Ships' papers

Abstract Articles of agreement for the ship Crescent of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, with John Rogers or Rodgers as master. The documents list names of crew members, their stations and pay for voyages from the port of New Orleans to Le Havre and other ports in Europe. The agreement dated 1835 consists of the top half of the document only. The collection also includes a shipmaster's license for John J. Wade of Barrington, Nova Scotia, issued in 1867 by the American Shipmasters' Association in New...

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Includes account of wages, cost of goods and services at ports, pen drawing of ship inside cover.

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The collection contains records from Albert Eells's grocery business in Camden, Maine and his shipyard in Rockport, Maine.

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One ledger is a surveyor's ledger of timber lots by type and quantity from Dec. 18, 1869 to July 3, 1891. It includes a church ledger, Machiasport, Maine, 1905-1907. The second ledger is an account book for the schooner Beta from April 1892 to August 1896. It includes a church ledger, Machiasport, Maine, 1907-1908.

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Account book kept by Benjamin Hatch for schooners Paragon and James Bliss.

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Business and personal papers of Edwin F. Littlefield, a ship captain from Winterport, Maine. Very little biographical information is available about Littlefield, but it appears that he was a ship owner, captain and agent between 1854 and 1897, the year of his death.

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The ledger includes ships' fees for endorsements, oaths, insurance, and other official papers. Includes names of schooners, barks, brigs, and other vessels and destinations. Harbor where these fees were collected is not known.

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The papers of a ship-owning family, Stephen W. Stuart, William H. Stuart and John B. Stuart. Some papers relate to the Richmond National Bank (1878-1884), mostly receipts. Also includes correspondence, financial records, and cargo lists.

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Includes accounts relating to the schooner Lizzie Brewster primarily for labor aboard the schooner.

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First entry dated April 19, 1886; last entry dated April 13, 1891. Harbors included in the district of Castine were Castine, Bucksport, Deer Isle, and Sedgwick.

Abstract The Vickery manuscript collection contains a wide range of material related to Maine history, Maine families, Maine towns, and the Civil War, as well as a lot of general Maine material and some general interest material. The most prominent subjects include: Bangor, ME; Joshua L. Chamberlain; Civil War (mostly letters, organized by family name). Types of material include: correspondence; deeds; diaries; Maine families (history, genealogy,and letters); letters; Maine; marriage records;...

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Logbook of the Schooner Vigilent during a cod fishing voyage from Cutler to the Grand Manan Banks. The logbook was kept by Samuel H. Brown and the names of the fishermen were Andrew Ramsdale, Amos Brann, and Joseph Ramsdell.