Maine -- Commerce
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Richard F. C. Hartley papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 646
Overview:
Correspondence and business papers of Captain Richard F. C. Hartley, shipping firm owner of Saco, Maine, mainly relating to voyages of the ships Messenger and Devonshire. Also included are Samuel Hartley's memo booklets for the sloop Packet of Saco, 1816-1838. An addition to the collection includes documents of ships owned by Richard Hartley involved in the guano trade between Peru and other countries.
Dates:
1816-1884
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Richard F. C. Hartley papers
Selden Huntington family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1064
Overview:
Correspondence, diaries, and financial and legal papers of three generations of the Selden Huntington family of Old Lyme and Middlesex County, Connecticut. The papers document Selden Huntington's business fortunes in East Coast shipping and land speculation in Maine, his relationship with his son Joseph Selden, breaking up of his marriage to his second wife Jeanette Stewart, and social and religious activities in the community. Joseph Selden Huntington's letters record his years at school in...
Dates:
1762-1914