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CATALOG NUMBER S 1025
OBJECT NAME Letter
DATE May 23, 1811
AUTHOR William Sawyer (brother)
RECIPIENT Philip Jeremiah Schuyler
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Commodore John Rodgers,
PLACES New York, Rhinebeck
KEYWORDS steamboat, visit to Rhinebeck, New York to Rhinebeck a day’s
Journey, British sloop Argus (possibly “The Little Belt Affair”),
events leading up to War of 1812, “send a chair to the ferry”,
Newyork May 23 . 1811
Dear Schuyler
I think to embark in the Steam Boat / which goes on Saturday at 5 o clock _ I presume / to I shall land at Rhinebeck about 2 oclock on / Sunday _ If conv’t, will you fend a chair / to the ferry _ I arrived this mrn’g from the / South’- . —- News has reached here that / Commodor Rogers in the Pus’t of 44 guns has / fired into the [^ British] sloop of war Argus of 18 guns / + killed + wounded 30 men _ I have not heard / particulars . … yours
W.S. 〜
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[POSTAL NOTATION]
12 / 2[2?]
[ADDRESS]
Philip J. Schuyler Esq’r
Rhynbeck
[REVERSE OF ADDRESS]
W.S. ____
1811Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
