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Thread #126347 Message #3190096
Posted By: GUEST,Bob Walser
18-Jul-11 - 12:27 PM
Thread Name: From SF to Sydney - 1853 Shanties Sung?
Subject: RE: From SF to Sydney - 1853 Shanties Sung?
Re: Meacom, FYI: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register lists him thus: Capt. George Meacom, sea captain, born 6 June 1839 in Beverly, Mass. Died 28 Nov. 1908 in Dorchester. Mass.
click here - Google Books
I wonder if anyone has located the original publication of this letter in the _Boston Transcript_. It would likely predate his 1908 demise and Whidden's book of the same year - but by how much?