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Sources

This page comprises an alphabetical list of the more than 450 sources consulted in the compilation of this database. Anonymous references are listed by title first, and the remainder by author.

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American Offshore Whaling Voyages: A Database

Sources

  • "A Newport Whaling Master." Newport [RI] Mercury, weeks ending April 19, April 26, May 3, May 10, 1884 bound together, Nicholson Collection, Providence Public Library, Providence, RI.
  • "American Ships visiting Sydney, 1791-1841: List compiled from the Sydney Gazette." n.d. Nicholson Collection, Providence Public Library, Providence, RI. Typewritten list.
  • "Antone Fortes, Whaleman." Dukes County Intelligencer, 11:4 (May, 1970).
  • "Brutal Crime. Story of a once Famous Mutiny." The [New Bedford, MA] Evening Standard, hand dated November 27, 1896.
  • "Captain White Recalls Old Whaling Days." John Jermain Library, Sag Harbor, NY. Scrapbook A. Undated clipping from unidentified newspaper.
  • "Chilmark Whaling Masters." Dukes County Intelligencer, 21:2 (November 1979).
  • "Crew lists of vessels owned by Charles T. Dering of Sag Harbor, 1828-1855." East Hampton Library, East Hampton, NY. Manuscript.
  • "Fall River in the Whale Fishery." "Falmouth in the Whale Fishery." "Providence in the Whale Fishery of the Past." "Somerset in the Whale Fishery." "Record of Newport Whaling Ships." "Bristol in the Whale Fishery." New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA, Scrapbook 17. Undated clippings from unidentified newspapers.
  • "History of New Bedford No. XXIII." [New Bedford, MA] Daily Mercury, undated article glued into Account Book of William Rotch. New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA.
  • "In the Arctic." New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA, Arctic Scrapbook 2, unidentified newspaper article, hand dated 4/23/91.
  • "Jonas Winters Whaling Captain." Sag Harbor, New York Express, February 7, 1952.
  • "List of Shipping owned in Sag Harbor 1839." Sag Harbor Whaling and Historical Museum, Sag Harbor, NY. Manuscript list on exhibit.
  • "List of Whalers Sailing from Sag-Harbor in 1846." Sea Side Times, hand dated February 28, 1889. East Hampton Library, East Hampton, NY.
  • "Logbooks not in Sherman." Kendall Collection, New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA.1994. Typewritten List.
  • "Looking them over." East Hampton, [NY] Star, November 11, 1954.
  • "Loss of Ship Panama." [New Bedford, MA] Weekly Mercury, July 11, 1845.
  • "Lost with All Her Crew: Reported Disaster to Whaling Schooner Joseph Manta." Republican Standard, New Bedford, MA, October 16, 1903.
  • "Marine Reports." Columbian Courier [New Bedford, MA], 1801.
  • "Marine Reports." Nantucket [MA] Gazette. May 6, 1816-March 8, 1817. microfilm. New Bedford Free Public Library, New Bedford, MA.
  • "Marine Reports." Newport [RI] Mercury, February 19, 1820.
  • "Marine Reports." Newport [RI] Mercury, March 30, 1822.
  • "Marine Reports." Newport [RI] Mercury, November 1, 1817.
  • "Marine Reports." Republican Standard, New Bedford, MA, April 24, 1884.
  • "Marine Reports." Republican Standard, New Bedford, MA, August 28, 1884.
  • "Marine Reports." Republican Standard, New Bedford, MA, January 17, 1884.
  • "Marine Reports." Republican Standard, New Bedford, MA, January 29, 1885.
  • "Marine Reports." Republican Standard, New Bedford, MA, January 4, 1883.
  • "Marine Reports." Republican Standard, New Bedford, MA, January-July, 1885.
  • "Marine Reports." Republican Standard, New Bedford, MA, October 16, 1884.
  • "Marine Reports." Republican Standard, New Bedford, MA, October 18, 1883.
  • "Marine Reports." Republican Standard, New Bedford, MA, October 29, 1885.
  • "Marine Reports." Republican Standard, New Bedford, MA, September 21, 1885.
  • "Marine Reports." Suffolk Gazette, Sag Harbor, NY. 1804-1811. Microfilm, East Hampton Library, East Hampton, NY.
