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Letters from Samuel Shaw [1777].

China, America and the Pacific Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Shaw, Samuel, author.
Contributor:
Massachusetts Historical Society, owner.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806.
Armed Forces--Officers.
Armies--Military life.
Battles.
Camps.
Families.
Fortification.
Friendship.
Occupations.
Religion.
War.
Weapons.
Great Britain.
Massachusetts--Boston.
Massachusetts--Newburyport.
New Jersey--Morristown.
New Jersey--Princeton.
New York (State)--New York.
Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Production:
[Place of production not identified] : [producer not identified], 1777.
Summary:
Letters to his father Francis Shaw in Newburyport.
Notes:
AMDigital Reference: Ms. N-49.47
Collection: Samuel Shaw Papers, 1775-1887
Samuel Shaw (1754-1794) was a Revolutionary War soldier, US Consul to Canton in China, and partner in the merchant firm of Shaw & Randall in Canton. He sailed as supercargo in 1784 aboard the ship Empress of China, the first American-flagged ship at Canton.Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Massachusetts Historical Society catalogue.
Title from publisher's website.
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