Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: 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 ...