Ichabod Goodwin additional business papers

The Ichabod Goodwin additional business papers document the career of Ichabod Goodwin, a New Hampshire ship's captain, merchant, financier, and politician. The collection primarily documents Goodwin's early years as a ship's captain from 1815 to the mid-1820s, first for the Portsmouth, New Hampshire counting house of J.P. & S. Lord on the Ship Elizabeth Wilson and later as the owner of his own vessel, the Ship Hitty. Goodwin primarily shipped salt, cotton, rice, and iron from ports in the Southern United States, such as Savannah and Charleston, to Liverpool, England. This is documented in 45 letters exchanged between Goodwin and other sea captains, merchants, agents, and personal acquaintances and family.There are a few instances when letters to multiple recipients are written on the same sheet of paper. There are some letters of introduction that Captain Goodwin carried on his voyages. A small number of letters document Goodwin's later career including his partnership with Samuel E. Coues in Portsmouth in the 1830s and 1840s. The collection also includes 30 pieces of commercial paper including sight drafts, invoices and receipts, shopping lists of sea journeys, itemized accounts of expenses and income, records of wages paid, as well as a workbook for training a mariner in documenting transactions made by a sea captain and trader using examples from Goodwin's voyages.