Hector McNeill letterbook

Author/creator McNeill, Hector author.
Other author Adam Matthew Digital (Firm) digitiser.
Format Electronic
PublicationMarlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2022.
Description1 online resource.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://www.lifeatsea.amdigital.co.uk/documents/detail/hector-mcneill-letterbook/21545232
Subjects

SeriesLife at Sea: Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-2753
Summary Letterbook kept by Captain Hector McNeill, commander of the frigate BOSTON during the Revolutionary War, 19 May- 14 October 1777. Letters pertain to cruises of the frigates BOSTON and HANCOCK, the capture of the H.M.S. FOX, and the loss of the H.M.S. FOX and frigate HANCOCK in an engagement with H.M.S. RAINBOW, H.M.S. FLORA and H.M.S. VICTOR. Includes copies of letters to John Manley, William Mackay, Jonas Clark Minott, John Langdon, Gen. Charles Horatio Gates, John Brown, the Council of Massachusetts, and the Marine Committee of the Continental Congress, among others.
Original versionReproduction of: Hector McNeill letterbook, 1777.
Location of originalMassachusetts Historical Society
Copyright noteMaterial sourced from the Massachusetts Historical Society