To Swear Like a Sailor Paul A. Gilje Index More Information

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Abaco, 252 almanacs, 49 Abbott, Thomas W., 90 The Tragical cale[ndar] and Pirates Own abolitionists, 61 , 219 , 224 Almanac , 1846, 202 Adams, John, 29 , 48 – 49 , 54 , 91 Alwilda, 193 Adams, Robert, 130 American Bible Society, 217 , 221 Address to Young Men , 94 The American Coast Pilot ., 212 Adee, Augustus A., 172 American Revolution, 3 , 49 , 53 , 54 , 55 , 60 , Aegyptus, Tiphys, 14 , 58 , 130 126 , 134 , 149 , 167 , 172 , 226 , 363 , Africa, 60 , 98, 123 , 130 , 198 , 200 , 217 , 364 . See Revolutionary War 251 , 345 American Seamen’s Friend Society, 218, African Americans, 3 , 16, 23, 32 , 37 , 219 , 240 60 – 62 , 172 , 185 , 205 , 209 , American Tract Society, 218 , 221 245 , 247 Ames, Fisher, 53 Age of Exploration, 3 Ames, Nathaniel, 184 , 219 Age of Jackson, 100 , 113 Mariners Sketches, 97 Age of Revolution, 1 , 3 , 24 , 156 , 204 Nautical Reminiscences, 97 Ahab, Captain, 104 An Old Sailor’s Yarns, 115 Akin, James, 227 – 35 , 237 Amory, John H. “A bug-a-boo to frighten John Bull, The Young Rover , 204 or the Wright mode for kicking a Anglo-American ballad tradition, 7, Bubbery”, 227 – 29 136 – 69 , 174 , 178 , 181 , 198 “Sailors Glee”, 238 , 269 Anglo-French Wars, 1793–1815, 8 , 49 , 109 , “The Bloody Arena”, 229 – 34 117 , 149 , 155 , 157 , 160 , 169 , 225 Alcott, William A. Annobon, 251 The Young Man’s Guide, 214 Antarctic Circle, 212 Algiers, 51 , 98, 139 , 187 , 198 , 234 , 270 antebellum period, 7 , 55 , 121 , 136 , 169 , Algoa Bay, 123 170, 173 , 175 , 179 , 182, 217 , 218 , Alleine, Joseph 219 , 221 , 240 , 242 , 246 , 269 Alarm to the Unconverted Sinners, 218 anti-slavery, 129 , 198 , 210 Allen, Stephen, 268 Arabian Knights, 114 Allen, William Alfred, 246 Archibald Woodside’s Allen, William Henry, 27 , 253 “We Owe Allegiance to No Crown”, 226 Allyn, Gurdon L., 59 Arctic Ocean, 4

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aristocracy, 22 , 50 , 51, 224 , 268 Blatchford, John, 98 , 126 , 128 Army, British, 127 , 268 Narrative of the Remarkable Arne, Michael, 164 Occurences, 126 – 28 Arne, Thomas Augustine, 149 , 162 , 164 Bligh, William, 184 , 194 arse, 33 Blunt’s American Coast Pilot , 252 Articles of Agreement, 265 boarding houses, 265 Articles of Confederation, 52 Boardman, Francis, 17 , 75 , 76 , 151 Astor Place, 132 boatswain, 14 , 18 , 113 , 115 , 119 , 132 , Atlantic history, 3 240 , 246 , 257, 258 , 262 Atlantic Ocean, 1 , 13 , 48 , 52 , 74 , 79 , 88 , Bob Backstay, 56 91 , 103 , 110 , 129 , 135 , 136, 149 , Bonny, Anne, 188 151 , 164 , 167 , 168 , 183 , 201 , 251 Boston, x , xi , 21 , 34 , 48 , 53 , 55 , 57 , Australia, 92, 93 , 107 , 109 , 195 69 , 71 , 99 , 100 , 101 , 151 , autobiography, 103, 131 , 217 160 , 162 , 164 , 165 , 166f5.4 , 187 , 195, 201 , 211 , 213 , 217 Bailey, Nathaniel, 11 Boston, Absalom, 245 Bailey, William George, 92 Boston Massacre, 21, 34 – 35 , 48 Bainbridge, William, 169 Boston Tea Party, 226 Baker, John, 94 , 162 “Bostonian paying the Excise man”, 226 Baltimore, 179 , 194 “Bostonians in Distress”, 226 Baltimore clipper, 171 Botany Bay, 7 Bancroft, George Bourne, William A History of the United States, 211 A Regiment for the Sea, 67 Barbados, 79 , 254 Bowditch, Nathaniel Barbary states, 19 , 49, 52 , 98 , 128 , 140 , The New American Practical Navigator, 146 , 162 , 184 , 193 , 197 , 198 , 69 , 212 206 , 281n36 Bowery Theater, 179 Barker, John K., 205 Brantz, Louis, 89 Barlow, Seth, 84 Breed, Holton J., 81 , 82 , 84 , 202 , 203 , 212 , Barnard, Charles H., 129 213 , 214 , 218 Barrett, Francis, 249 Brest, 251 Baxter, Richard Brewster, Mary, 95 A Call to the Unconverted, 218 Bristol, 79 , 139 The Saint’s Everlasting Rest, 218 , 219 British culture Beasley, Reuben, 168 infl uence on America, 4, 30 , 43 – 51 , 67 , beckets, 264 107 – 14 , 136 – 69 , 182 , 187 , 194, Bedlow, William, 79 198 , 203 – 14, 218 , 221 , 225 – 38 Ben Backstay, 48 Brittany, 251 Ben Block, 48 broadsheet ballads, 137 , 140 , 152 , Benbow, John, 169 158 , 168 Benevides, Vincent, 188 Brooks Brothers, 268 Benjamin, Daniel, 81 Brooks, Noel, 14 Bible, 9 , 17 , 40 , 84 , 183 , 184 , 185 , 187 , Brown, George, 240 , 246 , 257, 258 , 262 203 , 204 , 210 , 215 – 18 , 219 , 220 , Brown, Harry, 113 221, 222 , 266 , 270 , 271 , 272 Brown, William, 70 , 76 Bickerstaff, Isaac, 44 , 50 , 58 Browne, J. Ross, ix , 58 , 119 , 120 , 134 , 204 , “Thomas and Sally”, 44 , 50 206 , 210 , 296n82 Bill Bobstay, 55 “Bob Grimsley’s Ghost”, 120 Bill Mann, 206 “John Tabor’s Ride”, 123 – 26 birds, 250 , 272 Etchings of a Whaling Cruise , 119 , 125 , bitch, 5 , 11 , 12 – 15 , 17 , 18, 19 – 21 , 22 – 23 , 126, 208 24 , 26 , 27 – 29 , 30 , 32 , 34 – 35 , 234 Bryant, David M., 247

