Logbooks
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Charles William Bishop papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 930
Overview:
The papers are made up entirely of a combined logbook and journal, "Log of a cruise in the U.S. Gunboat 'Port Royal'." Included in the journal is Charles William Bishop's account of the sinking of the Cumberland by the Merrimac, together with poetry, newspaper clippings, and other papers about the battle.
Dates:
1862-1864
Langhorne Gibson papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 237
Overview:
The papers consist of pamphlets and other printed matter with some letters, diaries and manuscripts relating to naval affairs. The largest block of material concerns World War I, particularly the questions of the German naval mutiny of 1917, the surrender of the German fleet in November 1918, and the scuttling of its most important units at Scapa Flow in 1919. Also in the collection are circa two thousand postcards showing World War I naval scenes and photographs of American transports.
Dates:
1710-1957, bulk 1914-1957
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Langhorne Gibson papers
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
William Griswold Lane memorial collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 189
Overview:
A collection of documents on the early history of Connecticut assembled by Wolcott Griswold Lane as a memorial to his father, William Griswold Lane. The original bequest consisted of approximately 1,000 letters and papers (1670-1866) of the Lane and Griswold families of Connecticut and Ohio. Families represented in the correspondence include: Daggett, Dana, Edwards, Ellsworth, Fish, Goodrich, Hillhouse, Huntington, Lanman, Sherman, Stiles, Swayne, Swift, Trumbull, Waite, Whittlesey, Williams,...
Dates:
1670-1947
Robert Wilden Neeser collection
Collection
Call Number: MS 366
Overview:
The major part of this collection is made up of 58 volumes of logbooks for fifty-one British warships (1808-1840). The remainder of the collection consists of research material for his study of the history of the United States Navy (published 1909). Included are a list of vessels (1775-1907), a list of logbooks (1800-1907) and copies of letters from the archives of the United States Navy (1798-1842). Also included is a volume of records kept ca. 1870 by Horace A. Blanchard concerning the United...
Dates:
1798-1909
Parker Family Papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 685
Overview:
The collection consists of correspondence, poems, estate papers, notebooks, account books, logbooks, legal books, and miscellaneous papers of the Lay, Parker, Pratt, Shaler, Smith, Stark, Tyler, and Williams families of eastern Connecticut.
Dates:
1747-1930, bulk 1789-1866
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Parker Family 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