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Boston ship Hist. 
an American ship.
- 1846 Had anyone spoken to them of American ships or American people, he would not have been understood. We were only known as Boston ships and Boston people.
- 1859 (1956) They report, having lately visited Victoria, . . . that four Boston ships were here trading furs.
- 1964 . . . he [Geo. Simpson] decided the Hudson's Bay Company should extend its operations along the Pacific Coast and end the competition of the Boston ships.
- 1846 Had anyone spoken to them of American ships or American people, he would not have been understood. We were only known as Boston ships and Boston people.