Ledger sheets Capt. Charles E. Bunker, Schooner Como, 1879

From collection Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Collection

Ledger sheets Capt. Charles E. Bunker, Schooner Como, 1879

This group of five ledger sheets tally Charles E. Bunker’s debits and credits for voyage on Schooner “Como” with cargo "cocoanuts, mahogany, and cedars in account with Odio & Perozo of New York". Loose ledger pages are dated February 6-21, 1879. There are 34,505 cocoanuts; 4 logs mahogany; 4 logs cedar; and 8 logs cedar. No ports or destinations discernible. Documents are signed in New York. (Only Page A transcribed.) The Schooner Como was built in Cherryfield 1873; No.125172; 133 tons. Charles E Bunker was master 1877. These ledgers are part of collection of Clara Rice items (Clara Adeline Richardson Bunker Rice (1847-1923). (Charles Bunker was Clara's second husband of three. Clara Rice was postmistress on Sutton Island in the Cranberry Isles. She may have married a Fernald, then Charles Edward Bunker, and then wed Wilbert Augustus Rice in 1893. )

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1879
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See March 7, 2020 emails from Chuck Liebow who provided info on the Como and Charles E. Bunker. Ship Registers and Enrollments of Machias, Maine, 1780-1930, Part 1 By National Archives Project - onlinehttps://books.google.com/books?id=EW_NAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA165&dq=schooner+como+bunker&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiyo6Cy34joAhWohHIEHRsbBd8Q6AEwAHoECAAQAg#v=onepage&q=schooner%20como%20bunker&f=false ]. Ledger sheets are part of Clara Rice collection from Kristin Howard. all scanned, only 1 transcribed.