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- Creator
- Evans, Amos A., 1785-1848
- Call number
- MssCol 956
- Physical description
- .15 linear feet (1 volume)
- Preferred Citation
- U.S.S. Independence surgeon's journal, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Manuscripts and Archives Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
One volume containing the journal of Amos A. Evans, surgeon aboard the warship U.S.S. Independence during the Second Barbary War, dated May 21, 1815 to January 31, 1816. The Independence cruised as Commodore Bainbridge's flagship from Boston to Cartagena, Algiers, Tunis, Malaga, Gibraltar, and returned via Newport, Rhode Island. The surgeon's journal includes daily sick and accident lists, treatments prescribed, and notes on weather, as well as descriptions of an influenza epidemic onboard, and Commodore Bainbridge's bout with measles
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Location
Manuscripts and Archives DivisionStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328