Abstract

The bulk of this collection is approximately 74 letters, primarily between Henry Willis and Sarah Freeman Willis from 1852 to 1860. Other correspondence involves various Willis and Freeman family members including parents, brothers and sisters. These letters offer a view of family relationships and domestic activities for two New York/New Jersey families during the middle years of the 19th century.

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This is a collection of chiefly papers (1877-1909) relating to Moore's efforts to obtain a pension as a result of an injury suffered as a sailor aboard the USS WINNIPEC during the Civil War; and other papers. Includes correspondence, accounts, bills, receipts, affidavits, agreements, deeds, and bills of sale.

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The collection includes letters, bills, receipts, accounts, agreements, charter parties, bills of lading, marine insurance receipts, telegrams, and tax lists, relative primarily to 73 schooners involved in coastwise trade. A few of the represented vessels include include GENERAL PEAVY, COTTAGE, WILLOW, CATHERINE WILCOX, OREGON, and J.R. HAMMOND.

Abstract This is a collection of correspondence, inventories, deeds, survey reports, crew lists, instruction booklets, work lists, accounts, bills, receipts, ship's papers, and blueprints, relating to the JOSEPH CONRAD and its operation. The collection also includes rough and smooth logs, engine logs, machinery logs, journals, order books, and rules and regulations for training sailing students aboard the U.S.M.S. Training Ship JOSEPH CONRAD, as well as a memorandum of agreement (1934 June 14)...

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Correspondence, bills, receipts, accounts, bills of lading, charter parties, clearance papers, and agreements, relating to Harding's activities as master of the schooner JULIA ANN, engaged in the coastwise trade, and the bark GEORGE KINGMAN, engaged in the transatlantic trade, both out of Boston.

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...