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Merchants--Massachusetts

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Martin Brimmer Account Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: Mss. Acc. 2012.359
Scope and Contents

Contains one ledger book of accounts kept by Martin Brimmer, a Boston merchant and apothecary. Listed in the account are names of loyalists later proscribed and banished. Some of the names listed in the ledger include Dr. Benjamin Church, Dr. William Paine, Dr. Charles Russel, Dr. Sylvester Gardiner, and Dr. John Jeffries. There are 89 pages filled with Brimmer's accounts, but the ledger also contains 24 pages of guest names for an unknown New York establishment in 1940.

Dates: 1763-1774, 1940; Majority of material found in 1763-1774