1742-1894; bulk: 1794-1817
Guide to the Collection
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| Creator: | Lowell, Francis Cabot,
1775-1817 |
| Title: | Francis Cabot Lowell (1775-1817)
papers |
| Dates: | 1742-1894 |
| Bulk Dates: | 1794-1817 |
| Physical Description: | 9 document
boxes and 9 bound volumes |
| Call Number: | Ms. N-1602 |
| Repository: | Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215
library@masshist.org |
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Abstract:
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This collection consists of the papers of trader
and pioneer manufacturer Francis Cabot Lowell (1775-1817), including business
papers, account books, and correspondence.
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Born in Newburyport, Mass., on April 7, 1775, Francis Cabot Lowell was the
son of John Lowell II, a member of the Continental Congress and United States
judge for the district of Massachusetts, and his second wife, Susanna Cabot
Lowell. He entered Harvard in 1789 and, after being exiled to rural Bridgewater
as a disciplinary measure for lighting a bonfire in the college yard, graduated
with the class of 1793. He married Hannah Jackson, daughter of Jonathan Jackson
of Newburyport, in 1798.
Lowell joined the import-export firm of his uncle, William Cabot, in 1793.
In the ensuing 17 years, Lowell acquired a substantial fortune from the China,
India, and West Indies trades and from investments in land in Boston and Maine.
By 1810, however, Lowell's health had declined considerably, and he was forced
to seek rest and relaxation in England, Scotland, and France.
During his English sojourn, Lowell's mind remained fixed on business. He
studied the techniques of textile manufacturing and committed them to memory
for future application in America. Upon his return, Lowell and his
brother-in-law, Patrick Tracy Jackson, another wealthy trader, bought property
on the Charles River in Waltham, Mass., and there founded the Boston
Manufacturing Company.
Lowell and Jackson employed mechanical wizard Paul Moody of Amesbury, Mass.,
who, with Lowell, invented a number of time-saving devices, including a new
spinning mechanism which did away with the time-consuming process of winding.
Within the next few years, the company produced nearly 30 miles of cloth per
day and paid out dividends of 10% or more.
In the aftermath of the War of 1812, British manufacturers attempted to
flood the American textile market and undersell domestic goods. Lowell went to
Washington to obtain protection for the infant industry. Almost singlehandedly,
he convinced South Carolinian congressional powers William Lowndes and John C.
Calhoun to help, and the result was the incorporation of a substantial duty on
cotton cloth, otherwise known as the Tariff of 1816.
After 1815, the enormously successful Lowell laid plans for an industrial
city not far from commercial Boston to be run under a paternalistic system of
community housing, schools, and a church for the rural farm girls employed at
his mill. Ultimately, Lowell did not get to see his vision fulfilled with the
development of Lowell, Mass., and Manchester, N.H. After his wife died in 1815,
his own health continued to deteriorate. Lowell died in Boston at the age of 42
on August 10, 1817.
The papers of Francis Cabot Lowell span the years 1742 to 1894 and consist
of 9 boxes of loose manuscripts and 9 bound volumes of letterbooks and account
books. The collection is divided into two series: I. Loose manuscripts, and II.
Bound volumes. Subjects and events represented in the collection include:
Lowell's Harvard years, his travels in Great Britain and Europe, Boston social
life, economic conditions in the early 19th century, and trade during the War
of 1812. The collection contains a small but not insignificant amount of
material on Lowell's early manufacturing ventures. Family members prominently
represented in the papers are Charles Lowell, John Lowell III, Hannah Jackson
Lowell, Mary Jackson Lee, Charles Jackson, Patrick Tracy Jackson, William
Cabot, and Francis Cabot II. Other important correspondents include Samuel P.
Gardner, Elizabeth P. Gardner, Henry Lee, and Anne Grant.
The Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS) holds the following collections
related to the Francis Cabot Lowell (1775-1817) papers:
Patrick Tracy Jackson papers, 1766-1869. Ms. N-408 (Tall). Finding aid
available at:
http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0037.
Lowell family papers, 1728-1878. Ms. N-1513.
Francis Cabot Lowell (1803-1874) papers, 1788-1966. Ms. N-1603. Finding aid
available at:
http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0252.
John Lowell papers, 1808-1851. Ms. N-1605.
Gift of Harriet Ropes Cabot, Aug. 1978.
