"Boston" straightline with matching "29 OC" datestamp on folded letter from Charleston, SC to Newburyport, RI via Boston. Manuscript "Sh 12" with October 29, 1793 docketing. Addressed to Moses Brown.

Moses Brown, born in 1742 in West Newbury, Massachusetts, was a successful chaise maker who became one of Newburyport’s wealthiest figures through strategic investments in trade, particularly sugar, molasses, and the West Indies market. By 1790, he was a major real estate investor, acquiring extensive property holdings and founding a rum distillery at the foot of Green Street. He is perhaps best remembered for his construction of the Brown Square House, now the Garrison Inn, which remains a landmark in the town he helped to shape.