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John Homer fonds [textual record, graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1764-1773, 1866.

Reference:

R6406-0-0-E, MG23-I21

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

101127

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John Homer fonds
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Fonds includes:

2 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1764-1773, 1866.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1.3 cm of textual records (59 p.) photocopies.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of the manifest book of Captain John Homer for 1764 to 1773, lists cargoes, ships, masters, ports and destinations; account of portcharges etc. for the Barque Chancellor in 1866; biographical material concerning the Homer family, including a photograph of J.A.R. Homer and his wife S.K. Wilson.

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Homer, John, 1724-1799

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Homer, John, 1724-1799 : Captain John Homer, shipping merchant, was born in Yarmouth, Mass. in 1724, the son of Benjamin Homer and Elizabeth Crowell. As a young man John Homer moved to Boston where with his brother Benjamin (1731-1776) he established a successful merchant shipping business. The conflict that led to the American Revolution ruined this business and it is likely that John, like his son Joseph (1757-1837), was evacuated from Boston to Halifax by the British. Captain Homer settled in Barrington, Nova Scotia in 1776 and bought out the merchant business his brother-in-law Edmund Doane had established there. John served as Town Clerk from 1777 to 1790.

He married twice, first to Abigail Osborne (d. 1764), and then Hannah Carnes (d. 1786).

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General note:

Received in 1983 from Mrs. R.J. Sanders of Cambridge, Ontario.
Subject heading:

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John Horner - Biography, [1724-1799] Great Britain. Treasury, 1866

John Horner - Family, [17- ]

J.A.R. Horner - Family - Photographs, n.d

John W. Horner - Authorship, 1866

Shipmasters - United States, 1764-1773

Ship registers - United States, 1764-1773

Shipping - United States - Accounting, 1764-1773

Ships - United States - Cargo, 1764-1773

Shipment of goods - United States, 1764-1773

Shipping - United States - Rates, 1764-1773

Cardiff (England) - Shipment of goods, 1866

Cardiff (england) - Harbors - Port charges, 1866

Shipping - Great Britain - Accounting, 1866

Shipmasters - Great Britain, 1866
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MG23-I21
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