Topics arranged by date:

Andrew Sprowle 1710-1776: "Lord of Gosport"

Early Loyalty and Citizenship Requirements for Federal Employees at Gosport and other Naval Shipyards, July 16, 1794

Rules & Regulations of the Navy-Yard at Gosport

Washington Navy Yard Position Descriptions by Josiah Fox, 1804

Early Apprentices at Gosport Navy Yard, August 11, 1807

The Deck Log of the Frigate USS Constitution 1803 - 1815 Part I & Part II

An Epic Log of the Frigate USS Constitution vs HMS Guerriere

Regulations re Musters of Civilian Employees Naval Shipyard Gosport, 1821

Commodore John Cassin Justifies His Twenty-Four Black Laborers

Commodore John Cassin (1760-1822): Biographical Sketches & Letters

American Seamen’s Protection Certificates & Impressment 1796-1822

Yellow Fever Aboard the USS Macedonian & USS Peacock, 1822,
& brief bio of Dr. Samuel Trevett Jr Surgeon USN

Dr. Elnathan Judson’s 1823 report to the Secretary of the Navy on the successful vaccination of naval seamen in the Boston area for small pox with related demographic and ethnic data

Letters from and to the Gosport Navy Yard 1826 -1828 Part I & Part II

Employment of Enslaved Workers in the Construction of the Stone Dock, October 12, 1831

Dr. Isaac Hulse, Naval Surgeon, USN, 1832

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

The Washington Navy Yard Strike and Snow Riot” of 1835

Letters from and to the Philadelphia Navy Yard 1826-1840

The Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1835 & the birth of the 10-hour day

Miscellaneous Documents and Letters from the files of the Philadelphia Navy Yard
1827 to 1841

Gosport Naval Hospital:

    Dr. William Paul Crillon Barton, Surgeon USN & Gosport Naval Hospital    

     Cholera at Gosport Navy Yard, 1832.

     Gosport Naval Hospital Staff, 1834

     African American Women as Nurses, Cooks, and Washers at Gosport (Norfolk) Naval Hospital 1810-1842

     Dr. Thomas Williamson and the treatment of mental illness at Gosport (Norfolk) Naval Hospital 1827-1844

     1855 Yellow Fever Epidemic

     The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918/1919

     Influenza Addendum: Lillian M Murphy RN USNR (1887-1918) Navy Cross Recipient

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

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

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

Negro Slaves Employed at Gosport Navy Yard, 1845

List of Persons Employed at Boston Navy Yard in 1846

List of Philadelphia Navy Yard Employees, Military and Civilian, 1846

Josiah Fox, Naval Architect, 1763-1847

Gosport Navy Yard Employees, Occupation & Per Diem Pay Rates, May 12, 1819 & July 1848

List of Gosport Navy Yard Employees Military and Civilian, 1846

Flogging at Sea, Discipline and Punishment in the Old Navy, 1846/47

Alcohol, Discipline and Punishment in the Early Naval Officer Corps

Station Log for Gosport Navy Yard, 1850

Edward Fitzgerald Sr., (1785-1857) Purser USN

Women in the Early Navy Yard - Seamstresses & Horse Cart Drivers, 1862-1867

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

Naval Enlistments Boston 1863

Brooklyn Navy Yard history

Pensacola Navy Yard: Letters & Documents to the Secretary of the Navy & Board of Navy Commissioners

     Part I & Part II: Letter & Documents 1826-1850,

     Part III: Letters & Documents: 1840-60

     Part IV: Letters & Documents: 1860s

     Part V: A Murder in Baltimore and a Sailor on the Run

     Addendums: Yellow Fever & Piracy

Confederate Pensacola Navy Yard Payroll January 1862 with list of Enslaved Laborers

Washington Navy Yard (Sharp, John G.M., History of the Washington Navy Yard Civilian Workforce, 1799-1962, Naval History and Heritage Command)

     African Americans, Enslaved & Free, at Washington Navy Yard Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5

     Daniel and Mary Bell and the Struggle for Freedom

Confederate Slave Roll Payrolls 1861-1865

 

John "Jack" G. M. Sharp resides in Concord, California. He worked for the United States Navy for thirty years as a civilian personnel officer. Among his many assignments were positions in Berlin, Germany, where in 1989 he was in East Berlin the day the infamous wall was opened. He later served as Human Resources Officer in South West Asia (Bahrain). He returned to the United States in 2001 and was on duty at the Naval District of Washington on 9/11. He has a lifelong interest in history and has written extensively on the Washington, Norfolk and Pensacola Navy Yards, labor history and the history of African Americans. His previous books include African Americans in Slavery and Freedom on the Washington Navy Yard 1799 -1865, Morgan Hannah Press 2011 and History of the Washington Navy Yard Civilian Workforce 1799-1962, 2004.
https://www.history.navy.mil/content/dam/nhhc/browse-by-topic/heritage/washington-navy-yard/pdfs/WNY_History.pdf
and the first complete transcription of the Diary of Michael Shiner Relating to the History of the Washington Navy Yard, 1813-1869, 2007/2015 online:
https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/d/diary-of-michael-hiner.html
His most recent work includes Register of Patients at Naval Hospital Washington DC 1814 With The Names of American Wounded From The Battle of Bladensburg 2018,
https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/r/register-patients-naval-hospital-washington-dc-1814.html
The last three works were all published by the Naval History and Heritage Command. John served on active duty in the United States Navy, including Vietnam service. He received his BA and MA in History from San Francisco State University. He can be reached at sharpjg@yahoo.com