Benjamin Shurtleff papers
| Author/creator | Shurteleff, Benjamin 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/benjamin-shurtleff-papers/21749738 |
| Subjects |
| Series | Life at Sea: Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-2814 |
| Summary | A small collection of papers of Dr. Benjamin Shurtleff, originally of Plymouth (later Carver), Mass. and later a practicing physician in Boston. Included are letters from Shurtleff to Ephraim Spooner of Plymouth written as a surgeon in the U.S. Navy on the U.S.S. MERRIMACK in the West Indies during the quasi-war with France (1799-1801), with comments on privateering; certificates of his medical study; and letters from his father Benjamin and to his brother Lot, primarily regarding cattle and sheep farming in Carver. |
| Original version | Reproduction of: Benjamin Shurtleff papers, 19 Nov 1792 - 12 Sep 1844. |
| Location of original | Massachusetts Historical Society |
| Copyright note | Material sourced from the Massachusetts Historical Society |