  • "Masters of the Deep." The [New Bedford, MA] Evening Standard, April 20, 1906.
  • "New Balance Orders, 1876." Notebook containing crew lists clipped from newspapers for vessels departing New Bedford 1877-1880. Nicholson Collection, Providence Public Library, Providence, RI.
  • "Newport's Whale Fishery." Newport Historical Society, Newport, RI. George H. Richardson Scrapbook 97. Unidentified newspaper, hand dated 1880.
  • "Notes on Long Island Whaling Vessels Printed in The Friend 1848 and 1849." Typewritten list inside the bound volume of The Friend, Honolulu, 1854-55, East Hampton Library, East Hampton, NY.
  • "Recollections of By-Gone Days." Sag Harbor [NY] Express, hand dated April 24, 1884.
  • "Sailors of Sullivan near Death." unidentified newspaper, n.d. New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA. Scrapbook T4, p.135.
  • "Ship's paper in Collection of Society." Dukes County Intelligencer, 19:1 (August, 1977).
  • "Terrible Suffering at Sea by a Portion of the Crew of the Whaling Bark Janet." New York Herald October 19, 1849.
  • "The San Francisco Fleet this Year." Daily Mercury, New Bedford, MA April 17, 1888.
  • "The Whaling Fleets." The [New Bedford, MA] Evening Standard, hand dated 5/6/90, New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA. Arctic Scrapbook 2.
  • "Two Well Known Whaling Captains Dead." Unidentified newspaper, hand dated 1911. New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA. Scrapbook T-4 p 187.
  • "Vessel departures, masters, agents, New Bedford and Westport 1862-76." Nicholson Collection, Providence Public Library, Providence, RI. Manuscript list.
  • "Whaleship Arrivals, Sag Harbor and Greenport." East Hampton Library, East Hampton, NY. Manuscript notebook, (x) BG 24.
  • "Whaling Captains from Nantucket." Edouard A. Stackpole Research Center, Nantucket Historical Association, Nantucket, MA Collection 335, folder 976. Manuscript book.
  • "Whaling Days in Poughkeepsie." [Poughkeepsie, NY.] Thrift Messenger, XIV (October 3, 1935).
  • [Hegarty, Reginald B.] Captains. Genealogy Room, New Bedford Free Public Library, New Bedford, MA. Card file.
  • [Hegarty, Reginald B.] Mates. Genealogy Room, New Bedford Free Public Library, New Bedford, MA. Card file.
  • ”Arctic Whalemen," unidentified New Bedford newspaper, May 17, 1894, scrapbook, Nicholson Collection, Providence Public Library, Providence, RI.
  • Account Book, Schooner D. C. Smith and owners with John Atwood, Jr. & Co., March 2, 1867 to November 25, 1868. Pilgrim Monument & Provincetown Museum, Provincetown, MA.
  • Adams, James Truslow. History of the Town of Southampton (East End of Canoe Place). Bridgehampton, NY: Hampton Press, 1918.
  • Adams, Thomas R. "Whaling Vessels Their Voyages and their Log Books, Journals and Abstracts &c. A Concordance." Providence, RI, 1994. Draft copy.
  • Advertisement, Bruce Gimelson Antiques, Maine Antiques Digest, February 2007.
  • Amaral, Pat. They Ploughed the Seas: Profiles of Azorean Master Mariners. St. Petersburg, FL: Valkyrie Press, Inc., 1978.
  • Ambrose, Edwin R. "Logbooks, Journals and Abstracts of Whaling Voyages in the Gale Huntington Research Library of the Martha's Vineyard Historical Society." April 1998. Typewritten list.
  • Andrew, Lillian and Elizabeth Thompson. Index to Laflin Lists at the Old Dartmouth Historical Society 1885-1908. New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA, 1999. Card file.
  • Annual Report, 1998-1999. New Bedford, MA: New Bedford Whaling Museum, 1999.
  • Annual Report, 2000. New Bedford, MA: New Bedford Whaling Museum, 2001.
  • Annual Report, 2001. New Bedford, MA: New Bedford Whaling Museum, 2002.
  • Annual Report, 2002. New Bedford, MA: New Bedford Whaling Museum, 2003.