The collection is organized into the following series:
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| I. Loose manuscripts, 1742-1879 |
| II. Bound volumes, 1797-1894 |
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| Box | Contents |
| I. Loose manuscripts,
1742-1879
Arranged chronologically.This series consists of business papers, correspondence, receipts, and other
papers. Box 1 contains undated business papers and a collection of early family
deeds and other legal documents, 1742-1787, as well as manuscripts relating to
Lowell's Harvard career, 1789-1793. Among the more significant items in Box 1
are a journal and correspondence of the "Marti-Mercurian Band," a group to
which Lowell belonged which sought to establish a military company at Harvard;
Lowell's college debate notes on such matters as "whether it be morally right
for the government to do wrong"; a memoir of college life by Charles Jackson;
and correspondence between Lowell and his brother John Lowell III, his sister
Anna Cabot Lowell, and his stepmother Rebecca Russell Tyng Lowell during his
disciplinary stay with Reverend Zedekiah Sanger in Bridgewater, 1793.
Boxes 2-9 contain a mixture of family and business correspondence,
contracts, bills, and receipts. Lowell's correspondence is almost exclusively
concerned with his business ventures--Cabot shipping trade, the New England
Bank, real estate on Broad Street and India Wharf in Boston--but relatively
little relates to the operation of Boston Manufacturing Company. Prominent
business correspondents include William Cabot, Uriah Cotting, Warren Dutton,
Samuel P. Gardner, Charles Jackson, Patrick Tracy Jackson, Nathaniel Cabot Lee,
James Lloyd, Jr., Peter Remsen, and James Russell. Other individuals
represented are Charles Bulfinch, Samuel Cabot, Harrison Gray Otis, and Timothy
Pickering. This series also contains a list of Suffolk County deeds, 1802-1809
(Box 6, Folder 10), and a modest collection of papers relating to the Lowell
estate (Box 9).
Family correspondents include: Anna Cabot Lowell (1768-1810), Charles Lowell
(1782-1861), Hannah Jackson Lowell (d. 1815), John Lowell II (1743-1802), John
Lowell III (1769-1840), Rebecca R. T. Lowell (d. 1816), and Mary Jackson Lee
(1783-1860). Letters written to Lowell by his brother John Lowell III from
England and Europe, 1804-1806 (Boxes 4-5), describe foreign capitals and
artifacts and contain occasional glimpses of European politics in the
Napoleonic Era. Francis Cabot Lowell's letters from abroad to family and
friends, 1810-1811 (Box 6), primarily discuss business matters.
Boxes 5-7 contain Hannah Jackson Lowell's correspondence with sister Mary
Jackson Lee (wife of Henry Lee, another important Boston commercial trader),
Scottish author Anne Grant (1775-1838), Janet Wilson, and other members of the
Wilson family. This correspondence occasionally touches on the role of women in
19th-century intellectual life, but primarily deals with family and personal
concerns, such as the growth and well-being of sons Edward Jackson Lowell
(1807-1830), Francis Cabot Lowell II (1803-1874), and John Lowell IV
(1799-1836).
For an alphabetical list of select individuals,
events, and subjects of significance which appear in this series, as well as
their box and folder locations, see the
Select Index.
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| Box 1 | | 1742-1793 |
| Box 2 | | 1794-1798 |
| Box 3 | | 1799-1803 |
| Box 4 | | 1804-June 1805 |
| Box 5 | | July 1805-1809 |
| Box 6 | | 1810-1811 |
| Box 7 | | 1812-1814 |
| Box 8 | | 1815-1816 |
| Box 9 | | 1817-1879, including newspaper clippings (Folder
5) |
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| Volume | Contents |
| II. Bound volumes,
1797-1894 |
| Vol. 1 | | Letterbook of business correspondence,
1797-1799 |
| Vol. 2 | | Letterbook of business correspondence,
25 July 1797-10 Aug. 1802 |
| Vol. 3 | | Letterbook of business correspondence,
13 Aug. 1802-25 Aug. 1806 |
| Vol. 4 | | Letterbook of business correspondence,
30 Aug. 1806-22 July 1815 |
| Vol. 5 | | Letterbook containing letters of Samuel P. Gardner to Lowell,
1810-1811 |
| Vol. 6 | | Account book of Samuel P. Gardner concerning Lowell's estate,
1817-1830 |
| Vol. 7 | | Account book of Wheeler's Point Wharf Estate,
1807-1808 |
| Vol. 8 | | "An Abridgement of Church History," by Janet Wilson, with notes on
the history of the Christian church,
1812 |
| Vol. 9 | | Scrapbook of playbills and programs of Boston theatrical
productions, author unknown,
1852-1894 |
Listed below are the names of select individuals, events, and subjects of
significance which appear in Series I, Loose manuscripts (Boxes 1-9). The
numbers following each item indicate the box(es) and folder(s) where
information about that item is located. For example, information about
Nathaniel Adams can be found in Box 8, Folders 10 and 16, etc.
