Samuel Meredith Dickinson collection, 1790-1865.

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Samuel Meredith Dickinson collection, 1790-1865.

Consists of correspondence and documents chiefly from the time when Dickinson was commissioned as Paymaster, United States Navy, in June 1861, and was assigned to the U.S. Sloop of War "Dale".

.20 linear ft. (1 half-size archival box)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7882965

Princeton University Library

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Dickinson, Philemon, 1739-1809

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Philemon Dickinson (April 5, 1739 – February 4, 1809) was an American lawyer and politician from Trenton, New Jersey. As a brigadier general of the New Jersey militia, he was one of the most effective militia officers of the American Revolutionary War. He was also a Continental Congressman from Delaware and a United States Senator from New Jersey. Born at Croisadore in Talbot County in the Province of Maryland, he moved with his family to Dover, Delaware as a child. He was educated by a priva...

Dickinson, S. Meredith (Samuel Meredith)

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Samuel Meredith Dickinson was born at Trenton, N.J., on June 25, 1839. He studied law until 1861when he entered the military service of New Jersey as a private in the National Guard, and was later discharged to accept an appointment and commission as Paymaster in the United States Navy, assigned to the U.S. Sloop of War "Dale". In 1863 he was admitted as an attorney, and three years later as a counselor-at-law of New Jersey. He was the author of CHANCERY PRECEDENTS (1879) and PROBATE COURT PRACT...

United States. Navy

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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...

Dale (Sloop of war)

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U.S. naval vessel launched in Philadelphia in 1839; transferred to Maryland Naval Militia in 1895. From the description of Logbook, 1853 Oct. 17-1854 Dec. 27. (Nantucket Hist Association). WorldCat record id: 71013656 ...