Found 6 collections related to Boston (Mass.)

Charles Bradstreet kept this logbook onboard the schooner Independence, captained by Adam Merill. It contains entries made between January 13 and March 31, 1841. During this time, the schooner sailed from Boston to Cuba and back again. The logbook ends as the Independence is departing on a voyage from Boston to Portland, Maine less

Manuscript mathematics notebook kept by Agness F. Pollock while a student at Mrs. Rolvson's Academy in 1815. Includes sections on addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, measurements, weight, interest, buying and selling stocks, bookkeeping, and other subjects. Index at back of volume less

These two logbooks were kept by Sargent S. Day on board numerous ships. One volume contains entries made from May 27, 1835-November 28, 1838 aboard an unidentified ship on voyages between Boston; Hobart, Tasmania; and Sydney, New South Wales in 1835-1836 and a voyage from Boston to St. Joseph, Florida, in November 1838 The other volume is a logbook kept on board the ships Austerlitz, N. B. Palmer, Shooting Star, and Washington Allston between 1851 and 1854. Entries were made on a voyage from San Francisco to Calcutta aboard the Austerlitz, in September -November 1851. That ship was abandoned and the crew was taken on board the N. B. Palmer, bound for Shanghai. This logbook also contains entries made from December 23, 1851- March 17, 1852 aboard the Shooting Star, whose shipmaster was Judah P. Baker, on a voyage from Canton to Boston. and aboard the Washington Allston, of which Sargent S. Day was shipmaster, from Boston to San Francisco, Singapore, Penang, Calcutta, and back to Boston, from September 1, 1852-January 14, 1854 less

Papers of the Corban Society, a benevolent organization of women, founded to aid divinity students and fledgling ministers. Records include correspondence recommending applicants for aid, lists of articles needed, meeting minutes, reports to the Board of Directors, a petition to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for articles of incorporation (1816), and the constitution of the Andover Theological Seminary Auxiliary to the Corban Society less

This logbook of the U.S.S. Lexington was kept between July 13, 1837 and April 25, 1838 by Pierre Cortlandt Van Wyck, a midshipman in the United States Navy. The ship was commanded by John H. Clark and cruised from Portsmouth, New Hampshire and Boston to Rio de Janeiro, Valparaiso, Callao, Islay, and other locations less