#ocean rover

Ginault Ocean-Rover

We now have two different research threads going on successful seafaring ancestors... In this post, I'll share a bit more about Nathaniel Winsor, Jr., who started Winsor's Regular Line. From Knoblock's The American Clipper Ship, 1845-1920: A Comprehensive History:  

"Winsor’s Regular Line

This line out of Boston was one of two major clipper concerns operating out of that port and was in operation for twenty-three years beginning in the 1850s. Merchant Nathaniel Winsor, Jr. (1806-1890), of an old Boston mercantile family, was one of the first to establish a California line and during its years of operations is said to have loaded more than 350 ships, many of the clippers, for San Francisco. Indeed, by 1860 Winsor had done so well that his personal holdings were valued at the sizeable sum of $146,000 [more than $4.2 million today]. Nathaniel’s son Justin, who worked as a merchant with his father before becoming a noted scholar, librarian and historian, once said of him, “He generally comes home at night, gets a cigar, sits and thinks, thinks and thinks of his business without relaxation, and allows it even to disturb his night; ‘tis business, business, business.” Among the many clippers that loaded in Winsor’s line from India Wharf were Ocean Rover, Seaman’s Bride, Expounder, Nightingale, and Dashing Wave."