MS132 Christopher Mitchell & Company Letter Book pdf

MS132 Christopher Mitchell & Company Letter Book

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Description of the Book:

The Christopher Mitchell Company was a prominent Nantucket company that owned ships and dealt in oil, candle making, and selling ship parts. This collection includes four bound volumes of copies of correspondence with outfitters and whaling masters, including letters of instruction to whaling masters, records, and other documents, relating to ships, ship masters, oil, candle making, islands, and shipbuilding and shipbuilding materials.Materials in this collection were digitized with support from Connie and Tom Cigarran

• Creator/s: Christopher Mitchell and Company
• Date: 1836
• Year: 1836
• Book Topics/Themes: Massachusetts, Whaling masters, Ship captains, Whaling ships, Shipbuilding, Shipbuilding industry, Candle industry

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