Shipmasters
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Bartram family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 63
Overview:
The principal figures in the papers are Captain Thomas Bartram, a shipmaster of Black Rock, Connecticut, and his two sons, Joseph and Thomas Burr Bartram. The papers consist chiefly of records connected with the operation of their schooner, Live Oak (1823-1851) and financial and legal papers relating to land transactions in Fairfield, Connecticut (1800-1846). Also included are a small amount of family correspondence, genealogical materials, financial records of the First Congregational Society...
Dates:
1795-1928
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Bartram family papers
Gilbert-Cheever family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 700
Overview:
The papers document the families formed by the marriages of two sisters, Mary and Fanny Goodridge, to William Hinman Gilbert and Henry A. Cheever, respectively. William H. Gilbert was a clergyman from Weston, Connecticut who, with his wife, taught in schools in Vermont and Massachusetts. Henry A. Cheever was a sea captain who settled in San Francisco ca. 1853 and brought his wife and children there from Massachusetts. The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, journals, record books,...
Dates:
1836-1891
Hooker family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 289
Overview:
The papers contain correspondence, financial and legal records, genealogical material, account books, maps, autograph albums, scrapbooks, ships' logs, and memorabilia from several generations of the Hooker family of Farmington, Connecticut. Early family records contain correspondence and documents relating to the American Revolution. Eighteenth-century legal and financial records in the papers include deeds and leases on land in Farmington, Connecticut; indentures (1760-1763); wills; and...
Dates:
1623-1929
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Hooker family papers
Jesse Hurd family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 295
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, diaries, legal papers, account books, ship's papers, and miscellanea relating to the private lives and business interests of the Hurd family of Chatham, Connecticut, and New York, New York. Family interests in shipbuilding, ship repair, mercantile holdings, distillery operations, and politics are detailed, with extensive records for the New York Screw Dock Company and for many of the ships built, owned, and operated by the Hurd family.
Dates:
1700-1910
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Jesse Hurd family papers
Joseph Jeremiah Lawrence papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 986
Overview:
Chiefly ships' logs and accounts for nine ships on which Lawrence was master between 1842 and 1865. These were engaged in the trans-Atlantic and South American trade, and the log book for the ship Hindoo also contains passenger lists with place of birth and occupation for passengers from England to the United States. Also in the papers are family account books and financial papers (1868-1902).
Dates:
1833-1902
Samuel Lockwood papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 726
Overview:
Correspondence, letterbooks, orders, journals, commissions, log extracts, mess receipts, handbook of naval rules and regulations, and other papers of Commodore Samuel Lockwood of the U.S. Navy. The papers relate principally to Lockwood's service in the War with Mexico, his command of the sloop Cyane in the Pacific Squadron, 1858-1860, and his command of the steamer Daylight as part of the Union blockade of the Confederate coast. Correspondents include Matthew...
Dates:
1822-1885
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Samuel Lockwood papers
Robert W. Simpson papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1103
Overview:
Personal and business correspondence of Robert W. Simpson, ship's log, and business and financial papers concerning the voyages of the Carlyle before and during the Civil War.
Dates:
1839-1862, bulk 1858-1862
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Robert W. Simpson papers