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JOHN KENDRICK AND His SONS 299

SOLOMON KENDRICK

The second son, Solomon, seems to have remained on the Columbia after his father relinquished the command to Captain Gray and to have returned on her to Boston on 10th August 1790. We next find him as third mate on the ship Jefferson, Captain Josiah Roberts, bound on a voyage from Boston to the Northwest coast. This ves- sel was a large ship in those days, perhaps of five hun- dred tons burthen. 47 Sailing on 29th November 1791, the Jefferson arrived off Cumberland Bay, Juan Fernan- dez, on 20th May 1792. The log entry reads : "Got out the pinnace and sent her ahead of us into the harbour with Mr. Kendrick the third officer and six hands, he having knowledge of the best anchoring ground, having been in this port before with his father in the ship Co- lumbia in the year 1788 and met with a friendly recep- tion." When Kendrick returned he reported that the Governor, relying upon a prohibition promulgated since that visit, would not grant permission for the Jefferson to anchor. Though the sea-letter and the Spanish am- bassador's letter were produced, the Governor was ada- mant and the ship was obliged to depart for Valparaiso. 48

The Jefferson was on the coast in the summer of 1793. I can not account for what appears to be an error of Captain Vancouver in stating that she was here in 1792 ; such an allegation does not fit in with La Rochefoucauld- Liancourt's synopsis of her voyage as obtained from Captain Roberts himself. 49 The Jefferson was accom- panied by a small schooner of eighty-six tons which had been built, during the voyage, at the Marquesas Islands in 1792, and carried a crew of twelve men. Solomon

47 This is according to Marchand's Voyage, 1801 English edition, Vol. 2, p. 270; La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt on the other hand in his Voyage dans les Etats-Unis, Paris, An. 8, Vol. 3, p. 18, says: "du port de cent cinquante-deux tonneaux."

48 Massachusetts Historical Society Collection, First Series, Vol. 4 (1795), pp. 235, 261.

49 Vancouver's Voyage, 1801 Ed., Vol. 6, p. 399; B. C. Archives Re- port for 1913, pp. 28-9; compare therewith La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Voyage, Vol. 3, pp. 18-26.