US-RHi-mss395 Guide to the William Earle & Co. Records1815-1878 Finding aid prepared by Rick Stattler. Rhode Island Historical Society 2009 July 01

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William Earle & Co William Earle & Co. Records 1815-1878 William Earle & Co. Records 10 linear feet William Read Bowers (1800-1841) was a sea captain and ship owner of Providence. He was the son of Asa Bowers and Candace Hoppin; his mother was a member of one of the leading merchant families of the city. By 1832, William was the owner of at least three ships: the Abeona (Samuel Read, master), Almira (Ephraim Eldredge, master) and the Phebe (William Davis, master). William Earle (1808-1879) was the son of Oliver and Sally Earle of Providence. He was employed at William R. Bowers and Co. beginning in the early 1830s, and purchased the firm upon its bankruptcy in 1837, with partner Lloyd Bowers (1786-1864). He continued operating the chandlery as William Earle & Co. through about 1877, and died two years later. His wife was Mary A. Chandler. MSS 395 Historical note

William Read Bowers (1800-1841) was a sea captain and ship owner of Providence. He was the son of Asa Bowers and Candace Hoppin; his mother was a member of one of the leading merchant families of the city. By 1832, William was the owner of at least three ships: the Abeona (Samuel Read, master), Almira (Ephraim Eldredge, master) and the Phebe (William Davis, master). He was also principal partner in a ships' chandlery business at 114 South Water Street in Providence from the early 1830s onward. The firm failed in 1837, and Bowers apparently remained with the business for several years under the new partnership of his brother-in-law Lloyd Bowers and his former assistant William Earle. A hint of unpleasantness between the old owner and his new boss can be found in two letters from regular customer William T. Tilley. On July 11 1840, Tilley addressed a letter to William Earle, including a bill for money due from Earle, but began his letter "friend Bowers", and inquires "have you buried Earle - if so I hope you have done it handsomely". A similar August 10 1840 letter begins "Old Bust", and asks, "have you buried Earle - if not, he must smell strong." Bowers married, had several children, and died in Brooklyn in 1841.

William Earle (1808-1879) was the son of Oliver and Sally Earle of Providence. He was employed at William R. Bowers and Co. beginning in the early 1830s, and purchased the firm upon its bankruptcy in 1837, with partner Lloyd Bowers. He continued operating the chandlery as William Earle & Co. through about 1877, and died two years later. His wife was Mary A. Chandler.

Lloyd Bowers (1786-1864) became a partner in the chandlery and in ship ownership with William Earle in 1837, and remained active in the firm through his death. He also seems to have conducted a substantial amount of business on his own account. He was not a close blood relative of William R. Bowers, but his wife Ann H. (Bowers) Bowers was William's sister. Their son William Lloyd Bowers (1826-1897) served in the Civil War.

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William Earle & Co. Records, MSS 395, Rhode Island Historical Society.

The bulk of the material in this collection consists of business letters, bills and receipts for William Bowers and William Earle between the dates 1829 and 1873. A large portion of this material concerns ship management. Many of the records relate to towing fees, crew accounts and shipping arrangements. The most heavily represented vessels are the ship Lion (circa 1845-1857), the schooner D.W. Vaughn (circa 1860-1870), and the schooner Amos Falkenberg (circa 1865-1875). Others ships frequently mentioned are the brig Rising States (circa 1833), the brig Moscow (circa 1835), the brig Smyrna (circa 1835), the schooner William Irish (circa 1875), and the schooner H. Blackman (circa 1872). These ships dealt mainly in coastal trade. Frequent ports of call were New Orleans, Mobile, Charleston, Wilmington, Baltimore, Newark, Elizabeth, New York, New Bedford and Boston. Cargoes included coal, nails, rum, potatoes, cotton and oil.

There are also records from ships involved in foreign trade. The Smyrna visited Spanish, Dutch, French, English and Caribbean ports in 1836 and 1837. The Lion engaged in whaling and trading in the South Pacific between 1852 and 1857. There are several documents concerning port entry, ship collisions and wrecks.

