Samuel Cabot Papers 1713-1858 Guide to the Microfilm Edition

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Collection Summary

Biographical Sketch

Samuel Cabot was a prominent Boston merchant. He was married to Sally (Sarah) Barrett Cabot. Their son was Samuel Cabot, Jr., a merchant engaged in the China trade. His wife, Eliza Perkins Cabot, was the daughter of Thomas Handasyd Perkins, Boston's most prosperous China merchant.

Collection Description

The Samuel Cabot papers consist of 3 document boxes of loose manuscripts and 12 bound volumes of account books, letterbooks, and travel diaries. Included are papers of Samuel Cabot, Sally (Sarah) Barrett Cabot, Samuel Cabot, Jr., Eliza Perkins Cabot, Thomas Handasyd Perkins, James Elliot Cabot, Joseph C. Cabot, Stephen Cabot, Thomas Handasyd Cabot, and Eliza Lee Cabot Follen.

The collection contains papers related to Cabot and Perkins China trade in opium and other items, as well as papers describing Boston social life. Also included is material dealing with the commission on British spoliation claims, 1796-1800, on which Samuel Cabot served as executive secretary. Among the important correspondents are: John Singleton Copley, John P. Cushing, Charles Theodore Christian Follen, John Murray Forbes, Robert Bennet Forbes, Christopher Gore, James Madison, James Monroe, Timothy Pickering, and Josiah Quincy. Diaries of the family traders contain descriptions of England, France, Italy, and the West Indies.

Included in this guide is an alphabetical index containing the names of all correspondents and all authors or owners of volumes in this collection, as well as select individuals and subjects of historical importance.

Acquisition Information

Gift of George Edward Cabot, 1922.

Organization of the Collection

The collection is organized into the following series:

Detailed Description of the Collection

Index

This index contains the names of all correspondents and all authors or owners of volumes in this collection, as well as select individuals and subjects of historical importance. The numbers following each listing indicate the boxes and folders where items related to that individual or subject can be found. For example, papers related to John E. Abbot can be found in Box 1, Folder 10, and Box 2, Folder 1.

A

Abbot, John E., 1.10, 2.1

Adams, Thomas B., 1.6

Admiralty Prize Court (Great Britain), 1.4

Akbar, ship, 2.10

Alley, Nathaniel J., 2.2

Amory, Francis, 1.3

Amory, John, 1.3

Amory, Jonathan, 1.3

Amory, Thomas C., 1.3

Anderson, Joseph, 2.1

Anstey, John, 1.5

Armidon, P. & Co., 1.11

Arnold, Joseph Neal, 1.6

Astria, ship, 1.2

Avery, John, 1.4

B

Bailleul, Antoine, 1.3

Baillie, James, 1.4

Balestier, J., 2.4

Barrett, Samuel, 1.3

Bates, Joshua, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.11

Bennett, James, 1.8

Bonaparte, Napoleon, 1.5

Bradford, Alden, 1.10

Bradford, Charles T., 2.2

British Spoliations, Commission on (1796-1800), 1.3, 1.4

Brooks, Peter Chardon, 1.3

Brown, Samuel, 1.3

Bryant, Thomas, 1.11

Bull, William G., 2.1

Burling, Thomas, 1.4

C

Cabot, Charles G., 1.6

Cabot, Edward, 2.4, 2.9

Cabot, Eliza Lee - See Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot

Cabot, Eliza Perkins (Mrs. Samuel Cabot, Jr.), 1.9, 1.10, 2.1, 2.2, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11

Cabot, Elizabeth, 1.2

Cabot, George, 1.2, 1.3, 3.2

Cabot, James Elliot, 2.4, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11

Cabot, Joseph, 2.1

Cabot, Joseph, 2.10

Cabot, Joseph C., 2.8, 2.10, 2.11

Cabot, S. & J. & T. H. Perkins, 2.1

Cabot, Samuel, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 2.1, 2.3, 3.2

Cabot, Samuel, Jr., 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11, 3.4, 3.5

Cabot, Samuel, III, 2.6, 2.9

Cabot, Sarah (Sally) Barrett (Mrs. Samuel Cabot), 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4

Cabot, Stephen, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4

Cabot, Susan C., 2.6, 2.8

Cabot, Thomas Handasyd, 2.2, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7

