Forbes, Emma, 32
Forbes, John Murray, 9, 14, 28, 31–33, 34, 37, 39, 57, 178, 189–90, 241, 270
boating and, 86, 288
business diversification and, 288, 295
Civil War and, 310–11, 318
death of, 348
Delano compared with, 287–88
Emerson and, 78, 286–87
French wheat sale and, 299–300
Houqua and, 33, 47, 51, 68–69, 341–42
Naushon Island and, 85–86, 177, 288, 289, 295
opium clippers and, 84, 85, 86, 88, 99
philanthropy and, 288–89, 344
Russell & Company history and, 344–45
slavery issue and, 287
workers’ rights and, 287–88
Forbes, Margaret, 349
Forbes, Paul Siemen, 79, 340
Forbes, Robert Bennet:
business diversification and, 295
California trade and, 153, 178
China trade and, 28, 29, 31–38, 39–42, 48, 50–53, 56–57, 80, 84, 86, 126, 254, 269–70, 274
death of, 349
Delano and, 34–36, 37–38, 40–42, 56, 75
Houqua and, 28, 35, 37, 47, 51, 84
Irish potato famine and, 187–88
opium trade and, 48, 84, 127, 269–70, 344–45
Russell & Company history and, 344–45
sailing and racing and, 36–37, 49, 90, 295
Sailors’ Snug Harbor and, 271–72, 349
shipbuilding and, 44, 56, 69, 84, 98, 110, 126–27, 178, 270, 273, 274
topsail rig and, 270, 273
Forbes, Robert Bennet, Jr., 34, 274
Forbes, Rose, 34, 36, 40, 44, 45, 50
Forbes, Sarah Hathaway, 85, 190
Forbes, Thomas, 50
Forbes, William, 340, 343, 345
Forbes, William Hathaway, 286, 348
Forbes family, xi
Foreign Miners Tax, 221
Formosa, 341
Foster, Stephen, 138
France:
Second Opium War and, 304–5
wheat shortage and, 299–300
free labor system, 76, 287–88
Funch, Meinke & Wendt, 258, 269
fur trade, 67
Fuzhou, China, 62, 97
gaslight, 203–4
Gatling guns, 314
Gazelle, 200
George IV, King of England, 41, 60
Gifford, Alden, 272, 273
ginseng, 21, 30
Gleason, Herbert, 329
Glory of the Seas, 327–29, 330, 332–34
christening of, 328–29
Godey’s Lady’s Book, 197
Gold Rush, Australian, 269, 277
Gold Rush, California, 135, 147–50, 152, 153–54, 156, 205, 215, 217, 218, 220, 243, 269, 302, 332
Goodhue & Company, 24, 26, 68
Gordon, Joseph R., 150, 154, 155, 238, 239–40
Grand Chop, 16
Great Britain:
bills of exchange and, 24–25
China trade and, xi, 2–3, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20–21, 21n, 29, 31, 40–42, 46, 54–62, 118, 145, 158, 198, 237, 298, 299, 323–24, 331, 331n, 340, 341
clipper ships and, 2–3, 268, 291, 323–24, 330
England-to-China race and, 237–43
First Opium War and, 54–62, 84, 85, 92, 93, 97, 101, 325
Irish potato famine and, 185
opium trade and, xi, 29–30, 40, 46, 50, 52, 54–62, 84, 97, 102, 145, 153, 254, 298, 340
Second Opium War and, 304–5
slavery and, 185
transatlantic cable and, xi-xii, 176, 295–96
U.S. Civil War and, 310–11, 317, 318, 323–24
U.S. shipbuilders and, 268, 291
War of 1812 and, 12, 18, 23, 57, 87, 104, 105, 109, 130, 315
Great Britain, SS, 263
Great Exhibition (1851), 198
Great Republic, 265–80, 292, 296, 332
burning of, 278–79
construction cost of, 270
description of, 266–67, 272, 273–74
Forbes topsail rig and, 270, 273
insurance on, 270
launching of, 265–66, 272–73
rebuilt version of, 285, 290, 293
steam engine on, 270, 279
Greeley, Horace, 149–50
Green, Hetty, 181
Green, John C., 72
Green, Sarah Helen Griswold, 72
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), 96, 96n
Griffiths, John Willis, 108–10, 124, 125–26, 129–30, 132, 133, 134, 139, 148, 161, 163, 167, 169–70, 240, 256
publishing and, 140, 290–91
Grinnell, Cornelius, 180–81, 184, 190
Grinnell, Henry, 192
Grinnell, Joseph, 78
