224 CAPTAIN ZACHARY G. LAMSON 



perty of Mr. Grey, and, since, owing to the 

 long embargo 1 no American vessel was in 

 England which could take his goods, and 

 since shipping on an English vessel would 

 subject his vessel to ten per cent extra as 

 well as a high freight, consequently, he 

 wrote me to come to Liverpool and take 

 Story's goods. I immediately ballasted and 

 sailed for Liverpool, 2 and repairing my 

 ship in the dry dock, took the cargo and 

 filled up with salt and crates, and took 

 twelve passengers at the rate of thirty 

 guineas a head. We sailed and arrived in 

 Boston 3 in forty-seven days, say about the 

 4th of June, and lay till the 10th 4 before 



1 Embargo passed Dec. 22, 1807, no United States 

 vessel allowed to leave port without giving bond that her 

 cargo would be landed in the United States. Lasted until 

 March, 1809. 



2 " At Liverpool, April 12, ship * Wells,' Lamson, for 

 Boston in six days." Columbian Centinel, May 31, 

 1809. 



3 "Arrived ship 'Wells, 'Lamson, forty-seven days. To 

 William Gray. Dry goods, salt and coals. Passenger, 

 Mr. Story." Columbian Centinel, June 5, 1809. 



4 On the nineteenth of April, the Non-intercourse Act 



