October, 2009 Workshop - National Archives, Waltham Mass (Please follow this link to access the other sublessons)

Documents for the "Regional Trading Partners " Sub-lesson...from the National Archives, Waltham, MA

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• Coastal manifests for Nov 1774 , Dec 1774 part A and Dec 1774 Part B , January 1775
• (Transcripts included in the .pdf)
• These National Archives documents are lists of goods coming into the ports of Salem and Beverly from various cities and colonies. They are selected as a way to support the regional maps often found in textbooks discussing how goods and raw materials varied from colony to colony. Of note is the rice, indigo and tobacco arriving from the south, the flour and bar iron from the middle colonies and the fish and rum from New England. It is also noteworthy that some items come from all three regions and reflect the predominance of farming in the colonies as a whole.

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• Coastal Manifest for the Brig Peggy, 1789
• (Transcripts included in the .pdf)
• This is a list of goods leaving the ports of Salem and Beverly to go to Baltimore.On board are a quantity of New England Rum, fish, shoe leather and cheese; all common goods traded from New England to other ports.

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• Worksheet for this sub lesson
• This worksheet is to be used in conjunction with textbook maps of regional trading products. The teacher should choose a few coasting manifests (see above) or have students work in a jigsaw fashion to examine these documents.

Documents ...from the Beverly Historical Society, Beverly, MA

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• (Transcripts included in the .pdf)
• Letter to William Bartlett regarding trade, 1770
• This document written to the merchant, William Bartlett, discusses goods desired in Philadelphia and their current prices.

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