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From: HERMON B FAGLEY <>
Subject: [OHCLER] Lost at Sea! "Moby Dick" Nantucket Coffins
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 13:23:11 -0400


Yesterday and today,tv's had program's about "Moby Dick".
This morning, the program was about the "Essex" which was rammed by
a whale while whaling in the Pacific. Herman Melville expanded upon the
tale of
Nantucket Island's 'Essex" writing "Moby Dick" .
When Sarah Blackman Collins came to Clermont from the Jersey shore in
1803,
it was because she had lost 3 brothers at sea,and didn't want to loose
her sons the same way.
The War of 1812 harrassment of our shipping and islands by the
British lead to a
colony of whaler's from Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Islands settling
just east,se,and
n e of Amelia,Clermont. Butler,Pinkham,Chase,Rathbone,Coffin,
Folger,Wilcox, etc.
I have a Coffin genealogy devoting a section to 'SEAFARING COFFIN MEN WHO
LOST THEIR LIVES AT SEA. I'm going to name some from about the time the
Nantucket colony
came to mid Clermont Co.
Walter-lost at sea 1785
Elipath -died in a prison ship 1781
Mathew,killed by a whale 1788
Zacheus-died among the Turks, 1787,
Thomas,died after a ship wreck, 1778
Obadiah, lost on the shoals, 1821,
Jethro lost at sea
Valentine-lost on the passage from France,
Andrew 1818 died off South America,
Hezekiah, 1815, on coast of Timor,
Owen,1810 lost at sea,
Alfred,1820 at sea
Rowland,1803, coming from Brazil
Sylvanus 1813 killed by a whale
George,1780,lost in a huricaine,
Timothy, 1812 fell from masthead in Canton
Timothy died from a fall from aloft on the 'ROSE"
gEORGE 1819 Murdered in Batavia [East Indies]
Wm P. Died 1812,in Batavia, [East Indies],
Cromwell,1823 killed by a whale
Barzillia 1825 hurt by a whale
John Gayer Coffin, 1820 "shot in boat from ship Essex"
1822 Robert drowned near Val pariaso
Rowland, killed at Mutiny on ship 'Globe" 1824
Abner,1834 carried off by a whale

Theron 1945 USNavy killed at Okinawa

I've skipped many with just a name,and "lost at sea" and a year.

We have our own Benjamin Ely,lost at sea in the Rev War period. He shows
up on the 1781 tax list of Galloway township,nw Atlantic City,NJ. Nov
1783 was when
the British military sailed from New York city


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