1. "John Sealby, Blitterlees"

                    Children

     i. Thomas, bapt. 24 Mar., 1597. 

     ii. Richard, bapt. 22nd July, 1609. 
 
          2. "Thomas, son of John Sealby, bapt. March 24th, 1597.  Married.
Name unknown but she was buried Feb. 2nd, 1666."
                    Children
     "Thomas, son of Thomas Sealby, bapt. May 21st, 1625, Md. Name unknown
     but she was buried Oct. 14th, 1690."  Their son Thomas mentioned
     below, (4) was bur. 21 Mar, 1732.
 
          3. "Richard son of John Sealby, bapt. July 22d, 1609. It appears
from the Parish Book of records that the said Richard Sealby being a
Schoolmaster and intended for the church had committed a felonious
crime upon the Sea Banks but made his escape without punishment July
23rd, 1628. It appears also by authentic information that he was a
Schoolmaster in Buckinghamshire after he left Cumberland. That his
son James entered himself a Student of Law in the Middle Temple in
1647, and was buired Oct. 27th, 1688. Richards marriage wanted. Wills
his second Wife, Dec. 11th, 1655 with a large fortune."
                    Children
     i. "Rebecca, bapt. Dec. 17th, 1656."
     ii.   "James the noted Sergeant Sealby was bapt. Jan. 20th, 1657.
Buired April 29th, 1724. Married Mary Alston, oldest daughter of
Rowland Alston of Odell in Bedfordshire."
                    Children
          (a) "Mary died an infant."
          (b) "Thomas James Sealby the Testator was bapt. Oct. 20th, 1717.
Buired Dec. 4th,1772. He left his property to the heir at Law if he
could be found."

     iii. "Hannah, bapt. Mar. 25th, 1659."
     iv. "William, died 1733."
     v. "Mary."

          4. "Thomas Sealby of Blitter Lees, afterward of Isell Old Park.
Buried 21st March, 1732."
                    Children
     i.  Thomas, died an infant."
     ii.  "Sarah, bapt. 16 Feb, 16S9. S. R."
     iii. "Isabella, bapt 21st Aug. 1693. Married Wm. Raper, Nov. 23rd,
1727."
                    Children, surname Raper.
          (a) "Thomas, died an infant."
          (b) "John, bapt. May 1st, 1730. Had issue one son and 4 daughters,
all living, one of the daughters married William Longcake."
          (c) "Joseph, bap. 10th July, 1736. Had issue one son and one
daughter, living."
     iv. "Abraham (5), bapt. 8th March, 1695."
     v. "Mary, bapt. Sept. 5th, 1703.  Mar  Greenup" Issue "John."

          5. "Abraham, Bapt. 8th March, 1695. Mar Frances Iredell, Aug. 28th,
1721."
                    Children
     i. "Thomas, (6) bapt. 9th July, 1734."
     ii. "Mary, bapt.25th Jan., 1736."
     iii. "Frances, bapt. 15th Dec., 1741."
     iv. "John, 21st Nov., 1744."
     v. "Sarah, bapt. 13th May, 1747."
     vi. "Abraham, bapt. July 31st, 1750."
     vii. "Susan, bapt. 11th Sept., 1753."

          6. "Thomas (Sealby) Bapt. 9th July, 1734. M. Mary Rerson, Oct. 16,
1763."  He was one of the Assessors who signed a Poor Rate document
at Holn Cultram, 12th Dec. 1640.
                    Children
     i. "Thomas Sealby, Claiment, bapt, 21st January, 1768."
     ii. "John Sealby (7), born March 9th, 1770."
(Quotation marks above indicate information copied from an old
manuscript.)

          7. John Sealby, born 9th March, 1770, died 10th July, 1837, in his
67th year. He was "the Village Blacksmith at Tallantire, 4 miles from
Maryport; many years ago an old man who was a native of that place
and about the same age as your grandfather, said they were boys
together and he knew them all and that Mrs. Ismay, your grandfather's
sister, when a young woman used to strike the big hammer for her
father. She was a big, strong woman." (Letter from Wm. Stoddart, 1928.)
He married Mary Inman who died 15th March, 1837, in her 67th year and
is buried in Maryport churchyard with her husband. Their stone being
next that of Mrs. Ismay and her family.
                    Children
     i. Joseph (8), born about 1793; died 8th Dec. 1866.
     ii.   Mary, born 28th Oct., 1806; died 15th June, 1869; married 7th
April, 1836, Joseph Ismay, born 24th April, 1004; died 11th Jan.,
l850. (See Ismay line, Vol. xxix, p. 79.) Miss Selkirk who died in
1926 at the age of ninety-seven, said there were but the two children
as given above.

