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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Letter-Journal of Mary Hayden (Russell) Mount |
| Reference | MSS 83 |
| Library | Nantucket Historical Association |
| Collection | Letter-Journals of Mary (Hayden) Russell and Captain Forman Marshall Mount, 1823-1824 |
| Date | 17 Feb 1823 - 9 Mar 1824 |
| Author / Creator | Russell, Mary |
| Description | Letter written by Mary Russell (nee Hayden) to her daughter, Mary Ann Mount, from the Ship Emily of London on a whaling voyage from England to Australia and the Japan Grounds via the Cape of Good Hope. It describes in great detail life aboard a whaleship, severe storms at sea and the appearance, customs, dress and general lifestyle of the inhabitants of the islands visited by the ship. |
| Document Type | Correspondence, Journal, Logbook |
| Theme(s) | Trade and Commerce |
| Keywords | whaling, family, storm, damage, hull, death, sealife, astronomy, religion, Christian, surgery, children, wife, husband, flora and fauna, indigenous peoples, culture, trade, fight, hostility, attack, repairs, pirate, supplies, marriage, ceremony, dance, pastimes, slaves, adoption, medicine, health, mutiny, discipline, governor |
| Countries | UK; Australia; Japan; Papua New Guinea; Indonesia |
| Places | London; Canary Islands; St Paul Island; Ternate Island; Guam; Timor |
| Ports | Cape Town, South Africa |
| Ships | Emily |
| People | Captain Laban Russell |
| Additional Information |
Mary (Hayden) Russell (1784-1855) was the daughter of Abishai and Merhab (Pinkham) Hayden of Nantucket. She married Captain Laban Russell (1780-1847) in 1802. Mrs Russell was one of the first women to go on a whaling voyage with her husband. She and her twelve-year-old son, William, accompanied Captain Russell on the Ship Hydra 1817-1820. She and her small son, Charles, sailed with her husband on another whaling voyage on the Ship Emily 1823-1824. Their son, William, was boatsteerer on the same voyage. Captain Laban Russell (1780- ) migrated from Nantucket to Dartmouth, Nova Scotia and thence to Milford Haven, Wales. In 1805, he was Master of the whaleship Charles of Milford Haven and, in 1817, Master of the whaleship Hydra of Plymouth, England. At Tres Maria Islands, off Mexico, he helped a British captain quell a mutiny on the Ship Shakespeare. Shortly after, the Ship Hydra was held captive by the Spanish in Callao for six months. In 1823-1824, he was Master of the whaleship Emily of London, England which sailed for Australia and the Japan Grounds via the Cape of Good Hope. Captain Forman Marshall Mount ( -1827), a British captain, was the husband of Mary Ann (Russell) Mount (1803- ), daughter of Captain Laban and Mary (Hayden) Russell. Please note that some of the metadata for this document has been drawn from the Nantucket Historical Association catalogue. |
| Copyright | Nantucket Historical Association |
