Digital Depositories & New Bedford Sites:

• New Bedford Whaling Museum
• New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park
• Internet Archive
• Digital Commonwealth

Primary Sources:

Books and Digital Depositories

• Massachusetts Baptists Missionary Society. The American Baptist Magazine, Vol. 11. Boston: Lincoln & Edwards, 1831. From the New York Public Library via Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/americanbaptist08socigoog.
• Cox, William H. “Acushnet House.” Whalemen’s Shipping List, April 18, 1848, http://tinyurl.com/z9w7etx.
• Fearing, Eliza Bowers in the U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=132403364&ref=acom. Ancestry.com. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA.
• Friends Academy 1829, U.S. High School Student Lists, 1821-1923 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2012.
• Leavitt, Joshua. Seamen’s Devotional Assistant and Mariners’ Hymns; Prepared Under Direction of the American Seamen’s Friend Society. New York: American Seamen’s Friend Society, 1830. From Princeton Theological Seminary Library via Internet Archive. http://ow.ly/YsfX4
• The New Bedford Directory containing the City Register, a general directory of citizens and a special directory of trades, professions, etc., no. 7. New Bedford: Charles Taber & Co., 1852. From Harvard University Libraries via Google Books. http://tinyurl.com/hff6weq.
• New Bedford (Mass.) Friends’ Academy. Historical Sketch of the Friends’ Academy, Prepared for the Centennial Year. New Bedford: Fessenden & Baker, Printers, 1876. From the University of Michigan via Google Books. http://ow.ly/Ywzaa
• Pease, Zephaniah. “The Arnold Mansion and its Traditions.” Old Dartmouth Historical Sketch 52 (1924). Accessed November 15, 2015. http://www.ow.ly/YuLnc
• Rodman, Samuel. Diary of Samuel Rodman. Edited by Zephaniah Pease. New Bedford: Reynolds Print. Co., 1927.
• Providence Methodist Episcopal Church Records. Ancestry.com, New England, Select United Methodist Church Records, 1787-1922 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
• Public Documents of Massachusetts, 3 no. 17 (Boston: Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1874): 55
• Sailor’s Magazine Vol XII – No. 9, “Extracts From The Report of the Ladies’ Branch of the New Bedford Port Society.” New York: American Seamen’s Friend Society, May 1841. From Princeton University via Google Books. http://ow.ly/YsfpO
• Sailor’s Magazine Vol XV – No. 4, “An Interesting Prayer-Meeting.” New York: American Seamen’s Friend Society, December 1842. From Princeton University via Google Books.  http://ow.ly/YsfpO
• U.S. Bureau of the Census. “Population of the 61 Urban Places: 1820.”  1820 Census Table 5. http://ow.ly/Z0tjW (accessed March 2, 2016).
• U.S. Bureau of the Census. “Population of the 90 Urban Places; 1830.” 1830 Census Table 6. http://ow.ly/Z0tq2 (accessed March 2, 2016).
• U.S. Bureau of Census. New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts. Roll M432_309, Page 268B, Image 119. Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2012.

John Hay Library, Brown University Libraries

• Extract from the address of the Rev. John Weiss at the celebration of the nineteenth anniversary of the New Bedford Port Society, detached from the Sailor’s magazine v. 21, no.9, May 1849. “New Bedford Port Society; a sailor’s home and a seaworthy bethel.”, 1849, Morse Whaling Collection, John Hay Library, Brown University Libraries.
• New Bedford Port Society, “’The Old Salt Box’; Chaplain Thurber’s report”: p [7-12],” 1938, Morse Whaling Collection, John Hay Library, Brown University Libraries.
• Wayland, Francis. “The claims of whalemen on Christian benevolence: a discourse delivered in the Baptist Church, William Street, at the request of the New Bedford Port Society, on the Evening of November 20^th, 1842” 1843, Morse Whaling Collection, John Hay Library, Brown University Libraries.
• Zephaniah W. Pease, “One hundredth anniversary, 1830 [to] 1930,” 1930, Morse Whaling Collection, John Hay Library, Brown University Libraries.