  • Annual Report, 2003. New Bedford, MA: New Bedford Whaling Museum, 2004.
  • Annual Report, 2004. New Bedford, MA: New Bedford Whaling Museum, 2005.
  • Annual Report, 2005. Edgartown, MA: Martha's Vineyard Historical Society, 2006.
  • Annual Report, 2006. New Bedford, MA: New Bedford Whaling Museum, 2007.
  • Ashley, Williams. Logbook of the Schooner Thacher, 1808-1809. New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA.
  • Auction Catalog. Bolton, MA: Skinner, Inc., October 28 and 29, 2000.
  • Auction Catalog. Nantucket, MA: Raphael Osana Auctions, Inc., August 13, 1994.
  • Auction Catalog. Nantucket, MA: Raphael Osana Auctions, Inc., August 16, 1997.
  • Auction Catalog. New York: Swan Galleries, Inc., The Barbara Johnson Collection: Part II, September 25, 1997.
  • Auction Catalog. San Francisco, CA: PBA Galleries, October 25, 2001.
  • Auction Catalog. East Dennis, MA: Robert C. Eldred & Co., Inc., July 28, 2000.
  • Auction Catalog. East Dennis, MA: Robert C. Eldred & Co., Inc., July 30, 1998.
  • Auction Catalog. East Dennis, MA: Robert C. Eldred & Co., Inc., July 30, 1999.
  • Auction Catalog. East Dennis, MA: Robert C. Eldred & Co., Inc., November 20 and 21, 1998.
  • Auction Catalog. Nantucket, MA: Raphael Osana Auctions, Inc., August 7, 1999.
  • Auction Catalog. New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., The Barbara Johnson Whaling Collection: Part I, December 11 and 12, 1981.
  • Auction Catalog. New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., The Barbara Johnson Whaling Collection: Part IV, December 16 and 17, 1983.
  • Auction Catalog. Portsmouth, NH: Northeast Auctions, August 18-19, 2007.
  • Auction Catalog. Portsmouth, NH: Northeast Auctions, August 21 and 22, 1999.
  • Baer, Chris. ”Descendants of Captain James Shaw West." www.vineyard.net/vineyard/history/jeruel3x.htm. Internet.
  • Balcewicz, Arlene. Long Island Maritime Museum. Personal communication.
  • Balch, Edwin Swift. "Stonington Antarctic Explorers." Bulletin of the American Geographical Society XLI (August, 1909).
  • Balch, Edwin Swift. Antarctica Addenda. Philadelphia: Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania, 1904.
  • Banks, Charles Edward, M.D. The History of Martha's Vineyard. Edgartown, MA: Dukes County Historical Society, 1966.
  • Barboza, Robert. "Origin of cannons recovered from Dartmouth remains a nautical mystery waiting to be solved." The [Dartmouth/Westport, MA] Chronicle, January 16, 2006 vol XXXI no. 3.
  • Barker, Frederick A. Journal of a voyage on the Schooner Leo, 1878-1878. New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA.
  • Barthelmess, Klaus. "Additions to Sherman." 1994. Kendall Collection, New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA.Typewritten list.
  • Barthelmess, Klaus. Personal correspondence re Billy Moog journal for sale on aquilabooks.com.
  • Batchelder, Charles F. Whaleship Index. New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA, 1960. Card file.
  • Benson, Claire. Personal correspondence, concerning the Logbook of the Snow Betsy, voyages of 1792 and 1793.
  • Best, Peter. Personal communication
  • Bockstoce, John R. Steam Whaling in the Western Arctic. New Bedford, MA: Old Dartmouth Historical Society, 1977.
  • Bockstoce, John R. Whales, Ice, and Men: The History of Whaling in the Western Arctic. First Edition. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986.
  • Bockstoce, John. Personal files.
  • Bodfish, Hartson Hartlett. "List of vessels spoke by Steam Barkentine Newport, 1893-96." Logbook of Steam Barkentine Newport, 1893-1896, New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA.
  • Bodfish, Hartson Hartlett. Logbook of the Steam Barkentine Newport, 1893-1896. New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA.
  • Bowers, Jane. Registrar, The Kendall Whaling Museum, Sharon, MA. Personal communication.
