Abstract Papers, logbooks, and account books kept by Enoch Wood on board the ships GEORGE, NORMAN, MOGUL, CHATHAM, CHARIOT, GEORGE CABOT, and ALABAMA, as well as the brig KREMLIN. Vessels were involved in the coastal United States and transatlantic trade, carrying various cargoes primarily between the ports of Boston, New Orleans, Savannah, Charleston, Havre, Calcutta, and Liverpool. The collection also includes oversize file material and horizontal file material such as shipping papers for the...

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Business and personal papers of four related families, of Salem, Duxbury, Roxbury, and other locations in the Boston, Mass., area, principally engaged in the maritime trades, although members of the Orne and Cushing families operated a brick works in Salem in the early 1800's.

Abstract Correspondence and business records including bills of lading, receipts, outfitting accounts, and crew lists, relating to the ships ARCHIMEDES, DEUCALION, ELECTRIC SPARK, GREENWICH, HERALD OF THE MORNING, MANLIUS, MEDFORD, PHARSALIA, SWALLOW, TALMA, THATCHER MAGOUN, TIMOLEON, and WITCHCRAFT, built in Magoun's yard in Medford, Mass., and engaged in trade between Boston, New York, San Francisco and foreign ports including Liverpool, Elsinore, Havana, and Hong Kong; and materials not...