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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

Marine Jurisprudence Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-098
Abstract

Items in this collection pertain to 28 cases of marine jurisprudence involving litigation at Portland, Cumberland County, Massachusetts (now Maine), during an 11 year period between 1798 and 1809. Organization is by specific case, usually identified by the name of the vessel involved. The names of shipmasters and shipowners, insurance companies, charterers, shipwrights, and other individuals and firms involved in these cases appear throughout the collection.

Dates: 1798 - 1809
Found in: Manuscripts

Mason R. Packer Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-235
Abstract The Mason R. Packer Papers is primarily a scattered collection of financial papers and correspondence. This collection includes receipts, bills and accounts, contained in one document box. Most of the 320 pieces and three small volumes are in good condition. During this time, Mason R. Packer was involved in various shipping and salvaging operations in Connecticut and Florida. These papers provide a glimpse into the activities of Packer and other Mystic businessmen in the mid-nineteenth...
Dates: ca. 1832-1856
Found in: Manuscripts

Matthew Bartlett--John F. Brooks Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-157
Abstract The John F. Brooks Records total 111 volumes dated 1858 to 1915. The first 55 volumes are letterbooks, 1869-1915, 9 cashbooks follow, then 8 journals/daybooks dated 1877-1915. Following those are 8 summary journals, 6 trail balance books, 17 invoice books, 2 cargo books, and 3 miscellaneous record books. Volumes with entries prior to 1880 are primarily records of the M. Bartlett shipping business of which John Brooks was a partner. Matthew Bartlett died in May 1880,and thus for all practical...
Dates: 1858 - 1914
Found in: Manuscripts

Milton J. Burns Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-186
Abstract

Letters from Burns to his wife, Mary (Waud) Burns, in New Jersey, relating to his stay in England from Feb. to July 1910, where he tried selling his work to various publishers; together with samples of his engravings from Harpers' New Monthly Magazine, Literary Digest, Century Magazine and others

Dates: 1880 - 1928
Found in: Manuscripts

Model Yachting Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-284
Abstract

Collection, 1898-1998, of papers of various model yachting organizations and influential people in the development of model yachting in the United States. Consists mainly of newsletters, collected by Roderick A. Carr, meeting minutes, rules and regulations, Theodore W. Houk's correspondence and card files as well as newspaper clippings. Complements The Vintage Model Yacht Group Collection (SP Coll.136) in the Daniel S. Gregory Ships Plans Library.

Dates: 1898 - 1998
Found in: Manuscripts

Morgan Barney Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-207
Abstract Diaries, notebooks, diplomas, building specifications for various yachts, and miscellaneous papers. Includes invoices (1838-1843) of whale oil, sperm candles, etc., shipped by Capt. Edward Merrill of New Bedford, kept by Barney's father, George Barney, who clerked for Merrill; schoolboy diary and notebooks kept by his son, John "Peter" Barney, who worked on his father's boats on weekends and holidays; and diary (1943) reflecting Morgan Barney's debilitating stroke (leaving him with slurred...
Dates: 1838-1943‚ (bulk 1899-1943)
Found in: Manuscripts

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