Abstract Collection of business and household papers including correspondence, bills, accounts, receipts, freight lists, manifests or invoices of cargo, records of disbursements from vessels commanded by Lee, and other papers relating to the brigs CAROLINE (1802-1803), BULIA (1803-1804), SUSSEX (1805-1908), JEROME (1824-1826), PLATO (1831-1832), and LEXINGTON (1833) and ships WALTER (1810) and SIX BROTHERS (1827-1830) and to his activities as supercargo on the ships BELLE (1822) and UNION (1823) and...

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The collection is limited to an 11 year period, primarily to the years 1860-1871 and the Charles F. Hall polar expedition. Included are letters to Grinnell from C.F. Hall in New London, Connecticut, and Washington, D.C., regarding Arctic exploration and Hall's work in obtaining a Congressional appropriation for an expedition. Included also is a list of donations to the Hall Franklin expedition of 1860.

Abstract This is a collection of manuscripts relating to the business and domestic activities of ship master Capt. Henry Kermit, who also owned a store and wharf in New York, and members of the Kermit family, including letters, bills, accounts, receipts, and documents from seaports in England, Europe, and the United States relating to the shipping activities of Capt. Kermit and his merchant shipowner sons Henry and Robert; items relating to family/house expenses, running a retail store, property...

Contents Isaac Jeanes & Co. was a mercantile house in Philadelphia. The collection consists of letters to the company, chiefly from Chamberlain, Robinson & Co., James Robinson, and Chamberlain & Phelps, all merchants in New York, N.Y., and James L. Taylor and Lewis J. Cassan, masters of ship WILLIAM J. MORRIS and clipper ship ARAMINGO, respectively.Included is a ledger (1852-1854) including accounts with ships A.M. LAWRENCE, MONTAUK, and OCEANA, the brig HARRIET, and barks...

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This collection of the firm's papers contains both business and personal correspondence as well as as accounts, bills of sale and papers having to do with the firm's vessels in the coastal and overseas trade.

Abstract The Talbot Family Papers is a collection of sundry bills, receipts, notes, and correspondence relative primarily to Silas Talbot, with lesser numbers of similar material pertaining to George W., Theodore F., Henry, Charles N., Charles R., George A., and Violetta Talbot. The material is concentrated between 1785 and 1813, although some correspondence and Talbot genealogy created in the later 19th and early 20th century is included. Overall there is, correspondence, bills, receipts, notes, and...