Description

Whaling vessel, built at Philadelphia, Pa., 1801; rerigged from

ship to bark in 1863; broken up at New Bedford, 1891. Sailed out of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Charles S. Pope.

owner-agent: G. & M. Howland. According to David A. Wasson, in his article "The Silent Pilots" published in "The Outlook", when George Howland puchased the Rousseau in the 1830s, he "decapitated the statue of the French philosopher that adorned her bow and substituted a small billet-head", apparently due to his Quaker beliefs.