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Primarily logbooks, account books, crew lists, passenger lists, protests, and sailing orders for the ships FRANCIS DEPAU (1836-1843) and SULLY (1833-1835), masters Cleaveland A. Forbes and Thomas Forbes. The collection also includes correspondence, estate papers, diaries, records for the family farm in Perth Amboy, and other family materials.

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The Forseth-Tift family collection primarily contains correspondence between various family members regarding Preston and Mystic (Conn.) events and news of friends and family. The collection also contains a a Bill of sale for Phillip and a court summons.

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Journals and other documents related to George Elliott’s sealing and whaling voyages, including a contract with Silas E. Burrows and account of Nathaniel Brown Palmer’s last sealing expedition; a lecture Elliott delivered on whales and whaling; family correspondence; an autobiography written by Elizabeth Hill, Elliott’s mother; sketches of Elliott’s inventions; receipts and miscellaneous papers dealing with the Elliott/Hill families and Elliot’s business undertakings.

Scope and Contents The H. Prescott Shreeve papers include the Rules and Bylaws of the Eastern Ice Yachting Association and its member club, the Lake Hopatcong Ice Yachting Club. The collection also includes correspondence to H. Prescott Shreeve while he was president of the organization, newsletters of the Eastern Ice Yachting Association, maps of Lake Hopatcong and Lake Greenwood, where club members sailed, announcements of club meetings, notes taken by Shreeve at those meetings, drawings of vessels made by...

Abstract Literary manuscripts, journals, logs, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs (photocopies), correspondence and other ephemeral and miscellaneous materials related to the Harlow family, primarily Frederick Pease Harlow, author of "The Making of a Sailor," and "Chanteying Aboard American Ships". In addition to the typescripts for F.P. Harlow's published works, there are typescripts and manuscript copies of an unpublished memoir and a short maritime novel. Other family members represented include,...

Abstract Collection, 1901-1951, of Henry C. White (1861-1952), avid yachtsman and artist. Includes personal and business correspondence with Nathanael G. Herreshoff, L. Francis Herreshoff and other members of the Herreshoff family and Herreshoff Manufacturing Company as well as scrapbooks, magazine and newspaper articles, Marine Historical Association material, maps and other items associated with yachting. Collection also includes correspondence between Nelson C. White (1900-1989) and Nelson H....

Abstract Papers, 1911-1995, of Henry Hill Anderson. Includes a variety of unbound logs, narratives, and journals as well as correspondence concerning Anderson’s voyage as a cabin boy from 1911 Nov-1912 on the bark FOOHNG SUEY, from New York to Hawaii. During this voyage around Cape Horn he records navigational data, what he learns from the many different men on board, and the death of one of the men at the hands of the cook, who later jumped overboard mid-ocean. The different documents all record the...

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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.

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Collection, 1925-1989, consists mainly of logbooks and notebooks kept by Hiram Hamilton Maxim for his boats, GANNET and GANNET II (built 1939), as well as several logbooks kept by his father, Hiram Percy Maxim. It also contains Hiram Hamilton’s notes and newspaper articles about improvements made to a hand-held Radio Direction Finder in addition to manuscripts and pictures for “Precision Coastal Piloting” and “Miscellaneous Piloting Notes and Other Useful Items”.

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The Houche-Lamphere-Flint Collection contains Houche and Flint business and family correspondence, as well as Lamphere genealogy.