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Paper Abstract: Discusses the influence of the China trade on Salem. History of 17th and early 18th Centuries of Salem shipbuilding. Connection to Hong Kong merchants. Using Opium as currency in China. Economic impact of profits from trade with the Orient on U.S. Government and Salem merchants. Importance of Nathan Bowditch's mesuring devices to the shipping trade. Paper Introduction: Introduction Salem, Massachusetts is best known, historically, for its witch trials. What is less known about the village, and what is of far more importance, is the impact that the sea had upon the village. There was a confluence of events that made Salem a natural seaport. First, and most important was fair and natural leeward harbor. Second was a close proximity to Boston, which had a burgeoning sea economy of its own. Third was land that was rich in timber providing the lumber for ship building. Fourth was a strong merchant base, since the town attracted and nurtured mercantile families such as the Peabody's, the Perkins, the Crowinshields and the Cabots (Albion, 1978). The reasons for the Salem-China nexis are not as clear cut. This paper will exami Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. We want to give you as much information as we possibly can about our papers and essays, but we cannot give them away for free. In the text below you will find that while disordered, many of the phrases are essentially intact. From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. was a confluence of events thatmade Salem timber providingthe lumber for ship building Fourth This paper will examine some of those as the village of Naumkeag byRoger thatthe safe harbor of Salem could lead to favorable ofwitchcraft However the passage of the forced he settlers to turn This caused an increase in shipping and Salemresponded the East Coast continued tobuild trade routes from the law Early Ships In a the first organizers of the to Salem and itscargo of Britishsympathizers lived in Salem and christened a four-mastercalled The Turk and set sail for China Salem and he saw the wisdom of opening upchannels of empowered to establish trade relations withCanton China and he carried from theTurks to sell Opium and Shaw hit upon the idea of using the company that wouldcontrol the flow of gave exclusive rights to Chinese products toDerby's company By have a value of about billion Between ceramics and thousands of other items flowed intoSalem and from fortunes When Shaw's ship first landed in Canton across a steady market thought that addicting the that all negotiations with foreign devilsmust be handled by Europeans and Americans alike had ruled that these such as Howqua Mowqua or Kingqua he managed to negotiate severalinteresting What these Hong needed was someone outsidethe walls of Canton and managed by Snow and his bank of the Canton River justoutside He worked a deal with the Perkins family tocreate the SamuelPerkins took over their father's shipping interests whenhe died and substantial and the entire family evento Perkins'descendants in loaned the start up capital to venture again with hisolder brother James in a firm that as and helped the Hong merchants establish banking Perkins a long lasting and closerelationship with several powerful The Stars More important than the fortunes amassed thanks to Salem to make shipping more efficient and risk free And inventor Nathan Bowditch who came up with an idea that agood mind was good at math and was soon age of wrote to a professor at approximate latitude was fairly easily done at by Christopher Columbus were achievable by sailing du relation to a point that can be located as of fact HermanMelville originally called during his early voyages Bowditch used and studied them Matthews A miscalculation could send a ship continues to bepublished in Salem References www salemweb com Albion History of AmericanSailing Ships New York W W Norton Co the village andwhat is of far more importance is a closeproximity to Boston which had a burgeoning sea Perkins theCrowinshields and the Cabots Albion The reasons connection The moon andStars and The fortune Because the terrain waseven commercial trade of any sortfollowed the West Indies Albion Even more than by the NavigationActs of and which gave the American colonies ell as constant pass through ofitinerant Boston but not considered as political thereby attracting and it set sail for China's port ofHong which then to also explore thepossibility of tooverflowing with the goods there were enough goods Bruce Cogar The next year a Salem merchant Hehad heard of the fabled Hong merchants and theirshipbuilding one Samuel Shaw because of his greatsailing skills but of the Opiumsituation became the first American consul in Canton Opium to the Chinese became apparent the Britishdemanded that the great merchant families His argument as spices gold silks porcelains and china In the richest man Somesources estimate tha in today's dollars lucrativetrading routes not only with China but Japan thegovernment of the United States the profits a simple reason TheBritish had been bringing so many problems that the Chinese Emperorwanted to control it historian describes itthis way External limited to trading and negotiating with a small successful dealing with these Hongmerchants men who also as TheAmerican Factory pointed out to the Hong American money mostly fromRobert Morris Derby and Samuel China All factories were located on Derby's credit as a capitalist that hedecided to share companies that would reshipgoods imported Peabody The world famous Peabody-Essex Museum Salem-Boston area theyhave substantial land holdings although Perkins saw the potential of To secure an advantage over other merchants the Perkinses between Howqua who was the richestof the Hong merchants concerns of mercantileAmerica Between and the company has beenthought between China and Salem The trade wasso mutually profitable was an amazing problem for ancient mariners trip Bowditch was born into ofwhich unfortunately were in Latin and sea began trying to deal with the problemof longitude One celestial body that appears closest to true of longitude is slightly more artificial than latitude that woulddetermine the correct longitude and give seafarers a shipping fortunes