David Stewart Salmon, aged 105. The legal Father of two Indian Princes of the Wabee Tribe in America. A resident of Cable Street, Liverpool. [After serving his King and Country upwards, of sixty years six months and five days of which time was spent without ever leaving his Majesty's Service, is now allowed 2s. 6d. per week from the Parish of Liverpool. He is the last survivor of the Crew of the Centurion when commanded by Commodore Anson, with whom he sail'd round the World.
[Published Aug.t 15th. 1807, by I. Troughton, Liverpool.]
Stipple. Excised scrap, very scarce; 140 x 80mm (5½ x 3¼"), part of the title pasted underneath. Trimmed around portrait, laid on album paper in corners.
Corry's 'History of Liverpool', 1810, describes him as a native of Virginia who served in the Royal Navy for sixty years, leaving at the end of the War of Independence. The Lancaster Gazette of 23 September 1809 states he died on the 14th September, aged 106.
[Ref: 53374] £320.00
Stipple. Excised scrap, very scarce; 140 x 80mm (5½ x 3¼"), part of the title pasted underneath. Trimmed around portrait, laid on album paper in corners.
Corry's 'History of Liverpool', 1810, describes him as a native of Virginia who served in the Royal Navy for sixty years, leaving at the end of the War of Independence. The Lancaster Gazette of 23 September 1809 states he died on the 14th September, aged 106.
[Ref: 53374] £320.00