Donor credit line Gift of Davis Howes
Object number 2003.97
Institutional Credit Line Courtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
Description Twenty-two (22) volumes of 19th century marine insurance adjustments; sincurance protests and miscellaneous maritime documents and lawyer records.
[Ships' papers collection, correspondence, agent/owner accounts, financial records, crew accounts, outfitting books, contracts, logbooks, insurance policies, protests and surveys, manifests, freight lists, and other records, relating to voyages of whaling ships sailing from New Bedford, Mass., and nearby towns...],
Allen family
1771-1927
[Collection of records, correspondence, ledgers, daybooks, insurance policies and documents, shipping records, claims, outfitting books, crew and masters wages and other accounts, and financial records, reflecting the firm's activities as agents for over 20 whaling vessels...],
Swift & Allen
1818-1893
[Notebooks (1890-1915) containing transcripts of deeds and church, court, probate, school, and town records for Dartmouth, New Bedford, Acushnet, Freetown, Westport, Nantucket, and Fairhaven, Mass., and genealogical notes...] :
Worth, Henry Barnard,--1858-1923
[Correspondence, daybooks, sales accounts, time books, legal documents, price lists, advertisements, catalogs, newspaper clippings, business cards, and other papers...] :
Akin family
1818-1956
![[Ships' papers collection, correspondence, agent/owner accounts, financial records, crew accounts, outfitting books, contracts, logbooks, insurance policies, protests and surveys, manifests, freight lists, and other records, relating to voyages of whaling ships sailing from New Bedford, Mass., and nearby towns...],](/internal/media/dispatcher/88717/thumbnail)
