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Best known for a compact but vivid 1865 work on the wreck of the Sparrow-Hawk, this little-known historical writer helped preserve an early Cape Cod story that still fascinates readers of maritime history.
Charles W. Livermore is credited as the author, and in some editions co-author with Leander Crosby, of The Ancient Wreck and Ye Antient Wrecke, books published in 1865 about the loss of the Sparrow-Hawk in 1626 and the later discovery of its remains on Cape Cod. Surviving catalog records from the Library of Congress, HathiTrust, Google Books, and Project Gutenberg consistently connect his name with that work.
Very little biographical information about Livermore appears to be readily documented in the sources I could confirm. What can be said with confidence is that his writing belongs to the tradition of 19th-century historical and antiquarian publishing: brief, focused, and driven by curiosity about early New England history.
Because reliable personal details are scarce, Livermore is remembered mainly through this surviving publication rather than through a well-recorded public life. For listeners interested in shipwrecks, colonial America, or Cape Cod lore, his work offers a window into how earlier generations told and preserved local history.