"...published in 1836, thirteen years after Whittier first heard the tale" -- Ericson, Eston Everett "John Hort" and "Skipper Ireson". The New England Quarterly, Vol. 10, No. 3. (Sep., 1937), pp. 531-532.
Note - the fate of the Active is disputed. Leonee Ormond's "Captains Courageous" notes state that four survivors from the Active returned, whereas Tyrone Power's Impressions of America (1836) claims that "contrary to all expectation, the crippled bark, after being given up as lost, reached the harbour".
