The Sturgis : China traders and Perkins
in-laws
… Russell Sturgis (b.1750) married Elizabeth
Perkins, the eldest sister of James and Thomas Handasyd Perkins. Russell
Sturgis was also a partner of Thomas Perkins in one of his first vessels
bound to China, the "Hope". The Hope did not live up to the young merchants
expectations, since it arrived with1'700 pelts at a time when fur-bearing
ships were not allowed into Canton, as a consequence of the Sino-Russian
war. Russell Sturgis succeeded as a fur trader on Merchants Row in Boston.
The Sturgises had 16 children, of whom three sons, Henry, James Perkins and
George W. Sturgis, went to Canton and founded J.P.Sturgis & Co in 1818, a
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