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Buckingham, Joseph, 202 British, 8 , 224 , 225 – 27 , 231 , 234 , Buenos Aries, 194 235 , 245 bugger, 30 – 32 , 234 Carter, Benjamin, ix , 85 , 90, 161 , 163 Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Chappel, Alonzo Pelham , 209 “Death of Captain James Lawrence”, 242 Bunker Hill, Battle of, 151 , 154 “Saving of Stephen Decatur by Reuben Buntline, Ned, 56 , 107 , 126 , 130 – 32 , 133 , 252 James”, 242 “The Captain’s Pig”, 130 Charles, William, 238 , 268 The Last of the Buccaneers: A Yarn of “The Tory Editor and His Apes Giving the Eighteenth Century, 131 Their Pitiful Advice to the American The Mysteries and Miseries of New Sailors”, 235 – 38 York , 210 Charleston, 79 , 187 “Ned Buntline’s Life-Yarn”, 131 Chase, Owen, 97 , 126 , 128 , 133 Bunyan, John Narrative of the Most Extraordinary Pilgrim’s Progress, 203 , 218 and Distressing Shipwreck of the burial at sea, 266 Whale-Ship Essex, 97 Bushman, Richard, 21 Chase, Samuel, 10 busks, 255, 258 , 271 Chesapeake Affair, 128 Bute, Earl of, 33 Chesapeake Bay, 194 Byron, Lord Chever, David, 75 , 78 The Corsair, 207 Child’s Robinsoe Crusoe, 204 Chile, 201 Calhoun, Hugh, 119 China, 77 , 82 , 90 , 123 , 161 , 171 , 215 , “The Sea Demon”, 123 256 , 261 California, 91 , 171 , 172 , 183 , 207 , 211 Chinese, 19 , 193 cannibalism, 128 , 201 Christmas, 162 Canton, 271 citizenship, 49 , 60 , 61 , 62 , 130 , 198 , 224 , Cape Ann, 127 , 128 225 , 234 , 242 , 246 Cape Fear, 75 Clark, George Edward, 57 , 122 Cape Hatteras, 123 Clark, Joseph G., 250 Cape Horn, 99 , 123 , 172 , 205 , 248 , Clarke, William, 117 , 272 252 , 267 Clay, Edward, 240 Cape Town, 123 , 206 , 251 Clay, Henry, 56 captain, 9, 12, 13, 16 , 18 , 23 , 30 , 31 , 38 , clerks, 75 , 90 51 , 53 , 55 , 61 , 62 , 68, 69, 71 , 76 , Clifford, Joseph P., 66 77 , 78 , 80 , 81 , 82 , 88, 89, 90 , 95 , Clinton, Charles P., 161 , 162 98 , 100, 112 , 115 , 117 , 119, 120 , clothing, 50 , 108 , 232 , 235 , 250 , 256 122 , 125 , 130 , 131 , 139 , 146 , 150 , Cobb, Josiah, 32 , 57 , 117 , 168 , 201 , 206 173 , 174 , 178 , 180 , 195 , 201 , 208 , A Green Hand’s First Cruise, Roughed 210 , 219 , 224 , 228 , 229 , 231 , 247 , Out From the Log-Book of 251 , 252 , 253 , 256 , 261 , 265 , 268 , Memory , 101 270 , 271 , 272 , 275 Coffi n, Robert Stevenson, 167 Captain Avery, 141 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 207 Captain Ward, 141 “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, 112 captivity, 51, 97, 98, 126 , 129 , 139 , 140 , Colesworthy, Jonathan, 82 146, 152 , 184 , 186 , 197 – 98 , 201 , Colombia, 194 204 , 206 , 210 , 222 , 254 colonial America, 52 , 60 , 167 , 172 captivity narrative, 66 , 96 , 98, 103 , 104 , Colton, Walter 202 , 222 Visit to Constantinople and Athens, 204 Cardell, W. S. commerce, 1 , 52 , 54 , 104 , 146 , 157 , 160 , Jack Halyard , 204 169 , 171 , 177 , 198 , 228 , 229 , 232 , caricatures, 225 – 38 234 , 235 , 262

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common folk. See plebeians Seaman’s Friend , 75 common man, 43 , 51, 55 , 95 , 98 , 100 , 104 , Two Years Before the Mast , 66 , 96 – 103 , 112 , 113 , 126 , 224 , 226 , 246 130 , 208 Comoro Islands, 251 dancing, 46 , 53, 55 , 155 , 238 , 242 , 269 Concord, 180 Darnton, Robert, 14 Congden, Cynthia, 95 Dartmoor Prison, 32 , 57 , 62 , 99 , 101 , 117 , Congress, U. S., 69 , 228 120 , 134 , 168 , 197 , 206 , 211 , 254 , Connor, Timothy, 33, 134 , 152 259, 261 , 269 Constitution, U. S., 53 , 60 Davidson, Cathy, 205 Continental Congress, 54 Davis, Joshua, 98 Cook, James, 261 Davy Jones’s Locker, 220 Cooper, James Fenimore, x , 37 , 41 , 42 , Day, Orrin, 14 63 , 65, 96 , 102 , 195 , 207 , 208 , Day, Sargent S., 17 , 30 , 249 217 , 222 , 226 , 244 , 245 f7.7, 329 de Crevecoeur, J. Hector St. John, 54 History of the Navy of the United States Decatur, Stephen, 113 , 160 , 165 , 167 , of America, 207 169 , 242 Homeward Bound , 209 Defoe, Daniel, 24 , 31 Mercedes of Castile, 209 The Life, Adventures, and Piracies of the Ned Myers, or a Life Before the Mast, Famous Captain Singleton, 207 66 , 130 , 209 Moll Flanders , 24 Red Rover , 5 , 37 – 39 , 41, 55, 60 , 96 , Robinson Crusoe , 129 , 202 , 205 , 202 , 207 , 243 206 , 207 The Pathfi nder, 209 Tom Jones , 203 The Pilot , 65 , 96 , 204 , 207 deism, 221 The Red Rover, 221 Delano, Thomas, 90 , 175 , 178 The Water Witch, 207 Delirium Tremens , 185 Copenhagen, 79 Democratic Party, 55 , 56 , 60 Copley, John Singelton democratization, 2 , 4 , 6 , 95 , 197 , 208 , “Watson and the Shark”, 245 226 , 246 copyrights, 187 Denham, George, 91 Cornell, Alexander P., 250 Denmark, 79 Creighton, Margaret, 32 Derry, down, 167 Cressap, Thomas, 29 Detroit, 165 criminals, 7 , 131 , 136 , 141 , 157 , 178 , 188 Dialogue Between Two Seamen After a cross dressing, 136, 138 , 150 , 154 , 178 , Storm , 220 , 221 188 , 210 , 256 diaries, 82 , 85, 86 – 89 , 90 , 92 , 95 Cross. J. C. Dibden, Charles, 46 – 48 , 58 , 155 , 156 , 157 , The Purse, or the Benevolent Tar, 51 158 , 162 , 167 , 169 , 179 , 365 Crowell, Simeon, 9 , 16 , 29 , 30 , 215 , 218 “The Token”, 271 Cuba, 131 , 193 , 252 “Tom Bowling”, 46 – 48 , 55 cuckold, 136 , 145 Dick Dickinson, 114 Curtis, James Freeman, 90 Dick Fid, 5 , 37 – 38 , 41 , 42 , 63 , 96 , Cutbush, Edward, 117 226 , 243 Dick Fisher, 121 Dacre, Lady Dick Shroud, 53 Recollections of a Chaperon, 204 dictionaries, 213 . See Oxford English damn, 5 , 12 – 19 , 23 , 28 – 29 , 30 , 31, 35 , 88 , Dictionary 151 , 152 , 164 , 175 , 228 , 234 A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Dana, Richard Henry, Jr., 42 , 69 , 126 , 171 , Tongue, 20 178 , 179, 183 , 184 , 197 , 203, 205 , An Universal Dictionary of the Marine, 42 207 , 211 , 212 , 266 Universal Etymological Dictionary, 11

