Scope and Content From the Collection: The Enoch Silsby Papers consist of four boxes containing 1839 pieces of which 1310 relate to his business operations and 529 to his personal or household expenses. The papers pertaining to the construction of the brig CASPIAN in Newburyport, Massachusetts, by Elisha Briggs in 1816, present a rather complete account of the various expenditures involved in the building of such a vessel at this time. The same may be said for the papers relating to the construction of the ship...