There are also extensive records relating to ship chandlery sales of rope, anchors, charts and other supplies. Railroad freight is also a common topic. Finally, there are a few personal letters to all three of the firm's partners interspersed throughout the collection.

There is a nearly complete run of the firm's account books, including ledgers, petty ledgers, day books, journals, letter books and inventory books, spanning from 1838 to 1877.

Most prominent among the firms that did business with Earle and Bowers were: rope supplier William Tew Tilley of Newport, R.I.; canvas supplier Nathaniel Snow of Boston; ship chandlers Taber & Co. of New Bedford; duck suppliers MacKintire, Laurie & Co. of Boston; and shipping agents George P. Bowers of New Orleans.

The collection also includes a small number of papers from other members of the Earle and Bowers families. One 1815 letter is addressed to an earlier Lloyd Bowers (d.1827), a Providence ship captain who had been involved in the slave trade. Another 1823 document relates to Oliver and George Earle. Finally, there are several papers concerning William Lloyd Bowers during the Civil War. Bowers served as a captain and quartermaster in the 1st R.I. Volunteer Infantry. The collection includes a letter he wrote from Libby Prison in Richmond dated 7/25/1861, which describes the Battle of Bull Run where he was captured. It is alleged to be the first letter from Libby Prison that was received in Providence. The collection also includes three documents re his discharge in January 1862; and two other letters addressed to Bowers re efforts to get mail to him, 12/30/1861 and 10/9/1864.

Also of particular interest are the following items:

A personal letter from cousin Henry Hoppin Jr., acknowledging the gift of a flag to the Kingston Guards militia unit, dated 7/5/1832

An undated letter from a seaman named James Wathen of the brig Forest. Wathen complained that his boat was "one man short, and the rest of the crew enervated by dissipation and intemperance." Wathen adds that "I trust most heartily you will have an opportunity of teaching Mr. Lefaye that the merchants of Providence are no longer to be imposed upon by the villainy and cupidity of sailor boarding house keepers. He has done me a very serious injury, and I feel confident you will not spare him." Edward P. Lafaye kept a sailor's boarding house at 97 South Main Street in 1832, near Bowers' chandlery shop at #114.

Series 1: Letters and documents Series 2: Accounts, bills and receipts Series 3: Invoices and ladings Series 4: Wharfage and freight books Series 5: Invoice scrapbooks Series 6: Letter books Series 7: General ledger Series 8: William Earle personal ledgers Series 9: Petty ledgers Series 10: Individual ship account books Series 11: Receipt books Series 12: Cash books Series 13: Commercial Bank accounts Series 14: Accounts payable and receivable Series 15: Day books Series 16: Accounts of sales Series 17: Cash/stock book Series 18: Inventory books Series 19: Journals

Administrative information

Apparently, the records of William Earle & Co. were broken up and widely dispersed at a very early point. Portions of the records have been arriving at R.I.H.S.L. in a slow but steady stream since at least 1956. The bulk of the account books are labeled in a way that indicates they were housed in the old R.I.H.S. Cabinet Building, and thus were probably donated before 1944. That major accession has not been identified. Here are a few of the accessions that have been:#1948.17.1, Anonymous gift,Civil War imprisonment of W.L. Bowers; #1956.23.88-89, Paul Nicholson bequest, Two receipt books, 1857-1878; #1962.37.2.1-16, Susie (Sherman) Scott estate William Earle papers (whaling, etc.)1834-1868; #1974.64.1-, Nino Scotti purchase, Three boxes of records, 1830-1850; #1976.137.3.1-, William Longo purchase, 55 items: account books, receipts, ladings, etc., 1832-1876; #1977.93.2.1-, Mrs. Thomas Johnston gift, William Earle accounts with Mrs. E.G. Chandler, 1852-1877; #1985.69.7-8, Seaport Autographs purchase Two letters, 1837, 1838; #1985.93, Robinson O. Bellin gift, Letter received by Bowers, 1837; #1997.17.1-31, Ruth Crosby purchase 31 letters dated 1831-1832 (inherited from Crosby's brother's estate circa 1984); #1999.1.1.1-34, Charles Apfelbaum purchase, 34 letters and receipts dated 1832-1840; #2000.85.1-7, Paper Trails purchase, 7 letters from neice Helen Roth, 1874; #2001.23.2 Rick Stattler gift, Receipt from Burr & Smith, 1850; #2002.32.1.1-2, Cherry Bamberg gift, Two Tilley letters, 1839 and 1844; #2002.50.1-11, Cherry Bamberg gift, 11 receipts, 1837-1838, 1849, 1857, undated; #2004.83, Cherry Bamberg gift, J. Sachet letter, 1833.

