Scope and Contents This collection consists of accounts, contracts, legal depositions, miscellaneous business documents (promissory notes, checks, receipts, transfer notes, etc.), sea vessel charters, business correspondence, deeds, official statements and logbooks of merchant vessels, and other papers and volumes related to business of Nesmith and Sons, Shipbrokers.Of special interest are a series of letters and documents (November 15 - December 14, 1850) regarding the disposal of the unclaimed...

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This collection contains the logbook of the commercial sailing vessel Sumter. The logbook records a round-trip voyage from Boston to Chile in 1858. The ship (barque) was commanded by Captain Bela B. Berry. Two pages of the log were later used as a scrapbook for published poetry and articles.