Journal ... on board the U.S. Ship Franklin of 74 guns : ms. S., 1821 Oct. 1-1822 Feb. 4.

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Journal ... on board the U.S. Ship Franklin of 74 guns : ms. S., 1821 Oct. 1-1822 Feb. 4.

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Journal in logbook form of a voyage from New York to the Pacific under Commodore Charles Stewart; after reaching Valparaiso, Midshipman Cremer was drowned, March 20, 1822. At end of volume is an unexplained copy of a letter from Jedediah S. Smith to an unnamed correspondent, St. Louis, Missouri, December 27, 1830, concerning botanical specimens brought from the Rocky Mountains (2 p.), and a copy of another letter concerning fruit culture.

114 p. ; 27 cm.

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Cremer, John, d. 1822.

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Stewart, Charles, 1778-1869

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American naval officer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Philadelphia, to Joseph S. Carles, 1858 Aug. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270575282 ...

Smith, Jedediah Strong, 1799-1831

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Jedediah Strong Smith was born June 24, 1799 in Bainbridge, Chenango County, New York. He was the son of Jedediah Smith of New Hampshire and was the eldest of fourteen children. Jedediah's early childhood was spent in Ohio where he received and English and Latin education. At thirteen he became a clerk on a Lake Erie freighter where he learned business methods and met traders returning from the Far West. Jedediah became ambitious for an adventure to the wilderness and he went to St. Louis around...