Harvard University - Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School / Heard family. Heard family business records, Volume FP-4, Folder GQ-2-2, and Volume JP-2.
Mss:766 1754-1898. Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School.
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tello. clerk. in the ottice .ere George Perkin. and Richard
SUllivan. The tir.t .a. book);eeper. He .a. the most quiet
JiIrul
I ever
met, very cle1'8r aceountant and a good tello.. We afterward. met in China.
He eame out about a rea:r after 1118 and .a. bookktoeper to
Bu.••
ell
&
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me'\)"
rear..
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al
t~n
a 'partner in the hoUle, and made a villit to the
United Stat.. , lIeturning to China,
he
arrived in the lhip Lantao
ott
l4acao.
The
s"-ip "'al beealmed, sod Perkinl, being in a hurry to land,
started in a China boat.
The
boatmen lIIIU'<wred
b.1DI
and plundered his ef–
feeh. WIlen
he
was known to be mi.sill& requisition .a. made on the
Chineae authorities, .ith the re.ult that the boatmen .ere eau&ht and be–
headed.
Riehard SUllin.n wae a good tello., throu&h and throu,gh, and
11,
I believe, etill l1vill& after
Wr.
Th.ing's death, no, I lilian
Wr.
Perkins'. He became
Wr.
Thwing" partner and I
bad
the plea.ure
ot
re–
newing
III,)'
acql,l,8.1ntanee with both after
vq
return from China, ur. Th1lill&
died at a great age - more than .ight,-fiv., I believe.
wr.
Perkin.
bad
preceded h1m
m'W
rear..
He
died in l:urope.
lIy
old aehoolmata, Charles Brown, at .1ndover .a. in abloet the
next oftiee to me on India Wharf,
lli.
father was whutinger. Harry Lee,
Stephen Bullard, the t.o David.on bOl', were
al.~
fellow clerk. on the
wharf, and,
ot
cour.e, there ..re me'V that I
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not remember. BenjMlin
Burge••
&
Son., Thom
9 '
11
cgle.w~rth,
B.
D. Tucker, Wlnot , Hooper, were
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lDIOl1i the other firm. then eltabli.hed . there. India Wharf Will the re–
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ort of near1¥" all the erack: India and China .hips. Granite, or
Commereial lbarf, was it. onl¥ rival.
The
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fhwing
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