F. P. Torrey: John Williams and George Smith, February 22, 1841
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In a journal of his sail on the United States ship Ohio, F. P. Torrey writes on February 22, 1841:
- Discharged and sent home in the Franklin, or to Baltimore, John Williams, a Swede, and George Smith a negro, for a crime hardly ever committted, and as the officers of the ship would not disgrace the criminal calendar by trying them, I will not sully this page by describing it; but it would have been as well to make an example of the wretches.[1]
Notes
- ↑ F. P. Torrey, Journal of the United States Ship Ohio, Commodore Isaac Hull, commander, inthe Mediterranean, in the years 1836, '40, '41 (Boston: S.N. Dickinson, 1841), page 86. This is cited in Burg, An American, pages 75, 186. Research Request:} Need whole pub data on Burg. Jonathan Ned Katz thanks Martin Murray for copying this document in the Rare Book Room, Library of Congress. Note that this was published in 1841, so it was part of the public discourse at this time, not only written in a private diary.--JNK
