Letter documenting the voyage of the Sloop Hare under Caleb Godfrey from Sierra Leone to Charles Town, South Carolina, carrying eighty enslaved people, the acquisition of six "privilege slaves" by Cal...
Most of the entries in this volume date from the 1793 to 1803 and are the accounts of Deacon John Irish of Middletown. They document buying and selling of crops and livestock, including corn, butter,...
Letter to R.M. Johnson from Nicholas Boss responding to Johnson inquiry about a gallows which stood on Easton's Beach. According to two eyewitnesses, at least three individuals were executed ...
Sailing orders from Samuel & William Vernon, Newport, RI to Captain Peter Dordin, Sept. 15, 1762. Early slave document detailing orders to Dordin, Master, Brig Reynard, to proceed "directly for the co...
A copy of a letter from the church in Raynham dated July 28, 1782, and signed by Peres Fobes, pastor, in which the church in Raynham donated a pulpit to the First Congregational Church in Newport. Pag...
Draft ALS from Samuel Vernon, Newport, Oct. 4, 1760. Two drafts of the same letter with the second being initialed by S.W.V. Concerning the concealment of contraband and other matters. "as to ye hogsh...
ALS from Samuel and William Vernon to Captain William Taylor, Master, Brig Royal Charlotte, Sept. 7, 1768. Sailing orders to Taylor with "details of the pursuit of the voyage to James River, Virginia ...
ALS from Charles Yates, Fredricksburg, Va., to William Vernon, balance sheet and letter, March 23, 1792; balance sheet entries from April 21, 1774 through June 14, 1791. Yates writes "five continental...
Record of the Narrative between Nathaniel Whitting and Stephen Ayraultt. Whitting writes from Brigtown, Barbados towards Newport. He details the lives of enslaved people awaiting sale, telling Ayrault...
An account book detailing transactions associated with merchant John Banister (1707-1767), September 1746-December 1749. Some highlights include Banister's exporting of Narragansett Pacers to the West...
