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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

Mariner James Copland kept this logbook aboard the Boxer (on which he was employed by John Jacob Astor) from March 1-May 9, 1818; the America from January 28-June 17, 1819; the Cadmus, captained by Reuben Brumly, from September 1, 1819-January 25, 1820; and the Seneca from June 1, 1820-February 6, 1821. Entries record the ships' voyages from New York to Hamburg and St. Petersburg; Madeira to Calcutta; Calcutta to New York; New York to Cape Verde, Montevideo, Cuba, and back to New York. Includes observations, happenings on board, entertainment at ports, sightseeing at Elsinore, quarantine and customs regulations, information about the cost of goods, weekly Bible classes on the Seneca, the death of [?] Hyslop, supercargo on the Seneca, and other matters. Also included is a "Public Instrument of Declaration and Protest," dated July 1824, found in the logbook, in which Copland recorded events leading to the confiscation of the ship General Brown and its cargo in the port of Callao, Peru during Peru's war for independence. This document appears to be missing pages, as Copland's account ends mid-sentence less

These two logbooks of the brig Czarina, a merchant ship, were kept from 1834-1837 and 1849-1850. Captain Wolston Dixey kept a logbook while he was master of the Czarina; his log contains entries made from January 13, 1834-July 6, 1837. During this period the ship sailed on three voyages from Boston, Massachusetts to Cronstadt, Russia, the first and last of the voyages via Cuba. Cargoes included sugar from Cuba and hemp from Russia The other logbook was kept by Captain Ebenezer Graves while he was master of the Czarina and contains entries made between May 30, 1849 and March 2, 1850, when the Czarina sailed from New Orleans, Louisiana to Cadiz, Spain and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This logbook also contains entries made between March 17 and August 27, 1850, when the Czarina sailed from New Orleans to Hamburg, Germany; Lisbon, Spain; and Rio de Janeiro less