3. Provenance 5. Inventory 6. Subjects |
Merchants of Warwick, Rhode Island Records, 1786-1830 Size: 2.5 linear feet Catalog number: MSS 459 Processed by: Harold Kemble ca. 1985 Finding aid by Lori Salotto, November 1999 ©Rhode Island Historical Society Manuscripts Division |
Historical note:
Elihu (1746-1827) and Christopher Greene (1748-1830) were born in Potowomut Neck, Warwick, Rhode Island to Nathanael (1707-1768) and Mary (Mott) Greene (1708-1753). Elihu married Jane Flagg (1757-1782) on December 5, 1775 and they had four children. Christopher was married twice and had ten children. He married his first wife, Catharine Ward (1752-1781) on December 23, 1773 and after her death married her sister, Deborah Ward (1758-1835), on May 12, 1782.
Elihu and Christopher were both involved in the family's iron forge at Potowomut and had a mercantile partnership ( E. &C. Greene). Their close relationship is reflected in the name of one their sloops, Two Brothers. Their partnership began circa 1786 and they conducted business locally, as well as up and down the east coast. They shipped iron iron products (especially anchors), staple goods, produce, milling of grain, shoe repair and sales, wool spinning, medicine and alcohol. Though Elihu died in 1827, it appears that Christopher kept the business going until his death in 1830.
Bibliography:
Clarke, Louise Brownell. The Greenes of Rhode Island with Historical Records of English Ancestry, 127-128 and 210-211. New York, 1903.
Scope and content:
These records consist of financial accounts of the mercantile partnership of E. & C. Greene from 1786 to 1830.
Provenance:
These records are believed to have arrived as part of the "Albert C. and Richard W. Greene Collection." The actual date of the accession is not known for sure, but the collection was in hand by the late 1940s. Therefore, the date of 1948 was assigned to the collection.
Processing note:
Inventory:
Volume 1. Blotter, 1803-1807
Volume 2. Day book, 1786-1792, missing pp. 1-60, 77-155, 174-178
Volume 3. Day book, 1792-1799
Volume 4. Day book, 1807-1810
Volume 5. Day book, 1810-1816
Volume 6. Day book, 1816-1819
Volume 7. Day book, 1819-1827
Volume 8. Journal, 1798-1801
Volume 9. Labor book, 1826-1829
Volume 10. Ledger, 1786-1792, index on p. 61
Volume 11. Ledger, 1788-1796, incomplete index at rear, missing pp. 61-78
Volume 12. Ledger, 1800-1803
Volume 13. Ledger, 1803-1816
Volume 14. Ledger, 1816-1828
Box 1, folder 1. Account book for the schooner Mary, 1799-1800
Box 1, folder 2. Account book for Mary Gardner, 1792-1799
Box 1, folder 3. Account book for the Rhode Island Central Bank, 1807-1818, also includes a labor record, 1822-1825
Box 1, folder 4. Accounts, 1779
Box 1, folder 5. Accounts, 1780-1784
Box 1, folder 6. Accounts, 1785-1789
Box 1, folder 7. Accounts, 1790-1794
Box 1, folder 8. Accounts, 1795-1799
Box 1, folder 9. Accounts, 1800-1804
Box 1, folder 10. Accounts, 1805-1809
Box 1, folder 11. Accounts, 1810-1814
Box 1, folder 12. Letter copy book, 1811-1815
Box 1, folder 13. Accounts, 1815
Box 1, folder 14. Accounts, 1816
Box 1, folder 15. Accounts, 1817
Box 1, folder 16. Accounts, 1818
Box 1, folder 17. Accounts, 1819
Box 1, folder 18. Accounts, 1820
Box 1, folder 19. Accounts, 1821
Box 1, folder 20. Accounts, 1822
Box 1, folder 21. Accounts, 1823
Box 1, folder 22. Accounts, 1824
Box 1, folder 23. Accounts, 1825
Box 1, folder 24. Accounts, 1826
Box 1, folder 25. Accounts, 1827
Box 1, folder 26. Accounts, 1828
Box 1, folder 27. Accounts, 1830
Box 1, folder 28. Accounts, undated
Subjects:
Columbia (ship)
Greene, Elihu (1746-1827)
Greene, Christopher (1748-1830)
Levant (ship)
Mary (schooner)
Merchants - R.I. - Warwick
Milo (schooner)
United States - History - 1783-1865
End of finding aid - return to top
RIHS1822