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Newport Insurance Company records (MS-2012-1)

Newport Historical Society

82 Touro Street
Newport, RI 02840
Tel: 401-846-0813
Fax: 401-846-1853
email: info@newporthistorical.org

Scope & content

This single-series collection consists of 12 bound volumes of business records from the Newport Insurance Company, and two folders. The volumes include insurance policies and ledger books. The folders contain other company records, including the charter and share certificates.

Insurance policies from the Newport Insurance Company can also be found in the records of individual ships. Those records are duplicates of the insurance policies found in the bound volumes.