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Carrington Papers, 1798-1911, (bulk 1802-1860)

Title: Carrington Papers Carrington Papers 1798-1911 (bulk 1802-1860)

Edward Carrington (1775-1843) was born in New Haven, Connecticut. As a young man, he came to Providence, R.I., where he worked as a clerk and supercargo for local merchants Seth Wheaton, Samuel Butler, and Richard Jackson. He resided in Canton, China from 1802 to 1810, serving as American Consul, acting as an agent for other American merchants, and amassing a considerable fortune by trading on his own behalf. The collection documents his mercantile and shipping activities in China, South America and Europe during 1802-1857. It also documents his other business enterprises in the textile industry in Rhode Island with the Hamlet Mill and Manufacturing Company, 1834-1860 and the Blackstone Canal Company, 1823-1831. The collection also contains the personal papers of Edward Carrington, his son Edward II, and Edward II's wife Candace (Dorr) Carrington.

ArchivalResource: 122 linear feet

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Bradley, Phillip B. Documents related to prisoners from Haiti, 1800-1801.

Title: Documents related to prisoners from Haiti, 1800-1801.

Lists, accounts and certificates related to the care and protection of prisoners taken by the United States Ship Trumbull from the Schooner Vengeance out of Haiti and imprisoned in Connecticut. Includes a list of prisoners sent on shore, receipts for cash paid for guards and clothing for prisoners, an inventory of tackle and apparel of the Schooner Vengeance, accounts, orders of payment, a letter from Philip B. Bradley, Marshall, to Joshua Huntington instructing him to make the prisoners comfortable during the winter, certificates of ill health of the prisoners at Norwich, Middletown, Hartford, and New London, Connecticut, an order from the Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Stoddard to Joshua Huntington to release prisoners in ill health, and correspondence and miscellaneous financial records.

ArchivalResource: 27 items.

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Moore, Daniel Sackett. Papers, 1787-1803.

Title: Papers, 1787-1803.

Logbooks, cargo books, and disbursement records for the ships Betsey, Mary, Trumbull, and Ceres, covering trading voyages from New York and other East Coast ports to Europe, the West Indies, and Asia.

ArchivalResource: 7 v.

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Carrington Papers, 1798-1911, (bulk 1802-1860)

Title: Carrington Papers Carrington Papers 1798-1911 (bulk 1802-1860)

Edward Carrington (1775-1843) was born in New Haven, Connecticut. As a young man, he came to Providence, R.I., where he worked as a clerk and supercargo for local merchants Seth Wheaton, Samuel Butler, and Richard Jackson. He resided in Canton, China from 1802 to 1810, serving as American Consul, acting as an agent for other American merchants, and amassing a considerable fortune by trading on his own behalf. The collection documents his mercantile and shipping activities in China, South America and Europe during 1802-1857. It also documents his other business enterprises in the textile industry in Rhode Island with the Hamlet Mill and Manufacturing Company, 1834-1860 and the Blackstone Canal Company, 1823-1831. The collection also contains the personal papers of Edward Carrington, his son Edward II, and Edward II's wife Candace (Dorr) Carrington.

ArchivalResource: 122 linear feet

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Moore, Daniel Sackett. Daniel Sackett Moore papers, 1787-1803.

Title: Daniel Sackett Moore papers, 1787-1803.

Logbooks, cargo books, and disbursement records for the ships BETSEY, MARY, TRUMBULL, and CERES, covering trading voyages from New York and other East Coast ports to Europe, the West Indies and Asia.

ArchivalResource: 7 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47698634 View