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Journal of Voyages
Journal of Voyages / Containing an Account of the Author's being Twice Captured by the English and Once by Gibbs the Pirate…
AUTHOR'S APOLOGY
In presenting the following Voyages to the public, I must inform my readers that I have had but a common school education, and am unaccustomed to composition. I can only tell my story in a plain straight forward way, not being able to ornament it with flowery language.
My Voyages were all written by myself. I employed competent persons to copy the work from my manuscript, and they corrected the small inaccuracies that had escaped my observation.
I thought, that although my book might contain many defects, if composed by myself, that it would still gain more than it lost, by being the production of the very person who had seen and taken part in the scenes he related, and could vouch for the truth of all he had witnessed. It is not given to the public as a specimen of the beautiful in style, but as the story of an old sea captain who had lived in one of the most eventful periods of our country's history; and one who had nearly arrived at his last anchorage.
With this brief outline of my life, and this short explanation, I commit my little book, with confidence, to an indulgent public.
Jacob Dunham.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Captain Jacob Dunham, having applied to the Congress of the United States, for relief, on account of losses sustained by him by piratical robbery, We, the undersigned, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the said Jacob Dunham, have known him for many years past, that he is a man of truth and veracity, and that his statements are entitled to full faith and credit:
• Thomas O'Hara Croswell, Post-Master, Catskill.
• Abel Bruce, M. D.
• Robert Dorlon, Esq.
• Orrin Day, President of Tanner's Bank, Catskill.
• Hon. Malebone Watson, Judge of Supreme Court, New-York.
• Hon. John Adams.
• Caleb Day, Esq.
• J. D. Beers, President of Bank of North America, New-York.
• Jacob Haight, Treasurer of State of New-York.