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Preferred Citation

Complete Mariner, Manuscript MS 31.2, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Acquisition Information

Purchase, 1931.

Alternative Form

Also available on microfilm M-1552

Scope and Content Information

Manuscript treatise or classroom notes on navigation with printed title page: The Complete Mariner: or a Treatise of Navigation Trigonometrically, by Logarithmetical Numbers, and the Geometrical Construction by Scale and Compass. Also, the Orthographic Projection of the Sphere Astronomically. Williamsburg; Printed February the 18th, 1731 [by William Parks], E[x] L[ibris] James Hubard. Also includes "Tobacco ships in Caps [?] Clark 1765," with a list of the number of hogsheads received from James Hubard, Sr., John Clayton, Sr., Dr. George Johnston, Thomas Walker, and Thomas Whiting; and a memorandum on the debt of Mordacai Booth.

Index Terms

Persons:

• Booth, Mordecai.
• Clayton, John, 1657-1725.
• Hubard, James, d. 1784.
• Johnston, George.
• Parks, William, d. 1750.
• Walker, Thomas, 1715- 1794.
• Whiting, Thomas, 1712- 1781.

Subjects:

• Arithmetic--Early works to 1900.
• Navigation--Study and teaching-- Virginia.
• Tobacco industry- - Virginia.

Genre and Form Terms:

• Account books--Virginia--1731.