RESOLUTIONS REGARDING THE MEMBERS OF THE CREW OF THE SHIP JOHN JAY, LATELY ARRIVED AT PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND FROM BATAVIA, SEPT. 1804

by Yellow Fever, Maritime, Rhode Island

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Manuscript document, in at least two different hands, with additions and corrections. Single sheet, 32 x 19 cm., 2 pp., approx. 400 words. At a town council meeting held on Sept. 4, 1804, John Dorrance, Joseph Jenckes, Jabez Bulloch sp? , Nathan Waterman, and ? Simmons, were informed that part of the crew of the ship John Jay arrived in the river below from Batavia, to wit Thomas Dolliver, George Potter, Lovsey Danville, and Arthur Love had left the ship without permission from the health

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