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Pomeroy, Samuel, 269n.
Pook, Samuel H., 293n., 339, 362, 369n.
Porter, Capt. David, 53, 100, 203. Portland, Maine, 189, 231.
Portugal, early trade with, 13; in Federalist period, 83, 139, 178, 179, 189n. Pratt, Southward, 105. Pray, Benjamin C., 368. Preble, Ebenezer and Henry, 87, 180. Prince, Capt. Henry, 94.
Prince, Capt. Job, 52. Privateering, colonial, 20; revo- lution, 29, 30; War of 1812, 199- 202.
Provincetown, 4, 10; saltworks, 145; population, 146; fishing, 300-01, 313.
Quallah-Battoo, 219. Quarantine, 248. Queen of Clippers, 345. Quincy, Josiah, 128, 167, 198, 237, 242.
Race Horse, 293.
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Radius, 112. Railroads, 230, 304n., 308, 312-13, 315. Rainbow, 329-30.
Rambler, 204.
Randolph, Edward, 17. Rappahannock, 256n.
Rasselas, 289.
Raven, schooner, 139, 177; yacht, 247-48.
Rawson, Dr. Franklin, 182.
Record sailing passages, 100; trans- atlantic, 176, 232-33, 235, 362- 64; Australian, 364; Boston and New York to California, 338, 340, 341, 344-45, 355, 358; Bos- ton to equator, 34In .; Canton to Java, 342; San Francisco to Honolulu, 34In .; days' runs, 100; 343, 360-62, 364; knots per hour, 100, IOI, 343, 364.
Recovery, 92, III.
Red Jacket, 343, 362.
Reggio, Nicholas, 292-93.
Reindeer, 354n.
Reporter, 364.
Rich, Isaac, 302.
Rich, Capt. Richard, 307.
Richardson, Nathaniel, 123.
Rio de Janeiro, trade with, 181, 269-71, 281, 293.
Roanoke, 335.
Robertson, John M., 233.
Rockport, 143, 302.
Rogers, Nathaniel L., 219.
Romance of the Seas, 342, 348, 358. Romp, 306.
Ropes, George, 98.
Ropes, Capt. Joseph, 92.
Ropes, William, 295-96.
Ropes, William H., 296.]
Rousseau, 157n. Roux, Antoine, 98.
Rowe, John, 134. Rubber trade, 222-23.
Rubicon, 299n.
Rufus King, 185.
Rum trade, 19, 154, 221, 263, 287, 366.
Russell & Co., 242, 273, 277-79, 329. Russell, Thomas, 129.
Russia, trade with, see Baltic.
Sachem, 266. "Sacred Codfish," 134. St. Paul, 223. St. Paul's Island, 61, 114. St. Petersburg, 296.
Salem, in Revolution, 30; in 1790, 79; oriental trade to 1812, 45- 49, 73, chap. vii, decline, 217-24, 274-78; architecture, 119-22; East India Marine Society, 117, 199; forty-niners, 334; harbor, 81, 96, 115, 162; ropemakers, IOI; seamen, 109, III, 218; shipbuilding, 81, 96-101; ship- ping, 82-84, 189, 191, 217, 366, statistics, 377-78; society, 122- 23.
Salem, 177. Salisbury, S. & S., 57n.
Sally, brig, 116; ship, 203.
Saltmaking, 145, 301.
Samuels, Capt. Samuel, 346.
San Francisco, 60, 327, 335-38.
San Francisco, 335.
Sandwich, 301.
Sargent, Capt. H. J., Jr., 355-56.
Sargent family, 22, 142, 211, 355.
Scituate, settlement, 4, 13; fisher-
ies, 144; shipbuilding, see North River.
Seafort, 14. Sealing, 61, 62.
Seamen, colonial, 16-17; of Feder- alist period, 105-12; in North- west trade, 76-78; of 1815-40, 256-60; of clipper ships, 352-57. Sea Mew, 293.
Sears, Capt. J. Henry, 347.
Sea Witch, 338, 340.
Shaw, R. G., 287.
Shaw, Samuel, 45, 46, 52, 66, 85.
Shays's Rebellion, 36, 37.
Shell-fish, 148, 301-02.
Ship, definition, 328.
Shipbuilding, colonial, 14, 15, 17, 19; after war, 37; of Federalist period, 80, 96-105, 166, 191; of period 1815-40, 254-56, 292-93, 296; clipper ships, 343, and chap. xxii, passim; after 1855, 365; size of vessels, 256n., 296, 361.
Shipmasters, 16, 113-14; in North- west trade, 68-72; youthful-
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ness, 73-74; of 1840, 260; of | Supercargoes, 45, 112-13. clippers, 350-51, 355.
Shipwrecks, 97, 149-50, 162-64, 311, 356. Shiverick, D. & A., 346.
Shoemaking, 217, 303-04.
Silsbee, Nathaniel, 73, 87, 88, 98. Silsbee, Stone & Pickman, 217. Slave trade, 19, 32-34, 324. Small, Capt. Z. H., 313.
Smith, Capt. John, 8, 9. Smyrna, 181, 222, 277-78, 291- 93. Smyrna, 289-90. Smyrniote, 293.
Snow, Capt. Loum, 180.
Somerset, 346, 368.
