- Title
- Ebenezer Storer & Son records 1763-1788 (inclusive)
- Ebenezer Storer & Son., creator
- Massachusetts
- Volume containing copies of records maintained by Ebenezer Storer, Jr., dated 1763-1788, related to administration of the estate of his father Ebenezer Storer, Sr. (1699-1761), and the late company of Ebenezer Storer & Son. Included is a complete inventory of the firm, which mainly traded in textiles, in addition to legal correspondence and memoranda. It also contains a copy of the will of Storer, Sr., and an account of the controversy surrounding the estate, which could not be settled until the death of his widow, Mary Storer, in 1771. An inventory of the estate lists a number of dwelling houses, several meeting house pews, and two people enslaved by Storer, a girl named Cloe, and a deceased boy named Bacchus. He left Mary Storer £400 and the use of their mansion house on Union Street, in addition to an enslaved man named London. After his death, her children also allowed her the horse and carriage and two more slaves.
- .25 linear feet (1 volume)
- English
- Estate administration records.
Wills. - Books and documents
- Storer, Ebenezer
Ebenezer Storer & Son.
Decedents' estates
Executors and administrators--Massachusetts
Probate law and practice
Slavery--Massachusetts--Boston--History
Wholesale trade--Massachusetts
Boston (Mass.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Collections and items have been digitized with the generous support of The Polonsky Foundation.
Other records relating to Ebenezer Storer, Jr., are in the Ebenezer Storer Collection at Baker Library Special Collections, Harvard Business School.
See also: Manuscripts in Baker Library (4th ed., 1978), Entry 803.
Electronic finding aid available: http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/bak00842/catalog - Ebenezer Storer & Son was a wholesale merchant partnership that operated in Boston, Massachusetts, from 1754 until 1761, when Ebenezer Storer, Sr., died. The company sold mainly textiles out of a Boston warehouse. Ebenezer Storer, Jr. (1730-1807; Harvard AB 1747) was the executor of his father's estate and was in charge of settling their late firm's accounts. From 1777 to 1807, Storer, Jr., was treasurer of Harvard College.
- Ebenezer Storer & Son Records. Baker Library, Harvard Business School.
- Women, Enterprise & Society
Colonial North American Project at Harvard University - Baker Library, Harvard Business School, Harvard University
- 990147138070203941
- Title
- Ebenezer Storer & Son records 1763-1788 (inclusive)
- Creator / Contributor
- Ebenezer Storer & Son., creator
- Place of Origin
- Massachusetts
- Description
- Volume containing copies of records maintained by Ebenezer Storer, Jr., dated 1763-1788, related to administration of the estate of his father Ebenezer Storer, Sr. (1699-1761), and the late company of Ebenezer Storer & Son. Included is a complete inventory of the firm, which mainly traded in textiles, in addition to legal correspondence and memoranda. It also contains a copy of the will of Storer, Sr., and an account of the controversy surrounding the estate, which could not be settled until the death of his widow, Mary Storer, in 1771. An inventory of the estate lists a number of dwelling houses, several meeting house pews, and two people enslaved by Storer, a girl named Cloe, and a deceased boy named Bacchus. He left Mary Storer £400 and the use of their mansion house on Union Street, in addition to an enslaved man named London. After his death, her children also allowed her the horse and carriage and two more slaves.
- Extent
- .25 linear feet (1 volume)
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Estate administration records.
Wills. - Digital Format
- Books and documents
- Subjects
- Storer, Ebenezer
Ebenezer Storer & Son.
Decedents' estates
Executors and administrators--Massachusetts
Probate law and practice
Slavery--Massachusetts--Boston--History
Wholesale trade--Massachusetts
Boston (Mass.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Notes
- Collections and items have been digitized with the generous support of The Polonsky Foundation.
Other records relating to Ebenezer Storer, Jr., are in the Ebenezer Storer Collection at Baker Library Special Collections, Harvard Business School.
See also: Manuscripts in Baker Library (4th ed., 1978), Entry 803.
Electronic finding aid available: http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/bak00842/catalog - Biographical / Historical Note
- Ebenezer Storer & Son was a wholesale merchant partnership that operated in Boston, Massachusetts, from 1754 until 1761, when Ebenezer Storer, Sr., died. The company sold mainly textiles out of a Boston warehouse. Ebenezer Storer, Jr. (1730-1807; Harvard AB 1747) was the executor of his father's estate and was in charge of settling their late firm's accounts. From 1777 to 1807, Storer, Jr., was treasurer of Harvard College.
- Cite As
- Ebenezer Storer & Son Records. Baker Library, Harvard Business School.
- Series
- Women, Enterprise & Society
Colonial North American Project at Harvard University - Repository
- Baker Library, Harvard Business School, Harvard University
- Record ID
- 990147138070203941
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