Abstract This collection contains 5 volumes and a photograph of Capt. John Carter. Three volumes are Carters' journals for voyages in the Bark RAMBLER, while the two remaining volumes are account books containing crew accounts (Bark RAMBLER), and Carter's vessel accounts with the owners of Ship ADALINE and RAMBLER. Journal entries are generally brief, with emphasis on weather and navigational information. The account books are more detailed. Crew members are identified and Carter's vessel accounts...

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Journals (8 v., 1863-1882) reflecting 29 voyages of the ships CHANCELLOR, BRIDGEWATER, JEREMIAH THOMPSON, and THOMAS DANA (the latter three of which Sisson was master), sailing out of New York and Boston; and letter copybook (1881-1884).

Abstract Although the scope of this material covers the period of 1846-1901, there is very little included relative to Clark's post-Civil War business and domestic life. The bulk of the collection covers his merchant shipping activity (1854-1863) and provides an intensive look into a maritime business enterprise. Items include various accounts, shipping papers, invoices, insurance policies, bills, receipts, bills of lading, port sales, etc., relating to Boston-West Africa trade, and in particular,...

Abstract A collection of approximately 1,000 detailing the business activities of D.G. & W.B. Bacon, one of the largest shipping firms in Boston, between 1861 and 1866. Letters to the firm, chiefly from commission merchants, describing market condition, their business activities, politics, and weather, in East Indian and Chinese ports. The letters in this collection were years ago glued into a letter book. Many still remain pasted together, which prohibits us from arranging them in perfect...

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...

Abstract Business and family correspondence, ships' bills and accounts, abstracts logs and journals, ratebooks, notebooks, disbursements, statements of general average, photos of ship paintings, family photos, Wendell genealogy, and other papers; and correspondence, research, clippings, and other papers (1900-1949) of F. Hinkley, A. Wendell, C. Cutler, and others, relating to George Blunt Wendell. The collection also contains reminiscences of George Blunt Wendell, 1847, of a visit to New Orleans and...

Abstract Correspondence, business records, bills of lading, logbooks, account books, ledgers, court papers, diaries, poems, genealogies, family papers, and other materials, of/or relating to William Goddard and his son, William W. Goddard, owners and managers of the DAUNTLESS, CRUSADER, CHARLOTTE, GENTOO, and other ships, often carrying copper, trading in New York City, San Francisco, and many international ports. Includes contract books of New Haven Copper Works; freight measurements of Goddard...

Abstract Correspondence, accounts, bills, receipts, bills of lading, deeds, and account books. Vessels represented include the brig Emma Isadora and barks Emma, Susan Jane, Edward Fletcher, Jennie, and Osmanli. The vessels transported such cargoes as opium, rum, wine, brandy, wool, raisons, figs, olive oil, otto of roses, and general merchandise. The ports frequented most often were Smyrna, Turkey; London, England; Bordeaux and Marseilles, France; Buenos Ayres, Argentina; Puerto Cabello, Venezuela;...

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The Isaiah Larabee Papers contain primarily business papers, correspondence and documents relative to Larabee's maritime career and the ships he commanded.

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This collection contains correspondence, accounts, bills, receipts, crew lists, bills of lading, and charter parties for the barks OCEAN BRIDE and KREMLIN, merchant vessels carrying primarily lumber, grain and general cargo.