          8. Joseph Sealby, born about 1793, died at Ropery House, near
Maryport, 8th Dec., 1866, at the age of 73 and is buried in St.
Mary's churchyard, Maryport. He was a draper in Crosby St., where he
owned the shop occupied in 1913 by Councilman Hardy, and the
adjoining shops "which attracted the attention of all visitors by
reason of the fact that alone in all Maryport they possessed a
flagged front. For those were the days of the Maryport petrified
kidneys immortalised by Dickens" -- according to the Maryport News.
The original shop was returned to the family in later years through
its purchase by Captain Sealby.
     Associated with him in the business were his two sons until the elder
went to Liverpool and the younger to Carlisle and eventually to the
United States.
     He married Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Agnes (Postlethwaite) Inman,
born 1790; she died 9th May, 1859; aged 69 and is buried with her
husband in St. Mary's churchyard. At the time of his death a warm
tribute was paid in the Maryport Advertiser to the character and
citizenship "of a deeply regretted fellow-townsman of whom it was
said his natural amiability of temper rendered him incapable of
making an enemy."
                    Children
     i. John Inman, born about 1829, died at Ladstock, Thornthwaite,
Keswick, 4th Feb., 1913, aged 84 years; buried Maryport, with the
Rev. J. A. Richards officiating.
     He began his business career in his father's drapery shop, leaving to
join his cousin Thomas Henry Ismay, founder of the White Star Line,
of Liverpool. He became cashier of the Company, retiring only after
its amalgamation with the American Lines about 1896, when he took up
his residence at Ladstock. His uprightness of carriage and energy
were said, at that time, to be remarkable. He developed an active
interest in public matters; was churchwarden, school manager, Keswick
school governor, a member of the Cockermouth Board of Guardians and
Rural District Council, and a sturdy conservative.
     He obtained the extended water supply from Braithwaite to
Thornethwaite and reconstructed the old vicarage into the mansion it
was at the time of his death.  He "was for many years agent in M'port
for the Shipwrecked Sailors and Fishermen's Society; they paid in so
much a year, there being so much paid to the family in case of a
member being lost at sea, and also to clothe and succour shipwrecked
sailors; this brought him in close personal touch with the seafaring
community, especially the wives who mostly paid in the money. He
always performed his duty in such a kind and sympathetic manner that
all the seafarers and their wives looked upon J. I. Sealby as their
guide, philosopher and friend." (Letter of Wm. Stoddart, 1928.) He
was a member of the Freemasons' Lodge up to the time of his death and
for many years the senior member.
     He married Frances Asbridge, born about 1830, the seventh daughter of
Peter Collin Asbridge of Maryport; she died at Carlisle, 12th Oct.,
1916, aged 86 years and was buried at Maryport. There were no children.  
     ii. Joseph (9), born 30th Dec., 1831, died 24th Feb., 1883.