New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library

• Cummings, Lillian. The One Hundredth Annual Report of the Ladies’ Branch of the New Bedford Port Society as Compiled by Miss Lillian Cummings in 1933. Essay. New Bedford, 1933. On loan to the New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, Records of the Ladies’ Branch of the Port Society. Box 1, Item 2.
• Ladies’ Branch of the New Bedford Port Society. 1874-1885. Journal. On loan to the New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, Records of the Ladies’ Branch of the Port Society. Box 2, Item 12.
• Ladies’ Branch of the New Bedford Port Society. Bequests Received by the Ladies’ Branch. Photocopies. New Bedford, 1859-1870. On loan to the New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, Records of the Ladies’ Branch of the Port Society. Box 1, Item 9.
• Ladies’ Branch of the New Bedford Port Society. Ladies’ Branch Scrapbook. Scrapbook. New Bedford, n.d. On loan to the New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, Records of the Ladies’ Branch of the Port Society. Box 2, Item 11.
• Ladies’ Branch of the Port Society. 1858-1868, Sept. 1860-July 1869. Journal. New Bedford, 1858-1869. On loan to the New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, Records of the Ladies’ Branch of the Port Society. Box 2, Item 17.
• Ladies’ Branch of the Port Society. 1885-1889. Journal. New Bedford, 1885-1889. On loan to the New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library, Records of the Ladies’ Branch of the Port Society. Box 2, Item 13.

New Bedford Free Public Library

• Eliot, Hon. Thomas D. An Address before the New Bedford Port Society, at a Public Meeting of that Association, April 29, 1855 … to which Is Added the Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Board of Managers and a List of the Officers. New Bedford: Benjamin Lindsey, 1855.
• Girdwood, Rev. John. An Address Delivered before the New-Bedford Port Society, on the Occasion of Its Twenty-Eighth Anniversary, February 28^th, 1858 … with the Annual Report of the Board of Managers. New Bedford: Mercury Job Press – Benjamin Lindsey, printer, 1858.
• New Bedford Port Society. Fourth Annual Report of the Executive Board of the New-Bedford Port Society for the Moral Improvement of Seamen. Presented November 5, 1833. New Bedford: Benjamin T. Congdon, 1833. 
• New Bedford Port Society. Sixth Annual Report of the Executive Board of the New-Bedford Port Society for the Moral Improvement of Seamen. Presented November 5, 1835. New Bedford: Benjamin T. Congdon, 1836. 
• New Bedford Port Society. Seventh Annual Report of the Executive Board of the New-Bedford Port Society for the Moral Improvement of Seamen. Presented November 5, 1863. New Bedford: J.C. Parmenter, 1836. 
• New Bedford Port Society. Eighth Annual Report of the Executive Board of the New-Bedford Port Society for the Moral Improvement of Seamen. Presented November 6, 1837. New Bedford: J.C. Parmenter, 1837. 
• New Bedford Port Society. Ninth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the New-Bedford Port Society, for the Moral Improvement of Seamen. Presented November 6, 1838. New Bedford: Benjamin Lindsey, 1838. 
• New Bedford Port Society. Eleventh Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the New Bedford Port Society for the Moral Improvement of Seamen. Presented Oct. 18, 1840. New Bedford: Benjamin Lindsey, 1840. 
• New Bedford Port Society. Thirteenth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the New-Bedford Port Society for the Moral Improvement of Seamen, Presented to the Society, at the Annual Meeting, October 12, 1842. New Bedford: Benjamin Lindsey, 1842. 
• New Bedford Port Society. Report of the Board of Managers of the New Bedford Port Society for the Moral Improvement of Seamen, Presented January 30, 1852, with the Charter and By-Laws of the Society, and a List of Its Life Members and Officers. Presented November 6, 1838. New Bedford: Benjamin Lindsey, 1852. 
• New Bedford Port Society. Twenty-Sixth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the New Bedford Port Society, January 25, 1856. New Bedford: Standard Steam Press – E. Anthony, Printer, 1856. 
• New Bedford Port Society. Thirtieth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the New Bedford Port Society for the Moral Improvement of Seamen. New Bedford: Mercury Job Press, 1860.
• New Bedford Port Society. Thirty-First Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the New Bedford Port Society for the Moral Improvement of Seamen. New Bedford: E. Anthony, 1861.
• New Bedford Port Society. Thirty-Second Annual Report of the New Bedford Port Society for the Moral Improvement of Seamen. January 31, 1862. With an Address by Rev. William S. Studley, before the Anniversary Meting.  New Bedford: Fessenden & Baker, 1862.
• New Bedford Port Society. Thirty-Third Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the New Bedford Port Society, for the Moral Improvement of Seamen. New Bedford: Mercury Press, 1863.
• New Bedford Port Society. Thirty-Fifth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the New Bedford Port Society, for the Moral Improvement of Seamen. New Bedford: Fessenden & Baker, 1865.
• New Bedford Port Society. Forty-Sixth Annual Report of the New Bedford Port Society for the Moral Improvement of Seamen, with the By-Laws, Regulations, and a List of Officers and Members. New Bedford: Fessenden & Baker, 1876.
• New Bedford Port Society. Forty-Eighth Annual Report of the New Bedford Port Society, for the Moral Improvement of Seamen, with a List of Officers and Members. New Bedford: E. Anthony & Sons, 1878.
• Rev. Moses How (1789-1881). Diaries (4 vols.), 1813-1881; an autobiography; and a photographic print.  New Bedford Free Public Library Speical Collections.

