Biographical Sketch, Personal And Descriptive, of Sylvanus B. Phinney, of Barnstable, Mass., On ...
Biographical Sketch, Personal And Descriptive, of Sylvanus B. Phinney, of Barnstable, Mass., On ...
Sylvanus Bourne Phinney
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Congress may well give some of its attention to an industry so important as that of the fisheries. The annual products of the fisheries, in fish, oil, and bone, in Massachusetts alone, within a few years, amounted to near $17,000,000. And yet Congress, of late years, seems almost to have lost sight of this fact, by giving to the Provinces the rights and privileges so clearly belonging to our own citizens. John Adams clear- ly foresaw the difficulties we were to suffer, as early as 1808 when in ...correspondence with Mr. Green, and that a war would inevitably grow out of British aggressions. In 1807 a British man-of-war had poured a broadside into an American vessel, killing twenty men. The war finally came ; the year 1812 was an eventful one. Another embargo was laid in April, and in June war was declared. In December theftfrigate " Constitution " captured the British frigate '* Java," and in 84 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF SYLVAN US B. PHINNET. June following the naval battle took place off Boston Harbor, between the United States frigate " Chesapeake," under com- mand of Capt.
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