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William Earle Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-028

Abstract

Correspondence, bills, receipts, accounts, and other papers relating to the operation of the bark AURA, the brigs ARIA, IDA MCLEOD, ISADOR, NEW ERA, and PERSEVERANCE, and the schooners AMOS FALKENBURG, D.W. VAUGHAN, HANNAH BLACKMAN, INO, ROBERT J. MERCER, and WM. O. IRISH, which carried coal, cotton, sugar, and foodstuffs and traded in U.S., and West Indian ports. Correspondents include Charles H. Arnold, Hiram Baker, David P. Davis, Samuel A. Emerson, Samuel M. Gifford, George K. Rackett, Samuel H. Rackett, Edmund A. Souder & Co., Sanford A. Terrell, and William Walker.

Dates

  • Creation: 1834-1876

Language of Materials

English Latin

Restrictions on Access

Available for use in the Manuscripts Division

Restrictions on Use

Various copying restrictions apply. Guidelines are available from the Manuscripts Division.

Biography of William Earle

William Earle was born in 1808 and was a ship chandler in Providence, Rhode Island. In November of 1838, he took over the business of William R. Bowers & Co. and from that point on he acquired a number of vessels for coastal and trans-Atlantic trade. Earle died in 1878.

Extent

3000 piece(s)

Additional Description

Index to Personal Names

Aldrich, Robert 5/16
Alger, Jonathan 5/3
Allen, L. 5/17
Andrews, S.F. 5/6, 5/7
Angell, George O. 5/13, 5/14, 5/15, 5/16
Baker, William L. 5/9
Barnard, Joseph 5/3
Beckwith, Nathan 5/14
Beebe, C.G. 5/7
Binney, John 5/13
Blake, G.G. 5/13
Boardman, William C. 5/3
Bond, George T. 5/12
Borden, Leaner 5/12
Bowen, George 5/12
Bowers, ? (Capt.) 5/16
Bowers, George 5/1, 5/4
Bowers, L. 5/2
Bowers, William R. 5/1
Bragaw, A. 5/17
Bridges, Joseph 5/2
Briggs, Z. 5/6
Brook, J.A. 5/8
Brown, Sally 5/17
Bucklin, Thomas P. 5/2
Buffum, B. 5/12
Burden, Henry 5/2
Burlingame, W.D. 5/14, 5/15
Burrough, J.P. 5/14
Burrough, Joseph 5/12
Carrington, Edward 5/1, 5/2
Cartwright, John W. 5/17
Chichester, M.P. 5/18
Clyde, N.A. 5/9
Comstock, William 5/12
Conkling, George W. 5/16
Cook, Philip 5/9
Cooper, Samuel 5/11
Corwin, S. 5/17
Cranston, W.H. 5/16
Cross, James M. 5/11
Crowell, ? (Capt.) 5/13
Crowell, Nehemiah 5/12
Cummings, ? (Capt.) 5/3
Daboll, William V. 5/2
Darling, F.F. 5/13
Davis, ? (Capt.) 5/4
Davis, A.H. 5/15
Davis, David P. 5/16
Davis, E.P. (Capt.) 5/12
Davol, J.B. 5/2
Dean, Theodore 5/9, 5/10, 5/12, 5/13, 5/14, 5/15, 5/16
Dean, William B. 5/6
Dodge, S.H. 5/5
Dunne, E.B. 5/3
Durfee, Seth R. 5/11
Dutch, John C. 5/12
Earle, Benjamin D. 5/1, 5/2
Earle, George 5/9
