Chapter I: Birth, Parentage, and Early Life of the Author
written by John Rodgers Jewitt, 1783-1821; in The Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt, Only Survivor of the Ship Boston, During a Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Savages of Nootka Sound With An Account of the Manners, Mode of Living, and Religious Opinions of the Natives. (Edinburgh, Scotland: Archibald Constable (Publisher), 1824), 7-18