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Jared Goodrich papers
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Title
Jared Goodrich papers, 1762-1806.
Physical Description
0.33 linear feet (2 boxes)
Language
English
Notes
Box 1 contains correspondence and documents. Box 2 contains Signals to be made by Ships of War having Charge of Convoys.
In English.
Provenance
Source unknown.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Biographical / Historical Note
Jared Goodrich was born March 15, 1769, the son of John Goodrich (1730-1774) and his second wife Abigail Deming Goodrich (1733-1799) of Glastonbury, Connecticut. A sea captain, Goodrich was based in New York and employed by merchants in that city, Boston, and Philadelphia. On June 9, 1798, he married Louisa (Lois) Loveland (1776-1803) of Berlin, Connecticut, with whom he had three children, none of whom survived infancy. He died at sea on September 19, 1804, while master of the ship Frances Henrietta bound from Lisbon to Batavia (Jakarta).
Summary
The papers consist of correspondence, financial and cargo records, and legal agreements relating to the career of Jared Goodrich, a Connecticut mariner and captain of several ships sailing between the United States, England, Europe, and the Dutch East Indies. The papers contain autograph letters, signed, to and from New York merchants Hugh Pollock (ships Holland and Lydia, 1789-1799), William Lawrence and Wyant Van Zandt (ship Mary, 1800), Gurdon S. Mumford (brig Tartar, 1800-1802), and Isaac Clason (ship Frances Henrietta, 1803-1804), as well as portage bills, captain's manifests, lists of supplies, wage and expense records, receipts for crew clothing and stores, apprentice indentures, and pocket account books. Family papers include twenty autograph letters, signed (1791-1801), to and from Goodrich's wife Louisa (Lois) Loveland Goodrich, eighteen autograph letters, signed (1797-1804), to and from Goodrich's brother-in-law George Talcott, and three documents (1805) related to Goodrich's estate. Also present are two financial documents (1762, 1771) related to Goodrich's father John Goodrich, also a sea captain, and four documents (1804-1806) related to a German mariner, John Köhler, and his estate.
Included in the papers is a three-page printed chart titled Signals to be made by Ships of War having Charge of Convoys, issued on March 26, 1798, to Jared Goodrich, master of the merchant ship Severn, by Captain Francis Pender (1747-1820) on board the HMS St. Albans. The chart bears signatures of both men, and autograph annotations by Jared Goodrich. The paper on which it was printed is watermarked JWHATMAN / 1794. Goodrich was captain of the Severn when it was captured in August 1794 by a French frigate en route from Bristol, England, to New York. Its cargo was seized, some taken by the French administration and the rest condemned; the passengers and crew were held on a prison ship until the Severn was released in October 1794.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
March 13, 2014
References
Jared Goodrich Papers. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Jared Goodrich Papers. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Indentures - United States - 18th century.
Indentures - United States - 19th century.
Payroll records - United States - 18th century.
Payroll records - United States - 19th century.
Portage bills - United States - 18th century.
Portage bills - United States - 19th century.
Receipts (financial records) - Great Britain - 19th century.
Ships' manifests - United States - 18th century.
Ships' manifests - United States - 19th century.
Occupation
Merchant mariners Connecticut 18th century.
Merchant mariners Connecticut 19th century.
Ship captains Connecticut 18th century.
Ship captains Connecticut 19th century.
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