| Adams, Nathaniel, 8.10, 8.16, 9.3, 9.10-12, 9.15 |
| Adams, Samuel, 3.7 |
| Addington, Henry, first Viscount Sidmouth, 4.3 |
| Alert, ship, 4.4 |
| Alexander I, Tsar (Russia), 5.6 |
| Allen, William, Jr., 7.18, 7.20-21, 8.1-4, 8.6-7, 8.10, 8.15, 9.2,
9.6-13 |
| Allston, Washington, 5.17 |
| Ames, Fisher, 3.8, 3.12 |
| Amory, John, 3.12-13 |
| Amory, Rufus, 4.7 |
| Amory, Thomas C., 3.5-6, 4.4 |
| Amsterdam, 3.8, 3.11, 3.13-14, 4.1, 4.5 |
| Antwerp, 3.12, 3.14, 4.4 |
| Appleton, Nathan, 8.14 |
| Appleton, William, 3.7, 5.5 |
| Apthorp, John T., 3.9, 5.9, 9.9 |
| Ashton, Jacob, 3.5, 4.4, 4.8 |
| Austerlitz, Battle of (Dec. 1805), 5.6 |
| Austria, 5.4-6 |
| Barker, James, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.5-6 |
| Barnard, John, 8.14, 9.12 |
| Berkeley, George Cranfield, British admiral, 4.3 |
| Betsy, ship, 3.12, 5.2 |
| Bigelow, Henry, 4.10, 4.14 |
| Binney, Amos, 5.5 |
| Bonaparte, Napoleon, 2.11, 5.4-6, 6.16 |
| Bond, Thomas, 8.16, 9.4, 9.6-8, 9.10-13 |
| Boott, Kirk, 8.4 |
| Bordeaux, 3.14, 4.4-5 |
| Boston & Worcester Railroad Corporation, 9.17 |
| Boston Manufacturing Company, 1.1, 7.21, 8.1-2, 8.4, 8.6-7, 8.9-12,
8.15-16, 9.1-4 |
| Boston Marine Insurance Company, 3.5-9, 3.11, 4.13, 5.8, 9.7 |
| Boyden, Seth, 7.19 |
| Boylston, Ward Nicholas, 5.18 |
| Bradbury, Charles, 3.11, 9.2, 9.7, 9.11 |
| Bradford, Gamaliel, 4.1 |
| Bridgewater, Mass., 1.13 |
| Brigham, Benajah, 3.15, 5.7, 9.8 |
| Bright, Moses, 8.15-16, 9.3 |
| British Spoliations, Commission on (1796-1800), 3.9 |
| Broad Street Association (Boston), 4.12, 4.14, 5.1-4, 5.6-7, 5.9, 5.18,
6.10 |
| Bromfield, Ann, 5.1, 5.13, 6.5, 6.8, 6.11 |
| Bromfield, John, 4.10, 4.12, 4.15, 6.5 |
| Brooks, Peter C., 3.5 |
| Brown, John C., 9.2, 9.6 |
| Brutus, ship, 4.4 |
| Bulfinch, Charles, 3.11-12, 3.5, 4.13-14, 5.5, 5.9 |
| Burdett, Sir Francis, British politician, 4.3 |
| Cabot, Andrew, 3.10, 3.12, 4.3, 4.5, 5.6, 5.10 |
| Cabot, Elizabeth, 1.8 |
| Cabot, Francis, 1.6-10, 2.6, 3.4, 5.11, 5.13, 6.5 |
| Cabot, Frederick, 5.13, 8.5 |
| Cabot, George, 2.12, 5.10, 9.7 |
| Cabot, John, 1.6 |
| Cabot, John Higginson, 5.13, 6.5, 8.2 |
| Cabot, Sam, 4.13, 5.8 |
| Cabot, Samuel, 3.2, 3.9 |
| Cabot, Sebastian, 5.5 |
| Cabot, William, 1.4, 1.8-10, 1.14, 2.1, 2.5-7, 2.9-11, 3.4-5, 3.7-8,
3.10-11, 3.14, 5.1-3, 5.6-7, 5.10, 5.15, 6.1, 6.3-5, 6.7, 6.12, 7.1, 8.1, 8.5,
8.9-10, 8.12, 8.14, 8.16, 9.3, 9.17 |
| Calcutta, 4.4 |
| Cambridge University (England), 1.2 |
| Campbell, Archibald Montgomery, 4.13 |
