Author: Gardner Weld 1856-1944 Allen
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Published: 2016-08-25
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781360865607
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Author: Gardner Weld Allen
Publisher: Palala Press
Published: 2016-05-24
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781359471048
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Author: Gardner Weld Allen
Publisher:
Published: 2015-08-04
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9781332109166
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from Captain Hector McNeill of the Continental Navy The Chamberlain Collection in the Boston Public Library and the Bostonian Society each contributes one letter. To the officials of all these institutions we are indebted for very interesting and valuable material. A number of other items are reprinted from the Proceedings of this Society; also two letters from the Publications of the Naval History Society and two from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Among the papers in the Gray collection is an autobiographical sketch which throws much light on McNeill's antecedents and early life. Unfortunately it comes down only to the period of the French and Indian War. From this account it appears that he was of Scotch descent and was born in County Antrim, Ireland, October 10, 1728. He came to Boston with his parents in his ninth year, arriving September 7, 1737. He was educated in the Boston schools and in later life followed the sea. November 12, 1750, he was married in the First Presbyterian Church to Mary Wilson. Their first child, Robert, was born April 12, 1752, and died in September the following year. In November, 1753, came the birth of another son, Hector, and just two years later that of the eldest daughter, Mary. Another daughter, Lettice, was born at some time after the period covered by this sketch. Entering the king's service in April, 1755, McNeill, then master of a vessel, carried General Monckton to Nova Scotia and apparently remained during the siege of Beausejour. He returned to Boston in October, but about the end of the year 1755 was again in the Bay of Fundy. He was soon captured with his ship by Indians, near Passamaquoddy Bay. With this incident the sketch comes abruptly to an end. We have a bit of information, however, derived from Indian sources and recorded in a journal kept in 1764 by James Boyd, a settler on Passamaquoddy Bay. Boyd learned from the natives of that region that McNeill, after his capture, had been taken to St. Andrews and thence to Quebec. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Allen Gardner Weld 1856-1944
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Published: 2013-12
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9781314807790
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Author: Hector Mcneill
Publisher:
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Papers and correspondence of captain Hector McNeill, commander of the frigate BOSTON during the Revolutionary War. Collection includes an autobiography of his early life and his capture by Indians during the French and Indian War (written in 1773); a list of the crew of the frigate BOSTON, 1777; a manuscript copy of the journal kept by Benjamin Crowninshield in the BOSTON, 21 May - 21 August 1777; and sketches of the engagement of the frigates BOSTON and HANCOCK with the H.M. ships RAINBOW, FLORA and VICTOR, 7 July 1777. Correspondence includes letters from McNeill to the Council of Massachusetts, 1777 and to his wife, Mary Wilson McNeill, 1778-1779; two letters from Henry Knox to Mary McNeill concerning her late husband's financial affairs, October 1787; and a letter from Joseph Foster to Charles W. Gray, 10 December 1908, concerning the publication of the McNeill papers.
Author: Hector McNeill
Publisher:
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Naval and other maritime papers of Revolutionary naval officer and privateer Hector McNeill, 1765-1780. Includes correspondence between McNeill and Lord Alexander Colville regarding a coastal survey of the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, 1765; a letter regarding the siege of Quebec from Benedict Arnold, 1776; papers related to McNeill's command of the ship BOSTON during the Revolutionary War, 1777; and a copy of an agreement for exchange of prisoners in St. John's, Nova Scotia and Boston, Mass., 1780, among other papers. Also includes a letter addressed to Henry Bancroft praising his efforts as captain of the ship SACHEM, 1821. Papers were collected by the Boston Marine Society.
Author: United States. Naval History Division
Publisher:
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 1352
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the tradition of the preceding volumes - the first of which was published in 1964 - this work synthesizes edited documents, including correspondence, ship logs, muster rolls, orders, and newspaper accounts, that provide a comprehensive understanding of the war at sea in the spring of 1778. The editors organize this wide array of texts chronologically by theater and incorporate French, Italian, and Spanish transcriptions with English translations throughout.