  • Boyer, Dorothy Marvelle, ed. Vital Records of Southeastern Massachusetts, vol. 4, Fairhaven to 1865. Clearwater, FL: Owl Books, 1986.
  • Bradbury, Anna R. History of the City of Hudson, New York. Hudson, NY: Record Printing and Publishing Co., 1908.
  • Bristol, RI Gazette and Home Companion, April 19, 1834.
  • Bristol, RI Gazette and Home Companion, May 16, 1835.
  • Bullard, John M. Captain Edmund Gardner of Nantucket and New Bedford: His Journal and His Family. New Bedford, MA: by the author, 1958.
  • Bureau of Customs. Abstract of American Vessels cleared from the District of Plymouth. RG 36. National Archives and Records Administration, Northeast Region, Waltham, MA.
  • Bureau of Customs. Certificates of Registry, Enrollment and License Issued at Edgartown, Mass. 1815-1913. New Bedford Free Public Library, New Bedford, MA. Microfilm.
  • Bureau of Customs. Abstract of American Vessels entering in the District of Gloucester from Foreign Countries. RG 36. National Archives and Records Administration, Northeast Region, Waltham, MA.
  • Bureau of Customs. Barnstable, MA, Crew Lists 1839-1846. RG 36. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC.
  • Bureau of Customs. Barnstable, MA, Crew Lists 1889-1909. RG 36. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC.
  • Bureau of Customs. Barnstable, MA, Inward and outward foreign manifests. RG 36. National Archives and Records Administration, Waltham, MA.
  • Bureau of Customs. Barnstable, MA, Licenses of vessels above 20 tons, 1841. RG 36. National Archives and Records Administration, Northeast Region, Waltham, MA.
  • Bureau of Customs. Barnstable, MA, Whalemen's Shipping Articles 1849, 1866-71. RG 36. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC.
  • Bureau of Customs. Bristol-Warren, RI, Mss 28. Manuscripts Collection, Rhode Island Historical Society Library, Providence, RI.
  • Bureau of Customs. Certificates of Registry issued at Nantucket, Massachusetts. Edward A. Stackpole Research Center, Nantucket Historical Association, Nantucket, MA. Microfilm prints.
  • Bureau of Customs. Dighton/Fall River, MA, Crew Lists and foreign manifests 1831-1853. RG 36. National Archives and Records Administration, Waltham, MA.
  • Bureau of Customs. Dighton/Fall River, MA, Crew Lists and foreign manifests 1834-44, 1845-52, 1854-61. RG 36. National Archives and Records Administration, Waltham, MA.
  • Bureau of Customs. Dighton/Fall River, MA, Inward and outward foreign manifests, clearances, and other misc documents 1831-1839. RG 36. National Archives and Records Administration, Waltham, MA.
  • Bureau of Customs. New London, CT. Inward foreign manifests. National Archives and Records Administration, Waltham, MA.
  • Bureau of Customs. New London, CT. Manuscript ledger of port clearances and arrivals, 1820-1830. RG 36. National Archives and Records Administration, Waltham, MA.
  • Bureau of Customs. New London, CT. Crew lists January 7, 1818 - December 25, 1821 includes loose papers for Julius Caesar, 1851 voyage. New London Maritime Society Custom House Museum, New London, CT.
  • Bureau of Customs. Salem, MA. Inward foreign manifests. National Archives and Records Administration, Waltham, MA.
  • Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation, Sag Harbor, NY, Register of Bonds and Oaths, 1849-1868. RG 41. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC.
  • Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation. Greenport, NY, Register of Bonds and Oaths, 1855-April 8, 1875. RG 41. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC.
  • Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation. Provincetown, MA, Records relating to Engagement and Discharge of Seamen, Shipping Articles, 1872-1905. RG 41. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC.
  • Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation. Sag Harbor, NY, Register Bonds over 20 Tons, 1869-71, 1910. RG 41. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC.
  • Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation. Sag Harbor, NY, Register Certificates, 1815-1844 with some later notes added. RG 41. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC.
  • Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation. Sag Harbor, NY, Register of Bonds and Oaths, 1838-1849. RG 41. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC.
  • Butler, Martin J. Arrivals and Departures of Vessels from New Bedford copied from the Columbian Courier [New Bedford, MA] 1792 -1805.