South Africa, trade with, 367-68.
South America, trade with, origin, 19, 62; of Napoleonic period, 181-82; after 1815, 269-72; mentioned, 215-16, 222-23, 262, 283, 287-90, 297, 366; ice trade, 281.
Southern States, trade with, 17, 32, 231-32, 252, 280-81, 288, 297- 99. South Sea Islands, see Fiji, Hawaii, Marquesas, Tahiti.
South Shore, defined, 3; fisheries, 144, 302, 304, 375.
Sovereign of the Seas, 327, 359-62.
Spain, trade with, colonial, 9, 13; Federalist period, 83, 139, 177, 180-81, 185, 205; see Mediter- ranean.
Sparrow-Hawk, 15n. Sprague, Capt. Caleb, 258.
Sprague, Peleg, 352, 355.
Stag-Hound, 341, 348, 361. Starbuck, Capt. Charles, 325.
Starlight, 345, 348.
Stars and Stripes, 248. States, 61.
Steam navigation, 242, 324-36, 369. Stephen, William, 14, 15.
Sturgis, Russell, 274; quoted, 65.
Sturgis, Capt. William, 69-70; as merchant, 211, 247, 260; quoted, 57-58.
Sumatra, trade with, 90, 91, 219, 288-90. Sunda Straits, 68.
Surinam, trade with, 19, 142, 146, 309. Surprise, 339-40.
Suter, Capt. John, 70-73, 77n., 78, 262, 289. Swampscott, 148, 245, 248, 303, 306. Sylph, 247.
Tahiti, 265. Tamaamaah, 204.
Tariff, on tea, 165n .; of 1816, 214.
Taunton River, 5, 105. Taylor, Edward T. (Father), 250- 52.
Telegraph, 306.
Telegraph, marine, 163, 229.
Thaddeus, 261.
Thomas, George, 362.
Thomas Russell, 113.
Thoreau, Henry, quoted, 283-84, 300, 307.
Thorndike, Israel, 83, 87n., 110, 119, 179, 21I.
Timor, 220.
Tonnage, method of computing, 14n .; duties on, 166.
Townsend, Capt. Penn, 114.
Train, Enoch, 296, 330-31, 341.
Trask, Capt. Richard, 296.
Trial, 16.
Tristan de Cunha, 94. Tsar, 265.
Tucker, Charles R., 325n.
Tudor, Frederic, 244, 280-83
Turner, Calvin, 102.
Turner, Capt. John, 16.
Tuscany, 282.
Unicorn, 234. Union, 74-76. Upton, Capt. Benjamin, 222. Upton, George B., 348.
Valparaiso, trade with, 59n., 62, 271, 289. Vancouver Island, 74. Vans, William, 9In. Vineyard Haven, 7, 162, 163.
Wages, in China trade, 76, 77; of
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Federalist period, 110-II; of | 1830, 257: of clipper period, 351-54.
Wagon trade, 206.
Wales, Thomas B., 295, 297.
Wallis, Mrs., 220.
War of 1812, 195-212.
Ward, Capt. William, 86.
Wareham, 105, 207.
Waterman, Capt. Bob, 100, 329, 340.
Waterman & Ewell, 293n., 296. Water Witch, 292-93.
Wave, 247.
Webster, Daniel, 214, 246, 264n.
Weld, Wm. F. & Co., 348.
Wellfleet, 25, II4n., 148, 149, 301- 02, 306, 313. Wells, 190.
West, Capt. Ebenezer, 45.
Western Islands, colonial trade with, 13; neutral trade, 176, 179, 180, 193; later trade, 293-94; whaling, 321-23.
West India trade, origin, 12, 17, 19; after Revolution, 31, 32, 38; Federalist period, 83, 84, III, 139, 141, 151-55, 181, 185, 188, 18gn., 280; after 1815, 216, 280-81; 293-95, 309; statistics, 376-77. Weston, Ezra, 104, 290. Westward Ho! 342, 348.
Whaling, origin, 20; from Cape Cod, 146, 305; from Nantucket, to 1812, 156-59; statistics, 376; | Zotoff, 220.
after 1815, chap. xx; crews, 158, 322-24; grounds, 157, 262-64, 316-17: 'lays,' 158, 319-22; length of voyage, 323n .; meth- ods, 318-26; prices, 158, 317.
Whampoa, 64, 205.
Wheelwright, William, 269n.
Whipple, Jonathan, 222.
White, William P., 182.
Whitman, Walt, quoted, 250-52, 314, 363.
Whittier, J. G., quoted, 2, 3, 140 156.
Wild Ranger, 328, 347, 348.
William and Henry, 82.
Williams family, 176n.
Winde, Louis, 248n.
Winged Racer, 345.
Winship, Jonathan, Jr., 57-59, 204, 317. Winship family, 58-60.
Winsor, Joshua, 145.
Winthrop, John, 11, 12, 16.
Winthrop and Mary, 142.
Witchcraft, 339n.
Woodbury, Peter, 150.
Wood's Hole, 7, 146, 247, 300.
Wonson, Capt. Samuel, 308.
Yachting, 123, 191, 244-49. Yankee race, 21, 22.
Zanzibar, trade with, 222-23. Zephyr, brig, 277; ship, 220, 258. Zerega & Co., 345n.
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