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...

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.

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.

Abstract

The bulk of these papers is comprised of bills and accounts charged against HECTOR, her captain Amos A. Chase, and William and Benjamin Rotch, between the years 1852 and 1860. Of particular interest is a booklet from Taber, Gordon & Co. (Ship Chandlers & Grocers) of New Bedford, that contains a checklist of every item needed for a whaling voyage.