Papers of Thomas Corbyn, and of Thomas Corbyn in partnership with John Brown, Nicholas Marshall and John Beaumont

1/1-14 Bonds, promissory notes and receipts relating to money borrowed by Thomas Corbyn from Mary Reynolds, Sylvanus and Timothy Bevan, his brother John Corbyn and others, 1755-63.

2/1-5 Bonds and related papers concerning money lent by Thomas Corbyn to various persons, 1760-80

3/1-7 Accounts and papers relating to money lent by Thomas Corbyn to John Hunt, tobacco, merchant, 1752-62.

4/1-10 Letters to Thomas Corbyn and John Brown from various correspondents, including John Corbyn and Johann Georg Schneider, of Hamburg, 1755-78 and n.d.

5/1-4 Lists of presents given on various travels in 1755

6/1-2 Papers relating to Edward Walker, in the employ of Thomas Corbyn, 1755-60. Damaged and fragmentary

7/1-4 Accounts and receipts for sums dispersed by Samuel Corbyn 1757-65

8. Indenture apprenticing Nathaniel Norton to Thomas Corbyn, 25 March 1758

9. Bond. John Kendall to Prescilla Pigg, 29 Sept. 1758.

10/1-4 Papers relating to John Malin, apothecary in London and Joseph Malin, surgeon's mate in Jamaica, 1759-61. Fragmentary

11. Bankruptcy agreement between Thomas Clarke, apothecary, and Thomas Corbyn

12/1-6 Lists of the customers or debtors of Thomas Corbyn & Co., showing the state of their accounts, 1762-69 and n.d.

13. Will of Nathaniel How, employee of Thomas Corbyn, 16 Feb. 1763

14. Memorandum of agreement between William Gason and Thomas Corbyn concerning the lease to Corbyn of a house and gardens in Green Street, Kentish Town, 10 Feb. 1764.

15/1-4 Papers relating to Nicholas Marshall and Nicholas Marshall deceased (d.1766), including a receipt from his executors for the value of his one-third share in the partnership, 1766-67

16. Bill for medicines purchased by John Talwin from Corbyn, Brown and Marshall, 30 Oct. 1766.

17. Account of credit owed to servants, 1 Jan. 1767.

18. Balance sheet, 1770.

19. Copy from a Middlesex Sheriff's roll in the case of Corbyn and Brown versus Farhill, Swarbrick and Sparks, 1774.

20/1-2 Promissory note and bond. Samuel Wrather to John Brown, 9 April 1774.

21/1-7 Receipts and miscellanea, 1756-74, and n.d.

1755-1780

21 items

Database description taken from that in: Richard Palmer, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine: Western Manuscripts 5120-6244 (London: The Wellcome Library for the History & Understanding of Medicine, 1999).