The journals of Major Samuel Shaw, the first American consul at Canton : with a life of the author

The journals of Major Samuel Shaw, the first American consul at Canton : with a life of the author

Boston Wm. Crosby and H.P. Nichols 1847

xiii, 360 p. : port. ; 22 cm.

923.573 S538jo 1847 M MB

(OCoLC)00491802

Includes letters written during Shaw's service in the Continental Army between 1775 and 1784 as well as accounts of his consulate in Canton and the China trade.
Shaw served in the revolutionary war as an officer in Knox's artillery regiment, in the 3d U.S. artillery, and finally on the staff of Gen. Knox.

Gephart, R. M. Revolutionary America, 14417 Sabin 79959

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