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George Crowninshield was born in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States on May 27, 1766. He was the eldest son of George and Mary (Derby) Crowninshield, and brother of Benjamin Williams and Jacob Crowninshield.
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... THE VOYAGE THE voyage having now actually begun, we must needs turn to the Private Journal, as it is from this source chiefly that our information is derived. We find this inscription on the cover of the volume: "Journal on board 'Cleopatra's Barge ' on a Voyage of Amusement and Travels to the Western Islands and the Mediterranean in the year 1817." Journal on board the Cleopatra s Barge, 1817 "On Sunday, March 30th, at 9 o'clock a.m., we were underweigh, having started from the end of India Wharf, in the presence of a great concourse of spectators, who gave us three hearty cheers, on our departure. At 3 o'clock p.m. Meridian the lights on Thatchers Island bore North distant seven miles. "Before we proceed to notice the occurence of events during this voyage we shall mention the names of the persons on board. George Crowninshield, Esqr., owner. Benjamin Crowninshield, Esqr., captain. Joseph Strout, Jr., 1st mate. William C. Dean, 2nd do. Samuel C. Ward, Esqr., clerk. B. Crowninshield, Jr., passenger. Seamen Mark Lervee, boatswain. Hanson Posey, blackman, steward. Wm. Chapman, blackman, cook. George Symmes. Sewall Thompson. . Richard Davis. Frederick Boles. David Oliver. James Moor. Nathaniel Blunt. Boys Augustus Newhall. Samuel Hodgdon. Amos Perkins. Edward Allen, Jr., passenger to St. Michael's. "As we have mentioned the names of the company on board our yacht, it would seem necessary to accompany them with a characteristic mark of distinction. We feel competent, even now, to give the characteristic features of the minds of the principal personages on board, but we shall defer talking of them at this time. "We find Hanson Posey, a blackman, born in Washington, and educated a slave, emancipated by the liberality of Jacob Crowninshield...
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merchant sea-captain pioneer yachtsman
George Crowninshield was born in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States on May 27, 1766. He was the eldest son of George and Mary (Derby) Crowninshield, and brother of Benjamin Williams and Jacob Crowninshield.
Young George, like the rest of his brothers, received a common school education until he was eleven, and then, after studying navigation, was sent to sea as a captain’s clerk.
He was in command of a ship to the West Indies in 1790 and four years later he was commanding the Belisarius to the East Indies. About 1800 he came ashore to assist his father in the counting-house, directing the extensive commercial interests of George Crowninshield & Sons. The firm made great profits from the America and their other privateers in the War of 1812.
Upon his father’s death in 1815, the firm dissolved and George retired to live upon his very ample income.
He drove a flashy yellow curricle and attracted attention by taking a ship to Halifax to bring back the bodies of Capt. Lawrence and Lieut. Ludlow of the Chesapeake. Most conspicuous, however, were his pioneer activities as a yachtsman.
About the time that he settled down in 1800, he built the first American yacht, the little Jefferson, in which he cruised around Massachusetts Bay, sometimes making thrilling rescues after storms.
After his retirement in 1815 he built a more elaborate yacht, Cleopatra’s Barge, in which he sailed to the Mediterranean in 1817, carrying with him more than three hundred letters to consuls and other officials in Europe. The yacht was the first sea-going vessel of her class, and aroused considerable wonderment, throngs of visitors coming aboard at every foreign port. The Europeans marveled at the crew where even the negro cook knew the mysteries of navigation.
Crowninshield died suddenly at Salem a few weeks after his return from this cruise.
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He always had a love of the spectacular, dressing in the extreme of fashion with bizarre waistcoat, shaggy beaver hat, and tasseled Hessian boots.
He was a short man, remarkably robust and strong, with a high reputation for courage.
He had never married.