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Silas Talbot Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-018
Abstract
Correspondence, accounts, account books, bills, receipts, genealogical notes, and printed material reflecting Talbot's career, especially his command of the U.S.S. CONSTITUTION (1798-1801). Other subjects include the impressment of American sailors by the British Navy; activities as U. S. agent in the West Indies assisting American seamen; captain of the privateer ship GENERAL WASHINGTON (1780), and his supervision of the outfitting of the sloop HAWK (1778), the U.S.S. CONSTITUTION (1798,...
Dates:
1767 - 1867
Found in:
Manuscripts
Stephen B. Chace Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-014
Abstract
Collection of correspondence and business papers of Stephen B. Chace. Includes a logbook (1812) of the ship VALENTINE, under Chace's command, on a voyage from Port Louis, Mauritius to Canton, China, and then towards Providence, RI; two ledgers (1810-1814) containing business and ships' accounts; account book (1817-1820) with Merchants Bank of New York City; letters from Chace to his wife, in Somerset, Massachusetts, and Jonathan Bowen, merchant in Newport, Rhode Island; and bill of...
Dates:
1810 - 1822
Found in:
Manuscripts
Vintage Model Yacht Group Collection
Collection
Identifier: SP-Coll-136
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1900 - 1970
Found in:
Daniel S. Gregory Ships Plans Library
Washington Insurance Company in Providence Marine Insurance Policies
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-021
Abstract
The marine insurance policies contained in this collection represent the years following the companies inception, 1802-1808, with the bulk of the policies written in 1806. Policies are arranged by policy number, and clearly follow a chronological pattern.
Dates:
1802-1808
Found in:
Manuscripts
William and John Atkin Collection
Collection
Identifier: SP-Coll-145
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1919-1993
Found in:
Daniel S. Gregory Ships Plans Library
William C. Hall Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-054
Abstract
This is a collection of correspondence, notes, accounts, and insurance claims (Middletown Insurance Company, Norwich Insurance Company), relating to Hall's business activities. Vessels represented include the brig HOPE, sloop LAZY, schooner RESOLUTION, schooner CHARLES, schooner PLANTER and ship GEORGE.
Dates:
1804 - 1823
Found in:
Manuscripts
William Earle Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-028
Abstract
Correspondence, bills, receipts, accounts, and other papers relating to the operation of the bark AURA, the brigs ARIA, IDA MCLEOD, ISADOR, NEW ERA, and PERSEVERANCE, and the schooners AMOS FALKENBURG, D.W. VAUGHAN, HANNAH BLACKMAN, INO, ROBERT J. MERCER, and WM. O. IRISH, which carried coal, cotton, sugar, and foodstuffs and traded in U.S., and West Indian ports. Correspondents include Charles H. Arnold, Hiram Baker, David P. Davis, Samuel A. Emerson, Samuel M. Gifford, George K. Rackett,...
Dates:
1834-1876
Found in:
Manuscripts
W.P. Stephens Collection
Collection
Identifier: SP-Coll-001
Dates:
1929
Found in:
Daniel S. Gregory Ships Plans Library