          9. Joseph Sealby, son of Joseph and Sarah (Inman) Sealby, was born
30th Dec., 1831, at Maryport, Cumberland, England; he died 24th Feb.,
1883, at Jersey City, New Jersey, U. S. A., and was buried on the
12th March following in St. Mary's churchyard, Maryport.
     He was with his father in the drapery business for several years
before, and at, the time of his marriage to Maria Lucock, born 4th
June, 1836, at Plumbland, Cumberland, the daughter of Robert Lucock
of Bewcastle and his wife Mary Crone of Gilcrux.
     The Maryport Advertiser gives this account of the wedding:
     --"At Crosscanonby on the 30th October, l861, by the Rev. R. Dugdale,
     Mr. Joseph Sealby, Junr., Maryport, to Maria, youngest daughter of
     the late Mr. Robert Lucock of Aspatria. The bride was attired in a
     white dress of glace silk, with flounces of white lace; head dress or
     orange blossom and myrtle, and long veil of rich lace. The four
     bridesmaids, the Misses Clark of Warwick Bridge, and the Misses Ismay
     of Maryport -- had all dresses of white Tarletane, head dresses of
     scarlet wreaths and white veils.  A large company assembled at Mr.
     Elliot's Furnace House, to breakfast, and were joined there by the
     wedding party. After breakfast the happy pair proceeded with the
     express train to London. The satisfaction of the people on the
     consumation of this happy event was manifested by a great display of
     flags and bannerets extending across the streets, with mottoes
     expressive of the good wishes of the people. We are glad to find that
     Mr. Sealby considerately remembered the poor or the occasion, by
     distributing about 30 pairs of good warm sheets. The employees of the
     establishment, 13 in number, were regaled with an excellent tee-total
     supper at Mrs. Bell's confectioner, to celebrate the nuptials of
     their young master."
          Writing to Captain Sealby, 16th Oct., 1935, William Stoddart, of
     Doncaster, said: -- "The Sealbys were punctilious attenders at St.
     Mary's Church and as we were the same and as our pews were not far
     apart we got a good view of each other at least once a week.
          Your father always wore a large well trimmed beard and walked with
     a fine graceful stride and looked very like a soldier, had it not been
     for his beard, but it had to pass. When the volunteers started in
     1859, your Father and Uncle J. S. were amonst the first to join. I
     have seen them on parade many a time; I think your father was a
     Sergeant. I would be over 20 when your Father left M'port so I have a
     distinct recollection of him as well as your uncle J. I. Sealby who
     left M'port about the same time. I remember your uncle Jos. Lucock
     quite well, he carried on Brick and Tile works at Broughton Moor, he
     was quite a familiar figure in M'port, he used to attend St. Mary's
     Church regular on Sunday evenings and sat in the Sealby's pew.  He
     was a member of the Freemasons, his name and also that of your Father
     is displayed on the board, in the Lodge, which gives the names of all
     the Masters since the foundation ofthe Lodge in 1823; they are about
     1860; I was Master in 1881-2, 20 years after them. Sealby, like
     Stoddart is a real Cumberland name.  There used to be for many years,
     a vessel named the Sealby in the Irish coal trade, she was one of
     Capt. Johnston Melmore's fleet, I have seen her dozens of times. I
     should think there is little doubt but she was named after your
     family, she has gone to her rest many years ago."
          About l873, Mr. Sealby, in company with W. J. Robinson, came to the
     United States to open the American branch of the White Star line at 
     Jersey City. Here, he established the first home and, in 1874, a
     second one in Vineland on the Menantico Creek where he built a story
     and a half house; on the adjoining property Mr. Robinson built a
     similar one.
          Following the death of her husband in 1883, Mrs. Sealby with her six
     younger children -- the two older sons had already gone to sea --
     returned to England, where, partly at Aspatria and partly at
     Manchester, the family remained until, in 1898, Mrs. Sealby once more
     settled in her Menantico home and eventually at 6th and Montrose
     Sts., Vineland, where she died 20th Sept., 1907, and was buried in
     Siloam Cemetery.
                    Children
     i.   Inman (10), Captain, born 23rd Oct., 1862, at "The Ropery,"
Maryport. Died 4th Dec., 1942, Philadelphia, Penna., U. S. A.
     ii. Robert Lucock (II), born 3rd Dec., 1863, Maryport.
     iii.   Sarah, born 27th July, 1865, Maryport; married, Brooklyn, N.
Y., 30th Oct., 1912, James Doan Thompson, a painter and decorator,
born 4th March, 1872, New York City; died 19th Feb., 1931, son of
James and Emily (Osborne) Thompson. Mrs. Thompson at present, 1946,
is residing with her sister Mrs. Watkins, at Fritchley, Derbyshire,
England.
     iv.   Maria Josephine, (Mimi), born 13th Oct., 1868; married 20th
Sept. 1883 at Christ Church, Manchester, England, as his second wife,
William Allen Watkins, born 8th Dec., 1852, at Birmingham,
Warwickshire, England, died 30th March, 1929, at Fritchley, the son
of William Watkins, a noted Quaker of his day, and his wife Ann
Kirkham.
     Mr. Watkins gave up his business as wholesale provision merchant in
Liverpool and settled in Derbyshire as tutor, coaching pupils for
University, making a study of early Christian history. He made
several visits to Rome to study the inscriptions and so on, on the
Catacombs.
     Mrs. Watkins resides at "Lindfield" Fritchley, Derbyshire, England,
having previously lived at Liverpool, Manchester, Aspatria, and
Maryport, England, and in Jersey City and Vineland, N. J.
     v.   Annie Inman, born Carlisle, England, 4th Feb., 1870; died,
Fritchley, Derbyshire, England, 4th Dec., 1937.
     vi.   Joseph Lucock, born Carlisle, England, 13th Jan., 1871; died,
Vineland, N.J., 25th Feb., 1933.
          His early education he received in Vineland, presumedly at Cooper's
Mill and Spring Road schools where his elder brothers had gone, but
with the return of the family to England, his studies were completed
there.
     He had wanted, as had his brothers before him, to follow the sea, but
the need of him at home served as a preventive to his ambition. After
the return to Vineland, he worked for Oscar L. Becker, as carpenter
until he entered the Borough Electrical department where he remained
for the last twenty or more years of his life, becoming an invaluable
member of the organization. In speaking of him, Mayor Samuel Gassell
said: -- "A man of rare capabilities in the understanding of his work
and the men under him, of deep and tender feelings, of unfailing
gentleness and patience, and unbreakable courage."
     He was a member of the Masonic Lodge.
     He married 2nd Nov., 1903, at Trinity church, Vineland, Caroline A.
(Young) Crowther, born 25th Dec., 1869, at Ollerton Hall,
Nottinghamshire, England, the daughter of Joseph Broadbear and Mary
(Leverton) Young, and widow of Amos Crowther, Manchester, England,
who died in 1901. She resides at the Masonic Home, Burlington, N. J. 
No children.
     vii.    John Inman (12), born, Manantico Road, Vineland; N. J., 28th
Feb., 1876.
     viii.   Wilton Woodville, born, Jersey City, N. J., 13th April, 1881;
married 12th April, 1910; Ann Baxter, born 21st March, 1882, daughter
of Charles and Catherine Baxter, of Brooklyn, N. Y.  Residing in 1946, at 
768 Franklin Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y., U. S. A.  No children.

