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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 82609

Captain Abraham Whipple, Continental Navy


Commission appointing Whipple as Captain of the Continental Navy Ship Columbus, dated 8 December 1775 and signed by John Hancock and Charles Thomson.

Courtesy of the Detroit Public Library, Burton Historical Collection, 1975.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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14 May 2003