Benjamin Shurtleff papers

Author/creator Shurteleff, Benjamin 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/benjamin-shurtleff-papers/21749738
Subjects

SeriesLife 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 versionReproduction of: Benjamin Shurtleff papers, 19 Nov 1792 - 12 Sep 1844.
Location of originalMassachusetts Historical Society
Copyright noteMaterial sourced from the Massachusetts Historical Society