Item #7073 Letter from the Captain of the Schooner Sarah to Agent Wilbut Kelly in Providence Rhode Island, Concerning a Shipwreck and Shipment of Cotton. Snell Captain Araunah Smull, Small?
Letter from the Captain of the Schooner Sarah to Agent Wilbut Kelly in Providence Rhode Island, Concerning a Shipwreck and Shipment of Cotton.

Letter from the Captain of the Schooner Sarah to Agent Wilbut Kelly in Providence Rhode Island, Concerning a Shipwreck and Shipment of Cotton.

[Savannah]: May 19, 1841.

Letter. Approx. 9.5 " x 8" folding blue paper letter. One and one-half pages used. On the back side of the last fold is the post mark. The Captain of the Schooner Sarah states "from Apalachicola to Providence...having bore a leak was stranded on Great Warsaw Island, a few miles to the Southward of this post." The cotton shipment was undamaged and the Captain asks for salvage expenses which have been incurred. The amount of expenses was to be determined by the Captain's agent in Savannah, George Schley. George Schley was a public figure in Savannah and brother to the Georgia Governor. Very good. Item #7073

Price: $150.00

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