Scope and Contents From the Series: Series I. Captain Joseph Lee (1744-1831) Papers documents his business as a shipbuilder, covering the years 1796 until 1831. Located in this series is correspondence regarding orders for ships, legal agreements with clients and workmen, accounts and receipts for construction materials, memorandums of ship dimensions, and drawings of hulls and ship decorations. Joseph's correspondence also includes letters concerning farming and merchant correspondence, circa...