Seafaring in Seventeenth-Century New England
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9356131 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John William McElroy (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1935 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 331-331 |
| Publication date | 1935-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The New England Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-4866 • E-ISSN: 1937-2213 |
| Publisher | The MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/360955 |
| OpenAlex | W2321667424 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
T HE colonists who settled in New England were not a seafaring Probably the greater part of these yeomen, middle-class tradesmen, and lesser gentry made their first acquaintance with the sea and sailors on board the ships that carried them from England. On landing on these shores most of them would probably have agreed that seafarers, generally, were rude fellows blasphemous and unfit to associate with God's people. Captain John Smith had warned unexperienced planters against the brutality of mariners toward the human cargoes entrusted to their care. In this case some masters are very provident, but the most part so they can get fraught enough, care not much whether the passengers live or die, for a common sailer regards not a landsman, especially a poore passenger, as I have seene too oft approved by lamentable experience, although we have victualled them all at our owne charges. 1 Yet the Puritan emigrants were unprepared for such shocking speech and bawdy behavior as they found among the seamen. Almost every journal kept aboard these first emigrant ships tells a like story. On the Mayflower, in 162o, for instance
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0.21 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2019 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |