John Rodgers Jewitt (21 May 1783 – 7 January 1821) was an English armourer who entered the historical record with his memoirs about the 28 months he spent as an enslaved captive of Maquinna of the Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka) people on what is now the British Columbia Coast. The Canadian Encyclopedia describes Jewitt as a shrewd observer and his Narrative as a "classic of captivity literature". The memoir, according to the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, is a major source of information about the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. (From Wikipedia)
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Books about John R. Jewitt:
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A Journal Kept At Nootka Sound (Boston: Printed for the author, 1807), by John R. Jewitt (page images at UBC)- A Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt, Only Survivor of the Ship Boston During a Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Indians of Nootka Sound, With an Account of the Manners, Mode of Living and Religious Opinions of the Natives (1816), by John R. Jewitt and Richard Alsop (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt, Only Survivor of the Ship Boston During a Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Indians of Nootka Sound, With an Account of the Manners, Mode of Living and Religious Opinions of the Natives (Middletown: Loomis and Richards, 1815), by John R. Jewitt and Richard Alsop (page images at Mystic Seaport)
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Adventures of John R. Jewett (J.P. Peaslee, 1835), by Samuel G. Goodrich, John R. Jewitt, and Richard Alsop (page images at HathiTrust)- The adventures of John Jewitt only survivor of the crew of the ship Boston, during a captivity of nearly three years among the Indians of Nookta Sound, in Vancouver Island (C. Wilson, 1896), by John R. Jewitt, Robert Brown, and Richard Alsop (page images at HathiTrust)
- Narrative of the adventures and sufferings of John R. Jewitt, only survivor of the crew of the ship Boston, during a captivity of nearly three years among the savages of Nootka Sound with an account of the manners, mode of living, and religious opinions of the natives. (Mack, Andrus, 1849), by John R. Jewitt and Richard Alsop (page images at HathiTrust)
- Tales of travels west of the Mississippi (Gray and Bowen, 1830), by Solomon Bell (page images at HathiTrust)
- The adventures and sufferings of John R. Jewitt, only survivor of the ship Boston, during a captivity of nearly three years among the savages of Nootka Sound with an account of the manners, mode of living and religious opinions of the natives. (Reprinted for Archd. Constable & Co., Edinburgh, and Hurst Robinson, & Co., London, 1824), by John R. Jewitt and Richard Alsop (page images at HathiTrust)
- A narrative of the adventures and sufferings of John R. Jewitt only survivor of the ship Boston during a captivity of nearly three years among the Indians of Nootka Sound : with an account of the manners, mode of living and religious opinions of the natives. (Printed by Loomis, and Richards and reprinted by Rowland Hurst, Wakefield, and published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown ... London ..., 1816), by John R. Jewitt and Richard Alsop (page images at HathiTrust)
Books by John R. Jewitt:
- Jewitt, John R. (John Rodgers), 1783-1821: A Journal Kept At Nootka Sound (Boston: Printed for the author, 1807) (page images at UBC)
- Jewitt, John R. (John Rodgers), 1783-1821: A Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt, Only Survivor of the Ship Boston During a Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Indians of Nootka Sound, With an Account of the Manners, Mode of Living and Religious Opinions of the Natives (1816), also by Richard Alsop (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Jewitt, John R. (John Rodgers), 1783-1821: A Narrative of the Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt, Only Survivor of the Ship Boston During a Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Indians of Nootka Sound, With an Account of the Manners, Mode of Living and Religious Opinions of the Natives (Middletown: Loomis and Richards, 1815), also by Richard Alsop (page images at Mystic Seaport)
Additional books by John R. Jewitt in the extended shelves:
- Jewitt, John R. (John Rodgers), 1783-1821: The adventures and sufferings of John R. Jewitt, only survivor of the ship Boston, during a captivity of nearly three years among the savages of Nootka Sound with an account of the manners, mode of living and religious opinions of the natives. (Reprinted for Archd. Constable & Co., Edinburgh, and Hurst Robinson, & Co., London, 1824), also by Richard Alsop (page images at HathiTrust)
- Jewitt, John R. (John Rodgers), 1783-1821: The adventures and sufferings of John R. Jewitt, only survivor of the ship Boston, during a captivity of nearly three years among the savages of Nootka sound; with an account of the manners, mode of living, and religious opinions of the natives. (Reprinted for A. Constable and co.; [etc., etc.], 1824), also by Richard Alsop (page images at HathiTrust)
- Jewitt, John R. (John Rodgers), 1783-1821: The adventures of John Jewitt only survivor of the crew of the ship Boston, during a captivity of nearly three years among the Indians of Nookta Sound, in Vancouver Island (C. Wilson, 1896), also by Robert Brown and Richard Alsop (page images at HathiTrust)
- Jewitt, John R. (John Rodgers), 1783-1821: The adventures of John Jewitt, only survivor of the crew of the ship, Boston, during a captivity of nearly three years among the Indians of Nootka Sound, in Vancouver Island (C. Wilson, 1896), also by Robert Brown, Richard Alsop, and Washington State Library. Classics in Washington History (page images at HathiTrust)
- Jewitt, John R. (John Rodgers), 1783-1821: Adventures of John R. Jewett (J.P. Peaslee, 1835), also by Samuel G. Goodrich and Richard Alsop (page images at HathiTrust)
- Jewitt, John R. (John Rodgers), 1783-1821: The captive of Nootka, or The adventures of John R. Jewett. (Lippincott, Grambo & co., 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Jewitt, John R. (John Rodgers), 1783-1821: Narrative of the adventures and sufferings of John R. Jewitt, only survivor of the crew of the ship Boston, during a captivity of nearly three years among the savages of Nootka Sound with an account of the manners, mode of living, and religious opinions of the natives. (Mack, Andrus, 1849), also by Richard Alsop (page images at HathiTrust)
- Jewitt, John R. (John Rodgers), 1783-1821: A narrative of the adventures and sufferings of John R. Jewitt only survivor of the ship Boston during a captivity of nearly three years among the Indians of Nootka Sound : with an account of the manners, mode of living and religious opinions of the natives. (Printed by Loomis, and Richards and reprinted by Rowland Hurst, Wakefield, and published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown ... London ..., 1816), also by Richard Alsop (page images at HathiTrust)
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