| Canton, ship, 9.6-7 |
| Caravan, brig, 3.11 |
| Caroline, ship, 3.3, 3.5-6 |
| Carpenter, ship, 4.13 |
| Central Wharf and Wet Dock Corporation (Boston), 8.3, 8.5, 8.7-8,
8.10-16 |
| Chamberlain, John C., 1.10, 1.13-14, 2.2 |
| Chantrey (Sir Francis Legatt), British painter and sculptor,
5.17 |
| China, 4.5, 8.14, 9.6 |
| Cochran, William, 8.6, 8.9, 8.16, 9.6-7 |
| Codman, Richard, 2.10 |
| Codman, William, 2.10, 3.10 |
| Columbia, ship, 3.6 |
| Columbian Sentinel, 6.1, 8.4, 8.9 |
| Columbine, ship, 4.4 |
| Coolidge, Cornelius, 3.11 |
| Corry, Isaac, Irish politician, 4.3 |
| Cotting, Uriah, 1.3, 3.10-12, 3.15, 4.1-2, 4.4, 4.7-11, 4.14-15, 5.2,
5.5, 5.7-12, 5.14-18, 6.1-5, 6.8, 6.10, 6.13, 8.4, 8.6, 8.13-14, 9.4,
9.19 |
| Cotton manufacturing, 1.1, 7.14, 7.19, 7.21, 8.1-2, 8.4, 8.6-7, 8.9-12,
8.15-16, 9.1-4 |
| Courier, schooner, 3.7 |
| Cremer, Thomas & Adrian, 3.12, 4.10, 5.2, 5.6 |
| Crowninshield, Jacob, 4.13 |
| Cyrus, ship, 3.6 |
| Dana, Francis, Jr., 3.6 |
| Davis, Isaac P., 4.5, 5.2, 5.12, 5.14, 6.1-2, 6.5, 6.10, 7.10,
9.4 |
| Davis, Thomas, 1.1, 3.5-9, 3.11 |
| Day, Ramduloll, 3.4, 4.3, 5.2 |
| Deblois, Stephen, 8.1, 8.6, 8.8-9, 9.13 |
| Democratic Party, 5.12 |
| Derby, Elias H., Jr., 2.6 |
| Derby, ship, 5.12 |
| Dexter, Samuel, 5.11 |
| Dutton, Elizabeth C., 5.12, 6.11, 7.19, 9.7 |
| Dutton, Warren, 6.6, 6.15, 7.10, 7.19, 7.21, 8.11, 9.4, 9.7, 9.10-11,
9.14, 9.17 |
| Dwight, Edward, 8.11 |
| Edinburgh, 6.7, 7.7 |
| Eliot, Samuel, 8.4, 8.7, 8.9, 8.13 |
| Eliza, ship, 3.12, 4.3-5 |
| Ellis, Caleb, 5.6, 5.10 |
| Embargo, 5.10, 7.18 |
| England, 3.14, 4.1, 4.10, 6.6-7, 6.15-18, 7.1-2, 7.7-10 |
| Essex, ship, 3.12 |
| Essex Fire and Marine Insurance Company, 4.4-5 |
| Eunice, brig, 4.3 |
| Farrar, Timothy, 4.9 |
| First Church & Parish (Charlestown, Mass.), 9.7 |
| Fort Hill (Boston), 5.1, 5.8, 5.10, 6.10, 7.10 |
| France, 1.1, 2.2-4, 2.6, 2.11, 4.1, 4.5-6, 4.11-13, 5.2-6 |
| Francis I, Emperor (Austria), 5.6 |
| Francis, Ebenezer, 5.18, 6.1, 6.3, 8.2, 8.4-5, 8.7, 8.14, 9.13 |
| Frothingham, Ebenezer, 7.10, 7.15 |
| Gardner, Elizabeth Pickering, 5.10, 7.6, 8.2, 8.8, 8.10, 9.12-16 |
| Gardner, John Lowell, 7.10-11 |
| Gardner, Mary Lowell, 7.10-11, 8.2, 8.10, 9.13, 9.15-16 |
| Gardner, Rebecca Russell, 3.12, 4.10, 6.9, 6.11, 6.14-15, 8.14, 9.7,
9.16 |
| Gardner, Samuel P., 1.3, 2.7, 3.1, 3.4, 3.6, 3.12, 4.6, 4.10, 4.14,
5.18, 6.4-9, 6.11-17, 7.4, 9.3-4, 9.6-11, 9.13-15, 9.17 |
| Gardner, Sarah Russell, 9.13 |
| Ghent, Peace of (1815), 8.12 |
