{"id":77,"date":"2013-07-12T17:56:56","date_gmt":"2013-07-12T17:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macyplace.com\/tom\/blog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2013-07-12T17:56:56","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T17:56:56","slug":"truth-of-rebecca-anns-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/12\/truth-of-rebecca-anns-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Truth of Rebecca Ann&#8217;s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I first came across the story of Rebecca Ann Johnson, I thought it merely a fictitious tale. However, when her name came up while researching family history in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nha.org\/\">Nantucket Historical Association<\/a>\u2019s library, I took a more serious look. The things she did were astounding. Her story needed to be told. Here are some historical documents referenced in writing <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstfury.com\/\">First Fury<\/a><\/span>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macyplace.com\/FirstFury\/FunStuff\/ConsulateToCoffin.htm\">Letter<\/a> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 from A. Bathurst, American Consul to Peru,\u00a0to Charles and Henry \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Coffin in Nantucket, owners of the ship on which Ann sailed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macyplace.com\/FirstFury\/Supplementary\/RichText_News_DailyDemocrat_FemaleSailor.rtf\">Story<\/a> from The Rochester Daily Democrat, August 22, 1849, page 2.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macyplace.com\/FirstFury\/Supplementary\/RichText_News_ThePolynesian_Romance.rtf\">Story<\/a> in The Polynesian, August 25, 1849, A Romance of the Ocean.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More documentation can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstfury.com\/\">FirstFury.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">First Fury<\/span><\/strong> is available as an eBook at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/books\/1110108426\">Barnes &amp; Noble<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/First-Fury-ebook\/dp\/B007SQBHKQ\/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1334685125&amp;sr=1-1\">Amazon<\/a>, And on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstfury.com\/\">web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first came across the story of Rebecca Ann Johnson, I thought it merely a fictitious tale. However, when her name came up while researching family history in the Nantucket Historical Association\u2019s library, I took a more serious look. The things she did were astounding. Her story needed to be told. Here are some &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/12\/truth-of-rebecca-anns-story\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Truth of Rebecca Ann&#8217;s Story&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[22,111,117],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firstfury","tag-22","tag-whaling","tag-woman-whaler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tom.macyplace.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}