Papers, 1794-1864.

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Papers, 1794-1864.

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Papers of U.S. Navy surgeon William Swift, including commissions, passport and appointment as acting U.S. Consul at Tunis, Tunisia. Topics covered in his letters, primarily written to his brother Nathaniel Swift, and diaries include his lifelong career as a naval surgeon and his voyages, including one during the War of 1812 in the brig Syren which resulted in his temporary prison term on the Cape of Good Hope in 1813; accounts of the demise of the ship Chesapeake after its engagement in Boston Harbor with the British ship Shannon in 1813 and Swift's subsequent imprisonment at Halifax, Nova Scotia; diary (1821-23) of Swift's term as U.S. Consul at Tunis and sailing along the Barbary Coast of Africa in the U.S.S. Ontario; and brief diary entries of his services in Boston and other ports (1845-64). Also, a notebook kept 1819-59 recording geological and other natural observations.

1 box and 1 oversize container.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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