| Goddard, Nathaniel, 7.13-15 |
| Goodwin, Ozias, 4.11 |
| Gore, Christopher, 7.17-9.3 |
| Gorham, Benjamin, 6.5, 6.12, 9.7, 9.10-12, 9.17 |
| Gorham, Susanna Cabot Lowell, 1.14, 3.10, 3.12, 4.10, 5.12, 6.9 |
| Gov. Gilman, ship, 4.4 |
| Gracie, Archibald, 7.13 |
| Grant, Anne, 6.7-8, 6.11-16, 6.18, 7.1-2, 7.5-7, 7.10-12, 9.17 |
| Grant, Mary, 6.13 |
| Hallowell and Augusta Bank, 9.3, 9.7 |
| Hamburg, Germany, 5.4 |
| Hammatt, Benjamin, Jr., 3.1, 3.3, 4.14 |
| Hancock, John, 1.10, 1.14, 4.4, 4.10-11 |
| Hannah, brig, 3.1 |
| Harvard, 1.10-14, 4.11-12, 5.18, 6.1, 6.9, 8.4, 8.8 |
| Hastings, Jonathan, 4.9, 5.1, 5.3, 5.9 |
| Hero, sloop, 4.8 |
| Higginson, Henry, 6.17-18, 7.7, 9.6 |
| Higginson, John, 2.3 |
| Higginson, Stephen, 2.5 |
| Hinckley, David, 6.1, 7.14, 8.3 |
| Hinckley, Isaac, 9.2, 9.6, 9.7 |
| Hindu, brig, 9.6, 9.9 |
| Holland, 4.4 |
| Hottinguer & Company, 3.9, 3.11, 4.4, 4.6 |
| Hunt, Samuel, 2.4, 2.6, 9.18 |
| India, 3.4, 3.14, 4.3, 5.2, 6.15, 8.14, 9.6 |
| India Packet, ship, 3.12 |
| India Wharf (Boston), 4.7, 4.12-15, 5.3, 5.5-7, 5.10, 5.14, 5.16, 5.17,
6.10 |
| Industry, ship, 5.2 |
| Italy, 4.8 |
| Jackson, Charles, 1.4, 1.10-11, 1.14, 2.5-12, 3.1, 3.6, 3.14, 4.1, 4.13,
5.2, 5.7, 5.9-10, 5.12, 5.13, 6.5, 7.6, 7.18, 8.1, 8.15-16, 9.1-2, 9.4, 9.6-12,
9.14, 9.17 |
| Jackson, Henry, 1.3, 3.6, 3.11, 3.14-15, 4.2, 4.5, 4.7, 4.9, 4.11,
4.14-15, 5.1, 5.4-6, 5.9-10, 6.1, 6.8, 6.10, 7.6, 8.1 |
| Jackson, James, 2.12, 4.8, 5.3, 5.14, 6.1, 6.6, 6.12, 6.15, 7.6, 8.11,
8.15, 9.2, 9.4, 9.6 |
| Jackson, Jonathan, 3.14, 4.1, 7.6 |
| Jackson, Patrick Tracy, 4.7, 4.10-13, 5.2, 5.12, 5.14, 6.3-5, 6.9-18,
7.1-2, 7.6, 7.14-15, 7.19-20, 8.2, 8.4-10, 8.12, 8.16, 9.2-9, 9.11, 9.13-15,
9.17 |
| James McInlay, schooner, 9.5 |
| Jones, Thomas K., 3.5, 3.6, 4.15, 5.1 |
| Kennebec Purchase, 3.12, 5.3, 5.7, 5.17 |
| Lee, Francis, 5.18, 6.2, 6.5 |
| Lee, Henry, 4.4-5, 4.8, 5.11, 5.14, 5.18, 6.3, 6.12, 6.17, 8.5,
9.5 |
| Lee, Joseph, 2.8, 2.12, 3.3, 3.4-5, 3.7 |
| Lee, Joseph, Jr., 2.11, 3.1, 3.3, 3.5-6, 4.2, 4.13, 4.15, 5.16,
6.10 |
| Lee, Mary Jackson, 5.13, 6.6-7, 6.11-13, 6.16, 7.2, 7.6 |
| Lee, Nathaniel Cabot, 2.5-12, 3.1, 3.3-14, 4.1-5, 4.7-8, 4.10-13, 4.15,
5.1-4, 5.6-7, 5.12-14, 5.17-18, 6.5 |
| Lee, Thomas, Jr., 4.4, 4.8, 4.10-13, 5.6, 9.4 |
| Leghorn, Italy, 5.8 |
| Lincoln, Benjamin, 6.14 |
| Lincoln, Levi, 4.13 |
| Little Belt Affair (1811), 6.14 |
| Little James, brig, 4.15, 5.1 |
| Lively, schooner, 4.9, 4.11, 4.14 |
| Liverpool, 4.3, 7.7 |
