The autobiography of Ashley Bowen, (1728-1813)
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The autobiography of Ashley Bowen, (1728-1813)
(Broadview editions)
Broadview Press, c2006
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-144)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The first American sailor known to write his own autobiography, Ashley Bowen remains a valuable storyteller who can speak to today's readers about the maritime world in the age of sail. Ashley Bowen began his seafaring career at the age of eleven. After leaving the sea, Bowen spent the rest of his days as a ship-rigger in Marblehead, Massachusetts. A witness to significant historical events, including the British conquest of Canada and the American Revolution, Ashley Bowen confounds today's audience with his eighteenth-century interpretation of events-an interpretation informed by his deeply religious beliefs and his suspicion of Yankee patriotism.
The Broadview edition is the first to present the story of Ashley Bowen as a continuous narrative. Vickers' introduction provides the context for Bowen's life in colonial New England, and additional writings by Ashley Bowen and his Marblehead contemporaries are included. The appendices include Bowen's diary accounts of his experiences in the 1759 British expedition against Quebec, smallpox epidemics, and the American Revolution.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
Ashley Bowen: A Brief Chronology
The Autobiography of Ashley Bowen (1728-1813)
Appendix A: Ashley Bowen, "Courtship of Dorothy Chadwick"
Appendix B: Ashley Bowen, Journal Entries Relating to the Seven Years War and the Expedition Against Quebec, 1759
Voyage to Quebec
Quebec Campaign
Battle of the Plains of Abraham and the Capture of Quebec
Appendix C: Smallpox
Ashley Bowen, "A Memorandum of the Smallpox from the First Discovery at Marblehead, 1773"
Ashley Bowen, Journal Entries on the Smallpox Epidemic and Inoculation Controversy (1773-74)
Excerpts from the Essex Gazette Relating to the Smallpox Epidemic and Inoculation Controversy (1773-74)
Ashley Bowen, Journal Entries Relating to the Smallpox Epidemic (1777)
Ashley Bowen, Journal Entries on Minding the Smokehouse During the Smallpox Epidemic (1792)
Appendix D: Ashley Bowen, Journal Entries During the American Revolution
The Coercive Acts Take Effect (1774)
Lexington and Concord (1775)
Bunker Hill (1775)
Benedict Arnold's Attack on Quebec (1775-76)
Two Weeks in the War (1776)
Campaign in the Middle Colonies (1776-77)
Religion and Revolution in Marblehead
Appendix E: Personal Writings of Ashley Bowen
Poetry
On Smallpox
On Revolution and Religion
On Marriage
Dreams
Appendix F: Contemporary Accounts of Marblehead
Reverend John Barnard (1714-66)
Alexander Hamilton (1744)
Francis Goelet (1750)
Ensign Francis Williams (1775)
Robert Honyman (1775)
Francisco de Miranda (1784)
George Washington (1789)
Appendix G: Miscellaneous Writings
Journal of Elizabeth Bowen Martin
Letter from Nathan Bowen to Ashley Bowen (24 May 1757)
From the Boston News-Letter and New England Chronicle (10 March 1763)
From a Letter from Ashley Bowen to the Reverend William Bentley (14 May 1807)
From William Bentley's Diary
Ashley Bowen's Obituary, Essex Register (6 February 1813)
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