FOOTNOTES:
[49] “July 1, 1833. Nearly half our commercial capital is employed in other ports. During the past year there sailed from Salem 14 ships, 10 of them for India, 2 on whaling voyages to the Pacific; 5 barks, 4 of which for India; 94 brigs, 14 of them for India; and 23 schooners. Fourteen ships, 6 barks, 27 brigs and 6 schooners belonging to this place sailed from other ports on foreign voyages.” (Felt’s Annals of Salem.)
[50] Captain John H. Eagleston took the brigantine Mary and Ellen out to California two months ahead of the Eliza, in October, 1848, loading with a general cargo to sell to the gold-seekers. While at San Francisco in June, 1849, he met the Eliza, and later wrote, in an account of the voyage:
“On board the Eliza there were quite a number of passengers. Several of these remaining in San Francisco, pitched their tent in Happy Valley where Mr. Jonathan Nichols, stored as he was with fun and song, assisted by his social and free-hearted companions, made their quarters at all times inviting and pleasant. I was often with them, and under the beautiful evening sky, the echoes of good singing pleased the squatters that composed the little beehive villages which dotted the valley, especially ‘The Washbowl on my Knee,’ which was the usual wind-up.”
[51] Coastwise schooners and vessels from the Canadian provinces.