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Mayhew Folger (March 9, 1774 – September 1, 1828) was an American whaler who captained the sealing ship Topaz that rediscovered the Pitcairn Islands in 1808, whilst one of HMS Bounty's mutineers was still living.
Mayhew Folger (March 9, 1774 – September 1, 1828) was an American whaler who captained the sealing ship Topaz that rediscovered the Pitcairn Islands in 1808. Only one of HMS Bounty's mutineers was still alive: John Adams, whose alias was Alexander Smith.
Nantucket-born sea captain Mayhew Folger is credited with three global circumnavigations and the 1808 rediscovery of Pitcairn Island and the sole surviving mutineer from The Bounty and his descendants. Retired from seafaring, Folger became Massillon’s first postmaster and operated the Commercial Inn in downtown Massillon, catering to canal ...
FOLGER, Mayhew Captain of the American sealer Topaz. Folger was a skipper from Nantucket who worked for Messrs Boardman and Pope, dealers in seal skins. With their ship Topaz he had left Boston harbor on Sunday, April 5, 1807, to hunt for seals in the South Pacific.
Mayhew Folger was an American whaler who captained the sealing ship Topaz that rediscovered the Pitcairn Islands in 1808. Only one of HMS Bounty's mutineers was still alive: John Adams, whose alias was Alexander Smith.
16 de abr. de 2018 · And with those words, penned by Massillon's Mayhew Folger in a letter to the Lords Admiralty in London more than 200 years ago, the erstwhile ship captain explained just how quickly he found...
3 de dic. de 2021 · Robert H. Folger, the oldest practicing lawyer in America, has, at his home in Massillon, 0h, a treasure in the way of a ship's log kept by his father, Captain Mayhew Folger, of the good ship Topaz. While making his last cruise in the Pacific.
