Class _/:_^^ cop^tairr deposit. o DC u X H 2; o IX w > o ui z o 5: Q w' >—) Q a: K 03 < a. cc S u (/) > o t— • Q Q^ s :i: H a: a: H o o 2 z o H < o o J u E H O Z ^ o n: m r^ m HISTORY OF SHIPBUILDING ON NORTH RIVER, PLYMOUTH COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS, WITH GENEALOGIKS OF THE SHIPBUILDERS, AXD ACCOUNTS OF THE INDUSTRIES UPON ITS TRIBUTARIES. 1640 TO 1872. BY L. VERNON BRIGGS MEMBER OP THE NEW ENGLAKD HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETT. BOSTON: COBURN BROTHERS, PRINTERS, II4 WASHINGTON STREET. 1SS9. ""-r]^ COPYRIGHT BY L. VERNON BRTG<^iS, 1889. KESPECT TO MY FKIKND ^r A TTTTH-U 1. iV'-'- DEDICATED WITH AFFECTIONATE eiixa 1^ lfltot)ittfe. SON OF ,„.„.» " "~- ""'"" "'""• AND AUTHOR OF .ownnoH's rn.onc.L .AnoATOu. I PREFACE. Several years a^^o the author began collecting valuable facts relative to the shiirbuildhig interests that had existed in his own family, thinking it well to put into some tangible form facts that in a few years would be otherwise unobtainable. While thus working for a possible future history or genealogy of his family he discovered mucli of value and interest to the public in general, and the descendants of all North River shipbuilders in particular. Eio-hteen months ago he conceived the idea of writing a history of "the shipbuilding on North River, making it as complete as possible at this late day. Most of the work has been done out of business hours, and much of this time has been taken in his other duties as President of Ward XVI. Associated Chanties of Boston, Director of the New England Hospital for Women and Children, and President of the Hanover Academy Alumni. In compiling this history he has been ably assisted by many sincere friends, and has employed expert clerks among the old Probate arid Custom House records of many cities and towns. Acknowledgments of deep gratitude are due to numerous individuals who have assisted him by furnishing copies of records, old account books, bi Is and receipts, family records, diaries, etc. Were he to name all those to whom he is thus indebted he would include the descendants of many of the families whose ancestors, and in some cases they themselves, were versed in the art of shipbuilding, also the names oi sea captains, librarians, merchants, selectmen, probate officers, etc., not leaving out the Hon. Henry B. Pierce, Secretary of State, who has a most systematic arrangement ot the old records, manuscripts and maps in his keeping at the State House, nor Mr. John Tower, Editor of the North River " Pioneer,' who has ably written many of the autobiographies. The author dare not flatter himself that the work is free from errors, but as a whole it is be- lieved to be worthy of confidence, and where he has been unable to verify traditions and hearsay information bearing on this sub- iect, by records or manuscript in some form, he has not stated such information as facts. Neither time, labor nor expense has VI PREFACE. been spared to make the volume a valuable collection of facts. The name of North River is familiar to the older generations of seafaring men and especially to the older residents of Nantucket, New Bedfoul, Sag Harbor, Barnstable, Provincetown, Boston and the South Shore. Great Britain was a market for a large num- ber of North River built vessels before the Revolution. Prior to 1800 North River was known the world over ; vessels were not designated as having been built in Scituate, Marshfield, Hanover or Pembroke, but "on North River." The author has unearthed the records of over one thousand and twentv-five vessels built here, and the United States Flag was carried around the world, and among other places, to the following countries for the first time at the mast heads of Nortli River built vessels : Great Brit- ain, Canada, the Northwest coast, to the Black Sea and China. The largest number of vessels built on the River in a single year that the author has found the records of was thirty in iSoi,and the year iSi 8 shows the next largest number, twenty-four. During the five years, from 1799 to 1804 inclusive, there were built here one hundred and fifteen vessels, an average of twenty-three each year. During the ten years, from 1794 to 1S04 inclusive, there were one hundred and seventy-eight vessels built here, or an average of 17 each year. The largest number of vessels found bearing the same name were Betseys and Sallys, fourteen each ; twelve Marys, eleven Pollys, and ten Neptunes. Times look a little brighter for the shipbuilders m general now ; nine or more vessels are on the stocks at Bath, Me. Currier has just launched a 1200-ton four-masted schooner at Newburyport ; a similar ves- sel has recently been launched at New Haven, Conn., and six or more vessels are building at East Boston. North River may yet see another vessel, and perhaps many more built upon her banks. Several of the old sliipbuilders afiirm that in build- ing small vessels there are no obstacles but what could easily be overcome, if the men had the courage. The copied manuscript of this volume has been deposited with the New England Plis- toric Genealogical Society, 13oston. Hanover, November i, 1889. L. V. B. CONTENTS. For alphabetical list of names and vessels see end of volume. CHAPTER I. PAGE. Sources of North River and their tributaries. — History of the industries located thereon 1-27 CHAPTER II. North Rivee (continued).— Its bridges and ferries, and the industries that have been located on its lower tributaries ; also, vessels built upon its banks in early times at yards unknown 28-51 CHAPTER III. North River Pilots. — Capt. Anthony Collamore, "Wantons, Samuel Doggett, John Doggett, Mark Hatch, Capt. Bardin Sylvester, Benjamin Hatch, Benjamin Damon, James Eldredge, Frederick Handerson, Job Young, Benjamin House, Jr., Jacob Ames, James Ames, Alvin Hall, Samuel Hall, Benjamin Keene, Asa Sherman, Asa Sherman, Jr., Tobias Oak- man, Capt. David Church, Timothy Williamson, Uncle Tom Tripp, Capt. Luther Rogers, Calvin Lewis, Jerry Gunderway, Capt. Charles L. Tilden. 52-63 CHAPTER ly. North River Bridge Yards. 1668-1836. — Daniel Turner, James Barstow, William Barstow, William Barstow, Jr., Benjamin Barstow, Gideon Barstow, Nathaniel or " Builder Silvester," Nathaniel Silvester, Jr., Jonathan Sam- son, Barker Turner, Jeduthan Palmer, Enoch Magoun 64-76 CHAPTER V. Miscellaneous Yards in Pembroke. 