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1821: Excerpt from the Logbook of the U.S. Schooner Shark LCDR M.C. Perry commanding: Having looked into Tenaffal and several other Roads, completely circumnavigated the Island of St. Antonio, and
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1821: Excerpt from the Logbook of the U.S. Schooner Shark LCDR M.C. Perry commanding: Having looked into Tenaffal and several other Roads, completely circumnavigated the Island of St. Antonio, and
1856: William Hackley recorded in his diary: Rose at 4:20 and walked on the beach, returned home and bathed. At 7:45 a.m. barometer 29.55, thermometer 84, wind south 2, clouds 5. One man died at Pilcherâs with the fever last night and Major William Fraser was taken sick, the sick are doing well. Made a copy of the replication in Ogden vs. Geiger and served in on Ossin B. Hart, Esquire and gave the original to Peter Crusoe at his house he not being at his office. Julia Tift pulled a cup of gruel over and was burned from her neck to her feet on the left side. I told them to cover her with ...
1856: William Hackley recorded in his diary: Rose at 4 and walked on the beach returned home and bathed. At 7:30 a.m. barometer 29.62, thermometer 86, wind east southeast 2, clouds 4. The schooner Dart came in from Havana at 7 a.m. Gave Peter Crusoe the bill of sale for Daniel to record and also made an inventory of the boy and piano as Matildaâs separate property and signed it myself as there is no one specified in the statute by whom the inventory shall be signed. The man who was sick with yellow fever died at the hospital this morning. Hatty, Charley and Annie went on board the ship J...