Abstract This is a collection of letters from Freeman to Charles Cullis (1833-1892), mostly written while Freeman was an agent in Shanghai for H. Fogg & Company, ship chandlers and agents, headquartered in New York, N.Y., including descriptions of his first voyage to China on the bark STORM, subsequent trips to China (acting as a free agent), travels by sea, the cities of New York, San Francisco, and London, missionary work and activities with seamen's missions, and medicine. Included are...

Abstract This is a collection of correspondence, charter parties, and accounts mentioning cargoes predominantly of hides, fruit, salt, and lumber. Includes letters and telegrams to Smalley as master of the bark JENNIE CUSHMAN and the schooner EMMA C. LATHAM and as agent for Francis C. Butman, a Boston shipping and commission merchant, in St. Vincent, Cape Verde Islands, and Goree, Senegal. Other vessels mentioned in the correspondence include schooners ARTHUR EGGLESO, ANNIE FAIRFAX, and WARREN...

Abstract Approximately 850 letters, covers, and other papers carried by ships in the late 18th and 19th centuries, nearly all with ship stamps and/or other postal markings, including letters (1840's-1850's) relating to the opium trade and China trade. Also includes Krumwiede's philatelic correspondence (1943-1953) and letters, covers, prints of postal markings, and ship covers; notes and indexed for mail-carrying ships' philatelic clippings; photographs and ship pictures; clipping and articles from...

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This is a collection of correspondence, accounts, logbooks, notebooks, shipping documents, home remedies for ailments and diseases, etc. Topics include Gilderdale's command of the bark PERU on a whaling and sealing voyage to the South Shetland Islands, the steamships EUTERPE and GENERAL SEDGEWICK, and the ship MARY AND SUSAN; his Civil War service in the U.S. Navy on board the U.S.S. ADOLPH HUGEL, ARLETTA, COMMODORE READ, and YANKEE; and flags and signals.

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Correspondence, ships' bills, discursements, port papers, and other records, from Gates's commands of the ships WILLIAM H. WHARTON, NATIONAL GUARD, TWILIGHT I, TWILIGHT II, the bark GALVESTON, and the steamer NEVADA; together with letters written by his wife Julia.

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 comprised of miscellaneous business papers relative to Gilbert Billing's shipping and real estate activity in southeastern Connecticut and Chenango County, N.Y.; and miscellaneous family correspondence, photographs, and documents. Also included are shipping records (1795-1798) relating to the brig REBECCA, ship TWO FRIENDS, and schooner ALLIGATOR (all of which he was master); and letters (1817-1839) from Coddington Billings.

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Collection of account books relating to the bark C.S. WILLIAMS and schooners ORIENT and FRANCES AMY, which Ashbey commanded; business letters; letters from Ashbey, in Apalachicola, Florida., written to his wife, Abby Jane; and other accounts and papers. Includes letters and affidavits (1856-1857) regarding unpaid notes of the Texas Republic to Henry Ashbey.

Abstract The Hiram A. Balch Collection contains approximately 5,000 pieces of manuscript material relative primarily to Hiram A. Balch, a merchant, lumber dealer, and shipowner from Trescott, Maine. Although the inclusive dates for this collection are 1792-1893, the material is concentrated between the years 1830-1860. Items relative to other members of the Balch family are also included. The names of John Blach, Charles Balch, Horatio Balch, Laffayette Balch, and Susan Balch appear in random fashion...

Abstract This is a collection of diaries, journals, letterpress copybooks, and logs, kept by Gray, his wife, and her father, Capt. Levi Hotchkiss, of Gloucester, Mass. It also includes logs kept by Hotchkiss on board the ships SHOOTING STAR, JOHN LUND and GRACE DARLING, engaged in the China, India, and South American trade; journals and diaries kept by Emma Gray, aboard the ship HARVARD (1855-1856) before her marriage and the steamer FIRE QUEEN, containing descriptions of China; and logs kept by...