| Livingston, Robert R., 4.5 |
| Lloyd, James, Jr., 4.7, 4.10-11, 4.13, 4.15, 5.1-2, 5.4-5, 5.8-9,
5.11-12, 5.14-15, 6.1, 6.5, 6.9-10 |
| London, 4.3 |
| Louisiana, 4.5 |
| Lovering, Joseph, 3.1, 4.1, 4.10, 4.15, 5.5 |
| Lovering, William, Jr., 4.10, 5.9, 7.12 |
| Lowell, Anna Cabot, 1.14, 2.5, 2.10, 3.12, 4.10, 6.9, 6.11-12 |
| Lowell, Charles, 1.14, 2.5, 3.12, 4.3-4, 4.6, 4.8, 4.10, 4.15, 5.3, 5.9,
5.13, 6.8, 6.10, 6.12, 7.3, 8.14, 9.3, 9.7-8 |
| Lowell, Edward Jackson, 1.5, 6.18, 7.1-5, 7.7, 8.3, 8.6, 8.12-13, 9.14,
9.17, 9.19 |
| Lowell, Elizabeth Cutts, 3.9, 3.10, 3.12, 4.10 |
| Lowell, Francis Cabot II, 6.18, 7.1-5, 7.7, 8.3, 8.6, 8.13,
9.17-19 |
| Lowell, Hannah Jackson (Mrs. Francis Cabot Lowell), 2.11, 5.8, 5.10,
5.12-13, 6.6-7, 6.9, 6.11-18, 7.1-12, 7.17-19 |
| Lowell, John II, 1.2-4, 1.8-10, 1.13, 2.1-2, 2.11, 3.9-10 |
| Lowell, John III, 1.3, 1.13, 2.4-5, 3.10, 3.12, 3.14, 4.1, 4.3, 4.6-15,
5.1-6, 5.9, 5.13, 6.3, 7.15, 8.11, 8.14, 9.4, 9.6-7, 9.14, 9.15 |
| Lowell, John IV, 8.8, 9.14 |
| Lowell, John A., 9.17 |
| Lowell, Rebecca Russell Tyng, 1.14, 2.3, 3.10, 3.12-13, 4.1, 4.3, 4.6-7,
4.10, 5.1, 5.9, 5.14, 6.5-6, 6.11-12, 6.15, 7.1, 8.14, 8.15, 9.2-3, 9.7,
9.17 |
| Lowell, Samuel, 7.7, 8.5, 8.10, 9.3 |
| Lowell, Sarah Champney, 3.9-10, 4.10, 6.11, 8.14, 9.7 |
| Lowell, Susan C., 6.7, 9.14, 9.17 |
| Lowell, Susanna Cabot, 1.14, 3.10, 3.12, 4.10 |
| Luce, Daniel, 5.11, 5.13, 6.12, 7.7 |
| Lyman, Theodore, 7.7, 7.16-17 |
| Mackay, Mungo, 3.7, 5.1, 6.10 |
| Madison, James, 3.9 |
| Makepeace, Royal, 4.5, 6.3, 6.9, 6.15-16, 8.11-12 |
| Mandarin, ship, 4.8 |
| Manila, 5.10 |
| Marcellus, ship, 8.14, 9.1, 9.4-5, 9.7,
9.9 |
| Mason, Jeremiah, 2.9, 6.5 |
| Massachusetts File Manufacturing Company, 7.19-20, 9.4 |
| Massachusetts Fire and Marine Insurance Company, 3.2, 3.10, 4.2-3,
4.5 |
| Massachusetts General Hospital, 9.2 |
| Merchants Bank (New York), 7.22 |
| Milton, schooner, 2.11 |
| Minerva, ship, 3.9 |
| Monroe, James, 4.13 |
| Moody, Paul, 8.7 |
| Naples, 4.8 |
| Nelson, Horatio, British naval hero, 2.11 |
| Neutrality, brig, 3.8 |
| New England Bank, 1.1, 7.10-11, 7.13-16, 8.11 |
| New-England Marine Insurance Company, 4.5, 4.11 |
| New England Palladium, 9.5 |
| New South Meeting-House Society (Boston), 4.14, 6.2 |
| Non-Intercourse Act (1809), 6.11 |
| Oliver, William, 2.7, 3.1-3 |
| Otis, Harrison Gray, 4.11, 4.15, 5.1, 5.4, 5.8, 5.11, 6.10, 8.8,
8.14 |
| Otis, Sally Foster, 5.8 |
| Oxnard, Henry, 8.14, 9.1, 9.4-5, 9.7, 9.9 |
