Captain William Driver (1803-1886) was born Salem, Massachusetts, USA. He went to sea aged 14, and made his first voyage to Fiji in quest of beche-de-mer in September, 1872, in the ship Clay under Captain Benjamin Vanderford. He spent 49 months in the South Seas beche-de-mer trade before returning to Salem. Given command of the Charles Doggett, he sailed for the Pacific again in January, 1831. He remained at sea until 1837 when he retired to Nashville, Tennessee.

The logbook is for the voyage of the Charles Doggett. It begins on January 30, 1831, when the ship was 2,098 sea miles from Salem en route to New Zealand, and ends in March, 1832, when the ship was gathering a cargo of beche-de-mer in Fiji. In the interval, calls were made at Tubuai, Tahiti (French Polynesia), Pitcairn Island, Samoa, Tahiti and Niuatoputapu (Tonga). Driver's visit to Pitcairn Island from Tahiti was for the purpose of returning 65 descendants of the Bounty mutineers, who had been moved from Pitcairn to Tahiti four months earlier as it was feared that their island was becoming overpopulated. Driver describes this episode in some detail in an 1871 memoir accompanying his logbook of the Charles Doggett.
See also the Bureau's newsletter Pambu, December 1969:17.

Captain William L. Hudson was commander of the US ship Peacock, one of the vessels of the United States Exploring Expedition to the Pacific 1838-42, commanded by Commodore Charles Wilkes.

The journal begins on 20 August 1838 and is preceded by a list of the officers and scientific corps of the United States Exploring Expedition and correspondence relating to it. It continues to 8 August 1840 and includes copies of correspondence exchanged during the voyage. The journal and preceding papers fill 567 pages. On p.564 is a summary of the voyage showing the dates of arrival at various ports. Places visited in the Pacific were: The Tuamotu Islands, Tahiti, Samoa, Lord Howe Island, Tonga and Fiji.

A catalogue of the ethnographic items collected by the United States Exploring Expedition to the Pacific (1838-42) led by Commodore Charles Wilkes. The Expedition visited the Tuamotu Islands, Tahiti (in French Polynesia), Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, Lord Howe Island, Australia, New Zealand/Aotearoa, Gilbert Islands (Kiribati), Marshall Islands, and Hawaii. The catalogue was prepared in 1846 by Titian Ramsay Peale, an artist-naturalist with the Expedition. A typescript version, prepared by the PMB, follows the original document on the microfilm. See also the Bureau's newsletter, Pambu, October-December 1971:25, pp. 4-7 and PMB MS 89 and MS 146.

Mgr. Pierre Bataillon, 1810-1877. Titular Bishop of Enos, first Vicar Apostolic of Central Oceania, 1842-1877. -- A.1- 10: Miscellaneous documents. -- B. 1-3: Miscellaneous documents. -- C. Mgr. Amano I. Amaze, 1833-1906. Titula Bishop of Olympos and Thir

C.2. f: Incoming letters, continued. -- C.3. a-b-c: Lamaze, duplicates of outgoing letters and reports. -- C.4. a-b: Writings by Lamaze. -- C.5. a-b-c: Mission Procurators to Lamaze.

E.5. 10-11-12-13: Parishes of the Vicariate, continued. -- E.5. 14: Parish of Ma'Ufanga. -- E.5. 15-16-17: Parishes of the Vicariate, continued. -- E.5. 18-19: Parishes of the Vicariate, continued. -- E.5. 20-21: Parishes of the Vicariate, continued.

E.5. 44-45-46: Financial matters of the Vicariate, continued. -- E.5. 60: General statistics of the Vicariate. -- E.6. 10: Circular letters. -- E.8. 2: Miscellaneous papers, re: Vicariate.

E.9. 5. -- Tauhua Lelei. -- BOX 2. Olier.