Marine Archive of Captain Joseph Tirrell, Weymouth, Massachusetts:

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Marine Archive of Captain Joseph Tirrell, Weymouth, Massachusetts: Printed documents: An Act for the Government and Regulation of Seamen in the Merchants' Service, [completed in ink in 1810], old folds, browned, with dark stains and loss, 18 1/2 x 15in.; certificate of insurance by the Newport Insurance Company, 1804, old folds, otherwise clean, 19 x 15 1/2 in.; Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Naval Office, Port of Boston, permission to depart, schooner Weymouth, 13 June 1785, with cargo of pickled fish, whale oil, cloth and leather shoes, barbery wax, blubber, cask nails, wool, buckets, seal leather, and chocolate; signed by Thomas Melville, 12 x 7 1/2 in.; Permission to leave Boston and Charlestown, 3 January 1807, certifying lack of weapons; two seamen's discharges, 1806, Lisbon; legal claim against Nathaniel Bond, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 1811; and Massachusetts census with town populations, 1833.
Manuscript documents: parchment document, issued under George III, releasing Tirrell's ship, the Commerce, and its cargo from British, 13 September 1805; and nine other manuscript documents on paper, detailing various detentions and releases of Captain Tirrell and his ships the Weymouth and the Commerce; by Russian privateers on Corfu, by the Italians, the Dutch, and the attendant protests, passports, and permissions, 1805-1807.
Estimate $3,000-5,000

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