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ditty boxes, 260 Fanning, Nathaniel, 32 doctors, 85 , 117 Fanny Campbell, The Female Pirate Doddridge, Philip Captain , 193 , 210 , 256 Rise and Progress of Religion in the farmers, 44 , 145 , 177 , 202 Soul , 218 Father Mapple, 5 , 37 , 40 , 57 , 58 dog catchers, 22 Federalist Papers, 54 dogs, 19 – 23 , 28 , 29 , 92 Federalist Party, 54, 161 , 211 , 225 , dogwatch, 65, 120 , 134 , 178 , 269 , 270 227 – 38 , 269 Don Quixote, 114 Fiddler’s Green, 216 Douglass, Frederick, 61 Field, Enos, 76 Dover, England, 162 , 251 Fielding, Henry drinking, 11 , 29 , 31 , 37 , 45 , 56 , 81 , 124 , 125 , Tom Jones , 20 , 24 135 , 150 , 165 , 174 , 175 , 183 , 185 , fi rst mate, 13, 14, 31 , 42 , 69 , 70 , 74 , 76 , 187 , 209 , 214 , 219 , 221 , 226 , 227 , 80, 82 , 95 , 97 , 120 , 121 , 122 , 128 , 237 , 238 , 242 , 245 , 247 , 258 , 264 , 270 133 , 174 , 210, 228 , 265 Duane, William fi shing, 2 , 69 , 91 , 108 , 127 , 215 , 250 American Republican Harmonist, 161 Five Points, 131 Duncan, Archibald, 200 fl ags, 256, 258 , 260 The Mariner’s Chronicle, 198 fl ash culture, 108, 109 , 117 , 204 Dunford, John, 13 , 30 Flavel, John Dunlap, William Touchstone of Sincerity, 218 Yankee Chronology , 165 fl ogging, 100 , 197 Foote, Caleb, 62 , 63 East Greenwich, Rhode Island, 88 forebitters, 170 , 175 East Indies, 88, 91, 127 , 141 , 212 , 217 , Fort Dauphin, 80 218 , 220 , 251 Forton Prison, 33 Elderkin, Eleazer, 88 , 215 , 216 , 296n82 Foss, John, 98 , 198 , 270 Elizabethan, 21 Fourth of July, 31, 152 , 160, 165 , 168 Ellms, Charles, 187 , 188 , 200 , 201 , 222 France, 49 , 52, 91 , 109 , 147 , 148 , 157 , Robinson Crusoe’s Own Book, 206 170 , 229 , 251 Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea, 198 Franklin, Benjamin, 103 Elmer, Ebenezer, 28 “The Way to Wealth”, 214 Embargo of 1807, 235, 237 , 269 Frederick, the Prince of Wales, 149 empire, 6, 7 , 44 , 67 , 104 , 109 , 110 , 136 , free trade, 54, 114 , 160 , 161 , 169 137 , 146 , 149 , 169 , 194 , 209 , Free Trade and Sailors’ Rights, 2, 61, 224 , 227 167 , 258 English Channel, 251 French and Indian War, 37 , 154 Enlightenment, 2 , 4 , 24 , 54 , 213 French Revolution, 53 , 234 equality, 52 , 92, 194 , 208 fuck, 10 , 11 , 32 – 34 , 154 Equiano, Olaudah, 60, 129 , 224 Fulton Market, 185

Fairhaven, Massachusetts, 151 Gainsborough, Thomas, 21 Falconer, William, 207 , 213 gambling, 210 , 214 An Universal Dictionary of the Marine, Gatewood, Richard, 16 42 , 108 Gay, John, 179 The Shipwreck, 207 Geertz, Clifford, 14 Falklands, 129 Gelston, David, 271 family, 28 , 78 , 87 , 94 , 97 , 100 , 106 , 110 , gender, 20 , 23 – 28 132 , 135 , 205 , 215 , 225 , 228 , 240 , Genêt, Edmond, 53 253 , 255 , 256 , 258 , 261 , 266 , George Cruikshank 269 , 271 Midshipman Blockhead, 245

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George III, 33 , 151 , 169 Hogarth, William, 226 , 245 ghosts, 114 , 118 , 120 , 121 , 122 , 150 , 164 Holden, Horace Gibbon, Edward Shipwreck on a Desert Islands, 204 The History of the Decline and Fall of ‘Hole in the Wall’, 252 the Roman Empire, 211 , 212 Holland, Edward C., 167 Gibbs, Charles, 187 , 194 , 195 , 196 , 219 homo-eroticism, 139 Goddems, 15 , 28 homosexuality, 30 – 32 Godwin, William, 210 Hood, Samuel, 162 Goldsmith, Oliver Howe, Richard, 169 An History of the Earth and Animated Howell, William, 29 Nature, 213 Hugill, Stan, 170 , 173 Good, John Mason Hull, Isaac, 164, 165 , 167 , 169 The Book of Nature, 213 Huntington, Gale, 179 Gott, Joshua, 161 Husband’s Duty to Wife , 214 Grand Banks, 9 , 91 , 215 hymnals, 215 , 218 , 219 , 220 Great Britain, i , 7 , 25 , 34 , 49 , 52 , 54 , 63 , hymns, 219 , 270 , 272 77, 109 , 113 , 121 , 135 , 136 , 139 , 140 , 157 , 164 , 165 , 168 , 169 , 172 , icebergs, 251 180 , 181 , 197 , 201 , 204 , 206 , 209 , impressment, 31 , 49 , 54 , 81 , 97 , 98, 110 , 211 , 221 , 224 , 228 , 229, 234 , 235 , 128 , 157 , 160 , 162 , 169 , 177 , 197 , 238 , 254 , 268 , 339n77 226 , 227 , 228 , 232, 234 , 235 , 242 Great Lakes, 2 Incledon, Charles, 179 Greeks, 23 India, 89 , 218 greenhorn, 42 , 99 , 117 , 118 , 242 , 249 Indian Ocean, 4 , 10 , 70 , 80, 89, 91 , 123 , Greenwich Hospital, 109 162 , 251 Greenwich pensioners, 109, 113 , 118 individualism, 92 , 103 , 104 , 205 Gregory, Thomas, 271 Ireland, 108 Grindell, Addison, 14 Irish music, 173 Grose, Francis, 20 Irving, Washington, 212 Bracebridge Hall, 209 hairstyle, 234 , 238 , 266 , 268 Jonathan Oldstyle, 51 Harding, Ephraim, x , 94 , 249 , 251 Isaacs, Nicholas Peter Harris, Thomas J., 89 , 91 Twenty Years Before the Mast, 209 Harry Darling, 179 Ishmael, 133 , 263 , 272 – 73 Hart, Joseph C. Miriam Coffi ,n 208 Jack Easy, 208 Hartford, 188 Jack Halyard, 56 Havana, 14 , 70 , 252 , 271 Jack Haulyards, 61 Hawaii, 123 Jack Junk, 48 Hawkins, Christopher, 31, 59, 152 , Jack Mizen, 53 , 60 267 , 367 Jack Palmer, 115 , 118 Hazen, Edward Jack Ratlin, 48 The Panorama of the Professions, 240 Jack Sawyer, 119 Hazen, Jacob, 202 Jack Tar, 43 – 56 , 269 Five Years Before the Mast, 102 , 209 English origins, 43 – 48 , 59 Henry Wilder, 38 – 39 , 41 jokes, 49 – 50 , 55 Herbert, Charles, 88 , 152 , 183 , 210 , 215 , 270 jacket, waist, 223, 232 , 234 , 237 , 246 , 257 , Heywood, Thomas 266 , 268 Rape of Lucrece, 173 Jackson, Andrew Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 22 Bank Veto, 60 Highlanders, 154 Jacksonian, 55, 114 , 209 Hodgkinson, John, 160 Jacobites, 148

