{"id":447,"date":"2019-04-21T15:04:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T15:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/?p=447"},"modified":"2019-04-21T15:06:42","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T15:06:42","slug":"updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ussconnecticut1799.com\/?p=447","title":{"rendered":"Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

My never-ending research project!\u00a0 Part of it is the distractions of life; running my own shop, evenings as a performer of historical and maritime music… But part of it is following up various leads that often not only bear fruit but provide\u00a0further<\/em> leads.\u00a0 I, therefore, have amassed quite a collection and fat files on the ship and many of the crew members.\u00a0 Some of you have reached out to me but I have never heard from again – Please feel encouraged to renew our contact!\u00a0 Others have been in touch and we have made meaningful headway together –\u00a0thank you!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

In following Madame Legras<\/a> – the business associate of Moses Tryon in Saint Domingue – I have gotten rather an education on that period of Haitian history and the travels of the exiles.\u00a0 Also access to church\/civic records leading up to the 1791 uprising.\u00a0 In the biography for Moses Tryon that I have been writing I will provide something of a biography and genealogy for her and her descendants through life in New Orleans, Louisiana. I have been trying to get in touch with a local historian in Haiti but thus far have come up empty.\u00a0 But in France I have several contacts who have been most helpful!<\/p>\n

As for Moses<\/a>; but for a few loose ends I had suspected that – short of finally finding his portrait – I had reached the end of useful new data and the outline had been written and mostly filled in.\u00a0 And yet just recently an old request I had sent to a repository was replied to (some four plus years later!) with the information that new documents had been deposited in their collections!\u00a0\u00a0And<\/em> they told me of\u00a0another<\/em> repository that I would never have thought of holding even more personal information\/documents!\u00a0 Road trips in the planning stages.<\/p>\n

As for several requests for what the\u00a0USS Connecticut<\/em><\/a> had looked like, I have amassed enough data to be almost certain of her appearance… But thus far I am unaware of\u00a0any<\/em> contemporary images or plans having survived to this day.\u00a0 The images of vessels I have in the header are NOT of the USS Connecticut but rather are more recently drawn images of vessels during this war, borrowed off the internet as public domain.\u00a0 There are some images used not long afterwards cited AS the USS Connecticut<\/em> but these are in fact generic transfers used for pottery, tableware, and printed matter commissioned by people\u00a0here<\/em> from makers in England… To prove the point, the very same images were used for myriad vessels with the name being the only variation.\u00a0 And keep in mind that these vessels DID look different from each other at this stage of the US Navy.<\/p>\n

More to come…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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