Creator:
Pease, Barzillai, 1773-
Inclusive Dates:
1789- 1826
Abstract:
American seaman, pilot, ship's captain. Journals combining ship's logs and personal diaries concerning Pease's career as a merchant seaman and tenure as Commander of United States Transports on Lake Ontario during the War of 1812.
Type of Material:
Diaries.
Ships' logs.
Subject:
United States -- History -- War of 1812.
United States -- History -- Naval, To 1900.
Seamen.
Ship captains.
Military history
New York State
Merchant marine -- Officers.
Merchant mariners.
Navigation -- History.
Pilots and pilotage.
Sealing.
Sailors -- United States.
Ship captains -- United States.
Shipwrecks -- Archival resources.
Whaling -- Archival resources.
Creator:
Porter family
Inclusive Dates:
1859- 1867
Abstract:
Correspondence, photographs, journals, clippings, etc. relating to the Porter family of Skaneateles and Lockport, New York, primarily Stanley Porter and Benjamin H. Porter, who served in the Union Navy during the American Civil War. Other family members represented include his parents, James and Sarah, and his siblings Seth and Laura. At one time known as the Mensing-Braun Collection of Civil War Material.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Diaries.
Military passes.
Photographs.
Registrations (licenses)
Subject:
Skaneateles (N.Y.) -- History.
Lockport (N.Y.) -- History.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Military history
New York State
Civil War (U.S.)
Blockade -- North Carolina.
Soldiers -- United States.
Steamboats.