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Eric T. Ball Papers
This is a collection contains minutes of the commission and pamphlets, clippings, maps, other papers relating to tax collection, leasing, and harvesting of oyster grounds. It also includes information regarding shellfish in the Mystic River.
Fish Family Collection
This is a collection of correspondence (1810-1864) and 12 diaries (1811-1868). Persons represented include Asa Fish, Dr. Asa Fish, Asa Fish III, Benjamin Fish, Emeline (Beebe) Fish, John Dean Fish, Prudence Fish, Capt. Nathan Fish, Sands Helme Fish, Silas Fish, and Fanny Dean (Fish) Woodhull.
Frank F. Upson Papers
The collection includes cashbooks, notebooks, and diary of appointments, relating to Upson's sailmaking business.
Fulwar Skipwith Papers
Papers, assembled by Skipwith pertaining to case histories of French spoliation claims, including correspondence, powers-of-attorney, protests, certifications, manifests, inventories, and charter-parties for the barks POLLY and NANCY; the brigs EXPERIENCE, MARIA, FAIRY and MARY; the schooners JAVA, ILLINOIS, NANCY (of Philadelphia), PHOEBE, HENRY & GUSTAVUS and NANCY (of Providence, R.I.); the ships FAME, and HOPE; the sloop PHILADELPHIA PACKET; and the snow ELIZA.
George Blunt Wendell Collection
George Comer Collection
The George Comer Collection contains a small number of letters, some printed matter, and numerous clippings (copies) relative to Comer's voyages and activities. There are also seven whaling/sealing journals and two naval journals, along with four notebooks kept by Capt. Comer.
George Dunn Gilderdale Papers
This is a collection of correspondence, accounts, logbooks, notebooks, shipping documents, home remedies for ailments and diseases, etc. Topics include Gilderdale's command of the bark PERU on a whaling and sealing voyage to the South Shetland Islands, the steamships EUTERPE and GENERAL SEDGEWICK, and the ship MARY AND SUSAN; his Civil War service in the U.S. Navy on board the U.S.S. ADOLPH HUGEL, ARLETTA, COMMODORE READ, and YANKEE; and flags and signals.
George W. Bliven Papers
The papers contain bills, statements for sperm oil, bills of lading, receipts, and journal (1868-1871) of a voyage by the bark ELIZABETH SWIFT, trapped in the Arctic ice pack with 29 other vessels in Sept. 1871. Other vessels represented include barks FANNY and A.J. POPE.
George W. Dow Papers
The George W. Dow Papers include accounts, bills, receipts, charter-parties, clearance and protection papers, port regulations, crew lists and shipping orders. Most of this material is relevant to the brig WENONAH, which carried coal, lead, flour, molasses, and other foodstuffs to ports in the U.S., West Indies, Canary Islands, and to Cadiz, Spain.