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Elisha H. Holmes Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-036
Abstract Material relating to Holmes' partnership with George Randall and John C. Haskell in the dredging firm of Randall, Haskell, and Holmes of New Bedford, Mass. Includes correspondence relating to partnership arrangements, the patent for operations, boat building, contracts, financial matters, daily operation of the dredging boats, patent difficulties, and outfitting. Also includes accounting records of the firm, including checks, bills, accounts, account books, ledgers, logbooks, daybooks,...
Dates: 1832-1848
Found in: Manuscripts

Eliza T. Edwards Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-248
Abstract

Several of Eliza Edwards letters were saved and are now filed chronologically in the first four folders of the collection. At some time in her life she also composed her "Reminiscences of the Sandwich Islands.", which, along with a typed transcript of the same, follows the correspondence folders. The remainder of the collection consists of three additional legal documents; a deed, mortgage payment receipt, and a death notice.

Dates: 1857 - 1865
Found in: Manuscripts

Enoch Hobart Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-174
Abstract

The collection has been organized chronologically including letters from Hobart regarding the disposition of vessels and cargo; miscellaneous accounts, receipts, and business agreements; instructions to shipmasters; copies of cargo invoices; accounts of cargo sales; and expenses for construction, repair, and outfitting of various vessels. The papers also covey Hobart's difficulties in the West Indies trade during the French and Indian War (1754-1763.)

Dates: 1754 - 1766
Found in: Manuscripts

Enoch Silsby Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-006
Abstract The Enoch Silsby Collection is relative primarily to Silsby's business activities and, to a lesser degree, his personal or household expenses. Included are letters from merchants, mostly in New Orleans, Louisiana; Savanna, Georgia; Wiscasset, Maine; New York, New York; London and Liverpool, England; and Marseilles, France. These letters deal chiefly with Silsby's commercial enterprises including trading in fish, tobacco, and cotton. A large portion of the letters, especially those from...
Dates: 1788-1841
Found in: Manuscripts

Enoch Wood Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-264
Abstract Papers, logbooks, and account books kept by Enoch Wood on board the ships GEORGE, NORMAN, MOGUL, CHATHAM, CHARIOT, GEORGE CABOT, and ALABAMA, as well as the brig KREMLIN. Vessels were involved in the coastal United States and transatlantic trade, carrying various cargoes primarily between the ports of Boston, New Orleans, Savannah, Charleston, Havre, Calcutta, and Liverpool. The collection also includes oversize file material and horizontal file material such as shipping papers for the...
Dates: 1757-1877 (Bulk 1822-1845)
Found in: Manuscripts

Eric T. Ball Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-073
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1927 - 1963
Found in: Manuscripts

Ernest F. Gates Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-218
Abstract Chiefly correspondence, clippings, notes, and memorabilia relating to Gate's whaling hobby and his curatorship of the Jibboom Club. Includes a large amount of personal correspondence with William H. Tripp, director of Old Dartmouth Historical Society, and George H. Reynolds, New Bedford, Mass., printer, relating to whaling matters, the efforts to keep the bark CHARLES W. MORGAN in New Bedford, the failure of fund raising efforts, subsequent move of the vessel to Mystic, Conn., when it was...
Dates: 1927 - 1967
Found in: Manuscripts

Everett A. Scholfield Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-148
Abstract

Correspondence, accounts, bills, order books, cashbooks, appointment books, price lists, photography formulas, charts, advertisements, technical information, and other papers. Persons represented include photographers (and partners) Nathan E. Nash, Lucius Thompson, W.T. Dyer, Addison Scholfield, and George E. Tingley, and E.A. Scholfield's wife, Leonora B. (Ashbey) Scholfield.

Dates: 1843 - 1930
Found in: Manuscripts

Everett St. John Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-326
Abstract

Plans for marine instruments and vessels, correspondence, and research of Everett St. John, a twentieth century marine instrument and small craft designer based in southern Connecticut.

Dates: 1916 - 1977
Found in: Manuscripts

Facilities and Maintenance Records

 Record Group
Identifier: RG-005-fac
Dates: 1939 - 2025
Found in: Museum Archives

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Naval architects--United States 25
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Whale oil 6
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Death at sea 5
Groton (Conn.) 5
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Naval architects 5
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Undetermined 33
 
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Eastern Ice Yachting Association 1
Hillman Shipyard 1
Isaac Jeanes & Co. 1
Leviathan (Steamship) 1
Mallory, Clifford Day, Jr., 1916- 1