Let every man in possession of a white oak tree be ambitious to be foremost in hurrying down the timber to Salem where the noble structure is to be fabricated to maintain your rights upon the seas and make the name of America respected among the nations of the world.

Your largest and longest trees are wanted, and the arms of them for knees and rising timber.

Four trees are wanted for the keel which altogether will measure 146 feet in length, and hew sixteen inches square." This handsome frigate privately built by patriots of the republic illuminates the coastwise spirit and conditions of her time.

She was a Salem ship from keel to truck.

Captain Jonathan Haraden, the finest privateersman of the Revolution, made the rigging for the mainmast at his ropewalk in Brown Street.