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1872/12/24

Newspaper

Title: Whalemen's shipping list and merchant's transcript. [Vol. 30, no. 41 (December 24, 1872)]

Vol. 30 no. 41.

GLC08662

1863/06/04

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Document signed

Title: Four Language Whaling Ship's papers from New Bedford, MA (c/s Seward)

Dated at New Bedford. Large sheet, printed in four columns (French, Spanish, English and Dutch) countersigned by William H. Seward. Shipmaster Nehemiah West for the schooner Glendmer, bound for "Atlantic Ocean."

GLC06962

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