- MS-1467
- Series
- 1798-1799
Part of William Sturgis fonds
Series consists of a copy of the log and a journal of the voyage of the ship Eliza from Boston to the Northwest Coast of North America from the William Sturgis papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society. The journal, published as The Journal of William Sturgis (edited with an introduction and notes by S.W. Jackman, Victoria: Sono Nis Press, 1978) is attributed to ship's clerk Samuel Burling, later known as Samuel Curson. See MHS catalog entries and Mary Malloy, Boston Men on the Northwest Coast (Kingston: Limestone Press, 1998).
Purchased from the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1976.