Captain Joshua Slocum

Joshua Slocum was the first man to sail around the world completely alone.
He left from Boston, USA, on 24th April 1895, and returned to Newport, Rhode Island on 27th June 1898, 3 Years and 2 months later.

Joshua Slocum was born in Nova Scotia. He had family roots in New England. "Captain Joshua Slocum commanded some of the finest tall ships that ever sailed the seas. On April 24, 1895, at the age of 51, he departed Boston in his tiny sloop Spray and sailed around the world single-handed, a passage of 46,000 miles, returning to Newport, Rhode Island on June 27, 1898. This historic achievement made him the patron saint of small-boat voyagers, navigators and adventurers all over the world. His book, Sailing Alone Around the World, became an instant best seller. It has been translated into many languages, and is still in print today. His vessel, the Spray, which he rebuilt himself from a derelict hull, has been copied by hundreds of boat builders world-wide. In the fall of 1909, Captain Slocum left on a voyage to South America and was never heard from again."

Frances Slocum - The White Rose of The Miami Indians

"Franes was stolen by the Delaware Indians from her father's house near Wilkes-Barre, in Wyoming Valley, Luzerne county, Pa., on the second day of November, 1778, when she was a child five years of age. The brothers of Frances, Joseph and Isaac Slocum, grew to manhood and advanced to old age, making inquiry and search for their lost sister whenever they could hear of any white woman among the Indian tribes who they thought might be their sister, sometimes offering large rewards in money for her discovery. More than sixty years passed away before they found the lost sister. She was at last discovered, as the widow of an Indian Chief, living on the banks of the Mississenawa(sic) river, about seven miles from its mouth, where it empties into the Wabash, near Peru in Indiana."

"Her father was a Quaker." "The brother of Frances Slocum is Major Benjamin Slocum. Benjamin's daughter, Maria Slocum."