Note 10 — Front matter
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[1] I conclude the old Admiral, was mistaken here, as the name, Cobb, is not in her list of passengers, but I did not know it then—they, probably, came in the next vessell, the Cherub.
[2] Lorient.
[3] La Vendée.
[4] [rowing. Ed.]
[5] [cartile. Probably cartel = an agreement between enemies for the exchange of prisoners. Ed.]
[6] [General Cobb seems to have had in mind the frigate Congress. If so, his memory was at fault, for it was in the Essex that Porter captured the Alert, which was the first British war vessel taken in the War of 1812. Ed.]
[7] Capt. Isaac Clark, Capt. Joseph Mayo, Capt. David Nickerson, Godfrey Lincoln (Capt. Warren’s young brother) died in Africa or on the passage home.
[8] [Elijah Winslow Cobb, a grandson of Elijah Cobb. Ed.]
[9] [“A white linen fabric made in Silesia for export to America.” Simmonds, Dict. Trade, 1858. Ed.]
[10] MS. damaged.
[11] MS. damaged.
[12] MS. damaged.
[13] MS. damaged.
[14] MS. damaged.
[15] MS. torn.
[16] [A Whig Campaign paper published in Boston. Volume I, Number 1, appeared September 5, 1838. Ed.]