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Title Receipts and accounts, and letter regarding logging
Archival Reference Ms. N-1000
Sub-collection David Cobb Papers  
Date 19-28 Nov 1798
Document Type Business and financial document; Correspondence
Contents Includes:
Receipted account of Solomon Newton with [John] Richards and [David] Cobb for payment of Newton's wages, 19 Nov. 1798
Settled account of Alpheus Laker with Cobb and Richards, 19 Nov. 1798
Receipted account of Oliver Ormsby with [John] Richards and [David] Cobb for payment of Ormsby's wages, 19 Nov. 1798
Receipted account of Lovell Bullock with [David] Cobb and [John] Richards for the payment of Bullock's wages, 19 Nov. 1798
Receipted account of Simson Stewart with [David] Cobb and [John] Richards for payment of Stewart's wages, 19 Nov. 1798
Receipted account of Nathan Tombs for wages paid to him by [David] Cobb and [John] Richards, 19 Nov. 1798
Letter from Donald Ross (Union River, Me.) to David Cobb about licenses for logging operations by John Fabrique and others on William Bingham's Maine lands, 19 Nov. 1798
Settled account of Daniel Burbank with Cobb and Richards, 19 Nov. 1798
Settled account of David Cobb with Cobb and Richards, 19 Nov. 1798
Several orders from Cobb and Richards on John Richards, 19 Nov. 1798
Receipt from John Sumner (Boston) to [John] Richards for a cash advance of $40.00, 28 Nov. 1798
Settled account of Dudley Blake with Cobb and Richards for wages, 20 Nov. 1798
Report by Thomas Blake of lumber surveyed from the schooner Betsy and Polly for Amasa Davis and Son, 28 Nov. 1798
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 Banking and Finance  Forestry and Logging  Commerce and Trade  Labour and Employment  Pay and Wages  
Places Maine; Massachusetts; Union River
People Cobb, David (1748-1830)  Bingham, William (1752-1804)  
Themes Business, Trade & Commerce
Library Massachusetts Historical Society  
Copyright Massachusetts Historical Society