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Title [Accounts, and notes on settlement and property]
Archival Reference Ms. N-1000
Sub-collection David Cobb Papers  
Author Cobb, David  
Date n.d.
Document Type Business and financial document; Notes
Contents Includes:
"Estimate by [David Cobb] of expenses for the development of Maine lands, roads, and shipping between Boston and Gouldsboro, Me.
'Stores in the Packet,"' list in the hand of David Cobb
'Account of work on Narraguagus house,' wage account in the hand of David Cobb
History by [David Cobb] of the management and sale of William Bingham's Maine lands during the agency of David Cobb
Store account of David Cobb for food and sundries
Accounts by [David Cobb] of general expenses and profits of the store and the Gouldsborough Packet
'Observations on the settlement of New Counties' in the Kennebec Tract, memorandum in the hand of David Cobb
List of lands promised in Trenton and Gouldsboro, Me., in the hand of David Cobb".
Sub-collection Information This collection consists of the papers of David Cobb primarily documenting his position as land agent for William Bingham in Maine, including papers related to the settlement of Maine, logging and the lumber trade, roads, and other subjects. Also included are papers related to his service during the American Revolution and his career as a politician and judge.

David Cobb was a Revolutionary War soldier and aide-de-camp to General George Washington, speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and president of the Senate, physician, judge, member of Congress, lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, and a founder of the Society of the Cincinnati and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The collection contains letters to Charles W. Hare, Bingham's Philadelphia agent, and Alexander Baring, the future Lord Ashburton and representative of London's House of Baring. Also included are legal actions, financial accounts, maps, and inventories related to land development, fishing, lumbering, census reports, lotteries, the laying out of streets, and the construction of wharves, warehouses, and sawmills in Gouldsboro, Maine, which Cobb tried to develop as a major commercial port.

The collection also contains eight fragmentary diaries kept by Cobb, 1781-1818; a manuscript notebook with sketches; lists of British ships of the line; instructions for naval officers; letters to various members of the Cobb family; and letters from William Eustis, Henry Knox, Timothy Pickering, and Israel Thorndike concerning foreign relations, state politics, and miscellaneous financial matters related to the firm of Cobb and Richards, in which Cobb was partner.
Region American East  
Subjects Land Transaction and Property  Stores and Supplies  Commerce and Trade  Settlers and Settlement  Travel and Transportation  
Places Boston; Gouldsboro; Maine; Massachusetts
People Cobb, David (1748-1830)  Bingham, William (1752-1804)  
Themes Land & Property; Business, Trade & Commerce
Library Massachusetts Historical Society  
Copyright Massachusetts Historical Society