Mystic Seaport Museum, 350
Namao, China, 45–46
nankeen, 13, 13n
Nanking, Treaty of (1842), 62, 92, 97, 101, 107
Nantucket, Mass., 25
Napoléon III, Emperor of France, 300
Natchez, 124, 131
National Press (Town & Country), 74–75
Nausett, USS, 313
Naushon Island, Mass., 85–86, 177, 288, 289, 295
Naval Observatory, U.S., 151, 238
navigation, 95–97, 96n
Navigation Acts, 158
Navy, U.S., 97, 104, 108–9, 249, 305–6, 312–13, 329, 336, 350
N.B. Palmer, 195, 198, 200–202, 237, 244–53, 255, 281, 285, 296, 299, 324, 347, 350–51
first voyage of, 201–2, 205, 216–17, 219–20, 221–22, 229
grounding of, 251–52
Nemesis, HMS, 58, 59
New American Practical Navigator, The (Bowditch), 96–97
New Bedford, Mass., 22–23, 25, 72, 75–76, 78, 85, 180–83, 188, 287
Newburgh, N.Y., 128–29, 284, 313
Newburyport, Mass., 168, 170
New Jersey, 195
New Orleans, La., 66, 106, 193
New York, N.Y.:
American Institute and, 109–10
Astor House Hotel and, 195, 203–4, 209, 234, 244
Barnum’s American Museum in, 276
Bowery and, 77
California gold discovery and, 148
California trade and, 150–57, 160–63, 175, 178, 191–92, 194, 195, 198–200, 205, 223, 237–38
Central Park in, 349
China trade and, 14, 17, 21, 22, 24, 26, 80, 83–86, 107–8, 110, 133–34, 141–47, 158–60, 163, 172, 177, 188–90, 200, 203, 204, 230, 238–41, 243–44, 251–52, 254, 270, 281, 302, 304, 330–31
churches and, 69
cotton and, 106, 193
crime and, 75–76
culture and, 74
Delano family’s departure from, 316, 317
East River and, 70, 73, 89–90, 99, 107, 110, 115, 133, 150, 184, 194, 199, 278, 279, 328
financial industry and, 156, 181, 254, 299–300, 303, 304
fire (1853) in, 277–79
Five Points slum in, 69, 73
gangs and, 194
Gotham nickname and, 66
Great Republic and, 274, 275–80
immigrants and, 73, 168, 186–87
LaGrange Terrace (Colonnade Row) in, 77, 81, 127–28, 307
McKay and, 167, 172
Mechanic’s Bell and, 110, 111
Merchants’ Exchange in, 77, 193, 194
shipbuilding and, 107–15, 132, 133, 167, 178, 193–95, 198–200, 296, 327–28
shipping industry and, 24–25, 67–68, 69, 70, 79, 83–85, 88–93, 106, 179–180, 183–184, 185, 188–192, 193–208, 251, 252, 253–255, 258–9, 294, 296, 297, 299, 301–303, 307–8, 315, 332–3; see also specific company names
society and, 74–75, 76–77, 157, 286
South Street and, 65, 70, 71, 88, 99, 115, 179, 183, 194, 202, 204, 275, 277, 278
sulky racing and, 137–38
transcontinental railroad and, 150, 330
Union Club in, 75, 77, 349
Upper Tens group and, 74–75, 77
Wall Street and, 69, 77, 181, 193, 303
water supply and, 69, 277
wealth and, 76
World’s Fair (1853) and, 276
Yankee merchants and, 65–81
New York, Patroon families and, 38
New York Board of Marine Underwriters, 261
New York Daily Tribune, 276–77
New York Herald, 133, 134, 138, 196
NewYork Journeymen Shipwrights Society, 111
New York State Chamber of Commerce, 331
New York Stock Exchange, 277
New York Sun, 76
New York Times, 234, 278, 279, 304, 328, 337
Nickels, Edward M., 231, 238
Nieuw Amsterdam, 66
Nightingale, 197, 311–12
Ningbo, China, 62, 97
N. L. and G. Griswold, 71, 100, 199, 206, 207
Northampton, Mass., 32, 78
North Wangtong, China, 59
Not So Green (rowing boat), 9, 10, 11, 35, 36
Nova Scotia, 167
Ocean Monarch, 168
Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company, 303
Ohio River, 66
Oneida, 189, 190, 202, 209
opium clippers, 43–46, 83–84, 85, 86, 88, 90–91, 98, 99, 109, 115, 129, 145
opium dens, 47–48, 62–63
opium trade, xi, 2, 5, 9, 26, 27, 29–30, 31, 36, 40, 43–63, 83–85, 97, 100, 102, 127, 139, 145, 149, 153, 187, 188, 254, 269–70, 288, 297, 298, 304–5, 307, 314–15, 325, 326, 340–41, 344–45
