World of the Written Word

  FISHER , Eliza Ann Anthony (Mrs. Matthew): Matthew Fisher and Eliza Ann Anthony, he of New York, and she of New Bedford, married in New ...

  Port Jackson 1823 CURRIE, Mrs. John: The first record of Captain Currie is as master of the London whaleship Elizabeth , 437 tons. He ...

  Sarah Cossill was born in Mangonui, a tiny outpost in the far north of New Zealand, in February 1836. She was the daughter of Charles Coss...

  Being sentenced to a life far beyond the seas could be a punishment -- and it could be a blessing. Both are encapsulated in the story of R...

  This definitely dubious-looking fellow was Captain Thomas McGrath, who started out whaling, and ended up as a blackbirder -- a nineteenth ...

  It's plastic-free July, just round the corner, so how much plastic do we wear?  This came from New Zealand Natural in Norsewood, New ...

  In August 1857, Eliza ‘Lizzie’ Edwards traveled to Honolulu to join her husband, Captain Eli Edwards. She lived there several years, keepi...

  On August 28, 1851, Zebedee Devoll (born in New Bedford 18 November 1817) married his first cousin, Sarah W. Howland, in Dartmouth, Massac...

  COMSTOCK, (Mrs. Henry): The Whalemen's Shipping List of May 15, 1855 gave notice of the ‘ loss of the W.T. Wheaton  - the whaling b...

  As the New Bedford whaling industry approached the twentieth century, a good number of men from the Azores left their former domain, the f...