Sales agreements and bills of sale; bills for repairs, supplies, equipment, towing, harboring, and other items; papers relating to the hiring, pay, and conditions of crew members; marine insurance records; shipping articles; accounts, whaling inventories, and agreements relating to the division of proceeds of voyages; bills of lading; landing certificates; affidavits of U.S. consuls in various world ports; and other materials. Vessels, sailing from Massachusetts ports (many in Barnstable County), represented include schooners Abbie Bursley, Billow, Carpenter, Charles & Edward, Ella F. Crowell, Gurnit, Henry Clay, Joseph G. Dean, Katie P. Lunt, Samuel Obei, Taylor Small, West Dennis, Western Star, and William F. Miller; ship Undaunted; barks Cape Horn Pigeon, Commodore Morris, Dartmouth, Matilda Sears, and Sunbeam; and sloops Martha and Union.