Chapter II: 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

Agreement by which a Revolutionary privateer seaman
sold his share of the booty in advance of his cruise 66

Proclamation posted in Salem during the Revolution calling
for volunteers aboard Paul Jones’ _Ranger_ 70

Schooner _Baltic_ 76

Derby Wharf, Salem, Mass., as it appears to-day 86

Captain Luther Little 108

The East India Marine Society’s hall, now the home of
the Peabody Museum 120

Page from the records of the East India Marine Society 120

The Salem Custom House, built in 1818 140

Richard Derby 152

“Leslie’s Retreat” 158

The _Grand Turk_, first American ship to pass the Cape of
Good Hope 176

Nathaniel West 180

William Gray 188

Elias Hasket Derby 188

The Ship _Mount Vernon_ 192

Elias Hasket Derby mansion (1790-1816) 194

Prince House. Home of Richard Derby. Built about 1750 194

Joseph Peabody 200

Hon. Jacob Crowninshield 204

Benjamin Crowninshield 208

Ship _Ulysses_ 212

Yacht _Cleopatra’s Barge_ 212

Log of the good ship _Rubicon_ 214

The frigate _Essex_ 230

Broadside ballad published in Salem after the news was
received of the loss of the _Essex_ 248

Page from the log of the _Margaret_ 252

The good ship _Franklin_ 252

View of Nagasaki before Japan was opened to commerce 260

Salem Harbor as it is to-day 274

The old-time sailors used to have their vessels painted on
pitchers and punch bowls 284

Title page from the journal of the _Lydia_ 284

Nathaniel Bowditch, author of “The Practical Navigator” 294

Nathaniel Bowditch’s chart of Salem harbor 304

Captain Benjamin Carpenter of the _Hercules_, 1792 306

From the log of the _Hercules_ 308

Pages from the log of the ship _Hercules_, 1792 312

Captain Nathaniel Silsbee 318

Captain Richard Cleveland 334

Captain James W. Chever 358

The privateer _America_ under full sail 358

Captain Holten J. Breed 370

The privateer _Grand Turk_ 370

An old broadside, relating the incidents of the battle of
Qualah Battoo 380

The _Glide_ 390

The _Friendship_ 390

Captain Driver 408

Letter to Captain Driver from the “Bounty” Colonists 408

Captain Thomas Fuller 432

The brig _Mexican_ attacked by pirates, 1832 432

Frederick T. Ward 454

Captain John Bertram 486

Ship _Sooloo_ 494

THE SHIPS AND SAILORS
OF OLD SALEM

The Ships and Sailors of Old Salem