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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the James Fountain Heustis Logbooks, #1199-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Typed transcription available of Volume 1: Ship's log, January 1851-January 1852.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. W. B. Paterson of Mobile, Ala., January 1947.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

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• Heustis, James Fountain, d. 1891.
• John Adams (Ship)
• Logbooks--History--19th century.
• United States. Navy--Medical care--History--19th century.
• United States. Navy--Sea life--History--19th century.
• United States. Navy--Surgeons--History--19th century.
• Voyages and travels--History--19th century.

James Fountain Heustis (died 1891) of Cahaba, Ala., was a surgeon in the United States navy. He was married first to Anita Watson and later to Rachel Lyons of Columbia, S.C.

The collection includes books kept by James Fountain Heustis as United States navy surgeon on the "John Adams," including notes on weather, work, the ship's position, prescriptions, quarterly reports of cases of illness on board, medical notes, poems, and notes on church history. The logbooks were kept while Heustis's ship was stationed near Norfolk, Va., at sea, and cruising off the west coast of Africa.