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Burnham Norton
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Accounts of Ships "Laurel," "Acastus," and "Ocain"
"A detailed book of accounts, 1815-1819, for ships "Laurel," "Acastus," and "Ocain" (or O'Cain), all owned by William Gray, with Francis Burnham, captain. 1815: highly detailed listings of West Indies cargo taken aboard at Fort Royal, Martinique, and a similarly detailed listing of crewmen by name and the amount of pay and advances they accumulated. This is followed by a section devoted to cargo shipped by William Gray. 1816: entries from Isle de France include disbursements and expenses by Burnham and his accounts with Gray. 1817: Burnham took command of the ship "Acastus" and sailed from Mauritius with a cargo of mahogany and other goods itemized. This is followed by a list of disbursements and then by a listing of Burnham's accounts with Gray. The final part of the book concerns shipments of coffee, mocha, and wine from Gibraltar aboard the ship "Ocain," with disbursements, goods shipped, and a list of named investors such as Pickman, Pickering, and Silsbee."--Dealer's description.
James Burnham
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Burnham Norton Friary After the Dissolution
Burnham Norton Friary, one of the first Carmelite houses founded in England (1242-47), was dissolved in 1538. Its remains comprise the restored gatehouse, west gable of the church rebuilt as a barn, Friary Cottage and an open space which was once the precinct. The post-Dissolution history of monastic sites has generally not been well studied. At Norton, nothing was known of its owners between 1561 and 1914, what relationships, if any, they had, or how they used the site. The fate of the Friary buildings was poorly understood and details of the gatehouse restoration unknown. In this pioneering study, Sally Francis uses both modern archival research and a survey of local houses to recover the ...
Burnham Beeches
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The Burnham Family
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Log of the Ship LAUREL
Narrative log of the ship LAUREL kept by master Francis A. Burnham from 1815-1816 while on a trading voyage from Boston, Massachusetts to Port Louis, Mauritius. The volume contains brief entries and includes ink sketches of headlands of Trinidad, Martin Vas Rocks, Inaccessible Island, and Nightingale island.
