Thomas Nickerson Manuscript

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Thomas Nickerson First Name
(Thomas)
Last Name
(Nickerson)
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(sailor; boarding house proprietor)

1820

Galapagos Islands, Galapagos, Ecuador

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Source: Account of the Ship Essex Sinking, 1819-1821. Holograph ms. in the Thomas Nickerson Collection, 1819-1876, Folder 1. Nantucket, Massachusetts: Nantucket Historical Society.
2000 “Nickerson's ‘Desultory Sketches.’ ” Reprint of ca. 1876 ms. in The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale: First-Person Accounts. Nathaniel & Thomas Philbrick, editors. New York: Penguin Books.
See also Chase.

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