Manuscript Log Book and General Orders of the USS Franklin, the first vessel to be laid down at the Philadelphia Navy Yard 1815. Includes signature of Commodore Charles Stewart as well as financial details pertaining to Baring Brothers London. There are also numerous dried plant specimins preserved between the pages. "General Orders for the government and discipline of the United States ship of war the Franklin 74 bearing the broad pendants of Commodore Charles Stewart; Henry E Ballard Esq. Commander 1817. There are 81 numbered rules spanning eight pages front and back, with rule 45 being "No tobacco to be smoked but forward of the gully on the main deck." It then details "Harbour", "First Lieutenant", "Officer of the Watch", "Marine Officer", "Surgeon", "Purser", "Midshipmen & Mates", "Boatswain", "Gunner", "Carpenter", "Crew", "Quarters" and "Fire". Then, flipping the book to the other side, we find the "Account Sales of Bills of Exchange on (?) Barings Brothers & Co London for the use of the United States Squadron in the Mediterranian." ---- This is the vessel that carried Richard Rush to England as referenced in Lot #130 and was also the vessel that carried Alexander Hamilton Hopkinson in Lot #72 From the Francis Hopkinson Family Archives