Box 7
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Sumter, Thomas, to Captain William Lewis (USN), 1811-1814
File — Box: 7, Folder: 20
Identifier: id111869
Scope and Contents
Letters of 1811 (no place given) asks him about French privateers which have arrived in the U.S.; re: their arriving and orders, etc.; especially interested in one particular ship (commanded by a Captain Gressin or named the Gressin); the government has intelligence that says she was armed in New York and took vessels (Portugese) off the coast of Cayenne; Sumter has in his possession a demand made by General Armstrong in 1810 to the French government that such commisions as privateers...
Dates:
1811-1814