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Creator
Hill, Samuel, 1777-1825
Call number
MssCol 4448
Physical description
2 items (1 folder)
Preferred Citation
Samuel Hill letters, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
Repository
Manuscripts and Archives Division
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Samuel Hill (1777-1825) of Machias, Maine and Boston, Massachusetts, was a ship captain. Letter 1817 Feb. 28 at Boston, Massachusetts, to Messrs. Bryant & Sturgis, merchants at Boston, 8 p., stating his reasons for discharging his first officer, John J. King from the ship Ophelia; and letter, 1823 Mar. 8 at Boston to John P. Cushing at Canton, China, 20 p., stating his side in a dispute with Col. Israel Thorndike, arising from the Packet voyage, 1817-1822.

Administrative information

Source of acquisition

Gift;, Mrs. R.D. Sanderson;

Using the collection

Location

Manuscripts and Archives Division
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328

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Location of originals

Originals in Thomas Handasyd Perkins Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society; Boston, MA