Series I. Business Papers consists of ships' papers and general business correspondence. The ships' papers cover a period of over four years (October 1829 to February 1834) and are arranged alphabetically by ship name. About half of the ships' papers are from the nine voyages of the schooner Rebecca. The other half is comprised of voyages from sixteen other ships. Document types include bills of lading; shipping articles; invoices; receipts; account sales; accounts current; disbursements; insurance policies; bills; notes; impost bonds; outward foreign manifests; expenditure and cargo memo books; and correspondence. Several documents are written in French and Spanish. Records not directly associated with a particular vessel are arranged at the end of the series. General business correspondence is arranged chronologically. Significant correspondents include Benjamin Chapman, John Lecoq, N.B. Mansfield, and Pierce and Goodnow.