Cabot, Zamie, 2.11

Caroline, ship, 1.5

Cary, Mary Ann Perkins (Mrs. Thomas G. Cary), 1.10, 2.1, 2.2

Cary, Thomas G., 2.6

Castlereagh, ship, 2.3

Chandler, G. L., 2.9

Channing, William Ellery, 2.9

Charlotte, ship, 1.3

China, 1.6, 1.11, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 3.5

Christie, Gabriel, 1.5, 3.4

Clark, B. C., 2.11

Clarke, Isaac W., 1.3, 3.2

Clarke, Richard, 1.2, 1.3, 3.1, 3.2

Clason, Isaac, 1.11

Codman, John, 1.3

Commercial Treaty, British-American (1798), 1.4

Coolidge, Joseph, 1.3

Copley, John Singleton, 1.3, 1.4, 3.2

Cotting, Uriah, 1.3

Craigie, Andrew, 1.3

Cunningham, J., 2.1

Curson, S., 2.5, 2.9, 3.5

Cushing, John P., 1.11, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.5

D

Davenport, Adam, 1.4

Davis, Aaron, 1.3

Davis, Charles, 1.3

Davis, Edward, 1.3

Davis, Thomas, 1.3

Deblois, William, 1.3

Derby, Charles, 1.4

Derby, Elias H., Jr., 1.3

Derby, ship, 1.8

Dickason, Thomas, Jr., 1.3

Dunlap, James, 1.4

Dunlap, Thomas, 2.1

E

Eliot, Simon, 1.4

Eliza, ship, 1.4

England, 1.9, 1.10, 2.4, 2.5

Erving, George W., 1.5, 3.3, 3.4

Everett, Alexander H., 1.9

F

Feche, Zamie, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.7

Follen, Charles F. C., 2.3, 2.6, 2.8, 2.9

Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot, 1.10, 2.1, 2.6

Forbes, John Murray, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, 2.10, 3.5

