Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Subseries A. Shipping Papers includes the owner/master correspondence, the master's orders, merchant house correspondence, portledge bills, bills of lading, cargo and crew lists, accounts, and receipts. Sub-subseries 1. Ships' Papers contains papers for those vessels Josiah owned or shipped cargo on, or ships he and his son Richard Elvins mastered. Because some of Josiah's vessels were captured by privateers or damaged in...