Series I. Brockway Correspondence contains numerous responses to the 1885 Newburyport Herald advertisement that deal primarily with the descendants of ship owners or insurance underwriters who suffered monetary losses due to French privateers prior to 1801.

Series I. Brockway Correspondence contains numerous responses to the 1885 Newburyport Herald advertisement that deal primarily with the descendants of ship owners or insurance underwriters who suffered monetary losses due to French privateers prior to 1801.

Series I. Brockway Correspondence contains numerous responses to the 1885 Newburyport Herald advertisement that deal primarily with the descendants of ship owners or insurance underwriters who suffered monetary losses due to French privateers prior to 1801.

Series I. Brockway Correspondence contains numerous responses to the 1885 Newburyport Herald advertisement that deal primarily with the descendants of ship owners or insurance underwriters who suffered monetary losses due to French privateers prior to 1801.

Series II. Brockway Genealogy contains lists of births, deaths and marriages of the Brockway lineage from the early eighteenth century to the late nineteenth century.

Series III. William Bartlett Papers contains correspondence and lists regarding the ships Rose and Tom, both lost to French privateers in 1800. Also included is the document from the Essex County Probate Office that lists Charles Brockway as executor to the Bartlett estate.

Series IV. Vessels and Claims contains printed documents listing spoliation claims for Newburyport citizens, including Bartlett and Brockway, and lists of Newburyport vessels and cargo captured by French privateers prior to 1801.

Series VI. Congressional Records contains printed reports from the Foreign Affairs Committees' of the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives regarding the French Spoliation appropriation bill.