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Description:Chapters: Elias Hasket Derby, John Rowe, William Molineux, Thomas Hancock, Tench Francis, Jr.. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Elias Hasket Derby (August 16, 1739 September 8, 1799) was among the wealthiest and most celebrated of post-Revolutionary merchants in Salem, Massachusetts, and owner of the Grand Turk, the first New England vessel to trade directly with China. Born in Salem, he was the son of sea captain and merchant Richard Derby (1712-1783), but never went to sea. At a young age he entered the counting house of his father and was in charge of bookkeeping there from 1760 until the start of the Revolution. By 1760, Richard Derby had a fleet of at least thirteen vessels engaged in coastal, West Indian and Southern Atlantic trade. The Derbys, like many in Salem at the start of the Revolution, both supported and profited from the Revolution. From all accounts, Elias Hasket Derby was heavily involved in equipping privateers or had shares in as many of half the privateers (one hundred and fifty-eight in all) which hailed from Salem. The Derbys' Grand Turk, launched in May 1781, became Salem's largest and most successful privateer, capturing seventeen prizes between 1781 and 1782. Even before the close of the Revolution (Richard Derby died in 1783) Elias was trading on his own and in partnership with his brothers. By the time peace was declared, Derby's contemporaries claimed that in all of New England his fortune was second only to the Cabots of Beverly. In probably one of his many interactions with the privateers both out of Salem directly, of which there were many during the Revolutionary war, on August 19, 1776 Elias Hasket Derby acted as a proponent merchant agent on behalf of Commander/Captain Joseph White and his marines of the sloop...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=386018We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Colonial American Smugglers: Elias Hasket Derby, John Rowe, William Molineux, Thomas Hancock, Tench Francis, JR.. To get started finding Colonial American Smugglers: Elias Hasket Derby, John Rowe, William Molineux, Thomas Hancock, Tench Francis, JR., you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Chapters: Elias Hasket Derby, John Rowe, William Molineux, Thomas Hancock, Tench Francis, Jr.. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Elias Hasket Derby (August 16, 1739 September 8, 1799) was among the wealthiest and most celebrated of post-Revolutionary merchants in Salem, Massachusetts, and owner of the Grand Turk, the first New England vessel to trade directly with China. Born in Salem, he was the son of sea captain and merchant Richard Derby (1712-1783), but never went to sea. At a young age he entered the counting house of his father and was in charge of bookkeeping there from 1760 until the start of the Revolution. By 1760, Richard Derby had a fleet of at least thirteen vessels engaged in coastal, West Indian and Southern Atlantic trade. The Derbys, like many in Salem at the start of the Revolution, both supported and profited from the Revolution. From all accounts, Elias Hasket Derby was heavily involved in equipping privateers or had shares in as many of half the privateers (one hundred and fifty-eight in all) which hailed from Salem. The Derbys' Grand Turk, launched in May 1781, became Salem's largest and most successful privateer, capturing seventeen prizes between 1781 and 1782. Even before the close of the Revolution (Richard Derby died in 1783) Elias was trading on his own and in partnership with his brothers. By the time peace was declared, Derby's contemporaries claimed that in all of New England his fortune was second only to the Cabots of Beverly. In probably one of his many interactions with the privateers both out of Salem directly, of which there were many during the Revolutionary war, on August 19, 1776 Elias Hasket Derby acted as a proponent merchant agent on behalf of Commander/Captain Joseph White and his marines of the sloop...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=386018We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Colonial American Smugglers: Elias Hasket Derby, John Rowe, William Molineux, Thomas Hancock, Tench Francis, JR.. To get started finding Colonial American Smugglers: Elias Hasket Derby, John Rowe, William Molineux, Thomas Hancock, Tench Francis, JR., you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Colonial American Smugglers: Elias Hasket Derby, John Rowe, William Molineux, Thomas Hancock, Tench Francis, JR.

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