The Jacksons and the Lees : : Two Generations of Massachusetts Merchants, 1765–1844. / Volume I, : The Jacksons and the Lees: Two Generations of Massachusetts Merchants, 1765–1844, Volume I.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Porter, Kenneth Wiggins,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1937
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard Studies in Business History ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (772 p.) :; 31 illustrations

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION -- AUTHOR’S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- GENERAL INTRODUCTION -- The Sedentary Merchant in Massachusetts 1765–1844 -- I. ANCESTRY AND TRAINING -- II. GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MASSACHUSETTS COMMERCE BEFORE THE REVOLUTION -- III. PRIVATEERING -- IV. THE PERIOD OF TRANSITION -- V. GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE TRADE WITH INDIA TO 1816 -- VI. GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE EAST INDIA TRADE, 1816–1852 -- VII. BUSINESS ASPECTS OF THE COLONIAL AND EARLY POST-REVOLUTIONARY COMMERCE OF MASSACHUSETTS -- VIII. BUSINESS ASPECTS OF THE CALCUTTA TRADE -- IX. DIVERSIFICATION AND SPECIALIZATION -- X. KINSHIP AND BUSINESS -- XI. BUSINESS ETHICS -- XII. THE BUSINESS MAN AND GOVERNMENT -- XIII. MISCELLANEOUS ACTIVITIES OF THE BUSINESS MAN -- NOTES -- DOCUMENTS -- PART I. First Generation: Jonathan Jackson, 1765–87 -- DIVISION I. JONATHAN JACKSON AND JACKSON & BROMFIELD NEWBURYPORT IMPORTERS OF BRITISH GOODS 1765–73 -- DIVISION II. JACKSON, TRACY & TRACY, NEWBURYPORT MERCHANTS IN THE TRADE WITH SPAIN AND THE WEST INDIES AND IN REVOLUTIONARY PRIVATEERING 1774–80 -- DIVISION III. JACKSON & HIGGINSON A BOSTON GENERAL MERCHANDISING CONCERN 1784–87 -- PART II. First Generation: Joseph Lee, 1774–1827 -- DIVISION IV. JOSEPH LEE & CO., BEVERLY MERCHANTS IN THE TRADE WITH SPAIN AND THE WEST INDIES AND IN REVOLUTIONARY PRIVATEERING 1774–77 -- DIVISION V. LEE & CABOT, BEVERLY MERCHANTS IN THE POST-REVOLUTIONARY TRADE WITH SPAIN AND THE WEST INDIES 1786–91 -- DIVISION VI. A GLANCE AT JOSEPH LEE, INVESTOR 1803–27 -- PART III. Second Generation: Joseph Lee, Jr., and Henry Lee, 1793–1805 -- DIVISION VII. JOSEPH LEE, JR., GENERAL BOSTON MERCHANT 1793–1805 -- DIVISION VIII. HENRY LEE, COMMERCIAL RESIDENT IN FRANCE 1804–05 -- PART IV. Second Generation: Patrick Tracy Jackson 1802–24 -- DIVISION IX. PATRICK TRACY JACKSON, CALCUTTA SUPERCARGO 1802–06 -- DIVISION X. PATRICK TRACY JACKSON, BOSTON EAST INDIA MERCHANT 1807–15 -- DIVISION XI. A GLIMPSE OF PATRICK TRACY JACKSON, MANUFACTURER 1824