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...

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The Peter Strickland Papers consists of 20 volumes contained in four document cases, which span the career of this Connecticut shipmaster, merchant, and diplomat from 1864 through 1922.

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The collection consists of two ledgers, a journal, and a materials daybook.

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The Records of Lawrence & Co., 1822-1904, consists of eleven boxes containing approximately 5,800 pieces and 134 volumes which illustrate quite well the whaling, sealing, and commercial activities of the Company as well as its predecessors Miner, Lawrence & Co. and Joseph Lawrence.

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Race notices, minutes, board and committee chairmen reports, membership notices, scrapbooks, and a ledger, reflecting the club's history and its activities.

Abstract Collection of correspondence and business papers of Stephen B. Chace. Includes a logbook (1812) of the ship VALENTINE, under Chace's command, on a voyage from Port Louis, Mauritius to Canton, China, and then towards Providence, RI; two ledgers (1810-1814) containing business and ships' accounts; account book (1817-1820) with Merchants Bank of New York City; letters from Chace to his wife, in Somerset, Massachusetts, and Jonathan Bowen, merchant in Newport, Rhode Island; and bill of...