Earle, Helen F. 5/17
Earle, Oliver 5/16, 5/17
Eddy, C.B. 5/6
Edwards, Francis 5/18
Emerson, L.A. (Capt.) 5/13
Farrington, D.W.C. 5/14, 5/15
Fessenden, B. 5/9
Field, William 5/5
Fisher, John W. 5/1
Flanders, Benjamin 5/5, 5/6
Freeborn, Benjamin 5/8, 5/12
Gardiner, William W. 5/16
Gardner, Joseph L. 5/8, 5/9
Gibbs, J.C. 5/14
Gifford, ? (Capt.) 5/17
Gifford, G.M. (Capt.) 5/14
Gladding, B.J. 5/17
Gladding, Mary F. 5/16
Gladding, Samuel 5/7, 5/8
Godfrey, John E. (Capt.) 5/3
Godfrey, N.W. 5/15
Greene, Rufus 5/6
Gwyer, Robert C. 5/13
Hadley, Charles H. 5/16
Hall, Charles E. 5/7
Hall, George W. 5/16
Hallet, George W. 5/15
Harris, William A. 5/15
Harrub, Isaac M. 5/2
Hartshorn, John 5/1, 5/3
Hawkins, Edward 5/15
Herreshoff, John B. 5/14, 5/16
Hoppin, Benjamin 5/2
Hoppin, W.W. 5/1
Hoppin, William Jones 5/3
Hosmer, Z. 5/5
Hubbard, Charles T. 5/12
Jackson, H.W. 5/17
Jones, George W. (Capt.) 5/15
Jones, John D. 5/6
Keech, Nathaniel 5/15
Kelly, ? (Capt.) 5/16
Landers, Henry 5/9
Love, Charles B. 5/13
Lyon, A.N. 5/12
Manross, Eli 5/15
Martin, Jeremiah 5/7, 5/9, 5/10
Mason, Silas 5/9
McCloy, John A. 5/14
Millikin, A. 5/15
Munroe, G.S. 5/6, 5/8
Munroe, J.T. 5/9
Muntz, G.F. 5/8
Nickerson, Elkanah 5/9
Page, E.W. 5/11
Page, Samuel 5/6, 5/8
Parsons, E.B. 5/17
Parsons, Milo H. 5/17
Patten, N.F. 5/16
Pearson, William E. 5/14
Peirce, George 5/2
Petet, William H. 5/13
Plummer, Israel 5/15
Reynolds, George N. 5/9
Richards, Albertas 5/8
Richardson, Thomas A. 5/16
Rilley, William Ten 5/2
Robbins, Josiah 5/5, 5/8, 5/9, 5/10
Rodgers, Robert 5/4
Rogers, Reuben 5/12
Rupp, Michael 5/13
Russell, Samuel 5/2
Salsbury, William P. 5/2
Scudder, Marshall S. 5/5, 5/6
Sewall, Benjamin 5/3, 5/4
Sizer, W.W. 5/10
Slaght, H.L. 5/6, 5/7
Smith, Amos D. 5/2
Smith, J. 5/12
Snell, Enos B. 5/3
Snow, Nathaniel 5/6, 5/7, 5/8
Souder, Edward A. 5/1
Spafford, J.B. 5/14
Sparrow, George E. 5/14
Spooner, B. 5/2
Spooner, Bourne 5/12
Spooner, Charles 5/4
Spooner, W.C. 5/16
Sprague, Daniel 5/7, 5/8
Sprague, Phineas 5/7
Spring, G.H. 5/8
Steere, Emily E. 5/17
Stiness, P.B. 5/17
Taylor, J.R. 5/14
Taylor, William R. 5/4
Terrell, George 5/15
Terrell, S. 5/14
Terrell, Sanford W. (Capt.) 5/15, 5/16, 5/17, 5/18
Tilley, William Ten 5/3, 5/4, 5/7
Tinkham, S.M. 5/8
Townsend, W.H. 5/15
Tripp, Benjamin 5/17
Umpleby, William 5/7
Usher, ? (Capt.) 5/4
Wadell, John 5/7
Walker, ? (Capt.) 5/14
Walton, W.A. 5/14
Wardwell, George 5/6
Wardwell, S.P. 5/17
Warren, Amos M. 5/14
Waterman, S.A. 5/18
Wendall, G. 5/8
West, ? (Capt.) 5/8
Williams, M.G. 5/11
Winslow, Daniel 5/11
Wolf, William H.D. 5/3
Wyman, G.G. 5/13
Wyman, William W. 5/15
Young, J. 5/16

