Shipping -- New York (State) -- New York
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Baldwin and Company papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 56
Overview:
A shipping firm based in New York trading with Europe, South America and various ports in the United States. The principal partner in the firm was Simeon Baldwin of New Haven. The records include account books, correspondence, papers dealing with the general business of the firm and papers dealing with the individual ships. The records for each of the 124 ships consist of bills of lading, manifests, freight lists, settlements of earnings, letters of instruction to captains, captain's accounts...
Dates:
1818-1876
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Baldwin and Company papers
Shipping collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 543
Overview:
The collection consists of ships' journals, invoices, manifests, lists of crews, clearance papers and other documents relating to shipping, largely from Connecticut ports in the 18th and 19th centuries. There is also a small quantity of papers from Massachusetts, New York and elsewhere.
Dates:
1749-1923
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Shipping collection