The situation put Kennedy in a financial bind, who writes on August 27, 1805 that “the loss of the Jane at a moment when I required an immense sum of money to meet my engagements threw me into such difficulty that to make ...

In this letter dated August 12, 1805, he writes about the “loss of my favorite Brig Jane shamefully captured by the French…She is again recaptured by the British and sent to Jamaica, to which place I have this day sent our ...

A brief family history of the Kennedy family. The dates are all within the 1800s.

The letter is written from St. Thomas and Kennedy discusses the letters/telegrams he has received, "...this was received at a moment when I am in difficulties gives me a pleasing relief...I have been taken with all my ...