Dolbeare family papers, 1665-1830 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Personal and business papers of the Dolbeare family, primarily of Boston and Dorchester, consisting of correspondence, legal papers, business and financial papers, diaries, ledgers, and other volumes. Correspondence includes that of Benjamin Dolbeare (1711-1787), his brother-in-law William Clarke, and his sons Thomas Dolbeare and John Dolbeare, concerning merchant business, travel, weather, finances, illnesses, and other family news, including the successful breast cancer surgery of Mary Dolbeare Townsend. Letters written from St. Elizabeth and Kingston, Jamaica, where the family did business, include those discussing the resistance of enslaved people on the plantations in St. Elizabeth in 1760