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Box 1

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Contains 5 Results:

General correspondence, 1800-1839

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: I.
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series I. Correspondence contains personal and official letters from a number of individuals. Included in this series is an 1800 letter from Joseph Hunt, armourer on board the frigate Congress at Portsmouth, Virginia; an 1809 letter from a 22-year-old man on board the English ship Narcissus seeking protection and back wages from Captain George Dutch, master of the ship Betsy of Salem; an 1813...
Dates: 1800-1839

Letters aboard frigate Macedonian, 1820

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Identifier: I.
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series I. Correspondence contains personal and official letters from a number of individuals. Included in this series is an 1800 letter from Joseph Hunt, armourer on board the frigate Congress at Portsmouth, Virginia; an 1809 letter from a 22-year-old man on board the English ship Narcissus seeking protection and back wages from Captain George Dutch, master of the ship Betsy of Salem; an 1813...
Dates: 1820

General correspondence, 1842-1855

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Identifier: I.
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series I. Correspondence contains personal and official letters from a number of individuals. Included in this series is an 1800 letter from Joseph Hunt, armourer on board the frigate Congress at Portsmouth, Virginia; an 1809 letter from a 22-year-old man on board the English ship Narcissus seeking protection and back wages from Captain George Dutch, master of the ship Betsy of Salem; an 1813...
Dates: 1842-1855

Laws, court papers, and other legislative papers, 1796-1839

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Identifier: III.
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series III. Legislative Papers contain court documents related to Naval activities, including correspondence related to a French spoliation claim by master Jonathan Glover for the schooner Success; paperwork related to faulty accounting of expenses on the Columbus in 1844; definitions of cruising grounds permitted for squadrons in 1847; the court opinion in the case of the United States vs. Joseph...
Dates: 1796-1839

Memos and other administrative papers, undated

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: IV.
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series IV. Administrative Papers contain financial and other documentation related to Naval activities, including instructions for officers working in Mexican customs in 1847; a list of the ships active in the United States Navy in 1849; furniture allowances in government houses in 1848; an 1849 list of Naval surgeons incapacitated from going to sea due to advanced age or infirmity; advertising guidelines for the Naval Department in 1843; receipts from Captain Robert Knox of Charlestown; and...
Dates: undated