan Amory & Son


Box 1 Joseph Anderson (1757-1837)


Box 1 Bachman


Box 1 Henry Barclay


Box 1 Abraham Bates


Box 1 Tomas Belden


Box 1 James Bell


Box 1 George Bilden


Box 1 Daniel L. Bishop


Box 1 Richard Black


Box 1 John A. Bleeker


Box 1 William Blodget


Box 1 J.J. Bose & Co. (Bordeaux)


Box 1 John Linscom Boss, Jr. (1780-1819)


Box 1 Bradford Gilbert & Co.


Box 1 James Brown (1766-1835)


Box 1 Noah Brown


Box 1 Miles R. Burke


Box 1 Jonah Burr


Box 1 Charles Cadogan


Box 1 Churchill Caldom Cambreleng (1786-1862)


Box 1 John A. Camp


Box 1 John G. Camp


Box 1 John G. Camp, Jr.


Box 1 John Campbell


Box 1 The Hoppoa of Canton, China


Box 1 Capron & Cornwall


Box 1 A. Capron Lille


Box 1 Thomas Carberry


Box 1 Edward Carrington


Box 1 Chew


Box 1 Chunqua


Box 1 Lewis Clapier & Cp.


Box 1 Francis Clappier & Co. (Marseilles)


Box 1 Henry Clay (1777-1852)


Box 1 Charles H. Coffin


Box 1 Conway & Davidson


Box 1 Costello Brothers & Co. (Cadiz)


Box 1 Henry A. & John G. Coster


Box 1 H. & J. Coster & Co. (New York)


Box 1 Henry Coster & Co.


Box 1 Couderc, D(?). P. Brants


Box 1 Peter Couderc, Jr.


Box 1 Charles Sidney Coxe


Box 1 Cromelein Davis & Co.


Box 1 Crookshank


Box 1 Crump & Hart


Box 1 Abraham Davenport


Box 1 Wendell David


Box 1 Thomas Davidson


Box 1 Dawes Stephenson & Co. (London)


Box 1 Elizabeth De Hart


Box 1 Delaroche, Armand Delessert & Co. (Nantes)


Box 1 Delarrard & Co. (Barcelona)


Box 1 Lewis Delesdernier


Box 1 Depaw Deas & Co. (Charleston, S.C.)


Box 1 Frederick DePeyster (1758-1834)


Box 1 Noah Disbrow


Box 1 Samuel H. Drake


Box 1 Drake Mitchell & Co.


Box 1 Anthony Dugan


Box 1 John Duncan


Box 1 John Duncan & Co.


Box 1 DuRiveray & D'lvernois (Le Havre)


Box 1 P. & C. Van Eeghen (Amsterdam)


Box 1 John Ellis


Box 1 Henry Farnum


Box 1 Fenno & Cox


Box 1 Duncan Ferguson


Box 1 David Finlayson


Box 1 John Forsyth (1780-1841)


Box 1 Nathan Frink


Box 1 Curwen Gale


Box 1 Albert Gallatin (1761-1849)


Box 1 Gans


Box 1 Edward Gernou


Box 1 John Gernou


Box 1 Colin Gillespie


Box 1 A. Gower


Box 1 Archibald Gracie (1755-1829)


Box 1 John Graham & Co.


Box 1 William Graham


Box 1 William Graham & Bros. (Glasgow)


Box 1 Grant Hepburn & Co.


Box 1 Grant Webb & Co.


