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Box 7

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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