The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1868-11-14
Death of Captain John Patty.

~Dcath of Captain John Patty
. II L. seldom beSn ou- task 70 ANNOUNCE the
dz-h oF one who hs fox q la-g period Occupied
. rtsos n Hzwalzn aEsirs, OF wbo has ben nore
Wildly known aui beloved. tizn TIE Sbet q
ihs sketch. vby diei n hs residence n NGuana
Valley Cd We5oesAy no-ning as, after a In
gEing and painful Illness
fCzp-- Pax. q - ie Ezs uo7e generally known,
Connsi5re Pary. vas born II Plymouth Mass,
On the I'd Of Feb. ISG7, (Wa=hinst5n's birth
day.l he traced his descent rom ore Of the cd
Puritan eui-rznts. and a. ever irce Puritan
should Be, was ever proud of liz origin Having
= ;or5n%s f- tie Ta;es. IL went - SEA when
sf-evn year. O: z-e. and when ouly tWeBty-oDe
vas promoted 70 De Captain, which position lie
bed fo- foxy yezrs. IL last vessel beng tie
lark C7asa, now II Tssi. which re Commanded
I'll within a fe~ nr1tL9 4 bis death
lie xzs euinea;ly successful g a shipnas;e-,
II every sea-e OF the word At I dinner given on
:. bard Ms bark, = few years since, On the occasion
q u. 5-th bi-tb6ay, we remember the remark
made BY hin, taat be had never losi a sip nor met
aay ~aeciisa; during al his s~ea-li.e, except the
Carrying away q q single sPar during ! heayy
gale. SGea a Teoorl o. forty year, service Is
s1ldbn known.
He frst cane - Hos0iulu in 1854, and since
That date made thi= port his headquarters and
kJEe. In 1876 he w2s commissioned by Kane
hameha III. = Dc eJasal and naval -eommandant
f- tie Northwest Cost, with TIE rank a
CJmnCtJre, and was recognized a. such By tie
Mexican authorities, and his ia. salu;ei in
,heir ports. Daring al his o5eial term as IA
va o6cer, be did god service in protecting the
early trade between tbs group and tie half
civilized Inhabitants Of the Mexican ooast.
Probably Do Person living Las Iaa1e more pas
a-e- between these Islands and the Pacific eyesr
than Captain Paty. numberining in all les,
a. captain OF Pa-enser- Prom . full bio
graphical sketch Of him. published in the Hespe-
reH in ls5g, for which we are indebted u Mr..
Damon, We quote a few eztrcts:
HIS d-z- sea-voya-e H1s made IN 1921, IN tie Brig
Gor. Htasi5r, from B9st0n u Amsterdam, and
proved = hard ole . a lad Who had been reared IN
tie lap q luIu-y, AMI whose previous years had
teen spent with a kind old grandfather, who, 70 use
the caPt2in's CEn Eo-ds, never gave NE IN IN
kind hsk, All a Eni mother and sisters Sho IL
dU--si hin IN every Thing Bat when / got on
board chip With = harl old sheil-back,' stii Capt.
P-ty, - / found tie contrast very great, and my feel
iu-s we've such, u times, a. % induce NE u commit
almost any deed q violence FOR the sake Of reveage.
~ other times WISHED that I had EeTe. been born
He wss very fortunate IN hs Promotions, and got
ElEIEllun q . ZuEi Ne=Zl when out rWg.ry-rge
year. Q. age he made one voyage 10 the Iedi;er-
ranein, as far a. Lsghorn, touching at Gibraltar,
Alicante, ana Gsngs- he after.arls run regularly
es rcposed the utmos; confidence IN lis integrity and
Judgment, never giving him any written orders, but
simply tie verbal instruction: Act according n
your 0sn judgment"
In 1881 Capt. Paty married Miss Mary Ann JEFF
ferson, of Salem, Mass, and removed to Plymouth,
where they resided until the fall Of IS53, a; which
time bis younger brother, Henry, returned frrn the
<aflEFrL Islands and ir1urr1 C.rr Da-v .. Ev-
p-rt Il a vessel with him and make & voyage To the
Islands. They accordingly bought tie brig iron,
and took With them q younger brother, ami also
Capt Paty's wife On their way they passed through
tie Straits Cf Magellan, where they cast anchor and
were Lear being taken by the Indians. They reach
81 the Islands IN June, 1894. Capt. W. : HInckley
took charge Of the little Brig -3rO9, Of which he was
part owner, and proceeded to Csli;urnia, while Capt. !
