"No Seas Can Now Divide Us": Captains' Wives, Sister Sailors, and the New England Whale fishery, 1840-1870

Charlotte Coffin Wyer daughter of Asa Coffin and Phebe Morselander Coffin. She was the wife of Captain Samuel Wyer. Credit: Nantucket Historical Association collection. Charlotte was among the Nantucket wives who kept a diary MS220 Log 268, Charlotte Coffin Wyer whaling journal https://archive.org/details/ms220log268

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