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Alfred H. Pinkham Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-074
Abstract This collection is comprised of 15 file follders contained in one document case. The first 12 folders contain shipping papers, etc, arranged chronologically between 1863 and 1884. Included here are outfitting bills and receipts, charter-parties, bills of lading, cargo manifests, letters to Alfred Pinkham and various port and consulate documents. Folder 13 has two "Fisherman's Shipping Papers" for schooner DIPLOMA, 1873, while folder 14 contains nine shipping articles for various schooners...
Dates: 1863 - 1884
Found in: Manuscripts

Anthony Smalley Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-013
Abstract This is a collection of correspondence, charter parties, and accounts mentioning cargoes predominantly of hides, fruit, salt, and lumber. Includes letters and telegrams to Smalley as master of the bark JENNIE CUSHMAN and the schooner EMMA C. LATHAM and as agent for Francis C. Butman, a Boston shipping and commission merchant, in St. Vincent, Cape Verde Islands, and Goree, Senegal. Other vessels mentioned in the correspondence include schooners ARTHUR EGGLESO, ANNIE FAIRFAX, and WARREN...
Dates: 1870-1879
Found in: Manuscripts

Asa P. Morse Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-101
Abstract

This collection consists of thirteen boxes and nine volumes primarily containing business correspondence, accounts, receipts, cancelled checks, checkbooks, and bankbooks relating to the cooperage firm of Asa P. Morse between the years of 1855 and 1880. There is little personal correspondence.

Dates: 1855 - 1880
Found in: Manuscripts

Beebe Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-040
Abstract

Letters, personal accounts, and other papers, of Silas Beebe (1782-1863), shipmaster from Groton, Conn., and other members of the family; together with ship's papers for the coastal schooner LaGrange, out of Mystic, Conn.

Dates: 1761-1904
Found in: Manuscripts

Benjamin D. Cleveland Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-093
Abstract

The papers include journals, logs, or accounts for the bark CHARLES W. MORGAN, the schooners W. A. GRABER and R. S. GRAHAM, and the brigs DAISY and LEANORA. Also included are some of Captain Cleveland's personal accounts, stocks, etc.

Dates: 1899 - 1924
Found in: Manuscripts

Benjamin F. Noyes Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-052
Abstract

This is a collection of correspondence, logbooks, accounts, bills, receipts, insurance policies, shipping articles, bills of lading, charter parties, and other papers. Vessels represented include the brig J.G. ANDERSON, brig BELLE OF THE BAY, brig GENERAL BAILEY and schooner CHARMER.

Dates: 1860 - 1880
Found in: Manuscripts

Calista M. Stover Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-105
Abstract

The essence of this collection is a series of diaries and journals kept by Calista Stover and her daughter on several voyages by the Ship DANIEL BARNES between 1882 and 1891. Joseph Stover was Master of the vessel and ports of call included Honolulu, Australia, and Japan.



Dates: 1859 - 1881
Found in: Manuscripts

Carl C. Cutler Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-100
Abstract

Correspondence, notes, and other materials, relating to Cutler's research projects. Includes manuscripts of his books Queens of the Western Ocean (1961) about American packet ships and Greyhounds of the Sea, the Story of the American Clipper Ship (1930) and various articles written by Cutler.

Dates: 1901 - 1966
Found in: Manuscripts

Charles C. Sisson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-114
Abstract

Journals (8 v., 1863-1882) reflecting 29 voyages of the ships CHANCELLOR, BRIDGEWATER, JEREMIAH THOMPSON, and THOMAS DANA (the latter three of which Sisson was master), sailing out of New York and Boston; and letter copybook (1881-1884).

Dates: 1863 - 1884
Found in: Manuscripts

Charles K. Stillman Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-324
Scope and Contents The Charles K. Stillman Collection contains the personal, educational, and and professional papers of Charles Kirtland Stillman. The professional papers include records from Stillman’s medical career in both the military and as a civillian, including those of his time at the Mystic Home Guard. These papers include membership cards, records of certification, and certificates of membership in professional organizations. The military papers also include ephemera, forms, correspondence, and...
Dates: 1894 - 1938
Found in: Manuscripts

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Hillman Shipyard 1
Isaac Jeanes & Co. 1
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Washington Insurance Company in Providence 1