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West Indies--Commerce--United States

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Joseph Williams Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-037
Abstract This collection includes accounts, agreements, bills of sale, bills of lading, manifests, sailing directions, registrations, clearance papers, letters, and government documents concerning coastwise, West Indies, and South American trade. Also included are letters and documents relative to the French Spoliation Claims. The bulk of the collection is concentrated between 1779 and 1798. The material is arranged chronologically and by vessel name. Over 20 sloops, schooners, and brigs are...
Dates: 1779-1899
Found in: Manuscripts

Mallory Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-005
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...
Dates: 1808-1966
Found in: Manuscripts

Philo S. Shelton Letters

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-034
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1835-1836
Found in: Manuscripts

Washington Insurance Company in Providence Marine Insurance Policies

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-021
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1802-1808
Found in: Manuscripts

William Earle Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-Coll-028
Abstract Correspondence, bills, receipts, accounts, and other papers relating to the operation of the bark AURA, the brigs ARIA, IDA MCLEOD, ISADOR, NEW ERA, and PERSEVERANCE, and the schooners AMOS FALKENBURG, D.W. VAUGHAN, HANNAH BLACKMAN, INO, ROBERT J. MERCER, and WM. O. IRISH, which carried coal, cotton, sugar, and foodstuffs and traded in U.S., and West Indian ports. Correspondents include Charles H. Arnold, Hiram Baker, David P. Davis, Samuel A. Emerson, Samuel M. Gifford, George K. Rackett,...
Dates: 1834-1876
Found in: Manuscripts