Secondary Sources: 

• Allen, Everett S. Children of the Light: The Rise and Fall of New Bedford Whaling and the Death of the Arctic Fleet. Orleans, MA: Parnassus Imprints, 1973.
• Arato, Christine A. and Patrick L. Eleey. Safely Moored at Last: Cultural Landscape Report for New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park: Volume 1: History, Existing Conditions, Analysis, Preliminary Preservation Issues. Boston: National Park Service, 1998.
• Bacon, Margaret Hope. Mothers of Feminism: The Story of Quaker Women in America. San Francisco, CA: Harper & Row, 1986.
• Bolster, W. Jeffrey. Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998.
• Bonham, Julia C. “Feminist and Victorian: The Paradox of the American Seafaring Woman of the Nineteenth Century.” The American Neptune 37 (1977): 203-218.
• Boylan, Anne M. Origins of Women’s Activism. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
• Boylan, Anne M. “The Role of Conversion in Nineteenth-Century Sunday Schools.” American Studies 20 (1979): 35-48.
• Birdsall, Richard D. “The Second Great Awakening and the New England Social Order.” Church History 39 no. 3 (1970): 345-364. Accessed March 25, 2016 via JSTOR: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3163469.
• Brown, Curt. "Seamen's Bethel, Mariner's Home in Line for Multi-million Dollar Restoration." SouthCoast Today, December 20, 2013. http://www.southcoasttoday.com/article/20131220/News/312200317.
• City of New Bedford. "Bedford Landing-Waterfront Historic District." Historical Commission Waterfront District. Accessed April 06, 2016. http://www.newbedford-ma.gov/planning/historical-commission-waterfront-district/.
• Cost, Nancy F. “Young Women in the Second Great Awakening in New England.” Feminist Studies 3 no. 1/2 (1975): 15-29. Accessed March 25, 2016 via JSTOR: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3518952
• Creighton, Margaret S. and Norling, Lisa. Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
• DeShong, Thomas. “American Christianity in the Maritime World: Challenges to Faith in the Early National Period.” Master’s thesis, Baylor University, 2012.
• Dolin, Eric Jay. “The Golden Age.” In Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America, 205-252. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 2007.
• Ellis, Leonard Bolles. History of New Bedford and its Vicinity, 1602-1892. Syracuse, NY: D. Mason & Co., 1892.
• Frank, Stuart M. “’Cheer’ly Man’: Chanteying in Omoo and Moby Dick.” The New England Quarterly 58. No.1 (1985), pp. 68-82
• Gilje, Paul A. Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
• Gilje, Paul A. To Swear Like a Sailor: Maritime Culture in America, 1750-1850 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
• Ginzberg, Lori D. Women and the Work of Benevolence, Morality, Politics, and Class in  the Nineteenth-Century United States. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990.
• Ginzberg, Lori D. Women in Antebellum Reform. Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 2000.
• Glenn, Myra. Campaigns Against Corporal Punishment: Prisoners, Sailors, Women, and Children in Antebellum America. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1984.
• Grover, Kathryn. The Fugitive’s Gibraltar: Escaping Slaves and Abolitionism in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001.
• Kelley, Mary. Learning to Stand & Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America’s Republic. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
• Hefflin, Wilson. Herman Melville’s Whaling Years. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 2004.
• Jones, Charles Henry. Genealogy of the Rodman Family, 1620-1886. Philadelphia: 1886. From Allen County Public Library via Internet Archive. http://ow.ly/YZJLd
