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 collection is comprised of 15 file follders contained in one document case. The first 12 folders contain shipping papers, etc, arranged chronologically between 1863 and 1884. Included here are outfitting bills and receipts, charter-parties, bills of lading, cargo manifests, letters to Alfred Pinkham and various port and consulate documents. Folder 13 has two "Fisherman's Shipping Papers" for schooner DIPLOMA, 1873, while folder 14 contains nine shipping articles for various schooners...

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...

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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).

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Correspondence, accounts, and other papers, relating to William's activities as master of the brig BELLE OF THE BAY and bark SILAS FISH (managed by J.D. Fish & Co.), chiefly during the voyages to Valparaiso, Chile, including navigational computations (1875-1878) for voyages of the SILAS FISH. Other firms represented include J. & W. Grace Co.

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 Correspondence, accounts, receipts, bills of sale, ship's papers, deeds, mortgages, ledgers, daybooks, printed materials, and other papers, relating to the West Indies and coastal trade, whaling, sailmaking, charter-parties, Mystic, Connecticut town affairs, probate court in Groton, Connecticut, and other family business and domestic matters. Persons represented include shipmasters Amos Clift (1768-1818), Amos Clift (1808-1878), Amos Clift (1830-1887), Nathaniel (1775-1837), Hiram, and...

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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The Collection of Rosanna Duncan Sanderson contains the notes of her research into late-seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth century shipping, drawn from various printed and manuscript sources along the U.S. eastern seacoast, and in Hawaii and Australia.

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...