Copy of a page from a Joshua Humphries letterbook
Document 1795Letter, discusses Jonathan Humphries' and Josiah Fox's roll in planning and constructing the early frigates.
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Type
Author's Letterbook Copy
Description
Letter, discusses Jonathan Humphries' and Josiah Fox's roll in planning and constructing the early frigates.
Date
06/05/1795
Author
Recipient
Repository
Collection
Document number
1795060540001
Page start
1
Note
Fragment. This document is a copy of a page from a Joshua Humphries letterbook, one of a few pages acquired by PPAmP from glass negatives, since destroyed, in the possession of a private collector. The page or pages proceeding this, which contain the first portion of this letter were not located.
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Notable persons
Timothy Pickering
Joshua Humphreys
Mr. Fox
Mr. Doughty
Notable items
draught
drawing
frigates
advice
assistance
dimensions
size of Scantling
mode of putting timber together & fastening it
44 gun ships
mould loft
copying
builders
laying down the 36 gun ships
facts
knowledge
merit.