Joshua Richardson copybook, 1840-1844.

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Joshua Richardson copybook, 1840-1844.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/74986240

Contains business correspondence with J.H. Baldwin (Savannah), P.H. Glover (Calais, Me.), James Hay (Eastchester, N.Y.), David C. Magoun (Bath), George W. Pickering (Bangor), Edward C. Upham (Savannah), and others regarding the lumber trade, the ice industry, the Portland Manufacturing Company, and other matters. Vessels mentioned include: the brigs Betsey, Ceres, George, Harriet, Spartan, and Splendid; the schooners Delaware, Little Mary, Lucy, Mary Ellen, Phenix, Rising Sun, and Wanderer; and the ship Sarah.

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Maine Historical Society Library

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Richardson, Joshua, 1774-1862

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Shipping merchant, of Portland, Me. From the description of Joshua Richardson copybook, 1840-1844. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 74986240 ...

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Wanderer was the next to last documented ship to bring an illegal cargo of people from Africa to the United States, landing at Jekyll Island, Georgia on November 28, 1858. It was the last to carry a large cargo, arriving with some 400 people. Clotilda, which transported 110 people from Dahomey in 1860, is the last known ship to bring enslaved people from Africa to the United States. Originally built in New York as a pleasure schooner, The Wanderer was purchased by Southern businessman Charles...

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Hay, James W. (James Walter), 1834-1880

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