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SALEM MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY (1856-1897) RECORDS, 1856-1897
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Processing of this collection was funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Collection Summary | |
| Repository: | The Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum 161 Essex Street Salem, MA 01970 Phone: 978-745-9500 Fax: 978-948-6012 |
| Creator: | Salem Marine Insurance Co. (1856-1897) |
| Title: | Salem Marine Insurance Company (1856-1897) Records |
| Dates: | 1856/1897 |
| Quantity: | 7.25 linear feet (1 box, 37 volumes) |
| Abstract: | The Salem Marine Insurance Company Records include a volume of directors' meeting minutes, a volume of stockholder meeting minutes, and 35 volumes of marine policies. It also contains a ledger showing dividends paid to the stockholders (1858-1883). |
| Collection Number: | MSS 137 |
Series List
Scope and Content Note
The Salem Marine Insurance Company Records include a volume of directors' meeting minutes, a volume of stockholder meeting minutes, and 35 volumes of marine policies. Except for two missing volumes the marine policies form a straight run from the company's beginning in 1856 to six years before its dissolution. It also contains a ledger showing dividends paid to the stockholders (1858-1883).
Additional material on the Salem Marine Insurance Company may be found in six
volumes of William Northey's (b. 1829) secretary correspondence copybooks in MSS 78
Box 8.
Historical Sketch
The Salem Marine Insurance Company, not to be confused with the Salem Marine Insurance Company (1800-ca. 1840) which may be found in MSS 139, operated from 1856 through 1897. According to the 1857 Salem Directory, the company was headquartered at 163 Essex Street in Salem, Massachusetts, and had capital of $100,000. Its president was Jeremiah Page, and notable directors at the time included Edward D. Kimball, B.H. Silsbee, William Hunt, James B. Curwen, and William Northey (Secretary).
Index Terms
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Restrictions
Restrictions on Access
This collection is open for research use.
Administrative Information
Copyright
Requests for permission to publish material from the collection must be submitted in writing to the Manuscript Librarian in the Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum.
Preferred Citation
Salem Marine Insurance Company (1856-1897) records, MSS 137, Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass.
Provenance
The bulk of the collection is from an unknown source. The volume of dividends to the stockholders was purchased on August 8, 2019 (acc #2019.016).
Processing Information
Collection processed by Sylvia B. Kennick, July 1984. Updated by Catherine Robertson, May 2015, and Tamara Gaydos, August 2019.
Related Material
Marine insurance policy underwritten by the Salem Marine Insurance Company, insuring the property on board the vessels listed in the policy, MH 0.444
Northey Family Papers, 1688-1964, MSS 78
Salem Insurance Companies Records, 1779-1893, MSS
139
Samuel Tucker Papers, n.d., Fam. Mss. 1021
Stock certificates (3) for the Salem Marine Insurance Company, 1813, 1830,
1839, MH 0.434
William McMullen Papers, 1834-1882, Ship. Mss.
104