| Description | Originals and copies of records relating to the Smith family. Includes diary extracts, account books, copies of letters, and lists of Smith baptisms and burials in North Yorkshire.
Several items relate to Thomas Smith (1782-1863) and his son Thomas Smith (1812-1888) who were both shipowners and sailors on merchant vessels trading in Oporto, India and the South China Sea in the mid 19th century.
Also includes John Speed's map of the North and East Ridings of Yorkshire, likely to have been removed from a copy of Speed's "The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine" (1611/12). |