The East India Marine Society (est.1799) of Salem, Massachusetts

Salem, Massachusetts

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 was "composed of persons who have actually navigated the seas beyond the Cape of Good Hope

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 or Cape Horn

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, as masters or supercargoes of vessels belonging to Salem." It functioned as a charitable and educational organization, and maintained a library and museum. In 1867 the society became the Peabody Academy of Science

Peabody Academy of Science

The Peabody Academy of Science in Salem, Massachusetts, "was organized in 1868, having received funds ... from George Peabody of London ... for the 'promotion of science and useful knowledge in the county of Essex.'" It was incorporated by "Asa Gray, of Cambridge, William C. Endicott, of Salem,...

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Members in 1800 included:

• James Barr Jr.
• Benjamin Bullock
• John Burchmore
• Johnathan Carnes
• Benjamin Carpenter
• Henry Clarke
• Benjamin Crowninshield
• Clifford Crowninshield
• Samuel Derby
• Henry Elkins

• John Felt
• Richard Gardner
• John Gibaut
• Daniel Hathorne
• Benjamin Hodges
• George Hodges
• Jonathan Hodges
• Jonathan Ingersoll
• William Ives
• Jonathan Lambert

• Samuel Lambert
• Benjamin Lander
• Jonathan Mason
• Ichabod Nicols
• Josiah Orne
• John Osgood
• John Prince Jr.
• Thomas Putnam
• William Richardson

• William Robinson
• John Ropes
• Joseph Ropes
• Nathaniel Silsbee
• George Girdler Smith
• Enoch Swett
• Moses Townsend
• Benjamin Webb Jr.
• Edward West
• Israel Williams

Further reading

• "East India Marine Society" in: Duane Hamilton Hurd. History of Essex County, Massachusetts: with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, Volume 1, Part 1. J. W. Lewis & Co., 1887
• Whitehill. The East India Marine Society and the Peabody Museum of Salem; a sesquicentennial history. Salem, Mass., Peabody Museum, 1949.
• James M. Lindgren. "That Every Mariner May Possess the History of the World": A Cabinet for the East India Marine Society of Salem. The New England Quarterly, Vol. 68, No. 2 (Jun., 1995), pp. 179-205