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Farragut, David Glasgow, 1801-1870. Letter, March 4, 1864.

Title: Letter, March 4, 1864.

Manuscript letter signed of Farragut, USS Hartford, to Acting Ensign George Leonard, USS Katahdin, New Orleans, La., March 4, 1864, denying him permission to return North without a report from a board of medical officers.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17998055 View

Lovering-Taylor Family Papers, 1727-1926, (bulk 1776-1888)

Title: Lovering-Taylor Family Papers 1727-1926 (bulk 1776-1888)

The Lovering-Taylor families of Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.; and Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Correspondence, diaries, financial papers, business records, legal papers, biographical and genealogical material, clippings, printed material, and other papers chiefly of Joseph Taylor (1745(?)-1816), merchant and Loyalist, relating to business and trade during the Revolution, the Loyalist cause, mercantile insurance, and French spoliation claims. Other family members represented include William Taylor (1714-1789), Abigail Taylor Amory (born 1739), Charles Taylor (died 1837), Hannah Jones Welles Taylor (1776-1845), Mary Taylor Lovering (born 1813), Charles T. Lovering (born 1846), and members of the allied Amory (Emery) and Welles (Wells) families.

ArchivalResource: 2,000 items; 11 containers plus 2 oversize; 4 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012186 View

Great Britain. Army. Records, 1776-1779.

Title: Records, 1776-1779.

British artillery commissary's issues and receipts book, November 1776-September 1779, kept in New England and perhaps elsewhere, including many records of issues during the siege of Newport, Rhode Island in 1778. Many of the items listed were recceived from Commissary John Grant of the Boston stores, and were issued to various British and Hessian regiments, ships, the "musquet laboratory", and to Walter Chaloner and George Leonard "for refugees". The supplies included carpenter's and wheeler's tools, tents, tin tubes, swords, mortars, ordnance accessories, gun parts, powder, rope, nails, etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (172 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58770055 View