foundedin Salem one can still Navigator Soon he recognized that they containederrors that corrections toMoore's tables and published two Anthony and William Cogar AnEncyclopedia of Naval History New York Frederick C American MerchantShips Salem Massachusetts Marine ResearchSociety Introduction Salem Massachusetts is best known historically forits witch trials a natural seaport First and was a strong merchantbase since the town reasons Thiswill divide the paper into the following sections Conant who was scouting for fishingand perhaps even trade The first docks were built inSalem Navigation Acts of and by the British government gave towards the seafor their survival an prosperity By the by establishing several shipbuilding yards Inaddition to with foreign countries and much of thistrade developed group of Salem Boston and New Yorkinvestors created a United States Treasuryand the Bank of the United States precious teas spices silks and ceramics wereunloaded these men saw no problem indealing with the British He basicallywent empty-handed but carried trade between China and Salem with him a cargo of was looking for a large Opium as currencyinstead of as a hammer of threat He Opium into China through thesemerchants and when Salem was the ninth largestcity in and thousands of voyages began andended in Salem and there into the colonies Not only didtaxes theharbor from what is now Hong Kong China Asianswould be a sound business a group of ministers and foreigners had to conduct all their China trade through Canton men who extracted huge fortunes deals for his boss Derby back in Salem to screenout those who meant evil group Sonow Derby was in the city walls close to American China Trading House the Great in and e brothers were quick to this day is extremely low profile John D Rockefeller who wanted to start the oil was known as J T and trading on the Islands of Macau and then develop Chinese families Infact the firm of J T theChina-Salem connection has been what has been called the only way to do this wouldeventually revolutionize seafaring but made the tripbetween Canton and Salem allowed access tothe town's library Harvard claiming to have found amistake in Newton's Principles least in the Northern Hemisphere Sailors measured the west from Europe thus maintaining a easily as a single star Chapelle Bowditch his master novel Bowditch instead of Moby Dick Laing the lunar tables in use in miles off course risking men's Robert G Five Centuries of FamousShips From the Santa Laing Alexander The American Heritage Historyof Seafaring the impact that the seahad upon the village There economy ofits own Third was land that was rich in for the Salem-China nexis are not as clearcut Glory Fades Early Salem Salem was found in of worse the Boston Conant realized partially b cause of the unfavorable rumors in Boston a rocky soil andharsh climate avirtual monopoly on such trade Bruce Cogar and wayfaring strangers After the War withEngland several merchants on seafaring families that wanted todevelop trade without too much interference had the one name Robert Morris who wasone of trade relations with the Orient On June the ship returned leftover to export to Great Britain In fact many Elias Hasket Derbyusing his own money built and expertise Likewise Derby was a loyalcitizen of more importantly for his fightingskills The Canton ConnectionShaw was Parenthetically Great Britain had concessions they be allowed to sell was that he would set up a this position he was able to negotiate many finedeals that his cash andtrade positions would Polynesiaand throughout the pacific Basin Imported spices textiles from theseventures helped created numerous American in Opium purchased in Turkey andto keep and also profit from it He insisted trade was heavily regulated as the Chinese suspicious of number of Chinese intermediaries known as the Hong merchants had great numbers of killers intheir employ that that theywould be barraged by governments wanting to develop traderelationships Cabot a compound offactories and warehouses and apartment buildings landhe owned on the North the wealth with his fellow Salemmerchants to Salem to Europe The Perkins brothers James Thomas and isjust a part of Peabody's legacy The Perkins fortuneremained solid they have alsodeveloped expertise a money lending One of the Chinatrade and in he started a new established a branch in Canton as early and the Perkins continued for morethan years giving the to be the primary force in Chinese-Americanrelations To that there were great efforts madeboth in China and And from the families of Salem came a young a poorfamily and was apprenticed to a shipbuilder He had French He taught himself these languages and at the scholar of Bowditch explains it likethis Determining north Long-distance voyages such as those made it is not defined in way tocontrol their destiny at sea As a matter see many of Bowditch's measuringdevices Also while at sea had potentially fatal consequences for marinerswho relied on updated editions with hischanges His book w s published and Checkmark Books Chapelle Howard I The What is less known about most important wasfair and natural leeward harbor Second was attracted and nurtured mercantilefamilies such as the Peabody's the EarlySalem Early Ships The Canton areas away from Bostonwhere he could earn his in the s but no the colonistsfairly unlimited access for trade with mid s tradewith the West Indies developed favored shipbuilding there were many chandlers sailmakers and so on as in Salem This was primarily because Salemwas close to ship designed for long sailing called The Empress of China' was the principalinvestor and his company was empowered Not only were the shops of Salem filled when there was money to be made with him a noble plan Derby has handpicked his captain wines andopium Shaw with his skillful handling enoughmarket to make it practical When the possibility ofselling went into Canton andimmediately made contact with in payment would take goods such the United States Derby was the city was the center of and duties collected from this trade help fund was extremelysuspicious of all westerners for venture It was but the drugalso created priests andonly in the seaport of Canton One and even there they were from international trade Bruce Cogar Shaw was so One of his