Box 1 Gray & Pankey


Box 1 T. Greene


Box 1 Grevignie & Co. (Malaga, Spain)


Box 1 Hagarty & Jerdein


Box 1 James Hagerty


Box 1 Peter Halc


Box 1 Thomas Hanford


Box 1 J. Harmony


Box 1 Harrison & Sherrill


Box 1 James Hepburn


Box 1 R.B. Hilliard


Box 1 Charles Holland


Box 1 Thomas Hunloke


Box 1 Josiah Hussey


Box 1 Charles Hyber


Box 1 Jacobs & Co. (Rheims)


Box 1 Samuel Jeffries


Box 1 Paul Jenkins


Box 1 Abraham G. Jennings


Box 1 Jonathan Jones


Box 1 Thomas K. Jones & Co. (Boston)


Box 1 Elisha King


Box 1 Kirkpatrick & Grevignie


Box 1 Henry Kustner


Box 1 Labouchere & Co. (Rotterdam)


Box 1 John H. Ladd & Co.


Box 1 LaRue & Palmer (Le Havre)


Box 1 Jessel Lawrence


Box 1 A. Le Lieivre


Box 1 Robert Lenox (1759-1839)


Box 1 Stephen Jefferson Lewis


Box 1 Lewis & Douglass


Box 1 John Lightbourne


Box 1 Lindblad & Co.


Box 1 William McGillivray


Box 1 Alexander McGregor & Co.


Box 1 J. & Peter Mclver & Co. (London)


Box 1 James McKinlay


Box 1 Charles Mackinnon


Box 1 Arthur McLellan


Box 1 R.I. Macy


Box 1 Mayer & Lohman


Box 1 Thomas March Millbridge


Box 1 Mills & Disbrow


Box 1 N. Moran


Box 1 William Hodgkinson Morewood


Box 1 Morewood & Co. (Hamburg)


Box 1 F.W. Morse


Box 1 Mumford


Box 1 Thomas Murdock


Box 1 John Murray & Sons (New York)


Box 1 Murray, Sansom & Co. (London)


Box 1 William Nott & Co.


Box 1 J. & I.H. Perkins


Box 1 George Philips


Box 1 George Phillips


Box 1 John C. Phillips


Box 1 Sarah Powell


Box 1 John Rae


Box 1 Andrew Rainsford


Box 1 J.O. Rees


Box 1 Reis & Beale


Box 1 Aquila Rich


Box 1 John Richards


Box 1 Richard Richards


Box 1 Benjamin Rogers


Box 1 Moses Rogers


Box 1 Moses Rogers & Co. (New York)


Box 1 Nehemiah Rogers


Box 1 Rogers & Aspinwall (New York)


Box 1 D. Saint


Box 1 H.T. Sampayo (Lisbon)


Box 1 Comfort Sands (1748-1834)


Box 1 William Scott


Box 1 Nathaniel Searle, Jr.


Box 1 Aaron Seaman


Box 1 Edmund Seaman


Box 1 Angus Shaw


Box 1 Robert Shedden


Box 1 Robert Shedden & Sons


Box 1 Elias Shipman


Box 1 Simson


Box 1 Henry Smith


Box 1 Nathan Smith (1770-1835)


Box 1 Henry Staples


Box 1 James Stewart


Box 1 John Sykes


Box 1 Talcott & Bowen


Box 1 Talcott & Bowers (New Orleans)


Box 1 Isaac Tomlinson


Box 1 William Tudor (1779-1830)


Box 1 Alexander Turnbull


Box 1 Jacob Van Uypen & Co.


Box 1 Caspar, Freiherr von Voght (1752-1839)


Box 1 R.R. Voris


Box 1 Walker & Kennedy


Box 1 Robert Watts


Box 1 John G. Weafer


Box 1 Thomas Welsh, Jr.


Box 1 Benjamin C. Wilcocks


Box 1 John Williams


Box 1 William & Francis (Philadelphia)


Box 1 Winslow & Huske


Box 1 Oliver Wolcott & Co. (New York)


Box 1 Joseph Wood


Box 1 Woodberry


Box 1 William Henry DeCourcy Wright (1795-1864)


Box 1 Zimmerman & Frazier & Co.


Box 1 Account Book, 1787-1852, 84 pages

Account book, 84 pages (many are blank). For the Ship Stephania and others contains ships' records for 1799 to 1828 and miscellaneous accounts up to 1857.