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The Collection of Rosanna Duncan Sanderson contains the notes of her research into late-seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth century shipping, drawn from various printed and manuscript sources along the U.S. eastern seacoast, and in Hawaii and Australia.

Abstract A collection of approximately 1,000 detailing the business activities of D.G. & W.B. Bacon, one of the largest shipping firms in Boston, between 1861 and 1866. Letters to the firm, chiefly from commission merchants, describing market condition, their business activities, politics, and weather, in East Indian and Chinese ports. The letters in this collection were years ago glued into a letter book. Many still remain pasted together, which prohibits us from arranging them in perfect...

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Included in the collection are accounts, bills, receipts, and letters. The bills and ships papers deal exclusively with the vessels J.H. BOWERS and the RAPHAEL, reflecting transactions in Liverpool, Cape Town, Padang, Cardiff, Montevideo, Valparaiso, Swatow, London, Batavia, and Amsterdam.

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The collection has been organized chronologically including letters from Hobart regarding the disposition of vessels and cargo; miscellaneous accounts, receipts, and business agreements; instructions to shipmasters; copies of cargo invoices; accounts of cargo sales; and expenses for construction, repair, and outfitting of various vessels. The papers also covey Hobart's difficulties in the West Indies trade during the French and Indian War (1754-1763.)

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...

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The George W. Dow Papers include accounts, bills, receipts, charter-parties, clearance and protection papers, port regulations, crew lists and shipping orders. Most of this material is relevant to the brig WENONAH, which carried coal, lead, flour, molasses, and other foodstuffs to ports in the U.S., West Indies, Canary Islands, and to Cadiz, Spain.

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 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...

Abstract The Hiram A. Balch Collection contains approximately 5,000 pieces of manuscript material relative primarily to Hiram A. Balch, a merchant, lumber dealer, and shipowner from Trescott, Maine. Although the inclusive dates for this collection are 1792-1893, the material is concentrated between the years 1830-1860. Items relative to other members of the Balch family are also included. The names of John Blach, Charles Balch, Horatio Balch, Laffayette Balch, and Susan Balch appear in random fashion...

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Correspondence, journals, account books, and miscellaneous notebook, kept by Hinckley, concerning his activities as master of brig REAPER and ships TARTER and CANTON, from Boston to ports in the Middle East, India and China.