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Frederick Calkins, Master’s Mate

Posted on March 26, 2010 by Joe

…ern at the sign of the Golden Ball opposite the Post Office, a favorite recruitment site for mariners. Frederick Calkins likely served on the Trumbull between early April 1777 when many other enlistments on the ship commenced until shortly before his service on the sloop Dolphin beginning 12 October 1777. While it is not entirely clear why Calkins might have chosen this particular time to enlist in the new national Navy, it is certain that mercant… Continue reading →

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Robert Maynard Peck, Midshipman & John Peck, Boy

Posted on March 27, 2013 by Joe

…l. In a unanimous decision issued on 16 March 1810, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the original sale was valid despite being granted by a corrupt Georgia legislature. The Court further decided that the new legislators could not annul the original sale after the fact because Article 1, Section 10 of the Constitution prohibits states from passing any “law impairing the obligation of contracts.” John Peck was also on the periphery of a second land… Continue reading →

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Esek Whipple, Marine, Seaman

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Joe

…eer General Washington at Providence. At sea by 30 September on her first cruise, Talbot and his 20-gun cruiser with her compliment of 125 men took a valuable merchantman bound from Charleston to London, sending the prize into Boston. He then captured another prize bound for Ireland which was soon retaken before inadvertently sailing into the British fleet off Sandy Hook. Chased by the 74-gun enemy warship Culloden, Talbot and the General Washingt… Continue reading →

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James Geagan, Chaplain, Surgeon

Posted on May 29, 2013 by Joe

…ia on 7 December 1782, “Dear Brown- I have to Inform you that I sail on a Cruize tomorrow. I believe I shall run down the Coast of Guinea, when my Provision & Water is out I shall Return to America via Martinico, however I hope by that time there shall be peace, for I have great Reason to think it is almost Concluded. The Crew of the Alliance having made me their Agent for the Prizes brought in here, I have advanc’d each of them a Sum of Money her… Continue reading →

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Dr. Samuel Curtis, Surgeon

Posted on February 29, 2016 by Joe

…conditions were still severe, a slight relaxation of the most intolerable rules commenced about the end of August or beginning of September. The newspaper report continues, “Thus closely and cruelly confined, and so miserably supplied, they were obliged, as they were poorly furnished with specie, to sell some of their cloathing, and many other articles, at little more than half their value, in order to purchase necessaries; as they had no persons… Continue reading →

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