Abstract Papers of and relating to whaling masters James M. Buddington, Sidney O. Budington, cabin boy James W. Buddington, and other family members. Including protection certificate, death certificates, applications for admittance to Sailors Snug Harbor, and newspaper articles about Leroy Buddington's brief escape from a state hospital and Captain Sidney O. Budington's association with the Eskimo's and Charles F. Hall's arctic exploration. The collection also includes information relating to the...

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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 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 In addition to the typescripts for F.P. Harlow's published works, there are typescripts and manuscript copies of an unpublished memoir and a short maritime novel.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,...

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Records, 1846-1887, of the schooner ORVILLE HORWITZ. This collection includes paid bills, the protection certificate for Captain Chauncey Kelsey, and other papers. There are also two account books. The first contains the vessel’s accounts for each port and details of the cargos for each trip. The second contains the date when each crew member was hired and their wages for each voyage. It is not clear who kept these records.

Abstract Correspondence, accounts, account books, bills, receipts, genealogical notes, and printed material reflecting Talbot's career, especially his command of the U.S.S. CONSTITUTION (1798-1801). Other subjects include the impressment of American sailors by the British Navy; activities as U. S. agent in the West Indies assisting American seamen; captain of the privateer ship GENERAL WASHINGTON (1780), and his supervision of the outfitting of the sloop HAWK (1778), the U.S.S. CONSTITUTION (1798,...