before 1845

Pinkney, Somerville

Manuscript document signed

Title: [US Naval Academy draft of minutes]

"A meeting of the Citizens of Annapolis...for...considering the propriety, of offering a memorial to Congress for the establishment of a Navy yard at this place...Resolved...to take immediate steps to have the harbour of this City, the creeks around it, and the shoal on the outside of its entrance, surveyed by scientific and competent engineers." Signed by Somerville Pinkney, chairman of the committee. List of committee members, including a former Annapolis mayor.

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