Abstract
Following Newport’s mercantile decline in the nineteenth century, Newporters were drawn to careers at sea in the U.S. Navy. In this issue, Dr. Evelyn Cherpak relates the narrative of one such Newport native, Charles Hunter, who was living in Newport and on the retired list from the U.S. Navy, when Lincoln’s call for volunteers went out in the spring of 1861. Cherry Fletcher Bamberg’s account of finding Ezra Stiles’s eighteenth-century “Bills of Mortality for 1765-1777,” and her analysis of its usefulness in describing and understanding Newport’s pre-Revolutionary war population is our second article of this issue.
Recommended Citation
Stevens, Elizabeth C.
(2017)
"Editor's Note,"
Newport History: Journal of the Newport Historical Society: Vol. 86:
Iss.
275, Article 1.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.salve.edu/newporthistory/vol86/iss275/1