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Told by the Pioneers was permitted until the child fell asleep, when he was laid on a pillow in the covered wagon. The Indians remained all day, and were given some small trinkets by ::'III'S. Hastings. When at last they departed, the small Indian maid begged to be permitted again to see the baby. She measured his tiny feet with her finger and went away. Xext mOl'lling she retlll'l1ed with her parents and asked again for the red-haired boy. He was brought out and the little Indian girl drew from her dress a pair of very fine buckskin moccasins trimmed with beads which she fitted lovingly all the barefoot child. Loren Hastings holds even today that there never would have been trouble between Indians and whites if the whites had treated them as brothers. CAPTAIN .JAJIES HENRY SWIFT AND FAJllLr 'Whidbv Island Pioneers • From the Records of the Daughters of Pio)/ccrs of TVashingtoll Hattie 'Wilson ::'IIeader Swift, now ::'III'S. Francis Puget Race of Coupeville, is the eldest daughter from the union of J ame:; Henry Swift of Fairhaven, Mass., and Emily Calpernia ,Yilson Swift of Vallejo, California. Both parents were direct descendant:; of early New England colonists. Mrs. Race was bam on the Swift ranch on Penn's Cove, Whidby Island in 1872. Her early education was at the little public school at Coveland, supplemented by private tutelage part of each Year. • In 1886 the Swift family moved from the farm across the cove to • Coupeville, where Mrs. Race still resides. The familv attended the • old Puget Sound Academy, as did many of the pioneers of the Pllget Sound region. In 1890 Hattie was married to Francis Puget Race, son of Henry and Frances Race, who were pioneers of Port Gamhle, having arrived there in 1858. ::'Ill'. Race was employed in the office of the Puget Mill Co., for twenty years. The Raees moved to their farm on "lVhidby Island in 1876. Puget Raee was a pioneer druggist, retiring in 1931 after having been in the drug' business for more than fortv veal's. They have two sons: HalTv Race, druggist of Ketchikan .''o. .. and Juneau, Alaska, and Dr. William P. Race, a dentist. Captain Swift's interest in the Northwest was concurrent with the arrival by waO'on trail of many of vVhidby Island's pioneers. In 1852, accordin~' to ~Starbuck's "H{story of American \Vhaling," Captain Swift w~s in command of the 615-ton bark "Anadir," of which he
Told by the Pioneers was part owner with Swift & Perry, extensive shipowners of New Bedford, Mass. The "Anadir" had once been the supply ship "Erie" of the American navy when the Constitution (" Old Ironsides") was young in service. The"Erie" was bought by the New Bedford interests, made over into a whaler, renamed" Anadir" and put in commission for a North Pacific Ocean voyage in 1852. The voyage lasted three years, much of which time Captain Swift spent off the coast of what is now 'Washingfon and Oregon and in the Bering Spa. He returned to New Bedford in 1854 with a full cargo-2,500 barrels of whale oil and 1,500 pounds of whalebone, having sent home 1,000 barrels of whale oil on another ship. This was a record catch, according to whaling statistics of New Bedford. Captain Swift is quoted in Starbuck's history as an authority on whaling. It is undoubtedly due to his familiarity with these waters that he was sent back to Pllget Sound in 1854 where his bark"Anadir" was to play an important part in the establishment of foreign commerce from this country. U. S. customs records show that the Anadir clearpcl from Port Townsend in 1855 with a cargo of spars from .JIcDonald's Island (now Camano) for the shipyards at Brest, France. 'rhe spars were cut at Utsalady by Indian lahor. Captain Swift held a po,,-er of attorney to sell the ship in London, but this was not done after the first voyage; for ,ve find the Anaclir clearing again from Port Townsend with spars for the British navy at Falmouth, England. Some of these spars were exhihited at the exposition at Paris and attracted worldwide attention. It is believed Capt. Swift's first cargo of spars was the first foreign consignment from Puget Sound. "While sailing his hark through the Straits, around Skagit Head and into Penn's Cove on this voyage for spars the captain become so impressed with the beauty and possibilities of this island that he decided it was the most attractive place he had ever seen, and that he would retire from the sea and settle on "\Yhidhy. He bought the Jacob Smith donation claim in 1857, paying for it $3,000 in gold so\-ereigns. His choice of 'Whidby Island as a permanent home shows clearly how greatly he admired the island; for he had sailed the seas since he was fourteen years of age, starting as a cahin boy and hecoming master at the age of twenty-one. He had touched at almost ever~- port in the world, and at almost every season, in following the schools of whales from ocean to ocean. He hoasted that he had circumnavigated the globe seven times and had been as far north and south as an:" navigator of his day. His choice was the choice of others of his profession, also. Among the sea captains who settled in this beautiful cove were: Captain 'l'homas Coupe, for whom Coupeville was named; Captains Robert 128
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INDEX Benton, 149 Benton, Maine, 16
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INDEX Cold Spring Canyon, 13 Colfax
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INDEX Engle, A. W., Mrs., 51 Engle,
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INDEX Hays, Logan, 82 Hearn, Lamber
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INDEX Ketchikan, Alaska, 127 Kimbal
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INDEX Montgomery, William (Bill), 1
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INDEX Second National Bank, Colfax,
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