addiction and, 46, 47–49, 314
Opium War, First, 54–62, 84, 85, 92, 93, 97, 101, 325
Opium War, Second, 304–5
Oregon, 135, 156, 177
Oregon, SS, 156
Oregon Trail, 148
Oriental, 3, 158–60, 161, 238, 239, 243, 285, 308
Otis, Elisha, 276
Pacific, SS, 267
Pacific Mail Steamship Company, 135, 156, 205, 217
packet ships, 10, 70, 73, 91, 124, 129, 129n, 141, 163, 165, 168–70, 185–87, 189–90, 207, 218, 258, 262, 278, 310, 327
paddlewheel steamers, 140, 217, 230, 258, 261–62, 284–85, 302
Palmer, Eliza, 101
Palmer, Nathaniel Brown, 98–99, 101, 103–7, 122, 132, 162, 201, 231, 254, 259
Antarctica and, 105–6, 216
background of, 103–4
Great Republic and, 274, 280, 290, 293
Houqua and, 115–18, 141, 146, 324
Oriental and, 158–59, 161
seafaring career and, 105–7
ship design and, 103, 106, 107, 109, 110, 115, 123, 124, 139, 159, 160, 161, 163, 169, 173, 191, 255, 324
Palmer, Theodore, 107, 159, 160
Palmerston, Henry John Temple, Third Viscount, 54, 55, 310
Panama, 71, 100
Panama, Isthmus of, 156, 157, 205, 229, 302
Panama, SS, 135, 156
Panama Canal, 349
Panama-Pacific Railroad, 268, 294
Panama Railroad, 157, 349
Panic of 1837, 33, 133
Panic of 1857, 303–4
Paris, France, 343
Parliament, British, 54, 55, 158
patent medicines, 49, 314
Paul Jones, 80, 98, 99, 125
“Paul Revere’s Ride” (Longfellow), 171
Pawpaw (seaman), 226, 235, 236
Peabody, George, 341
Peacock, USS, 35
Pearl River, 3, 9, 11, 14, 20, 35, 38, 52, 58, 59, 60, 73, 100, 118, 295, 324, 326, 339, 344
Peking (Beijing), China, 304
Pennsylvania, 195, 285
Pennsylvania, USS, 199–200
Perkins, Thomas Handasyd, 27, 29–30, 31, 32, 36, 85, 86, 241
Perry, Matthew C., 305–6
Personal Reminiscences (Forbes), 344–45
Philadelphia, Pa., 22, 66
Philadelphia Catechism, 94
Philippines, 19, 151, 172, 251
photography, 276
Pilgrims, 12, 26
pitch, 116
Plymouth Bay Colony, 2
polio, 290
Polk, James K., 147–48, 177
Polo, Marco, 19
Pook, Samuel Hartt, 161
porcelain, xi, 13, 19, 20, 30, 134
Portsmouth (Va.) Navy Yard, 108–9
Portugal, China and, 10, 14, 20, 39, 60
Post Office Department, U.S., Aspinwall and, 135, 156
Practical Navigator, The (Moore), 97
Prime Meridian, 96, 96n
Promontory Point, Utah, 330
Protestants, Protestantism, 26, 132, 187, 221
Providence, R.I., 287
Puritans, 23, 26, 39, 158, 180, 284
Quakers (Society of Friends),
24, 29, 180–83, 184
Queen of Nations, 324
Race Horse, 178
railroads, xi, 4, 5, 33, 68–69, 128, 150, 157, 176, 177, 192, 196, 268, 285, 288, 294–95, 299, 302, 303, 327, 330, 331, 332, 341, 349
Rainbow, 124–26, 129, 134, 148, 173, 194, 200, 234
Ranlett, Charles, Jr., 318, 319–20, 322, 323, 325
Rat (yacht), 36
Raynes, Charles, 162
R.B. Forbes, 275
real estate, 4, 285, 332
Rebecca, 180
Red Rover, 278
Republican Party, 309, 349
Reynard, William H., 301
rhubarb, 13
Richardson, Josiah, 175–76, 210, 308
rifles, 314
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 134, 182, 222, 224
Rip Van Winkle, 65–66, 68, 128
Roland, Alex, 177
Roman Catholics, 73, 132
Romance of the Seas, 258, 268
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 347
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, xii, 286, 345, 347
Roosevelt, Isaac, 286
Roosevelt, James, 345, 347
Roosevelt, Martha Bulloch, 317
Roosevelt, Mary Rebecca, 286
Roosevelt, Rebecca, 345
Roosevelt, Sara “Sallie” Delano, 1, 6–7, 284, 301, 309, 313, 316, 319, 322, 326, 340, 344, 345, 347
Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr., 317
Roosevelt, Theodore, Sr., 317
Rose (opium clipper), 45–46
Rotch, William, 181
Rothschild’s, 153
Round Hill School, 32
