When he owned them, they would have contained his clothes, books, and other personal possessions. They might have looked something like this at http://tinyurl.com/6awr6yn Piers Sent from my iPod On 17 Jul 2011, at 21:50, Sue Maxwell <suemaxwell@comcast.net> wrote: > I recently found an article that referred to my ggg grandfather, Shubael > Swain, who was a ship master, who moved from Nantucket to NYC. He did > his sailing there between 1810 and 1840ish. This article was written > many years after his death, but was about his son's family, who had > moved to Cleveland. They talked about owning his sea chests, and I am > just curious to know what might have been in them. > > Thanks, > > Sue > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MARINERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message