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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...

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  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...

    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

  6. S1394 - Ship Records of Samuel & William Hale

    Shipping expenses of the following vessels belonging to Samuel and William Hale of Portsmouth, NH: ship Baltic, ship Aeolus (Captain Jacob C. Treadwell), ship Laconia (Captain John Walker), ship Ossian, ship Hantonia (Captain Ichabod Rollins), ship Martha (Captain Thomas Lunt), and ship Lydia (Captain G. Treadwell). Includes records of accounts with their London agents Thomas Dickason & Co. and Robert & William Pulsford. Expenses include freights...

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  7. S1622 - Nathaniel A. Haven account book, 1798-1808

    Account book of Nathaniel Appleton Haven, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Date range is circa 1798 to 1808. Records include transactions with various merchants in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, as well as surrounding towns such as Exeter, Durham, Dover, and New Castle as well as Berwick and Kittery, Maine. Entries include merchants in London, Boston, and New York as well as ships. A link to the index of individuals, businesses and ship names can be...

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  8. 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] Links to the chronological and alphabetical indexes to the book can be found at the bottom of this catalog record.

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

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