Scope and Contents From the Series: Series V. Samuel Barton (1804-1840) Papers, 1819-1840, are comprised of ships’ papers, merchant correspondence and accounts, and personal papers. Among the ships’ papers, arranged alphabetically by vessel, are records of a large number of ships owned by Gideon Tucker, and Joseph and Joseph A. Peabody. Of interest are papers of the brig Leander and brig Roque, vessels which carried opium from Turkey and China circa 1819-1826. Of special note are Samuel’s extraordinarily complete supercargo’s...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series V. Samuel Barton (1804-1840) Papers, 1819-1840, are comprised of ships’ papers, merchant correspondence and accounts, and personal papers. Among the ships’ papers, arranged alphabetically by vessel, are records of a large number of ships owned by Gideon Tucker, and Joseph and Joseph A. Peabody. Of interest are papers of the brig Leander and brig Roque, vessels which carried opium from Turkey and China circa 1819-1826. Of special note are Samuel’s extraordinarily complete supercargo’s...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series V. Samuel Barton (1804-1840) Papers, 1819-1840, are comprised of ships’ papers, merchant correspondence and accounts, and personal papers. Among the ships’ papers, arranged alphabetically by vessel, are records of a large number of ships owned by Gideon Tucker, and Joseph and Joseph A. Peabody. Of interest are papers of the brig Leander and brig Roque, vessels which carried opium from Turkey and China circa 1819-1826. Of special note are Samuel’s extraordinarily complete supercargo’s...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series V. Samuel Barton (1804-1840) Papers, 1819-1840, are comprised of ships’ papers, merchant correspondence and accounts, and personal papers. Among the ships’ papers, arranged alphabetically by vessel, are records of a large number of ships owned by Gideon Tucker, and Joseph and Joseph A. Peabody. Of interest are papers of the brig Leander and brig Roque, vessels which carried opium from Turkey and China circa 1819-1826. Of special note are Samuel’s extraordinarily complete supercargo’s...