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Hilgard Pannes Diaries

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-209
Abstract

Journals, kept by Pannes on board the ship JOSEPH CONRAD and 4-master bark PARMA on training and shipping Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Pacific voyages; together with private journal kept during a tour in Saudi Arabia. Persons represented include Alan Villiers.

Dates: 1933 Feb 22-1939 Mar 1
Found in: Manuscripts

Hillman Shipyard Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-009
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1827 - 1862
Found in: Manuscripts

Hiram A. Balch collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-090
Abstract The Hiram A. Balch Collection contains approximately 5,000 pieces of manuscript material relative primarily to Hiram A. Balch, a merchant, lumber dealer, and shipowner from Trescott, Maine. Although the inclusive dates for this collection are 1792-1893, the material is concentrated between the years 1830-1860. Items relative to other members of the Balch family are also included. The names of John Blach, Charles Balch, Horatio Balch, Laffayette Balch, and Susan Balch appear in random fashion...
Dates: 1792-1893‚ (bulk 1830-1860)
Found in: Manuscripts

Hiram C. Holmes Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-175
Abstract The Hiram C. Holmes is housed in ten document boxes. The first five boxes contain general business bills, accounts, receipts, and other documents, chronologically arranged by month and year. Boxes 6-8 contain all the correspondence, mostly incoming, found in the collection. Arranged chronologically by day, month, and year, it has also been further organized into letters from the three companies Holmes did most of his business; papers concerning efforts to patent an improvement in gear axle...
Dates: 1850 - 1882
Found in: Manuscripts

Hotchkiss-Gray Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-089
Abstract This is a collection of diaries, journals, letterpress copybooks, and logs, kept by Gray, his wife, and her father, Capt. Levi Hotchkiss, of Gloucester, Mass. It also includes logs kept by Hotchkiss on board the ships SHOOTING STAR, JOHN LUND and GRACE DARLING, engaged in the China, India, and South American trade; journals and diaries kept by Emma Gray, aboard the ship HARVARD (1855-1856) before her marriage and the steamer FIRE QUEEN, containing descriptions of China; and logs kept by...
Dates: 1851 - 1882
Found in: Manuscripts

Irving and Electa Johnson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-240
Abstract Papers, chiefly relating to the world wide voyages taken by Johnson and his wife, Electa, aboard their vessels: schooner YANKEE (sailed around the world 3 times before being sold in 1941), brigantine YANKEE (formerly a German North Sea pilot boat purchased in 1946 and used four additional circumnavigations in the next 11 years), and their dream ship, a 50′ ketch YANKEE, which cruised on Europe’s canals, waterways, and seas. Includes logbooks kept on brigantine Yankee, written by whomever was...
Dates: 1920 - 1976
Found in: Manuscripts

Isaac Hinckley Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-184
Abstract

Correspondence, journals, account books, and miscellaneous notebook, kept by Hinckley, concerning his activities as master of brig REAPER and ships TARTER and CANTON, from Boston to ports in the Middle East, India and China.

Dates: 1809 - 1818
Found in: Manuscripts

Isaac Williams Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-015
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1787-1820
Found in: Manuscripts

Jacob Little Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-137
Abstract

Correspondence, business accounts, notes, disbursements, insurance policies, bills, receipts, and shipping papers. Also included material from the Jeffersonian embargo period. Ships represented include ALLIGATOR, OLIVE BRANCH, ARROW, ALFRED, and ROMULUS.

Dates: 1787 - 1816
Found in: Manuscripts

James A. Latham Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-083
Abstract

Includes ten journals (1860-1897) of daily social and business events; accounts and enrollments for seven sloops and schooners; account book for earnings on shares in numerous smacks and schooners; and bills payable for shipbuilding materials, labor, and cartage accounts.

Dates: 1848 - 1897
Found in: Manuscripts

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