Susanna Cummings (Ship) records

Descriptive Summary
Title: Susanna Cummings (Ship) records
Creator: Susanna Cummings (Ship)
Inclusive Dates: 1840-1846
Language(s): English
Extent: 0.9 Linear Feet 2 document boxes, 1 oversized folder
Collection Number: ms2809
Repository: Hargrett Library

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Collection Description

Historical Note

Susanna Cummings (Ship) out of Portsmith, New Hampshire. The Susanna Cummings operated between Portsmith, Boston, Massachusetts; New York, N.Y.; Baltimore, Maryland; Savannah, Georgia; Mobile, Alabama; and Liverpool, England.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of papers relating to the ship Susanna Cummings (Portsmith, N.H.) including correspondence, bills, receipts, vouchers, freight lists, inventories, cargo manifests, custom house receipts, disbursements, and accounts. The materials document the ship's commercial voyages between the United States and England, and detail cotton and commodity prices, ship damage due to a storm off England and the settlement of claims.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Susanna Cummings (Ship) records, ms2809, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries.

Finding Aid Publication

Finding aid prepared on: 2009 May 7.

General Notes

Cataloged as part of the Georgia Archives and Manuscripts Automated Access Project: A Special Collections Gateway Program of the University Center in Georgia.

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Related Materials and Subjects

Subject Terms

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Series Descriptions and Folder Listing

 

1. Voyage, Captain Charles H. Salter
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1	1	Letters
1	2	Portsmouth, 1840 November
1	3	Mobile, 1840-1841 December-January
1	4	Liverpool, 1841 March-April
1	5	New York, 1841 May-June
1	6	Bills paid, 1840

 

2. Voyage, Captain Joseph Grace
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1	7	Letters
1	8	Savannah, 1841 July
1	9	Bills paid, 1841

 

3. Voyage, Captain Charles H. Salter
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1	10	Letters
1	11	New York, 1841 November-December
1	12	Mobile, 1841-1842 December-February
1	13	Liverpool, 1842 March-April
1	14	New York, 1842 May-June
1	15	Bills paid, 1842

 

4. Voyage, Captain Thomas B. Clark
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1	16	Letters
1	17	Savannah, 1843 October
1	18	Liverpool, 1844 January-February
1	19	Boston, 1844 March
1	20	Bills paid, 1843

 

5. Voyage, Captain Thomas B. Clark
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1	21	Letters
1	22	Boston, 1844 April
1	23	Liverpool, 1844 June-July
1	24	Boston, 1844 September-October
1	25	Bills paid, 1844
1	26	Bills unpaid and credited, 1844

 

6. Voyage, Captain Thomas B. Clark
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2	1	Letters
2	2	Boston/Portsmouth, 1844 October-November
2	3	Savannah, 1844-1845 November-January
2	4	Liverpool, 1845 January-March
2	5	Baltimore, 1845 May-June
2	6	Nieuwediep/Amsterdam, 1845 July
2	7	Hartlepool, 1845 July-August
2	8	Boston, 1845 September-October
2	9	Coal invoices, 1845
2	10	Bills paid, 1845

 

7. Voyage, Captain William H. Parsons
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2	11	Letters
2	12	Mobile, 1845 November-December
2	13	Formby, 1846 January-March
2	14	Liverpool, 1846 February-June
2	15	Account Captain William Parsons, 1846 March-August
2	16	Bills paid, 1846
2	17	Portsmouth, 1846-1849
2	18	Freight lists/cargo manifests, 1842-1846
2	19	Crew lists

 

8. Freight and Crew lists

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Freight lists/cargo manifests

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Crew list, 1790-1840

on verso: Acts for ...regulation of seamen..

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Freight lists , 1840-1849