Fox, Josiah, 1763-1847.

Josiah Fox papers, 1795-1953. - 20 items. 1 container. 0.2 linear feet.

Open to research.

General correspondence and miscellany concerned primarily with Fox's appointment as naval constructor in 1798, the revocation of that appointment in 1801, his appointment as head ship carpenter and naval constructor, and the subsequent revocation of that appointment four years later. Also includes a typescript calendar of the papers of Josiah Fox in the collection of Ernest James Wessen, Mansfield, Ohio, 1935.


Naval constructor.

Forms part of: Naval Historical Foundation collection.

mm 70032755


Wessen, Ernest James, 1887-1974.


United States. Navy --History.


Shipwrights.


Naval constructors.