Tag: Joshua Humphreys

Posted on March 8, 2021March 5, 2021

Thomas Read of Delaware, Part 3: Continental Navy Commander

Thomas Read (1740-1788) began his seafaring career as a merchant captain, sailing for the Philadelphia firm of Willing and Morris in the ship Aurora, alongside his friend John Barry in Black Prince, as we read in Part 1 of this series. In the early stages of the revolution he served as de facto commodore of […]

by William H. J. Manthorpe, Jr.

Posted on March 4, 2021March 1, 2021

Thomas Read of Delaware, Part 2: Commodore in the Pennsylvania Navy

Thomas Read (1740-1788) of New Castle, Delaware, as we read in the first part of this series, began his seafaring career as a merchant captain, sailing for the Philadelphia firm of Willing and Morris in the ship Aurora, alongside his friend John Barry in Black Prince. After fighting had erupted around Boston, in May 1775 […]

by William H. J. Manthorpe, Jr.