Series III. John Rogers Hudson (1784-1831) Papers consist of shipping, business, personal, and military papers. Subseries A. Shipping Papers containing ships' papers and correspondence, documents the cargos John consigned on vessels voyaging to Europe, India, the East and West Indies, and coastal United States ports. (See Appendix I for a list of these vessels.) Subseries B. Business and Personal Papers contains letters from his brother Henry (b. 1787) regarding their subscription bookselling partnership, correspondence with the Balch family, and letters relative to the Mechanics Bank, where John was employed as a cashier. Also included are meeting minutes and correspondence generated by John's involvement in the Newburyport Academy and the First Religious Society. Letters for John from his mother, Anna (Rogers) Hudson, may be found in Box 8 Folder 8. The financial papers include personal accounts, bookselling subscription books, notes and stock of the Mechanics Bank, and accounts of the Newburyport Academy and the First Religious Society. John's military papers document his membership in the Washington Light Infantry Company and his activities as adjutant of the Massachusetts Militia 6th Regiment 2nd Brigade 2nd Division. These papers include notices, correspondence, accounts, and memorials regarding the disbanding of the Regiment in 1817. Also of interest are lists of warrant officers, commissioned officers, guards on Plum Island, and substitutes for drafted men. Of note in the miscellaneous papers are copied religious correspondence of John Q. Adams, a memorandum book of sermons preached in 1797, and the will of Rowley, Massachusetts, resident, Anna Hunter, of whose estate John was executor.