Correspondence and papers relating to the firm's overseas trade with North America and the West Indies

1. Papers relating to the affairs of Thomas Downes (d.1758), surgeon, Antigua, 1755-66

1.1 Bond. Thomas Downes, surgeon, London, to Thomas Corbyn, 14 April 1756

1.2/1-8 Letters, Thomas Downes in Antigua to Thomas Corbyn, Feb 1757-June 1758

1/3/1-9 Letters, John Godfrey in Antigua and Bristol to Thomas Corbyn, subsequent to the death of Thomas Downes, July 1758-May 1761.

1/4/1-3 Accounts relating to the estates of Dr James Stephenson deceased, and Thomas Downes deceased, 1758-60

1/5/1-10 Bonds, promissory notes and receipts relating to debts of Thomas Downes deceased, executor Thomas Corbyn, 1755-56. Some items fragmentary.

1/6/1-17 Letters, accounts and receipts of Thomas Corbyn as guardian of Downes' children, George and Elizabeth, 1757-66

2. Papers of Thomas Corbyn as administrator of the estate of Sarah Agar deceased, including a letter from Edward Agar concerning trade with New York, 1750-69

2.1 Account book of Thomas Corbyn as administrator of the estate of Sarah Agar deceased, and as guardian of Edward and Jacob Agar, 1750-58

2.2/1-9 Miscellaneous accounts and receipts of Thomas Corbyn as administrator of Sarah Agar's estate, c.1750-63

2.3/1-3 Letters and accounts relating to Edward Agar of New York including a letter from Agar to Thomas Corbyn relating to American medicines exported to England, 9 September 1763 (the other 2 items fragmentary)

3. Miscellaneous papers, c.1745-1831

3.1. "Invoice of drugs and compound medicines. Copy of prices put to the English side of ye 4 invoices sent to I. Greenleaf". Account made out by Thomas Corbyn for his New York agent Isaac Greenleaf. 2 ff. n.d. [c.1745]

3.2 "Account and sales of sundry drugs sold for account of Thomas Corbyn". Account for goods exported by Corbyn to Samuel Bowne of New York, Sept. 1746

3.3 "List of articles, drugs, compounds contained as charged to Rob. James, English side". Account for goods exported by Thomas Corbyn to Robert James, druggist, in Antigua, 2 ff. n.d. [c.1745]

3.4/1-2 Letters from W.S. Jackson, Spanish Town, Jamaica, to Charles Frewen and John Barnard, 1769. [Apparently sent via Corbyn, but no forwarded. 3/4/1 endorsed "thought no proper to deliver whilst Noah Barnard lives"]

3/5 Letter of attorney, William Wilkinson, apothecary and surgeon, Kingston, Jamaica, appointment Thomas Corbyn concerning a debt due from Joseph Smith Speer, 23 June 1774.

3/6/1-5 Papers concerning the insurance of goods shipped by Corbyn & Co. to North America, 1787.

3/7/1-13 Letters to Corbyn & Co. from John Chorley, merchant of Liverpool and Jamaica, with papers relating to his bankruptcy 1800-09

3/8/1-2 Letter, William Paine, physician, Worcester, Massachusetts to Josiah Messer, 4 Jan. 1813. Power of attorney, William Paine to John Corbyn and his partners in 22 March 1831.

3/9 Letter, Peter J. Stryker, Somerville, New Jersey, to Corbyn & Co;, with an order for medicines to stock his proposed apothecary's shop. Nov. 1828.

c. 1745-1831

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Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).