1.   Historical note

2.   Scope and content

3.   Provenance

4.   Processing note

5.   Inventory

6.   Subjects


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 E. & C. Greene Records

 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.


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Scope and content:


            These records consist of financial accounts of the mercantile partnership of E. & C. Greene from 1786 to 1830.


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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.


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Processing note:



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Inventory:


Oversized volumes:

 

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



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Subjects:



Catey (sloop)

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



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