Capt. Ebernezer D. Lane Papers, 1863-1898 | Maine Maritime Museum Manuscript Collection Online Catalog

<p align="left"> <span face="">The Ebenezer D. Lane collection consists of eight boxes of assorted manuscript papers. The papers are primarily vessel documents for the Abbie C. Titcomb (Schooner), Bertha (Bark), Eureka (Bark), and S. R. Bearce (Bark). Papers are limited for the Alice D. Cooper (Ship), Alice Vennard (Ship), Archimedes (Bark), Gleaner (Bark), and Hiero (Bark).  The majority of the papers date 1870 to 1878. Collection contents include ownership, registration, insurance papers, correspondence, receipts, construction, account summaries, accounts general information, charter parties, freight & cargo, ship stores, protest papers, slops and a log-book as well as crew wages, portage bills, articles of agreement, board, meals and medical documents.</span>

<span face="">Ownership records document joint owners and amounts paid for vessels. Correspondence are from various insurance companies that Captain Lane did business with. Other correspondence is from ship brokers, commission merchants and various captains of ships. Captains include John S. Titcomb, Levi Marston, Alvin Hall, William Edevean, S. B. Kenny, J. S. Clark, E. E. Hill,  Samuel Pote, Daniel B. Darrah, Samuel H. Sweetser, George T. Gretchell and Charles Chandler. These captains list freight, cargo, and costs for the vessels they commanded. Vessels traveled to Portland, Boston, Gloucester, Charleston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans, San Francisco, New York, Nova Scotia, Cuba, Barbados, St. Thomas, Samana Bay, Turks Island, Glasgow, Seacombe, Liverpool, Falmouth, Plymouth, Birkenhead, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Gibraltar, Bombay, Rio de Janeiro, Peru, and Chile among other locations. Moreover, Captain Daniel B. Darrah’s log-book notes his voyage on the Eureka from Liverpool to Philadelphia, 1895-1896. </span>

<span face="">The collection records domestic and foreign trade, sea routes, nineteenth-century  ports, shipping business operations, finance, contracts, types of cargo, costs, crew wages and a captain’s perspective at sea among much other maritime history.        The earliest document is a promissory note signed by John S. Titcomb on November 17, 1863 (Boston) for the sum of $211 owed to the Columbia Insurance Company within twelve months. The latest document is a receipt of $150 U. S. gold dollars paid to Captain Daniel B. Darrah on April 9, 1898 (New York) by Flood and Company upon discharge of the Eureka.</span>