A Documentary History of the Norfolk (Gosport) Navy Yard 1800-1861

by John G. M. Sharp

Contents

I. Preface

II. Acknowledgements

III. Chapters

1. Andrew Sprowle, 1710-1776: "Lord of Gosport"

2. Early Loyalty and Citizenship Requirements for Federal Employees at Gosport and other Naval Shipyards, 1794

3. Rules & Regulations of the Navy-Yard at Gosport 1800

4. Early Apprentices at Gosport Navy Yard, 1807

5. The Early Organization of the Shipyard

6. Regulations re Musters of Civilian Employees Naval Shipyard Gosport 1821

7. The Disastrous Voyage: Yellow Fever Aboard the USS Macedonian & USS Peacock, 1822
     & A Bieff Biography of Dr. Samuel Russel Trevell, Jr, Surgeon USN

8. Dr. Isaac Hulse, Surgeon USN 1797-1856

9. Letters from and to the Gosport Navy Yard 1826-1828

10. U.S. Navy Smallpox Vaccination 1827

11. The Recruitment of African Americans in the U.S. Navy, 1825-1839

12. Dr. Thomas Williamson and Mental Illness at Gosport (Norfolk) Naval Hospital 1827-1844

13. Norfolk (Gosport) Naval Hospital Black Female Employees 1810 to 1842

14. Commodore Lewis Warrington writes to the Board of Navy Commissioners on the employment of enslaved workers in  the
       construction of Stone Dock, 12 October 1831

15. Cholera at Gosport Navy Yard 1832

16. Dry Dock No 1, a Work Stoppage & the USS Delaware in Letters & Documents 1833.
       Also includes Quarterly Report of Persons Confined & Punished aboard the U.S. Delaware

17. Norfolk Navy Yard Slaveholders Petition to the Secretary of the Navy, June 21, 1839

18. The Gosport Navy Yard Apprentice Boys School and the question of foreign birth, June 7, 1839

19. List of Gosport Navy Yard Employees Military and Civilian, 1846

20. Flogging at Sea, Discipline and Punishment in the Old Navy 1846-1847

21. Station Log Entries for U.S. Navy Yard Gosport 1850

22. Resignations and Dismissals at Norfolk Navy Yard from the U.S. Navy April 1861

IV. Bibliography