1793-1803. — Nathaniel Gushing, Col. George Turner, Thomas Turner, Robert Magoun, Job Randall, Jr., Ephraim Randall, and Aaron Sherman 77-83 CHAPTER YI. Smith Yard. 1792-1819. (Afterward Eells' & Barstow's Yard.)— Col. John Bailey, Dea. Isaac Perry, Josiah Smith, Albert Smith, Thomas Smith, Miller Smith, Benjamin Bass, Jr., William Delano, Bezal Eells, Edward Eells, Samuel Eells 84-96 Ylil CONTENTS. CHAPTER VII. Barstow's "Two Oaks," And Lower Yards. 1760-1846. — Thomas Barstow, Capt. Robert Lenthal Eells, Nathaniel Barstow, Tliomas Barstow, Jr., Col. John B. Barstow, Dea. Elijah Barstow, Abner Stetson, Michael Ford, Jr., Israel H. Sherman, Col. John Bailey, Capt. Elijah Barstow, Jr., Barker Turner, Joseph S. Bates 97-120 CHAPTER VIII. Miscellaneous Yards in Hanover. 1736-1844. — John Clark, Nath'l Clark, Belcher Clark, Solomon Bates, Col. Seth Bates, David Kingman, Sam'l Rogers, Elijah Haywood, Joshua Turner, Dea. Isaac Perry, Wm. Coushing & Co., Calvin Turner, Ichabod Thomas, Benj. Stockbridge, Martin Stock- bridge, Isaiah Wing 121-130 CHAPTER IX. Fox Hill Yarp. 1690-1869.— Nathaniel Church, John Palmer, Michael Ford, William Copeland, Elias W. Pratt, Elisha Tolman, Mr. Merritt, Cajjt. Thomas Waterman, Joseph S. Bates, Capt. Elisha Barstow, Thomas B. Waterman. . - 131-146 CHAPTER X. Brick-kiln Yard. 1730-1807. — Capt. Benjamin Turner, Capt. Ichabod Thomas, Sr., Capt. Ichabod Thomas, Jr., Calvin Turner 147-175 CHAPTER XL Brick-kiln Yard, (Continued). 1796-1848. — William Lewis, Alden Briggs, Elisha Briggs, Jonathan Samson, Samuel Rogers, Isaac Hatch, Luther Briggs, Aaron S. Magoun, Jr., Enoch Magoun, Joshua Magoun, Jedutlian Palmer, Barker Turner, Caleb Turner, Cushmg O. Briggs, Silvanus Smith, Melzar S. Turner 176-201 CHAPTER XII. Rogers' Yards. 1790-1819. — Gravelly Beach, Doggett's Ferry.— Israel Rogers, Amos Rogers, Joseph Rogers, Asa Rogers, Asa Rogers, Jr., Samuel Rogers, Thomas Rogers, Thomas Rogers, Jr., Nathaniel Rogers, Jr., Peleg Rogers, Peleg Rogers, Jr., Luther Rogers 202-213 CHAPTER XIIL Wanton Yard. 1670-1840.— Edward Wanton, Robert Barker, Ebenezer Stet- son, Snow Stutson, Benjamin Delano, William Delano, Samuel Hartt, William H. Delano, Benjamin F. Delano, Joseph Clapp, Elisha Foster, Elisha Foster, Jr., Seth Foster, Samuel Foster, Walter Foster, Samuel Rogers, Elijah Brooks, J. Turner Foster, Cummings Litchfield, James S. Burrill. • 214-242 CHAPTER XIV. Chittenden Yard. 1690-1871. — Job Randall, Edward Prouty, Isaac Prouty, Isaac Chittenden, Nathaniel Chittenden, Obadiah Merritt, Noah Merritt, Samuel Silvester, George Torrey, James Torrey, Isaac Torrey, George Torrey, Jr., David Torrey. Joseph Nash, Elisha Barker, Laban Souther, Joseph Pratt, Charles Cole, Walter Foster, Elijah Cudworth, Laban Cudworth, Joseph Cudworth, John Cudworth, Henry Merritt, Joseph Merritt 243-259 CHAPTER XV. Block-Housk Yard. 1701-1834-48.— William James, William James, Jr., CONTENTS. IX Daniel Hatch, James Torrey, Jotham Tilden, Lutier Tilden, George Torrey, ^^^_^^^ David Torrey CHAPTER XVI. H TUdenraeorge Tilden, William Taylor, Israel Carver. . . - 272-281 CHAPTER XVII. 282-325 CHAPTER XVIII. Litchfield, Foster Litchfield, Cummmgs Litchfield CHAPTER XIX. Whitk's Ferry Yards. 1705-1840.-Simeon Keene Simeon Keene, Jr.. Benja- min Keene, Isaac Keene, Luke Hall, William Hall, Samuel Hall. . . 3oO-3C2 CHAPTER XX. c. Ti.„T,r,« ViBT^s lfi50-1864— William James, John Kent, Job Otis, ^"7ohn Sorthey wramVinal Samuel Kent, Anthony Waterman, Otis Sgs ?rirSyVvesterBrigg8,'Barnal,asWet,b Brggs,J aCurti^^ liam Vinal,Jr.,^HenryVinal,Willliam Bnggs & Co., Melzar S.Turner, Luther Briggs, Edwin Otis, Andrew Cole „.c. „ ™. «Hoo„.. •■»w«-»r;;r.»"" ■— ■ " "™"' """°"- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Page NORTH RIVER BRIDGE (so called), built in 1829, connecting Hanover with Pembroke, and located just below the old Barstow Bridge; also show- ing the location of the " Bridge Ship- Yards " on the right. From a photo- graph by Robert B. Sylvester, ------ Frontispiece WRECK OF THE SCH. "EDWARD NORTON" on Crow Point, near the entrance of Scituate Harbor, Nov. 25, 1888. Fifteen men lost, one saved. From a photograph by L. Vernon Briggs, ----- ix MAP OF PEMBROKE, including what is now Hanson. From an original drawing and survey made in November, 1794. - . - - 5 THE "OLD IRON WORKS," or Curtis' Anchcr Forge. From Barry's His- tory of Hanover, ..-..-.. 9 CLAPP'S RUBBER MILLS, located on the site of the " Old Iron Works." From a pen and ink drawing, ------- 10' WATERMAN'S TACK WORKS, located in Project Dale, on the Indian Head River. Pen and ink drawing by James Hall, from a photograph by Robert B. Sylvester, 13 E. PHILLIPS & SONS' TACK WORKS, located on the site of the old Bars- tow Forge, on the Indian Head River, So. Hanover. From a photograph by Robert B. Sylvester, -------- 18 PL.\N of the parts of Scituate and Abington that were incorporated as the town of Hanover, June 14, 1727. From original drawing made June, 1720, - 31 MAP showing the mouth of North and South Rivers, Hall's (formerly Keene's) . Ship-Yard and White's Ferry. From Ford's Map of Marshtield, - - 45 JERRY GUNDERWAY, a North River pilot. From a photograph, - - 59 JEDXJTHAN PALMER, born 1786, died 1860. From a daguerreotype in the possession of Mrs. N.P.Banks, Waltham, Mass. - - - - 72 MAP of North River from the Third Herring Brook to Job's Landing, inclusive, 83 MAP of North River showing the location of the ship-yards in Hanover and Pembroke, above the Third Herring Brook. From Barry's History of Hanover, - - - - 89 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. XI Page SAMUEL EELLS, born 1783, died 1863. From an old picture, - - - 94 COL. JOHN B. BARSTOW, born 1764, died 1854. From an oil painting by Southworth, .---... - 99 CAPT. ELIJAH BARSTOW, JR., bom 1805. From a photograph by Marshall, ---------- 109 MAP of Hanover. From an original drawing and survey made a.d. 1794-95, - 119 BARSTOVV'S LOWER SHIP-YARD, formerly occupied by Col. Bailey, the Smiths and Eellses respectively ; showing also the location of the Yards built upon by Kingman, Rogers, Hay ward. Turner, Perry, Gushing, Thomas, Stockbridge and Wing on the left just below the wall. From a photograph by Robert B. Sylvester, 127 FOX (or Sunset) HILL SHIP YARD. From a photograph by Robert B. Sylvester, ---------- 131 SILHOUETTE of William Copeland. From an original, - - - 133 MICHAEL FORD. From a photograph, 136 SCH. " WILLIAM MARTIN," built by Barstow & Waterman, 1854. From a photograph by L. Vernon Briggs, taken while she was lying at National Wharf, East Boston, 1889. 