Jones, Thomas Ap Catesby, 1790-1858 to John B. Marchand

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GLC#
GLC02680.03-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
10 October 1849
Author/Creator
Jones, Thomas Ap Catesby, 1790-1858
Title
to John B. Marchand
Place Written
San Francisco, California
Pagination
2 p. : docket ; Height: 31.5 cm, Width: 19.9 cm
Primary time period
National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
Sub-Era
Age of Jackson

Denying Marchand's request to be relieved of his post and return home. "I can see nothing in your situation oppressive or even unusual in the naval service...It is a great innovation upon usage, and the obligations of Commissioned officers to their country to suppose, that they, like enlisted persons engage for a limited term and at the expiration thereof have a right to go home, no such right exists while their services are required abroad." Written on board "Flag Ship 'Savannah.'"

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