PART FIVE

     10. Inman Sealby, Captain, was born in the Maryport family home where
his great uncle, Thomas Henry Ismay, of the White Star Line, had
lived as a, child. The Maryport Advertiser for Oct. 31, 1862 states
"At 'The Ropery' on the 23rd inst., the wife of Mr. Joseph Sealby, of
a son."
     In 1869 Mr. Sealby removed his family to Carlisle and in 1871 young
Inman entered the old Grammer School of that town, where sires of
Cumberland County had sent their sons since 1264, its roster
containing the ever-recurring names of Senhouse, Blamire, Sealby,
Ritson, Postlethwaite, Elliott, Lister, Asbridge, Inman, Lucock and
Wood from around Maryport, and those of the well-known families from
other sections of the county. Here, mathematics were still taught by
the uncomprising aid of a heavy ferules, when that form of
instruction was being given, the boys, especially the older ones,
loitered outside in the courtyard waiting to see how the lesson had
been born and ready to jeer the weakling.  The day nine-year old
Inman received such teaching, he came from it white lipped and a bit
shakey as to knees, but went swaggering down the court and joined in
a game of marbles. His hand was too swollen to close and an injury
had been given which resulted in the permanent crippling of his
little finger, yet he had lived up to his code, and therein spoke the
man to be.
     Four years later the Sealbys were settled in a new home on the
Menantico Creek, at Vineland, New Jersey, and he was attending the
raw country school on Cooper's Mill road, where life long friendships
were formed and the days passed uneventfully.  The simple pleasures
of church and school entertainments were broken, once, by the
appalled joy of flinging a dead cat at a fellow student and having it
land, instead, in the lap of a visiting dignitary.
     In 1877 a return was made to Jersey City from where, in July of the
next  year Inman Sealby boarded the ship "Aminta" at Brooklyn and
sailed for Liverpool and the coveted life of a seaman. This began on
5th Oct. when, as the youngest of five apprentices, he joined the
barque "Esmeralda"(1) of the White Star Line at South Shields bound
for Newcastle, N. S. W., Valparaiso, Pisagua. and Iquique. Before the
fifteen months of apprenticeship were served he had put into Callao(2)
had a touch of the war between Chili and Peru and was in Liverpool
again in time to sail for a Christmas in New York.
     The remaining four years of apprenticeship were spent on the
"Dawpool", shipping to Melbourne, Calcutta, Sydney, and San Francisco
with salt, horses or general merchandise. With these gears behind
him, in rapid succession came the "Arabic", "Copley", "Hoghton
Tower", the "Oceanic" and the China trade, with promotion keeping
pace, -- making him by the time he was in command of his own vessel,
the youngest captain in the service of the White Star Line. In 1895
Captain Sealby returned to San Francisco and joined the "Coptic" as
her commander.(3)
     Three years later he was once more in Australian waters commanding
the "Prusic" and the "Suevic"; in 1903 he joined the "Corinthic" for
two years in the New Zealand trade, prior to Mediterian service on
the "Cretic" and "Canopic".
     Captain Sealby won international fame through his seamanship and
heroism when his ship, the great liner "Republic" was struck in a fog
by the Italian S.S. "Florida"(4) and sunk.  Pending the official inquiry 
which, apparently, was never held, Captain Sealby took up the study of 
admiralty law at the University of Michigan.(4)  His graduation in
1912, was followed by a year in Europe before taking up legal duties
in San Francisco, first with Morrison, Dunn & Brobeck, then in
partnership with Hunt Hill.  This phase of his career was brought to
a close in 1917 when he took command of the German vessel O. J. D.
Ahlus, renamed the "Montecello" and went through the Panama Canal to
New York where, being a naturalized citizen, he received an
appointment as Lieut-Commander, U.S.N.R. and made three voyages
carrying troops to the war zone. In 1917 and 1918 he was appointed
chairman of the Committee in Ship Damages, Newport News and Norfolk,
Va., for the United States Shipping Board; after the armistice he was
appointed member of a special committee under Mr. E. J. Palen(6) to
proceed to Paris and arrange shipping matters for the Board, -- a
commission which settled him in Rotterdam a goodly portion of the
time.
     At the end of five years of constructive work on the Shipping Board,
his task finished, Captain Sealby retired from active public life, to
spend the years in travel, in England with his sister Mrs. Watkins,
or in the quiet of his Vineland "Lodge" on the Menantico.  Here,
being intensely interested in New Jersey wild life of every kind, he
busied himself in converting his holdings into a refuge not only for
birds and small game but in collecting and cultivating the native
plants and trees. He also took an unobtrusive but definite part in
all civic concerns and reforms.
     In 1937 he succeeded Dr. Edwin H. Van Deusen as president of the
Vineland Historical Society and was vice-president of the Cumberland