Grinnell, Minturn & Company, 24–25, 65, 72, 81, 91, 126, 139, 162, 163, 176, 179, 184, 185, 195, 204, 209, 218, 230, 287, 302, 332–33, 349
Grinnell, Moses, 24, 72, 78, 91, 179–92, 234
background of, 179–81
clipper ships and, 162–63, 189–92, 194, 198, 204, 206, 244, 258, 302, 349
death of, 349
early career of, 181–83
Irish potato famine and, 185–87
marriage and, 183
politics and, 184–85, 349
religious views and, 181
Grinnell, Susan Russell, 182–83
Grinnell, Sylvia Howland, 180
Griswold, George, 71–72, 199, 206, 207, 223, 234
Griswold, John N. A., 72
Griswold, Nathaniel Lynde, 71, 199, 206, 207, 223, 234
guano (bird manure), 293, 308
Guy Mannering, 207
haijin (sea bans), 19
Haines (N.B. Palmer First Mate), 247, 248
Hall, Henry, 192
Hamilton, Mass., 335, 336
Hargraves, Edward, 269
Harpers Ferry, Va., 309
Harper’s Weekly, 6, 349
Harrison, John, 96
Harvard University, 23, 88, 92
Hathaway, Francis, 24, 34, 85, 188, 189–90, 192, 209, 230
Hathaway & Company, 24, 26, 34
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 322
Headless Horseman, 66
Heine, Heinrich, 131
Hemenway, Miss, 252
hemp, 251, 252
Herald of the Morning, 218
Hero, 105, 216
Hillard, Francis, 116
Hillard, John, 116
History of American Sailing, The (Chapelle), 129n
Hitch, Annie Delano, 319, 346
Hitch, Fred, 346
Hoffman, Ogden, Jr., 236
hogging, 113
Hone, Philip, 73, 75
Hong Kong, China, 98, 116, 198, 241, 343
British acquisition of, 62, 97
Chrysolite and, 238, 239, 240
Delano and, 100, 115, 127, 313–15, 339–42
Delano family in, 339–42
Delano family voyage to, 315–26
Flying Cloud and, 230
horse racing and, 339–40
Houqua and, 117, 118, 145, 147
Jacob Bell and, 297–98
Memnon and, 238
N.B. Palmer and, 220, 221, 251, 324
Oriental and, 158, 238, 240
Perry expedition and, 306
Rainbow and, 125, 126
Russell & Company and, 100, 118, 251, 305, 306, 313–15, 326, 340–42, 345–46
Sea Witch and, 134, 237
Surprise and, 238, 315–23, 325–26
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, 340
Hoppo (Chinese official), 16
Horatio, 91, 92, 93, 95, 190
Houqua, 101, 107, 111, 113, 115–19, 124, 133, 139, 160–61, 169, 173, 176, 178, 194, 254, 267, 285, 290, 306
first voyage of, 115–18
near-wreck of, 141–47
return voyage of, 121–23
“Houqua, In Memoriam A.A.L.” (Low), 121
Houqua (Wu Ping-Chien), 30–31, 33, 37�
��39, 47, 85, 97, 123, 187, 298, 299
death of, 117
Delano and, 4, 35, 37–39, 51, 61–62, 65, 304, 317, 324, 346
First Opium War and, 60
Forbes brothers and, 28, 33, 35, 37, 47, 51, 68–69, 84, 341–42
Howland, Horatia, 91
Howland, William, 91, 163, 190, 302
Howland & Aspinwall, 71, 87, 124, 131, 134, 156
Howland family, 180, 181
Hudson River, 1, 4, 38, 130, 193, 284–85, 286
Hudson River Railroad, 128
Hughes, Sarah Forbes, 86, 288, 295
Hunt, Thomas, 118, 119
Hunter, William C., 10–11, 30, 41, 46, 48, 53
Hyde Park, N.Y., 345, 347
hyson tea, 13, 16, 61
ice cream, 81
immigrants, immigration, 73, 149, 163, 165, 168, 169, 185–88, 220–21, 288
Independence, Mo., 154
India, 305, 331
opium trade and, 29, 40, 44, 46, 254, 297, 325
Indiaman (ship type), 17–19
Indian Ocean, 17, 118, 134, 142, 144, 160, 243, 297, 323
Indonesia, 158
Iowa Lands Trust, 341
Ireland, potato famine and, 73, 185–88
ironclads, 312–13
iron industry, 288, 303
Irving, Washington, 65–66, 128
Jackson, Andrew, 68, 184–85
Jacob Bell, 285, 296–99, 320
jade, 13, 19
James Baines, 291
James Baines & Company, 262
Jamestown, USS, 187, 188
