Massachusetts Steam Navigation Company papers, 1816-1818.

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Massachusetts Steam Navigation Company papers, 1816-1818.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48089563

These records of a Salem, Mass., corporation include correspondence, financial, and legal material documenting the building of the steamboat Massachusetts, its financial difficulties, the sale of it to Capt. Charles Vanderford, and its subsequent shipwreck. The correspondence includes difficulties between the company and shipbuilder William Dodge, and the intervention of the Boston firm of P. Revere and Sons. The share certificates were all issued in 1817 by company treasurer Eliphalet Kimball.

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Peabody Essex Museum

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Massachusetts Steam Navigation Company

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Formed by merchants in Salem and Portsmouth; built and operated steamboat Massachusetts. From the description of Records, 1816-1818. (Independence Seaport Museum). WorldCat record id: 22448037 ...

Kimball, Eliphalet.

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P. Revere and Sons (Boston, Mass.)

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Vanderford, Charles.

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Dodge, William Janes

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Medical student at the University of Michigan. From the description of William T. Dodge student notes, 1878. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 80524930 ...

Massachusetts (Steamboat)

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