Box 3
Container
Contains 1 Result:
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