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Title
Collection 08: Jacob Nagle memoir titled `Jacob Nagle his Book A.D. One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty Nine May 19th. Canton. Stark County Ohio', 1775-1802, compiled 1829
Creator
Jacob Nagle, 1761-1841
Call number
SAFE/MLMSS 5954 (Safe 1/156)
Level of description
sub-fonds
Date

1775-1802, compiled 1829
Type of material
Textual Records
Reference code
87969
Issue Copy
Digitised : This journal has been preserved and digitised as part of the Nelson Meers Foundation Benefaction, 2002.
Physical Description
0.05 metres of textual material (1 folder) - manuscript
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

Jacob Nagle (1761-1841) was born in the American colony of Pennsylvania and fought in the American Revolution (War of Independence) in 1777 and 1778. From 1780, as a seaman, he went out on speculative cruises aboard various privateers along the east coast, before being captured by the Royal Navy in November 1781. At the end of the war in 1783 he was discharged at Plymouth, England. A few months later Nagle joined the Royal Navy and served on HMS Ganges for three and a half years spent largely in Portsmouth harbour. He transferred to HMS Sirius in March 1787 and sailed on her with the First Fleet to Sydney Cove. The Sirius, with Nagle aboard, was sent to Norfolk Island in March 1790 where the ship was lost on a reef, stranding her crew until the Supply, with a rented Dutch ship, the Waaksamheyd took them back to Sydney Cove in February 1791, and thence to England. Nagle's memoir records his travels as a seaman and quartermaster in the Royal Navy.
Jacob Nagle died in Ohio, United States of America, in 1841.
Finding Aids
Read the transcription here: acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2015/D36361/a366.html
Published Information
Another version of this journal is held by the William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan. It has been published in transcription: John C. Dann (ed.), The Nagle journal. A diary of the life of Jacob Nagle, sailor, from the year 1775 to 1841 (New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988) at Mitchell Library call no. Ref 1/973.35/1 A microfilm copy of the version held in the Clements Library, University of Michigan, is available at MAV/FM4/10498.
General note

Photocopy available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room at CY Safe 1/156
Microfilm copy available at CY 3214, frames 1-136.
Digital order no:Album ID : 823938
Subject
Great Britain. Royal Navy.
Phillip, Arthur, 1738-1814.
Sailors--Diaries.
Sailors--Great Britain.
Sailors--United States.
Seafaring life.
Sirius (Ship).
United States. Navy.
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
Voyages and travels.
First Fleet, 1787-1788.
Place
Norfolk Island
Sydney Cove (N.S.W.)
Exhibited in

Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection - State Library of New South Wales (January 2003 - March 2004)
Artist colony: drawing Sydney’s nature - State Library of New South Wales. Applies to: p. 84 ; a366084
UNESCO Six - State Library of New South Wales (October, 2018 - May, 2019)
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