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Ship Eagle account book
Collection Identifier: Mss:733 1817-1819 E11Scope and Contents:
Account book containing ship's accounts with the crew for wages and supplies including clothes, food, tools, cloth, soap, sewing supplies, tobacco, and hospital money. The list of crewmembers appear to include those native to the “Sandwich Islands” (presumably the Hawaiian Islands), and for the most part, only documents the individual’s first name. At the back of the book are "Shipping Articles," which lists some of the crewmembers, their rank, time of service, monthly wages, wages advanced...
Ship Eagle account book
Collection Identifier: Mss:766 1820-1821 E11Scope and Contents:
Account book documenting sundry goods shipped from Boston, Massachusetts by Boardman & Pope on the Ship Eagle. Eliphilat Davis mastered the ship. Goods include rum, gin and wine, sugar, silk; beef, pork and fish, and chairs and stoves. Also included is an accounting of purchase of sale and expenses of the Ship Eagle (including port charges and expenses related to repairing the ship), and sales and disbursements of the ship’s cargo by the ship’s captain Eliphilat Davis. Davis sold the...
Swift & Perry account book
Collection Identifier: Mss:252 1859-1883 S977Scope and Contents:
Account book documents the involvement of Swift & Perry in the whaling industry in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The first part of the account book lists the names of the officers and men who shipped out on various whalers. The individual pages list the name of the ship, its captain, when the vessel set sail and arrived at its destination, and a list of the crew members and their roles. Occasionally there is an additional handwritten note indicating if the crew member deserted, was...