Manuscript memoir bound with string, in French, detailing Tureaud's employ as supercargo aboard the Alert, an American merchant vessel which departed Baltimore for the port of Vera Cruz in 1801 and his subsequent life in Louisiana. Narrative describes...
Description:
Augustin Dominique Tureaud, born October 23, 1764, in La Rochelle, France. He fled San Domingo after a slave revolt, and moved to Baltimore where he sought to make his fortune in maritime trade. After a failed commercial voyage to Vera Cruz in 1801, T...
Subject (Geographic):
United States., United States, Latin America., Latin America, New Orleans (La.), Port Royal (Jamaica), and Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave, Mexico)
Subject (Name):
Bringier, Marius Pons., Tureaud, Augustin Dominique, b. 1764., Tureaud, Elizabeth Louise, b. 1788., Wood, Trist., Alert (Ship), Spring Bird (Ship), Crescent (Ship), and La Seine (Ship)
Subject (Topic):
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Naval operations, Yellow fever, Merchant marine, Merchant mariners, Commerce, Social life and customs, Description and travel, and History
Design consists of twenty-one individually-captioned panels arranged in three horizonal rows illustrating Johnny's arrival in Jamaica, his contracting Yellow Fever, his illness and temporary recovery, his brief participation in Jamaican society, his r...
Alternative Title:
Johnny Newcome in the island of Jamaica
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Pubbished [sic] by Willm. Holland, No. 50, Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):
Jamaica
Subject (Topic):
Social conditions, Black people, Pulse, Mosquitoes as carriers of disease, Diseases, Relapse, Medicines, Bedrooms, Cemeteries, Clergy, Servants, Lawyers, Coffins, Couples, Death, Interiors, Physicians, Vomiting, Yellow fever, and Hunting
Correspondence and property records concerning the Talbot family, primarily Richard Ely Talbot. Correspondence includes circa 80 autograph letters, signed, between Richard Ely Talbot, Anna Louisa Trowbridge Talbot, and their daughters Elizabeth Talbo...
Description:
The Talbot family was an American family of ranchers and politicians in Texas, Michigan, and Massachusetts. Richard Ely Talbot (1816-1884) was a rancher and cowboy in Georgetown, Texas who was involved in the Texas Republican Party and Texas Reconstr...
Subject (Geographic):
Texas., Texas, Williamson County., Massachusetts., Louisiana, New Orleans., Chisholm Trail., Georgetown (Tex.), and Williamson County (Tex.)
Subject (Name):
Anderson, Edwin Ruthven, -1905., Anderson, Elizabeth Talbot, 1847-1900., Kinsey, Peter., Talbot family., Talbot, Anna Louisa Trowbridge, -1869., Talbot, Elias W., 1820-1876., Talbot, John W., 1805-1876., Talbot, Joseph W., 1815-1886., Talbot, Richard Ely, 1816-1884., Talbot, Thomas, 1818-1886., Shell, Anna Louisa, 1848-, Tone, Sarah Gilleland Kinsey, 1797-1857., and Abbot Academy.
Subject (Topic):
Cattle breeders, Frontier and pioneer life, Land grants, Land titles, Pioneers, Ranches, Ranchers, Ranching, Real property, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Voter registration, Women, Education, Yellow fever, Economic conditions, Social life and customs, and Politics and government
