Mermaid · Worcester, Massachusetts · 1737

MA-1737ID case-650f40adfeFallback locationAdded to map Oct 17, 2026

The account

A ship's crew reports partaking of a mermaid in Mauritius that weighed three or four hundred weight.

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Creature: Mermaid
Where: Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States
mapped to town level · from the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen
Fallback location (drawn hollow on the map): this is the newspaper's printing town, not where it was seen.
When: 1737
Account: Not first-hand (retold or reported by someone else)
Backed by: 1 independent source (4 documents; copies and reprints are not confirmations)
Added to map: Oct 17, 2026
Case id: case-650f40adfe

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Down the rabbit hole → 4 documents, and how they connect

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Image 1 of Worcester daily press (Worcester, Mass.), June 13, 1873
Newspaper · 1873-06-13
Earliest found, not necessarily the original.

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