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I'm sorry, I don't know. I do know that he lived in Salem, Massachusetts, and that he was apprenticed for a long time before he became a sailor. He knew English, Latin, Spanish, and French. He could work a problem that would take most people 2 hours on paper in 2 minutes in his head. This info comes from the book Carry on, Mr. Bowditch.

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