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Legal Records of the Smack L.A. Macomber
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.
Mallory Family Collection
Newman Family Naval Papers
Oscar F. Stanton Collection
This collection includes official and personal correspondence, essays, drafts of articles and speeches, orders, and clippings. Present also, are testimony and other documents relative to the wreck of the U.S.S. KEARSARGE in the Gulf of Mexico in 1894. Volumes include an abstract log of the Store Ship PURVEYOR, and a captain's data notebook do U.S.F.S TENNESSEE, ca. 1885.
Passenger Ship Collection
Postcards, brochures, menus, time-tables, tickets and other ephemeral material collected by Mystic Seaport, relating to vessels that carried passengers, even if that vessel had other primary functions.
Philo S. Shelton Letters
Letters from Shelton to Moses Taylor, a New York merchant, including discussions of sales, purchases, and shipments of sugar, rice, flour, molasses, honey, Havana cigars, and tobacco; and the specie crisis of 1836 and its effect on the merchant community.
Records of A. Irving & Co.
The collection consists of two ledgers, a journal, and a materials daybook.
Records of E.P. Treat & Co.
Records of Isaac Jeanes & Co.
Records of J. & D.D. Beckwith
Correspondence, accounts with 135 vessels of sloop size and larger, general accounts, ships' specifications, agreements, receipts, bills of lading, invoices, bank drafts, materials lists, deeds, tax bills, and bills payable and receivable, of a family of merchants and shipbuilders, of New London, Conn., conducting business with firms in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York. Persons represented include owners James Beckwith and his son, Daniel D. Beckwith.