142 HER. BRIG " LIZZIE J. BIGELOW" built by Barstow & Waterman, 1866, lost Feb. 12, 1885. From an oil painting owned by Fabens, Boston, - 144 CAPT. ICHABOD THOMAS, JR., born 1761, died 1859. From an old picture owned by Mrs. James T. Tolman, Hanover, ----- 158 "THE BOSTONIANS PAYING THE EXCISE MAN, OR TARRING AND FEATHERING." From a picture owned by the late Josiah Dunham, Esq., Boston, --------- 165 THROWING THE TEA FROM THE TEA SHIPS INTO BOSTON HAR- BOR. From " Tea Leaves," 166 SHIP " MARIA " built by Tchabod Thomas in 1782, broken up at Vancouver's • Island, 1872. From an old number of " Gleason's Pictorial." - 171 FRANCIS ROTCH, owner of the tea ship " Beaver." A silhouette from " Tea Leaves," ---------- 172 THOMAS COAT OF ARMS. From china owned by the late Benjamin Thomas, son of Ichabod, --..-.. 175 BRICK-KILN SHIP-YARD, showing the town landing on the right of the wall and the location of the yard on the left. From a photograph by Joseph A. Tripp, " - - 181 BARKER TURNER. From a daguerreotype owned by Alden Turner, North Pembroke, ---._--.. 191 SHIP " LAURA ANN," built by Caleb Turner, in 1815. From an oil painting owned by Mrs. Charles Cushing, Neponset, ----- 193. PLAN OF HORSE- BOAT, which was to have been used on North River. From the original drawing, - - - - - . I99, Xii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Page MAP OF MARS HFIELD, from sarveys made between December, 1794, and June, 1795. From an original drawing on file at the State House, Boston, - 207 MAP OF NORTH RIVER, showing the location of ship-yards between Grav- elly Beach and Taylor & Carver's Yard, inclusive, - - - - 214 SAMUEL TOLMAN. From a picture owned by James T. Tolraan, Hanover, 233 GUSHING OTIS, born 1769, died 1837. From an original silhouette, - - 251 CHITTENDEN YARD, showing the launching of thesch. " Helen M. Foster," in 1871, also her builder, Joseph Merritt. From photographs by J. H. Wil- liams, 257 BLOCK-HOUSE SHIP- YARD (location of the yard a little this side of the boat house) . From a photograph by L. Vernon Briggs, ... 268 MAP OF NORTH RIVER, showing the location of the Briggs ship-yard at Hobart's Landing, and Rogers' ship-yard at Little's Bridge. From Ford's MapofMarshfield, 282 BRIGGS SHIP-YARD AND HOBART'S LANDIXG, showing the original work house on the left, which is the only one remaining on the banks of North River. Engraved by Henry G. Marchant from a photograph by L. Vernon Briggs, -..----.. 286 LUCY OTIS, wife of Thomas Barker Briggs. From an original silhouette, - 293 CUSHING OTIS BRIGGS, born 1787, died 1861. From a photograph by Ormsby, 294 RESIDENCE OF CUSHING 0. BRIGGS. Scituate, and birthplace of all his children. From a photograph, - ...... 296 FAC-SIMILE OF ONE OF THE MEDALS struck off for the " Columbia " and " Washington " at the time of their sailing to the northwest coast. From Greenhow's History of Oregon, ------ 298 MOUTH OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER. From an original drawing, - 307 COLUMBIA POINT below the Dalles, 307 INTERIOR of one of the rooms in the house built by Robert Thomas about 1712, which was afterward added to and became the residence of James and Gushing Otis Briggs respectively. From an original drawing by Lloyd Briggs about 1846, -..-.... 312 HENRY BRIGGS, born 1789, died 1837. From a painting on ivory by South- worth, --....,... 316 BRIG " CRONSTADT " ashore on Falsterbo Reef, off Sweden. From a paint- ing owned by Thomas B. Wales & Co., Boston, - - - 318 BRIG " CRONSTADT," built by C. O. & H. Briggs in 1829. From a painting owned by Thomas B. Wales & Co., Boston, . - - - . 313 CHARLES CUSHING BRIGGS, bom 1813, died 1843. From a painting on ivory by Southworth, - - . . ... 323 LIST or ILLUSTRATIONS. Xlll Pagb WILLIAM THOMAS BRIGGS, born 1815. From a photograph, - . 324 BRIG " NORFOLK," built by the Halls at White's Ferry in 1833. From a painting owned by the late Capt. F. M. Eoggs, Boston, - . - 359 PLAN OF SCITUATE HARBOR AND VILLAGE, showing the location of the ship-yards. From sketches made without survey or measurements, by Capt. Alex. Anderson and B. W. Briggs, ----- 363 BARNABAS WEBB BRIGGS, born 1805. From a tin-type, - - - 384 BARK "MARTHA ALLEN," built at Scituate Harbor by J. S. Briggs, in 1849. From a painting owned by Horace Manson, Boston, - - 386 NORT RIFFER. Shvveet Shtream dot past mine Doochy flows, More crooked dan ine Roman nose Or Grecian bend, from vare it rose To vare it falls, as I shuppose, Vile on de banks de brushwood grows To roost de blackbirds unt de crows, Dine praise I'll singen, e'er I close, Nort Rifter. My lyre is't tooned, so here she goes, Nort Rifler. Oh, how ve used, de little scamps. To shtart oft' on our fishin' tramps, Unt shtand, mit vater o'er our vamps, Fishin' for pogies — catch in' cramps. At home der fater shcolds unt shtamps, ISIad as ine lion ven he ramps ; Yet oft ve'd tread dine boggy damps, Nort Rifter, Until der sky had lit his lamps, Nort Rifter. Down at de Seine ve'd take our swim, But oft ve'd shtand upon dine brim. Shaking for dread in efry limb Of turtles huge unt bull-frogs grim, Unt vater-shnakes so long and slim, Unt horn-pouts fierce in figliti ng trim. At last v'ed brave dine vaters dim, Nort Rifter, Unt o'er dine surface boldly skim, Nort Rifter. NORT RIFFER. XV How o'er der rainbow ve vould trip Down to der launching of de ship, Vile expectation shtood on tip Unt silence passed from lip to lip, X)own vent de spur-shore mit ine zip, Unt down de vays der craft vould shlip, Unt shlanting troo dine vaters skip, Nort Rifter, Till caught in Pembroke's inuddy grip, Nort Riffer. Sometimes ve'd paddle down dine floot. Like Julie, in her famed gum boot, Down to de ocean for to shoot De peep, de grey-back, unt de coot Unt loon dat savors nicht so goot, How ve vould sing, unt yell, unt hoot, As down dine reaches ve vould scoot, Nort Riffer, Vile dine shores echoed our salute, Nort Rifler. Now ve haf grown