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The ships and sailors of old Salem : $b the record of a brilliant era of American achievement — John Shaqi

The ships and sailors of old Salem : $b the record of a brilliant era of American achievementPaine, Ralph Delahaye

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The ships and sailors of old Salem : $b the record of a brilliant era of American achievement

Name: The ships and sailors of old Salem : $b the record of a brilliant era of American achievement
Author: Paine, Ralph Delahaye

Paine, Ralph Delahaye

Sailors -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- History; Salem (Mass.) -- History; Salem (Mass.) -- History, Naval; Shipping -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- History; Ships -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- History

IV THE PRIVATEERSMEN OF ’76.                                     58

      V JONATHAN HARADEN, PRIVATEERSMAN. (1776-1782.)                 78

     VI CAPTAIN LUTHER LITTLE’S OWN STORY. (1771-1799.)               98

    VII THE JOURNAL OF WILLIAM RUSSELL. (1776-1783.)                 117

   VIII THE JOURNAL OF WILLIAM RUSSELL (_concluded_).
        (1779-1783.)                                                 134

     IX RICHARD DERBY AND HIS SON JOHN. (1774-1792.)                 149

      X ELIAS HASKET DERBY AND HIS TIMES. (1770-1800.)               173

     XI PIONEERS IN DISTANT SEAS. (1775-1817.)                       197

    XII THE BUILDING OF THE _ESSEX_. (1799.)                         228

   XIII THE FIRST AMERICAN VOYAGERS TO JAPAN.
        (1799-1801.)                                                 250

    XIV THE FIRST YANKEE SHIP AT GUAM. (1801.)                       270

     XV NATHANIEL BOWDITCH AND HIS “PRACTICAL
        NAVIGATOR.” (1802.)                                          288

    XVI THE VOYAGES OF NATHANIEL SILSBEE. (1792-1800.)               310

   XVII THE VOYAGES OF RICHARD CLEVELAND. (1791-1820.)               329

  XVIII THE PRIVATEERS OF 1812.                                      353

    XIX THE TRAGEDY OF THE _FRIENDSHIP_. (1831.)                     378

     XX EARLY SOUTH SEA VOYAGES. (1832.)                             406

    XXI THE LAST PIRATES OF THE SPANISH MAIN.
        (1832.)                                                      431

   XXII GENERAL FREDERICK TOWNSEND WARD. (1859-1862.)                451

  XXIII THE EBBING OF THE TIDE.                                      482

  APPENDIX.                                                          499

ILLUSTRATIONS

  The _Panay_, one of the last of the Salem fleet bound out
  from Boston to Manila twenty-five years ago             _Frontispiece_

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  Custom House document with signature of Nathaniel
  Hawthorne as surveyor                                                6

  Page from the illustrated log of the _Eolus_                         6

  A corner in the Marine Room of the Peabody Museum                   14

  The Marine Room, Peabody Museum                                     14

  Certificate of Membership in the Salem Marine Society               18

  Title page of the log of Capt Nathaniel Hawthorne                   18

  The Roger Williams house                                            24

  The Philip English “Great House”                                    30

  A bill of lading of the time of Philip English, dated 1716          36

  The log of a Salem whaler                                           36

  A page from Falconer’s Marine Dictionary (18th Century)             44

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