This collection was processed by Nathaniel N. Shipton circa 1976, but no finding aid was written. In 1999, some additional material was integrated, and this finding aid was compiled. In 2006, this collection was rehoused into archival folders and boxes and the finding aid was updated.

Names Bowers, Lloyd, 1786-1864 Bowers, William L., 1826-1897 Bowers, William R., 1800-1841 Earle, William, 1808-1879 Roth, Helen F.E. Tilley, William T. Subjects Australia - Commerce Coastwise shipping Europe - Commerce Kingston Guards Merchants - Rhode Island - Providence Ship chandlers - Rhode Island - Providence United States. Army. Rhode Island Light Artillery Regiment, 1st (1861-1865) United States - History - Civil War, 1861-1865 Whaling New entries, 1999 RIAMCO Browsing Terms Rhode Island/Local Interest Titles

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Additional information Earle, Pliny. The Earle Family: Ralph Earle and His Descendants (Worcester, Mass.: Published by the author, 1888), 77-78. Rhode Island Cemetery Database "The Commercial Papers of William Read Bowers, William Earle and Lloyd Bowers", author unknown [Nathaniel N. Shipton?], circa 1974?, found in the William Earle & Co. collection file in the R.I.H.S.L. manuscripts division. 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Series 2 Accounts, bills and receipts MSS 395 Item 1 8 1 1831 Dec 23 MSS 395 Item 2 8 2 1832 Jan-1832 Mar MSS 395 Item 3 8 3 1832 Apr-1832 Aug MSS 395 Item 4 8 4 1832 Oct MSS 395 Item 5 8 5 1832 Nov MSS 395 Item 6 8 6 1832 Dec MSS 395 Item 7 8 7 1933 Jan-1833 Sep MSS 395 Item 8 8 8 1833 Oct MSS 395 Item 9 8 9 1833 Nov MSS 395 Item 10 8 10 1834 Jan-1834 Oct MSS 395 Item 11 8 11 1834 Nov MSS 395 Item 12 8 12 1834 Dec MSS 395 Item 13 8 13 1835 Jan MSS 395 Item 14 8 14 1835 Feb-1835 May MSS 395 Item 15 8 15 1835 Jun MSS 395 Item 16 8 16 1835 Jul MSS 395 Item 17 8 17 1835 Sep-1835 Oct MSS 395 Item 18 8 18 1835 Nov-1835 Dec MSS 395 Item 19 8 19 1836 Jan-1836 Apr MSS 395 Item 20 8 20 1836 May-1836 Jul MSS 395 Item 21 8 21 1836 Aug MSS 395 Item 22 8 22 1836 Sep MSS 395 Item 23 8 23 1836 Nov MSS 395 Item 24 8 24 1836 Dec MSS 395 Item 25 8 25 1837 Jan MSS 395 Item 26 8 26 1837 Feb MSS 395 Item 27 8 27 1837 Mar MSS 395 Item 28 8 28 1837 Apr MSS 395 Item 29 8 29 1837 May-1837 Jul MSS 395 Item 30 8 30 1837 Aug MSS 395 Item 31 8 31 1837 Sep MSS 395 Item 32 8 32 1837 Oct MSS 395 Item 33 8 33 1837 Nov MSS 395 Item 34 8 34 1837 Dec MSS 395 Item 35 8 35 1837- 1845, 1842, 1845 MSS 395 Item 36 8 36 1838 Jan MSS 395 Item 37 8 37 1838 Feb MSS 395 Item 38 8 38 1838 Mar MSS 395 Item 39 8 39 1838 Apr MSS 395 Item 40 8 40 1838 May MSS 395 Item 41 8 41 1838 Jun-1838 