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1. S0655 - Jesse Walker diary, 1838-1866

   Photocopies of diary discussing Walker's activities as a farmer in Rye, New Hampshire; a worker at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in the 1840s; and master of the "Sarah" in 1838. Includes accounts relating to goods he shipped to Boston, farmers, and crops. Topics include the Millerites predicting the end of the world, famine in Ireland, Great Comet of 1843, fires in Portsmouth in 1845, crossing the Piscataqua on ice in 1857, drownings, accidents a...

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2. S1123 - Schooner Janus Letter

   On one side a letter from W. M. Gzane of the Navy Yard to Commander J. Collins Long, Lietenant G. F. Pearson and Master Builder S. M. Pook dated 1859 requesting a careful examination of the Schooner Janus "employed in working the Diving Bell at the Yard..." The reply is on the second side which informs of the bad state of the Schooner Janus and its recent sinking.

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