| Packet, ship, 5.5 |
| Parkman, Samuel, Jr., 8.16 |
| Peck, William D., 7.7 |
| Pemberton, John, 4.10, 4.12, 4.15 |
| Perkins, J & T. H., 7.13 |
| Perkins, Thomas H., 7.13, 9.2 |
| Perseverance, ship, 3.2 |
| Phillips Academy (Andover, Mass.), 1.10, 8.3, 8.6, 8.13, 8.15 |
| Pickman, Benjamin, Jr., 3.1, 4.9-10, 5.2, 7.10 |
| Pilgrim, ship, 4.11 |
| Pinckney, Charles, 4.5 |
| Pitt, William, British statesman, 4.3 |
| Polly, ship, 3.6 |
| Popham, Sir Home Riggs, British rear-admiral, 4.3 |
| Preble, Eben, 2.9, 3.3-6, 6.10 |
| Preble, Edward, 4.8 |
| Prescott, William, 3.8 |
| Pressburg, Treaty of (1805), 5.6 |
| Quincy, Josiah, 4.12 |
| Rambler, brig, 4.15 |
| Remsen, Peter, 5.2-3, 5.13, 7.16-18, 8.2, 8.4, 8.8, 8.11, 9.5,
9.9 |
| Rich, Benjamin, 8.2, 8.4, 8.7 |
| Ripley, Ezra, 5.1, 5.2 |
| Rogers, Nathaniel L., 8.12, 9.1 |
| Rome, 4.10 |
| Ropes, Joseph, 1.6 |
| Rotterdam, 3.7, 3.13, 3.14, 4.1, 4.10, 5.3, 9.5 |
| Rouen, France, 3.11 |
| Roulstone's Riding School, 5.18 |
| Roxbury, Mass., 8.6 |
| Russell, Benjamin, 5.9, 6.1, 8.4, 8.9 |
| Russell, James, 2.4, 2.6, 2.12, 6.11, 6.16-17, 7.4, 7.6 |
| Russia, 5.4-6 |
| Ruthy, schooner, 3.7 |
| Salem Marine Insurance Company, 3.5, 4.4, 4.8, 4.12 |
| Sally, schooner, 3.12, 4.2, 4.13,
5.2 |
| Sanger, Zedekiah, 1.13-14, 5.14 |
| Sargent, Charles L., 5.18, 6.1, 8.10 |
| Sargent, Epes, 3.12, 4.3-5, 4.8, 4.13, 5.3 |
| Scotland, 4.8, 5.18, 6.6-15, 7.1-2, 7.5-8, 7.10-12 |
| Sewall, Jonathan, 1.6 |
| Sewall, Stephen, 1.6 |
| Shaw, Robert Gould, 7.13 |
| Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, British writer, statesman, 4.3 |
| Siddons, Sarah, British actress, 6.14 |
| Silliman, Benjamin, 5.15 |
| Silsbee, Nathaniel, 2.1 |
| Soley, Hannah Louisa C., 9.17 |
| Soley, John, 9.13, 9.17 |
| Soley, Mary R., 9.17 |
| Soley, Rebecca Tyng, 9.17 |
| Somerset Place, 5.5 |
| Spartan, ship, 3.9 |
| Sprague, Matthew, 8.4-6, 8.8, 8.10, 8.13, 8.15 |
| Stewart, Dugald, Scottish philosopher, 6.9 |
| Stille, John, Jr., 1.3, 4.9-10 |
| Sturgis, William, 7.11 |
| Success, brig, 3.7 |
| Suffolk, ship, 9.6, 9.7 |
| Suffolk Bank, 9.12 |
| Suffolk Insurance Company, 3.12, 4.3-5, 4.8, 4.13, 5.3 |
| Swett, Benjamin, 4.5, 4.7, 4.11, 4.13-15, 15.1 |
| Tamerlane, ship, 3.8 |
| Tariff of 1816, 8.11 |
| Thomas Russel, ship, 3.6 |
| Thorndike, Augustus, 6.11 |
| Thorndike, Israel, 2.11, 3.12, 8.14 |
| Thwing, Mary, 4.11, 4.14-15, 5.1, 5.5 |
| Tracy, John, Jr., 4.11, 4.15, 5.5-6, 5.10, 7.12 |
| Tracy, Nathaniel, 5.18 |
