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Journal, 1814 Mar 14-Oct 19 : Diaries, Journals and Logbooks 14 Mar-19 Oct 1814.
Life at Sea : Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-1900 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Life at Sea: Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-2937
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Navies.
- Sailors.
- Piracy.
- United States.
- Caribbean Area.
- Logbooks.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2022.
- Summary:
- Journal kept on board the schooner MIDAS of Baltimore, Maryland, Alexander Thompson, master, for a privateering voyage. Mentions death at sea. Made 6 ports-of-call, and spoke 20 vessels. Contains list of prizes and prisoners, gives account of raid on English plantations on Royal Island in retaliation for burning of Washington, D.C., also contains copy of letter from James Monroe, U.S. Secretary of State, revoking captain Thompson's commission.
- Notes:
- AMDigital Reference:Log 465.
- Mystic Seaport Museum: Logbooks.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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