Royal Navy, 57, 58–59, 87, 101, 105, 115, 160, 238, 305, 306, 315
Royal Yacht Squadron, 241–42
Russell, Mary, 182–83
Russell, Samuel, 30, 31, 39, 139
Russell, William Huntington, 349
Russell & Company, 4, 7, 9, 13, 15–16, 27–28, 29–42, 43–47, 50–63, 70, 72, 79–81, 88, 98, 102, 241, 307
banking and, 254, 299–300
clipper ships and, 100, 108, 110, 118, 122, 125–26, 251, 254
failure of, 345–46, 349
gold discovery and, 153–54
historical record of, 344–45
Hong Kong and, 100, 118, 251, 305, 306, 313–15, 326, 340–42, 345–46
opium clippers and, 43–46, 84, 85, 86
Russian Empire, Japan and, 306
Russo-Japanese War, 306
Sailor’s magazine, 206
Sailors’ Snug Harbor, 271–72, 349
Saint John, New Brunswick, 335–36
Salem, Mass., 22, 24, 168, 196, 202, 253, 297, 350
Sampson, George R., 172
Sampson & Tappan, 172, 176, 178, 191, 231, 258
Samuel Hall Shipyard, 44, 161–62, 174, 178
Samuel Russell, 139, 147, 178, 195, 285
Sanford, Frederick Coleman, 219–20
San Francisco, Calif., 106, 199, 217–22, 243, 253, 254, 255
Bella Union in, 217
Challenge and, 223, 226, 232–34
Chinese immigrants and, 220–21
clipper ship roster to, 178, 218
Farallon Islands and, 228
Flying Cloud and, 205, 211, 212, 228–32, 237, 238, 244, 250, 259, 261, 280–81, 293, 301, 337
Flying Fish and, 237–38, 256
Glory of the Seas and, 332, 333–34
gold discovery and, 149, 151, 152, 154, 156, 205, 217, 218, 220
Great Republic and, 293
Memnon’s arrival and, 154–55
N.B. Palmer and, 219–20, 221–22, 250
Panama rail and steamship service and, 135, 156, 157, 205, 229, 294
Presidio and, 228
Sea Serpent and, 163, 218–19, 332–33
Sovereign of the Seas and, 259, 261
Stag Hound and, 173, 175–76
Surprise and, 162, 195, 200, 217, 218, 315
Telegraph Hill and, 155, 217, 228, 333
transcontinental railroad and, 150, 330
Waterman-Douglass trial and, 235–36
San Francisco Bulletin, 333
Sartain’s Union Magazine of Literature and Art, 74
scarph joints, 111, 112
Sea Serpent, 162–63, 190, 218–19, 258, 302, 332–33
Sea Witch, 129–30, 129n, 139, 140, 148, 156, 158, 178, 180, 227, 237, 308, 349
first voyage of, 133–34
sail plan and, 132
Semmes, Raphael, 317–18
Senator, SS, 219
Sertürner, Friedrich, 49
sewing machines, 276
sextants, 95–96
Shanghai, China, 10, 59, 62, 97, 145, 331
Shiloh, Battle of (1862), 314
ShipBuilder’s Manual and Nautical Reference, The (Griffiths), 140
shipbuilding:
Boston and, see Boston, Mass.
Civil War and, 327–28, 329, 331
copper sheathing and, 114–15
deadrise and, 113, 129
decks and, 114
Delano and, 56, 57, 63, 125–26, 139–41, 157, 161, 178, 193–94
economic decline and, 307–8
false stems and, 112
Forbes and, 44, 56, 69, 84, 98, 110, 126–27, 178, 270, 273, 274
forefoot and, 173, 218
framing and, 113–14
keels and, 111–13, 173, 218
keelsons and, 113–14
knees and, 113, 114
McKay and, 163, 165–76, 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
Maine and, 195, 197
metal fasteners and, 112
Palmer and, 103, 106, 107, 109, 110, 115, 123, 124, 139, 159, 160, 161, 163, 169, 173, 191, 255, 324
Robert Forbes and, 44, 56, 69, 84, 98, 110, 126–27, 178
scarph joints and, 111, 112
stem and stern sections and, 112, 173, 218
sternposts and, 112–13, 173
tools and, 105, 112
treenails and, 114
unions and, 111
wages and, 111
wood and, 104–5, 111, 112, 113, 114, 166, 237
workday and, 110–11
shipworm (Teredo navalis), 114–15
silk, 13, 19, 30, 33, 61, 70, 134, 341
silkworms, 20
silver, 46–47, 345
Singapore, 62–63, 151, 240, 331
Singer sewing machines, 276
Sixteenth Connecticut Infantry, U.S., 314
skyscrapers, 69
slavery, slaves, 49, 63, 68, 87, 185, 221, 286–87, 308, 309–10, 311–12
