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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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This is a collection of correspondence, bills of lading, accounts, receipts, etc. relating to a trading voyage by the sloop POLLY between New York, Copenhagen, St. Petersburg, and Charleston, S.C., and two voyages (1803-1806) of the ship SILENUS, with accounts, manifests, crews' wages, and bills from Antwerp, Amsterdam, the Cape of Good Hope, Cape Town, and New York.

Abstract This collection includes accounts, agreements, bills of sale, bills of lading, manifests, sailing directions, registrations, clearance papers, letters, and government documents concerning coastwise, West Indies, and South American trade. Also included are letters and documents relative to the French Spoliation Claims. The bulk of the collection is concentrated between 1779 and 1798. The material is arranged chronologically and by vessel name. Over 20 sloops, schooners, and brigs are...

Abstract Business and personal correspondence, accounts, bills, receipts, shipping and cargo records, marine insurance policies, articles of agreement, charter parties, bills of lading, and other documents, chiefly relating to the shipping activities of Daniel Walker Lord (1800-1880) and other family members, including William Jefferds (1753-1820), Nathaniel Lord (1776-1815), Lieut. Tobias Lord (1748-1808), and Tobias Lord (1778-1854), the family's shipping agent in New York City. Includes published...

Abstract Papers relating to Mathews's maritime career and the vessels he commanded, including accounts and account books for the ship ALARM, ship ERICSSON, ship JOHN TUCKER, ship RADIANT, ship ROBIN HOOD, and ship WINGED ARROW, and the missionary brig MORNING STAR; journals covering voyages by ERICSSON, JOHN TUCKER, MORNING STAR, RADIANT, and WINGED ARROW; and a freight list and sailing instructions (1871-1872) for the missionary brig MORNING STAR. Mathews family material includes household bills and...

Abstract The collection contains mostly incoming correspondence from Cuban exporters. There are numerous letters from the Cardenas firms of D. Ruiz Toledo, Smith & Co., and L. Soler & Co., C. Uhrback & Co., and Alfonso & Blanchard. Tow Matanzas firms and one in Sagua La Grande are also well represented. There are several letters to Churchill, Brown & Manson from their Boston office, and letters from customer and/or agents in St. Louis, New York and Canada. Monthly balance sheets...

Abstract This collections consists of letters from ship masters of vessels owned or managed by members of the Treat family and from merchants in Bangor, Frankfort, and Winterport, Maine; New York; Boston; Baltimore; Cuba; and South American ports, chiefly relating to cargo transported, but also providing reports of the voyages, the weather, and departure and arrival dates; together with accounts, bills, charter-parties, bills of lading, receipts, insurance policies, cargo manifests, and other...

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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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The collection includes letters, bills, receipts, accounts, agreements, charter parties, bills of lading, marine insurance receipts, telegrams, and tax lists, relative primarily to 73 schooners involved in coastwise trade. A few of the represented vessels include include GENERAL PEAVY, COTTAGE, WILLOW, CATHERINE WILCOX, OREGON, and J.R. HAMMOND.

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...