- Title
- John Erving journal, 1733-1745 (inclusive)
- Erving, John, 1690-1787, creator
- Massachusetts
- Journal of Boston merchant John Erving (1690-1787), recording transactions related to voyages to Amsterdam, London, and the West Indies, and general store sales, dated 1733-1745. Erving traded commodities like dry goods, oil, deerskins, firearms, powder, rum, rice, raisins, salt, sugar, molasses, lumber, and paper. In some cases, the method of payment to Erving is specified: Elizabeth Blair balanced her account in March 1742 by "making colors for sundry vessels." Other names in the volume include cooper Jeremiah Wheelwright, shopkeepers Huldiah Gross, Love Rawlings, and Alice Quick (approximately 1687-1761), merchants Charles Apthorp, Edward Bromfield, Thomas Cushing, and Joseph Lee, bookbinder Samuel Eliot, shipwright Samuel Clarke, Sr., printer Thomas Fleet, mathematical instruments maker James Halsey, bookseller Daniel Henchman, and Captain Andrew Craigie of Boston, as well as sail maker William Wyer and merchant Robert Pringle of Charleston, South Carolina. There are also accounts against a new meeting house in northwest Boston, and a new work house located on Boston Common. In March 1742, there is a records of payment to Samuel Clarke for a ship he agreed to build for Erving; and an account against a Quaker merchant, James Hawdan, for nails. A July 1742 entry for Anne Wroe & Co. lists dry goods purchased from Erving. In August 1742 Love Rawlings was charged for her half of dry goods supplied by Erving, and the other half was billed to her business partner Johanna Thomas. The volume additionally contains wages for tradesmen, sailors, and day labor, including the hire of an enslaved man, on ships like the the sloop Sarah, which voyaged to Jamaica in 1742/3; a December 1742 account lists amounts owed to sail maker Newman Greenough, brewer Sampson Salter, tallow chandler Mary Hamilton, and James Halsey, as well as Boston physician Silvester Gardiner (1708-1786), who provided two "doctor's boxes." In April 1744 a voyage of Erving's brig Yucatan carried skins and wood to Amsterdam, where the cargo was consigned to the merchant partnership of the widow of Albertus Hodshon and her son John. A November 1745 account against His Majesty's ship Wager includes bills for outfitting the vessel. There are also records of business and personal expenses of Erving like purchases of coal and rent of a warehouse, and in February 1742/43, a rug for son Henry and "a large wool bed flock tick" for two boys he enslaved.
- .25 linear feet (1 volume)
- English
- Journals (accounts).
- Books and documents
- Erving, John
Barter accounting
Dry-goods
Commerce--Massachusetts--Boston
Export marketing--Massachusetts
General stores--Massachusetts--Boston
Shipping--Massachusetts
Shipping--West Indies
Shipbuilding--Massachusetts
Slaveholders--Massachusetts
Slavery--Massachusetts--History--18th century
Women merchants
Women--Economic conditions
Businesswomen--Massachusetts--Boston
Boston (Mass.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - See also: Manuscripts in Baker Library (4th ed., 1978), Entry 564.
Electronic finding aid available: http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/bak00701/catalog - John Erving (1690-1787) was a merchant and shipowner in Boston, Massachusetts, who emigrated from Scotland in around 1706. He married Abigail Phillips in 1720, and their children included John Erving (1728-1816; Harvard AB 1747) and George Erving (1738-1806; Harvard AB 1757), who also became merchants in Boston.
- John Erving Journal. Baker Library, Harvard Business School.
- Colonial North American Project at Harvard University
- Baker Library, Harvard Business School, Harvard University
- 990147147710203941
- Title
- John Erving journal, 1733-1745 (inclusive)
- Creator / Contributor
- Erving, John, 1690-1787, creator
- Place of Origin
- Massachusetts
- Description
- Journal of Boston merchant John Erving (1690-1787), recording transactions related to voyages to Amsterdam, London, and the West Indies, and general store sales, dated 1733-1745. Erving traded commodities like dry goods, oil, deerskins, firearms, powder, rum, rice, raisins, salt, sugar, molasses, lumber, and paper. In some cases, the method of payment to Erving is specified: Elizabeth Blair balanced her account in March 1742 by "making colors for sundry vessels." Other names in the volume include cooper Jeremiah Wheelwright, shopkeepers Huldiah Gross, Love Rawlings, and Alice Quick (approximately 1687-1761), merchants Charles Apthorp, Edward Bromfield, Thomas Cushing, and Joseph Lee, bookbinder Samuel Eliot, shipwright Samuel Clarke, Sr., printer Thomas Fleet, mathematical instruments maker James Halsey, bookseller Daniel Henchman, and Captain Andrew Craigie of Boston, as well as sail maker William Wyer and merchant Robert Pringle of Charleston, South Carolina. There are also accounts against a new meeting house in northwest Boston, and a new work house located on Boston Common. In March 1742, there is a records of payment to Samuel Clarke for a ship he agreed to build for Erving; and an account against a Quaker merchant, James Hawdan, for nails. A July 1742 entry for Anne Wroe & Co. lists dry goods purchased from Erving. In August 1742 Love Rawlings was charged for her half of dry goods supplied by Erving, and the other half was billed to her business partner Johanna Thomas. The volume additionally contains wages for tradesmen, sailors, and day labor, including the hire of an enslaved man, on ships like the the sloop Sarah, which voyaged to Jamaica in 1742/3; a December 1742 account lists amounts owed to sail maker Newman Greenough, brewer Sampson Salter, tallow chandler Mary Hamilton, and James Halsey, as well as Boston physician Silvester Gardiner (1708-1786), who provided two "doctor's boxes." In April 1744 a voyage of Erving's brig Yucatan carried skins and wood to Amsterdam, where the cargo was consigned to the merchant partnership of the widow of Albertus Hodshon and her son John. A November 1745 account against His Majesty's ship Wager includes bills for outfitting the vessel. There are also records of business and personal expenses of Erving like purchases of coal and rent of a warehouse, and in February 1742/43, a rug for son Henry and "a large wool bed flock tick" for two boys he enslaved.
- Extent
- .25 linear feet (1 volume)
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Journals (accounts).
- Digital Format
- Books and documents
- Subjects
- Erving, John
Barter accounting
Dry-goods
Commerce--Massachusetts--Boston
Export marketing--Massachusetts
General stores--Massachusetts--Boston
Shipping--Massachusetts
Shipping--West Indies
Shipbuilding--Massachusetts
Slaveholders--Massachusetts
Slavery--Massachusetts--History--18th century
Women merchants
Women--Economic conditions
Businesswomen--Massachusetts--Boston
Boston (Mass.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 - Notes
- See also: Manuscripts in Baker Library (4th ed., 1978), Entry 564.
Electronic finding aid available: http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/bak00701/catalog - Biographical / Historical Note
- John Erving (1690-1787) was a merchant and shipowner in Boston, Massachusetts, who emigrated from Scotland in around 1706. He married Abigail Phillips in 1720, and their children included John Erving (1728-1816; Harvard AB 1747) and George Erving (1738-1806; Harvard AB 1757), who also became merchants in Boston.
- Cite As
- John Erving Journal. Baker Library, Harvard Business School.
- Series
- Colonial North American Project at Harvard University
- Repository
- Baker Library, Harvard Business School, Harvard University
- Record ID
- 990147147710203941
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