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Collection Reference Number GLC03107.00912
From Archive Folder The Livingston Family Papers [038] 1712 
Title David Jamison to Robert Livingston re: possibility or war, conflict at sea
Date 9 April 1712
Author Jamison, David (fl. 1691-1717)  
Document Type Correspondence
Content Description Jamison explains how Parliament is currently divided over the issue of going to war, and states that some man of wars have already arrived in America. He also talks describes a violent conflict where a ship was taken for ransom, and some men were left dead, wounded, or missing. Docketed on address leaf.
Subjects Military History  Navy  Government and Civics  Global History and Civics  Privateering  Pirates  Injury or Wound  Death  Battle  France  
People Jamison, David (fl. 1691-1717)  
Place written New York, New York
Theme Government & Politics; Foreign Affairs; Naval & Maritime
Sub-collection The Livingston Family Papers
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859