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Memoirs of John Godlee [textual record]

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Date:

1838-1857.

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MG23-J20

Type of material:

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Item ID number:

126970

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John Godlee fonds

Memoirs of John Godlee
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Date(s):

1838-1857.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

4.1 cm of textual records (102 p.).

Language of material:

English

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Series consists of memoirs of John Godlee, pp. 1-66, supplemented by a brief genealogical chart of the Godlee family, 1645-1841, and by notes of family history compiled by Rebecca Godlee Rickman about 1857, pp. 75-97, as well as an account of her father's last days, pp. 66-73. A table of contents appears as pages 99-101. The whole is a fair copy made by Rebecca Rickman.

Central to Godlee's memoirs are his voyages to North America as a seaman on merchant ships, pp. 5-59, with accounts of being shipwrecked and stranded ashore as well as of falling overboard. He comments on the Indians and French Canadians who helped him and his comrades and on his unfavorable impression of Americans. The account of his later years as a merchant at Lewes are brief.

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MG23-J20
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