1837-1861

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1837-1861

The captain's wife

a novel
2001
A fictionalized account of Mary Patten's efforts to control a ship of mutinous sailors in July, 1856.
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Mary Patten's voyage

1994
A sailor recalls how the eighteen-year-old wife of Captain Joshua Patten took charge of the clipper ship Neptune's Car during a race from New York to San Francisco in 1856.
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