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The Ships and Sailors of Old Salem

by Ralph D. Paine

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  1. 1Epigraph
  2. 2Preface to the Second Edition
  3. 3Chapter I — A Port of Vanished Fleets
  4. 4Chapter II — Philip English and His Era (1680-1750)
  5. 5Chapter III — Some Early Eighteenth Century Pirates (1670-1725)
  6. 6Chapter IV — The Privateersmen of ’76
  7. 7Chapter V — Jonathan Haraden, Privateersman (1776-1782)
  8. 8Chapter VI — Captain Luther Little’s Own Story (1771-1799)
  9. 9Chapter VII — The Journal of William Russell (1776-1783)
  10. 10Chapter VIII — The Journal of William Russell (Concluded) (1779-1783)
  11. 11Chapter IX — Richard Derby and His Son John (1774-1792)
  12. 12Chapter X — Elias Hasket Derby and His Times (1770-1800)
  13. 13Chapter XI — Pioneers in Distant Seas (1775-1817)
  14. 14Chapter XII — The Building of the Essex (1799)
  15. 15Chapter XIII — The First American Voyagers to Japan (1799-1801)
  16. 16Chapter XIV — The First Yankee Ship at Guam (1801)
  17. 17Chapter XV — Nathaniel Bowditch and His “Practical Navigator” (1802)
  18. 18Chapter XVI — The Voyages of Nathaniel Silsbee (1792-1800)
  19. 19Chapter XVII — The Voyages of Captain Richard Cleveland (1791-1820)
  20. 20Chapter XVIII — The Privateers of 1812
  21. 21Chapter XIX — The Tragedy of the “Friendship” (1831)
  22. 22Chapter XX — Early South Sea Voyages (1832)
  23. 23Chapter XXI — The Last Pirates of the Spanish Main (1832)
  24. 24Chapter XXII — General Frederick Townsend Ward — (Leader of the Chi…
  25. 25Chapter XXIII — The Ebbing of the Tide
  26. 26Appendix

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