George W. Hunter Papers, 1870-1878 | Maine Maritime Museum Manuscript Collection Online Catalog

Title: George W. Hunter Papers, 1870-1878

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Predominant Dates: 1875-1877

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Scope and Contents: This collection include incoming business correspondences of the firm of George W. Hunter & Co., Shipping Agent and Commission Merchant of Boston, Massachusetts, from 1870 to 1878. Letters includes correspondences between George Hunter and shipping agents, freight brokers, vessel owners, and captains. The majority of captains’ letters are from Nathaniel T. Woodman, master of the Bark Minnie Hunter that George W. Hunter & Co. owned. Much of the business was done with ship owners and brokers from the Canadian province of Quebec and Nova Scotia, the New England area, North and Mid-Atlantic coast, New York City and Liverpool, England.