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Included in the collection are accounts, bills, receipts, and letters. The bills and ships papers deal exclusively with the vessels J.H. BOWERS and the RAPHAEL, reflecting transactions in Liverpool, Cape Town, Padang, Cardiff, Montevideo, Valparaiso, Swatow, London, Batavia, and Amsterdam.

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The collection has been organized chronologically including letters from Hobart regarding the disposition of vessels and cargo; miscellaneous accounts, receipts, and business agreements; instructions to shipmasters; copies of cargo invoices; accounts of cargo sales; and expenses for construction, repair, and outfitting of various vessels. The papers also covey Hobart's difficulties in the West Indies trade during the French and Indian War (1754-1763.)

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The George W. Dow Papers include accounts, bills, receipts, charter-parties, clearance and protection papers, port regulations, crew lists and shipping orders. Most of this material is relevant to the brig WENONAH, which carried coal, lead, flour, molasses, and other foodstuffs to ports in the U.S., West Indies, Canary Islands, and to Cadiz, Spain.

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...

Abstract Correspondence, business records, bills of lading, logbooks, account books, ledgers, court papers, diaries, poems, genealogies, family papers, and other materials, of/or relating to William Goddard and his son, William W. Goddard, owners and managers of the DAUNTLESS, CRUSADER, CHARLOTTE, GENTOO, and other ships, often carrying copper, trading in New York City, San Francisco, and many international ports. Includes contract books of New Haven Copper Works; freight measurements of Goddard...

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...

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Correspondence, journals, account books, and miscellaneous notebook, kept by Hinckley, concerning his activities as master of brig REAPER and ships TARTER and CANTON, from Boston to ports in the Middle East, India and China.

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The Isaiah Larabee Papers contain primarily business papers, correspondence and documents relative to Larabee's maritime career and the ships he commanded.

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Correspondence, business accounts, notes, disbursements, insurance policies, bills, receipts, and shipping papers. Also included material from the Jeffersonian embargo period. Ships represented include ALLIGATOR, OLIVE BRANCH, ARROW, ALFRED, and ROMULUS.

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Bills, accounts, receipts and 45 letters relating primarily to the schooner HARMONY, ship ROGER SHERMAN, and brigs NEUTRALITY, PLEIADES, and SARAH, commanded by Lowell in the coastwise and West Indies trades with cargoes primarily of lumber, salt, coal, and coffee. Also includes correspondence with William Health, Lowell's brother-in-law and business partner in the 1850's.