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1849 cover (carried out of mails) endorsed "from Commo. Jones, Commanding in the Pacific" to Commodore David Geisinger, Comd'g East India Squadron, also "Politeness of Commo: Voorhees" (Commodore William Voorhees, was in the steamboat trade and is also credited with the founding of the Nyack Water Department). An interesting letter with cast of characters including Commodore Jones (In 1843, Jones returned a young deserter, Herman Melville, from the Sandwich Islands to the United States. Later, Melville modeled "Commodore J" in Moby-Dick and the commodore in White-Jacket after Jones. In 1848-1850, during the chaotic Gold Rush days, Jones provided a U.S. Navy presence in the San Francisco area while the United States debated what to do with the newly acquired California Territory), Commodore David Geisinger commanded the East India Squadron from 1848 to 1850 -
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