Boit Rock

Boit Rock (50˚08'00" 127˚40'00" E of Jackobson Point, Nasparti Inlet, NW side of Vancouver I). John Boit (1774–1829) was 5th mate aboard the Columbia Rediviva on Capt Robert Gray’s 1791–92 trading expedition to the PNW. A native of Boston, he was a brother-in-law of one of the ship’s merchant owners. His journal or logbook is the most complete surviving record of this historic voyage. In 1794–96, as capt of the merchant vessel Union, Boit circumnavigated the globe on a second...

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