Consider Sterry Letters

Collection — Box: VMF 15, Folder: 16

Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf162

Staff Only

1807 February 23. Autograph letter signed from Sterry to Thomas Jefferson, proposing a new method of determinding longitude at sea, presented with his compliments to Mr. Jefferson, 2 pages

1807 March 13. Draft of autograph letter attributed to Thomas Jefferson to Sterry thanking him for informing him of the new method of determining longitude, 1 page

Dates

Creation: 1807

Creator

Sterry, Consider, 1761-1817 (Person)

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Extent

2.00 items

1 folders

Additional Description

Biographical Information

Consider Sterry (October 5, 1761 – November 15, 1817) was an American mathematician born in Preston, Connecticut. He edited and published with his brother John, The True Republican, a leading organ of the old Jeffersonian party. He also published a number of books including, The American Youth: Being a New and Complete Course of Introductory Mathematics: Designed for the Use of Private Students (1790) and A Complete Exercise Book, in Arithmetic: Designed for the Use of Schools in the United States (1795).