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Jamaica, 82 Leggett, William, 60 , 114 – 15 , 118 James II, 148 “Brought to the Gangway”, 18 James, Reuben, 242 “Fire and Water”, 18 Jarvis, Charles, 53 “Merry Terry”, 18 , 115 , 118 , 120 Jefferson, Thomas, 54 , 232, 234 , 237 Naval Histories , 114 “Jemmy Squarefoot”, 122 Tales and Sketches by a Country Jervis, John, 169 Schoolmaster , 114 Joan of Arc, 15 , 28 letters, 5 , 37 , 52 , 59 , 62 , 76 , 99 , 268 “John Bull”, 237 Leutze, Emmanuel Johnson, Charles “George Washington crossing the A General History of the Pirates, 182 , Delaware”, 243 187 , 188 Lewis, Theodore, 91 Johnson, Samuel, 11 liberty, 156 , 157 , 161 , 162 , 169 , 188 , 238 , Johnstone, Christian Isobel 240, 254 , 256 , 258 , 259 , 267 Elizabeth De Bruce, 209 liberty tree, 226 Jonah, 40 , 216 Lightcraft, George, 102 Jones, John Paul, 151, 165 , 167 , 177 Scraps from the Log Book of George journals, 6 , 8 , 12 , 17 , 18 , 27 , 32 , 33 , 37, Lightcraft, 101 68 , 71 , 78 , 85 – 95, 104 , 106 , 107 , Lincoln, Abraham, 129 , 222 116 , 123, 126 , 128 , 134 , 151, 161 , Lincoln, Barnabas, 129 , 195 168 , 170 , 175 , 178, 179 , 184 , 205 , Narrative of the Capture, and Sufferings 213, 224 , 246 – 54 , 255 , 264 , 269 , and Escape of Capt. Barnabas 270 , 272 , 274 – 75 . See logbooks Lincoln and His Crew, 188 Juan Fernandez Island, 205 , 206 Linzey, John, 17 Judson, Edward Zane Carroll Jr. See Lippard, George Buntline, Ned Quaker City, or The Monks of Jukes, Vincent, 140 Monk Hall: A Romance of Philadelphia Life, Mystery and Kagle, Steven, 86 , 87 Crime , 210 Kalmazoo, 187 literacy, 8 , 91 , 183 , 221 , 268 Key, Francis Scott, 160 literature, 5 , 65, 66 , 206 – 10 Kidd, William, 199 , 201 dime novels, 131 knots, 260 novels, 37, 184 , 203 , 204 – 10, 221 , 222 Know Nothing Party, 131 sea, 7 , 20 , 96 – 105 , 107 , 125 , 186 – 202 sensational, 56 , 183 , 184 , 204 , 210 , 221 Lafi tte, Jean, 187 , 194 Little Women , 24 Lafi tte, Pierre, 194 Little, George, 118 , 119 , 178 , 217 , 265 , Lake Champlain, Battle of, 164 , 177 , 256 269 , 270 Lake Erie, Battle of, 164 , 167 , 245 , 256 Life on the Ocean; or Twenty Years Laqueur, Thomas, 23 – 24 at Sea, 209 Lascars, 218 Liverpool, 178 Last, Joshua, 13 Locke, John, 185 Latin America, 19 Loco-Foco, 242 Latin American Wars of Independence, 194 logbooks, 6 , 9 , 12 , 32, 37 , 54 , 65 – 105, Lay, William and Cyrus M. Huskey, 129 106 , 130 , 151 , 162 , 170 , 179 , 184 , A Narrative of the Mutiny On Board the 203 , 264 , 272 Whaleship Globe , 98 history, 67 – 69 Leavitt, Joshua illustrations, 65 , 82 , 224, 246 – 54 , 262 Christian Lyre, 219 navigational aid, 67 – 70, 71 , 79 , 104 Leech, Samuel, 29 , 58, 114 , 115, 120 , 134 , profi les, 225, 251 – 53 , 255 149 , 209 , 270 , 282 log-line, 67 Leeds, William, 85 London, 109, 132 , 140 , 149 , 164

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Long Island, 195 Mason, Lucius M., 94 , 251 Long Tom Coffi n, 37 , 41 , 42 Massachusetts Historical Society, 74 Louis XIV, 148 Mayhew, A. B., 91 Louisiana, 194 McNally, William, 183 , 196 , 211 Louisiana Purchase, 232 Melville, Herman, 5 , 7 , 37 , 40 – 42 , 57 , 58 , 63, 66, 96 , 103 – 5 , 107 , 126 , Macdonough, Thomas, 169 132 – 33 , 134, 178 , 184 , 185 , Machiavelli 202 , 204 , 205 , 208 , 222 , 272 , Art of War , 185 273 , 327n58 Mackenzie, Alexander Slidell, 195 Billy Budd, 134 Maclay, William, 86 Israel Potter , 132 , 202 Macready, Charles, 132 Moby Dick , 5 , 37 , 40 – 41, 55, 97 , 104, Madagascar, x, 80, 187 , 190 , 208 133 , 185 , 202 , 208 , 263 , 272 – 73 Madeira, 69 Omoo , 41 , 103 , 222 , 250 Madison, James, 169 Redburn , 42 , 103 , 132 , 178 , 183 , 184 , magazines, 37 , 78 , 114 , 118 , 131 , 133 , 202, 205 , 209 162 , 210, 211 , 215 , 218 , 219 , 220 , Typee , 41 , 42 , 103 , 132 , 222 , 250 240 , 246 , 255 , 256 White-Jacket , 103 , 132 , 185 , 267 American Quarterly, 95 memory, 6 , 66, 77, 97, 98 , 99 , 101 , 102 , Christian Herald, 219 104 , 110, 130 , 135 , 154 , 161 , 168 , Christian Herald and Seaman’s 170, 234 , 238 , 246 , 262 , 263 , 272 Magazine, 219 Mencken, H. L., 29 , 33 Flash , 211 merchant ships, 10 , 60 , 69 , 70 , 71 , 77 , Godey’s Ladies Book, 211 , 256 90 , 91 , 108 , 119 , 130 , 171, 183 , Harper’s Weekly , 211 , 256 195 , 228 Knickerbocker , 130 , 133 merchants, 49 , 90 , 194 , 219 , 224 , 225 , Ladies Companion, 114 232, 246 , 253 , 271 Naval Magazine , 239 Mercier, Henry James, 122, 177 , 179 , 208 Ned Buntline’s Magazine, 131 “Pat Bradley’s Yarn”, 121 Sailor’s Magazine , 17 , 210 , 219 Bill Garnet’s yarn, 120 Malacca, Straights of, 123 messmate, 51 , 53, 54 , 56 , 60 , 119, 139 , Malaga, Spain, 148 246 , 264 Malay, 19, 193 , 199 Methodists, 40 , 57 manhood, 5 , 28 , 30 , 31 , 32, 120 , 144 , 208 , Mexican-American War, 175 240 , 242 , 245 , 246 , 258 middle class, 3 , 21 , 22 , 28, 185 , 204 , 206 , Manila, 80 , 88 214 , 227 Manly, John, 151 midshipmen, 89 , 90 , 91 , 94 , 95 , 118 , 130 , manuscripts, 62, 107 , 115 , 119 , 135 , 195 , 208 , 245 , 251 , 253 , 264 , 272 152 , 170 Mill Prison, 88, 152 , 183 maps, 252 , 253 Misroon, John S., 264 Marblehead, 271 Monroe, James, 228 Marquesas Islands, 89 , 103 , 132 , 248 Morgan, Nathaniel Sexton, 12 , 116 marriage, xvii, 44, 89, 94 , 139 , 140 , 144 , Mormons, 204 145 , 146 , 162 , 177 , 205 , 208 , Morrell, Benjamin 210 , 214 A Narrative of Four Voyages, 212 Marryat, Frederick Morse, Jedidiah, 212 , 220 Mr. Midshpman Easy, 208 motherhood, 5 , 9 , 23, 25 , 27 , 28 , 34 , 43 , Poor Jack , 204 , 208 48 , 127 , 146 , 177 , 256 , 270 Martingdale, Hawser Mr. Spunyarn, 61 Tales of the Ocean, 241 Mulgrave Islands, 195 Maryland, 227 Murrell, William Meacham, 103