  • Butler, Martin J. Arrivals and Departures of Vessels from New Bedford copied from the New Bedford Weekly Mercury 1807 -1822.
  • Cabral, Reginald W. and James Theriault. Wooden Ships and Iron Men. Provincetown, MA: Trustees of The Heritage Museum, 1994.
  • Cahoon, Stephen. Logbook of a voyage on the Brig Polly, 1774. Kendall Collection, New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA.
  • Captains who sailed out of Sag Harbor but who lived elsewhere." John Jermain Library, Sag Harbor, NY, n.d. Typewritten list.
  • Carmer, Carl. The Hudson. New York and Toronto: Farrar & Rinehardt, 1939.
  • Carver, Joan L. Personal communication.
  • Catalog 121. Gloucester, MA: Ten Pound Island Book Company, 1999.
  • Catalog 131. Gloucester, MA: Ten Pound Island Book Company, December 15, 2000.
  • Catalog 140. Gloucester, MA: Ten Pound Island Book Company, September 2002.
  • Catalog 163. Gloucester, MA: Ten Pound Island Book Company, 2006.
  • Catalog 165. Gloucester, MA: Ten Pound Island Book Company, 2006.
  • Catalog 240. New Haven, CT: William Reese Company, 2005. reeseco.com. Internet.
  • Catalogue of Nantucket Whalers and their Voyages from 1815 to 1870. Nantucket, MA: Hussey & Robinson, 1879.
  • Church, Freeman T. Logbook of a voyage on the Bark Amanda, 1831-1832. New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA.
  • Chyet, Stanley F. Lopez of Newport. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1970.
  • Clark, A. Howard. "The Whale-fishery." in Goode, George Brown. The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States. Section V History and Methods of the Fisheries. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1887.
  • Coffin, Louis, ed. The Coffin Family. Nantucket, MA: Nantucket Historical Association, 1962.
  • Coffin, Micajah. Journals of voyages on the Sloop Sandwich, 1762-1763. Providence Public Library, Providence, RI.
  • Coggeshall, John E. Logbook of a voyage on the Brig Dragon, 1820-1821. New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA.
  • Colby, Barnard L. For Oil and Buggy Whips. Mystic, CT: Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc., 1990.
  • Connolly, Hon. James C. "Whale Industry in New Jersey." Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society, 3 (1928).
  • Cook, John Atkins. Pursuing the Whale. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1926.
  • Cook, Lurana Higgins, Hugh Francis Cook, Anne Gleason McIntyre, and John Steward McIntyre. Provincetown Massachusetts Cemetery Inscriptions. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 1980.
  • Crawford, Richard W. Whalers from the Golden Gate: A History of the San Francisco Whaling Industry, 1822-1908 Submitted in partial fulfillment for the requirements for the degree Master of Arts in History, San Diegeo State University, Spring, 1981.
  • Crew Lists for Schooner Alcyone. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC.
  • Crew Lists of Whaleships. Ships A-G, 1818-1832. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D. C. New Bedford Free Public Library microfilm reel 166.
  • Crew Lists of Whaleships. Ships P-S, 1840-1860, 1866. New Bedford Free Public Library Publication. New Bedford Free Public Library microfilm reel 185.
  • Crew Lists of Whaleships. Various ships, 1811-1817. New Bedford Free Public Library Publication. New Bedford Public Library microfilm reel 175A.
  • Crew Lists of Whaleships. Ships A-Q, Miscellaneous years. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D. C. New Bedford Free Public Library microfilm reel 176.
  • Crew Lists of Whaleships. Ships A-Z, 1844-1890, Miscellaneous lists. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D. C. New Bedford Free Public Library microfilm reel 169.
  • Crew Lists of Whaleships. Ships F, J, K, L, 1840-1860, 1866. New Bedford Free Public Library Publication. New Bedford Free Public Library microfilm reel 182.
  • Crew Lists of Whaleships. Ships G-N, 1818-1832. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D. C. New Bedford Free Public Library microfilm reel 167.
  • Crew Lists of Whaleships. Ships M, O, V, W-Z, 1840-1860, 1866. New Bedford Free Public Library Publication. New Bedford Free Public Library microfilm reel 184.
