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Life and Letters of Harrison Gray Otis. 2 vols. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913. A History of the Constitution of Massachusetts. Boston: Wright & Potter, 1917. The Maritime History of Massachusetts, 1783–1860. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1921. A Prologue to American History: An Inaugural Lecture. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1922.
Samuel Eliot Morison was born July 9, 1887, in Boston, Massachusetts, to John Holmes Morison (1856–1911) and Emily Marshall (Eliot) Morison (1857–1925).He was named for his maternal grandfather Samuel Eliot—a historian, educator, and public-minded citizen of Boston and Hartford, Connecticut.
Snow is widely known for his stories of pirates and other nautical subjects; he wrote over forty books and many shorter publications. In all, he was the author of more than 100 publications, mainly about New England coastal history. [4] Mr. Snow was also a major chronicler of New England maritime history.
Until the advent of air transport and the creation of the Channel Tunnel, marine transport was the only way of reaching the rest of Europe from England and for this reason, maritime trade and naval power have always had great importance. Prior to the Acts of Union in 1707, the maritime history of the British Isles was largely dominated by England.
The Boston Marine Museum (1909-1947) in Boston, Massachusetts, specialized in maritime history. Its collections were displayed in the Old State House in rooms borrowed from the Bostonian Society . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Among the objects in the museum were figureheads ; model ships ; "whaling implements, ... prints and pictures;" [ 3 ] manuscripts; [ nb 1 ...
America and The Sea: A Maritime History by Benjamin W. Labaree, William M. Fowler Jr., John B. Hattendorf, Edward W. Sloan, Jeffrey J. Safford, and Andrew German, (1998) Empires at War: The French and Indian War and the Struggle for North America, 1754–1763 (2005) America and The Sea: Treasures from the collection of Mystic Seaport (co-author ...
Records Relating to the Early History of Boston – Selectmen Minutes 1818–1822. City of Boston. 1909. Bacon, Edwin M. (1916). The Book of Boston: Fifty Years' Recollections of the New England Metropolis. Boston: The Pilgrim Press. ISBN 978-0-788428951. Bacon, Edwin M. (1886). Boston Illustrated. Cole, William I. (April 1898).
Arrival of the Winthrop Colony, by William F. Halsall. The Winthrop Fleet was a group of 11 ships led by John Winthrop out of a total of 16 [1] funded by the Massachusetts Bay Company which together carried between 700 and 1,000 Puritans plus livestock and provisions from England to New England over the summer of 1630, during the first period of the Great Migration.