Abstract
John Minor Maury was a young US navy midshipman, who was found on the South Pacific island of Nuku Hiva by the USS Essex, on 25 October 1813. Decades after the incident, a biographical sketch of Maury appeared which purported to illuminate his adventure, in an account provided by his son. For over 130 years thereafter, the tale of John Maury was based on his son's recollection. In 2020, letters written by Maury and others were discovered and studied, revealing a complex and multi-layered enterprise of which he was a part: it is this new information to which this effort is directed, with the wish to provide a complete and verified account of John Maury and the sandalwood enterprise which brought him to the Marquesas.
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