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Timothy Orne

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
Death: December 23, 1789 (39)
Danvers, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States
Place of Burial: Broad Street, Orne Tomb, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, 01970, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Timothy Orne and Rebecca Orne (Taylor)
Husband of Elizabeth Sewall Orne
Father of Catherine Sewall Pynchon Cushing; Elizabeth Orne and Margaret Perkins
Brother of Rebecca Orne Cabot; Lois Orne Paine; Esther Orne; Eunice (1760-) Orne; Sarah Pickman and 2 others

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About Timothy Orne

Timothy Orne

Divided into three subgroups (each subgroup arranged in series and groups): Timothy Orne (1717-1767) papers, 1719-1820; Josiah Orne (1768-1825) papers, 1789-1878; William & Joseph Orne papers
Timothy Orne papers subgroup chiefly relates to his shipping business in Salem, Massachusetts, & ownership of over 50 vessels & warehouses & contains shipping papers, including ships' papers (schooners Beaver, Hampton, brig Cicero, & others), merchant house & shipping correspondence, & insurance papers, relating to voyages, cargo, fisheries, slaves, the capture of several Orne ships during England's war with France in the 1750s-1760s, political unrest in various ports, his insurance business, & other topics; & business papers, including correspondence, account books, almanacs, diaries, inventories, & other papers, concerning his warehouse & general shipping business, daily weather, incoming & outgoing ships, estate of his father, Timothy (1683-1753), & other matters. Also includes legal papers, containing estate papers, information pertaining to a lawsuit between Orne & Eaton family members concerning the Eaton farm, and correspondence of Barnes Robinson discussing fraud & his escape from justice; personal & family papers, including correspondence, financial papers, & other materials, pertaining to civic activities, daily events, education, Timothy's (1717-1767) student days at Harvard College, & affairs of the Orne & Cabot families

Josiah Orne papers subgroup consists of shipping, business, legal, & family papers, of Josiah, his son, Richard Elvins Orne (1795-1860), & their in-laws, the Low, Williams, & Allen families, containing Josiah's & Richard Elvins's shipping papers (1792-1827), reflecting Josiah's activities as shipmaster, trade with West Indies, Europe, Russia, & India, & U.S. ports of Charleston, South Carolina, & Savannah, Georgia, & family ships carrying tea, coffee, fish, textiles, spices, rum, molasses, & other commodities. Also includes papers of ship Malabar & brig Exchange, documenting the collision of the Exchange with an iceberg; merchant & shipping correspondence; legal papers consisting of deeds & other land records, powers of attorney, promissory notes, indentures, & information concerning the bankruptcy of Edward Allen (caused by business failure) for which Josiah acted as his brother-in-law's attorney; estate papers & inventories; correspondence, financial papers, & miscellaneous materials, of various family members, including Josiah's sons, Edward, George, Josiah, Henry Augustus, & Richard Elvins

William & Joseph Orne papers subgroup includes shipping & nonshipping papers of William (1751 or 2-1815), his brother, Dr. Joseph Orne (1749-1786, physician of Beverly, Massachusetts), & Joseph's son, Joseph, Jr. (1778-1806), containing poems written by Dr. Joseph, a description of the British attack on Beverly, Massachusetts, in 1775, & other papers; ships' papers, including papers of the ship Essex, owned by William & mastered by Joseph, with description (1819, related by the cabin boy) of the massacre of the crew by pirates off the coast of Yemen in 1806; correspondence; financial records; estate papers relating to Joseph's estate which was settled by his brother-in-law, Ichabod Tucker.

Merchants, ship captains and owners, of Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts.

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Timothy Orne's Timeline

1750
April 30, 1750
Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
1780
September 1780
Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States
1789
December 23, 1789
Age 39
Danvers, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States
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Broad Street Cemetery, Broad Street, Orne Tomb, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, 01970, United States