Scope and Contents From the Series: Series I. Shipping Papers consists of James W. Chever's shipping records, which include sales and crew accounts, invoices, disbursements, and correspondence for whaling and merchant vessels that he either owned and/or mastered (see Appendix II for a complete list of vessels in this collection). Included in the 1832-1844 account book are entries for James' administration of his father's, James Chever (1752-1839), estate. Henry Prince Chever's papers, covering 1843 until 1855, are also part of...