Abstract The Enoch Silsby Collection is relative primarily to Silsby's business activities and, to a lesser degree, his personal or household expenses. Included are letters from merchants, mostly in New Orleans, Louisiana; Savanna, Georgia; Wiscasset, Maine; New York, New York; London and Liverpool, England; and Marseilles, France. These letters deal chiefly with Silsby's commercial enterprises including trading in fish, tobacco, and cotton. A large portion of the letters, especially those from...

Abstract Correspondence, business records, bills of lading, logbooks, account books, ledgers, court papers, diaries, poems, genealogies, family papers, and other materials, of/or relating to William Goddard and his son, William W. Goddard, owners and managers of the DAUNTLESS, CRUSADER, CHARLOTTE, GENTOO, and other ships, often carrying copper, trading in New York City, San Francisco, and many international ports. Includes contract books of New Haven Copper Works; freight measurements of Goddard...

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Letters from Shelton to Moses Taylor, a New York merchant, including discussions of sales, purchases, and shipments of sugar, rice, flour, molasses, honey, Havana cigars, and tobacco; and the specie crisis of 1836 and its effect on the merchant community.