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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...

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2. MS002 B04 F01-F52 - Ships O-S

   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 4 F1: Ohio (Brig), 1811-1815. Correspondence concerning insurance coverage in Jamaica. William Hoseason. William Banks. George Sinclair, jr. Nathaniel A. Haven. Edward J....

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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...

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4. MS002 OV B03 F59 - Ships

   Protests and statements of loss of brig Oliver Peabody (1807-1810), brig Pallas (1804), brig Reward (1808.) Stephen Gilman, Samuel Elliot, William Fernald, William Christopher, James Greenough, Henry Stackpole, Theodore Fernald, Matthias Sayre, John Flagg, Ebenezer Ricker, John Tompson, John Gillett, Benjamin Fall.

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5. MS050 B02 F28.09 - Archibald Mercer to John Langdon

   One page letter from Archibald Mercer in Boston to John Langdon in Portsmouth. Archibald Mercer was a privateer in Boston and co-owner with Langdon and Philip Moore of the frigate "Portsmouth." [See https://awiatsea.com/Privateers/] Sends an order on Jacob Sheafe for £200, which he wants applied to his account, and has written to Mr. carter who owes him money, and if he is suucessful in getting it, he will send it on to Langdon. The rum wa...

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6. 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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7. S1106 - Anonymous Ledger

   Account book of an anonymous Portsmouth dealer in meats, groceries, and provisions. Majority of the book is pasted over with newspaper clippings of the Civil War era. The last forty pages show sales from 1803-1804, interspersed with casual diary entries.

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8. 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. See "Multimedia Files" for a link to the index of individuals, busin...

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