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Joseph Chapman, from Boston to L.A. (episode 206)
Joseph Chapman, from Boston to L.A. (episode 206)
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Oct 11, 2020
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Your humble host really misses travel, so this week’s episode is inspired by travel, both historic travel and my own. In the early 19th century, a Boston shipwright’s apprentice went to sea with a whaling voyage, and ended up being recruited into a crew that was assembled in the Hawaiian Islands, then captured by Spanish authorities on the California coast and accused of piracy. Escaping the gallows through hard work and Yankee ingenuity, Joseph Chapman would build a New England style mill for the San Gabriel mission, the first of its kind in Alta California. He would live through tumultuous times, witnessing the independence of Mexico, the downfall of the mission system he had become part of, and eventually the American annexation of California.
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Full show notes: http://HUBhistory.com/206/
Support us: http://patreon.com/HUBhistory/
Released:
Oct 11, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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