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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.

Abstract Correspondence, business accounts, genealogical materials, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous papers. Includes business correspondence and a few accounts relating to Smith's activities as representative of Minturn & Champlin who traveled, often as a supercargo, to various ports in Europe and the Far East; miscellaneous business and family papers (ca. 1820-1859) including references to shipping salt and china trade porcelain; numerous school reports and essays by children, and family...