Letter from Captain Jeremiah Yellott to Colonel Henry Hollingsworth Concerning Work on the Susquehanna River, 1798.
Baltimore, Maryland: 1798. Single 8 x 9.5” letter, folded. Captain Jeremiah Yellott (1749–1805) immigrated from Great Britain to Maryland in 1774, and there made a fortune as a privateer and merchant. In 1798, he was made a naval agent by America’s first Secretary of the Navy, Benjamin Stoddert, under the.....