Nov MSS 395 Item 42 8 42 1838 Dec MSS 395 Item 43 8 43 1839 Jan-1839 Feb MSS 395 Item 44 8 44 1839 Mar MSS 395 Item 45 8 45 1839 Apr MSS 395 Item 46 8 46 1839 May MSS 395 Item 47 8 47 1839 Jun-1839 Aug MSS 395 Item 48 8 48 1839 Sep MSS 395 Item 49 8 49 1839 Oct MSS 395 Item 50 8 50 1839 Nov MSS 395 Item 51 8 51 1839 Dec MSS 395 Item 52 8 52 1840 Jan-1840 Jul MSS 395 Item 53 8 53 1840 Aug-1840 Dec MSS 395 Item 54 8 54 1841 MSS 395 Item 55 8 55 1842 MSS 395 Item 56 8 56 1843 MSS 395 Item 57 8 57 1844 Jan-1844 Feb MSS 395 Item 58 8 58 1844 Apr-1844 Dec MSS 395 Item 59 8 59 1845 MSS 395 Item 60 8 60 1846 MSS 395 Item 61 8 61 1847 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395 Item 27 9 27 1859 Aug MSS 395 Item 28 9 28 1859 Sep MSS 395 Item 29 9 29 1859 Oct-1859 Nov MSS 395 Item 30 9 30 1859 Dec MSS 395 Item 31 9 31 1860 Jan MSS 395 Item 32 9 32 1860 Feb MSS 395 Item 33 9 33 1860 Mar-1860 Apr MSS 395 Item 34 9 34 1860 May MSS 395 Item 35 9 35 1860 Jun MSS 395 Item 36 9 36 1860 Jul MSS 395 Item 37 9 37 1860 Aug MSS 395 Item 38 9 38 1860 Sep MSS 395 Item 39 9 39 1860 Oct-1860 Dec MSS 395 Item 40 9 40 1861 Jan-1861 Feb MSS 395 Item 41 9 41 1861 Mar MSS 395 Item 42 9 42 1861 Apr MSS 395 Item 43 9 43 1861 May-1861 Aug MSS 395 Item 44 9 44 1861 Sep-1861 Dec MSS 395 Item 45 9 45 1862 Jan MSS 395 Item 46 9 46 1862 Feb MSS 395 Item 47 9 47 1862 Mar MSS 395 Item 48 9 48 1862 Apr MSS 395 Item 49 9 49 1862 May MSS 395 Item 50 9 50 1862 Jun MSS 395 Item 51 9 51 1862 Jul MSS 395 Item 52 9 52 1862 Aug-1862 Dec MSS 395 Item 53 9 53 1863 Jan-1863 Jun MSS 395 Item 54 9 54 1863 Jul-1863 Dec MSS 395 Item 55 9 55 1864 Jan-1864 Mar MSS 395 Item 56 9 56 1864 Apr MSS 395 Item 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MSS 395 Item 86 9 86 1870 Jan MSS 395 Item 87 9 87 1870 Mar MSS 395 Item 88 9 88 1870 Apr-1870 May MSS 395 Item 89 9 89 1870 Aug-1870 Jun MSS 395 Item 90 9 90 1870 Sep MSS 395 Item 91 9 91 1870 Oct-1870 Dec MSS 395 Item 1 10 1 1871 Jan-1871 Jul MSS 395 Item 2 10 2 1871 Aug MSS 395 Item 3 10 3 1871 Sep MSS 395 Item 4 10 4 1871 Oct-1871 Dec MSS 395 Item 5 10 5 1872 Jan-1872 Feb MSS 395 Item 6 10 6 1872 Mar MSS 395 Item 7 10 7 1872 Apr-1872 May MSS 395 Item 8 10 8 1872 Jun-1872 Jul MSS 395 Item 9 10 9 1872 Aug MSS 395 Item 10 10 10 1872 Sep MSS 395 Item 11 10 11 1872 Oct MSS 395 Item 12 10 12 1872 Nov MSS 395 Item 13 10 13 1872 Dec MSS 395 Item 14 10 14 1873 Jan-1873 Mar MSS 395 Item 15 10 15 1873 Apr MSS 395 Item 16 10 16 1873 May-1873 Jun MSS 395 Item 17 10 17 1873 Jul MSS 395 Item 18 10 18 1873 Aug MSS 395 Item 19 10 19 1873 Sep-1873 Oct MSS 395 Item 20 10 20 1874 MSS 395 Item 21 10 21 1875-1877 MSS 395 Item 22 10 22

