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Samuel Watts Collection
The Samuel Watts Collection consists of 57 document boxes containing approximately 24,000 pieces and 6 volumes relative to the career of a prominent 19th century shipbuilder and shipowner, Samuel Watts of Thomaston, Maine. Included are business correspondence, bills, receipts, accounts, disbursements, dividend books, ledgers, and a scrapbook. The bulk of material is concentrated between 1850-1890.
Scoresby Family Papers
Chiefly papers of William Scoresby (1760-1829), whaling master, of Whitby, England, and his sons, William Scoresby, Jr. (1789-1857), whaling master and later clergyman, and Thomas Scoresby (1804-1866). Includes correspondence, diaries, notes, lectures, sermons, whaleship accounts, whaling journals, list of whaling vessels built in or hailing from Whitby, and autobiography of Thomas Scoresby.
Silas Talbot Collection
Steamboat-Inspection Service Certificates and Licenses
The collection contains certificates and documents issued to steam-powered water craft by the Steamboat Inspection Service, Dept. of Commerce and Labor, primarily through the districts of New London and New Haven, Connecticut. Also includes pilots, masters, and engineers certificates; inspection certificates for passenger and freight steamers, towing and ferry boats, and steam yachts; and miscellaneous documentation relating to steam boilers, licenses extended, and licenses suspended.
Stephen B. Chace Papers
Talbot Family Papers
Tate Family Collection
This collection contains primarily household papers, bills, family letters, account books, tax statements, and general business transactions of William and Isaac C. Tate of New London, Connecticut.
Thomas C. Harding papers
Correspondence, bills, receipts, accounts, bills of lading, charter parties, clearance papers, and agreements, relating to Harding's activities as master of the schooner JULIA ANN, engaged in the coastwise trade, and the bark GEORGE KINGMAN, engaged in the transatlantic trade, both out of Boston.
Thomas W. Dunn Collection
Plans from the firm of John H. Wells, Inc., New York City and other designers and a 80 page notebook (ca. 1929-1931) containing specifications, photographs, and clippings concerning large motor yachts.