Abstract

The papers contain bills, receipts, and accounts relative to Gurdon S. Allyn's shipowning, ice house, and fish processing interests, as well as other general business and domestic matters. Included are bills of sale for various vessels, property deeds, enrollment certificates for Schooners GAMECOCK and E. C. SCRANTON, and Articles of Agreement for Brig UXOR.

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...

Abstract The Mason R. Packer Papers is primarily a scattered collection of financial papers and correspondence. This collection includes receipts, bills and accounts, contained in one document box. Most of the 320 pieces and three small volumes are in good condition. During this time, Mason R. Packer was involved in various shipping and salvaging operations in Connecticut and Florida. These papers provide a glimpse into the activities of Packer and other Mystic businessmen in the mid-nineteenth...

Abstract Correspondence and diaries, relating to Fish's daily life. Subjects include his command of the schooner HUDSON, brig EMELINE, and others and his shipbuilding career, associated with William Ellery Maxson, Simeon Fish (his son), Benjamin F. Hoxie, and Capt. William Clift, operating as Maxson, Fish & Co. (included shipbuilding during the Civil War). Other vessels represented include schooner ELIZABETH, brigs SAMSON and SARAH, and barks PILGRIM and WILLIAM H. BRODIE. Correspondents include...

Abstract

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.