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Robert Gray (May 10, 1755 – c. July 1806) was an American merchant sea captain who is known for his achievements in connection with two trading voyages to the northern Pacific coast of North America, between 1790 and 1793, which pioneered the American maritime fur trade in that region.
May 9, 2024 · Robert Gray (born May 10, 1755, Tiverton, R.I.—died summer 1806, at sea near eastern U.S. coast) was the captain of the first U.S. ship to circumnavigate the globe and explorer of the Columbia River. Gray went to sea at an early age, and after serving in the Continental Navy during the Revolutionary War, he entered the service of a ...
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Written by. William L. Lang. Last updated. April 4, 2023. On May 11, 1792, Robert Gray, the first American to circumnavigate the world (1787-1790), sailed the Columbia Rediviva into the Columbia River, the first docum…
In May 1792, American merchant sea captain Robert Gray sailed into the Columbia River, becoming the first recorded American to navigate into it. The voyage, conducted on the privately owned Columbia Rediviva, was eventually used as a basis for the United States ' claim on the Pacific Northwest, although its relevance to the claim was disputed ...
Gray Enters Big River. Less than two weeks later, American Robert Gray proved Heceta right and Vancouver wrong when he succeeded in entering the Columbia. Gray, a Rhode Island born captain in the employ of a consortium of Boston merchants, was on his second voyage to the Northwest in search of sea otter and other furs.
NPS. Gray’s Harbor, the large estuarine bay about 45 miles north of the mouth of the Columbia River, is named in recognition of Captain Robert Gray, the first Euro-American to enter it on May 7, 1792. Gray originally named the bay Bullfinch Harbor.
Captain Robert Gray made two fur trading trips to the Northwest Coast, the first in 1788-89 and the second in 1791-92. These expeditions originated in New England, organized by local entrepreneurs who wished to exploit the sea otter fur trade then developing in the region.
