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Title Journal
Reference Ms. N-2024
Collection Amory Family Papers
Library Massachusetts Historical Society
Date 22 Jan 1772 - 1 May 1784
Description An accounts book detailing daily transactions of the merchant company Amory, Taylor, & Rogers, including cash and credit received and given for goods, and the quantity and cost of those goods.
Document Type Company Records
Primary Commodity Miscellaneous
Sub-commodity Tobacco, Spices, Cotton
Theme Trade and Commerce
Keywords merchant, financial accounts, clothes, snuff, linen, silk, spices, cinnamon, clove
Region North America
Places USA, Boston
Company or Organisation Amory, Taylor, & Rogers
Additional Information The Amory Family Papers include the business records of the Boston-based merchant establishment of Amory, Taylor, & Rogers, which existed from 1769 to 1783. In 1769, brothers Jonathan and John Amory took on Joseph Taylor as a partner to form the merchant importing house of Amory’s and Taylor. In 1770, Samuel Rogers joined the business, changing the name to Amory, Taylor, and Rogers. With the evacuation of Boston in 1776, Loyalists John Amory, Joseph Taylor, and Samuel Rogers fled America, leaving Jonathan Amory in charge of the merchant house. At the end of the Revolution, the Amory brothers resumed business without Taylor and Rogers, at which point they became Jonathan and John Amory and Company. The business records include journals, wastebooks, account books noting business transactions, credits, and the importation of dry goods for wholesale to New England merchants, and letterbooks containing business correspondence about imports and the shipment of goods from Europe to Boston for resale.
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