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Maker(s):Belcher, Andrew
Culture:American (1647-1717)
Title:letter: Andrew Belcher
Date Made:1697
Type:Documentary Artifact
Materials:paper, ink
Place Made:United States; Massachusetts; Boston
Measurements:overall: 12 1/8 in x 8 1/8 in; 30.7975 cm x 20.6375 cm
Accession Number:  HD 59.272
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
Letter signed by Andrew Belcher (1647-1717), dated Aug 2, 1697 and addressed to "Ye Honorable Commissioner, Victualing Office, Tower Hill, London." Andrew Belcher, son of Andrew Belcher and Elizabeth Danforth, was a prosperous merchant in Boston and a member of the Massachusetts Council from 1702 to 1717. His son, Jonathan Belcher (1682-1757), was Governor of Massachusetts from 1729/30 to 1741 and New Jersey from 1747-1757; his grandson, Jonathan Belcher, Jr. (1710-1776), was the first Chief Justice and a Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (1760-1764); and his great-grandson, Andrew Belcher (1761-1841), became a wealthy merchant in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and married Marianne Geyer (1773-1839), daughter of Frederick (d. 1821) and Susannah Geyer of Boston, in 1792. See HD 70.181, 70, 182, HD 58.039, HD 58.040, and HD 58.041 for portraits of Marianna Geyer Belcher, Andrew Belcher, and Frederick William Geyer.

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