Abstract

Personal and business correspondence, business records, daybooks, invoices, diaries, family papers and other materials of or relating to several members of the Denison and Rodgers families, including Gideon and Henry Denison, William P. Rodgers, Robert S. Rodgers and Commodore John Rodgers; naval correspondence and papers of Henry Denison, Commodore John Rodgers and Lieutenant Commander John Rodgers; and a scrapbook of family memorabilia.

Abstract Papers, logbooks, and account books kept by Enoch Wood on board the ships GEORGE, NORMAN, MOGUL, CHATHAM, CHARIOT, GEORGE CABOT, and ALABAMA, as well as the brig KREMLIN. Vessels were involved in the coastal United States and transatlantic trade, carrying various cargoes primarily between the ports of Boston, New Orleans, Savannah, Charleston, Havre, Calcutta, and Liverpool. The collection also includes oversize file material and horizontal file material such as shipping papers for the...

Abstract Correspondence, accounts and financial papers, insurance policies, charter-parties, deeds, writs, wills, vessel bills of sale and other papers, concerning shipbuilding, and the affairs of a merchant family of the 19th century. Includes materials relating to Holmes' sons, Alexander, Edward, Horace, and Paraclete; his sea captains and business agents; the family's interest in the Alabama claims, and West Indian, coastwise and trans-Atlantic trade; and vessel accounts, disbursements, etc., for...

Abstract Letters, bills, accounts, receipts, etc. relating to Captain Gillchrest's maritime activities, chiefly letters to Gillchrest from ship captains, including his father, Joseph Gillchrest, as well as agents such as Baring Brothers, R.L. Gillchrest & Co., and Snow & Burgess, relating to freight rates, market conditions, shipbuilding, difficulties with vessels and crews, etc. Topics include Gillchrest's ownership of shares in numerous vessels involved in coastwise and transatlantic...

Abstract

The marine insurance policies contained in this collection represent the years following the companies inception, 1802-1808, with the bulk of the policies written in 1806. Policies are arranged by policy number, and clearly follow a chronological pattern.