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Thomas Parker and Edward Newton collection [textual record]

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Collection

Date:

1799-1805.

Reference:

R6934-0-6-E, MG23-J17

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

100815

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Thomas Parker and Edward Newton collection
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Date(s):

1799-1805.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

0.4 cm of textual records (14 p.).

Language of material:

English

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Collection consists of letters of Thomas Parker of the ship Duke of Kent to his agents Simeon Perkins, Joseph Barss, and Captain Snow Parker, all at Liverpool, N.S., giving an account of privateering in the West Indies, 1799, pp. 1-7; and letters of Edward Newton to the DeWolf family, written from South Africa, 1805, pp. 7-14.

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Parker, Thomas

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Newton, Edward

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Parker, Thomas : Thomas Parker captained the privateering ships "Charles Mary Wentworth" and "Duke of Kent". The "Duke of Kent" was the largest privateer vessel in Nova Scotia during the Napoleonic Wars.

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Location of originals note:

Copied in 1915 from the originals held by Mr. Warman.
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DeWolf family, 1799 Duke of Kent (Ship), 1799

Privateering - West Indies, 1799 Simeon Perkins, 1799

South African letters, 1805 Joseph Barss, 1799

Captain Snow Parker, 1799

Liverpool (N.S.)
Source:

Private

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MG23-J17
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Volume [MG23 J 17] 1

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