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Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:

Ship’s Papers of the Robert Morrison (Bark) of New Bedford

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 003-02-19
Scope and Contents This collection contains captain Andrew J. Mosher’s correspondence from a voyage of the Robert Morrison from 1880 to 1884, along with agent’s and owner’s memoranda and information about shipments of oil from this same time period. It also contains crew papers including accounts and permissions, government documents, a significant number of bills and receipts, and documents related to the condemnation and sale of the Robert Morrison. Researchers will also note diagrams of the bark’s cask...
Dates: 1879-1890

Samuel Rodman and William Logan Fisher correspondence

 File — Box Multi-collection box: [Barcode: 31116021976540]
Identifier: 003-02-29

Straight but Not Narrow Coalition records

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31116021976508]
Identifier: 109-02-05
Scope and Contents The bulk of the collection is made up of the records of the Straight But Not Narrow Coalition including incorporation records, administrative records, marketing and outreach materials, and information about LGBT legislation at the state government level, including some relevant state-level legislation outside of Rhode Island. There are a small number of additional materials from other local and national LGBT advocacy organizations. The collection mainly centers around two...
Dates: 1993 - 2015

Ship’s Papers of the Thomas Hunt (Schooner) of Stonington

 File — Flat file case Flat File
Identifier: 003-02-17
Scope and Contents

The collection includes the records of ten voyages of the Thomas Hunt between 1872 and 1884, including receipts and bills of sale, shareholders’ agreements, insurance certificates, crew lists and crew agreements, supplies and slops accounts, shipping papers, governmental documents such as foreign manifests and customs documents, and correspondence with ship’s agent Joseph N. Hancox.

Dates: 1872 - 1884

John Turner papers

 File — Box Multi-collection box: [Barcode: 31116021976540]
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

Charles Henry Wilbur papers

 File — Box Multi-collection Box : [Barcode: 31116021976383]
Identifier: 003-02-16
Scope and Contents This collection includes 69 letters to and from Wilbur, his mother, sister and brother in law, his friends, and two whaling agents, as well as a variety of other people involved in the life and death of this whaleman from New Jersey. The correspondence in this collection begins during Wilbur’s naval service in 1864 and continues through his whaling career and into the next generation of his sister's family, ending in 1916. It includes correspondence between members of his family and the U....
Dates: 1843 - 1916