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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Ships' Papers, #1065-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mr. and Mrs. Henry Laurens, 1946; purchase 1942; purchase from Paul F. Hoag; 1961, and purchase from James B. Blackford, 1966.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Adam Fielding, Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, October 2010

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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• Account books.
• Coastwise shipping--United States--History--18th century.
• Coastwise shipping--United States--History--19th century.
• Eldredge, Killey, fl. 1793-1798.
• Ship's papers--History--18th century.
• Ship's papers--History--19th century.
• Shipping--History--18th century.
• Shipping--History--19th century.
• Slavery--United States.
• Trafficking in enslaved persons--United States.
• United States--Commerce--History.
• Voyages and travels--History--18th century.
• West Indies--Commerce--History.

The ships mentioned in these papers are the schooners Betsy, Fair American, Friendship, Jaca, Ann, Two Brothers, and Unity, and the sloops Diana, Republican, and Elizabeth. The ports mentioned are New Bern, N.C., Jamaica, Cape Francois (St. Domingo), Beaufort, N.C., New York, Norfolk-Portsmouth, Baltimore, Md., Savannah, GA., and Hardford, Conn.

This collection contains manifests, bills and certificates of unlading, letters, accounts, and other items pertaining to shipping between New England, South Atlantic ports, and the West Indies. Sales of slaves are mentioned in an accounting document regarding trips between Newbern, N.C. and Montego Bay, Jamaica in 1792. Also included is a book of accounts of Killey Eldredge (fl. 1793-1798), Massachusetts ship captain, with owners of two ships, kept during a voyage from Massachusetts to Charleston, S.C., 1793-1794, and on a voyage to England, Ireland, and France, 1796-1798.

• Oversized Papers (OPF-1065/1)