Series V. Samuel Barton (1804-1840) Papers, 1819-1840, are comprised of ships’ papers, merchant correspondence and accounts, and personal papers. Among the ships’ papers, arranged alphabetically by vessel, are records of a large number of ships owned by Gideon Tucker, and Joseph and Joseph A. Peabody. Of interest are papers of the brig Leander and brig Roque, vessels which carried opium from Turkey and China circa 1819-1826. Of special note are Samuel’s extraordinarily complete supercargo’s accounts of the ship George’s voyages to Calcutta from 1819 to 1836. The records of the George have been divided into letterbooks, account books, invoice books, memorandum books, and loose ship’s papers. It is possible that much of the material in the folder of miscellaneous ships’ papers (box 8, folder 2) may also belong to the ship George. For a list of ships chartered by Samuel Barton, see Appendix IV.