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Muscat, 103 new social history, 3 music. See songs New York City, 13 , 16 , 22 , 41 , 59 , 61 , 79 , 84 , music, Scottish, 162 , 173 131 , 132 , 164 , 168 , 173 , 179 , 204 , musical instruments, 134 , 168 , 269 210 , 218 , 219 , 229 , 231 , 254 , 268 , 271 Muslims, 19 New York harbor, 152 mutinies of 1797, 156 , 195 New York State, 60 , 130 mutiny, 9 , 13 , 14, 18, 30 , 98 , 103 , 129 , Westchester County, 161 156 , 184 , 187 , 193 , 194 , 195 , 196 , Newport, Rhode Island, 37 , 82 197 , 237 , 265 newspapers, 3 , 37 , 43 , 49 , 53 , 55 , 56 , Myers, Ned, 66 , 102 , 130 , 184 , 210 , 127 , 133 , 158 , 160, 165 , 179 , 183 , 216 – 20 , 266 187 , 195 , 197 , 204 , 210 , 211 , 229 , Myrick, Frederick, 255 237 , 238 Mystic Seaport, 85 Bell’s Weekly Messenger, 211 Boston Gazette, 237 Nantucket, 31 , 123 , 208 , 273 Federal Republican, 211 Nantucket Historical Association, 258 Hampshire Federalist, 228 Napoleon, 272 London Evening Post, 211 narratives, personal, 56, 58, 97 , 102 , 103 , London Times, 211 107 , 117, 133 , 184 , 197 , 198, Political Register, 211 199 , 209 Salem Gazette, 162 Nashville, 131 Star , 211 nationalism, 4, 7 , 106 , 151 , 158 , 209 Statesman , 211 Native Americans, 10, 29, 53 , 98 , 175 , 271 Whig , 211 Natty Bumppo, 37 Nicholson, Paul C., 78 navigation, 2, 6 , 49 , 65, 67 – 71 , 82 , 85 , 90 , Nicolson, Thomas, 77 , 84 104 , 139, 186 , 203 , 204 , 212, 240 , Nile, Battle of the, 155 251 – 53 , 270 Niles, Hezikiah, 194 Navigation Acts, 69 Nordhoff, Charles, 102 , 122 navigational manuals, 67 , 70 , 76 North Carolina, 75 Navy, British, 31 , 43 , 44 , 60 , 61 , 68 , 75, Norway, 195 82 , 95 , 119, 149 , 160, 162 , 165 , Nukaviah, 89 170 , 173 , 227 , 228 , 229 , 245 , 253 , 254 , 268 Old English, 21 Navy, U. S., 14 , 49 , 50 , 53, 58, 62, 68 , 91 , Orders in Council, 229 , 237 95 , 98 , 103 , 114 , 119 , 130 , 160 , Osborn, James C., 203 , 205 , 208, 209 , 164 , 170 , 177 , 183 , 185 , 193 , 194 , 210 , 212 , 213 , 214 195 , 209 , 211 , 232 , 260 , 267 Oxford Book of Sea Songs , 135 Neal, Benjamin, 80 Oxford English Dictionary , 12, 20 , 31, 33 , Ned Halyard, 53 86 , 107 Ned Harrison, 120 Negro Seamen’s Acts, 61 Pacifi c Northwest, 271 Nelson, Horatio, 155 , 165 , 169 , 225 Pacifi c Ocean, 4 , 10 , 19 , 89 , 91 , 98 , 100 , Neptune, x , 53 , 93, 99, 115 , 122 , 126, 147 , 103, 126 , 128 , 129 , 132 , 161 , 177 , 242 , 243 194 , 204 , 205 , 212 , 222 , 250 , 252 , Neptune ceremony, 242 254 , 256 , 261 , 272 , 273 New Bedford Bethel Society, 40 Paine, Thomas, 210 , 221 New England, 82 Palmer, John, 151 , 152 New England Tract Society, 220 Panic of 1837, 240 New Haven, 199 Parker, Lucretia, 195 New Londonderry, Pennsylvania, 29 Parker, Richard, 156 , 178 New Orleans, 121, 182 , 194 , 195 passengers, 85 , 90 , 115 , 248

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patriotism, 128, 136 , 160 “privilege”, 271 Peabody Essex Collections, 247 prostitution, 20 , 28, 135 , 145 , 150 , 174 , Pease, Peter, 84 210 , 254 Penny, Joshua, 31 , 206 protection certifi cates, 261 , 269 Pepys, Samuel, 86 Protestantism, 148 , 215 Perry, John, 247 Providence Public Library, xii , xv, 78 , 275 Perry, Oliver Hazard, 167 , 169 pseudonyms, 48 , 52 – 55 , 59 – 60 Peters, Joseph, 253 public sphere, 3 Philadelphia, x , xi , xiv, xvi , 51 , 58 , Publius, 54 70 , 130 , 151 , 158 , 190f6.2 , punishment, 31 , 65, 100 , 120 , 124 , 127 , 194 , 202 , 210 152 , 227 Philips Library of the Peabody Essex purser, 18 , 157 Museum, 71 , 85 physicians, 90 Quallah Battoo, 187, 193 , 199 Pierce, Jesse, 231 Quasi War, 49, 90, 157 , 169 Pierce, John, 229 – 35 , 237 Queen Charlotte, 21 Pinkney, William, 228 Queen Elizabeth, 11 pirates, 6 , 7 , 8 , 12 , 18 – 19 , 37, 65, 97 , 98 , Queequeg, 273 118 , 121 , 122 , 129 , 132 , 182 , 184 , Quin, Michael J. 186 – 97 , 201 , 202 , 207 , 219 , 222 , A Steam Voyage Down the Danube, 231 , 242 , 256 Travels in Egypt and Arabia, 212 Pitcairn Island, 194 plebeians, 21 , 107 , 112 , 113 , 117 , 135 , rascals, 18 , 19 , 30 , 35 , 151 , 229 149 , 197 , 202 Ray, William, 98 Plymouth, 140 , 146 , 152 Reece, Richard Pocock, Nicholas, 249 The Lady’s Medical Guide, 213 Poe, Edgar Allen reform, 8, 61, 101 , 103 , 185 , 187 , 209 , The Narrative of Gordon Pym of 210 , 214 , 215 – 22 Nantucket, 202 religion, 5, 8 , 11, 15 – 17 , 40 , 50 , 57 – 58 , 84, poetry, 93 , 112 , 125 , 207 86, 101 , 148 , 184 , 185 , 200 , 203, “Go Lovely Rose”, 162 206 , 215 – 22 Pope, Alexander, 33 Renaissance, 86 Porter, David, 188 Republican Party, 54 , 160 , 164 , 224 , 225 , post-colonial history, 4 227 , 229 – 38 , 268 Powell, William Henry, 245 Revere, Paul, 21 , 55 Powell, William P., 61 Revolutionary War, 2 , 12 , 17 , 28, 29, 31, Preble, Edward, 169 32 , 33 , 62 , 75 , 76 , 88, 98, 101 , 119, Prince Edward Islands, 251 127 , 128 , 130 , 132 , 151 , 152 , 154 , print culture, 3, 5 , 33, 37 , 50 , 109, 133 , 155 , 157 , 160 , 162 , 165 , 167 , 172 , 135 , 137 , 161 , 188 177 , 183 , 197 , 207 , 210 , 215 , 267 , print revolution, 8 , 112 , 182, 185 , 186 , 268 , 270 197 , 198 , 201, 202 , 204 , 208 , 214 , Reynolds, J. N. 215 , 218 , 221 , 226, 242 , 253 “Mocha Dick: or the White Whale of the printers, 71 , 187 , 199 , 213 , 227 Pacifi c”, 133 prisoners of war, 32 , 57 , 62 , 88 , 89 , 97 , 98 , Reynolds, William, 115 , 272 101 , 113 , 117 , 119 , 126 , 127 , 128 , Rhode Island, 82 , 88 130 , 134 , 152, 167 , 184 , 197 , 206 , Rhode Island Historical Society, 85 210 , 215 , 216 , 254 , 259 , 261 , 264 , Ricci, Matteo, 66 267 , 270 Richardson, Samuel privateers, 9 , 18 – 19 , 49 , 82, 88, 117 , 134 , Pamela , 205 142 , 151 , 160 , 168 , 194 , 195 , 201 Riley, James, 201 , 222

