Hector McNeill papers
| Author/creator | McNeill, Hector author. |
| Other author | Adam Matthew Digital (Firm) digitiser. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2022. |
| Description | 1 online resource. |
| Supplemental Content | https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://www.lifeatsea.amdigital.co.uk/documents/detail/hector-mcneill-papers/21498344 |
| Subjects |
| Series | Life at Sea: Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-2590 |
| Summary | Naval and other maritime papers of Revolutionary naval officer and privateer Hector McNeill, 1765-1780. Includes correspondence between McNeill and Lord Alexander Colville regarding a coastal survey of the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, 1765; a letter regarding the siege of Quebec from Benedict Arnold, 1776; papers related to McNeill's command of the ship BOSTON during the Revolutionary War, 1777; and a copy of an agreement for exchange of prisoners in St. John's, Nova Scotia and Boston, Mass., 1780, among other papers. Also includes a letter addressed to Henry Bancroft praising his efforts as captain of the ship SACHEM, 1821. Papers were collected by the Boston Marine Society. |
| General note | Massachusetts Historical Society: Hector Mcneill Papers, 1765-1821; Bulk: 1765-1780. |
| Original version | Reproduction of: Hector McNeill papers, 1765-1821. |
| Location of original | Massachusetts Historical Society |
| Copyright note | Material sourced from the Massachusetts Historical Society |