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Updated: January 3, 2026

In Pelletier's statement of his claim, he asserted that he paid something over $10,000 for the vessel. From Key West the vessel was sent to Mobile in charge of a man named Thomas Collar, who became Pelletier's mate, but who was known on the vessel as Samuel Gerdon.

George S. (George Sewall) Boutwell - Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2