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Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the Spanish, 121 , 122 , 193 American Brig Commerce, 129 , 198 stereotype, 5 , 6 , 37 , 42 , 43 – 50 , 56, rioting, 3 , 22, 132 , 179 58 , 112 , 126 , 136 , 155 , 207 , 224 , rites of passage, 118 238 , 262 Robert I of Scotland, 209 symbol, 151 , 155 , 169 , 181 , 223 , 225 , romance, 26, 86 , 96 , 118 , 119 , 136 , 137 , 226 , 257 150 , 152 , 169 , 175 , 180 , 210 , 256 , Salee, 206 257 , 258 , 271 Salem, xi , xvi , 70 , 71, 74 , 75 , 80 , 81 , 85 , romance of the sea, 41 , 78 , 93 , 101 151 , 374 romance of the West, 1 , 131 Samoa, 251 Romantic Era, 7 , 92 , 96 , 103 , 133 , Sanborn, Soloman, 14 170 , 180 Sancho Panza, 114 romanticism, 2 , 4 , 6 , 41 , 78 , 79 , 93 , Sargent, Epes, 180 100 , 101, 102 , 104 , 106 , 110, Saunders, Ann, 201 112 – 15 , 117 , 131 , 174 , 178, 194 , sblood, 11 204 , 224 , 238 Scarlet Letter , 25 rope, 107 , 108 Schmidt, Leigh Eric, 36 Ross, Thomas Wilson, 74 Scip, 37 , 60 , 226 , 243 , 245 round robin, 53 Scotch Irish, 29 Rowlandson, Thomas, 227 Scott, Walter, 131 , 207 “The Last Jig, or, Adieu to Old The Pirate, 207 England”, 46 scrimshaw, 8 , 224 , 246 , 255 – 61 , 262 “Sailors Drinking the Tunbridge sea chests, 8 , 99 , 123 , 188 , Waters”, 45, 226 , 246 227 , 259 , 263 – 73 Rowson, Susanna, 158 decorations, 264 Charlotte Temple , 185 , 205 size, 263 Royster, Charles, 29 Seamen’s Friend Society, 217 “sea tan”, 223 sailor rights, 49 Selkirk, Alexander, 205 sailor’s adieu, 26 , 27 , 137 sentimentality, 2 , 4 , 6 , 25 – 28, 88, 92 – 95 , sailor’s farewell, 25 – 27 , 45 , 180 , 225 , 227 , 240 131 , 135 , 147 , 154 , 158 , 167 , 168 , Sailor’s Retreat, 219 170 , 174 , 175 , 176 , 178 , 179 , 180 , sailor’s return, 45 , 110 , 240 , 258 185 , 204 , 207 , 221 , 240 , 256 sailors Sewall, Jonathan, 48 , 54 African American, 60 – 62, 129 , 172 , sewing, 260 , 270 173 , 245 sexuality, 7 , 20 , 23 – 28 , 31, 32 , 33, 44, 88 , clothing, 37, 99 , 224 , 235 , 247 , 257 , 132 , 136 , 138 – 46 , 150 , 154 , 164 , 260 , 264, 265 , 266 – 68 , 272 168 , 170 , 173 , 175 , 180 , 187 , 188 , commerce, 7 , 36, 44, 46 – 48 , 52 – 54 , 147 , 205, 216 , 250, 254 , 256 149 – 52 , 160, 180 , 224 , 225 Shakespeare, William, 50 , 96 , 114 , 138 , 179 defenders of the nation, 7 , 36 , 44 , 46 – 48 , King Lear, 20 52 – 54, 147 , 149 – 52 , 160 , 180 , 199 , Much Ado About Nothing, 11 224 , 225 , 238 , 258 , 262 shanties. See songs, shanties French, 193 Sherburne, Andrew, 215 language, 9 – 10 , 12 – 15, 29 – 34 , 36 – 43 , ship models, 259 52 – 54 , 55 – 64, 142 , 266 , 272 ships patriotism, 46 , 48 , 113 , 129, 130 , 151, Acastus , ix, 70 , 76 , 105 246, 254 , 256 , 258 , 259 , 260 Adventure , 75 , 79 politics, 52 – 54 , 55, 59 – 60 , 61 – 62 Agnes , 76 Portuguese, 193 Alexander Coffi ,n 91 , 247 , 251 prints, 25 , 43, 45 , 225 – 46 Amelia , 247

