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Kermit Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-068
Abstract This is a collection of manuscripts relating to the business and domestic activities of ship master Capt. Henry Kermit, who also owned a store and wharf in New York, and members of the Kermit family, including letters, bills, accounts, receipts, and documents from seaports in England, Europe, and the United States relating to the shipping activities of Capt. Kermit and his merchant shipowner sons Henry and Robert; items relating to family/house expenses, running a retail store, property...
Dates: 1790-1860
Found in: Manuscripts

L. Francis Herreshoff Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-138
Abstract The L. Francis Collection consists primarily of Mr. Herreshoff's correspondence between the years 1925 and 1971. In addition, there are drafts of Mr. Herreshoff's books, The Wizard of Bristol, Common Sense of Yacht Design, The Complete Cruiser, and Introduction to Yachting. Drafts of various articles written by L. Francis Herreshoff for Rudder magazine are present, as are miscellaneous types of information relative to many of his designs. Finally, there are numerous memos and monographs,...
Dates: 1925-1971 (bulk 1940-1970)
Found in: Manuscripts

Larkin Turner Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-095
Abstract

Three scrapbooks containing correspondence, receipts, wills, and other documents and papers, relating chiefly to Turner's seafaring activities; 9 journals kept by Turner aboard the ships CALUMET, PRINT, and PACTOTUS, sloop NABBY, and brig TRIM; 2 journals kept by Turner's son, Thomas Larkin Turner (b. 1812) aboard the ship HENRY and brig PALESTINE; and genealogical information.

Dates: 1797-1854; (bulk 1804-1832)
Found in: Manuscripts

Latham Cross Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-136
Abstract Bills, receipts, notes, 2 letters, freight lists, port documentation, disbursements, owner/agent accounts, and other papers, relating chiefly to Cross' shipping activity as captain, 1814-1817, of the sloop EMILY, trading mainly with coastal ports, and to other business and domestic accounts. Also included are minor materials relating to the whaling industry and his activities as master of the whaling ships TIMOLEON and PERSIA. The vast majority of this collection is related to Captain...
Dates: 1809-1854, (bulk 1814-1830)
Found in: Manuscripts

Legal Records of the Smack L.A. Macomber

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-045
Abstract

Legal briefs (chiefly rough drafts), probate certificates, and powers of attorney, relating to the destruction of the L.A. MACOMBER. Includes copy of rules of the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims, together with act organizing the court (1874); correspondence to lawyer Frederick A. Holmes, of Mystic River, Conn., representing the complainants (i.e. owner and crew of vessel) from John Davis, clerk of the court, relating to the cases; and letter giving final disposition of each case.

Dates: 1863-1876
Found in: Manuscripts

Levi B. Gillchrest Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-147
Abstract Letters, bills, accounts, receipts, etc. relating to Captain Gillchrest's maritime activities, chiefly letters to Gillchrest from ship captains, including his father, Joseph Gillchrest, as well as agents such as Baring Brothers, R.L. Gillchrest & Co., and Snow & Burgess, relating to freight rates, market conditions, shipbuilding, difficulties with vessels and crews, etc. Topics include Gillchrest's ownership of shares in numerous vessels involved in coastwise and transatlantic...
Dates: 1833-1865, (bulk 1850-1864), additional information 1979-1980
Found in: Manuscripts

Lord Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-140
Abstract Business and personal correspondence, accounts, bills, receipts, shipping and cargo records, marine insurance policies, articles of agreement, charter parties, bills of lading, and other documents, chiefly relating to the shipping activities of Daniel Walker Lord (1800-1880) and other family members, including William Jefferds (1753-1820), Nathaniel Lord (1776-1815), Lieut. Tobias Lord (1748-1808), and Tobias Lord (1778-1854), the family's shipping agent in New York City. Includes published...
Dates: 1800-1880 (bulk 1810-1860)
Found in: Manuscripts

Lorenzo Bryant Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-106
Abstract

The collection includes bills, receipts, crew lists, accounts, insurance policies, port papers, letters, and account books.

Dates: 1869-1908
Found in: Manuscripts

Mallory Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-005
Abstract The Mallory Family Papers, 1808-1966 (bulk between 1886-1941), consist of twenty fiberdex cartons containing approximately 6,000 pieces and 86 volumes which depict 150 years of business activities of an important American shipping and shipbuilding family in varying degrees of completeness. They include primarily general correspondence, genealogical notes, racing records of family yachts, yachting recollections, statistical data on vessels owned and/or built by the family, newspaper...
Dates: 1808 - 1966
Found in: Manuscripts

Maria W. Tibbetts Bills of Sale

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-099
Abstract

This collection contains bills of sale for 22 vessels, transferring ownership to Maria W. Tibbetts of Camden, Maine. Most of the transfers are from Joseph H. and H.M.A. Norwood. Vessels represented include barks SAMUEL D. CARLETON and RICHARD PARSONS and brig MARIA W. NORWOOD.

Dates: 1881 - 1883; date
Found in: Manuscripts

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Hillman Shipyard 1
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Mallory, Clifford Day, Jr., 1916- 1
Washington Insurance Company in Providence 1
 

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