Abstract This is a collection of correspondence, charter parties, and accounts mentioning cargoes predominantly of hides, fruit, salt, and lumber. Includes letters and telegrams to Smalley as master of the bark JENNIE CUSHMAN and the schooner EMMA C. LATHAM and as agent for Francis C. Butman, a Boston shipping and commission merchant, in St. Vincent, Cape Verde Islands, and Goree, Senegal. Other vessels mentioned in the correspondence include schooners ARTHUR EGGLESO, ANNIE FAIRFAX, and WARREN...

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This collection contains correspondence, accounts, bills, receipts, crew lists, bills of lading, and charter parties for the barks OCEAN BRIDE and KREMLIN, merchant vessels carrying primarily lumber, grain and general cargo.

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 details the Hound's activities from April 1858 through June 1859. Included is an abstract log, New York to San Francisco; disbursements at San Francisco; freight lists and crew lists; 5 cargo books; and other miscellaneous items.

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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.