to pe jDig men, Und vield de yardstick, birch unt pen, Strifing to reach de Upper Ten, Or mourning o'er vat might haf been. Yet dough doze shports will ne'er again Delight us as dey used to den, Dein shtream flows past as fair as ven, Nort Riffer, Its charms first came mitin our ken, Nort Riffer. Ah ! ven der vorlt grows colt unt blank, Unt mine hand fails at efry yank To turn de wheel of fortune's crank. Or shift de tread in fate's dread hank, I'll hie me to dine rooshes rank, Unt build ine shanty mit some plank, Unt, mit ine hearty Gott sei dank, Nort Riffer, I'll eat polonies on dine bank, Nort Riffer. Clarence L. Howes. ABBREVIATIONS, &c. It has been impossible to avoid the use of abbreviations. The following are some of the more frequent ones the reader will encounter in perusing the succeeding pages : — h. for born. M.B. for master builder. d. died. bk. bark. mar. married. bark'fn " barkentine. bro. brother. b^. brig. dtu. daughter. brior'fn " brigantine. cicO. and others. Her. bg. ' ' hermaphrodite bri bit. built. sch . ' ' schooner. M. C. master carpenter. sip sloop. Until 162S the waters of the North River had probably never been disturbed by any navigator excepting the Indian in his canoe, and how we all would like to look back three hundred years and see the same beautiful river with the picturesque Indian and canoe, he dis- turbing the quiet waters w^ith tha silent dipping of his paddle. The first white people known to have navigated the river were the Bar- kers, about 1628. When they reached the "Crotch," instead of following up the Indian Head they ascended the Herring Brook as far as it was navigable with their small boat, where they left the stream and settled in what is now Pembroke. The history of the river from about this time is contained in the following pages. NORTH RIVER. CHAPTER I. SOURCES OF XORTH EIVER AND THEIR TRIBUTARIES. HISTORY OF THE INDUSTRIES LOCATED THEREON. "X ITHY the stream Mhich has liecome so historic takes the ^^ name of North River, those who named it left no record, but probably it was either because that in going noith from Plymouth they found two rivers, and named the southern, South River and the northern, North River ; or else, during their explorations along the coast, when they discovered these two rivers, one flowing directly from the north, the other di- rectly from the south, meeting a little way from the coast, and flowing into the ocean together as one stream, they named the one flowing from the north, North River, and the one flowing from the south. South Rivei. Either would be suflScient reason for thus naming these rivers, and in absence of any record, one of these two theories may probal)ly be accepted as correct. The sources of North River are the Indian Head and the Namassa- keesett Rivers. For the benefit of those who would like to follow up these streams, I w^ill locate them and their tributaries, and on them the mills, factories, forges, etc., giving as com- plete a history of each as it has been possible to gather from the material now in existence. The Namassakeeset stream rises in Furnace Pond. Great Sandy Pond connects with Furnace, and Little Sandy Pond with Great Sandy ; thus the Namassakeeset receives an unusually large amount of water at its very source. " On a recent visit to Furnace Pond in Pembroke, we endeavored to collect (for want of better information) some of the legends and traditions connected SOURCES OF NORTH KIVEll. with that now somewhat noted locality. There is positive })roof that there was a blast furnace erected there as long aiio as 1702, and leased or hired to a Mr. Lamliart Despard for the })urpose of castiiii!; all kinds of ironware." Hatchets were made here. One casting still in existence is the back of the tirei)luce now in the old Barker House \n Pembroke. Plymouth Kecords say that Despard bought of Jeremiah INIomentague (the Indian) twenty acres of land there in INIarch, 1701-2, and contracted with Francis Barker, Robert Barker, Samuel Baiker, Joshua Barker, Josiah Barker, Rol)ert Barker, Jr., and Michael Wanton to have the furnace completed by Septeml)er, 1702. Despard was to do the work and have one quarter of the furnace when done, and the others were to i)ay him £1 -"^O. Despard was fiom Braintree. "In l(i48, Mr. Timothy Hatherly, the principal founder and father of the town of Scituate, reijuested liberty of the colony to erect an iron mill. It was granted Jii 1()50, on conditions that it l)e erected withm three years, or the privilege and certain woodlands about Mattakeeset Pond (now Pembroke) Avere to revert to the colony. It did not however take place at that period, but 'a smelting furnace was erected on the ])recise grant, by Mark Despard and the family of Barker about 1702."" "The follovvuig are the Articles of agreement made and confirmed between Joseph Bates, of Scituate, in ye County of Plimouth in New England, of ye one Party, and Joshua Barker of Duxbury in ye County aforeSd of ye other party, w^itnesseth that ye said Bates doth at ye day of }e date of these presents firmly bind himself to make ye bricks for, and set up a Stack of chimnies ; that is to say : two good Convenient Chimnies from ye ground and a Chamber Chimnie, and to Stone a seeler of thirty and one foot one way, and eighteen foot ye other, and to point ye same within side and without so far as ye wall shall be above ground, with lime, and all-so to make a Convenient place by ye Jam of ye Chimnie, and Stone and Point ye same for Stairs to pass up into ye house, and both plaster and whitewash }e Lower Room Chamber Lean-bow Chamber, and one room of ye Lean-bow Below of a house of Twenty-four foot long, and Twenty foot wide, and a Lean-bow of Twelve foot wide, and Thirty foot long, and aid-so to plaster all ye Outside of ye Chimnie and Oven with Lime, and is to find all Carting, Labor, and Stufe for ye finishing of ye Same ; all which work is to be done substanclally and w^orkman Like, at or before ye first day of December, in ye year one thousand seven hundred and three, for Said Barker, and for consideration of Said work }e Said Barker doth firmly bignde himself to asign and make over unto ye Sd Bates all that twelve Pounds money or money's value and teen shillings which will be due to him from Mr. Lambert Despard, for Rent or hire