Name/Title
LetterEntry/Object ID
1111.995.007Scope and Content
Charming letter from Elisha R. Trim to son Joseph, addressed c/o James Bliss (schooner?) in Boston: talk of a draft but "the hell will be to pay....", Elisha Moore...(took) a ESE storm up Cape Cod ...and she leaked ...and filled and turned over...he cut away her deck and she rited with 5 feet of water in the swale. The(re) was and English Schooner spoke him and wanted to take him of But he would not leave Her and has got her in and is now gon to Philadelphia for coal..."(sic)