Nathan Simson: journals, freight books, invoices and receipts
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Country
GB
Name of institution (official language of the state)
Language of name of institution
eng
Contact information: postal address
Kew, Richmond TW9 4DU
Contact information: phone number
0020 8876 3444
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Reference number
C104/13-14
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Title (official language of the state)
Nathan Simson: journals, freight books, invoices and receipts
Language of title
eng
Creator / accumulator
Nathan Simson
Date(s)
1700/1754
Language(s)
dut
eng
heb
yid
Extent
2 bundles
Type of material
Textual Material
Scope and content
This collection is part of the Chancery: Master Tinney's Exhibits series (C 104), which comprises private papers of all kinds, delivered into the court of Chancery by plaintiffs and defendants as evidence in their suits. The Chancery: Master Tinney's Exhibits is composed of business and trade papers and some important holdings relating to the army, individual artists, the book and newspaper trades, the building trades, charities, chemists, churchwardens accounts, the cloth trades, coachmakers, collieries and the coal trade, the diamond, gold and silver trades, hospitals, mining, naval officers and seamen, prize agents, privateers, schools, shipping, the slave trade, street lighting, undertakers, waterworks, and the wine trade.
This series comprises records related to the New York merchant Nathan Simson, namely journals, freight books, invoices, receipts, bills of lading and ledgers. Some of Simson's partners, agents, correspondents and customers were Sephardic Jews from New York, Charleston, Savannah, Jamaica, Barbados or Curaçao, including Abraham de Lucena, Diego & Abraham Gonsales, Abrão Ulloa, Isaac Levy Maduro, Rodrigo Pacheco, Mordecai Gomez, Benjamin & Samuel de Casseres, Jacob Gomez, or Benjamin Pereira. For this reason, this collection contains relevant information regarding Sephardic trading networks in the 18th-century Atlantic.
Nathan Simson papers also include the oldest known synagogue record book of the Jewish community of New York, dating from 1720-21. When Simson returned to England in 1722, he took these congregational financial records with him, together with his commercial papers. After his death in 1725, these records were deposited in the Public Record Office in London (see Marcus 1963).
This series comprises records related to the New York merchant Nathan Simson, namely journals, freight books, invoices, receipts, bills of lading and ledgers. Some of Simson's partners, agents, correspondents and customers were Sephardic Jews from New York, Charleston, Savannah, Jamaica, Barbados or Curaçao, including Abraham de Lucena, Diego & Abraham Gonsales, Abrão Ulloa, Isaac Levy Maduro, Rodrigo Pacheco, Mordecai Gomez, Benjamin & Samuel de Casseres, Jacob Gomez, or Benjamin Pereira. For this reason, this collection contains relevant information regarding Sephardic trading networks in the 18th-century Atlantic.
Nathan Simson papers also include the oldest known synagogue record book of the Jewish community of New York, dating from 1720-21. When Simson returned to England in 1722, he took these congregational financial records with him, together with his commercial papers. After his death in 1725, these records were deposited in the Public Record Office in London (see Marcus 1963).
Archival history
Chancery masters' records remained in the individual custody of the various masters, lodged where they chose. In 1793, a plot of land in Southampton Buildings was bought as the site for a repository, and the building known as Public Office, or the Masters' Office, was built there.
Administrative / Biographical history
Nathan Simson was an Ashkenazic Jew who settled in New York in the early 1700s and became a prominent merchant. Simson was active in the Atlantic trade, and his papers show that he traded with several North American ports and extended his business to Jamaica, Barbados, Curaçao, London, and Amsterdam, among other ports. In 1722, he moved to London and left his nephew Joseph Simson to run the business in New York. He died in 1725.
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Open unless otherwise stated
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Author of the description
Carla Vieira, 2022
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| Nathan Simson Papers | Existence and location of originals |
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