of his Eighth Part of furnace, THE INDIAN PONDS. O from September in ye rear 1702, to September in ye year 1703, and all-so all that Twelve Pounds, and teen shillings which was Lent or hired unto ye Sd Despard in order to furnish him with a Stook (Stock) which will be due in September in ye year 1703. and all-so to pay or Cause to be Paid unto the Sd Bates, the sum of five Pounds Money at or before ye first day of September next ensewing, in wit- ness whereofi'we have here-unto Sect our hands, dated * * * * the first, 1702-3. Signed sealed and delivered in the Presents of Isaac Barker, Francis Barker, Joseph Bates, Joshua Barrer." The matoriiil for the iron business was fished up from the bottom of the pond and from numerous "bogs" in the immedi- ate vicinity, where bog-ore abounds at the present day. The furnace was situated perhaps ten rods from the pond on the banks of the stream now known as the Herring brook, which, after meandering through miles of tangled forests and pleasant meadows, forms one of the chief tributaries of North river. As to the location of the furnace there can be no doubt, as the lar^e quantities of slag or cinder that covers the ground amply testifies. Even the inud-sill, that formed the foundation (;f the flume, is plainly discernible, and the surrounding ground is tilled with charcoal dust, which gives the ground the appear- ance of black lead. About two rods abo\'e the site of the fur- nace the stream was tapped and formed what is now known as the Furnace ditch, in which was the flume and water wheel that was necessary to drive the blast bellows. The original stream runs on the south side of the former structure, and though plainly to be seen now, is partially filled with the accumulation of decayed vegetation that has been gathering for many genera- tions. It is the natural outlet of Oldham pond of 154 acres ; Bio- Sandy, 110 acres; Little Sandy which formerly connected with it, 49 acres ; and No Bottom pond of 11 acres, together flowing' into Furnace pond of 112 1-4 acres, make a total of 437 acres of water. On the hillside, a few rods below the old furnace, on the northeast side of the stream, is an old cellar, probably the one mentioned in an issue of the Pioneer as being built by contract by Joseph Bates, of Scituate, in 1703. A cedar tree covered with lichen and moss of a century's growth, stands on its brmk, a curiosity seldom seen in this part of the country, and it forms one of the princii)al attractions in this beautiful locality. In an 4 ABORIGINES. interview with a very intelligent old gentleman, who had lived in that immediate vicinity for over 80 years, we learned the fact that the first cannon that were ever cast in this cotinfrf/ svere cast at this place, and he also informed us that when he was a child, he remembered hearing an old lady by the name of Berse (who had seen her hundredth year), say, that her parents took her up to the old furnace to see them cast pots and kettles when she was a mere child, but the furnace was gone long before he could remember. About one-fouith of a mile below the old furnace is another mill privilege, and on the dam is now standing the remains of a saw mill. The tirst mill at this place was l)uilt by ]Mr. Nathaniel Ford 60 or 70 years ago. ]\Ir. Ford was a cabinet maker by trade, and also had a grist mill on the same dam in connection with his other business. Mr. Ford appears to have been a very independent sort of a man, and flowed the whole surrounding territory regardless of the reputed rights of others, which caused his arrest by a ]\Ir. Isaac Barker, who claimed the submerged land. The case was carried to the Plymouth courts, but was thrown out, as Mr. Barker could produce no title to the property. After a time we find it in possession of Mr. John Gorham and Jarius Rowland, who utilized it as a box manufactory, and soon after it was burned down. Mr. Simeon Chandler next came into possession of the privilege and moved a building on the old site, which he fitted up for a mill, the same which is now standing in a ruined condition. It is pretty generally understood now that a large portion of this territory has no legal claimants, and it is almost a wonder that the to\^^l doesn't take the matter in hand and secure it for a park before it is stripped of the last remnant of its beauty. On or before the time of the incorporation of Pembroke (according to tradition) there was quite a large settlement of Indians on the northerly side of the streimi, whose ancestors had lived here from the beginning of time, so far as any one knows, or ever can know, to the contrary. Here they lived in peace and happiness, training the young red skins in the use of the sharp pointed arrows and more deadly tomahawks, with a skill and precision that no white man could ever equal ; taught them to track the red deer through the surrounding forest with an instinct only equalled by the blood hounds of modern days ; taught them to ensnare the cunning beaver and otter, that were once so plentiful in and about every stream and pond, and onaid-wsavw H.»wv>ao'g>:A<] PEMBROKE IXDUSTRIES. 5 whose furs protected them from the piercing cold through the inclement season ; instructed them in the manufacture of fish- ing lines and hooks to entice the shining bass and slippery eel from their native element, and to cure them l)v drying in their smoky wigwams. Here they passed their simple lives in peace, watching in the earliest opening of spring, for the myriads of herring that forced their way p.ist them to the jwnds above ; idled away the long, pleasant summer in their youthful and innocent sports, which is usual to the young of all races ; listened to the mournful jabbering of the large tlocks of Avild geese with joyful glee, as they winged their way in the Indian summer to their southern haunts ; feasted on the roasted ear of corn that a kind Providence had placed at their disposal ; and thanked the Great Spirit for His kindness to His red children, who had kept and watched over them from time immemorial. Such was the condition of the red man before the coming of the pale face with a musket in one hand and a jug of fire water in the other, who with a smooth tongue and winning ways defrauded the poor savage of his land, stupified his senses with rum, dishonored his