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Whaling--Massachusetts--New Bedford

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Benjamin D. Cleveland Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-093
Abstract

The papers include journals, logs, or accounts for the bark CHARLES W. MORGAN, the schooners W. A. GRABER and R. S. GRAHAM, and the brigs DAISY and LEANORA. Also included are some of Captain Cleveland's personal accounts, stocks, etc.

Dates: 1899 - 1924
Found in: Manuscripts

Charles Lewis Richards Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-120
Abstract Correspondence, depositions, newspapers and clippings, petitions, court orders, memoranda; and printed testimony, bills, and acts, relating to claims filed before the Alabama Claims Court by Richards for losses suffered during the Civil War. Chief parties were the whaling bark PEARL, of New London, Connecticut, destroyed by the C.S.S. SHENANDOAH at Ascension Island, 1865; the whaling bark RICHMOND, of New Bedford, Mass., which was compelled to return crew to Honolulu from vessels taken by...
Dates: 1873 - 1888
Found in: Manuscripts

Charles Waln Morgan Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-027
Abstract This is a collection of correspondence, letterpress and letter copybooks, diaries, ship's outfitting books, invoice book, marine insurance policies, journals, ledgers, wastebooks, deeds, memorandum and petty cashbooks, and other account books, dealing mainly with Morgan's interests in management of whaling ships and contract with U.S. Treasury Dept. to supply whale oil to lighthouses.It also includes material on his investments in western lands such as Ohio and Michigan,...
Dates: 1796 - 1861
Found in: Manuscripts

George W. Bliven Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-108
Abstract

The papers contain bills, statements for sperm oil, bills of lading, receipts, and journal (1868-1871) of a voyage by the bark ELIZABETH SWIFT, trapped in the Arctic ice pack with 29 other vessels in Sept. 1871. Other vessels represented include barks FANNY and A.J. POPE.

Dates: 1860 - 1888
Found in: Manuscripts

Henry W. Hiller Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-077
Abstract

Correspondence, diary, notes for speeches, documents, photographs, and other papers of Hiller and his wife Liuboff Gouberoff Hiller, relating to his career as a whaler out of New Bedford, Massachusetts; his work in Siberia as a commercial agent for Boston importers William H. Boardman & Company; as U.S. consul during the Lincoln administration; his specialization in the jewelry trade in New York, and his association with Tiffany & Company.

Dates: 1855 - 1960
Found in: Manuscripts

Jonathan P. Lund Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-049
Abstract

This is a collection of Ships' accounts, accounts relating to Acushnet Paper Mill and candle paper works, bills of sale for shares in New Bedford, Mass., whaling vessels, indentures (tinplate working), and insurance policies for both whaling vessels and paper mill and stock. Vessels represented include the ships ABIGAIL, BRAGANZA, CONDOR, and PARACHUTE, and barks LEBARON, MORNING LIGHT, OSCEOLA, and TUSCALOOSA.

Dates: 1830 - 1862
Found in: Manuscripts

Morgan Barney Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-207
Abstract Diaries, notebooks, diplomas, building specifications for various yachts, and miscellaneous papers. Includes invoices (1838-1843) of whale oil, sperm candles, etc., shipped by Capt. Edward Merrill of New Bedford, kept by Barney's father, George Barney, who clerked for Merrill; schoolboy diary and notebooks kept by his son, John "Peter" Barney, who worked on his father's boats on weekends and holidays; and diary (1943) reflecting Morgan Barney's debilitating stroke (leaving him with slurred...
Dates: 1838-1943‚ (bulk 1899-1943)
Found in: Manuscripts

New Bedford Cordage Company Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-075
Abstract

Letterpress books, copybooks, and account book containing business correspondence and financial records of the New Bedford Cordage Company, Massachusetts.

Dates: 1860 - 1896
Found in: Manuscripts

Records of the Bark ALBION

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-017
Abstract Colllection of correspondence; accounts; bills; receipts; wage statements; crew lists and other customs documents; mortgage from Patrick McCullough, owner, of Ireland, to Nathaniel T. Gifford, agent, New Bedford, Massachusetts; powers of attorney from McCullough to Gifford, and from Josiah W. Bonney and Isaac Howland, agents under the will of Gifford, to Albert A. Thomas, whaling master; and bills of sale (1871) from Thomas to new ship owners, Louis Arthur Nathan and Andrew Wardrop, of...
Dates: 1865-1872
Found in: Manuscripts

Records of the Bark CHARLES W. MORGAN

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-019
Abstract

The collection includes accounts, 1890-1912, of Edward Potter with J. & W. R. Wing of New Bedford, Massachusetts; an insurance policy taken out by Potter; bills of sale, 1920-1925; and bills, 1928-1932, mostly of C. E. Beckman & Co., and David Duff & Son of New Bedford, Massachusetts, for materials for the vessel when she was on the estate of E. H. R. Green.

Dates: 1849-1917, (bulk 1890-1932)
Found in: Manuscripts