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Brown, Moses Papers

Collection Number: D-097

Records relating to Brown's involvement in the rum industry in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Included are account statements, invoices, correspondence, and distillery house orders. Moses Brown (October 2, 1742-February 9, 1827), prominent merchant and citizen of Newburyport, Massachusetts, developed a large foreign and domestic trade, especially in sugar, molasses and distilled rum.

Finding Aid

Finding Aid on the Online Archive of California

Inclusive Dates

1777-1815.

Extent

0.8 linear feet

Subject

Viticulture and Enology