Collection Description

This collection consists of records of the Boston Marine Insurance Company documenting its business insuring ships' cargoes for both foreign and domestic trading voyages. The collection contains 14 boxes of loose manuscripts, primarily correspondence and accounts with Boston and London merchants and ship owners, including P. C. Brooks, Samuel Williams, Belcher & Phelps, and Gibbs & Channing (of Newport). The 65 volumes include two receipt books (1799-1839), promissory notes (1801), stock share records (1830-1839) and transfers (1800-1839), 14 volumes of insurance proposals (1797-1838), two cash books (1813-1839), a ledger (1805-1839), 33 volumes of policy records (1801-1838), and others. A letterbook contains copies of letters primarily by company presidents Thomas Davis (to 1804), Samuel Cabot (1805-1808), George Cabot (1808-1822), and Daniel Sargent (1823-1838).