women and daughters, brought strange disorders' among them which had hitherto been unknown, and caused their speedy decay. A stream enters the Xamassakeeset at a point f:irther down, flowing from the southeast, and rising in jNlarshfield. On this stream have been erected several mills. According to Barber in his Historical Collections published in lb3i) : "In 1S37, there was in Pembroke, Mass., — i cotton mill, i cupola furnace, 2 tack factories, and 2 shingle mills." ''Number of vessels built, 8; tonnage of the same, 1000; value of the same $40,000; hands employed, 8." Pop. 125S. Distance, 12 miles from Plymouth, 9 from Scituate harbor and 27 from Boston." Isaac Hatch commenced the manufacture of satinets here in 1813. In 1834 or 35 he made shoe-boxes, and from the time of his death in 1850 until 185y his sons carried on the business. The latter year they built a steam mill where they manufactured a million feet of boards in boxes annually. The same year (185!:>) the water mill was burned and a new one erected where they made water-pails and covered buckets. This was soon given up, and the manufacture of mackerel kitts begun, and until 1870, from 1500 to 2000 were made weekly. 6 INDIAN HEAD KIVER. Calvin Shepherd commenced tlie manufacture of boxes at the old Shepherd cotton mill about the .same time that Isaac Hatch began. His son in-law, James H. West, now successfully carries on the liusiness there. Nathan T. Shepherd, Lemuel Lefurgey and John Foster are also engaged in the business. Still farther down, the Namassakeeset receives another tributary from the southwest. Between the Namassakeeset and the Indian Head is the great swamp spoken of 1)y AVinthrop in his Journal. A very good account of Namassakeeset River, or Barker's, or Herring River, as it is sometimes called, has been written l)y Dr. Francis Collamore in his history of Pembroke, published in Hurd's history of Plymouth Co. We are now back to the Crotch, formed by the junction of the Indian Head and Namassakeeset Rivers. At this point North River begins its winding, snake-like course, through hill and vale, flowing over twenty miles to reach the ocean, ten miles distant. It is a truly beautiful stream and associated with many historical events of our country, which fame has been won for it by the ships l)uilt on its banks and which it safely bore to the ocean, from whence they gave renown to their l)uilders and to the river on which they were built. We will now begin the ascent of Indian Head River. A few ''reaches" u}) we come to Chapman's Landing on the north liank, and just ))elow an old fording place. This has been a favorite bathing i)l:tce for the boys from time immemorial, until the filth, or refuse from the rubber mill made it un})leasant to bathe there. Here the boys assembled after school and on Saturdays, coming l)y the deeply worn old Indian path across the Indian fields that l)order on the marsh-lands l>y the river,* sto})})ing only to eat the luscious high-bush blue-berry that grows in al)undance in these fields. They commenced to disrobe before the river was in sight, and when the bank Avas reached were nearly ready to jump in. Diving from the opposite l)ank was a favorite pastime, and the author can recall many a time diving for fresh-water clams and cookmg them on stones heated l)y a fire built on the bank, and trijing to eat them. Digging and cooking them M-as fun, eating them Avas not. A little farther up, the Indian Head receives, as a tributary, the Iron jNIine Brook, also called Trol't Brook, or Bar- STOw's Brook. It rises in Randall's Swamp, north of Hanover * This path also leads across the Indian fields back of the residence of John Tower. luddam's fokd. St ■uKl there are still vo.n.ins on its hmik. of the ok dams b uiit V the beavers. It rtows south across Hanover and Ropk- ,uiltbytneoeav«^ Capt. John Cnshnig vnned i •) ^B oacUv v tl .-ongh tL land of the late Col John B Sow^acr.S Elm St.,°and thence through the lands of Michael Chriltie and Reuhen Donnell into the Indian Head. in l(Jo2. Gov. John Winthrop, in his diary under date of Sept. ^^'^AW five in the ti^ornin^ the Governor, [Winthmp] and About n\e Piimmith The eovernor of Phmoiith f,™!:. ^adln'to tircvotch, so tife Governor called that passage LuckUim's Ford." No other name has ever heen given to this locahty, and no mme appropriate name coukl be given. Luddam the gnu e, ' voSdy the same Luddam that we find later in ^\ eymou \v t • npears now to be but an msigmlicant stream at this place i M iit of the river that was of the utmost miport^ice oth; first lettlers of the colony. This and North River fur- mi ^aiie supplies of food, abounding in t^h of many knids ; "had alewivesorherrino-, smelts, bass, white and red peich, S^'d shiners, the uuly horn-pout, and Deane says, sa mon Ciono the other vanetie' The alewives and shad ascend the ^;;Se;ir^^ing brooks and the -- f ^^ ^^ ^ ^^l^^i:;;^ tent and are taken in fairly large quantities ; but e.icli } e.u tney ^;t dlmnnshed numbL- The ^an. pi^^ent ^- -^m^- ino- to their old spawnmo- grounds, and the letu.e ot the mil >, e'pec'ally herul>l>ermill,^o impregnates the waters and hlls ur^ he smaller streams, that they — ^ ^^^^ ":^ | I ^I and without some decided steps are soon taken, all h>h ^m1 De comris muc^^ to thi river as the has. and salmon have aheady. Fish, tradition tells us, was one ot the mam supplies 8 BAIIDWIX'S IROX WORKS. of food for the hardv men and women that made their habita- tions on the pleasant banks of North River. A few years ago the river was stocked with several millions of Oregon salmon, but they lia^e all disappeared. For over twenty years there was no mechanical business carried on in the colony. The tirst settlers followed the example of the Indians, — lived on game and lish, and cleared small tracts of land which they planted with com, beans, etc. They next built vessels to trade with. In early days most of the vessels were engaged in the coastmg trade; the ditierent colonies cstabli hed trading houses along the coast, and they traded with the Indians and in turn with the trading vessels that touched along their shores. AVinthrop writes, in 1()34 : " Our neighbors of Plymouth had oft traded with the Dutch at Hudson's River, called by them New Netherlands." He adds : •• We had from them about 40 sheep and beaver, and brass pieces and sugar, etc., for sack, strong waters, linen cloth, and other com- modities. Thev have a great trade of beaver there, about 9,000 or 10.000 beaver skins in a year."