Patty remained IN Honolulu and took charge Of his
store until November, when the -iroa returned.
About this time the Ship Heiusfia, Of New London,
went on shore near the port IF Honolulu, and CAPT
Hnckley concluded 70 send the Dan Qvirofe, Of
which he was also part owner, home with the cargo
Il oil from the DrecEel vessel. Capt Patty nov sid
20 Capt. Hincklcy hs share Of the iron, and bought y
eernber be took his vie On board and started with a
full ship for New London, where they arrived On the
hFst day Of July, anl after diseharging their oil pro
eeeied % Boston. He again left FOR the Sandwich
Islands III 1885, this time, however, leaving his wife
with her mother IN Charlestown, as lie did not expect
20 Re from home more than a year. In this lie expy-
4euIf -tftIe disappointment, Is ne was uuAo4e 10
return until the spring Of ls39,-and this Is the
only year since 1857 Of which he has not spent some
portion in California.
1t ) rather remarkable that during twenty years Of
sea-lfe, Capt. Patty was never shipwrecked and
never under the necessity Of living upon al allow
ance % either food or water, and never lost a man
BY SICKNESS or in any other way. This Is the more
remarkable, when II ~ taken IN consideration that
FOR four years he was in the West India trade, and
often laid alongside Of vessels which hsl lost half
heir crew by sickness
In January, lSil, Capt. Patty. in company with
his brother, LETT Honolulu for Valparaiso, via Tahiti,
where they arrived sometime in the month CT Au-
gust, and after remaining about a month, sailed
again for Tahiti. They had SIX Sandwich Island ma
on board, and when out about six days, one Of
hem was taken sick with the small pOx and d.ei. This
Tas the first man ever dying on board Of a vessel in
Capt. Patty was, since his first going TO sea, a
erred Of twenty years. Three other natives were
AIKEN sick, and died with the same disease. e.
The passage from Valparaiso 10 Tahiti proved a {
lard one for Capt. Patty, as most all on board were >
.hected with a sympathetic disease. Capt Patty and 4
lie brother were both quite sick, his brother became !
eranged, and in an unguar1ed moment took his =
wn life, which was a severe trial 10 Capt. Patty, a.
e was a kind, ahsctionate brother, and q most ener- '
Tie reached Tahiti in May, where he lay in quar- -
milne seventeen days, and had the ship well cleaned
nd flmiga,ed. He then took other men to supply I
be place Of his Eeamen lost, and with SIX or eight i
sailed for Honolulu. Nothing Of the {
mall poI appeared again on board. But it appears )
bat the day after he left Tahiti, the disease broke =.
ut there, ard several Of the natives died with il. +
He reached Honolulu in June, 1871, and immedi-
made a voyage 10 California, and arrived in
lOnterey in August. Here he found Mr.. Liman- -
the man who has since made himself famous by
lying claim to a large portion Of the City Of San I
Tnncisco. r
some few months since he returned unwcil from i
an Francisco, and Las continued to decline, suE- =
ring from one of the most painful diseases 1
nown, (cancer,) which he bore with christian
atience. Among other remarks, he said he was
illing TO live and suffer, if the lengthening of
IS life would afford comfort TO his family. We
ave seldom known a father and husband more
nderly attached TO his family than was the late
lptain John Patty, and the same warm friend
in-the friendsbin and oran-hearte5ness of