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Historic Ship Records, 1662-1980, undated

 Collection
Identifier: MH 259
Abstract

The Historic Ships’ Records is an artificial collection which contains material having to do with the shipping industry primarily in Salem, Massachusetts, but also Boston, Amsterdam, New Orleans, San Francisco, and London. Items in the collection include bills of lading, receipts, crew lists, disbursement records, insurance policies, and personal accounts.

Dates: 1662-1980, undated

Isaac Cushing Papers, 1811-1859, undated

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 185
Abstract

The Isaac Cushing Papers document the shipping and lumber merchant activities of Isaac Cushing of Salem, Massachusetts.

Dates: 1811-1859, undated

Jerome B. Hildreth Papers, 1851-1925

 Collection
Identifier: MH 123
Abstract

The Jerome B. Hildreth Papers consist of correspondence, accounts, shipping papers, draft proposals for an engine propeller design, and deeds.

Dates: 1851-1925

John Newmarch Cushing Papers, 1714-1920, undated

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 186
Abstract

The John Newmarch Cushing papers document the activities of this Newburyport, Massachusetts, merchant, wharfinger, and ship chandler.

Dates: 1714-1920, undated

Newburyport (Mass.) Federal Custom House Records, 1789-1916

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 282
Abstract

The collection of bound volumes of Newburyport Federal Custom House Records at the Peabody Essex Museum’s Phillips Library spans the entire 121 years of the existence of the Newburyport Federal Customs District (1789-1910).

Dates: 1789-1916

Orne Family Papers, 1719-1899, undated

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 41
Abstract

The bulk of the Orne Family Papers, which consists of the shipping papers generated by Timothy Orne (1717-1767), Josiah Orne (1768-1825), William Orne (1751/2-1815), and Joseph Orne (1778-1806) spans almost a century of Salem shipping from 1732 to 1825. The papers reflect the business, legal, and personal papers of each cousin, their immediate families, and their in-laws.

Dates: 1719-1899, undated

Stearns and Sprague Family Papers, 1718-1889, undated

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 192
Abstract

The Stearns and Sprague Family papers document the activities of Dr. William Stearns (1754-1819), a Salem apothecary and grocer, and his father-in-law, shipping merchant and distillery owner Joseph Sprague (1739-1808).

Dates: 1718-1889, undated

Thomas Perkins Pingree Papers, 1831-1889, undated

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 904
Abstract

The bulk of the Thomas Perkins Pingree Papers consist of his business correspondence, ships' papers, and papers related to the settlement of his estate.

Dates: 1831-1889, undated

William B. Parker, Jr. Papers, 1823-1854

 Collection
Identifier: MH 174
Abstract

The collection contains bills and receipts, legal papers, business correspondence, sailor's agreements, financial statements, and personal estate papers of William B. Parker Jr. (1801-1878) from 1823 to 1854.

Dates: 1823-1854

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Shipwrecks 18
Shipping 15
Account books 8
Marine insurance 8
Deeds 6
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Salem (Mass.) 6
Ship's papers 6
Administration of estates 5
Privateering 5
Diaries 4
Genealogy 4
Letters 4
Lumber trade 4
Marine protests 4
Merchants -- Massachusetts -- Salem 4
Charter-parties 3
Farms 3
Inventories 3
Ship captains 3
Shipbuilding 3
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 3
United States -- History -- Spoliation claims 3
Abandonment (Maritime law) 2
Accidents 2
Authors 2
Bills of lading 2
Bonds 2
Boston (Mass.) 2
Boston (Mass.) -- Commerce 2
Capture at sea 2
Crew lists 2
Fisheries 2
Fishing 2
Great Britain -- Description and travel 2
Hides and skins industry 2
Lawyers 2
Lease and rental services 2
Leather industry and trade 2
Lectures and lecturing 2
Letter writing 2
Logging -- Maine 2
Lumbering -- Maine 2
Maps 2
Merchants 2
Merchants -- Massachusetts -- Newburyport 2
Prisoners 2
Saint John River (Me. and N.B.) 2
Shipping -- Africa, West 2
Shipping -- England -- Liverpool 2
Shipping -- England -- London 2
Shipping -- Louisiana -- New Orleans 2
Shipping -- Singapore 2
Shipping -- Spain 2
Ships -- Cargo 2
Taxation 2
Tobacco industry 2
Voyages and travels 2
Account books -- Fire insurance 1
Account books -- Marine insurance 1
Accra (Ghana) 1
Acquisition of land 1
Adario (Ship) 1
Affidavits 1
Alabama claims 1
American loyalists 1
Amesbury (Mass.) -- Local records 1
Amesbury (Mass.) -- Taxation 1
Annatto 1
Antwerp (Belgium) 1
Architecture 1
Aroostook County (Me.) 1
Astronomy -- Observations 1
Atkinson (N.H.) 1
Ballard County (Ky.) 1
Banjul (Gambia) 1
Bank stocks 1
Bath (Me.) -- Commerce 1
Bills of exchange 1
Bills of sale 1
Black Hawk (Brig) 1
Boots -- Trade and manufacture 1
Brazil -- Commerce -- United States 1
Bridges -- Design and construction 1
Business records 1
Cargo handling -- Coffee 1
Cargo handling -- Hides 1
Cargo handling -- Peanuts 1
Cargo handling -- Tobacco 1
Cargo ships 1
Charlestown (Boston, Mass.) 1
Clove trade 1
Clubs 1
Coal trade 1
Coastwise shipping -- Atlantic Coast (U.S.) 1
Coffee industry 1
Colonial companies 1
Commission merchants 1
Copal 1
Copyright licenses 1
Cordage 1
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Language
Arabic 1
French 1
 
