Captain Aaron Paddack's Letter Concerning the Wreck of the Essex

Identifier: GPN3253
Title: Captain Aaron Paddack's Letter Concerning the Wreck of the Essex
Creator: Paddack, Aaron (1784 - 1824)
Measurements: Unknown
Materials: ink; paper (fiber product)
Technique: writing (processes)
Date Created: February 13, 1821
Location: Nantucket Historical Association
Subject: Letters; Shipwrecks; Whaling
Description: A page of a letter written in cursive in black ink. On the morning of February 23, 1821, Captain George Pollard, Jr. and Charles Ramsdell were rescued by the whaleship “Dauphin” of Nantucket. That evening, Captain Zimri Coffin of the “Dauphin,” Captain Aaron Paddack of the whaleship “Diana” of New York, and Captain George Pollard, Jr. had dinner together aboard the “Dauphin.”