Scope and Contents From the Series: Series VI. Family Papers, 1677-1897, contains material documenting four generations of the Barton family, members of the Marston and Webb families, and miscellaneous papers. Among the papers of Barton family members are wills, legal and financial papers of Thomas Barton (1680-1751), his wife Mary (Willoughby), and their son John (1711-1774). Of note in Margaret (Gardner) Barton’s papers is a 1798 letter from Nathaniel West commenting on his partnership with her son Samuel (1767-1795), and a...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series VI. Family Papers, 1677-1897, contains material documenting four generations of the Barton family, members of the Marston and Webb families, and miscellaneous papers. Among the papers of Barton family members are wills, legal and financial papers of Thomas Barton (1680-1751), his wife Mary (Willoughby), and their son John (1711-1774). Of note in Margaret (Gardner) Barton’s papers is a 1798 letter from Nathaniel West commenting on his partnership with her son Samuel (1767-1795), and a...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series VI. Family Papers, 1677-1897, contains material documenting four generations of the Barton family, members of the Marston and Webb families, and miscellaneous papers. Among the papers of Barton family members are wills, legal and financial papers of Thomas Barton (1680-1751), his wife Mary (Willoughby), and their son John (1711-1774). Of note in Margaret (Gardner) Barton’s papers is a 1798 letter from Nathaniel West commenting on his partnership with her son Samuel (1767-1795), and a...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series VI. Family Papers, 1677-1897, contains material documenting four generations of the Barton family, members of the Marston and Webb families, and miscellaneous papers. Among the papers of Barton family members are wills, legal and financial papers of Thomas Barton (1680-1751), his wife Mary (Willoughby), and their son John (1711-1774). Of note in Margaret (Gardner) Barton’s papers is a 1798 letter from Nathaniel West commenting on his partnership with her son Samuel (1767-1795), and a...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series VI. Family Papers, 1677-1897, contains material documenting four generations of the Barton family, members of the Marston and Webb families, and miscellaneous papers. Among the papers of Barton family members are wills, legal and financial papers of Thomas Barton (1680-1751), his wife Mary (Willoughby), and their son John (1711-1774). Of note in Margaret (Gardner) Barton’s papers is a 1798 letter from Nathaniel West commenting on his partnership with her son Samuel (1767-1795), and a...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series VI. Family Papers, 1677-1897, contains material documenting four generations of the Barton family, members of the Marston and Webb families, and miscellaneous papers. Among the papers of Barton family members are wills, legal and financial papers of Thomas Barton (1680-1751), his wife Mary (Willoughby), and their son John (1711-1774). Of note in Margaret (Gardner) Barton’s papers is a 1798 letter from Nathaniel West commenting on his partnership with her son Samuel (1767-1795), and a...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series VI. Family Papers, 1677-1897, contains material documenting four generations of the Barton family, members of the Marston and Webb families, and miscellaneous papers. Among the papers of Barton family members are wills, legal and financial papers of Thomas Barton (1680-1751), his wife Mary (Willoughby), and their son John (1711-1774). Of note in Margaret (Gardner) Barton’s papers is a 1798 letter from Nathaniel West commenting on his partnership with her son Samuel (1767-1795), and a...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series VI. Family Papers, 1677-1897, contains material documenting four generations of the Barton family, members of the Marston and Webb families, and miscellaneous papers. Among the papers of Barton family members are wills, legal and financial papers of Thomas Barton (1680-1751), his wife Mary (Willoughby), and their son John (1711-1774). Of note in Margaret (Gardner) Barton’s papers is a 1798 letter from Nathaniel West commenting on his partnership with her son Samuel (1767-1795), and a...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series VI. Family Papers, 1677-1897, contains material documenting four generations of the Barton family, members of the Marston and Webb families, and miscellaneous papers. Among the papers of Barton family members are wills, legal and financial papers of Thomas Barton (1680-1751), his wife Mary (Willoughby), and their son John (1711-1774). Of note in Margaret (Gardner) Barton’s papers is a 1798 letter from Nathaniel West commenting on his partnership with her son Samuel (1767-1795), and a...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series V. Samuel Barton (1804-1840) Papers, 1819-1840, are comprised of ships’ papers, merchant correspondence and accounts, and personal papers. Among the ships’ papers, arranged alphabetically by vessel, are records of a large number of ships owned by Gideon Tucker, and Joseph and Joseph A. Peabody. Of interest are papers of the brig Leander and brig Roque, vessels which carried opium from Turkey and China circa 1819-1826. Of special note are Samuel’s extraordinarily complete supercargo’s...