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...

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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.

Abstract The Hiram C. Holmes is housed in ten document boxes. The first five boxes contain general business bills, accounts, receipts, and other documents, chronologically arranged by month and year. Boxes 6-8 contain all the correspondence, mostly incoming, found in the collection. Arranged chronologically by day, month, and year, it has also been further organized into letters from the three companies Holmes did most of his business; papers concerning efforts to patent an improvement in gear axle...

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The Isaiah Larabee Papers contain primarily business papers, correspondence and documents relative to Larabee's maritime career and the ships he commanded.

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This is a collection of chiefly records of Brower Company and its predecessors: Brower & Nelson and Wynkoop, Arthur & Brower, which conducted business (mostly in cotton) on an extensive scale, with interests in as many as 15 vessels at one time.

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This is a collection of correspondence, bills of lading, accounts, receipts, etc. relating to a trading voyage by the sloop POLLY between New York, Copenhagen, St. Petersburg, and Charleston, S.C., and two voyages (1803-1806) of the ship SILENUS, with accounts, manifests, crews' wages, and bills from Antwerp, Amsterdam, the Cape of Good Hope, Cape Town, and New York.

Abstract This is a collection of manuscripts relating to the business and domestic activities of ship master Capt. Henry Kermit, who also owned a store and wharf in New York, and members of the Kermit family, including letters, bills, accounts, receipts, and documents from seaports in England, Europe, and the United States relating to the shipping activities of Capt. Kermit and his merchant shipowner sons Henry and Robert; items relating to family/house expenses, running a retail store, property...

Abstract The Mallory Family Papers, 1808-1966 (bulk between 1886-1941), consist of twenty fiberdex cartons containing approximately 6,000 pieces and 86 volumes which depict 150 years of business activities of an important American shipping and shipbuilding family in varying degrees of completeness. They include primarily general correspondence, genealogical notes, racing records of family yachts, yachting recollections, statistical data on vessels owned and/or built by the family, newspaper...

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Letters from Shelton to Moses Taylor, a New York merchant, including discussions of sales, purchases, and shipments of sugar, rice, flour, molasses, honey, Havana cigars, and tobacco; and the specie crisis of 1836 and its effect on the merchant community.