Military - U.S. Navy - Frigates - USS Congress

The USS Congress was launched in 1799 from the Portsmouth Naval Yard where it was built, and was one of the six original frigates built under the Naval Act of 1794.

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[Letter from Littleton Dennis Teackle to Charles Nicoll Bancker, September 30, 1805, Vol. 1]

Letter from Littleton Dennis Teackle to Charles Nicoll Bancker. The letter is from Vol. 1 of Charles N. Bancker's correspondence journal, which pertains to family and business matters and documents national economic and political issues related to the family's interests in banking, commerce, and shipbuilding. Littleton writes about a contract he has made and his troubles in trying to travel to Philadelphia.