James Riley

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Other Names: None

Assumed Gender: Male

Birth Date: 1777

Birth Place: Connecticut

Death Date: 1840

Death Place: Unknown

Affiliations: Unknown

Notes: Captain of the US merchant ship Commerce. Famous for his memoir Sufferings in Africa, describing his experience after being shipwrecked off the Western Sahara in 1815. Employed John Eddy to draw a map of Africa for him.

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