Box 2
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Papers regarding the detention of the schooner Harmony at Shelburne Custom House, 1785-1788, 1785-1788 Digital
FOUND IN:
Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School
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Collection:
Thomas & William Davis records
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Series:
Series I. Financial and legal papers, 1783-1846
Item — Box: 2, Folder: 18Identifier: Mss:766 1782-1805 D264
Scope and Contents:
Correspondence from Samuel Osborn Doane and Warren Smith to Thomas & William Davis regarding the detention of the schooner Harmony by the Shelburne Custom House in Halifax, Nova Scotia, for failing to have British registration, dated 1785-1788. The letters indicate the vessel had been released by 1787 and sold to Sheldon Pool, probably Samuel Sheldon Pool (1751-1835).