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Notes The following abbreviations appear in the notes: AAS American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts AN American Neptune CHSM Christian Herald and Sailors Magazine EIHC Essex Institute Historical Collections GWBWL G. W. Blunt White Library, Mystic Seaport, Mystic, Connecticut HSP Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia JAH Journal of American History JER Journal of the Early Republic JSH Journal of Social History MdHS Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore MeHS Center for Maine History, Portland MHS Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston NA National Archives, Washington, D.C. NA-NY National Archives, New York Branch, New York, New York NBFPL New Bedford Free Public Library, New Bedford, Massachusetts NEHGR New England Historical and Genealogical Review NEQ New England Quarterly NHA Nantucket Historical Association, Nantucket, Massachusetts NHHS New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord NMM National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London NYHS New-York Historical Society, New York ODHS Old Dartmouth Historical Society, New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, Massachusetts PEM Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts PH Pennsylvania History PMHB Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography PRO Public Records Office, Kew, United Kingdom RCPA Records of the Pennsylvania Court of Admiralty RIHS Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, Rhode Island SM Sailor’s Magazine WMQ William and Mary Quarterly Yale Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 270 • NOTES TO PAGES 5–10 Chapter 1. The Sweets of Liberty 1. Horace Lane, The Wandering Boy, Careless Sailor, and Result of Inconsideration: A True Narrative (Skaneateles, N.Y., 1839), 69–70. 2. Ibid., 103–4. 3. Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea, Thomas Philbrick, ed. (New York, 1981; orig. pub. 1840), 168. 4. Herman Melville, White Jacket: or The World in a Man-of-War, Harrison Hayford et al., eds. (Evanston, Ill., 1970; orig. pub. 1850), 226. 5. Andrew Brown, A Sermon on the Dangers of the Seafaring Life; Preached Before the Protestant Dissenting Congregation at Halifax and Published at the Desire of the Marine Society in that Place (Boston, 1793), 39. 6. New-Bedford Port Society, First Annual Report (New Bedford, 1831), 7–10. 7. “The Diary of Mr. Ebenezer Townsend, Jr., the Supercargo of the Sealing Ship ‘Neptune ,’ on her Voyage to the South Pacific and Canton,” Thomas R. Trowbridge, Jr., ed., Papers of the New Haven Colony Historical Society, 4 (New Haven, 1888), 102–3. 8. John C. Purse, Songs in the Purse; or, Benevolent Tar, A Musical Drama in One Act. As Performed at the New Theatre, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1794), 6–7. Much of the following analysis in this and subsequent chapters depends heavily on songs and chanteys relating to sailors and the waterfront community. These songs and chanteys have been taken from a variety of manuscript and printed sources. The terms are not synonymous; chanteys were used to help coordinate group work like tugging on a rope or raising an anchor, whereas songs were sung for entertainment. Two other points are important for understanding chanteys and songs. American and British maritime culture shared the same music. And there is little difference between the printed sources and in seamen’s journals. Some manuscript songs were a bit more ribald. See also Frederick J. Davis and Ferris Tozer, Sailors’ Songs or “Chanties,” 3rd ed. (London, [1906]); William Main Doerflinger, Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman, rev. ed. (New York, 1972); Frank M. Stuart, “Ballads and Songs of the Whale-Hunters, 1825–1895: From the Manuscripts in the Kendall Museum” (Ph.D. diss., Brown University, 1985); Frederick Pease Harlow, Chanteying Aboard American Ships (Barre, Mass., 1962); Gale Huntington, Songs the Whalemen Sang (Barre, Mass., 1964). 9. The Festival of Mirth, and American Tar’s Delight: A Fund of the Newest Humorous, Patriotic, Hunting, and Sea Songs . . . (New York, 1800), 6–7, 18, 34. 10. Harlow, Chanteying, 21–23. 11. Ibid., 25–27. 12. Samuel Leech, A Voice from the Main Deck: Being a Record of the Thirty Years’ Adventures of Samuel Leech, introduction and notes by Michael J. Crawford (Annapolis, 1999; orig. pub. 1843), 36. 13. James Fenimore Cooper, Red Rover (New York, n.d.; orig. pub., 1850), 21–24, 36–42, 57–58, 61–67, 282–87, 344–55. 14. Leech, A Voice from the Main Deck, 36. 15. Joseph Emerson, A Chart for Seamen: Exhibited in a Sermon Preached in Beverly, March 18th, 1804. Particularly Addressed to Seamen (Salem, Mass., 1804). 16. Simeon Crowell, “Commonplace Book of Simeon Crowell,” 1818–46, 6, 54–56...

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