The Escape of Lewis Baker–Statement of Capt. Chipman, of the Brig Isabella Jewett.
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About the second day of March, I think, a stranger came on board the brig, then lying at Jersey City, and said he had a friend in feeble health, who wanted to go to the Canary Islands and back with me. I asked him what kind of a man he was; he said he was a poor laboring man, and had been to sea some. I told him I would meet him next View Full Article in Timesmachine »