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Series 3 Invoices and ladings MSS 395 Item 23 10 23 1831 MSS 395 Item 24 10 24 1832 Jan-1832 Mar MSS 395 Item 25 10 25 1832 Apr-1832 Jul MSS 395 Item 26 10 26 1832 Aug-1832 Nov MSS 395 Item 27 10 27 1832 Dec MSS 395 Item 28 10 28 1833 Jan-1833 Apr MSS 395 Item 29 10 29 1833 Jun-1833 Dec MSS 395 Item 30 10 30 1834 Jan-1834 Apr MSS 395 Item 31 10 31 1834 May-1834 Aug MSS 395 Item 32 10 32 1834 Sep-1834 Nov MSS 395 Item 33 10 33 1834 Dec MSS 395 Item 34 10 34 1835 Jan-1835 Feb MSS 395 Item 35 10 35 1835 Mar-1835 Apr MSS 395 Item 36 10 36 1835 May-1835 Jun MSS 395 Item 37 10 37 1835 Jul MSS 395 Item 38 10 38 1835 Aug-1835 Nov MSS 395 Item 39 10 39 1835 Dec MSS 395 Item 40 10 40 1836 Jan MSS 395 Item 41 10 41 1836 Feb MSS 395 Item 42 10 42 1836 Mar MSS 395 Item 43 10 43 1836 Apr MSS 395 Item 44 10 44 1836 May MSS 395 Item 45 10 45 1836 Jul-1836 Aug MSS 395 Item 46 10 46 1836 Sep-1836 Oct MSS 395 Item 47 10 47 1836 Nov-1836 Dec MSS 395 Item 48 10 48 1837 Jan-1837 Apr MSS 395 Item 49 10 49 1837 May-1837 Sep MSS 395 Item 50 10 50 1837 Oct-1837 Nov MSS 395 Item 51 10 51 1837 Dec MSS 395 Item 52 10 52 1838 MSS 395 Item 53 10 53 1839-1846 MSS 395 Item 54 10 54 1847-1848 MSS 395 Item 55 10 55 1849 Feb-1849 Aug MSS 395 Item 56 10 56 1849 Sep MSS 395 Item 57 10 57 1849 Oct-1849 Dec MSS 395 Item 58 10 58 1850 MSS 395 Item 59 10 59 1854 MSS 395 Item 60 10 60 1856 MSS 395 Item 61 10 61 1857 MSS 395 Item 62 10 62 1859 MSS 395 Item 63 10 63 1860-1861 MSS 395 Item 64 10 64 1862-1864 MSS 395 Item 65 10 65 1868 MSS 395 Item 66 10 66 1869 MSS 395 Item 67 10 67 1870 MSS 395 Item 68 10 68 1871 Jan-1871 Jul MSS 395 Item 69 10 69 1871 Aug-1871 Dec MSS 395 Item 70 10 70 1872 Jan-1872 Apr MSS 395 Item 71 10 71 1872 May MSS 395 Item 72 10 72 1872 Jun-1872 Oct MSS 395 Item 73 10 73 1872 Nov-1872 Dec MSS 395 Item 74 10 74 1873 Apr-1873 Jul MSS 395 Item 75 10 75 1873 Aug-1873 Sep MSS 395 Item 76 10 76 1873 Oct-1873 Dec MSS 395 Item 77 10 77 1874-1876 Series 4 Wharfage and freight books MSS 395 Item 1 1 1843-1862 Series 5 Invoice scrapbooks MSS 395 Item 2 2 1854-1875 Series 6 Letter books MSS 395 Item 3 3 1838-1848 MSS 395 Item 4 4 1850-1855 MSS 395 Item 5 5 1855-1859 MSS 395 Item 6 6 1859-1865 MSS 395 Item 7 7 1865-1872 MSS 395 Item 8 8 1872-1878 Series 7 General ledger MSS 395 Item 9 9 1838-1878 