Jansen, Jan, 89
Japan, 296, 305–6, 324, 340
Delano family and, 340
tea and, 306, 340
Jardine, Matheson & Company, 40, 241
Jardine, William, 40–42, 54–55, 153, 298
Jenny Lind, 258
John Gilpin, 215
John Laird Sons & Company, 317
Jones, Catesby, 35
Jordan Falls, Nova Scotia, 167
Joseph Walker, 278
Joshua Bates, 168
Judd’s Agriculturalist, 90
junks, 10
Kansas Territory, 253
keels, 111–13, 173, 218
shoes and, 112
keelsons, 113–14
Kennedy, Patrick, 165
Kenya, 21n
Keysar, Alexander, 177
King, Edward, 53
Kleeman, Rita Halle, 286
knees, 113
Knickerbockers, 66
Know Nothing Party, 221
Kossuth, Lajos, 260
lacquer, 13
Lam Qua, 62, 346
Land, John, 125, 234
Lascars, 11, 11n
latitude, 95, 96
laudanum, 48
“Launch of the Defender” (Everett), 165
lead, 116, 117
Leaves of Grass (Whitman), 67–68
Lee, Robert E., 309
Lemons (N.B. Palmer seaman), 247–48, 249
Lessing, George, 225–26, 235
Lightning, 291, 328
Lincoln, Abraham, 221, 309, 310, 313, 349
Lind, Jenny, 197
Linton (storeship), 44
Lin Zexu, 49–52, 153
Liverpool, England, 25, 67, 70, 72, 106, 107, 140, 150, 159, 168, 169, 186, 190, 238, 240, 241, 261, 262, 275, 280, 291, 297, 317
Liverpool Herald, 187
London, England, 269
bills of exchange and, 25
China-to-England race and, 241–43
China trade and, 14, 17, 18, 118, 159–60, 237, 238, 239, 240, 323–24, 331n
Great Exhibition of 1851 and, 198
London Daily News, 242
London Illustrated News, 241
London Times, 3, 160, 238, 298
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 171–72, 179, 272–73
longitude, 96, 96n
Lord of the Isles, 324
Louisiana, 147
Low, Abiel Abbot, 15–16, 39–40, 53, 56, 60, 72, 108, 116, 121, 122, 146, 258, 331, 340
Algonac estate and, 316–17
business diversification and, 294–96, 304, 332
California trade and, 147, 157, 160–62, 163
Chinese immigrants and, 220
clipper ships and, 99–101, 115, 123, 124, 125, 139, 147, 157, 158–62, 163, 173, 178, 179, 191, 194, 200–201, 206, 238, 240–41, 243, 274, 280, 285, 293, 296, 306, 315, 332
death of, 348
Great Republic and, 274, 280, 293
Houqua and, 85, 187, 317
Irish potato famine and, 186–87, 187n
Japan trade and, 306
marriage of, 90
opium clippers and, 83–84, 85, 86, 88, 90–91
transatlantic cable and, 176, 295–96, 332
Low, Ann, 92–93, 97–98, 122, 201
Low, Benjamin R. C., 121
Low, Charles Porter:
captaincy and, 141
chronometer presented to, 146–47
courtship and engagement and, 196, 197–98, 200, 201
death of, 350
durian fruit and, 323
final years and, 347–48
flogging and, 249, 250
Haines shooting and, 246–50
Houqua and, 97
Houqua and, 116, 118–19, 121, 141–47, 169, 176, 254
Jacob Bell and, 296–99
marriage and, 244–45
N.B. Palmer and, 195, 198, 200–202, 216–17, 219–20, 221–22, 229, 244–53, 255, 281, 296, 299, 324, 347, 350–51
Samuel Russell and, 158, 195
seafaring experience and, 88–97, 99, 101, 116, 118–19, 121, 152, 169
Low, Charles Porter, Jr., 252, 253
Low, Edward Allen, 72, 108, 121–22, 123, 124
Low, E. Holland, 187n
Low, Ellen Dow, 90, 201
Low, Harriet, 39, 61
Low, Josiah, 59, 72
Low, Sarah Maria Tucker, 197–98, 200, 201, 202, 244–46, 248, 250, 252–53, 348
son’s at-sea birth and, 252
Low, Seth (Abbot Low’s father), 84, 88, 90, 146, 314
Low, Seth (Abbot Low’s son), 201, 348
Low, Seth Haskell, 72, 195–96
Low, William Henry I, 39, 88, 123
Low, William Henry II, 16, 39, 40, 53, 54, 59, 60–61, 72, 92–93, 97–98, 116, 117, 121–23, 233, 345, 348
clipper ships and, 98, 99, 290
death of, 122–23, 201
