Parker, Richard LeRoy, 1828-1862
Biographical notes:
Richard LeRoy Parker was born on 27 September 1828 in Brooklyn, New York, the seventh of eight children of Foxhall A. Parker of Westmoreland County, Virginia, and Sarah Jay Bogardus of New York, New York. He went to sea at 14 as a clerk to his father and served a succession of captains (on the frigates Hermann, Raritan, and Sabine, among others) in the U.S. Navy. Parker died on 30 August 1862 aboard the gunboat Anglo American on the Mississippi River near Vicksburg during the Civil War.
From the description of Cruizing under the "stars and stripes", being the private journal of Richard LeRoy Parker, 1842-1861. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 318385396
From the description of Cruizing under the "stars and stripes", being the private journal of Richard LeRoy Parker, 1842-1861. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 48062358
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Subjects:
- Slavery
- Ocean travel
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- Monrovia (Liberia) (as recorded)
- Colón (Panama) (as recorded)
- Bombay (India) (as recorded)
- Honolulu (Hawaii) (as recorded)
- Hong Kong (China) (as recorded)
- United States (as recorded)
- London (England) (as recorded)
- Manila (Philippines) (as recorded)
- Fort Pickens (Fla.) (as recorded)
- Havana (Cuba) (as recorded)
- Guangzhou (China) (as recorded)
- Pensacola (Fla.) (as recorded)
- Bombay (India) (as recorded)
- Manila (Philippines) (as recorded)
- Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave, Mexico) (as recorded)
- Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave, Mexico) (as recorded)
- Port-au-Prince (Haiti) (as recorded)
- Hong Kong (China) (as recorded)
- Macau (China) (as recorded)
- Guangzhou (China) (as recorded)
- Colón (Panama) (as recorded)
- Fort Pickens (Fla.) (as recorded)
- United States (as recorded)
- Honolulu (Hawaii) (as recorded)
- Monrovia (Liberia) (as recorded)
- Macau (China) (as recorded)
- Port-au-Prince (Haiti) (as recorded)
- London (England) (as recorded)
- Pensacola (Fla.) (as recorded)
- Havana (Cuba) (as recorded)
