Brief guide to manuscripts collections| William L. Clements Library The University of Michigan Alexander Robinson Papers |
Alexander Robinson, a merchant seaman from Brookline, N.Y., served as captain of a sea fencible corps, 1814-1815. He was stationed at Fort Green, a garrison built on the heights overlooking the Brooklyn Navy Yard on Long Island.
Papers of Alexander Robinson, American sea captain in the War of 1812.
The collection contains 250 items related to Fort Green, 1814-1815. They include gunners' reports, evening and morning reports, a variety of returns for men and provisions, a requisition log, receipt book, and an order book for October 19, 1814, to January 11, 1815. There is also a journal kept at Fort Green by Peter H. Schuyler, 1814, 26 pp. The collection has approximately 50 family letters, 1813-1843, and 100 items dealing with ships which Robinson commanded before the war.
Purchased, 1975
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