Harvard University - Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School / Heard family. Heard family business records, Volume FP-4, Folder GQ-2-2, and Volume JP-
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Mss:766 1754-1898. Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School.
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hanch
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BenJamin Chandler Howard,
Uter I had bun here. ;year and a half
rq
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out, and it became doubtful ..hether I could continue
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t.ther .t that t1Ille
had
an intere.t 11l the Ship Argo. c_ended b:r
IV'
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Oncl. JOllph Farl.,..
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_
I col..,. on .. 1'07a,:e to Ba1'&n.a and Rualia,
IlIld. atter IIIUCh
h'kinC.
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t
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s daeided that I ehould CO 111 her. I &1_
W8¥e IfOOdered that
m;y
thlcb Joe should
ha1"
been wUl1ng
to
t'lre
1
liii,
tor
I could
do
him
no good, and muet be a hea.". responlibUlV. How–
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er.
So
I did.
My
berth .... to be in the eabll1. but I w.s to do what
work I could. So behold II1II l«W1ched on
TlJi1
owo hook. Ie sailed trom
:
ao.t01l on the 3z'd of
Ma.:r
1839.
whtl1 I 1IIUI thirteen :re.n IlIld e1ght
1
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rattl1D& Uor'Iest.er ... blowiUC. and .. were eoOl1 .t
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..
hanes IUld aU10c it I tight CO alott. eo that I had becOlllll quite
protici.nt
ip.
cl1:Dblnc. and tew
DIIll
could beat me ln the rlulD( •
.1.
eoOll •• w. were clear
ot
1
I0etoo Licht I .tarted alan, IUld wae eoon
pton:hed on tM main r07&1
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ard.
But
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prlde loon
had.
a dOWDfall, for
the IIOt1011, 1I!11ch
was
ne...
h ••
t that hail;ht, produced tbe eftect that
tight be npected. and I was 'fIIry Clad. to reach the comparlti1'e terra
tima of the deck. I _e ll1 ..r.ble all the pas..ce.- not that I .....
e,;act4' .e.lick. but .0 ..eAk: that I could acarcel¥ cr.wl rov.nd
the
deck.
I wae not able to etand a watch _ ln fact, could do 1I0thinc.
Ow'
pa.ng.
was prolol'\(ed by ooosta.nt celml, eo that we did 1I0t uri1'e
until the twenty-tirst
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