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- catalog abstract "Chiefly business correspondence of Thomas Melvill or his son Thomas. Includes letters and documents reflecting the elder Melvill's position as naval officer; correspondence between father and son concerning the latter's commercial ventures in Europe; letters about the farm at Pittsfield; and papers pertaining to legal matters such as the lawsuit of Melvill heirs to recover some French property to which they had a claim by marriage, material concerning the seizure of cargo of the sloop Falmouth in 1789, and letters to or from Lemuel Shaw, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts (1830-1860). Also contains accounts, receipts, promissory notes, insurance policies and other business papers.".
- catalog contributor b751835.
- catalog contributor b751836.
- catalog coverage "Europe Commerce.".
- catalog coverage "Massachusetts Politics and government 1775-1865.".
- catalog date "1787".
- catalog description "Chiefly business correspondence of Thomas Melvill or his son Thomas. Includes letters and documents reflecting the elder Melvill's position as naval officer; correspondence between father and son concerning the latter's commercial ventures in Europe; letters about the farm at Pittsfield; and papers pertaining to legal matters such as the lawsuit of Melvill heirs to recover some French property to which they had a claim by marriage, material concerning the seizure of cargo of the sloop Falmouth in 1789, and letters to or from Lemuel Shaw, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts (1830-1860). Also contains accounts, receipts, promissory notes, insurance policies and other business papers.".
- catalog description "Electronic finding aid available http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou01005".
- catalog description "Melville Family Papers, 1787-1863 (MS Am 1233). Houghton Library, Harvard University.".
- catalog description "The Melville family (or Melvill) of this collection were ancestors of the author Herman Melville. Thomas Melvill (1751-1832), Herman Melville's grandfather, was a merchant in Boston, participated in the Boston Tea Party, served as a Major in Crafts' Artillery Regiment during the Revolutionary War, was appointed Surveyor of the Port with the formation of the federal government, and after 1811 held the post of Naval Officer of the Port of Boston and Charlestown. Thomas Melvill, Junior (1776-1845), was a businessman in Europe from 1794 to 1811, chiefly in France, where he met and married his first wife. He served with the rank of Major in the War of 1812, settling in Pittsfield after the war to work the farm his father bought there in 1816. He moved to Galena, Illinois, in the 1830s.".
- catalog description "Unpublished printed finding aid available in the Houghton Accessions Records, 1949-1950, under *49M-288.".
- catalog extent "3 boxes (1.5 linear ft.)".
- catalog issued "1787".
- catalog language "Primarily in English, some letters and documents are in French.".
- catalog language "eng fre".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog spatial "Europe Commerce.".
- catalog spatial "France.".
- catalog spatial "Massachusetts Boston.".
- catalog spatial "Massachusetts Pittsfield.".
- catalog spatial "Massachusetts Politics and government 1775-1865.".
- catalog subject "Commerce.".
- catalog subject "Customs administration Massachusetts Boston.".
- catalog subject "Falmouth (Ship).".
- catalog subject "Farms Massachusetts Pittsfield.".
- catalog subject "Inheritance and succession France.".
- catalog subject "Melvill, Thomas, 1751-1832.".
- catalog subject "Melvill, Thomas, 1776-1845.".
- catalog subject "Melville family.".
- catalog subject "Seizure of vessels and cargoes.".
- catalog subject "Shipping.".
- catalog title "Melville family papers, 1787-1863.".
- catalog type "Accounts. aat".
- catalog type "Financial records. aat".
- catalog type "Insurance policies. aat".
- catalog type "Receipts. aat".
- catalog type "collection".