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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 B05 F01-F20 - Ships W-Z, List of Insured Ships

    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 5 F1: Thomas Wilson (Ship), 1810-1820. Bilged on the Isles of Shoals. Joshua Haven. Benjamin Brierley. F2: Tom (Ship), 1806-1807. Cast ashore in Portsmouth. Peter Turner...

    Record Type: Archive

  3. 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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