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Box 3: Correspondence (Lewis, William)

 File — Box: 3
Identifier: id110801
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Papers of Conway Whittle II of Norfolk, Va. and of his two sisters, Mary Eliza Whittle Neale and Frances Munford Whittle Lewis. There are items concerning the earlier generation of the family, represented by Conway Whittle I and his brother Fortescue Whittle, Norfolk merchants. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of social history and naval history (including personal and official correspondence of William Lewis [1781-1815] and several letters of his...
Dates: 1773-1911; Majority of material found in 1801-1867

Lewis, William, USN, 1802-1825

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 1
Identifier: id110802
Scope and Contents

Will and estate papers. Included are his will, dated 1811, and a number of bonds and bills, as well as letters from Edward Herndon to his widow regarding the settlement of the estate.

Dates: 1802-1825

Lewis, Lt. William, from Robert Smith, Secretary of the Navy, Washington, 1808 February 20

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 2
Identifier: id110803
Scope and Contents

Letter of credit for $1250 purchases for Mrs. Smith. Including autograph letter signed from Charles Goldsborough to Lt. William Lewis enumerating further purchases.

Dates: 1808 February 20

Lewis, William, Fredericksburg and Fauquier County, Virginia, to Uncle James Lewis and Aunt Elizabeth Lewis, Spotsylvania County, Virginia, 1801

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 3
Identifier: id110804
Scope and Contents

Concerning Presidential election of 1801, local congressional election; family business; and death of James Lewis.

Dates: 1801

Lewis, William, USN, Washington, D.C. and of Norfolk Harbor, to Garrett Minor and Edward Herndon, 1802

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 4
Identifier: id110805
Scope and Contents

Family financial affairs, with some description of William Lewis' adjustment to shipboard life.

Dates: 1802

Lewis, William, USN, Gilbraltar and Malta, to Garrett Minor and Edward Herndon, 1802-1803

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 5
Identifier: id110806
Scope and Contents

Discussing shipboard life, the sights of Gibraltar and Northern Africa, some family and business news. The expedition against Algiers that was stopped by wind, and the possibility of war with Spain.

Dates: 1802-1803

Lewis, William, USN, to his aunt Elizabeth Lewis, Garrett Minor, and Edward Herndon, 1803-1804

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 6
Identifier: id110807
Scope and Contents

Family and business matters, description of shipboard life, and much discussion of the War with the Barbary pirates; U.S.S. Constituion.

Dates: 1803-1804

Lewis, William, USN, New York, Washington, D.C., Boston, Massachusetts, to his aunt Elizabeth Lewis, Garrett Minor, and Edward Herndon, 1805

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 7
Identifier: id110808
Scope and Contents

Concerned with his return (temporary) to the letter devoted largely to the Napoleonic Wars. Mention is also made in a recent letter of his receiveing command of a ship, The Vesuvius (bombtender).

Dates: 1805

Lewis, William, USN, Syracuse, New York, U.S. Argus, Tunis, USS Constitution, Gibraltar, Lisbon, Algiers, Cagliari Bay, Alicante, Malaga, to his aunt Elizabeth Lewis, Edward Herndon, and Mrs. Lear, 1805-1807

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 8
Identifier: id110809
Scope and Contents

Concerning description of the countryside, life among the inhabitants of the Barbary Coast, the progress of the Napoleonic Wars, life on board ship and threat of mutiny, Chesapeake-Leopard affair, and U.S.S. Constitution.

Dates: 1805-1807

Lewis, William, USN, to his aunt Elizabeth Lewis, Mr. Edward Herndon, 1807-1810

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 9
Identifier: id110810
Scope and Contents

Letters also to William Lewis' aunt after her remarriage to Mr. Herndon (probably Mr. Edward Herndon). These letters written from various U.S. port cities, detail the progress of several years in recruiting, also a voyage to France with the first dispatches for the ministry there. Several references made to audiences with President Jefferson.

Dates: 1807-1810

Lewis, William, USS United States, Norfolk, Hampton Roads, Virginia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Conway Whittle, Elizabeth Herndon, Lieutenant John B. Nicolson, and Mary Whittle, 1810-1811

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 10
Identifier: id110811
Scope and Contents

Concerning his separation from the Navy, his courtship and engagement to Frances Whittle, his appointment as Master of the Pennsylvania Packett, a ship of 300 tons out of Philadelphia, and his preparation for a voyage to Brazil and China, opium trade, bankruptcy of Conway and Fortescue Whittle.

Dates: 1810-1811

Lewis, William, USN, Pernambuco, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Macao, Lisbon, Portugal, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Lieutenant John B. Nicolson, Edward Herndon, Mary Whittle, and William Jones, Secretary of the Navy, 1811-1815

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 11
Identifier: id110812
Scope and Contents

Details of the trip, as captain of the Pennsylvania Packett, around the world, his illness in Macoa and the necessity of staying here due to War of 1812, his return to Lisbon via a Portuguese ship, and finally to Philadelphia. Comments on the slave trade in Brazil, on trading and hardships caused by the War. Navy offers to makes him Master and Commander upon return.

Dates: 1811-1815

Lewis, William, Georgetown, Norfolk, Virginia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. Guerriere, New York, Staten Island, Sandy Hook, off Carthagena, to Edward Herndon, Conway Whittle, and his bride Frances Whittle Lewis, 1815

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 12
Identifier: id110815
Scope and Contents

Concerns readying his ship on sea and fighting the Algerians in the Mediterranean, while Captain of the USS Guerriere under Commodore Decatur.

Dates: 1815

Lewis, William, USN, official correspondence, 1804-1815

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 13
Identifier: id110816
Scope and Contents Edward Preble, USS Constitution, Malta Harbour to William Lewis. Orders to take Navy Department dispatches to Gilbraltar for the United States. March 15, 1804. Tobias Lear, Algiers, to William Lewis, USS Constitution, Algiers Bay. Lear's orders to proceed to Tunis, to settle defenses between the United States and Tunis; Lewis to remain at Algier to represent the United States. January 2, 1807. Hugh G. Campler, to Lieutenant William Lewis, Constitution. Will report favorably to the President...
Dates: 1804-1815

Lewis, William, USN, collected drawings, pictures, and maps, 1814

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 14
Identifier: id110817
Scope and Contents Watercolor map of harbor depths and known defenses of Syracuse, Sicily (evidently made by Lewis when there). Small ink and wash drawing of "Tower la Myrtella." Harbor scene, signed "WL." Short history and description of Myrtella on the reverse. Small engraving by Baily, of "Peak of Togo - Cape de Verde Island from the S. S. E.," 1814. Pencil and ink sketch of equestrian figure, dated 1814. Small ink and wash drawing of landscape and harbor, not dated. Small engraving by W.P.C. Barton, 1809,...
Dates: 1814