Anna Shoemaker, daughter of Benjamin Shoemaker (1745-1808) and Elizabeth Warner, born March 27, 1777;
married, first, May 5, 1796, Robert Morris, son of Robert Morris the "Financier of the Revolution;"
married, secondly, Nov. 3, 1823, Francis Bloodgood,
clerk of the Supreme Court of New York and
Mayor of Albany.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60757960/anna-bloodgood
Francis Bloodgood (June 12, 1775[a] - March 5, 1840) was an American lawyer who was mayor of Albany, New York in 1831 and 1833.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bloodgood
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Emotionally unstable and behind on paying the rent for the house on Broadway, Herman's father tried to recover by moving his family to Albany, New York, in 1830 and going into the fur business.[21]
Herman attended the Albany Academy from October 1830 to October 1831,
where he took the standard preparatory course, studying reading and spelling; penmanship; arithmetic; English grammar; geography; natural history; universal, Greek, Roman and English history; classical biography; and Jewish antiquities.[22]
In early August 1831, Herman marched in the Albany city government procession of the year's "finest scholars" and was presented with a copy of The London Carcanet, a collection of poems and prose, inscribed to him as "first best in ciphering books".
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Melville
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Francis Bloodgood entered office in 1831 and paid all the debts of those in debtors' prison on the occasion of his swearing in.
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Melville's time at the Academy was soon interrupted. Parker speculates he left it in October 1831 because "even the tiny tuition fee seemed too much to pay".[25]
In December, Allan Melvill returned from New York City by steamboat, but he had to travel the last seventy miles in an open carriage for two days and two nights in subfreezing temperatures.[26]
In early January, he began to show "signs of delirium",[27] and he grew worse until his wife felt that his suffering deprived him of his intellect.[28]
He died on January 28, 1832, two months before reaching fifty.
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Moby Dick: Chapter 23, the Advocate
"who composed the first narrative of a whaling-voyage?
Who, but no less a prince than Alfred the Great, who, with his own royal pen, took down the words from Other, the Norwegian whale-hunter of those times!
And who pronounced our glowing eulogy in Parliament? Who, but Edmund Burke!
True enough, but then whalemen themselves are poor devils; they have no good blood in their veins.
No good blood in their veins?
They have something better than royal blood there."
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