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ships (cont.) HMS Phoebe , 168 America , 77 , 82 , 251 HMS Vestal , 254 Angler , 254 Holkar , 14 Ann and Hope , ix, 85, 90 , 163 Industry , 82 Ann Parry, 85 Israel , 13 Arab , 249 , 250 John , 75 , 79 Atlantic , 91 L’Insurgente , 160 Benjamin , 140 Lorena , 13 Bounty , 194 Lotos , 74 Braganza , 196 Lucy Ann , 247 , 251 Brooklyn , 13 Mary , 76 Catherine , 70 , 71 Matsey , 82 Cavalier , 92 Mechanic , 256 Centaur , 200 Mexican , 188 , 202 Charles and Henry, 204 , 208 N. W. Bridge, 14 Charles W. Morgan , 203 , 213 Nancy , 84 , 87 China , 76 Neva , 70 , 251 Clara Bell , 250 Niger , 247 , 249 Columbia , 248 Pequod , 40 , 104 , 133 , 272 – 73 Commerce , 201 Pilgrim , 99 Commodore Perry, 76 Plattsburg , 195 , 196 Cortes , 179 Polly , 89 , 229 , 270 Courier , 14 Prince Ferdinand , 74 , 76 , 78 , 79 Dispatch Packet , 74 , 75 , 79 Prudent , 162 Emiline , 250 Remembergrace , 77 , 81 Equality , 89 Richard , 229 Essex , 97 , 133 , 201 , 202 Sally , 80 Exchange , 82 St. Paul, 80 Falcon , 17 Sunderland , 122 Fenwick , 76 Susan , 255 Flying Fish, 16 Talma , 89 General Hancock, 88 Tartar , 247 , 250 General Wolfe, 12 Three Sisters , 76 Globe , 129 , 193 , 195 , 197 Tuscaloosa , 62 Grosvenor , 200 Tyrannicide , 9 Halcyon , 92 , 93 USS Chesapeake , 128 , 197 , 235 Hancock , 127 , 269 USS Congress , 32 Hannah and Elizabeth, 79 USS Constellation , 115 , 160 Hawke , 77 USS Constitution , 90, 160 , 164 , 165 , Henry Eubank , 71 177 , 178 , 179 , 217 , 251 , 256 Herald , 90 USS Essex , 168 Hippomenes , 253 USS George Washington , 254 HMS Bounty , 184 , 196 USS Ohio , 23 HMS Crown Prince, 168 USS Peacock , 10, 89, 165 , 256 , 271 HMS Epervier , 256 USS Philadelphia , 98 , 160 HMS Guerriere , 164 , 177 USS Porpoise , 90 HMS Hermione , 195 USS Potomac , 183 HMS Java , 165 , 256 USS President , 90 , 113 HMS Jersey , 130 , 152 , 264 USS Shark , 250 HMS Leander , 231 USS Somers , 195 HMS Leopard , 197 USS United States , 164 , 165 , 204 HMS Macedonian , 58, 134, 149 , 164 USS Wasp , 165

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Vineyard , 195 folk songs, 135, 137 , 149 , 173 , 181 Walter Scott , 178 forebitters, 170 William , 77 God Save Great Madison, 169 William Henry , 80 God Save the King, 169 shipwreck, 7 , 74, 93, 97 , 110 , 130 , 131 , Hail Columbia , 31, 161, 168 , 179 135 , 140 , 150 , 164 , 184 , 186 , Heart of Oak, 149 198 – 202 , 205 , 206 , 222 , 243 Hieland Laddie , 173 shoemaking, 84 , 202 Homeward Bound , 164 Silver, William, 93 , 94 Hood Triumphant , 162 “Sketch of three sailors, one drinking and Hull’s Naval Victory, 167 two smoking”, 247 Jack in His Element, 155 , 157 slave trade, 3 , 172 , 194 Jack Tar Ashore , 55 slavery, 60 , 61 , 98 , 121 , 129 , 130 , 140 , John Bull & Brother Jonathan, or the 157, 161 , 162 , 172 , 184, 198 , 206 , Seven Naval Victories, 167 224 , 245 Jolly Tar, 161 Smith, Adam Ladies of Spain , 85 Wealth of Nations, 184 Leave Her, Johnny Leave Her, 173 , 174 Smith, Venture, 61 Liberty Hall , 161 Smollett, Tobias, 45 Lustily, Lustily, 137 Roderick Random , 43 , 45 , 207 Major Andre , 168 smuggling, 32 , 194 , 270 Marseillaise , 161 sodomy. See homosexuality Mary’s Dream, 162 songs, 16 , 25 , 44 – 45 , 46, 76, 117 , 134 – 81, Nelson’s Death and Victory, 155 210 , 238 Neptune’s Raging Fury, 147 Abraham Newland, 167 A New Song on the Total Defeat of the Adams and Liberty, 161 French Fleet, 155 Address to Young Men, 162 patriotic, 7 , 148 , 149 – 52 , 154 , 155 , 156 , An American New Song, 154 157 , 158 – 62 , 164 , 165 , 168 , 169 , An Excellent New Song, Entitled A Hot 174 , 175 , 177 , 181 Engagement Between a French Paul Jones Victory, 167 Privateer and an English Fire-Ship, pirate, 141 , 178 142 – 43 , 173 Poor Jack , 55 Andrew Bardeen, 141 Pretty Sally , 162 , 178 A Tar’s Song , 154 protest, 148 , 154 , 156 art songs, 135, 137 , 149 , 181 Rise Columbia , 158 , 167 bawdy, 9 , 142 – 46 , 150 , 154 , 164 , 169 , Rise Columbia Brave and Free, 167 173 , 175 , 215 Roll, Boys Roll, 173 Black Eyed Susan , 179 , 180 romantic, 137 – 40 , 150 , 152 , 162, 169 , Blow High Blow Low , 179 174 , 175 Bright Phoebe, 176 A Rovin , 173 Britons, Strike Home!, 150 Rule Britannia , 149 , 157 , 158 , 161 , Burgoyns Defeat, 162 167 , 169 Buxom Joan of Lymas’s Love to a Jolly Rule Columbia, 169 Tar, 144 , 151 Santiana , 175 Captain Kidd, 178 Saturday Night At Sea, 167 Carmagnole , 161 shanties, 136 , 170 – 78 Decatur’s Victory, 168 Shenandoah , 173 , 174 Distressed Men of War, 157 A Song for Liberty, 161 Drunken Sailor , 174 Spanish Ladies, 173 Every Inch a Sailor, 178 Star Spangled Banner, 160 Every Inch a Yankee, 178 Sweet William, 178 Farewell to Graves-end, 145 Sweethearts and Wives, 167

