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The ships and sailors of old Salem

Chapter 40: FOOTNOTES:
By Ralph Delahaye Paine
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The work compiles ship logs, journals, and contemporary documents to chart Salem’s maritime ascendancy, detailing long-distance voyages, privateering, shipbuilding, and merchant ventures. It profiles notable captains and merchants, recounts early visits to distant ports and islands, and describes encounters with pirates, naval seizures, and wartime risks. Technical topics such as navigation, charting, and vessel construction are discussed alongside institutional life—marine societies, custom houses, and wharves—and illustrated by authentic records. Combining narrative episodes with economic and social context, it presents a rounded portrait of a vanished era of seafaring commerce and the practices that made a small port globally prominent.

FOOTNOTES:

[44] The following letter was sent to Capt. Driver and signed by George H. Nobbs, Teacher, and three of his fellow-voyagers of the company of the Bounty:

“Pitcairns Island,
Sept. 3rd., 1830.

This is to certify that Captain Driver of the Brig Chas. Doggett of Salem carried sixty-five of the inhabitants of Pitcairn Island from Tahiti back to their native land during which passage Capt. Driver behaved with the greatest kindness and humanity becoming a man and a Christian, and as we can never remunerate him for the kindness we have received, we sincerely hope that through the blessing of the Almighty he will reap that reward which infallibly attends the Christian.”

[45] Joshua Derby and Enoch Knight, both of Salem. By a most extraordinary coincidence, this Enoch Knight’s brother, who was first officer of the ship Friendship of Salem, Captain Endicott, was killed in the same month of the same year by the natives of Qualah Battoo on the coast of Sumatra when the vessel was captured by Malay savages.

[46] The council-house and temple.