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Frigate Trumbull Marines & Impressed Men (July 1781)
Following is a list of the frigate Trumbull’s Marine contingent of 21 men, 10 impressed seamen and landsmen, 5 presumably impressed negros and a supplemental list of 21 bounty recipients who presumably signed the ship’s articles upon entering. The document … Continue reading
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Frigate Trumbull Quarter Bill (Aug 1781)
This undated list of 152 Officers and Men likely captured with the frigate Trumbull on 28 August 1781 is taken from a document noting the assignment of each crew member for quarters in battle found among the 36 documents in … Continue reading
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Officers & Men of the Frigate Trumbull confined on HMS Jersey Prison Ship (Aug 1781)
This list of 102 Officers and Men of the frigate Trumbull captured on 9 August 1781 is derived from the rolls of the General Monk and prison ship HMS Jersey transcribed at the National Archives in Kew, England by Joseph … Continue reading
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Privateers sailing out of Philadelphia
In April 2015, I rediscovered a list of 209 officers and men of the Continental Navy frigate Confederacy first transcribed by William M. Mervine 114 years earlier among a number of power of attorney documents associated with individuals and crews … Continue reading
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Mordecai Matlack, Midshipman
What we know of Continental Navy Midshipman Mordecai Matlack comes primarily from two sources: “Col. Timothy Matlack, patriot and soldier, a paper read before the Gloucester County Historical Society at the Old Tavern House, Haddonfield, N.J., April 14, 1908” by … Continue reading