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Eliab Parker Mackintire (1797-1864) was a Massachusetts state legislator. Collection consists of Mackintire's letters, mostly from Boston and Charlestown, Mass., to his son-in-law and daughter, Rev. and Mrs. William Salter, of Burlington, Iowa. Topics include church affairs, business and economic conditions, the Mexican War, education, politics, travel on the Great Lakes, railroad building in the West, discovery of gold in California, and Mackintire's career as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. less

Resident of Scituate, Mass. Exercises in logarithms and navigation, with colored illustrations, including the schooner SMITH, of New York, and the barque LEXINGTON, of Boston, Mass. Log of the schooner DANUBE, from Scituate, Mass. to Charleston, S.C. with corn, Dec. 1838-Feb. 1839; log of the schooner HURON from Ocracoke, N.C. to the West Indies with staves, and return to Washington, N.C., Jan.-May 1840; and log of the schooner JAMES OTIS from Scituate, Mass. to Washington, N.C. and return voyage, with lime, resin, and staves, May-June 1845. less