* There were many beavers in Plymouth County when the set- tlers tirst came, and many of the small streams, tributaries of North River, have to-day dams and remnants cf dams originally built by these cunning and intelligent creatures. Manufacturing soon followed the ship-building art, and in 17(>4 a dam was Ijuilt just above Luddam's Ford by Tho.aias Bardix ( or Burden, or Baldwin, as we tind it spelled in ditierent places), who, with his brother Isaac, lived on Broadway in the house which was occupied by the late David Hersey, and which is still standing, and now occupied by his daughter, INIrs. Jennie Reed. Deaue says they were sons of Abraham Bardin of Scituate. In 1704 Thomas Bardin also erected an anchor forge and supplied the increasing demand for anchors for the vessels built on the ship- yards below ; also the iron knees then used to some extent. That Thomas Bardwin, probably son of the above Thomas, succeeded to the business, we have good reason to believe, as in the Bost<,n Evening Pof>t of Feb. 1-4, 1774, we tind that there died * Winthrop's History of New England, I, 138. 2 •— . CURTIS' ANCHOR FORGE. 9 "At Hanover, Capt. Thomas Bardvvin, asfed SG. He was oorn near Haverfonl-^^'est, in South Wales, came over in 171G, and ivas the first that made bar iron m New England.''^ The first bridge at tliis point T^'as probably built about this time. In 1730 the records of the town speak of this forae or iron foundry as the "old iron works" Before 1740 we find these iron works in the ]iossession of the Josselyns, who had so much troul)le with the town in regard to their clam, which ])re- vented the herring from ascending the riA'er to their spawnino- grounds. There were two brothers, Capt. Joseph ( also a dea- con ) who gave a bell to the Centre Church, and w^ho was a man of great enterprise, and Deacon Thomas, who gave two silver communion cups to the First Church, and who was a se- lectman at one time. They were succeeded by Seth, Philip, Isaac, *and John R. Josselyn, Lemuel Dwelley, Benj. Studley, and Lemuel Curtis. In 17i»0 Lenuiel Curtis, who lived where Solomon Russell ncnv resides, sold one-quarter of the forge, etc., to his sons Reul)en and Consider Curtis ; Philip and Isaac Josselyn had sold out previously. Reul)en Curtis and the others continued making anchors and doing the iron work on the vessels l)uilt below, and the business increased until thev had more tlian they could attend to. Mr. Curtis was also a large owner in some of the vessels, and was town clerk and representative to the General Court. He resided on Elm Street, near his forge, where Reul>en Donnell now lives. In 171)1 Benjamin Studley and John R. Josselyn sold out to Lemuel Curtis. Seth Josselyn disposed of his interest in 1803. In 1eventy-fiye emph)yed. They have an electric plant connected with their mill and when business is rushino-, work at ni»>ht by electric lio^hts. The business, which was started Avith a o-rindino^ capacity of one thousand pounds per day as their maximum in 1873, has increased so that ]Mr. Clapp is to-day able to crind forty times as nuich, or twenty tons daily, — and is handling several thousand tons yearly, whereas in 1873 he only handled about one hundred and fifty tons. It certainly is a great business grown from a small industry, and where it will end is hard to say, — but, judging from the past, it bids fair to rival any industry on the South Shore. Usually, mills anroke about half a mile north of Oldham Pond, and flows in a north-westerly direction past the residence of James H. Dwelley. In the centre of the pond, which Mr. Dwelley has made near his house by damming this brook, is an old site of a mill, built early in 1700 and owned and run, tradition says, by Dea. Isaac Buck. Here he manufactured wooden , ware, consisting of bowls, trays, skimmers, (one of which is preserved in Hanover, as is some of his other work), 2:)lates of a curious pattern, and other useful articles. Mr. Buck was a Hanover man, and lived in South Hanover on the old road which was laid out from Scituate and which connected with the road from Cricket Hole to Indian Head Pond. He was a near neighbor of Benj. Sylvester, whose daughter Abigail he married in 1737. In 1728 he signed the Church Covenant. In 1731 he was chosen on the jury, and July 31, 1733, was chosen Deacon of the First Church. He is supposed to have been a son of Lieut. Isaac Buck of Scituate, as there is an Isaac recorded among the baptisms of that town. Col. Jesse Reed, after disposing of his first privilege in Han- over, moved to one near Rocky Run, where he erected works, and conveyed water to his wheel through a trough one-third of a mile long ; l)ut the difficulties were such that he finally sold out and removed to ]\Iarshfield. The next [)rivilege on the Indian Head al)ove Waterman's is what is now known as the "old dam.^' This privilege was jmr- chased by ]\Ir. Enos Bates, who contemplated building a dam and grist-mill, 1)ut before he carried out his plans he sold it to Col. Jesse Reed, who built the dam and erected a grist-mill, nail factory, and machine shop. An old, unfinished mill-stone was recently found by Calvin T. Phillips who now owns the BARSTOW'S FOKGE. 