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- Variations in title: Also known as the Richard Derby Ledger
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Microfilmed 1991 (originally created 1757-1790) (Creation)
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- Derby, Richard
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1 microfilm reel
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Richard Derby (1712-1783) was the wealthiest merchant in Salem, Massachusetts, during the middle decades of the eighteenth century. He owned numerous sloops, schooners, and brigantines, which he employed in the cod fisheries and in overseas trading voyages to Southern Europe and the West Indies
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The microfilmed ledger is volume 1 of the Derby family papers, an extensive collection of business records and family materials belonging to the James Duncan Phillips Library, Peabody-Essex Museum in Salem.
The ledger records Richard Derby's debits and credits with other merchants, as well as with mariners, fishermen, shoremen, artisans, farmers, and widows from Salem and surrounding towns for the years 1757-76 and 1786-90. There is also a copy of Derby's will, dated 1783.
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Purchased from the Essex Institute in 1992.
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Original material held at the Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts.
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There are no restrictions on access to the ledger.
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Copyright is held by the Essex Institute. The ledger may not be duplicated or quoted without written permission from the Essex Institute.
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Created - April 29, 2013
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- English