Samuel Herrick papers, 1800-1853

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Title
Samuel Herrick papers, 1800-1853
Collection
  • Massachusetts Historical Society: Samuel Herrick Papers, 1800-1853
Document Type
  • Accounts and Business Papers
Date
1811-1853
Description
Sea captain, of Newburyport, Mass. Chiefly correspondence, clearance papers, bills of lading, receipts, manifests of crew and cargo, accounts, and other papers, relating to Herrick’s trading voyages, 1802-15, from Newburyport to Cuba, France, India, Russia, and the West Indies in the ships ALERT, INDUSTRY and ROSE IN BLOOM. Includes descriptions of trading conditions and incidents during the voyages, protest of the seizure and detention of the ALERT off the Barbary coast by the British, 1808, and depositions relating to shipwreck of the ROSE IN BLOOM off Norway, 1810.
Theme
  • Trade