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...

Abstract Included in this collection are letters to John Palmer at Newport during 1776 from family and friends. Two diaries kept by John Palmer between 1775 and 1777 provide insights into the Revolutionary Period, as do the 2 sea journals from the Privateer REVENGE. Present also are logs and journals for the Snow BLACK PRINCESS, Schooner LITTLE REBECCA, Sloop COUNT D'ESTAINGE, Brig BETSEY, and the Ship READYMONEY. Most of the material after 1800 (about 10% of the total) involves other members of the...

Abstract Colllection of correspondence; accounts; bills; receipts; wage statements; crew lists and other customs documents; mortgage from Patrick McCullough, owner, of Ireland, to Nathaniel T. Gifford, agent, New Bedford, Massachusetts; powers of attorney from McCullough to Gifford, and from Josiah W. Bonney and Isaac Howland, agents under the will of Gifford, to Albert A. Thomas, whaling master; and bills of sale (1871) from Thomas to new ship owners, Louis Arthur Nathan and Andrew Wardrop, of...

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Records from the vessel's last whaling voyage, sailing out of New Bedford, Mass, mastered by Joseph Thompson, on a voyage to the South Atlantic, including papers relating to crew desertions, discharges and additions, repair of the windlass, and the survey, condemning, and sale of the ship in the Seychelles.

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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.