Lowell, Mass., 287
Low family, xi
Luhrs, Warren, 337
Lyman, Anne, 78–79
Lyman, Edward, 79
Lyman, Joseph, 78
Lyman, Sarah Low, 79
Lyon, Ellen, 205, 229, 230
Lyon, Sarah, 205, 212, 229, 230
Lyon, Whitney, 205, 229
Macao, 10, 14, 19, 39, 54, 56, 60, 81, 127
Macedonian, USS, 109
McKay, Albenia Boole, 167, 168, 170
McKay, Anna, 336
McKay, Cornelius, 265
McKay, Donald, 163, 165–76, 261
background of, 166–67
Civil War and, 312–13, 329
clipper ships and, 169–76, 177, 178, 179, 190, 191, 192, 199, 204, 209–10, 231, 237–38, 243, 255–59, 260, 263, 265–75, 278, 279–80, 281, 291–93, 300, 308, 327–29, 330, 332–34, 350
death of, 336
description of, 166
East Boston home of, 171, 265, 279–80, 327, 329, 334–35
financial troubles and, 292, 313, 329–30, 334
Glory of the Seas and, 327–29, 330, 332–34
Great Republic and, 265–75, 278, 279–80, 292, 293, 332
health problems and, 335, 336
Lauchlan McKay’s conflict with, 292
Longfellow and, 171–72
Navy claim settlement and, 336–37
personality of, 171, 174
Sailors’ Snug Harbor and, 271–72
San Francisco trip and, 333–34
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McKay, Frances, 329
McKay, Guy, 336
McKay, Hugh, 166
McKay, Lauchlan (Donald McKay’s brother), 166
Donald McKay’s conflict with, 292
Great Republic and, 269, 270, 275, 278–79
Sovereign of the Seas and, 258–61, 270, 292
McKay, Lauchlan (Donald McKay’s son), 280
McKay, Lawrence, 336
McKay, Mary Cressy Litchfield, 166, 170, 261, 265, 279–80, 328, 336, 337
McKay, Nathaniel, 336–37
McKay, Nicholas, 336
McKay, Richard, 262, 280
McKay, Wallace, 328, 336
McKay & Aldus Iron Works, 327, 332
McKim, Anna, 87
McKim, Isaac, 87
McLean, Duncan, 174, 191, 257
Magellan, Ferdinand, 150
mail service, 135, 156, 205, 217, 267, 294
Maine, shipbuilding and, 195, 197
malaria, 15
Mandarin, 178, 199
Manifest Destiny, 200
Manila, Philippines, 151, 172, 251
manufacturing, 331
Marblehead, Mass., 202, 203
Marshall, Charles H., 130
Maryland, 285
Massachusetts, 22
Massachusetts Bay Colony, 180
Matheson, James, 55, 153, 298
Mauritius, 297
Maury, Matthew Fontaine, 150–52, 154, 162, 212, 213, 227, 228, 238, 281
Mayer, Nathan, 314
Mayflower, 12
Mazeppa, 83–84, 90–91
“Mazeppa” (Byron), 83
Meinke, Andrew F., 258
Melbourne, Australia, 262, 331n
Melville, Herman, 215, 225
Memnon, 139–41, 147, 148–49, 150, 152, 154–55, 156, 157, 159, 178, 200, 238–40, 251, 303, 322
merchant ships, design of, 17–19
Mermaid, 270
Merriam, E., 276–77
Merrimac, CSS, 313
Mexican War, 149n, 187
Michigan, 68
Michigan Central Railroad, 295, 299, 341
Michigan Pine Lands Association, 341
Midas, 126
Milton, Mass., 78
Milton Academy, 288–89, 348
mines and mining, xi, 4, 176, 177, 285, 288
Ming dynasty, 19
minié balls, 314
Min-ning, Emperor of China, 49
Minturn, Anna Mary Wendell, 184
Minturn, Robert Bowne, 76, 163, 184, 186, 188, 192, 204
missionaries, 13, 14
Mississippi River, 66
Moby-Dick (Melville), 25
Monitor, USS, 312–13
monsoons, 16–17
Montauk, 118, 119
Montevideo, Uruguay, 155
Monthly Nautical Magazine and Quarterly Review, 140, 291
Moore, Clement Clarke, 132
Moore, John Hamilton, 97
Mo-Pin, 10
Morgenthau, Henry, 347
Morison, Samuel Eliot, 339
morphine, 49, 314
Morris, Robert, 21
Mouse (yacht), 36
mulberry bushes, 20
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban, 286
My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands (Train), 191
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