by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 29, 2018 | 1786, The Peace of 1784-1792
The third year of peace following the end of the American Revolutionary War was, if anything, quieter than the previous two, and the only significant public interest involving a sea officer came in July when an ecclesiastical court found the wife of Captain...
by Richard Hiscocks | Mar 29, 2018 | 1786, The Peace of 1784-1792
During the third week of July 1785 the whiff of a scandal had arisen in the newspapers when an un-named captain of the navy had been reported as seeking a divorce from his wife on account of her ?having fancied the countenance of a Negro?. When the General...
