HUB History - Our Favorite Stories from Boston History

This week, enjoy three classic stories about Bostonians and their adventures on the Pacific Ocean. First, we’ll hear about the voyages of the Columbia to the Pacific Northwest starting in 1787, then we’ll move on to the Congregational missionaries who descended on Hawaii in 1823, and finally, we’ll talk about the Boston whaler who brought the industrial revolution to Spanish California. While you’re listening to these three classic stories, see if you can figure out what I’m working on that would involve a Brookline native on a small boat in the Solomon Islands in August 1943!

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Around the World on the Columbia

• Robert Haswell’s log of the 1787 voyage
• Don Martinez passes news of the Columbia to Boston
• The Columbia returns to Boston in 1790
• John Quincy Adams writes to Abigail Adams about the Columbia’s 1790 return
• John Boit’s log of the 1790 voyage
• Haswell’s partial log of the 1790 voyage
• Captain Robert Gray’s surviving 1790 log entries
• The detailed map of the Northwest created on the 1790 voyage
• History of the Columbia River by William Denison Lyman
• Hubert Howe Bancroft’s History of the Northwest Coast
• How Charles Bulfinch recovered Robert Gray’s log
• Dean A Fales’ 1960 paper on Joseph Barrell
• A 1989 thesis on the second voyage
• The Life of Letters of Charles Bulfinch, Architect by Ellen Susan Bulfinch
• Samuel Eliot Morrison’s The Maritime History of Massachusetts 1783-1860
• Martha Gray’s petition for a Revolutionary widow’s pension
• Morrison’s” Boston Traders in the Hawaiian Islands, 1789-1823″
• The images below are from a museum in San Francisco

Puritans in Paradise Keawala’i Palapala Ho’omau Huialoha Huialoha Huialoha Huialoha Nahiku Nahiku Lahuiokalani Ka’ānapali Kahakuloa Lanakila Ihiihi O Iehowa Ona Kava in Keanae Lanakila Ihiihi O Iehowa Ona Kava in Keanae Keolahou Waiola in Lahaina Royal burial plot at Waiola Royal burial plot at Waiola Wananalua in Hana

• Morrison, S. E. “Boston Traders in Hawaiian Islands, 1789-1823.” The Washington Historical Quarterly, vol. 12, no. 3, 1921
• History of the Sandwich Islands Mission, Rufus Anderson, 1870
• A Narrative of Five Youth from the Sandwich Islands, 1816
• A Residence of Twenty-one Years in the Sandwich Islands, Hiram Bingham, 1848
• Tate, Merze. “The Sandwich Islands Missionaries Create a Literature.” Church History, vol. 31, no. 2, 1962
• Portraits of American Protestant missionaries to Hawaii
• The Hawaiian Kingdom, Volume I, Ralph S Kuykendall, 1938
• Island Queens and Mission Wives, How Gender and Empire Remade Hawaii’s Pacific World, Jennifer Thigpen, 2014
• Background on Opukaha’ia from an independent researcher
• Empire of the Young: Missionary Children in Hawai‘i and the Birth of U.S. Colonialism in the Pacific, 1820-1898, dissertation by Joy Schulz, 2011
• The congregation at Keawala’i refuses to deed their church and land to the missionary society in Boston
• The 1848 panorama of a whaling voyage around the world that our header image is taken from
• A travelog of the bicentennial trip to Boston
• Rediscovering the royal complex at Moku’ula

Joseph Chapman, from Boston to L.A. The only known photo of Joseph and Guadalupe Chapman ca 1847

• Scott, Paul T. “Why Joseph Chapman Adopted California and ‘Why California Adopted Him.’” The Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly, vol. 38, no. 3, 1956, pp. 239–246.
• Ward, Jean Bruce, and Gary Kurutz. “Some New Thoughts on an Old Mill.” California Historical Quarterly, vol. 53, no. 2, 1974, pp. 139–164
• Mason, Jesse D; Thompson & West, History of Santa Barbara county, California, with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers
• Robinson, Alfred, Life in California: Being a Residence of Several Years in that Territory
• Transcription of Jedediah Smith’s Journal – First Expedition to California, 7 Aug 1826 – 3 Jul 1827
• Harrison Rogers’ journal in Dale, Harrison Clifford; Smith, Jedediah Strong; Rogers, Harrison G; Ashley, William Henry; The Ashley-Smith explorations and the discovery of a central route to the Pacific, 1822-1829: with the original journals
• Notes on the mission mills from the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation
• Photos and archaeological survey of the millrace prepared for the National Park Service in 2012
• The Pasadena Star News reports on the unveiling of the relocated millrace in 2013
• Additional details from the unveiling
• The mission church at San Gabriel suffers a devastating fire in July 2020. Ongoing updates.

The campanario, or wall of bells, at San Gabriel Chapman’s millrace The historic plaque that caught my attention Enormous grape vine Tiny grapes Diagram of Chapman’s Mill Millrace as excavated in 2009 A monument to the thousands of Tongvans buried at San Gabriel