Journal of a voyage to the Pacific Ocean on board the Ship John Coggeshall, Oct. 3,1835 - May 18,1836.

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Journal of a voyage to the Pacific Ocean on board the Ship John Coggeshall, Oct. 3,1835 - May 18,1836.

Logbook of whaling ship John Coggeshall out of Newport, RI, kept by Henry Sanford, recording winds, weather, courses, latitude observations, sighting and killing of whales, employment of hands and other ships sighted.

1 v. (appx 40 p.)

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Independence Seaport Museum

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John Coggeshall (Ship)

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Sanford, H. S., 1823-1891

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Diplomat. Secretary of Legation in Paris, 1849 to 1854; Minister Resident to Belgium 1861 to 1867. Authored books on international systems of penal codes. Known as "General" because of his enrollment as a major-general in the Minnesota militia during the Civil War, in recognization of his gift of a pair of field pieces to the 1st Minnesota Volunteers. Founder of Shelton, Florida. From the description of Letters : Paris, France and Brussels, Belgium, to Samuel Sullivan Cox, 1861-1885....