The Ships and Sailors of Old Salem, Massachusetts,This narrative history, taken from log books, sea journals, and other manuscripts (most of them written during the years between the Revolution and the War of 1812), includes voyages to Japan, India, the Philippines, Guam, the Cape of Good Hope, Sumatra, Arabia, and the South Seas. P3774HB - $44.00 |
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE | 3 |
PHILIP ENGLISH AND HIS ERA 16801750 | 21 |
SOME EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY PIRATES | 39 |
THE PRIVATEERSMEN OF 76 | 58 |
JONATHAN HARADEN PRIVATEERSMAN 1776 | 78 |
CAPTAIN LUTHER LITTLES OWN STORY 1771 | 98 |
RICHARD DERBY AND HIS SON JOHN 1774 | 117 |
ELIAS HASKET DERBY AND HIS TIMES 1770 | 141 |
NAVIGATOR 1802 | 256 |
THE VOYAGES OF NATHANIEL SILSBEE 1792 | 278 |
THE PRIVATEERS OF 1812 | 321 |
THE TRAGEDY OF THE Friendship 1831 | 346 |
CHAPTER PAGE | 374 |
THE LAST PIRATES OF THE SPANISH ΜΑΙΝ | 399 |
GENERAL FREDERICK TOWNSEND WARD 1859 | 419 |
XXI THE EBBING OF THE TIDE | 436 |
Common terms and phrases
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