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Hector McNeill papers : Correspondence 1765-1821.
Life at Sea : Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-1900 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- McNeill, Hector, author.
- Series:
- Life at Sea: Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-2590
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Navies.
- Sailors.
- Military art and science.
- Letter writing.
- Letters.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2022.
- Summary:
- Naval and other maritime papers of Revolutionary naval officer and privateer Hector McNeill, 1765-1780. Includes correspondence between McNeill and Lord Alexander Colville regarding a coastal survey of the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, 1765; a letter regarding the siege of Quebec from Benedict Arnold, 1776; papers related to McNeill's command of the ship BOSTON during the Revolutionary War, 1777; and a copy of an agreement for exchange of prisoners in St. John's, Nova Scotia and Boston, Mass., 1780, among other papers. Also includes a letter addressed to Henry Bancroft praising his efforts as captain of the ship SACHEM, 1821. Papers were collected by the Boston Marine Society.
- Notes:
- Massachusetts Historical Society: Hector Mcneill Papers, 1765-1821; Bulk: 1765-1780.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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