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Boatswain’s Mate Samuel Cromwell was hanged as a mutineer aboard the USS Somers along with  Seaman Elisha Small  and Acting Midshipman Philip Spencer. Spencer was the 18-year old son of Secretary of War John C. Spencer and a native of Canandaigua, NY. FMS commented on the controversial case in a letter to her sister (18430108FMS_LMW), expressing her opinion that the evidence did not support the hangings.

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Biography: 
Boatswain’s Mate Samuel Cromwell was hanged as a mutineer aboard the USS Somers along with Seaman Elisha Small and Acting Midshipman Philip Spencer. Spencer was the 18-year old son of Secretary of War John C. Spencer and a native of Canandaigua, NY. FMS commented on the controversial case in a letter to her sister (18430108FMS_LMW), expressing her opinion that the evidence did not support the hangings.
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http://cdm16099.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15241coll1
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The Somers Affair--Digital Collection at the Nimitz Library of the US Naval Academy
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https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=cromwell&GSfn=samuel&GSbyrel=all&GSdy=1842&GSdyrel=in&GSob=n&GRid=97367745&df=all&
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Find A Grave
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