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Contains 3 Results:

John Turner papers

 File — Box: Multi-collection box
Identifier: 003-02-34
Scope and Contents

This collection includes 56 items, chiefly business correspondence, related to the John Turner's business investments and shares in various whaling voyages out of New London, Connecticut for vessels including the McDonough, Palladium, Mentor, Spark and Indian Chief.

Dates: 1824 - 1856

Samuel Rodman and William Logan Fisher correspondence

 File — Box: Multi-collection box
Identifier: 003-02-29

Ship’s Papers of President (Bark) of New Bedford

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 003-02-27
Scope and Contents This collection contains papers from two of the President’s whaling voyages: 1865-1869 under master Edmund Kelley, and 1869-1872 under master Eber C. Almy. The papers for the second of these voyages are scant. The collection also includes papers regarding the ship’s building and maintenance history which are unrelated to any specific voyage. Of additional note in this collection is a volume of sailing directions for Buzzards Bay published in New Bedford in 1821, which has since been...
Dates: 1821 - 1875; Majority of material found within 1865 - 1873