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Title: Barnstable and Yarmouth, sea captains and ship owners
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Sprague, Frank William, b. 1842 Sprague, Leavitt, 1799-1875
Subjects: Sprague, Caleb, 1811-1893 Shipping -- Massachusetts Barnstable Shipping -- Massachusetts Yarmouth Voyages to the Pacific coast Barnstable (Mass.) -- Biography Yarmouth (Mass.) -- Biography
Publisher: (Boston, Mass.) : Privately printed
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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home hesailed again for China, in command of the ship Alert, about thefirst of April, 1819. He arrived home in June, 1820. He made no more voyages and soon began to think of settlingin Boston. Some time between 1827 and 1832, he moved theold Bacon house from the farm and built a summer residencethere. From 1832 to 1844, his home in Boston was 149 Tre-mont Street, corner of Temple Place, on the opposite cornerfrom the old Masonic Temple. About 1844, he sold this houseand removed to Jamaica Plain, near the Pond. Captain Bacons interests now were in the ships that he owned,and my father (Eben Bacon) remembered driving with him oftenin his chaise to Medford, to superintend the building. He in-spected every plank and was very particular that every thingconnected with his ships was done in the most thorough manner.He built at East Boston the Gamecock, which was famous asthe fastest ship of her kind for years. At the first anniversaryof the Cape Cod Association, among the objects of interest
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CAPTAIN DANIEL C. BACON, 1850 SEA CAPTAINS AND SHIP OWNERS 13 gathered together was a model of the beautiful ship Game-Cock. A boy named James Percival, who sailed in her some yearslater, writes in a letter to his friends at home : San Francisco, Oct. 12, 1851. We arrived here last Sunday ninety-two days from RioJaneiro. The ship and Captain Hollis have a good name. TheGamecock is said to be the handsomest craft that has been here.We beat the Witchcraft two days in passage. The ship hasbeen reported lost for some time, but thank God we are safe.A ship brought the news here that we were seen off Cape Hornbottom up. Captain thinks the ship will go home from China,and if so, please God I shall be with you in April. I suppose this is one of the worst places in the world forgambling, murders and robbery. The vigilance committee havea most excellent but summary mode of procedure. A fortnightago, the committee proceeded to the gaol and took out two pris-oners, put them into a carriage and to

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