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...

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The collection includes bills, receipts, crew lists, accounts, insurance policies, port papers, letters, and account books.

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Business and personal papers of four related families, of Salem, Duxbury, Roxbury, and other locations in the Boston, Mass., area, principally engaged in the maritime trades, although members of the Orne and Cushing families operated a brick works in Salem in the early 1800's.

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.

Abstract Correspondence, including letters written by whaling masters and sailing orders from the company to these captains; business records, including bills, accounts, receipts, etc., as well as a large number of specific accounts for cotton duck, iron hoops, and sheeting copper; ship's papers for several whaleships owned by the company including FLORA, JOHN & EDWARD, JULIUS CAESAR, PHOENIX, SUPERIOR, TURCARORA, and WILLIAM C. NYE; miscellaneous papers, including marine insurance policies for...

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Business papers, ships' papers, insurance policies, check stubs, correspondence, and other records. Vessels represented include schooners MAGNOLIA, ZEPHYR, and HARRIET, and ship JASON.

Abstract Papers relating to the New York shipping interests and western land speculation of the Wakeman family, including Jesup Wakeman and his sons Maurice and Zalmon. Chiefly papers relating to the economics of 30 voyages between New York, Savannah, Ga., and Galveston, Tex., by Zalmon's bark TEXAS, 1848-1852, including Zalmon's daybook for every voyage; freight lists, bills of lading, and disbursements for nearly every voyage; and a representative sample of articles of agreement, marine insurance...

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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.