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American Offshore Whaling Voyages: A Database

  • Source(s) for Voyage of Jefferson (Ship)

    1809, Jun - 1810, Jul. Sailing from Sag Harbor, NY to Brazil. Sent home 0 Sperm, 1350 Whale, 0 Bone

    • Works Progress Administration. Whaling Masters: Voyages 1731-1925. New Bedford, MA: Old Dartmouth Historical Society, 1938. Annotated copy located at the New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA.
    • Starbuck, Alexander. History of the American Whale Fishery from its Earliest Inception to the Year 1876. 1876. Reprinted Secaucus, NJ: Castle Books, 1989.
    • Batchelder, Charles F. Whaleship Index. New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA, 1960. Card file.
    • Adams, James Truslow. History of the Town of Southampton (East End of Canoe Place). Bridgehampton, NY: Hampton Press, 1918.
    • Maritime Books. Catalogue 93. Madison, WI: J. Tuttle, 1998.
    • Manuscripts Index. Library Reading Room, Peabody Essex Museum Library, Salem, MA. Card File.
    • Captains who sailed out of Sag Harbor but who lived elsewhere." John Jermain Library, Sag Harbor, NY, n.d. Typewritten list.
    • Balch, Edwin Swift. "Stonington Antarctic Explorers." Bulletin of the American Geographical Society XLI (August, 1909).
    • William F. Williams. "Loss of the Arctic Fleet." Famous Fleets in New Bedford's History: Stories of Wooden ships and Iron Men. New Bedford, MA: Reynolds Printing, 1935.

    Logbooks

    • Rogers Memorial Library, Southampton, New York