Privateer Documents - War of 1812, 1812-1815.

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Privateer Documents - War of 1812, 1812-1815.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/664280331

Collection includes: 2 volumes listing Privateers in Essex County, Massachusetts; 1 volume listing Privateers in Salem, Massachusetts; transcripts of the Dobbins Papers from the Buffalo Historical Society, which include cargo manifests, accounts, and correspondence; photographs of the HMS Phoebe logbook; original manuscript for the logbook of the Brig Happy; photostats of Treasury and Naval Department Acts; and an illustrated diary kept aboard the Brig Portsmouth and imprisonment in a British prison.

2 boxes (.5 linear feet)

Peabody Essex Museum

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SNAC Resource ID: 7957376

Peabody Essex Museum

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U.S.S. Constitution, also known as "Old Ironsides". From the description of Agreement, 1826-1828. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58662266 Also known as Old Ironsides; wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate of the United States Navy; Thos. McDonough Esq. Com. New York, 28 Oct. 1824; launched in 1797, Constitution was one of the six original frigates authorized for construction by the Naval Act of 1794; currently a fully commissioned US Navy shi...

Hillyar, James, Sir.

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Massachusetts. Privateers.

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Polly (Privateer)

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USS Essex (Frigate)

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Handy, Samuel Clarke.

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Various

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Chesapeake (Frigate)

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38-gun sailing frigate of the U.S. Navy; launched 2 Dec. 1799 by Gosport Navy Yard (Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Va.), and commissioned early in the following year, Capt. James Barron in command. From the description of Journal of the frigate Chesapeake, 1807 May 9-27. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 183192798 ...

Dobbins, Daniel, 1776-1856.

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Great Lakes navigator, naval shipbuilder and officer under Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, and agent for the U.S. Revenue Service. From the description of Family papers, 1799-1891. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 34503172 ...

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Meville Island Prison,

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Enterprise (Privateer)

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Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.)

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HMS Pheobe (Frigate)

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Portsmouth (Brig)

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