Mercator Cooper (September 29, 1803 – March 23 or April 24, 1872) was a ship's captain who is credited with the first formal American visit near Edo (now...

East Hampton. The most famous voyages out of Sag Harbor were those by Mercator Cooper. In 1845 he was on an American ship that picked up shipwrecked Japanese...

collection of Japanese art. He designed the first Japanese bank notes. Mercator Cooper (1845, United States) First formal American visit to Edo (now Tokyo)...

The Manhattan was a United States whaling ship under Captain Mercator Cooper that made the first authorized visit of an American ship to Tokyo Bay, in...

the revolutionary war. The Old Halsey House in the spring of 2011. Mercator Cooper house in Southampton. The house is now used by the town library. "ArcGIS...

Myra, captained by Henry W. Babcock — sailed from Sag Harbor in 1871. Mercator Cooper sailed as crew out of Sag Harbor on November 9, 1843, on the Manhattan...

whaling ship Manhattan rescued 22 Japanese shipwrecked sailors. Captain Mercator Cooper was allowed into Edo Bay, where he stayed for four days and met with...

Circle" were connected to form a single continent. The American explorer Mercator Cooper landed on East Antarctica on 26 January 1853. The first confirmed landing...

mainland of East Antarctica was at Victoria Land by the American sealer Mercator Cooper on 26 January 1853. The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration began at...

Union Army during the American Civil War. (b. 1793) March or April – Mercator Cooper, American sea captain (b. 1803) March 8 – Priscilla Susan Bury, British...