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A Black Sailor’s Wife Helps Get her Husband a Discharge
A Pre-Civil War Black Sailor’s Wife Enlists the
Navy Secretary to Help Get her Husband a Discharge
 
Mahlon Dickerson. Letter Signed as Secretary of the Navy, to Commodore James Barron. [Washington, D.C.], February 16, 1837.
 

A Black Sailor’s Wife Helps Get her Husband a Discharge

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  • Mahlon Dickerson (1770-1853) served as New Jersey Governor and US Senator, and was 10th Sec. of the Navy, appointed by President Andrew Jackson.

     

    Here, he forwards a letter from Elizabeth Jones (not included) “soliciting the discharge of her husband Wm Jones, a colored man” to Commodore James Barron (1768-1851), who was at the time commandant of the Philadelphia Navy Yard.

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