Extact of letter from Caleb Gibbs clerk Boston ship yard on schooners laden with frigate timbers

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Type

Letterbook

Description

Extract of letter from Caleb Gibbs, clerk at Boston shipyard. Reports that Schooner laden with timbers presumbably bound for Baltimore, could not enter Chesapeake Bay. The schooner is currently at Martha's Vineyard, off the coast of Massachusetts.

Date

12/31/1795

Recipient

Sent from

Philadelphia

Document number

1795123115055

Page start

144

Notable persons

David Stodder
Caleb Gibbs
clerk ship yard Boston

Notable locations

War Office
Boston
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Martha's Vineyard
Maryland
Massachusetts

Notable items

schooner
timber
frigate