Records of ships, schooners, sloops, barks, and brigs which include invoices, disbursements, account sheets, receipts, i.o.u.'s, crew lists, cargo manifests, storage capacity charts, and lists of cash disbursements and salary advences, 1837-1871; certification of ships, tonnage, duty, port dues, discharge and adding crew members and cargo, 1845-1874; permits and licenses to carry on coastal trade and transship whalebone, and owner's oaths, 1848-1873; instructions to captains, 1849-1856; list of ship shareowners, 1844; bills of sale of vessels, 1864-1867; whaling contracts, 1837-1871; clearance papers, 1843-1853; description and measurement of vessels and certification from shipbuilders, 1848-1868; memos and correspondence to and from John H. Jones about repairs, leaks, hiring, insurance, sale of byproducts, crew and officer performance, hiring difficulties, sales of vessels, and lawsuits, 1838-1856; and a letter from John McCullogh to Mrs. Willets about William H. Trepp's history of the brig Daisy, 1936.
