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USS Co nscitucion and HMS Java in battle. Painting by Patrick O'Brien.
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Samuel Eliot Morrison, The Maritime History of Massachusetts (Boston: Houghton M ifflin Company, 1921) 13. 2 Olaf U. Janzen, "The Logic of English Salt Cod: An Historical Revision." The Northern Mariner 23, no. 2, 2013, 123-134. 3 George Brown Goode, The Fishery and Fishing Industries of the United States, Section III (Wash in gton, DC: Government Printing Office, 1887) 67-68. 4 Sid ney Perley, ed., The Essex Antiquarian: An Illustrated ... Magazine Devoted to the Biography, Genealogy, History and Antiquities ofEssex County, Massachusetts, (Salem, MA: the Essex Antiq uaria n, 1908) vol. 12, 37. 5 National Archi ves: Joseph W ilson, Collector of the District of Marblehead and Lynn, official document no. 77 attest ing to the US citi zensh ip of Philip Brimblecom, dated 12 September 1803. 6 Natio nal Archives, RG 59, Letters Received by the Department of State Regarding Impressed Seamen, 1794-1815. 7 National Archives, Letters Received Regarding Impressed Seamen.
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HMS Martin, assigned to blockade Delaware Bay during the War of 1812, was attacked, driven onto shoa ls, and burned in 1813 . Hurricane H azel exposed the vessel's rema ins on Cape May Point in 1954. She has subsequently been salvaged and placed on public di splay at the site. 9 Louis Arth ur Norton, "War of 1812 in the Pacific: Pelts, Ploys Plunder," Coriolis, vol. 3, No. 1, 1-20, 20 12. 1 °Christopher McKee, In "War and Society: The Pathology of a Profession: Death in the United States avyOfficerCorps, 1797-1815" (Campbell, Australia: Dept. of History, University of South Wa les, Australian Defence Force Academy) Vol. 3, o. 1, 1985, 1-2. 11 Spencer C. Tucker, Handbook of 19'" Century Naval Warfare (An napo lis, MD: Nava l Institute Press, 2000) 12. 12 Matthew Brenckle, Lauren McCormack and Sarah Watkins, Men of Iron: USS Constitution 's War of 1812 Crew (Charlestown, MA: USS Constitution Museum, 2013) 40. 13 Amos Alexander Evans, an apprentice to Dr. Benjamin Rush in Philadelphia, joined the
navy as a surgeon's mate in 1808. After serving onboard Constitution through the beginning of 1813, he was reassigned to the C harlestown Navy Yard and received an MD from nea rby Harvard University in 1814. In 1815 Evans was appo inted First Surgeon of the Fleet by Captain W ill iam Bainbridge and ass igned on the 74-gun Independence, aboard Amer ica's first ship of the line. (Fo r his service durin g Constitution's battles with Guerriere and Java, Congress awarded him two silver medals, one with a bust-portrait of Hull and anothe r of Bainbridge.) References: Amos E. Evans, "Journal Kept on Board the Frigate Constitution, 1812," reprinted by W illiam D. Sawtell, Independence Seaport Museum, Philadelphia, 1967; and the Amos A. Evans Collection at the W illiam L. Clements Library, Univers it y of Michigan; M. Howa rd As h, "Extracts from the D iary of Dr. Amos Alexander Evans 18121813," The Patriotic Marylander, vo l. III, No. 3, March 1917, 185 . 14 The National Archi ves, RG 15, War of 1812 Navy Invalid No. 201. 15 Goode, The Fishery & Fishing Industry, 199.
Dr. Louis Arthur Norton is a maritime historian andfrequent contributor to Sea Hiscory. He is the author of Joshu a Barney: H ero of che Revolucion and 1812 (Naval Institute Press, 2000) and Capcains Comemious: The Dysfunccional Sons of the Brine (Univ. ofSouth Carolina Press, 2009). A native ofGloucester, MA, he is a professor emeritus ofthe University ofConnecticut Health Center in Farmington.
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