Scope and Contents From the Series: Series I. Correspondence includes both original letters and copies. The letters are to and from various people involved with the Massachusetts Steam Navigation Company and the steamboat Massachusetts, including William Dodge (who was the builder), various individual shareholders, and a "corresponding committee," probably made up of some of the officers and/or shareholders of the company. The collection does not include...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series I. Correspondence includes both original letters and copies. The letters are to and from various people involved with the Massachusetts Steam Navigation Company and the steamboat Massachusetts, including William Dodge (who was the builder), various individual shareholders, and a "corresponding committee," probably made up of some of the officers and/or shareholders of the company. The collection does not include...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series I. Correspondence includes both original letters and copies. The letters are to and from various people involved with the Massachusetts Steam Navigation Company and the steamboat Massachusetts, including William Dodge (who was the builder), various individual shareholders, and a "corresponding committee," probably made up of some of the officers and/or shareholders of the company. The collection does not include...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series I. Correspondence includes both original letters and copies. The letters are to and from various people involved with the Massachusetts Steam Navigation Company and the steamboat Massachusetts, including William Dodge (who was the builder), various individual shareholders, and a "corresponding committee," probably made up of some of the officers and/or shareholders of the company. The collection does not include...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series II. Financial Records include accounts of individuals with the Massachusetts Steam Navigation Company, accounts the company had with individuals and with other companies, company accounts indicating cash received and disbursed, and receipts for payment for labor, supplies for work on the ship, ticket sales, food supplies, and pilotage in Boston and other harbors. Some identify the steamboat Massachusetts or the...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series II. Financial Records include accounts of individuals with the Massachusetts Steam Navigation Company, accounts the company had with individuals and with other companies, company accounts indicating cash received and disbursed, and receipts for payment for labor, supplies for work on the ship, ticket sales, food supplies, and pilotage in Boston and other harbors. Some identify the steamboat Massachusetts or the...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series II. Financial Records include accounts of individuals with the Massachusetts Steam Navigation Company, accounts the company had with individuals and with other companies, company accounts indicating cash received and disbursed, and receipts for payment for labor, supplies for work on the ship, ticket sales, food supplies, and pilotage in Boston and other harbors. Some identify the steamboat Massachusetts or the...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series III. Legal Papers include legal papers and copies relating to the Massachusetts Steam Navigation Company. A copy of the act of incorporation, papers relating to legal disputes between William Dodge, the builder of the Massachusetts, and the Massachusetts Steam Navigation Company, papers relating to agreements between Thomas Eayres, Paul Revere Jr. and Joseph Revere, and the Massachusetts Steam Navigation Company, and...

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Series IV. Shares include certificates of share ownership in the Massachusetts Steam Navigation Company. Eliphalet Kimball, the treasurer, issued them all on 15 August 1817. Each certificate includes the name of the shareholder and the number of shares to which he is entitled. They are arranged in numerical order.