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A court martial for the trial of Robert Fell is ordered by the Secretary of the Navy, for the charges stated in a letter (not present) by Mr J Herbert in November of 1808.

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Navy Department 27 March 1809 Sir; You will convene a Court Martial for the trial of Robert Fell, upon the charges exhibited against him by Mr J Herbert, as stated in Mr Herbert’s letter to you of the 20th November last, copy of which I have just received __ I am respectfully sir, Yr mo Ob Servt Ch. W. Goldsborough acting Sect of the Navy David Porter esq commanding naval officer on the New Orleans Station

Creation Date

3-27-1809

City

Washington, D.C.

Country

United States

Creator Life Dates

1765-1834

Keywords

Charles Washington Goldsborough, Charles W. Goldsborough, David Porter, trial, Navy Department, Washington, naval officer, New Orleans Station, New Orleans, secretary of the navy, Navy, November 20, March 27 1809, J Herbert, Robert Fell, court martial

Resource Identifier

080502-12

Date Digital

March 2014

Document Type

Manuscript

Disciplines

Legal | Military History | United States History

Format (medium)

manuscript

Format (IMT)

PDF

Language

en-us

Digitization Specifications

800ppi 24-bit depth color; Scanned with an Epson 15000 Photo scanner with Epson Scan software; Archival master is a TIFF; TIFFs converted to PDF with Adobe Acrobat XI Pro.

Source

The original from which this digital representation is taken is housed in The Littlejohn Collection at Wofford College, located in the Sandor Teszler Library.

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Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

Charles W. Goldsborough, acting Secretary of the Navy, orders David Porter, commander of New Orleans station, to convene a court martial for the trial of Robert Fell. 1809.

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