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songs (cont.) We’re All Bound To Go , 173 The Bosun’s Alphabet, 174 Whiskey Johnny , 174 The Bristol Bridegroom, 178 William Was a Youthful Lover , 85 The Captain Calls All Hands, 175 William Taylor , 150 , 151 , 178 The Dark-Eyed Sailor, 176 Yankee Doodle , 162 , 165 , 168 , 177 , 178 The Demon of the Sea, 178 Yankee Frolic, 165 The Dover Lovers, 147 Yankee Tars, 165 The Famous Fight at Malago, 148 Ye Parliament of England, 177 The Fire Ship , 173 songsters, 157 , 158 , 165, 170 , 185 , The Freedom of the Seas, 165 204 , 272 The Girl I Left Behind, 179 The Frisky Songster, 33 The Gosport Tragedy, 150 , 151 The Humorous, Sentimental & Naval The Highway of Nations , 161 Songster, 179 The Impressment of an American Sailor Sons of Neptune, 48 , 49 , 115 , 126 Boy , 168 South America, 97 , 123 , 195 , 212 , 252 The Landsharks and Seagulls, 55 Spain, 147 , 194 The Laundry-Maids Lamentation for the Spanish Armada, 137 , 148 Loss of Her Seaman, 138 Spithead, 151 The Maiden Sailor, 139 spun-yarn, 100 , 107 , 108 The Married Man, 162 St. Helena, 123 The New York Gals, 174 St. Louis, 187 The Nobleman’s Daughter, 178 Stamp Act, 49, 154 , 226 The Perjured Sayler, 138 Staten Island, 219 The Pirate of the Isles, 178 Stetson, Lot, 79 The Poor Cabin Boy, 164 Stevens, George Alexander, 179 The Recruiting Sergeants Recitation, 84 stewards, 16 , 121 , 157 , 185 , 205, 209 , 210 The Rochester Lass, 162 Sue, Eugene, 221 The Rover of the Sea, 178 Mysteries of Paris, 210 The Sailor’s Folly, 16 , 30 Sumatra, 127 , 187 , 193 The Sailor’s Departure from his Dearest Sunday, 264 , 270 Love , 137 supercargoes, 89 , 90 , 206 The Sailor’s Landlady, 158 supernatural, 113 , 118 , 122 , 124 , 164 The Sailors’s Journal or The Flowing swearing, 4 , 5 , 9 – 35 , 108 , 215 , 272 Can , 158 Swett, Samuel, 129 The Sea Fight in 92 , 148 swifts, 259 , 270 The Seaman’s Frolick: Or a Cooler for Symonds, John D., 271 the Captain , 146 The Sea-Martyrs, 148 Table Mountain, 206 , 251 The Sequel to Will Watch, 176 Tahiti, 250 , 261 The She Mariner’s Misfortune, 139 , 140 Tammany, 231 The Star Spangled Banner, 165 tar, 8 , 100 , 223 , 267 The Tarry Trousers , 177 tarpaulin hat, 223 , 232 , 235 , 238 , 242 , The True English Sailor, 157 246, 248 , 249 , 257 , 258 , 262 , 266 The Widow’s Lamentation for the Loss tarring and feathering, 226 of Her Husband in America, 154 tattoos, 8 , 225 , 246 , 262 The World Turned Upside Down, 137 taverns, 6 , 66, 106 , 134 , 137 , 140 , 145 , To America, Commerce and 146 , 157 Freedom, 160 Taylor, Edmund Thompson, 57 –58 Tom Bowling , 157 , 158 , 179 , 180 Father Taylor, 40 True English Sailor, 155 Taylor, Fitch W. Washington’s March , 161 , 168 A Voyage Round the World , 240

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Tea Act, 154 Tripolitan Prize; or an American Tar on an Tegg, Thomas, 227 English Coast , 51 “Jack in a White Squall, Amongst Tristan Da Cunha, 251 Breakers – on the Lee Shore of St. Truxton, Thomas, 160 Catherine’s”, 45 , 226 Twain, Mark, 131 “A Milling Match Between Decks”, 245 Tyng, Charles, 9, 27, 31 , 261 , 263 , temperance, 204 , 210 , 214 267 , 270 Terry, Alfred, 89 , 254 Texas, 194 Upton, Jeduthan, Jr., 88 Thames River, 168 Ushant, Isle of, 251 The Gentleman’s Pocket Library , 214 The History of the Pirates , 202 Valparaiso, Battle of, 168 The Pirates Own Book , 8 , 182 , 184, Vaux, James Hardy, 107 , 109 , 117 186 – 88 , 193 , 198 , 199 , 202 , 221 , Veblin, Thorstein, 22 222 , 270 Victorian Era, 20 , 24, 34, 256 , 258 The Purse, or American Tar , 51 Virginia, 175 The Sea , 10 theater, 5 , 7 , 37 , 43 , 44 , 50 – 51 , 56 , 63 , 110 , Wadsworth, Alexander S., 90 132 , 134 , 135 , 138 , 149 , 157 , 158 , waggoners, 253 160 , 161 , 165 , 170 , 175 , 179 , 180 , 214 Walker, George, 209 theaters Three Spaniards, 185 American Theater, 55 War of 1812, xiv , 2 , 17, 29 , 32 , 49 , 54 , 57 , Walnut Street Theater, 55 61 , 75, 78, 88 , 99 , 101 , 117 , 128 , Thomas, R. 129 , 134 , 136 , 149 , 158 , 160 , 164 , Interesting and Authentic Narratives 167 , 169 , 172 , 177 , 181 , 194 , 197 , of the Most Remarkable 199 , 201, 206 , 211 , 225 , 237 , 238 , Shipwrecks , 201 254 , 256 , 259 , 271 Thoreau, Henry David, 180 Ward, Joseph, 31 Tillinghast, Samuel, 70 Warren, Samuel Timbuktu, 130 Ten Thousand a-Year , 209 tobacco, 114 , 120, 214 , 227 , 247 , 270 , 271 Washington, George, 28 , 54 , 151 , 162 , 168 Tom Bowlin. See Tom Bowling Waters, Billy, 245 Tom Bowline, 55 . See Tom Bowling Wayne, Anthony, 28 Tom Bowling, 43 – 44 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 60 , 63 Weir, Robert, 247 , 250 Tom Coffi n, 65 , 96 West Indies, 14 , 19 , 60 , 61 , 74 , 75 , 80 , 91, Tom Handy, 61 115 , 121 , 129 , 141 , 172 , 183 , 187 , Tom Starboard, 56 188 , 193 , 194 Tontine Coffee House, 231 West, Benjamin Torrey, F. P., 14 , 32 “Death of James Wolfe”, 245 Torrey, William, 27 whaling, 2 , 10, 12 , 13 , 32 , 65 , 69 , 70 , Toulon, Battle of, 162 71 , 78 , 80 , 85 , 87 , 89, 91 , 92 , 94 , tracts, 184 , 203 , 214 , 215 , 218 , 220, 95 , 97, 103 , 116 , 119 , 123 , 124 , 221 , 222 125 , 128 , 133 , 151 , 171 , 177 , 183 , Trafalgar, Battle of, 156 185 , 193 , 195 , 204, 208 , 212 , 213 , travel tales, 66, 96 , 103 , 104 , 119, 126 , 247 , 248 , 250 , 254 , 255 – 61, 263 , 183 , 184 , 185 , 186 , 203 , 204 , 271 , 272 211 , 212 Whig Party, 56 Treaty of Ghent, 57 , 128 Whipple, Henry, 71 Trenton, Battle of, 211 Whitby, Henry, 231 , 234 Tripoli, 49 , 98 , 157 , 160 , 162 , 169 , 232 , White, Alden, 168 242 Whitman, Walt, 58

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whore, 13 , 20 , 21 , 23 , 33 , 43 , 174 , 177 . Wollstonecraft, Mary, 210 See prostitution women, 3 , 5 , 7 , 8 , 23 – 28 , 30 , 33 , 48 , 50, Wiley, J., 82 81, 85 , 88 , 89 , 94 , 95 , 110 , 113 , Wilhelms, Cornelius Tunis, 196 120 , 121 , 128, 130 , 131, 132 , 136 , Wilkes expedition, 90 , 272 137 , 147 , 150 , 154 , 155 , 158 , 162 , Wilkes, Charles, 250 164 , 169 , 170 , 173 , 175 , 177 , 178 , Wilkes, John 187 , 188 , 196 , 201 , 204 , 205 , 214 , “Essay on Women”, 33 234 , 238 , 250 , 253 , 256 , 258 , North Briton No. 45, 33 261 , 270 Will Steady, 51 Wood, Samuel, 263 William of Orange, 148 Woodside, John Archibald, 240 , 257 Williams, John, 18 , 97 “We Owe Allegiance to No Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester, 11, Crown”, 238 20 , 162 Wright, Robert, 227 , 228 , 235 , 237 Wilson, William H., 92 , 94 Winchester, Sam, 89 yarns, 6 , 36 , 40 , 106 – 33 , 134 , 168 , 193 , Wines, Enoch Cobb, 115 206 , 272 Winslow, Thomas, 196 defi nition, 107 – 9 Wolfe, James, 245 reasons, 118 – 26