. Barnstable and Yarmouth, sea captains and ship owners . A. Patten. On account of his serious illnessand the incompetence of his mate, his wife navigated the shiparound Cape Horn. She had been with him on an earlier voy-age and fortunately at that time she studied navigation. Whenshe navigated the Neptunes Car around Cape Horn she wasunder twenty years of age. The following record of their mar-riage I find at the State House in Boston: Joshua A. Patten(Mariner) married Mary A. Brown of Boston, April i, 1853;his age 26; her age 16. He born in Maine, and she daughterof George Brown of Boston. S
. Barnstable and Yarmouth, sea captains and ship owners . A. Patten. On account of his serious illnessand the incompetence of his mate, his wife navigated the shiparound Cape Horn. She had been with him on an earlier voy-age and fortunately at that time she studied navigation. Whenshe navigated the Neptunes Car around Cape Horn she wasunder twenty years of age. The following record of their mar-riage I find at the State House in Boston: Joshua A. Patten(Mariner) married Mary A. Brown of Boston, April i, 1853;his age 26; her age 16. He born in Maine, and she daughterof George Brown of Boston. So that if she was sixteen in1853, she was less than twenty in 1856. She was a heroine ofinternational fame. Captain Patten died in Boston, July 27,1857, aged 30. Some account of him may be found in the Adver-tiser a7id Journal oi that time. Deaf, blind and sick, he hasbeen for months past cared for by his heroic wife. The Nep-tunes Car was some years later under the British flag. Cap-tain Peabody. Her agents were Barclay & Co., of Liverpool, THE MISSING STEAMER PACIFICCaptain Asa Eldridge SEA CAPTAINS AND SHIP OWNERS 21 In 1863, Captain Sprague was sent by Joseph Loring & Co.,of India Wharf, Boston, to St. John, N. B., to superintend thebuilding of the barque Chispa. Mr. Loring was formerly amember of the firm of Loring Brothers, Malaga. The name Chispa is a Spanish word meaning active, or lively. Beforethe barque put to sea, Captain Sprague asked for suitable ballastin her hold, but the owner took the risk of sending her aroundto New York with insufficient ballast. The result was that inless than forty-eight hours she was dismasted. The captainrigged up some jury masts, and after a long time she madeher way to the Bermudas for repairs. The last report I find ofthe Chispa, was at New York in 1867. Some years later, Cap-tain Sprague was Master of the brig Ossipee, She was built inKennebunk, Me., in 1866. His son Gorham Sprague, as a smallboy, was with him on the Ossipee
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