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Ingersoll, Joseph, (fl. 1781) [Accounts for Joseph Ingersoll]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01450.195.02 Author/Creator: Ingersoll, Joseph, (fl. 1781) Place Written: Newburyport, Massachusetts Type: Manuscript document signed Date: 7 Julyt 1781 - 23 July 1781 Pagination: 2 p. ; 19.5 x 16 cm. Order a Copy

Lists payments by "Joseph Ingresoll & Co." to various men. Each man signs attesting that he has recieved money from Ingersoll for various reasons. The payments include buying a number of ships at auction. The ships were the "sloop Bazil...Ship Elizabeth Snow Fly & sloop Marcia." The payments total near 30,000 pounds. The men signing are James Tileston, William Wyen, W. Scallon and Samuel Newhall. Also named in the document as being included in these accounts are Moses Little and Nathaneal Tracy. Not signed by Ingersoll. Ingersoll may be the same Jospeh Ingersoll who owned the famous "Bunch of Grapes" tavern in Boston and died in 1789.

Ingersoll, Joseph, fl. 1781
Little, Moses, 1724-1798
Tracy, Nathaniel, 1751-1796

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