Your largest and longest trees are wanted, and the arms of them for knees and rising timber.
Four trees are wanted for the keel which altogether will measure 146 feet in length and hew sixteen inches square.
The story of the building of the _Essex_ is that of an aroused and reliant people.

The great timbers were cut in the wood lots of the towns near by and were hauled through the snowy streets of Salem on ox-sleds while the people cheered them as they passed.

The _Essex_ was a Salem ship from keel to truck.

Her cordage was made in three ropewalks.
Captain Jonathan Haraden, the most famous Salem privateersman of the Revolution, made the rigging for the mainmast in his loft.

The sails were cut from duck woven for the purpose in the mill on Broad Street and the ironwork was forged by Salem shipsmiths.