Copernicus Trowbridge

1740-1814. He arrives by rowboat. He recieves an indentured servant and a ticket for two. He is a manta ray on a coffee table.

Ancestor of Cappy Trowbridge, Seafarer, navigational enthusiast and sometime smuggler. Member of the boston Astronomical Society and the Albert Kook Gang.

Verdigris

When he was but a little lad, Copernicus Trowbridge emmigarated from London with his Father, Charles Major Trowbridge, after his mother succombed to influenza. Copernicus' father was a lawyer and a somewhat maniacal collector of seventeenth century oddities with a weak spot for scientific instruments. Trowbridge was an extremely curious child and was endlessley fascinated with his fathers myriad collections. By the time the youncg child was seven, he new that he wanted to be an explorer and inventor when he became a man. He was privledged to own newly invented gadgets such as the sextant, the celsius thermometer and the Chambers' Cyclopedia.

Aquamarine

Copernicus saw no need in college and quickly found his way to Boston were he worked the docks until he found his first true calling and secured a postion with a merchant marine outfit heading back to Europe because of the trade imbargos caused by the Stamp Act. He was a good sailor and became good friends with all the differant navigators that frequented his ships. He accuracy with the sextant and his ability to predict fog made him somewhat of a novelty among the fellow shipmen. He was fascinated with temperature and kept meticulous meteorological notes in a leather bound diary. Later in his life, He befriended Joseph Priestley, the discoverer of Photosynthesis and a notebook he accidentally left behind assisted him in his discovery of Oxygen.

Exhale

Much of what we know about Copernicus later life is culled from ship records or eyewitness accounts. It is true that he is mentioned in the third refrain of a popular drinking song in the local environs of Boston. By now Copernicus had amassed a small fortune and had made conections far and wide. He was familiar with many a port and could always gaurantee a good time. He dabbled in contraband. The arrival of the Albert Kook gang would soon bring mighty winds of change to the once schoolish boy from London.

Full Fathom Five

Copernicus became a shadowy figure and was said to have been a comrade of A.W. Slippers before his involvement with the Donut Shaped World Theory, and although he did not assist Slippers on his fatefull voyage, he most assuredly supplied him the many instruments onboard. The pair were frequent guests of Guvernor Morris at Morrisania before the gang had a falling out with their host that led to bitter feelings on all sides. In 1789, during the height of the French Revolution, Copernicus was traveling to Paris in search of Guvernor Morris but upon his arrival was told by a loveley housekeeper that a crowd had just recently abducted the Guvernar and his current wherabouts were unkown. The Morris archives still have the tattered note Copernicus left behind on display in thier main foyer.

Red Shift

Copernicus is also famous for having been a friend of Crispus Attucks. Some suspect that Attucks may have been a part of the Kook gang but since Slippers was such a yes man for the slavetrade this assumption now seems rather ridiculous. It is more probable that Trowbridge and Attucks shared many adventures together during thier merchant marine years. Trowbridge took a keen interest in the man's death in Boston and was seen to be unusually melancholy after hearing news of it. Trowbridge returned to Europe where he began his fascination with chemistry and coffee.

Copernicus was killed at sea north of Tripoli in 1814.

Desiderata

Predicted water skiing and the rise of catsup

Collected small balls of lead