Alfred Whitney Logbook, 1830-18361vol., 33 cm., 150 leaves, with 103 pages of manuscript in the author's hand. A volume containing logs of two separate voyages, kept by Alfred Whitney as first officer, and subsequently captain, of the commercial brig Pheasant of New York, and as captain of the brig Nestor of Bridgeport. Log entries for the Pheasant appear for most days from 8 February to 22 June and 10 to 24 July 1830. The Pheasant departed New York on 18 February bound for Bahia (in Brazil) and Buenos Aires, where she arrived on 21 May. On her return voyage, under Whitney, she was damaged in a storm off the River Plate and forced to put in to St. Catherine's (Brazil), where both the ship and its remaining cargo were sold at public auction. The log entries include the usual nautical particulars as well as actions of the ship's company and (when in port) details of the loading and unloading of stores and cargo. In addition to these daily entries, the volume contains the ship's accounts with fifteen officers and crew, as well as financial records pertaining to the sale of the Pheasant at St. Catherine's. There are also copies of five letters written by Whitney from 25 August to 30 October 1830, mostly to the ship's owners, George Douglass & Co. The second voyage chronicled in the volume took the brig Nestor, under Whitney, from Bridgeport to Demerara (now Guyana) and back. There are log entries for every day at sea (18 July to 17 August and 3 to 28 September, 1836), though there are no "civil" entries for time in port. MSN/EA 4702-1-B.