Miscellaneous collections: Long Island - industry and agriculture, 1794-1900.

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Miscellaneous collections: Long Island - industry and agriculture, 1794-1900.

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Letters, bills, receipts, petitions, legislative and legal papers, handbills, broadsides and other material pertaining to agriculture, railroads, shipping, and whaling on Long Island. Of note are a handwritten outline for a broadside for the Third Annual Fair and Cattle Show of the western branch of the Suffolk County Agricultural Society at Commack, 1846; petitions to the Suffolk County Supreme Court regarding lands of the Long Island Rail Road in Sag Harbor, 1869; document signed by President Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of State James Madison for the safe passage of packet ship MANCHESTER under the command of Peter F. Coffin, 1806; bills of sale, enrollment papers, powers of attorney, and other documents pertaining to various sloops and schooners built at or sailing from Long Island ports, including the sloops PHEBE ANN, MAYBIRD, FERONIA, and schooners WILLIAM E. BIRD, and the URANIA, which sailed for San Francisco, 1850. Materials relating to whaling include letters, receipts, and bills to the firm of Ireland and Skillman of Greenport, Long Island, regarding the whaling ships KANAWAH, OREGON, and MONTAUK, 1856-1860. Papers concern sale of whale oil, payment for provisions and for crew wages, and sale of the bark OREGON. Correspondents include Willets & Co. of New York City, George Huntley of New London, Conn., John Dole of Boston, Thomas Parsons of East Hampton, and Robert G. Lynch of Brooklyn.

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library

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Phebe Ann (Sloop)

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Kanawah (Whaling ship)

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Coffin, Peter F.

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Oregon (Bark)

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Lynch, Robert G.

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