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Henry Ashbey Collection
Collection of account books relating to the bark C.S. WILLIAMS and schooners ORIENT and FRANCES AMY, which Ashbey commanded; business letters; letters from Ashbey, in Apalachicola, Florida., written to his wife, Abby Jane; and other accounts and papers. Includes letters and affidavits (1856-1857) regarding unpaid notes of the Texas Republic to Henry Ashbey.
Henry Grinnell Letters
The collection is limited to an 11 year period, primarily to the years 1860-1871 and the Charles F. Hall polar expedition. Included are letters to Grinnell from C.F. Hall in New London, Connecticut, and Washington, D.C., regarding Arctic exploration and Hall's work in obtaining a Congressional appropriation for an expedition. Included also is a list of donations to the Hall Franklin expedition of 1860.
Henry W. Hiller Collection
Correspondence, diary, notes for speeches, documents, photographs, and other papers of Hiller and his wife Liuboff Gouberoff Hiller, relating to his career as a whaler out of New Bedford, Massachusetts; his work in Siberia as a commercial agent for Boston importers William H. Boardman & Company; as U.S. consul during the Lincoln administration; his specialization in the jewelry trade in New York, and his association with Tiffany & Company.
Henry Wadsworth Fletcher Collection
Hezekiah Dickens Collection
This is a collection of household bills and receipts, and medical and tax receipts, of Dickens' family; together with bills, receipts, and settlements, relating to the whaling ships TYBEE and NEWARK.
Hillman Shipyard Collection
Correspondence; genealogical notes, including material on early Nantucket whaling; ships' lines of the ship UNION; spar measurements for ships CHARLES W. MORGAN, ARGO, CALIFORNIA, SEA NYMPH, BONITA, and SOVEREIGN OF THE SEAS; dimensions of ship SEA WITCH and barks ELIZABETH HULL and JANE A. FALKENBERG; surveys of ships MARIA THERESA and HIAWATHA, and barks MERMAID and JOHN P. WEST; memo of charges for repairs to ship HUNTRESS; and list of vessels built by the yard.
Hiram A. Balch collection
Hotchkiss-Gray Collection
Irving and Electa Johnson Collection
Isaac Williams Papers
Account book (1811-1820) recording William's business transactions with Cyrus Williams, the schooners FREE GIFT and GENERAL JACKSON, sloop POLLY, smack DREAD, and other vessels; together with certification, bills, accounts and other papers. All the vessels were engaged in the coastwise trade, chiefly carrying cheese and livestock.