• Kverndal, Roald. Seamen’s Missions: Their Origin and Early Growth. Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 1986.
• Lawrence, Mike. "Port Society Making Final Fundraising Push for Seamen's Bethel, Mariners' Home Project." South Coast Today, November 9, 2015. Accessed April 6, 2016. http://www.southcoasttoday.com/article/20151109/NEWS/151109474.
• Medeiros, Peggi. New Bedford Mansions: Historic Tales of County Street. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2015.
• Miller, Marla R. And Laura A Miller. A Generous Sea: Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, and the Jewish Community in New Bedford Whaling & Whaling Heritage. New Bedford Whaling National Historical Special Ethnographic Report. Boston, MA: National Park Service, 2016.
• Mulderink III, Earl F. “’A Burning and Shining Light’: Prosperity and Enlightened Governance in Antebellum New Bedford.” In New Bedford’s Civil War. New York City, NY: Fordham University Press, 2012. Accessed 28 September 2015 via JSTOR: http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.c.tt13x08tv.6
• New Bedford Harbor Development Commission. “About the Shipping Port.” Port of New Bedford. Accessed April 6, 2016. http://www.portofnewbedford.org/shipping/about-our-port/.
• New Bedford Whaling Museum. "American Whaling." New Bedford Whaling Museum. Accessed April 06, 2016. https://www.whalingmuseum.org/learn/research-topics/overview-of-north-american-whaling/american-whaling#Decline.
• Norling, Lisa. “’How Frought with Sorrow and Heartpangs’: Mariners’ Wives and the Ideology of Domesticity in New England, 1790-1800.” The New England Quarterly 65, no. 3 (1992): 422-446.
• Norling, Lisa. Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
• Partner Strategic Action Plan: New Bedford Whaling Museum National Historical Park, 2007-2012. Report. National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 2007.
• https://www.nps.gov/nebe/learn/management/upload/PSAP_final.pdf
• Raffety, Matthew Taylor. The Republic Afloat: Law, Honor, and Citizenship in Maritime America. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
• Raffety, Matthew. “Recent Currents in the Nineteenth-Century American Maritime History.” History Compass 6, vol. 2 (2008): 607-626.
• Rao, Gautham. “Sailor’s Health and National Wealth: Marine hospitals in the early republic.” Common-Place 9, no. 1 (2008). Accessed March 20, 2016. http://www.common-place-archives.org/vol-09/no-01/rao/.
• Rouleau, Brian. With Sails Whitening Every Sea: Mariners and the Making of an American Maritime Empire. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2014.
• Rogers, Sherbrooke. Sarah Josepha Hale: A New England Pioneer: 1788-1879. Grantham, NH: Thompson & Rutter, Inc., 1985.
• Ryan, Mary P. Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
• "Seamen's Bethel and Mariners' Home | Waterfront Historic Area LeaguE (WHALE)." Waterfront Historic Area LeaguE WHALE. Accessed April 06, 2016. http://www.waterfrontleague.org/portfolio-item/seamens-bethel-and-mariners-home/. Stark, Rodney and Roger Finke. “American Religion in 1776: A Statistical Portrait.” Sociological Analysis 49, no. 1 (1988): 39-51. Accessed 25 March 2016 via JSTOR: http://            www.jstor.org/stable/3711102.
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• Tolles, Frederick B. “The New-Light Quakers of Lynn and New Bedford.” New England Quarterly 32 no. 3 (1959): 291-319. Accessed March 26, 2016 via JSTOR: http://www.jstor.org/stable/362825.
• United States of America. Department of the Interior. National Park Service. NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM. By Polly M. Rettig. New Bedford: Historic Sites Survey, 1975. http://focus.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NHLS/Text/66000773.pdf