Title |
Alkin, M. (Martin) |
Alternate title |
Alken, Martyn |
Date |
b. 1762 |
Description |
Martin Alkin, and English immigrant, contributed a log and the lithographic illustration "Prison Ship Saratoga, off Dartmouth,"
to the article, "Horrors of a Prison Ship" in William M. Huddy's Military Magazine and Record of the Volunteers of the City
and County, volume 2, no. 11. Alkin was naturalized in South Carolina on July 22, 1805 and worked in South Carolina for about
two decades before making a living as a merchant in Philadelphia from 1818 to 1828. He was one of eighty prisoners aboard
the prison ship Saratoga during the War of 1812.
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Is part of |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
References |
See Huddy, William M. |
Call number |
Philadelphia on Stone Biographical Dictionary of Lithographers |
Bibliographic citation |
Huddy, William M., Military Magazine and Record of the Volunteers of the City and County, vol. 2 (Philadelphia: Published
by William M. Huddy, May 1841)
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Peters, 74 |
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Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s |
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Philadelphia City Directories, 1818-1828 |
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South Carolina Naturalizations 1783-1850 |