Ship's Papers of America II (Ship) of Stonington

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Identifier: 003-02-15

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Scope and Contents

The collection contains the records of two whaling voyages by America II out of Stonington, Connecticut including shipping papers, correspondence, crew lists, bills and receipts, and crew accounts.

Dates

1844 - 1847

Creator

Hubbard, George, Jr. (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 ship America II was built in Philadelphia in 1811. Known as the America, it was renamed the America II, possibly in 1849. The vessel made a total of eight whaling voyages. The first five whaling voyages were out of Hudson, New York from 1830-1842 after which it was under the management of agent Charles P. Williams in Stonington, Connecticut for two voyages from 1842 and 1844. Subsequently the vessel was sold to New Bedford from which it made one whaling voyage in 1850 which ended when the ship was crushed in the ice in the Anadir Sea in 1851. This collection includes the records of the two voyages made under agent Charles P. Williams out of Stonington, Connecticut. The voyage of 1842-1844 was under Master George Hubbard Jr. and the voyage of 1844-1847 was under Master Ellery Nash.

Extent

.2 Linear Feet (1 multi-collection manuscript box (shared with 003-02-17))

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 one logbook of the America II in 1849 for a non-whaling voyage.

American II logbooks, New Bedford Whaling Museum

Separated Materials

Logbooks of America II 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 14. 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.