Who were the survivors of the Essex?
William Wright was lost in a hurricane in the West Indies. Charles Ramsdell died in Nantucket on July 8, 1866, aged 62. Benjamin Lawrence died in Nantucket on March 28, 1879, aged 80. Seth Weeks died in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, on September 12, 1887, the last of the Essex survivors to die.Click to see full