Scope and Contents
Account book maintained by Joseph Prince, of Boston, Massachusetts, recording his charges for outfitting ships and transactions related to trade and fishing voyages, from 1746 to 1754. He also contracted men to work on ships and paid for goods including wood, oil, sugar, flour, butter and pork. Prince recorded wages paid, workers names, tasks performed, and possibly hiring enslaved persons from their owners (see sequence numbers. 51, 52, 76, 101, 107, 118). Includes some personal accounts, such as payment to Abiah Holbrook for schooling Joseph Prince's daughter (see sequence number 76), and the amount he charged a boarder who came to live with his family. There are additionally diary entries recording smallpox inoculation, probably of his children, and a brief description of the progression of the disease after they were infected; and a report on the French and Indian War.
Dates
- Creation: 1746-1754
Creator
- Prince, Joseph (1694-1758) (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research. Materials stored onsite. Please contact specialcollectionsref@hbs.edu for more information.
Extent
.25 linear feet (1 volume)Biographical / Historical
Joseph Prince (1694-1758) was a sea captain active in Boston, Massachusetts, between the 1740s and 1750s. Prince outfitted ships prior to voyages and brokered trade of fish and commodities. He also was a founding member of the Boston Marine Society in 1742.
Physical Location
MANU
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Mrs. Bernard A. Merriam, 1963.
Digitization Funding
Collections and items have been digitized with the generous support of The Polonsky Foundation.
Processing Information
Processed: January 2019 By: Brooke McManus
Harmful content note
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Remediation note
Remediation note: As of December 2022, staff have reviewed, remediated and enhanced the full description of this collection (including but not limited to the author/creator, title, biographical/history note, scope and content note, arrangement, folder titles, and subject headings) where necessary according to Baker Library’s Guiding Principles for Conscious and Inclusive Description. Superseded versions of the finding aid and catalog record are available in Archive-It, a web archiving tool provided by the Internet Archive. Preserving legacy finding aids and catalog records to provide transparency to researchers about how the description has evolved. Please contact Baker Library staff at specialcollectionsref@hbs.edu with any feedback.
Creator
- Prince, Joseph (1694-1758) (Person)
- Author
- Baker Library
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- bak00699
Repository Details
Part of the Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School Repository
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