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  HighBeam Encyclopedia - Palmer, Nathaniel Brown   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
PALMER, NATHANIEL BROWN [Palmer, Nathaniel Brown] 1799-1877, American sea captain and antarctic explorer, b.
Hence the name Palmer Land for the peninsula later named Graham Land by the British and known as Palmer Peninsula, Graham Land, or Graham Coast.
Cultural possession, imperial control, and comparative religion: the Calcutta perspectives of Sir William Jones and Nathaniel Brassey Halhed.
encyclopedia.infonautics.com /html/E/E-Palmer-N.asp   (214 words)

  
 The New York Guaranty & Indemnity Company
James M. Brown of Brown Brothers and Co. and Brown, Shipley and Co.; and William M. Evarts were also directors of the Great Western.
William Palmer Dixon, Skull and Bones 1868, in 1871.
He was the son of Courtlandt Palmer Dixon (1817-1883), who was the son of U.S. Sen. Nathan Fellows Dixon (1774-1842) of Rhode Island, and "a well-known contractor for the furnishing of material used in the erection of U.S. Government buildings." (Obituary.
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 Ships
One was Palmer's 47 foot sloop and the other is the 125 foot research vessel built by Gamage shipyard in South Bristol, Maine in 1968.
HERSILIA (American big) commanded by Captain J. Sheffield on an 1819 sealing voyage to the South Shetland Islands (Nathaniel Palmer was second-in-command and is credited with making the landfall).
HERO (sloop) commanded by Nathaniel Palmer on the 1820 sealing voyage.
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 Nathaniel Brown Palmer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Palmer, Nathaniel Brown, 1799–1877, American sea captain and antarctic explorer, b.
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