Trammell Hudson@th@social.v.st
Mary Ann Brown Patten was the wife of Joshua Adams Patten, captain of the merchant clipper ship Neptune's Car. In 1856 the ship was bound for San Francisco around Cape Horn from New York when her husband collapsed from fatigue. She took command for 56 days, faced down a mutiny, and successfully learned celestial navigation in order to reach San Francisco. At the time of docking, she was 19 years old and eight months pregnant with her only child. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Brown_Patten