Shipbuilding records, 1837.

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Shipbuilding records, 1837.

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Volume entitled Directions for Cutting Frame of a Schooner, illustrated with drawings of futtocks, breast hooks, sternpost, and transom knees, and a chart of rough moulding sizes of cant timbers, inscribed Olver C. Swift. Elijah E. Swift (1774-1852), founder of whaling industry in Falmouth, Mass., with his brother Thomas and sons Oliver C. and Thomas L. Swift, other family members, and associates, supplied the U.S. government with live oak timber, obtained from groves on the southern seaboard, for the construction of naval vessel and volume used by members of this family.

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Falmouth Historical Society

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Swift, Oliver C. (Oliver Cromwell), 1797-1874

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Swift, Elijah E., 1774-1852

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Swift, Thomas L., 1810-

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Swift family.

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Swift, Thomas, 1783-

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