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Ship's papers : Buck, Caravan, Caroline, Catherine, Columbia.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catherine (Ship : 1782-1799).
- Coffee.
- Copper.
- Cotton.
- Equipment and supplies.
- Finance.
- Hardware.
- Indigo.
- Insurance.
- Ships.
- Sugar.
- Tea.
- Voyages and travels.
- Wages.
- Whaling.
- China--Guangzhou.
- England--London.
- France--Le Havre.
- Gibraltar.
- India--Kolkata.
- Italy--Livorno.
- Maryland--Baltimore.
- Massachusetts--Boston.
- Massachusetts--Salem.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Production:
- [Place of production not identified] : [producer not identified], 1795-1810.
- Summary:
- Various ships' papers relating to cargos from Calcutta and China. Includes some papers about whaling voyages.
- Notes:
- AMDigital Reference: MSS 5, box 1, folder 3
- Benjamin Pickman (1763-1843) was born into a successful merchant family in Salem. He graduated from Harvard in 1784, studied law for a few years, and married Anstiss Derby, the daughter of Salem merchant Elias Hasket Derby. From about 1790-1796 Benjamin and his brother William acted as agents for Elias Hasket Derby. Benjamin also developed his own merchant business. Between 1789 and 1822 he was the sole or partial owner of thirty three mercantile vessels and partial owner of the whaling vessels Bengal and Catherine.Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Peabody Essex Museum catalogue.
- Collection: Benjamin Pickman Papers
- Title from publisher's website.
- Description based on publisher metadata (viewed October 30, 2024).
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