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SEAFARING AMERICA

Richard J. King, Williams College at Mystic Seaport, Editor

Seafaring America is a series of original and classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama bearing on the history of Americas engagement with our oceans and coastlines. Spanning diverse eras, populations, and geographical settings, the series strives to introduce, revive, and aggregate a wide range of exemplary and seminal stories about our American maritime heritage, including the accounts of First Peoples, explorers, slaves, immigrants, fishermen, whalers, captains, common sailors, members of the navy and coast guard, marine biologists, and the crews of vessels ranging from lifeboats, riverboats, and tugboats to recreational yachts. As a sailors library, Seafaring America introduces new stories of maritime interest and reprints books that have fallen out of circulation and deserve reappraisal, and publishes selections from well-known works that reward reconsideration because of the lessons they offer about our relationship with the ocean.

For a complete list of books available in this series,
see www.upne.com

The Palatine Wreck:
The Legend of the New England Ghost Ship
Jill Farinelli

In Pursuit of Giants:
One Mans Global Search for the Last of the Great Fish
Matt Rigney

The Sea Is a Continual Miracle:
Sea Poems and Other Writings by Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman, edited by Jeffrey Yang

Surviving the Essex:
The Afterlife of Americas Most Storied Shipwreck
David O. Dowling

THE LEGEND OF THE NEW ENGLAND GHOST SHIP

JILL FARINELLI

UNIVERSITY PRESS OF NEW ENGLAND

HANOVER AND LONDON

University Press of New England
www.upne.com
2017 Jill Farinelli
All rights reserved

For permission to reproduce any of the material in this book, contact Permissions, University Press of New England, One Court Street, Suite 250, Lebanon NH 03766; or visit www.upne.com

Seafaring America is supported and produced in part by the Maritime Studies Program of Williams College and Mystic Seaport. Williams-Mystic empowers global, creative citizens while inspiring an enduring relationship with the ocean. We create an open-minded, interdisciplinary academic community, with experiential learning at Mystic Seaport, along the coasts of America, and at sea.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
available upon request

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-61168-705-7
Ebook ISBN: 978-1-5126-0117-6

This is for my husband, Sen Adam, and our son, Rob.
I love you guys to the moon and back.

In Travel, Pilgrims oft do ask, to know

What Miles theyve gone, and what they have to go:

Their Way is tedious and their Limbs oppret,

And their Deire is to be at ret.

In Lifes more tedious Journey, Man delays

Tenquire out the Number of his Days:

He cares, not he, how low his Hours pend,

The Journeys better than the Journeys End.

Poor Richards Almanack, December 1739

CONTENTS

1. PART I
   The Old World
2. PART II
   The Voyage
3. PART III
   The New Land
4. PART IV
   The Legend

SERIES EDITORS PREFACE

Seafaring America

The Inupiat of far northern Alaska have for centuries said that the bowhead whale lives two human lifetimes. In Moby-Dick, the primary entrept of all American literature of the sea, Ishmael yarns about a stone lance in an old whale: It might have been darted by some Nor-West Indian long before America was discovered. By studying amino acids in the eyes of legally killed bowhead whales and dating the old lances of stone, ivory, and steel found buried in the blubber, twenty-first-century researchers have confirmed that some individuals of this species might indeed live over two hundred years. A bowhead swimming around the thinning ice of the Arctic in 2015, when the Cuban-American poet Richard Blanco wrote, we all belong to the sea between us, likely also swam in 1859 when Emily Dickinson penciled the lines: Exultation is the going/Of an inland soul to seaand then put them in her drawer.

Since the first human settlement of our coasts, the voices expressing the American relationship with the sea have been diverse in gender, race, ethnicity, geography, and experience. And the study of maritime literature and history continues to converge and circulate with marine science and contemporary policy.

Seafaring America seeks to inspire and explore ocean study in this twenty-first century. The Taino chief Hatuey, James Fenimore Cooper, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, John Greenleaf Whittier, Winslow Homer, Alexander Agassiz, Joshua Slocum, Kate Chopin, Samuel Eliot Morison, Langston Hughes, Marianne Moore, Rachel Carson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Jill Farinelli, and generations of other American mariners, artists, writers, scientists, and historians have all known that the ocean is the dominant ecological, meteorological, political, and metaphorical force on Earth.

The sea is History, wrote Derek Walcott in 1979, mourning the horrors of the Middle Passage and the drowned African American cultural memory. By the 1970s the sea was history in a new way. Americans began to perceive the global ocean as vulnerable to our destructive reach. The realization rolled in with the discovery of the dead zone off the Mississippi River delta, industrial overfishing off New England, and the massive oil spill that spoiled the same Santa Barbara sands on which Richard Henry Dana Jr. first landed his bare Boston Brahmin feet in 1835 after a passage of 150 days. Yet even today, the rising seas, floods, shipwrecks, and immutable tempests along the Great Lakes, the Gulf of Mexico, and Americas Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic coasts continue to remind us of an immortal and indifferent seaa savage ocean that crashes and seeps over the transience of Homo sapiens.

Seafaring America is a series of new and classic works of fiction, nonfiction, history, poetry, and drama that engages with the countrys enduring relationship with the oceans and coastlines. Seafaring America strives to introduce, revive, and aggregate a wide range of exemplary and seminal stories and verse about the American maritime heritage: to trace the footprints on the beach, the stone lances in the blubber, and the pearls in the drawer.

Richard J. King

Williams CollegeMystic Seaport

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This project would not have been possible without the help of others. My sincerest thanks go to the following individuals:

To Dr. Esther Bauer, whose thoughtful translation of dozens of eighteenth-century letters and documents written in Old German script revealed details of the Princess Augusta tragedy that had been lost for more than 275 years. Not only did she squeeze me into her very busy work schedule, she and her husband took time out from a family vacation in Switzerland to drive to Schwaigern, Germany, where they spent two days at the city archives gathering information about the local families who traveled aboard the ship. I am profoundly grateful for their efforts.

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