  • Crew Lists of Whaleships. Ships N-Z, 1818-1832. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D. C. New Bedford Free Public Library microfilm reel 168.
  • Crew Lists of Whaleships. Ships R-Z, Miscellaneous years. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D. C. New Bedford Free Public Library microfilm reel 177.
  • Crew Lists, Ship lists for New London Vessels, Mystic Seaport e-resources. www.mysticseaport.org. Internet.
  • Crosby, Sylvanus Logbook of a voyage on the Ship Asia, 1791-1794. New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA.
  • Cummin, John. Partial Journal of the Ship Elizabeth of Freetown, 28 August 1843-27 February 1844 Bound with partial journal of the Ship James Stewart of St. John. Nicholson Collection, Providence Public Library, Providence, RI.
  • Customs House records for the districts of New London, New Haven, Hartford-Middletown, and Bridgeport-Fairfield, Connecticut. G. W. Blunt White Library, Mystic Seaport, Mystic, CT. Card file.
  • Davis, Lance E., Robert E. Gallman, and Karin Gleiter. In Pursuit of Leviathan. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1997.
  • Dayton, Diana and Dorothy King. East Hampton Library, East Hampton, NY. Personal communication.
  • Decker, Robert Owen. Whaling Industry of New London. York, PA: Liberty Cap Books, 1973.
  • Delano, Thomas. Journal of the ship Herald, voyage of 1817-1817. Nicholson Collection, Providence Public Library, Providence, RI. and Ship“s papers, Ship Herald. Nicholson Collection, Providence Public Library, Providence, RI.
  • Dering Whaling Correspondence. Nicholson Collection, Providence Public Library, Providence, RI.
  • Descendants of Whaling Masters. My Dear Husband. Taunton, MA: William L. Sullwold, Inc., 1980.
  • Descendants of Whaling Masters. Tenth Anniversary, 1974-1984, [New Bedford, MA: Descendants of Whaling Masters, 1984]. Membership booklet.
  • Deyo, Simeon L. History of Barnstable County, Massachusetts. New York: H. W. Blake & Co., 1890.
  • Dolin, Eric Jay. Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2007.
  • Donovan, Deborah. Personal communication.
  • Downey, Judith M. Librarian, New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA. Personal communication.
  • Druett, Joan, ed. "She Was a Sister Sailor" The Whaling Journals of Mary Brewster 1845-1851. Mystic, CT: Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc., 1992.
  • Druett, Joan. "Long Island Whaling Captains." John Jermain Library, Sag Harbor, NY. n.d. Typewritten list.
  • Druett, Joan. "Women who went A-Whaling: an annotated list." New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA.
  • Druett, Joan. Personal communication.
  • Dunbabin, Thomas. "New Light on the Earliest Voyages to Australia." The American Neptune, X:1 (January, 1950).
  • Dunham, John A. Account book. Schooner William A. Grozier, voyages of 1898 and 1899. Pilgrim Monument & Provincetown Museum, Provincetown, MA.
  • duPasquier, J. Thierry. Les baleiniers francais de Louis XVI á Napolâeon. Paris: H. Veyrier, [1990].
  • Dyer, Michael. Librarian, New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library. Personal communication.
  • Ebay listing Feb 2, 2006. www.ebay.com. Internet.
  • Ebay notice 24 May 2003. www.ebay.com. Internet.
  • Edwards, Everett J. and Jeannette Edwards Rattray. Whale Off! The Story of American Shore Whaling. 1932, reprinted New York: Coward, McCann, Inc., 1956.
  • Eldridge, Mary. Typed list attached to letter from Edwin Jacob to Mrs. Rattnoy, Feb. 27, 1965.
  • Ellis, Franklin. History of Columbia County, New York. Philadelphia: Everts & Ensign, 1878.
  • Farwell, Robert. Stonington Historical Society. Personal communication.
  • Ferguson, Georgia Knowles Cook. And God Created Great Whales. n.p. 1976.
  • Finckenor, George A. Whales and Whaling, Port of Sag Harbor, New York. Sag Harbor, NY: William Ewers, Printers, 1975.
  • Flannery, Jeffrey M. Manuscript Reference Librarian, The Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Personal communication.
  • Fleming, Jeff. Personal communication.
