The Seafaring Hartwells of Salem, Massachusetts

Daniel Hartwell (1780-1810)

Daniel Hartwell, reportedly of Conway, Massachusetts, made two epic voyages from Salem. One was a three year sealing voyage to the South Pacific, China, and Russia, where he led a mutiny aboard the ship Rachel, and the other where he journeyed to the Mediterranean and met his untimely death.

Joseph Hartwell (1809-1849)

Joseph Hartwell, whose father Daniel died when he was less than a year old, made nearly thirty commercial voyages from Salem in the late 1820s thru mid 1840s. He worked his was to become a ship's captain for his last two voyages, and then journeyed to California as a passenger for the Gold Rush in 1849, where he unfortunately died before amassing any kind of fortune.