Letters from Sea

The Colcord children spent most of their youth on their father’s ships, and the family’s detailed letters, logbooks, and photographs give us a splendid window into the life of a seafaring family.In June of 1881, on the very night of their wedding in Searsport, Maine, Captain Lincoln Alden Colcord and his new wife, Jane Sweetser Colcord, departed for sea to begin a two-year voyage on the bark Charlotte A. Littlefield. The voyage would take them around the world and witness the birth of their d…