1839 – My Waters Family

From Captain W.O. Young to Thomas Waters Sr. (April 22, 1839)

April 22, 1838Letters

[Captain W.O.Young to Captain Thomas Waters, Joseph's father] London 28 Milk Street 22nd April 1839 Thos. Waters Esq.r Sir I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter with an…

First Opium War (1839)

May 23, 2023Photographs, Source Documents

An engraving representing one of the battles of the First Opium War, the attack on the First Bar battery in the Canton River. From Edward Belcher (1843). Public domain, via…

Mahmud II, Sultan of Ottoman Empire (1839)

May 23, 2023Photographs, Source Documents

Mahmud II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Painting by Henry Guillaume Schlesinger now at the Musée de Versailles was made in 1839, just seven years after Thomas Sr. saw him…

S.S. Archimedes (1839)

May 23, 2023Photographs, Source Documents

S.S. Archimedes, fitted with Mr. F.P. Smith’s Patent Screw Propeller on her trip from Gravesend to Portsmouth. May 14, 1839. John Waters was building ships at the time in Portsmouth,…