slave trade, 49, 87, 311–12
Smith & Dimon, 107, 108, 109, 132, 133, 178
Society of Friends (Quakers), 24, 29
“Song of Hiawatha, The” (Longfellow), 171
Sortwell, Daniel, 333, 334
South America, 71, 105, 106, 134, 154, 177, 212, 215, 216, 237, 246, 250, 260, 261, 293, 308, 337
South China Sea, 14, 16, 17, 52, 239, 295, 301
Sovereign of the Seas, 256–63, 266, 267, 268–69, 270, 291, 292, 296, 332
Speed, Joshua, 221
Staffordshire, 141, 190–91, 199, 308
Stag Hound, 172–76, 178, 191, 231, 258, 260, 268, 308
first voyage of, 175–76, 209–10
Stanford, Leland, 330
Staten Island, N.Y., 286
steamships, 256, 284–85, 288, 289, 290, 308
California and, 135, 155–56, 199, 205, 217, 229, 230, 233, 294, 302–3
China trade and, 219, 297
Civil War and, 310–11, 312–13, 317–18, 319–20
Japan and, 305–6
Suez Canal and, 330–31
transatlantic service and, 140, 141, 150, 191, 258, 261–62, 263, 267, 273, 308
steel industry, 331
Stephens, Alexander, 309
sternposts, 112–13, 173
Stevens, John Cox, 242
Stonington, Conn., 104, 105, 106, 350
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 276
Sturgis, Mary, 27
Sturgis, Russell, 27, 34, 79, 241, 299–300, 311
Subterranean, 76
Suez Canal, 330–31
suicide, 123
Sumter, Fort, 310
Sunda Strait, 17
Sunny South, 218
Surprise, 161–62, 173, 178, 195, 200, 217, 218, 238, 253, 285, 315–26, 345, 347
Sutter’s Mill (Calif.), 205
Swallowtail Line, 24, 183, 185, 258
Swordfish, 231, 237, 256, 328
Sydney Morning Herald, 269
Tall Ships to Cathay (Augur), 187n
Tappan, Lewis W., 172
tar, 116
Tarrytown, N.Y., Irving’s Sunnyside at, 128
taxes, taxation, 221, 331
Taylor & Potter, 238
tea trade, 2, 3, 4, 5, 13, 15–19, 20–22, 24, 25, 26–28, 30, 33, 42–43, 47, 52–53, 56, 61, 70, 71, 72, 99, 100, 118, 123, 124, 134, 145, 147, 149, 158–60, 170, 172, 176–77, 194, 198, 220, 230, 238, 239, 243, 251–52, 254, 255, 304, 306, 313, 320, 323–24, 326, 331n, 340, 341
telegraph, xi-xii, 176, 230
temperance movement, 48
Teredo navalis (shipworm), 114–15
Texas, 177
textile industry, 287, 327
Thermopylae, 331n
Thursday’s Child, 337
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 83
Townsend, J. D., 215
Trade Wind, 237
Train, Enoch, 163, 168, 169, 172, 190–92, 256, 263
Train, George Francis, 191–92
transatlantic cable, xi-xii, 176, 295–96, 332
transatlantic trade, 24–25, 67–68, 72, 106–7, 130, 139–41, 149, 150, 159, 163, 168–70, 183, 184, 189, 190–91, 207, 258, 261–63, 267, 273, 307–8, 310
transcontinental railroads, 150, 157, 330
treasure fleet, 19
Treasury Bonds, U.S., 341
Treasury Department, U.S., 303, 311, 336
Treaty of Amity and Commerce (1858), 306
Trieste, Italy, 182
Trinity Church, 69
Tsushima, Battle of (1905), 306
Tucker, Sarah, see Low, Sarah Maria Tucker
Tudor, Frederic, 298
Turkey, 29, 33, 46, 325
turpentine, 116
Twain, Mark, 65
“ ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” (Moore), 132
Two Years Before the Mast (Dana), 25, 91–92, 93, 94, 97, 118, 213–14, 216, 233, 321
Tyler, John, 101
typhoid, 69
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 276
Union Pacific Railroad, 192, 330
unions, labor, 111
Unitarians, 181, 284, 313
United States:
Central America disaster and, 302–3
China trade and, 12–19, 20–22, 24–25, 26–28, 29–42, 43–63, 70, 71, 72, 83–87, 97, 100, 101–2, 107–8, 110, 115–18, 121–26, 129, 141–47, 158–60, 163, 169, 170, 172, 176–77, 187n, 188–90, 200, 203, 204, 220, 237, 238–41, 243–44, 251–52, 254, 269–70, 281, 299, 300, 302, 304, 305, 313–15, 323, 330–31, 339–42
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