Abstract This collection is comprised of 15 file follders contained in one document case. The first 12 folders contain shipping papers, etc, arranged chronologically between 1863 and 1884. Included here are outfitting bills and receipts, charter-parties, bills of lading, cargo manifests, letters to Alfred Pinkham and various port and consulate documents. Folder 13 has two "Fisherman's Shipping Papers" for schooner DIPLOMA, 1873, while folder 14 contains nine shipping articles for various schooners...

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Papers, assembled by Skipwith pertaining to case histories of French spoliation claims, including correspondence, powers-of-attorney, protests, certifications, manifests, inventories, and charter-parties for the barks POLLY and NANCY; the brigs EXPERIENCE, MARIA, FAIRY and MARY; the schooners JAVA, ILLINOIS, NANCY (of Philadelphia), PHOEBE, HENRY & GUSTAVUS and NANCY (of Providence, R.I.); the ships FAME, and HOPE; the sloop PHILADELPHIA PACKET; and the snow ELIZA.

Abstract Collection of business and household papers including correspondence, bills, accounts, receipts, freight lists, manifests or invoices of cargo, records of disbursements from vessels commanded by Lee, and other papers relating to the brigs CAROLINE (1802-1803), BULIA (1803-1804), SUSSEX (1805-1908), JEROME (1824-1826), PLATO (1831-1832), and LEXINGTON (1833) and ships WALTER (1810) and SIX BROTHERS (1827-1830) and to his activities as supercargo on the ships BELLE (1822) and UNION (1823) and...

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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 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 collection contains papers relevant to the JULIUS CAESAR's 1836-1837 whaling voyage from New London to the south Atlantic grounds. Included are Articles of Agreement, Bill of Health, Manifest, a slop book, crew bills, and accounts, outfitting accounts with N. & W. W. Billings, and notebook for "oil delivered," casks, and labor.