Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Subseries A. Shipping Papers is comprised of records of ships owned, mastered, or supercargoed by Waters, whose vessels were mostly involved in trade with the East Indies and China. An interesting item among the papers of the brig Mermaid is a letter from Captain John Eagleston describing to William H. Neice, an Australian ship owner, the circumstances surrounding an attack upon Neice’s vessel Sir David Ogilby by natives at the Fiji Islands in 1838. In the miscellaneous ships’ papers is an...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Subseries A. Shipping Papers is comprised of records of ships owned, mastered, or supercargoed by Waters, whose vessels were mostly involved in trade with the East Indies and China. An interesting item among the papers of the brig Mermaid is a letter from Captain John Eagleston describing to William H. Neice, an Australian ship owner, the circumstances surrounding an attack upon Neice’s vessel Sir David Ogilby by natives at the Fiji Islands in 1838. In the miscellaneous ships’ papers is an...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Subseries A. Shipping Papers is comprised of records of ships owned, mastered, or supercargoed by Waters, whose vessels were mostly involved in trade with the East Indies and China. An interesting item among the papers of the brig Mermaid is a letter from Captain John Eagleston describing to William H. Neice, an Australian ship owner, the circumstances surrounding an attack upon Neice’s vessel Sir David Ogilby by natives at the Fiji Islands in 1838. In the miscellaneous ships’ papers is an...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Subseries A. Shipping Papers is comprised of records of ships owned, mastered, or supercargoed by Waters, whose vessels were mostly involved in trade with the East Indies and China. An interesting item among the papers of the brig Mermaid is a letter from Captain John Eagleston describing to William H. Neice, an Australian ship owner, the circumstances surrounding an attack upon Neice’s vessel Sir David Ogilby by natives at the Fiji Islands in 1838. In the miscellaneous ships’ papers is an...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Subseries A. Shipping Papers is comprised of records of ships owned, mastered, or supercargoed by Waters, whose vessels were mostly involved in trade with the East Indies and China. An interesting item among the papers of the brig Mermaid is a letter from Captain John Eagleston describing to William H. Neice, an Australian ship owner, the circumstances surrounding an attack upon Neice’s vessel Sir David Ogilby by natives at the Fiji Islands in 1838. In the miscellaneous ships’ papers is an...