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Various. Salem Massachusetts Maritime Documents, 1759-1835.

Title: Salem Massachusetts Maritime Documents, 1759-1835.

Collection includes: declaration of war of the Sloop Andrigo, of Salem, to the French private sloop, Le Brilliant, dated 1759; journal for the Privateer America, dated 1814-1815, listing vessels captured by the America and the ship John along with articles of agreement between the owners and crew; a deposition and protest, dated 1811, by the crew of the Brig Nabby, stating its unseaworthiness, the cargo thrown overboard and the sale of the vessel; nine hand-drawn charts tracking the 1817 voyage of the Brig Ceres from Salem to Sumatra; journal kept on board the Privateer John James; a sketch of a sundial; late 18th century correspondence and documents written by Captain J. P. Felt of Salem, including the formation of the Salem Marine Society, providing a list of its members and list of American privateers outfitted during the Revolutionary War; handwritten contemporary narrative of the loss of the HMS L. Hector written in a letter to the Secretary of the Admiralty, dated 1782; typed transcript listing ships owned by the Crowninshield family; plus an assortment of miscellaneous maritime documents, some of which are written in foreign languages and several of which pertain to Josiah Orne.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/677955131 View

Fairfield, James, 1784-1820. Captain James Fairfield collection, 1811-1819 and undated.

Title: Captain James Fairfield collection, 1811-1819 and undated.

Five letters from James Fairfield to his wife Lois of Arundel (Kennebunkport, 1811-1815) and one letter from M. Burbank to Captain Fairfield (1815), including letter (1815 Apr. 25) from Fairfield to his wife from Dartmoor Prison describing the recent shooting there of American prisoners by their British guards; four letters (1811-1816) from Fairfield to his wife and one ship's document (1817); administrative account and inventory of the estate of Joseph Lord (1819), brother-in-law of James Fairfield; documents (undated, some probably 20th century) relating to the Lord, Larrabee, and Trafton families, ancestors and descendents of Captain Fairfield, including genealogical lists and an extnsive written genealogy of the Larrabee family compiled by George B. Carll of Kennebunkport; and papers, oribuary notices, and other documents relating to the Larrabee, Chandler, and Hart families, originally kept in the Bible of Mary E. Larrabee.

ArchivalResource: 5 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/441960290 View

Bradbury family. Bradbury family collection, 1797-1877.

Title: Bradbury family collection, 1797-1877.

Deeds, estate papers, wills, biographical and genealogical materials, correspondence, notes, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other papers, chiefly of/and or relating to the Bradbury family, but also including material relating to the families of Hovey, Walker, Harrison, Gemberling, and Palmer. Of special interest is copy of letter from John Perkins to Captain Fairfield (1813) and three photographs of a Liverpool, England pitcher with the image on it of Ulysses (ca. 1806), a Kennebunk ship. Also includes deeds and other papers of Charles Bradbury; genealogies of the Bradbury and Palmer families; handwritten biography of the Walker family; biography of John Merrill Bradbury (1877); handwritten histories of Wells and York, Me., and plans of Kennebunkport; and leather wallet (19th century) with Smith Bradbury in gold lettering.

ArchivalResource: 2 wallets.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/428733089 View