| Traveller, brig, 3.5, 3.8 |
| Tucker, Alanson, 6.1, 8.9 |
| Tuckerman, Edward, 9.17 |
| Union, ship, 3.8 |
| Union Canal Lottery, 8.7-8 |
| Urania, ship, 4.12 |
| Vaughan, Charles, 2.12, 4.15, 5.2-3, 5.8, 5.11, 5.14, 5.16-17, 7.17,
7.22, 8.1, 8.3, 8.12, 9.8 |
| Vaughan, William Oliver, 8.2, 9.3, 9.7, 9.9 |
| Vesuvius, Mount, 4.8 |
| Victory, ship, 4.2 |
| War of the 3rd Coalition (1805), 5.4-6 |
| Washington, brig, 4.5 |
| Welles, Arnold, Jr., 3.2, 3.10, 4.2-3, 4.5 |
| Wendell, Oliver, 6.3, 6.10 |
| West, Peter, 1.1, 3.12, 4.2-3, 4.12, 5.5, 5.11, 5.13, 5.17, 5.18, 7.11,
7.13, 7.20, 8.2, 8.14, 8.15 |
| West-Boston Meeting House, 6.1-2, 7.22, 8.5, 8.7, 8.13, 8.15 |
| Whitwell, Benjamin, 2.11 |
| Wigglesworth, Thomas, 1.13, 4.14, 8.14 |
| Willard, Joseph, 1.10 |
| Willard, Samuel, 5.6, 5.9 |
| William, ship, 9.2 |
| Williams, Samuel, 1.3, 3.7, 5.3-4, 5.6-7, 5.14, 6.17-18, 9.3,
9.11-12 |
| Williams, Timothy, 3.3, 3.5-7, 3.10, 4.1-2, 4.12, 5.5 |
| Wilson, Elizabeth, 6.16 |
| Wilson, Henry C. R., 6.16 |
| Wilson, Isaac, 8.4, 8.7 |
| Wilson, Janet, 6.14-15, 6.17-18, 7.1-5, 7.17-18, 8.3 |
| Wilson, Lillian, 6.16, 7.17 |
| Wilson, Marian, 7.5 |
| Windham, William, British statesman, 4.3 |
| Yorke, Philip, third Earl of Hardwicke, 4.3 |
Francis Cabot Lowell (1775-1817) papers, Massachusetts Historical
Society.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in
ABIGAIL,
the online catalog of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Researchers
desiring materials about related persons, organizations, or subjects should
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| | |
| Persons: |
| | Cabot, William, 1752-1828. |
| | Gardner, Elizabeth P. |
| | Gardner, Samuel P. |
| | Grant, Anne MacVicar, 1755-1838. |
| | Jackson, P. T. (Patrick Tracy),
1780-1847. |
| | Lee, Henry, 1782-1867. |
| | Lee, Mary Jackson, 1783-1860. |
| | Lowell, Francis C. (Francis Cabot),
1803-1874. |
| | Lowell, Hannah Jackson, 1776-1815. |
| | Lowell, John, 1769-1840. |
| | |
| Organizations: |
| | Harvard University. |
| | |
| Subjects: |
| | Account books. |
| | Boston (Mass.)--Social life and customs--19th
century. |
| | Europe--Description and
travel--1800-1918. |
| | Europe--History--1789-1815. |
| | Great Britain--Politics and
government--1800-1837. |
| | Manufactures--19th century. |
| | United States--Economic conditions--To
1865. |
| | United States--History--1783-1865. |
| | United States--History--War of 1812. |
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