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Draft book kept at the sail loft of Charles Hitch & Son, Tabers Wharf, New Beford, Massachusetts. Contains names of ships and owners, drawings and dimensions of sails, etc. Many of these ships were probably whalers and the drawings have notations such as "lost," "sold away," "sold for Stone Fleet," and "Burnt by Shenandoah in Arctic Ocean." less

Account books kept by Jesse Smith (1777-1840) of Taunton, Mass., liveryman and proprietor of a stage line to Boston, Plymouth, and Providence, R.I. The line carried passengers, U.S. mail, and express. Volume 1 covers 1814-1817; volume 2 covers 1819-1821 less