Paternal line of the Melvill family of Boston, Massachusetts, 1712-1818.

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Paternal line of the Melvill family of Boston, Massachusetts, 1712-1818.

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Handwritten genealogy concerning the author's ancestry, in particular the Melville, Cargill, and Scollay lines. Supplemental material includes an undated letter from Mercy Scollay concerning her grandfather's family, notes on the Gansevoort family, and copies of relevant gravestone inscriptions from King's Chapel cemetery, Boston.

13, [14] p. ; 21-33 cm.

New England Historic Genealogical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7625983

New England Historic Genealogical Society

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Melvill, Allan, 1782-1832

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Allan Melvill, father of writer Herman Melville, was an American merchant who imported cloth and clothing and sold it in Albany (N.Y.) and New York City. His parents were Thomas Melvill and Maria Gansevoort; his grandfather was General Peter Gansevoort, hero of Fort Stan-wix in the American Revolution. ...

Scollay, Mercy, 1741-1826

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Scollay family.

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Melville family.

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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891

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Herman Melville (b. Aug. 1, 1819, NY, NY–d. Sept. 28, 1891, NY, NY) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. His best known works include Typee (1846) and his whaling novel Moby-Dick (1851). His writing draws on his experience at sea as a common sailor, exploration of literature and philosophy, and engagement in the contradictions of American society in a period of rapid change. He developed a complex, baroque style; the vocabulary is rich and or...

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Gansevoort family.

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