Benjamin T. Hill's HMS Victory Collection

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Notes

1 Reynolds, ‘Recollections of Sixty Years’, 28.

2 Paine, Diary of Christopher Columbus Baldwin.

3 Hill, ‘History of the Second Court House’; Hill, ‘Beginnings of the Boston and Worcester Railroad’; Hill, The Diary of Isaiah Thomas, Hill, ‘Life at Harvard’.

4 Reference to Hill's talk on ‘Beginnings of the Boston and Albany Railroad’, Proceedings of the Worcester Society of Antiquity XVIII (1902), 10.

5 He regularly appears in the list of ‘givers’ in the society's proceedings, for example in 1901 he gave a book and a parcel of old newspapers. The following year he gave some pamphlets. He lent pictures and local history ephemera to the Worcester Library in 1896, Annual Report of the Worcester Free Public Library, 30. He lent a pianoforte in 1902, Proceedings of the Worcester Society of Antiquity XVIII (1902), 108.

6 The Society for Nautical Research, London, is included in a list of ‘givers’ to the American Antiquarian Society in October 1911, the year of the first Mariner's Mirror, Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 21 (1911), 183.

7 He does not appear in either the passenger lists or immigration documents on Ancestry. com.

8 New York Tribune, 9 Oct. 1921.

9 There was a catalogue for the sale but it has not been possible to trace a copy. Marine Subjects – ship models, globes, etc.,

10 Oman, Nelson, 566.

11 Indicated as an early nineteenth-century style, made by someone with good amateur woodcarving ability, but inexperienced in the construction of frames by the frames conservators at Glasgow Museums.

12 Brigham, ‘Benjamin Thomas Hill’, 18–19.

13 Murphy and Oddy, Mirror of the Seas, 42–5.