19th C US Maritime Document Collection (8pc)

Collection of Eight U.S. Maritime Documents: (1) Partly printed folio insurance document issued by the "Providence Washington Insurance Company" of Providence, Rhode Island to "J.P. Gavitt and others" on "the steamboat "Julia" and on Engine, Boiler, Machinery, Boats, Life-Saving Apparatus, Boat Fixtures and Furniture therein to run as a Passenger and Feight Boat. . ." dated 28 July 1883. Signed by President J,H, DeWolf and Agent M.S. Greene; (1) Two page handwritten document drafted November 19, 1887 by O.R. Smith of Westerly, Rhode Island, Treasurer of the "Westerly & Watch Hill Steam Ferry Company agreeing to "sell unto Mr. Albert A. Springs of Georgetown, S.C. the whole of the Steamboat Sadie of Westerly, R.I. together with all her tackle, apparel furniture" for $10,500. Signed by both parties; (3) Checks issued to various recipientsat the Quassaick Bank from New Hamburg and Newburgh, New York, 1859-1860; (1) One page handwritten document drafted by "E & H Babcock & Company of the town of Westerly, State of Rhode Island" on 1 February 1856 granting to Orlando Smith for $250 "one sixteenth part of the hull or body of the good Schooner Jane. . .now lying in the port of Pawcatuck" (1) Four page handwritten document dated 7 October 1847 drafted by Nathaniel Tuttle Hawkins "of the town of Raway in the state of New Jersey, Master and Owner of the Ship Saracen of New York" appointing "William Roxburgh, Coal Master in Glasgow in Scotland to be my true and lawful Attorney, Factor and Commissioner" (1) Four page handwritten document titled "Statement of 1st Voyage of the Ship Saracen, Hawkins, Master" dated Glasgow 23 December 1845.

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