County Friends of the Hancock House, positions he held until his
death.  He was also a member of the Masonic Lodge, of the Connaught
Club of London, the Bohemian Club of San Francisco, the Seven Seas
Club, and had the distinction of being a member of both the Royal
Navy Reserve and the United States Navy Reserve.
     With the coming of the Second World War, Captain Sealby by then
beyond the age for renewed sea service, turned his energies into
British War Relief work. Work more than once interrupted temporarily,
by summons to Washington to confer personally with the President upon
the condition of foreign harbors and their entrances, -- and was
interrupted permanently, on the 4th of December 1942, by summons from
a greater Commander.
     Upon the 13th of October Captain Sealby had gone to St. Mary's
Hospital, in Philadelphia, for observation and treatment; there he
remained, keenly interested in the progress of the war, in the
personal concerns of his friends even talking cheerfully of his plans
for the coming summer, -- and yet it has been said that during the
long, quiet hours of the lengthening weeks "He must have heard Time's
winged chariot hurrying, near and hearing, was undismayed" -- strong
in the knowledge of loyal service given, of heavy tasks well borne
and an abiding faith in his God.
     11. Robert L. Sealby was born at "The Roperty", Maryport, England,
3rd Dec, 1863, where he lived until the family removed to nearby
Carlisle in 1869, four years later crossing the water to Jersey City,
N. J., U. S. A., to settle in Vineland, N.J. in 1875.  He too
attended the little Coopers Mill and Spring Road Schools until the
family's return to Jersey City, where he was entered in the No. 4
Public School for two years. Being a Sealby, there was sea-salt in
his blood so that at the age of sixteen he, as had his brother,
joined the White Star Line. Of these first years he wrote, -- "My
time was in -- for those days -- a, large passenger ship. We used to
carry passengers to Australia under conditions that would appall the
good folk who travel today.  One thing; about it was that those who
made the trip out, remained there, as they would not repeat the
experience on a trip back. We had large crews and good chanty men,
and at time those chantys come back, not as you hear them on the
radio, but when the wind is high and a crack of thunder to give it
zip. We had a magpie crew once, great chanty men, and one capstan
chanty they gave -- I never heard it before or since, -- but have
never forgotten the choras, 
          'And its hame, dearie, hame; oh its
               hame I want to be.
          My topsails are hoisted, and I must
               out to sea;
          For the oak, and the ash, and the
               bonnie birchen tree.
          The're all a growing green in
               the North Countree.'
     That, on a stormy night, used to bring on an attack of homesickness
to the passengers, -- and a bottle of grog for the singers."
     He served as an officer on the ship "Houghton Tower", the bark "Mary
Moore", S. S. "Volo", S. S. "Corso", bark "Norseman", bark "Philip
Nelson", S. S. "Douro", S. S. "Britannic", S. S. "Republic", bark
"Lottie Stewart", S.S. "Norma", bark "Parnell", S. S, "Aramac",
schooner "Canomie", bark "Valparaiso", S. S. "Arawatta", S. S.
"Wodonga", and S. S. "Koonawarra", retiring due to eye trouble as
captain in December, 1897.
     The next six years were spent at Coolgardie, West Australia, where he
was on the administrative staff of the gold mines "Lady Charlotte
Group"and "Burbank's Birthday Gift"; also on the Committee of
Coolgardie Racing Club, 1900 to 1903.  From then until 1908 he was in
Kalgoorlie on the staff of the "North Kalgurli" and "Brookmans
Boulder" mines; a member of "Tattersalls Club" and a racehorse owner. 
The succeeding two years he was associated with the "British Mexican
Developement Company" in Mexico City; in 1911 to Tampa, Florida, U.
S. A. for two years; then Brisbane, Sydney and Saratoga, Australia,
where he was in the real estate business until his retirement in 1930.
     During the first World War he saw active service from the 16th of
March 1916 to the 2nd of April, 1920, as sergeant in the 53rd
Battalion, Fifth Division, Australian Imperial Experditionary Force.
He is a member of the Masonic Lodge, Golden Thistle No. 840 Grand
Lodge of Scotland, of the Coolgardie Club, the Kalgoorlie Club, the
American Club, Mexico, and the Vineland Historical and Antiquarian
Society, Vineland, N. J.
     Mr. Sealby married, the 12th of May, 1924, at St. Matthews Church,
Manly, New South Wales, Winifred Kingsford Smith, born 15th November,
1880, at St. George, Queensland, Australia, the daughter of William
Charles and Catherine Mary (Kingsford) Smith.  Mrs. Sealby is an
active and ardent member of The Sydney Anti-Vivisection Society and
the World League for the Protection of Animals and is also a valued
contributor to the publications of both organizations.
     "Ladstock", their home in Saratoga, New South Wales, is named after
that of Mr. Sealby's uncle John Inman Sealby, at Keswick, Cumberland,
England.

