Subseries A. Ships’ Papers includes ship’s orders, merchant correspondence, invoices, disbursements, and insurance. It also includes account and invoice books for vessels owned, chartered, or, for which Nathaniel was either the master or the supercargo. The ships which sailed for Boston and New York to ports in Amsterdam, Batavia, Calcutta, Canton, Manila, and Sumatra, carried cargoes of hides, opium, muskets, coffee, species, silk, shellac and salt peter. The papers of the Diamond, owned by Nathaniel’s patron William Gray, are included here. Among the shipping account books are accounts current and disbursements (Volume 4), invoices and accounts for the Zenobia and Canova (Volume 3), and a letter book (Volume 6) which records letters written while on the Zenobia and as an agent in Canton. Volume 3 also includes estate accounts and an inventory of Joshua Kinsman’s estate.