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Bristol family. Bristol family papers, 1769-1877 (inclusive).

Title: Bristol family papers, 1769-1877 (inclusive).

(Miscellaneous papers relating to his service as second lieutenant in the 29th Conn. Colored Volunteers and records of the regiment (1863-1865) are part of the Civil War Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection) Others prominent in the correspondence are Albert Gallatin Bristol, Mary Sanford Dwight Cleaveland (in letters to her children), David Daggett and Mary Bliss Bristol writing to her daughter Caroline, who was attending Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Ct. (1870-1873). Also in the papers are genealogies of the Bristol, Bliss and Cleaveland families, specifications for houses in New Haven and Fair Haven, scrapbooks (including one kept by Caroline Bliss Bristol on a trip to Europe in 1873-1874), account books, both business and personal and the manuscript of a play (ca. 1830). Correspondence, financial records, diaries, scrapbooks, account books and memorabilia of the Bristol family of New Haven and New London, Connecticut. The major figures in the collection are the descendants of Simeon Bristol (1739-1805); his son, William Bristol, and his grandsons, William Brooks Bristol, and Louis Bristol, all prominent lawyers, judges and members of the state legislature in Connecticut.

ArchivalResource: 16.75 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702153355 View

Morning Star (Bark). Logbook of the bark Morning Star, 1855 Nov. 16-1857Jan. 10.

Title: Logbook of the bark Morning Star, 1855 Nov. 16-1857Jan. 10.

Partial log, keeper unknown, relating to a whaling voyage to the Pacific Ocean.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (85 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/181368267 View

Winship, Abiel. Legal documents concerning maritime fur trade, 1821-1826.

Title: Legal documents concerning maritime fur trade, 1821-1826.

A signed copy of a manuscript indenture, dated February 6, 1822, between Winship, John French, and William Tucker, detailing French and Tucker's loan to Winship in exchange for a portion of the profits resulting from the ship Zephyr's trade route. A receipt for the loan, the Zephyr's bill of lading, and instructions to the captain of the Zephyr, William Cleaveland, are attached. Other documents include two signed manuscript copies of an 1822 indenture between Winship and various merchants and creditors, describing and assigning cargo on board the ship General Gates and the schooner Wasp; a manuscript copy of an 1824 indenture assigning half of Winship's interest in the cargo of the General Gates to William B. Swett & Co.; an undated manuscript deposition signed by Benjamin Wheeler, agent of the ship Alexander, attesting to the Alexander's dates of departure and return to Boston in the 1790s, and to Abiel Winship's ownership of a portion of the cargo; and a receipt (in Spanish) and invoice related to the expenses of the ship O'Cain. Also includes an ALS from Michael Hogan to Charles G. Loring, the administrator of Abiel Winship's estate, enclosing the O'Cain's statement of account from January 1823 to December 1825 as well as copies of documents related to the O'Cain's removal from the coast of Peru following a warning by Peruvian officials in 1823.

ArchivalResource: 0.21 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702171652 View

Houghton Library printed book provenance file, A-D

Title: Houghton Library printed book provenance file, A-D

Index to ownership/provenance information, primarily from printed books, held by Houghton Library.

ArchivalResource: 1 collection

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01529/catalog View

Winship, Abiel. Legal documents concerning maritime fur trade, 1821-1826.

Title: Legal documents concerning maritime fur trade, 1821-1826.

A signed copy of a manuscript indenture, dated February 6, 1822, between Winship, John French, and William Tucker, detailing French and Tucker's loan to Winship in exchange for a portion of the profits resulting from the ship Zephyr's trade route. A receipt for the loan, the Zephyr's bill of lading, and instructions to the captain of the Zephyr, William Cleaveland, are attached. Other documents include two signed manuscript copies of an 1822 indenture between Winship and various merchants and creditors, describing and assigning cargo on board the ship General Gates and the schooner Wasp; a manuscript copy of an 1824 indenture assigning half of Winship's interest in the cargo of the General Gates to William B. Swett & Co.; an undated manuscript deposition signed by Benjamin Wheeler, agent of the ship Alexander, attesting to the Alexander's dates of departure and return to Boston in the 1790s, and to Abiel Winship's ownership of a portion of the cargo; and a receipt (in Spanish) and invoice related to the expenses of the ship O'Cain. Also includes an ALS from Michael Hogan to Charles G. Loring, the administrator of Abiel Winship's estate, enclosing the O'Cain's statement of account from January 1823 to December 1825 as well as copies of documents related to the O'Cain's removal from the coast of Peru following a warning by Peruvian officials in 1823.

ArchivalResource: 0.21 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81650983 View