Series 8 William Earle personal ledgers MSS 395 Item 10 10 1830-1856 MSS 395 Item 11 11 1862-1873 MSS 395 Item 12 12 1873-1878 Series 9 Petty ledgers MSS 395 Item 13.A 13.A 1838-1841 MSS 395 Item 14.B 14.B 1841-1844 MSS 395 Item 15.C 15.C 1844-1847 MSS 395 Item 16.D 16.D 1847-1851 MSS 395 Item 17.E 17.E 1850-1853 MSS 395 Item 18.F 18.F 1853-1856 MSS 395 Item 19.H 19.H 1861-1868 MSS 395 Item 20.I 20.I 1868-1873 MSS 395 Item 21.J 21.J 1873-1877 Series 10 Individual ship account books MSS 395 Item 22 22 Schooner R.J. Mercer1872-1874 MSS 395 Item 23 23 Schooner Amos Falkenberg1866 MSS 395 Item 24 24 Schooner Amos Falkenberg1867-1873 MSS 395 Item 25 25 Schooner William O. Irish 1871-1876 MSS 395 Item 26 26 Schooner H. Blanchard1871-1873 Series 11 Receipt books MSS 395 Item 27 27 1839-1850 MSS 395 Item 28 28 1857-1870 MSS 395 Item 29 29 1870-1878 Series 12 Cash books MSS 395 Item 30 30 1838-1843 MSS 395 Item 31 31 1844-1845 MSS 395 Item 32 32 1866-1867 MSS 395 Item 33 33 1872-1873 Series 13 Commercial Bank accounts MSS 395 Item 34 34 1849-1850 Series 14 Accounts payable and receivable MSS 395 Item 35 35 1842-1872 Series 15 Day books MSS 395 Item 36 36 1839-1840 MSS 395 Item 37 37 1840-1841 MSS 395 Item 38 38 1841 MSS 395 Item 39 39 1841-1842 MSS 395 Item 40 40 1842-1843 MSS 395 Item 41 41 1843 MSS 395 Item 42 42 1844-1845 MSS 395 Item 43 43 1845-1846 MSS 395 Item 44 44 1846 MSS 395 Item 45 45 1846-1867 MSS 395 Item 46 46 1847-1848 MSS 395 Item 47 47 1848-1849 MSS 395 Item 48 48 1849-1850 MSS 395 Item 49 49 1850 MSS 395 Item 50 50 1850-1851 MSS 395 Item 51 51 1851-1853 MSS 395 Item 52 52 1853-1854 MSS 395 Item 53 53 1854-1855 MSS 395 Item 54 54 1855-1856 MSS 395 Item 55 55 1856-1857 MSS 395 Item 56 56 1858-1859 MSS 395 Item 57 57 1859-1861 MSS 395 Item 58 58 1861-1863 MSS 395 Item 59 59 1863-1865 MSS 395 Item 60 60 1865-1866 MSS 395 Item 61 61 1866-1868 MSS 395 Item 62 62 1868-1870 MSS 395 Item 63 63 1870-1872 MSS 395 Item 64 64 1872-1873 MSS 395 Item 65 65 1873-1875 MSS 395 Item 66 66 1875-1878 Series 16 Accounts of sales MSS 395 Item 67 67 1838-1869 Series 17 Cash/stock book MSS 395 Item 68 68 1838-1844 Series 18 Inventory books MSS 395 Item 69 69 1854-1870 MSS 395 Item 70 70 1872-1876 Series 19 Journals MSS 395 Item 71 71 1838-1847 MSS 395 Item 72 72 1847-1855 MSS 395 Item 73 73 1856-1865 MSS 395 Item 74 74 1865-1877