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  1. MS002 - New Hampshire Fire & Marine Insurance Company Records, 1801-1825

    Summary Correspondence, financial, shipping, and administration records, insurance policies, and reading room papers of the company. Includes protests and claims relating to losses to ships and cargo from the U.S., and elsewhere; and account books of company secretaries, Thomas Sparhawk, John B. Sewall, and Edward J. Long. Other persons represented include founders James Rundlet, Samuel Ham, William Ballard, and John Gilman, Jr. Scope and C...

    Record Type: Archive

  2. MS002 B01 F01-F46 - Ships A-D

    Protests and claims, for losses to ships and cargo, from the United States, Havana, Brazil, England, France, Germany, Demerary, and other countries. Includes correspondence from captains and owners, bills, receipts, and accounts. Arranged alphabetically by ship’s name. A. Ships F1: Abeona (Brig), 1812. Receipt settling loss with Capt. Oliver Blunt. F2: Adventure (Sloop), 1804. Protest and settlement concerning its capture by a French ...

    Record Type: Archive

  3. MS002 OV B03 F54 - Ships

    Insurance claims and statements of loss for the brig Blossom (1806), ship Ceres (1805), and ship Concordia (1817). Richard Muchmore, James Perkins, Samuel Rand, Daniel Humphreys, Elihu D. Brown, James Brown, Samuel Davis, Edwin Little Coffin, Benjamin G. Lord, Edward S. Horne.

    Record Type: Archive

  4. S0143 - Portsmouth Ship List, 1804-1806

    Three lists of ship names, owners, tonnage, when registered (1804-1806), and occasionally when built (ca. 1785-1806). Documents are presumed to be customs documents although they are not so labeled. List of ships with date built and owner: Five Friends (Schooner), 1803, Christopher Amazeen Dolphin (Schooner), 1794, J. Ayers Grand Turk (Ship), 1806, Lewis Barnes Driver (Schooner), 1796, Abner Blaisdel Ferdinand (Brig), 1798, Abner Blais...

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    Portsmouth Ship List, 1804-1806
  5. S1223b - Mark Laighton account book, 1819-1823

    Day book kept by Mark Laighton from 1819 to 1823. Laighton was a mast and block maker and invented the roller block. He owned Laighton's Wharf and Mast Yard and had a house on Bachelor's Lane (later Green Street). Entries are similar to S1223a (the earlier book kept by Laighton) and include outfitting ships, dry goods and food items, blocks and repairs made to vessels. They also include work on the Portsmouth Aqueduct system and repair to pum...

    Record Type: Archive

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