Forbes, Robert Bennet, 2.7, 2.8, 2.9, 3.5

France, 1.6, 1.10, 1.11, 2.4

Frazier, N., 2.1

Frazier, Nathan, 1.3

Fuller, Asa, 1.3

G

Gallatin, Albert, 1.4

Gardiner, W. H., 2.11

Gardner, Richard, 1.11

George III, 1.4

Georgia Packet, snow, 1.3

Germany, 2.9

Gill, Moses, 1.4

Gilman, Daniel, 1.3

Glennie, [ ], 1.5, 3.3

Gordon, William, 1.4

Gore, Christopher, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4

Gray, John, 1.3

Green, David, 1.3

Greene, J. B., 1.11, 2.1

Greene, Lydia E. E., 2.8

Greenough, Horatio, 2.4, 2.6

H

Hannah, ship, 1.4

Harriet, ship, 1.4

Hazard, Samuel, 1.6

Hazard & Cabot, 1.6, 1.7

Healy, William, 1.3

Hersey, Stephen, 2.2

Higginson, Henry, 1.9

Higginson, Stephen, 1.3, 1.4, 3.2

Hjardemaal, C., 2.11

Hobart, Caleb, 1.6

Holt, Robert, 1.3

Hong Chop, 2.1

Hopkins, Caleb, 1.3

Houqua, 1.11, 2.1, 2.5

Hurd, Joseph, 1.3

I

India, 1.6

Ingraham, 1.2

Italy, 2.4

J

Jackson, Jonathan, 1.3

January, D. A., 2.10

Jarvis, William, 1.3

Jeffrey, Patrick, 1.3

Jenner, J. A., 1.4

John Adams, ship, 1.11

John Gilpin, ship, 2.6, 2.7

Jones, John C., 1.3

K

Kendall, Jacob, 1.3

King, Rufus, 1.4

L

Lafayette, Georges Washington Motier de, 1.3

Lafayette, Marie Adrienne Francoise de Noailles, 1.3

Langdon, Joseph, 2.3

Lee, G., 1.5, 3.4

Lee, Joseph, Jr., 1.3

Lee, W., 1.1

Lee, William, Jr., 1.3

Lisle, Charles P., 1.6

Lisle, Henry M., 1.6

Logan, ship, 2.5

Lord, Eliphalet, 1.4, 1.6

Lowell, John, 1.3

Lucy, ship, 1.4

Lyell, Charles, 2.10

Lyman, George, 1.8

M

MacKay, Mungo, 1.3

MacKenzie, Alexander, 1.9

Madison, James, 1.4, 1.5, 3.3

Malbone, F., 1.4

Margaret, brigantine, 1.3

Mary, brig, 1.3

Mason, Jonathan, 1.4

May, Joseph, 1.3, 1.4

Mentor, ship, 2.2

Minot, George R., 1.3

Monroe, James, 1.5, 3.4

Morse, Jonathan, 1.6

Muller, Mathias, 1.3

N

Napier, [ ], 2.6

Nautilus, ship, 1.6, 2.2, 2.3

New Resolution, snow, 1.3

Nicholl, Dr., 1.1

P

Palfrey, John, Jr., 1.3

Parker, John, 1.3

Parker, S. A., 1.3

Parkman, J., 2.4

Parkman, Samuel, 1.3

Parsons, Gorham, 1.3

Parsons, William, 1.3

Payne, William, 1.3

Perit, John W., 2.1

Perit & Cabot, 2.1, 2.2

Perkins, James, 1.3, 1.4, 1.6, 1.8, 1.11, 2.1

Perkins, Sarah Elliot (Mrs. Thomas H. Perkins), 1.9, 1.10, 2.8

Perkins, Thomas H., 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.6, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.8, 2.9, 2.11

Perkins, Thomas H., Jr., 2.4

Perkins & Co., 2.1, 2.2, 2.8

Perkins, J. & T. H., 1.11, 2.1

Perotti, Florio, 2.4

Phillips, Jonathan, 2.3

Pickering, John, 1.4

Pickering, Timothy, 1.3, 1.4, 3.2

Pierce, Benjamin, 1.4

Pike, William, 1.2

Pinkney, William, 1.4, 1.5, 3.3, 3.4

Pomeroy, Samuel W., 1.3

Pleasanton, Stephen, 2.1

Pratt, Bela, 2.2

Pratt, Jacob, 2.2

Q

Quincy, Abraham, 1.3

Quincy, Josiah, 1.6, 2.1, 3.4

R

Ralston, Robert, 1.6

Ralston, W., 1.6

Reynolds, Andrew, 1.3

Riche, Samuel, 2.2

Robbins, Edward H., 1.4, 1.6

Robbins, Elizabeth, 1.4, 1.6

Robinson, William, 1.3

Ross, William, 2.4

Rumsy, John, 2.1

Russell, Joseph, 1.3

S

St. Thomas, 2.2, 2.3

Sandos, Charles, 1.11, 2.1

Saxton, William, 1.3

Scott, Sir William, 1.1

Sears, D., 1.3

Sewall, Samuel, 1.3

Shattuck, William, 1.3

Sherman, John, 1.4

Siam, 1.6

Smith, Samuel, 1.5, 3.4

Stanton, Francis, 2.2

Starter, S., 1.3, 3.2

Startin, Sarah, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6, 1.7, 3.1, 3.3, 3.4

Stoughton, Juan, 1.4

Strong, Caleb, 1.10, 1.11

Sturgis, William, 1.8

Success, schooner, 1.3

Sumner, Increase, 1.4

Swabey, Maurice, 1.5

T

Tariff of 1833, 2.4

Taylor, Emily, 2.6

Texas, 2.10

Thorndike, Israel, 1.11

Tidd, Dudley, 1.6

Tingley, H., 1.11

Tisdale, James, 1.3

Tower, Levi, 1.3

Trask, Israel, 1.4

Trumbull, Col., 2.3

Trumbull, John, 1.5, 3.4

Tucker, Thomas T., 2.1

Turkey, 2.2

Tyler, John, 2.10

U

Union Bank, 1.1

Upshaw, W., 1.5, 3.4

V

Virginia, 2.8

W

Wadsworth, John, 1.6

Wainwright, Elizabeth, 1.2, 1.3, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 3.1, 3.2, 3.4

Wainwright, Henry, 1.3

War of 1812, 1.10, 1.11

Waterman, Josiah, 2.2

Watson, John, 1.3

Webster, Daniel, 2.8

Welles, Arnold, 1.3

Welles, John, 1.3

Western, James, 1.5

Whim, schooner, 1.3

Williams, Samuel, 1.4, 1.9, 1.11

Williams, Timothy, 1.3

Winslow, John, 2.2

Woodward, Joseph, 1.3

Preferred Citation

Samuel Cabot papers, Massachusetts Historical Society.

Access Terms

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 search the catalog using these headings.