Caswell Point

Caswell Point (54˚03'00" 133˚04'00" N end of Beresford Bay, NW side of Graham I, QCI). Joshua Caswell (1765–91) was 2nd mate of the fur-trading vessel Columbia Rediviva, under Capt Robert Gray, on its second voyage to the PNW in 1791–92. He and two other crew members, while off fishing in a small boat and out of sight of Columbia, were murdered on the E side of Prince of Wales I in SE Alaska. Caswell “was a man of mild and gentle temper, a complete Seaman,” according to John Boit, 5th...

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