. Barnstable and Yarmouth, sea captains and ship owners . Bacon Ship Paul Jones, owned by Captain Daniel C. Bacon Captain Daniel C. Bacon, 1850 House of Daniel C. Bacon, corner of Tremont Street and Tem pie Place, Boston, built in 1832 .....Ship North Bend, Captain Caleb Sprague ....Ship Gravina, Captain Caleb Sprague, owned by Loring Brothers Malaga, Spain ........ The Missing Steamer Pacific, Captain Asa EldridgeShip Chariot of Fame, Captain Allen H. Knowles .Brig-Schooner Joseph Balch, Captain William F. GorhamBarque Prompt, Captain William F. GorhamShip Idaho, Captain William Chipman ....
. Barnstable and Yarmouth, sea captains and ship owners . Bacon Ship Paul Jones, owned by Captain Daniel C. Bacon Captain Daniel C. Bacon, 1850 House of Daniel C. Bacon, corner of Tremont Street and Tem pie Place, Boston, built in 1832 .....Ship North Bend, Captain Caleb Sprague ....Ship Gravina, Captain Caleb Sprague, owned by Loring Brothers Malaga, Spain ........ The Missing Steamer Pacific, Captain Asa EldridgeShip Chariot of Fame, Captain Allen H. Knowles .Brig-Schooner Joseph Balch, Captain William F. GorhamBarque Prompt, Captain William F. GorhamShip Idaho, Captain William Chipman .... Gold Medal, presented to Captain Thomas Harris by the Lords of the Admiralty, 1846 ....... Ship Leading Wind, Captain Francis M. Hinckley . Ship Ocean Queen, Captain Francis M. Hinckley Barque John Worster, Captain G. B. Knowles Ship Southern Cross, Captain Atkins Hughes, owned by Baker and Morrill of Boston Frontispiece Faciitg 7 9 1011 12 1416 18 21 22 232427 28303132 34 BARNSTABLE AND YARMOUTH SEA CAPTAINS AND SHIP OWNERS BY FRANCIS WILLIAM SPRAGUE. o ^ BARNSTABLE AND YARMOUTHSEA CAPTAINS AND SHIP OWNERS. THE earliest record that I find of Barnstable men engagedin shipping is that of Lieutenant Colonel John^ Gorham,born 1652, son of Captain John Gorham and DesireRowland. He willed the Old Gorham House, in Barnstable,to his son Shubael in 1716. My own notes of the Early Whaling Industry in the BostonEvetiing Transcript, are as follows : The renewed interest inthe whaling industry brings to our attention the question as towho first introduced it into New England. In 1897, an olddiary written by Colonel John* Gorham, in Louisburg, Feb. 20,1745/6, was sent to me by a Mrs. Sargent of Newburyport. Ithad been in the Eben Parsons family of Byfield, Mass., for agreat many years. Before printing notes from it and makingfac-similes of some of its pages, I submitted the* Wast Bookto Dr. Samuel A. Green of the Massachusetts Historical Society,who pronounced it genuine and of much interes
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