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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 28., Old ships and Ship-building days of Medford. (search)
this would probably have been the case if the discovery of gold in California and the consequent high prices had not made the question of speed of greater importance. The first vessel built in this part of the country on these ideas was the Game Cock, built by Samuel Hall at East Boston in 1850, and the same year James O. Curtis of Medford built the Shooting Star, 900 tons, for Reed and Wade of Boston. She was one of twenty-six ships which made the passage twice from Boston or New York to Flying Cloud and once by the Andrew Jackson. from New York. She was designed by Samuel A. Pook of Boston, who also designed the Ocean Telegraph, built by James O. Curtis in 1854. Other famous ships designed by Mr. Pook were the Red Jacket and Game Cock. Captain Clark mentions twenty-three Medford ships in a list of one hundred and seventy-three extreme type of clipper ships built between 1850 and 1857, and in a record of one hundred and twenty-eight passages made to San Francisco in 110 da
The Daily Dispatch: February 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], The secession question to be Tested in Court. (search)
rchants, mechanics, lawyers, doctors, Presidents and Cashiers of Banks, clerks, and negroes, are all, all hard at work, and many of these gentlemen, who at home live on the fat of the land, now take "pot luck," on the same bench, out of wooden trays, along with the laborers, and in many cases master and slave dipping from the same platter. This is no fancy sketch — it is so daily. And yet those silly Yankees talk about "coercing" such men. Why, they could never subjugate the little "Game Cock," alone. They might give us trouble, but what of that. I have heard that Gen. Scott said, after the war with Mexico, "Give me the Palmetto Regiment, and I could whip the d--1." The same stuff remains here still. Our cotton market is very brisk, and at advanced prices. The panic about taking it for breastworks and fortifications is about over, and the receipts have largely increased. The rice crop is large and fine, and selling at highly remunerative figures, and when the w