  • Fonda, Douglass C., Jr. Eighteenth Century Nantucket Whaling. Nantucket, MA: by the author, 1969.
  • Forster, Honore. The South Sea Whaler. First Edition. Sharon, MA: The Kendall Whaling Museum, 1985.
  • Francis, Robert. Personal communication.
  • Frank, Stuart M. Dictionary of Scrimshaw Artists. Mystic, CT: Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc., 1991.
  • Frank, Stuart M. Personal correspondence.
  • Frank, Stuart M. Unpublished material on Azorean Shore Whaling in California.
  • Freeman, H. Y. Logbook of the Schooner E. H. Hatfield, 1878. Nicholson Collection. Providence Public Library, Providence, RI.
  • Furtado, Tina. Special Collections Librarian, New Bedford Free Public Library, New Bedford, MA. Personal communication.
  • Gill, Michael, East Hampton, NY. Personal communication.
  • Glennon, Beverly Morrison. Personal communication.
  • Green, Henry. Journal of a voyage on the Ship Phenix, 1832-1833. New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA.
  • Hain, James. "Woods Hole Whaling." Woods Hole Reflections, M. L. Smith, ed. Woods Hole Historical Collection, 1983.
  • Hammett, Shubel. Journal of a voyage on the Sloop Keziah, 1788-1789. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
  • Hammett, Shubel. Journal of a voyage on the Sloop Keziah, 1789-1789. New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA.
  • Hammett, Shubel. Journal of a voyage on the Sloop Keziah, 1789-1790. New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA.
  • Hammett, Shubel. Journal of a voyage on the Sloop Keziah, 1790-1791. New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA.
  • Hammett, Shubel. Journal of a voyage on the Sloop Keziah, 1792-1792. New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA.
  • Hammond Correspondence. Nicholson Collection, Providence Public Library, Providence, RI.
  • Hammond, Harriet. Notes on Ships' captains. Mattapoisett Historical Society, Mattapoisett, MA. Typewritten list.
  • Harding, Ephraim, Nathaniel Atkins, and Jesse Rich. Overseers, Town of Truro. Indenture. 29 September 1790. Kendall Collection, New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA.
  • Hare, Lloyd C. M. Salted Tories: The Story of the Whaling Fleets of San Francisco. Mystic, CT: The Marine Historical Association, Inc., 1960.
  • Hazard, Russella J. Whaling Notes: Captains from Sag Harbor and Surrounding Eastern Long Island registered at the Custom House Office 1790-1871. July 25, 1958. John Jermain Library, Sag Harbor, NY. Manuscript.
  • Hazard, Russella J. [probably]. Ships and Shipping from the Port of Sag Harbor 1797-1864 gathered from newspapers published in Sag Harbor. n.d. John Jermain Library, Sag Harbor, NY. Typewritten list.
  • Hazard, Russella J. Whaling Notes: Crew lists from various voyages as copied from period newspaper articles. n.d. John Jermain Library, Sag Harbor, NY. Typewritten notes.
  • Hedges, Henry P. A History of the Town of East-Hampton, New York. Sag Harbor, NY: J. H. Hunt, 1897.
  • Hegarty, Reginald B. Addendum to "Starbuck" and "Whaling Masters": New Bedford Customs District. New Bedford, MA: New Bedford Free Public Library, 1964.
  • Hellman, Robert. Personal communication.
  • Hennessey, Mr. Partial journal of a voyage of the ship Niger, 1882-1886 dating from April 4, 1884-November 23, 1884; photocopy of pages. New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA.
  • Heppingstone, I. D. "American Whalers in Western Australian Waters." Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Western Australian Historical Society 7:1 1969.
  • Hezel, Fr. Francis X., SJ. Foreign Ships in Micronesia; A Compilation of Ship contacts with the Caroline and Marshall Islands 1521-1885. Saipan: Published in cooperation with the Trust Territory Historic Preservation Office and the U.S. Conservation and Recreation Service, 1979.
  • Hitchings, Frank E. with annotations by Stephen Willard Phillips. Ship Registers of the District of Salem and Beverly, Massachusetts 1789-1900. Salem, MA: The Essex Institute, 1906.
  • Hodges, Benjamin. Logbook of a voyage on the Sloop Dighton, 1769-1769. New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, New Bedford, MA.
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