Daniel Todd Patterson papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1830
Subjects: Correspondence; Constitution (Frigate); Pirates; Naval ceremonies, honors, and salutes; United States Navy; United States; American Diplomatic and consular service; United States. Navy. Mediterranean Squadron; History
Description: Correspondence, journals, notebooks, reports, list of officers, wills, photographs, portraits, and printed matter relating to Patterson's duties as fleet captain of the flagship U.S. Frigate Constitution and as commander of the Mediterranean Squadron.  Includes material on piracy in the Mediterranean region and the squadron's diplomatic and strategic missions there.  Also includes orders (1826 October 13) prescribing funeral honors for former presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.  Correspondents include William W. Bleecker, Landon N. Carter, William M. Crane, Robert E. Griffin, Charles H. Jackson, John H. Jarvis, Edward Livingston, George Minor, Charles Morris, Joseph J. Nicholson, John B. Nicolson, David Offley, Hiram Paulding, Matthew C. Perry, Richard S. Pinckney, David Porter, Joseph Pulis, George C. Read, John Rodgers, Samuel L. Southard, and Richard Thomas.
Notes: Open to research.

Deposit, Naval Historical Foundation, 1951-1989.

Converted to gift, 1998.

Collection material in English.

Register published by the Library of Congress, 1970.  Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008115

Forms part of: Naval Historical Foundation collection.