Abstract The collection contains mostly incoming correspondence from Cuban exporters. There are numerous letters from the Cardenas firms of D. Ruiz Toledo, Smith & Co., and L. Soler & Co., C. Uhrback & Co., and Alfonso & Blanchard. Tow Matanzas firms and one in Sagua La Grande are also well represented. There are several letters to Churchill, Brown & Manson from their Boston office, and letters from customer and/or agents in St. Louis, New York and Canada. Monthly balance sheets...

Abstract Papers chiefly relating to the ships MARY & SUSAN, WOODSIDE, FANEUIL HALL, and CATO, managed by the firm. Includes 75 letters pertaining to the sale of cargo of the ship MARY & SUSAN; cash disbursements, invoices, and customs papers of the four vessels for voyages to Calcutta, Apalachicola, Liverpool, and New Orleans; and ca. 65 balance sheets itemizing debits and credits of voyages to Calcutta. Other persons represented include ship master William F. Parrott, supercargo, William H....

Contents Isaac Jeanes & Co. was a mercantile house in Philadelphia. The collection consists of letters to the company, chiefly from Chamberlain, Robinson & Co., James Robinson, and Chamberlain & Phelps, all merchants in New York, N.Y., and James L. Taylor and Lewis J. Cassan, masters of ship WILLIAM J. MORRIS and clipper ship ARAMINGO, respectively.Included is a ledger (1852-1854) including accounts with ships A.M. LAWRENCE, MONTAUK, and OCEANA, the brig HARRIET, and barks...

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Correspondence, chiefly written by George W. Middleton, in charge of the Yokohama office and thought to be company president, letterpress copybooks, cashbooks, and ledgers. Other persons represented include John Middleton and C. Redington Joy.

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The Records of Lawrence & Co., 1822-1904, consists of eleven boxes containing approximately 5,800 pieces and 134 volumes which illustrate quite well the whaling, sealing, and commercial activities of the Company as well as its predecessors Miner, Lawrence & Co. and Joseph Lawrence.

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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.

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Business correspondence, logbooks, and other papers, reflecting trading voyages to New Orleans, Louisiana; Le Havre, France; and Liverpool, England. Includes letters from other shipmasters and merchants/agents regarding cargos, markets, etc.

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This collection of the firm's papers contains both business and personal correspondence as well as as accounts, bills of sale and papers having to do with the firm's vessels in the coastal and overseas trade.

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The collection consists of seven business record books. Included are one volume containing invoices of cargo shipped and accounts of cargo sold, and several cash and sales journals recording cash paid and received during this period.

Abstract This is a collection of correspondence, accounts, bills, receipts, and other papers of Providence, Rhode Island merchant shipowners and agents. The papers relate to the ships MARY ANN, PANTHER, PROVIDENCE, and TRUMBULL, and the brigs AGENORIA, DIAMOND, and SMYRNA, which carried cotton, flour, coffee, rice, rum, and wine, and traded in the ports of Amsterdam, Netherlands, Cadiz, Spain, Java, Malava, Batavia (now Jakarta, Indonesia), Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), Canton, China, Lime,...