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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 B02 F01-F54 - Ships E-I

    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. Box 2 F1: Edward (Schooner), 1805-6. List of expenses for repairs on vessel. Ebenezer Rowe, Benjamin Swett. F2: Elisha (Brig), 1817-1821. Claims for losses sustained in sto...

    Record Type: Archive

  3. MS002 Flat Box 1 - Ship and house insurance policies

    F61: Insurance policies for vessels Adventure (sloop), Agenonia(barque), Alert (brig), Alfred (ship), Alligator (brig), Almira (brig), Amily (sloop), Ann (brig), Aurora (ship), Betsey (brig), Bristol Packet (ship), Brutus (ship), Cato (ship), Ceres (ship), Charles (brig), Charles (ship), Columbia (schooner). Masters: Seward Porter, William Marshall, John Tilton, Games Greenough, John Rice, Michael Beck, Joseph A. Ellery, George McClean, Leonard...

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  4. MS002 OV B03 F56 - Ships

    Insurance claims and statements of loss for schooner Gleaner (1818), brig Governor Strong (1806), brig Hannah (1815-1819). Richard Saunders, Nathaniel Boardman, Samuel Morrison, Andrew Hussey, William Stavers, O.C. Blunt.

    Record Type: Archive

  5. 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
  6. S1223a - Mark Laighton account book, 1804-1813

    Account book was kept between 1804 and 1813. The handwriting changes several times, suggesting several people were keeping the records over the time period. The book is part of a three volume set presumed to be owned by Mark Laighton, a mast and block maker, who also invented the roller block. Entries include various specialized ship elements, such as spars, blocks, and tackles. Sometimes the records list ship work by the owner or captain of ...

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  7. 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

  8. S1772 - John Lowe shipping ledger, 1829-1835

    Shipping ledger belonging to John Lowe (1796-1873). Includes accounting records for various merchants, businesses, and ships in the Portsmouth, New Hampshire, area. Records date from 1829 to 1835. Pages numbered up to 130. About three quarters of the ledger is blank. PEOPLE INDEX Ball, John and Joseph B. 63 Barnes, Lewis 92 Brown, Daniel 22 Caswell, J. M. 110 Caswell, William 65 Clasby, John G. 91 Coffin, Charles 66...

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  9. S1794d - Dockage, wharfage, and storage book of Portsmouth, N.H., 1824-1832

    Dockage, wharfage, and storage book of Portsmouth, N.H., collected by Joe Sawtelle. Dated November 1824 to May 1832. Volume lists ship captains and/or owners; ship names; fees assessed; and dates of the ships' dockage or wharfage while in Portsmouth. Some entries also include notes about the contents of the ship. [20 pages] See "Multimedia Files" for links to the chronological and alphabetical indexes to the book.

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    Dockage, wharfage, and storage book of Portsmouth, N.H., 1824-1832

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