For the Mary Ann, see Ship's Papers Collection 15, Folder 125, NHARL; for the Weymouth, see Edouard A.
(39.) James Freeman to Captain Folger and the owners of the Mary Ann, 14 March 1811, Ship's Papers Collection 15, Folder 125, NHARL.
(40.) James Freeman to Captain Sylvanus Macy, 16 March 1811, Ship's Papers Collection 15, Folder 125, NHARL.
(42.) See Hosea Pocknett Contract for the Essex, May 1817, and letter from James Lewis of Mashpee, 13 April 1819, in Ship's Papers 177 Collection, Folder 3, NHARL.
(45.) The account and quotations are from the "Journal of Silvanus and Obed Macy Merchants," Ship's Papers Collection 15, Folder 125, NHARL.
(48.) James Freeman to Owners of the Mary Ann, 12 April 1811, Ship's Papers Collection 15, Folder 125, NHARL.
For the Essex, see Ship's Papers 177, Folder 3, NHARL; Alexander Starbuck, History of the American Whale Fishery: From Its Earliest Inception to the Year 1876, 2 vols.