(To be concluded)

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FOOTNOTES

1. See "Captain Sealby As I knew Him." by Henry Hands, in the Vineland Historical Magazine, Vol. xxviii, No. 1-2.

2. Through a typographical error the name was misspelled "Callas" in the article by Mr. Hands.

3. "Captain Inman Sealby -- Skipper and Friend" by Captain Leighton Robinson, Vineland Historical Magazine, Vol. 28, p. 41. Lindsay Campbell, of San Francisco in describing him at this time wrote he had "the courage of about four bulldogs, a good head . . . and not even James Hamilton Lewis maintained, for the amusement and recreation of the wind, a pinker or more luxuriant or better known crop of whiskers than did Captain Sealby, Commander of the liner "Coptic."

4. "Captain Inman Sealby." By Jack Binns, Vineland Historical Magazine, Vol. 28, p. 48. One of the passengers stated later: -- "There was nothing overlooked, nothing done in panic. Why, when we were standing out on deck many of us with nothing but our wet nightgowns clinging to us, the stewards came around and served hot coffee to everyone. . . . They were all as cheerful as though no danger threatened, and Captain Sealby made a point of passing among us, in between all his other duties, every few minutes, heartening everybody up, -- telling of the boats that were coming and there was not the slightest chance of our not being saved. He was almost jovial about it. I think he saved a lot of people from going crazy."

5. "Captain Inman Sealby at the University of Michigan Law School." By Henry M. Bates. Vineland Historical Magazine, Vol. 28, p. 51.

6. "Inman Sealby - The Companion." By J. F. Marias. Vineland Historical Magazine, Vol. 28, p. 54.