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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:Note 40 THE CLAIM OF CAPTAIN PHELPS The bill of Captain Phelps for this service is as follows: "The United States "To Wm. D. Phelps, Dr. "For services of himself, crew and boats of the barque Moscow, of Boston, of which he was part owner and in command, and being agent for all other owners, and for Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:Note 40 THE CLAIM OF CAPTAIN PHELPS The bill of Captain Phelps for this service is as follows: "The United States "To Wm. D. Phelps, Dr. "For services of himself, crew and boats of the barque Moscow, of Boston, of which he was part owner and in command, and being agent for all other owners, and for the risk and hazard incident to such service, in transporting Captain J. C. Fremont and a detachment of men under his command to a fort on the opposite side of the bay and entrance to the port of San Francisco in Upper California in July, 1846, and aiding him in capturing and dismantling the said fort, and spiking the guns thereof, consisting of three brass and seven iron cannon, of heavy calibre, and part of which were afterwards taken on board the United States ship Portsmouth, by order of Captain J. B. Montgomery, U. S. Navy. "william D. Phelps." Sworn to by the claimant. To this bill Captain Fremont gives the following approval: "I certify that Captain William D. Phelps did transport a party of men under my command to the fort near the Presidio, at the entrance to the bay at San Francisco, under the circumstances narrated in the above deposition; that he aided in dismantling the fort, and that I have always considered his services on that occasion to have been very valuable to the United States. "john C. Fremont. "Washington City, August 5, 1853." In 1852 Congress passed a bill directing the secretary of war to appoint a board of three commissioners tosettle the California claims, and inaddition to Fremont's certificate, as above, the board examined Major Gillespie who expressed the following opinion of the service rendered and the value thereof: "I hereby certify that in July 1846, Captain W. D. Phelps did transport a party of men under the command o... Books, Books, beginnings-of-San-Francisco~~Zoeth-Skinner-Eldredge, 999999999, The Beginnings Of San Francisco, Zoeth Skinner Eldredge, 0548652015, Kessinger Publishing Company, 10/22/2007 12:00:00 AM, , , , Kessinger Publishing Company<

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Note 40 THE CLAIM OF CAPTAIN PHELPS The bill of Captain Phelps for this service is as follows: "The United States "To Wm. D. Phelps, Dr. "For services of himself, crew and boats of the barque Moscow, of Boston, of which he was part owner and in command, and being agent for all other owners, and for Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Note 40 THE CLAIM OF CAPTAIN PHELPS The bill of Captain Phelps for this service is as follows: "The United States "To Wm. D. Phelps, Dr. "For services of himself, crew and boats of the barque Moscow, of Boston, of which he was part owner and in command, and being agent for all other owners, and for the risk and hazard incident to such service, in transporting Captain J.C. Fremont and a detachment of men under his command to a fort on the opposite side of the bay and entrance to the port of San Francisco in Upper California in July, 1846, and aiding him in capturing and dismantling the said fort, and spiking the guns thereof, consisting of three brass and seven iron cannon, of heavy calibre, and part of which were afterwards taken on board the United States ship Portsmouth, by order of Captain J.B. Montgomery, U.S. Navy. "william D. Phelps." Sworn to by the claimant. To this bill Captain Fremont gives the following approval: "I certify that Captain William D. Phelps did transport a party of men under my command to the fort near the Presidio, at the entrance to the bay at San Francisco, under the circumstances narrated in the above deposition; that he aided in dismantling the fort, and that I have always considered his services on that occasion to have been very valuable to the United States. "john C. Fremont. "Washington City, August 5, 1853." In 1852 Congress passed a bill directing the secretary of war to appoint a board of three commissioners tosettle the California claims, and inaddition to Fremont's certificate, as above, the board examined Major Gillespie who expressed the following opinion of the service rendered and the value thereof: "I hereby certify that in July 1846, Captain W.D. Phelps did transport a party of men under the command o. Books, , beginnings-of-San-Francisco~~Zoeth-Skinner-Eldredge, 999999999, The Beginnings Of San Francisco, Zoeth Skinner Eldredge, 0548652015, Kessinger Publishing Company, , , , , Kessinger Publishing Company<

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:Note 40 THE CLAIM OF CAPTAIN PHELPS The bill of Captain Phelps for this service is as follows: "The United States "To Wm. D. Phelps, Dr. "For services of himself, crew and boats of the barque Moscow, of Boston, of which he was part owner and in command, and being agent for all other owners, and for the risk and hazard incident to such service, in transporting Captain J. C. Fremont and a detachment of men under his command to a fort on the opposite side of the bay and entrance to the port of San Francisco in Upper California in July, 1846, and aiding him in capturing and dismantling the said fort, and spiking the guns thereof, consisting of three brass and seven iron cannon, of heavy calibre, and part of which were afterwards taken on board the United States ship Portsmouth, by order of Captain J. B. Montgomery, U. S. Navy. "william D. Phelps." Sworn to by the claimant. To this bill Captain Fremont gives the following approval: "I certify that Captain William D. Phelps did transport a party of men under my command to the fort near the Presidio, at the entrance to the bay at San Francisco, under the circumstances narrated in the above deposition; that he aided in dismantling the fort, and that I have always considered his services on that occasion to have been very valuable to the United States. "john C. Fremont. "Washington City, August 5, 1853." In 1852 Congress passed a bill directing the secretary of war to appoint a board of three commissioners tosettle the California claims, and inaddition to Fremont's certificate, as above, the board examined Major Gillespie who expressed the following opinion of the service rendered and the value thereof: "I hereby certify that in July 1846, Captain W. D. Phelps did transport a party of men under the command o... Books Books beginnings-of-San-Francisco~~Zoeth-Skinner-Eldredge Kessinger Publishing Company<

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