Old Marblehead Sea Captains and the Ships in which They Sailed ...

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Benjamin J. Lindsey, 1915 - Marblehead (Mass.) - 137 pages
 

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Page 109 - God's grace bound for Genoa, to say Four Hampers being marked and numbered as in the margin, and are to be delivered in the like good order and well conditioned, at the aforesaid port of Genoa (the danger of the seas only excepted...
Page 76 - States, and the instructions which shall be given them according to law, for the regulation of their conduct; and will satisfy all damages and injuries which shall be done or committed contrary to the tenor thereof, by such vessel , during her commission , and to deliver up the same when revoked by the President of the Confederate States.
Page 76 - ... of the United States, and the instructions which shall be given them according to law for the regulation of their conduct ; and will satisfy all damages and injuries which shall be done or committed contrary. to the tenor thereof by such vessel, during her commission, and to deliver up the same when revoked by the President of the United States.
Page 109 - IN WITNESS whereof, the master or purser of the said ship hath affirmed to three bills of lading of this tenor and date, one of which bills being accomplished, the other two to stand void.
Page 76 - States; to which payment, well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, jointly and severally, our joint and several heirs, executors and administrators, firmly by these presents, sealed with our sea.ls, and dated this day of...
Page 4 - THE old Clipper days were jolly, when we sailed the Seven Seas, And the house-flags of our merchant ships were whipped by every breeze; It was good-by to your mother and the pretty girls on shore, For we're off around the howling Horn, bound down to Singapore.
Page 125 - By this public instrument of protest be it known and made manifest to all whom it doth or may concern, that on this 8th day of November, in the year of our Lord 1862, before me, Joseph P.
Page 109 - In witness whereof the master or purser of the said ship hath affirmed to three bills of lading, all of this tenor and date, the one of which three bills being accomplished, the other two to stand void, and so God send the good ship to her desired port in safety. Amen.
Page 76 - States, for the payment of which, well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, and administrators, jointly and severally, by these presents.
Page 100 - News is received here that Captain Joseph Orne in the ship Essex had arrived at Mocha, with $60,000 to purchase coffee, and that Mahomet Ikle, commander of an armed ship, persuaded him to trade at Hadidido, and to take on board 30 of his Arabs to help navigate her thither while his vessel kept her company; that on the approach of night, and at a concerted signal, the Arabs attacked the crew of the Essex, and Ikle laid his ship alongside, and that the result was the slaughter of Captain Orne, and...

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