1859 original ship manuscripts West Africa to Boston,Ma. GOLD DUST shipment; see

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1859, "buckeye" ship manuscript from West Africa to Boston- 328 OUNCES GOLD DUST.
From the year of its settlement in 1628 until the middle of the 19th century, Salem, in the Massachusetts Bay, was a maritime port surpassed in size and importance by only two or three other seaports along the Atlantic coast.
It has been said with truth that Salem ships traded “with more different peoples in Asia, Africa, South America and the islands of the sea than the ships of all other American ports put together.
Two Great Maritime Docs-Has folds,life travels,etc