Index to Corporate Names

A. & G.W. Holbrook 5/9
A. & W. Sprague 5/13
A. Fearing & Co. 5/4
Adam H. Warthman & Co. 5/16
Albert Ballard & Co 5/3
Alexander Fullerton & Co. 5/5
Ames Manufacturing Co. 5/6
Arnold Folsom & Co. 5/9
Atkinson & Robbins 5/3
Autens & Bowne 5/15
B. & T.C. Hoppin 5/1
Bailey & Eaton 5/14
Baker & Morrill 5/11, 5/12
Beebe & Co. 5/5, 5/6
Benjamin Flanders & Co. 5/4, 5/8
Bostock Brothers & Co. 5/3
Bowers & Co. 5/1
Brown & Durfee 5/11
Bucklin & Crane 5/2, 5/3, 5/4
Burns & Smith 5/6
Camp, Brunsen & Sherry 5/13
Chandler, Howard & Co. 5/2
Charles H. George & Co. 5/17
Charles Scudder & Co. 5/6, 5/7, 5/8, 5/9
Charles Wheaton & Co. 5/3
Commercial National Bank 5/17
Cotton, Hill & Co. 5/2, 5/3, 5/8
Crocker Bros. & Co. 5/12
D.C. King & Co. 5/16
Dean & Driggs 5/9
Dow & Abbot 5/6
Dow & Hobart 5/7
E. & G.W. Blunt 5/2, 5/4, 5/6, 5/7, 5/8, 5/9
E. Watson & Co. 5/2
Edward A. Souder & Co. 5/11, 5/12
Fearing, Thacker & Co. 5/12
Fearing, Thacker & Whiton 5/8, 5/9, 5/11
Fullerton & Raymond 5/8
G. & S. Engle 5/8, 5/9
G. & W. Munro 5/9
George W. Terry Co. 5/18
Geroge & Cutler 5/13
H.N. Peck & Co. 5/4
H.R. Webster & Co. 5/13
Hall & Myrick 5/9
Hampden Paint and Chemical Co. 5/12
Haskell, Randall & Holmes 5/2
Henry N. Hooper & Co. 5/12
Horace Humphrey & Co. 5/12
Humphrey, Kirby & Co. 5/14
J. & W. Slater 5/7, 5/8, 5/9, 5/14, 5/15
J. Chaney & Son 5/8, 5/9
J. Wright & Sons 5/12
J.A. Banelli & Co. 5/1
J.C. Storey & Co. 5/14
J.H. Marcy & Sons 5/9
J.S. Thornton & Co. 5/3, 5/13
J.W. Stickney & Co. 5/14, 5/16
James B. Hall & Co. 5/7
James L. Jones 5/15
John Bliss & Co. 5/16
John H. Perry & Co. 5/15
Jonathan Alger & Son 5/9
Josiah Marcy & Sons 5/8
Judson & Hoppin 5/1
Leonard & Squier 5/14
Lindley & Morse 5/2
Mackinton, Lawrie & Co. 5/6
Manton & Hallet 5/9
McLeod & Salisbury 5/9
Mechanics Bank of New York 5/5
Morton & Reisner 5/13
Nathaniel L. & George Griswold 5/7, 5/8
New England Coal Mining Co. 5/8
Newbold & DeGroot 5/6
Patterson Manufacturing Co. 5/8
Pearce & Bullock 5/5
Peckham & Bull 5/9
Plummer Granite Co. 5/15
Providence Tool Co. 5/5
R.M. Blackwell & Co. 5/8
Raymond & Fullerton 5/6
Rhode Island Machine Shop 5/5
Robbins Cordage Co. 5/10
Rogers Williams Insurance Co. 5/17
S.H. Cottrell & Co. 5/15
Samuel Engle & Co. 5/14
Samuel Page & Son 5/12, 5/14
Schermerhorn, Banker & Co. 5/2, 5/3
Sewall, Day & Co. 5/7, 5/8, 5/9, 5/10, 5/11, 5/12, 5/13, 5/14, 5/15, 5/16
Simes, Chase & Co. 5/13
Smith, Dove & Co. 5/2, 5/3, 5/4
Sprague & Tappan 5/12
Steelman & Townsend 5/18
T. Tibbals & Son 5/6
Taber & Co. 5/6
Taber & Grinnell 5/9
Taft Bros. 5/13
Tibbals & Co. 5/9, 5/10, 5/11, 5/13
Traders Bank 5/9
Tucker, Cooper & Co. 5/1, 5/8
U.S. Bunting Co. 5/15
Valley Falls Co. 5/16
Valley Falls Manufacturing Co. 5/17
Vanderbeck & Sons 5/14
W.R. Bowers & Co. 5/2
W.T. & J.F. Donaldson 5/18
Wheatons & Baker 5/9
Whetmore, Hoppin & Co. 5/1
Whiton, Bros. & Co. 5/13
Whiton, Train & Co. 5/7, 5/8, 5/9
Whitwell & Seaver 5/2
Winsor & Bradlee 5/14, 5/15

Index to Corporate Names

AGENT (Sloop) 5/4
AMERICA 5/8
AMOS FALKENBURG (Schooner) 5/15, 5/16, 5/17
ANN MARIA (Bark) 5/3
ANNIE ARCHBALD (Bark) 5/9
CANONCHET (Steamer) 5/9
CHIEF (Sloop) 5/6
D.W. VAUGHN (Schooner) 5/11, 5/14
DANIEL WEBSTER 5/8
ELBAS (Brig) 5/1
FOSTER (Ship) 5/8
HANNAH [BLACKMAN?] (Schooner) 5/4
HUDSON (Brig) 5/8
IDA MCLEOD (Brig) 5/11, 5/12
INO (Schooner) 5/13
J.H. WATERMAN (Ship) 5/9
LAMPHERE 5/4
LIBERTY (Schooner) 5/7
MARBLEHEAD (Bark) 5/17
MARIA JANE 5/15
MARTHA ANNA (Bark) 5/9
MARY BROCKWAY (Schooner) 5/10
NEW ERA (Brig) 5/11, 5/14
NORTH AMERICA (Ship) 5/9
OREGON 5/6
POCOMOKE (Schooner) 5/8
RHODE ISLAND (Sloop) 5/11
S.P. HAWES (Schooner) 5/17
SUSAN & SARAH 5/1
VIGILANT (Sloop) 5/4
WELLFLEET (Ship) 5/9
WILLIAM CRAMP (Tug) 5/14
WILLIAM O. IRISH (Schooner) 5/18

Subjects

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
William Earle Papers (Coll. 28)
Subtitle
An Inventory of the Collection at the G. W. Blunt White Library, Mystic Seaport
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Repository Details

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Contact:
G. W. Blunt White Library
Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc.
112 Greenmanville Avenue
Mystic CT 06355 United States
860.572.5367

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