Illustrations

Frontispiece

Color Plate. The ship Argo of Marblehead entering York Harbor, Maine, where she was wrecked 21 November 1782.

Plate XXV. Miscellaneous shipping sketches by Ashley Bowen.

Plate XXVI. View of Marblehead from the harbor, 1763, with the brig Success, and a view of Cat Island with the smallpox hospital, 1773.

Plate XXVII. Cat Island, as seen from Marblehead Harbor, with smallpox hospital, and flag flown from the hospital, 1773.

Plate XXVIII. Schooner Sally and sloop Eagle, 1778, and sketch of a figurehead from an unidentified vessel.

Plate XXIX. Schooner Gates and sloop Eagle, 1779–1780.

Plate XXX. Unidentified brig of the Royal Navy and views of the wreck of the Salem ship Postillion, 1781.

Plate XXXI. Ship Argo of Marblehead, 1782, and a diagram of the sun’s declination, 1801.

Plate XXXII. Shipping sketches and genealogical table of the Bowen family.

Plate XXXIII. Marblehead House Flags of the post-Revolutionary period.

Plate XXXIV. Marblehead House Flags of the post-Revolutionary period.

Plate XXXV. Marblehead House Flags of the post-Revolutionary period.

Plate XXXVI. Marblehead House Flags of the post-Revolutionary period.

Plate XXXVII. Illustration of Ashley Bowen’s dream of 9 July 1776.

Plate XXXVIII. The drowning of John Pedrick and Samuel Hiter in Marblehead Harbor and their subsequent funeral procession in Marblehead, September 1808.

Plate XXXIX. Unfinished sketch of the Pedrick-Hiter funeral, September 1808.

Plate XL. Unfinished sketch map of the English and Dutch coasts.