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Box 8

 Container

Contains 86 Results:

Letter - S. Southard, Washington, to Com. James Barron, 1828 January 26

 Item — Box: 8, Folder: 1
Identifier: id175706
Scope and Contents

1 page. Autograph letter signed. Introducing Capt. Basil Hall of the British Navy.

Dates: 1828 January 26
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / James Barron Papers (I) / Box 8

Letter - J.N. Reynolds, Washington, to Com. James Barron, Gosport, Virginia, 1828 March 18

 Item — Box: 8, Folder: 2
Identifier: id175708
Scope and Contents

3 pages. Autograph letter signed. News that he has received an appropriation of $50,000 from the Congress for an exploration.

Dates: 1828 March 18
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / James Barron Papers (I) / Box 8

A statement - made by Midshipman Hunter, 1828 April 5

 Item — Box: 8, Folder: 3
Identifier: id175710
Scope and Contents

3 pages. Autograph Draft. Re: the drowning of Mr. Slidwell, Mr. Rodgers, and Mr. Harrison.

Dates: 1828 April 5
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / James Barron Papers (I) / Box 8

Letter - J. Boyle to Com. James Barron, Gosport, 1828 April 15

 Item — Box: 8, Folder: 4
Identifier: id175712
Scope and Contents

2 pages. Autograph letter signed. Appreciation for an introduction.

Dates: 1828 April 15
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / James Barron Papers (I) / Box 8

Letter - Com. L. Warrington, Washington, to Commodore James Barron, U.S. Navy Yard, Gosport, Virginia, 1828 April 23

 Item — Box: 8, Folder: 5
Identifier: id175714
Scope and Contents

1 page. Autograph letter signed. Introducing Wm. Barrister.

Dates: 1828 April 23
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / James Barron Papers (I) / Box 8

Application - Anthony H. Timmons, Philadelphia, to Commodore James Barron, 1828 May 4

 Item — Box: 8, Folder: 6
Identifier: id175716
Scope and Contents

1 page. Autograph letter signed. Application to serve as a midshipman under Barron.

Dates: 1828 May 4
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / James Barron Papers (I) / Box 8

Letter - C. Selder, Washington, to Comm. James Barron, Norfolk, 1828 May 14

 Item — Box: 8, Folder: 7
Identifier: id175719
Scope and Contents

2 pages. Autograph letter signed. Re: his son who is to report to Barron for service.

Dates: 1828 May 14
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / James Barron Papers (I) / Box 8

Letter - John Cowper, Washington, to Commodore James Barron, Norfolk, 1828 May 31

 Item — Box: 8, Folder: 8
Identifier: id175721
Scope and Contents

1 page. Printed letter. Re: claims under the Treaty of Ghent.

Dates: 1828 May 31
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / James Barron Papers (I) / Box 8

Letter - J. Adlum, near Georgetown, to Commodore James Barron, Gosport, Virginia, 1828 June 11

 Item — Box: 8, Folder: 9
Identifier: id175723
Scope and Contents

4 pages. Autograph letter signed. Re: shipments of wine.

Dates: 1828 June 11
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / James Barron Papers (I) / Box 8

Draft of letter - from James Barron to General Lafayette, 1828 August 1-6

 Item — Box: 8, Folder: 10
Identifier: id175725
Scope and Contents

1 page. Autograph Draft Signed. Enclosed with a pamphlet on dry rot (now lost).

Dates: 1828 August 1-6
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / James Barron Papers (I) / Box 8

Request - Frances Renshaw, Philadelphia, to Comre. James Barron, Gosport, Virginia, 1828 August 7

 Item — Box: 8, Folder: 11
Identifier: id175727
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1 page. Autograph letter signed. Request that her letters be forwarded to her son who is serving on a ship in the Pacific.

Dates: 1828 August 7
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / James Barron Papers (I) / Box 8

Request - W. Bainbridge, Philadelphia, to Commodore James Barron, Norfolk, 1828 August 6

 Item — Box: 8, Folder: 12
Identifier: id175729
Scope and Contents

1 page. Autograph letter signed. Request for dimensions of the moveable crane invented by Barron.

Dates: 1828 August 6
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / James Barron Papers (I) / Box 8

Request - W. Bainbridge, Philadelphia, to Commodore James Barron, Norfolk, 1828 August 21

 Item — Box: 8, Folder: 13
Identifier: id175731
Scope and Contents

2 pages. Autograph letter signed. Request that Midshipman Joyner return to the Department.

Dates: 1828 August 21
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / James Barron Papers (I) / Box 8

Request - William Burke, Richmond, to Commodore James Barron, Gosport, 1828 October 26

 Item — Box: 8, Folder: 14
Identifier: id175733
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2 pages. Autograph letter signed. Request for information on a "Denmark stove."

Dates: 1828 October 26
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / James Barron Papers (I) / Box 8

Recommendation - W. Bainbridge, Philadelphia, to James Barron, Norfolk, 1828 October 31

 Item — Box: 8, Folder: 15
Identifier: id175735
Scope and Contents

2 pages. Autograph letter signed. Recommendation for Barry Hayes.

Dates: 1828 October 31
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / James Barron Papers (I) / Box 8

Letter - C.D. Brodie, Pensacola, to Commodore James Barron, Norfolk, 1828 November 2

 Item — Box: 8, Folder: 16
Identifier: id175737
Scope and Contents

4 pages. Autograph letter signed. Commending the ship's ventilators invented by Barron.

Dates: 1828 November 2
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / James Barron Papers (I) / Box 8

Appointment - Samuel Southard, Navy Department, to Commo. James Barron, Norfolk, 1828 November 5

 Item — Box: 8, Folder: 17
Identifier: id175740
Scope and Contents

1 page. Autograph letter signed. Appointment of Barron to the command of the U.S. Frigate Guerriere, flagship of the Pacific Fleet.

Dates: 1828 November 5
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / James Barron Papers (I) / Box 8

Request - James Barron to the Secretary of the Navy, [Samuel Southard], 1828 November 6

 Item — Box: 8, Folder: 18
Identifier: id175742
Scope and Contents

1 page. Autograph Draft. Asking to be excused from Pacific Command because of his business in establishing claims for his father's Bounty Lands.

Dates: 1828 November 6
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / James Barron Papers (I) / Box 8

Letter - Peter Herbert, Portsmouth, Virginia, to Comme. James Barron, Gosport, 1828 November 8

 Item — Box: 8, Folder: 19
Identifier: id175744
Scope and Contents

3 pages. Autograph letter signed. Re: the curative values of wearing a steel plate next to the body.

Dates: 1828 November 8
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / James Barron Papers (I) / Box 8

Request - James Barron, Gosport, to Samuel L. Southard, Secretary of the Navy, Washington, 1828 November 8

 Item — Box: 8, Folder: 20
Identifier: id175746
Scope and Contents

1 page. Copy of Autograph letter signed.

Dates: 1828 November 8
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / James Barron Papers (I) / Box 8

Request that Southard, Secretary of the Navy, revoke his orders for Barron to assume command of the Guerriere., undated

 Item — Box: 8, Folder: 21
Identifier: id175748
Scope and Contents

Incomplete copy of the above is located in folder 21. Autograph Draft. 1 page.

Dates: undated
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / James Barron Papers (I) / Box 8

Letter - Andrew Jackson, Hermitage, to Commodore James Barron, Norfolk, 1828 November 14

 Item — Box: 8, Folder: 22
Identifier: id175750
Scope and Contents

1 page. Autograph letter signed. Introduction of Midshipman Petway.

Dates: 1828 November 14
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / James Barron Papers (I) / Box 8

Letter - Benjamin Homans, Washington, to Commo. James Barron, Norfolk, 1828 November 15

 Item — Box: 8, Folder: 23
Identifier: id175752
Scope and Contents

1 page. Autograph letter signed. Re: Barron's refusal of the command of the Guerriere.

Dates: 1828 November 15
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / James Barron Papers (I) / Box 8

Letter - Capt. Alex Claxton, U.S. Ship Hornet, New York, to Commodore James Barron, Gosport, Virginia, 1828 November 19

 Item — Box: 8, Folder: 24
Identifier: id175754
Scope and Contents

3 pages. Autograph letter signed, card. Marked "Private." Re: an epidemic of yellow fever on his ship which he attributes to the removal of the bellows air pump which had been removed from his ship at the last overhaul. "It is the invention of Commo. Barron . . . I consider it a thorough safe guard from local fever, and shall not willingly go to sea without one."

Dates: 1828 November 19
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / James Barron Papers (I) / Box 8

Letter - C.D. Brodie, Pensacola, to Commodore James Barron, Norfolk, 1828 December 13

 Item — Box: 8, Folder: 25
Identifier: id175756
Scope and Contents

4 pages. Autograph letter signed. Congratulations to Barron On the election of his friend Andrew Jackson as President of the U.S.; news of events and ships in the Pensacola Navy Yard.

Dates: 1828 December 13
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / James Barron Papers (I) / Box 8