“[Captain] Seth [Nickerson] was the most active of the Cotuit whaling captains.  He went whaling on the 360 ton ship Massachusetts based out of Nantucket in 1841. …The Massachusetts rounded Cape Good Hope and whaled along the Austrailian coast.”   -from Seth Nickerson: Cotuit’s Whaling Master.   

A monograph distributed by The Historical Society of Santuit and Cotuit, MA
regarding the life of Capt. Seth Nickerson can be acquired at the following address:http://www.cotuithistoricalsociety.org/HSSC-historical_papers.pdf