1To George Washington from Maria Hammond, 20 February 1790 (Washington Papers)
The Memorial of Maria Hammond of the City of New York—humbly sheweth That in October 1789 Your Memorialist’s husband Thomas Hammond of said City Mariner was captured by the British frigate Pomona commanded by one Captn Savage, near the Island of Bonavista on the Coast of Africa, his Vessel and Cargo seized and sold, and himself and pilot put in Irons and in that situation deliverd to the...