Seth Drew papers, 1808-1812.

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Seth Drew papers, 1808-1812.

This collection holds the official correspondence of Seth Drew, a Massachusetts native who was the superintendent of fortifications for the Army Corps of Engineers between 1808 and 1812. He managed the construction and fortification of the harbor in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in anticipation of war with Great Britain.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8145120

William L. Clements Library

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Simmons, W. (William), 1762-1830

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Drew, Seth, 1747-1824.

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Seth Drew (1747-1824) was born in Kingston, Massachusetts, to Cornelius and Sarah Drew. He married Hannah Brewster, daughter of Wrestling Brewster, on December 3, 1772, and worked in Kingston as a ship-builder. In 1775, after getting news of the Battle at Lexington, Drew joined the Kingston Minute Company as a lieutenant under Captain Peleg Wadsworth, and marched to Boston. He remained in the Army for 10 years serving with the 23rd Continental Infantry and the 2nd and 3rd Massachuse...

United States. Army. Corps of Engineers

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The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is an engineer formation of the United States Army that has three primary mission areas: engineer regiment, military construction, and civil works. The day-to-day activities of the three mission areas are administered by a lieutenant general known as the commanding general/chief of engineers. The chief of engineers commands the engineer regiment, composed of combat engineer army units, and answers directly to the chief of staff of the army. Comba...

Swift, J. G. (Joseph Gardner), 1783-1865

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Joseph Gardner Swift (1783-1865) was a civil engineer and officer in the U.S. Army. He was one of two students of the first graduating class in 1802 of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. By the age of twenty-eight he was a colonel and Chief Engineer of the Army. His projects included the completion of Fort Clinton (New York City) and during the War of 1812 the fortifications of western Long Island harbors and New York City. He resigned his commission in 1818 and served as Surveyor of the P...

Hagner, Peter, 1772-1850

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Official in War Department accounting office; Third Auditor of the U.S. Treasury, 1817-1849. From the description of Letter : Department of War, to Robert Brent, Washington, 1815 June 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 22478544 Peter Hagner (1772-1850), native of Pennsylvania, known as the watchdog of the Treasury, was a clerk in the accounting office of the United States War Department, 1793-1817, and third auditor of the United States Treasury, 1817-1849. His granddaughter...

Eustis, William, 1753-1825

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Revolutionary War veteran, politician, and secretary of war. From the description of Letter, 1818 Oct. 20. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49215753 William Eustis was born in Cambridge, Mass., and graduated from Harvard College in 1772. He served as a surgeon during the American Revolutionary War and in the Massachusetts General Court (1788-1794). Eustis was a U.S. Representative for Massachusetts (1801-1804, 1820-1823), Secretary of War (1809-1813), Am...