Ship's Papers of Clarice (Bark) of Edgartown

File

Identifier: 003-02-09

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of records of four whaling voyages of the Clarice including shipping papers, correspondence, crew lists, bills and receipts and crew accounts.

Dates

1863 - 1884

Creator

Nicholson, Paul C. (Paul Coe), 1888-1956 (Collector, Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Materials are open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

PPL believes this collection is in the public domain. Users of this item are responsible for determining copyright restrictions.

Biographical / Historical

The Bark Clarice was built in 1823 in Scarborough, Maine. It made a total of fourteen whaling voyages. From 1835 to 1870, the vessel was based in New Bedford, Massachusetts from which it made its first eleven voyages. The last three whaling voyages were made under the ownership of Samuel Osborn Jr. of Edgartown, Massachusetts. Osborn began building a fleet of whaling ships in 1870 and by 1880 was the largest shipping agent of whaling property in the United States.

The voyages under Osborn included 1871-1875 and 1875-1878 both under the command of Master Cornelius M. Marchant (1826-1885) and 1878-1882 under command of Master Frederick A. Smith (1828-1891) who left the ship in was replaced by Master Francis W. Vincent. During the last voyage the ship was condemned at St. Helena in 1882.

Extent

.8 Linear Feet (2 manuscript boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

The collection is organized chronologically by voyage.

Custodial History

Acquired as part of the Paul C. Nicholson Whaling Collection in 1956.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Paul C. Nicholson, 1956.

Related Materials

003-01-02, Nicholson Whaling Collection Logbooks, Providence Public Library. Includes eleven logbooks and account books for the Clarice from 1846-1882.

003-05-02, Nicholson Whaling Collection Artifacts, Providence Public Library.

Clarice logbooks, New Bedford Whaling Museum

Separated Materials

Sea chest for the Clarice cataloged separately in the Nicholson Whaling Artifact Collection.

Logbooks and account books of Clarice are cataloged separately within the Nicholson Whaling Logbook Collection. These items are digitized and available at https://archive.org/details/providencepublicnicholson

Processing Information

Previously part of general Nicholson Whaling Manuscript Collection, Subgroup 7. Processing by Judith Lund in 2008 with additions made to the finding aid by Janaya Kizzie in 2014. The decision to reprocess the subgroups as individual collections was made by Jordan Goffin in 2018. The collection was reprocessed by Kate Wells in 2019.