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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
America's first ship to enter the port at Canton was the Empress of China, a New York ship; Major Samuel Shaw of Boston was supercargo. Six months out from New York she arrived at Macao on August 23, 1784. Others of the earliest American visitors to China include Captain Robert Gray sailing the Columbia; ship Hope, James Magee, Master; and the Grand Turk of Salem, Ebenezer West, Master.