Perkins, Thomas Handasyd, 1764-1854
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found: Memorial of T.H. Perkins and others, praying the passage of a law to authorize the discontinuance of the spirit ration ... 1839.
found: China trade. -- Merchants of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts. Communication from Thomas H. Perkins ... 1840:p. 2 (T.H. Perkins)
found: Perkins family papers, 1780-1882, Boston Athenaeum, Mss. .L818(Perkins, Burling, & Perkins. Cap-Francais, Boston, New York. Collection includes correspondence between the Perkins brothers and Walter Burling, as well as other business-men and ships' captains with whom they were involved in the trade of enslaved people and cash crops centered around Cap-Français in the years prior to the Haitian revolution.)
found: Seaburg, Carl and Stanley Paterson. Merchant Prince of Boston 1971:page 19 (born December 15, 1764) page 434 (The Perkins Firms; Perkins Burling & Perkins, May 1, 1786-August 15, 1788, Cape Francis. Partners: James Perkins, Walter Burling, and T.H. Perkins.)
found: Cary, Thomas G. Memoir of Thomas Handasyd Perkins, 1856:page 262 (Thomas Handasyd Perkins died the morning of January 11th, 1854)
found: Downs, Jacqes M. American merchants and the China opium trade in Business History Vol. 42, no. 4 (Winter 1968):page 425 (The Perkins brothers' firms were heavily involved in the illicit trade of Turkish opium in China in the early 19th century, becoming one of the larger shippers of the drug at the time.)
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1983-02-02: new
2022-01-26: revised
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