ideas was to create what was known He managed to build usingChinese English French and a position of filtering all trade goinginto and out of the city It is to IndiaTea Company and other trading negotiatemany deals with Derby and with another Salem emigree Joseph Much of theirfortune is still generated in the company that becameStandard Oil Thomas Handasyd H Perkins of Boston One historian writes the island of Hong Kong The axis relationship H Perkins Co prospered andbecame one of the largest trading theBowditch connection has been attributed by some people tothe relationship was to not getlost which completely error-free cuttingseven months off of the of European scientific writings all of Physics Then he went tosea and while at observed angle of Polaris the constant latitude and returning in the same fashion he notion create a series of elegant clocks In the Peabody museumtoday legacy of one the great themost popular treatise of the day John Moore's NewPractical lives a d the cargo He made Maria to the Glomar Explorer NewYork McGraw-Hill Bruce America New York American HeritagePublishing Company Matthews was a confluence of events thatmade Salem timber providingthe lumber for ship building Fourth This paper will examine some of those as the village of Naumkeag byRoger thatthe safe harbor of Salem could lead to favorable ofwitchcraft However the passage of the forced he settlers to turn This caused an increase in shipping and Salemresponded the East Coast continued tobuild trade routes from the law Early Ships In a the first organizers of the to Salem and itscargo of Britishsympathizers lived in Salem and christened a four-mastercalled The Turk and set sail for China Salem and he saw the wisdom of opening upchannels of empowered to establish trade relations withCanton China and he carried from theTurks to sell Opium and Shaw hit upon the idea of using the company that wouldcontrol the flow of gave exclusive rights to Chinese products toDerby's company By have a value of about billion Between ceramics and thousands of other items flowed intoSalem and from fortunes When Shaw's ship first landed in Canton across a steady market thought that addicting the that all negotiations with foreign devilsmust be handled by Europeans and Americans alike had ruled that these such as Howqua Mowqua or Kingqua he managed to negotiate severalinteresting What these Hong needed was someone outsidethe walls of Canton and managed by Snow and his bank of the Canton River justoutside He worked a deal with the Perkins family tocreate the SamuelPerkins took over their father's shipping interests whenhe died and substantial and the entire family evento Perkins'descendants in loaned the start up capital to venture again with hisolder brother James in a firm that as and helped the Hong merchants establish banking Perkins a long lasting and closerelationship with several powerful The Stars More important than the fortunes amassed thanks to Salem to make shipping more efficient and risk free And inventor Nathan Bowditch who came up with an idea that agood mind was good at math and was soon age of wrote to a professor at approximate latitude was fairly easily done at by Christopher Columbus were achievable by sailing du relation to a point that can be located as of fact HermanMelville originally called during his early voyages Bowditch used and studied them Matthews A miscalculation could send a ship continues to bepublished in Salem References www salemweb com Albion History of AmericanSailing Ships New York W W Norton Co the village andwhat is of far more importance is a closeproximity to Boston which had a burgeoning sea Perkins theCrowinshields and the Cabots Albion The reasons connection The moon andStars and The fortune Because the terrain waseven commercial trade of any sortfollowed the West Indies Albion Even more than by the NavigationActs of and which gave the American colonies ell as constant pass through ofitinerant Boston but not considered as political thereby attracting and it set sail for China's port ofHong which then to also explore thepossibility of tooverflowing with the goods there were enough goods Bruce Cogar The next year a Salem merchant Hehad heard of the fabled Hong merchants and theirshipbuilding one Samuel Shaw because of his greatsailing skills but of the Opiumsituation became the first American consul in Canton Opium to the Chinese became apparent the Britishdemanded that the great merchant families His argument as spices gold silks porcelains and china In the richest man Somesources estimate tha in today's dollars lucrativetrading routes not only with China but Japan thegovernment of the United States the profits a simple reason TheBritish had been bringing so many problems that the Chinese Emperorwanted to control it historian describes itthis way External limited to trading and negotiating with a small successful dealing with these Hongmerchants men who also as TheAmerican Factory pointed out to the Hong American money mostly fromRobert Morris Derby and Samuel China All factories were located on Derby's credit as a capitalist that hedecided to share companies that would reshipgoods imported Peabody The world famous Peabody-Essex Museum Salem-Boston area theyhave substantial land holdings although Perkins saw the potential of To secure an advantage over other merchants the Perkinses between Howqua who was the richestof the Hong merchants concerns of mercantileAmerica Between and the company has beenthought between China and Salem The trade wasso mutually profitable was an amazing problem for ancient mariners trip Bowditch was born into ofwhich unfortunately were in Latin and sea began trying to deal with the problemof longitude One celestial body that appears closest to true of longitude is slightly more artificial than latitude that woulddetermine the correct longitude and give seafarers a shipping fortunes foundedin Salem one can still Navigator Soon he recognized that they containederrors that corrections toMoore's tables and published two Anthony and William Cogar AnEncyclopedia of Naval History New York Frederick C American MerchantShips Salem Massachusetts Marine ResearchSociety If this paper is not what you are looking for, you can search again: Search for: or Click here to request an essay written just for you.