Names
Sally (Schooner) 3
Arthur Pickering (Bark) 2
Caroline Augusta (Ship) 2
Chandler, James N., 1826-1904 2
Coe, Ebenezer Smith, 1814-1899 2
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Cushing, Caleb, 1800-1879 2
Cushing, Isaac 2
Dunlap, Andrew, 1794-1835 2
Dunlap, Lucy Ann Charlotte Augusta Fales, -1887 2
Dunlap, S. F. (Samuel Fales), 1825-1905 2
Essex Fire & Marine Insurance Company (Salem, Mass.) 2
Goddard, John, 1811-1870 2
Halsey (Brig) 2
Kimball, Edward Dearborn, 1810-1867 2
Molly (Schooner) 2
Pingree, David, 1795-1863 2
Pingree, David, 1841-1932 2
Pingree, Harriet E. (Dodge), 1840-1915 2
Pingree, T. P. (Thomas P.) 2
Pingree, Thomas Perkins, 1830-1876 2
Rebecca (Schooner) 2
S.R. Bearce & Co. 2
Stone, Benjamin W., 1809-1891 2
Thomas Perkins (Ship) 2
Three Brothers (Barque) 2
Wheatland, George, 1804-1893 2
Whittier (Ship) 2
A. N. Jordan (Schooner) 1
A. W. Stevens (Bark) 1
Abigail (Sloop) 1
Active (Brig) 1
Adams (Brig) 1
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848 1
Adriatic (Brig) 1
Africa (Ship) 1
Afton (Brigantine) 1
Alabama (Steamship) 1
Alfred Keene (Ship) 1
Alger, Cyrus, 1781-1856 1
Allen, Edward 1
America (Brig) 1
America (Schooner) 1
Andrago (Sloop) 1
Andrew, John F. (John Forrester), 1850-1895 1
Andrew, Nathaniel 1
Angeline (Brig) 1
Ann (Schooner) 1
Ann Elizabeth (Brig) 1
Ann Maria (Ship) 1
Ann Mcrae (Brig) 1
Antelope (Ship) 1
Appleton, William, 1786-1862 1
Arcade (Schooner) 1
Argo (Brig) 1
Arrington, James 1
Aspinwall, Thomas, 1786-1876 1
Atalanta (Ship) 1
Augustine Heard & Company 1
Aurelia (Ship) 1
Aurora (Barque) 1
B. F. Nash (Brig) 1
Balch, John, 1742-1798 1
Baltimore (Brig) 1
Baring Brothers & Co. 1
Barnard family 1
Barr, John, 1758-1832 1
Batavia (Bark) 1
Batchelder, William 1
Bateman, Abigail Balch (Perkins), 1824-1892 1
Bates, Charles N. 1
Bayley family 1
Bearce, Samuel R., 1802-1874 1
Beaver (Schooner) 1
Becket, Hannah 1
Beckford, Ebenezer 1
Benedict, George K. 1
Bentley, William, 1759-1819 1
Betsey (Brig) 1
Betsey (Schooner : 1809-1835) 1
Betsey and Eliza (Schooner) 1
Betsy (Schooner) 1
Betty & Molly (Schooner) 1
Big Bonanza (Ship) 1
Boardman, Benjamin 1
Boody, Shephard 1
Boston Packet (Bark) 1
Bounding Billows (Barque) 1
Bowditch, Joseph, Jr. 1
Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838 1
Boyd and Arnton 1
Bray, Benjamin 1
Brazil (Bark) 1
Brenda (ship) 1
Brooks, George E., Jr. 1
Brown, Shipley & Co. 1
Brown, Thomas, 1785-1862 1
Brown, William 1
Brunswick (Schooner) 1
Bryant, Timothy, Jr. 1
Buckeye (Barque) 1
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