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Preferred Citation:

Martin Brimmer Account Ledger, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information:

Acc. 2012.359 was received by the SCRC via USPS in September 2012.

Processing Information:

Accessioned and minimally described by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in November 2012.

Biographical Information:

Martin Brimmer was a Boston apothecary and merchant prior to Revolutionary War. He was the father of Martin Brimmer, 1793-1847, who was mayor of Boston from 1845-1845, and grandfather of Martin Brimmer, 1829-1896, an 1849 graduate of Harvard and long-time president of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: .

Scope and Contents

Contains one ledger book of accounts kept by Martin Brimmer, a Boston merchant and apothecary. Listed in the account are names of loyalists later proscribed and banished. Some of the names listed in the ledger include Dr. Benjamin Church, Dr. William Paine, Dr. Charles Russel, Dr. Sylvester Gardiner, and Dr. John Jeffries. There are 89 pages filled with Brimmer's accounts, but the ledger also contains 24 pages of guest names for an unknown New York establishment in 1940.

Arrangement of Materials:

The entries are organized by customer name.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Ledgers (Accounting)
• Massachusetts--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1774
• Massachusetts--Social life and customs--18th century
• Merchants--Massachusetts