15 property. A road, which -was proba])ly the first in the colony, crossed the river alxnit thirty rods heh)w this dam, and was used l)y the settlers for nearly one hundred years to get to their possessions at the Indian Head Ponds. The piers of the old bridge are now occasionally seen when the water is low. Mr. Hira Bates, who, with his wife, lives with their son, Hira W. Bates, at South Hanover, both at the advanced age of ninety- three years, but in possession of good health and all their facul- ties, reraem})er& when there was a foot-bridge at this spot. Hira Bates, and his wife Lucy, were born on the same day and hour, and have been married sixty-four years. Col. Jesse Reed was one of the most intelligent and noted men we ever had in town. He was inventor of the tack ma- chine, and his Reed's machine is used to-day with scarcely any improvements. He was also the author of some twenty or more other inventions, among them patterns of pumps, cotton gins, tree-nail machines, etc. A full account of Colonel Reed and his inventions can be found in Barry's History of Hanover, pages 141 and 363, and it is well worth reading. The factory that he built on the Bates privilege was moved to Project Dale and used by E. Y. Perry, Esq. A short distance farther up the stream is the manufactory of E. Phillips & Sons. In 1720 the town granted two acres of land on the Indian Head River, ])etween'Pine Hill and Rocky Run Brook, to Capt. Joseph Barstow and Benjamin Stetson, "for the accommodation of a forge and finery." A bridge was built across the river this year and Barstow and Stetson erected a forge which Avas known as Barstow's Fqrge. Capt. Joseph Barstow was also interested in a grist mill, a sloop, and was a large land-holder. He died July 25, 1728, leaving pro})erty appraised at over thirty thousand dollars. His youngest son, Joshua, inherited his interest in the forge. Joshua was then eight years old, but as soon as he reached a more mature age, he improved the business left by his father and continued in it until his decease, being drowned at the eastward, Oct. 3, 17(33, aged forty-four. His son Joshua, then fourteen years old, succeeded him, and was soon conducting the forge, which business he continued until his removal to Exeter, N. H. about 1795. During the Revolution Mr. Barstow is said to have done quite a business in the manufiicture of cannon balls. He melted the iron at an ordinary forge fire and moulded them in the bottom of his forge. In 1795 the property was sold to Robert 16 ROBERT SALMOXD. Salmond and others. Benj. Stetson was probably out of the tirm previous to 1755, though his son Benj., a l)hicksmith by trade, may have succeeded him. For about thirty years Mr. Sahiiond was engaged in the iron business at this forge. For twenty-eight years Nathaniel Cushing was interested with him and also Chas. Josselyn for a much shorter time, who was also engaged in business on King St. Eobert Salmond and others were in 1813, "Making some large Anchors for the Frigate that is building at Charlestown." His sons were building or had built a ship at Bangor, Me., and it Avas lying idle until the war was over. In writing to his sons, Mr. Salmond says : " If the war continues five years longer the ship will not be worth but little more than the iron that is in her." What became of this vessel is not known, but in October, 1814, the sons Robert and Samuel wrote : "We are still in darkness respecting the fate of the vessel, but it is highly probable she will be burnt where she is standing, by the British, if not ransomed in the sum of $2000.00 ; if burnt, the town will be liable, but if the fown is burned too, of course their liability will not be worth much." Robert Salmond died May 5, 1829, aged eighty. During the last few years of his life Thomas Hobait of Al:)ington was a part owner in the forge, there being also on the premises at that time a tack-factory and corn mill. About 1825 Messrs. Hobart and Salmond had a contract from the United States Govern- ment for the manufacture of anchors for the Navy, and several were made for the old seventy-four gun ships, probably of the largest size ever forged. In 1828 Mr. Salmond disposed of his interest to Mr. Hobart and Mr. Hobart took into the firm John Sylvester, who had been employed in the forge since 1825. Previous to that time he was a tack-maker, and also had been in the " Old Mill Dam Iron Works " at Boston and Watertown. Joseph Sylvester was foreman. John Sylvester managed the works very successfully. About one hundred tons of bar iron were made per year, one hundred tons of anchors, and twelve to fourteen tack machines Avere run and several built yearly. In 1830 they commenced the manufacture of locomo- HANOVER FORGE CO. 17 tive cranks and it is claimed that they were the originators of this industry.* In 1837 the partnership terminated and Mr. Sylvester formed the Hanover Fonje Company^ which continued until 1853, when he sold out and removed to Belmont, Mass., where he resided until his death, March 18, 1882, in his eighty-fourth year. Until 1858 he was one of the firm of John Taggard & Co., Iron, Boston. That year he purchased the Danvers Iron AVorks at Danversport, and in 18G4, the Spike Works at Somerville, which interest he held at his death. In 1853 Ezra Phillips, E. Y. Perry, and Martin ^X . Stetson formed a partnership under the firm name of E. Y. Perry & Co., for the purpose of carrying on the tack business, ]Mr. Perry moving his machines from Project Dale, and Mr. Phillips his from the old Thomas privilege. Mr. Perry had previously purchased the above forge, lately occupied by John Sylvester, and known as Sylvester's Forge, at South Hanover for $3100. The financial panic of 1850-57 soon overtaking them, Mr. Stetson became discouraged and withdrew. Messrs. Perry & Phillips continued in business together until 1874. Their business relations were of the pleasantest kind. They always honored and spoke well of each other. They each had remark- able talents in difierent directions and what was lacking in one was found in the other. Under such strong-minded and prac- tical men the business increased rapidly and they were very successful. Mr. Perry's experience at Project Dale, and Mr. Phillips's at So. Abington, under Jas. Soule, and at Mr. Hobart's factory in Hanson, did not come amiss. In 1874 Mr. Perry's outside interests had become quite large and demanded so nuich of his time that he felt obliged to withdraw, thus leav- ing a vacancy valuable to whomever was decided upon to fill it. Mr. Phillips wisely took in his two sons, Calvin T. and Morrill A., under the firm name of E. Phillips & Sons, which name still continues. A fairly good account of Mr. Perry and of ^Nlr. Phillips can be found in Hurd's History of Pl^'mouth County, 1884. To Mr. Perry's energy and push, to his strong will and business ability, is due the fact that Hanover is to-day so far ahead of its surrounding towns (only excepting Rockland). * " Hanover is a manufacturing place, manufacturing bar iron, iron eastings, anchors, plows, vessels, tacks, leather boots and shoes and woolen cloth annually to the amount of $75,000," says Haywood in his New England Gazetteer in 1839. 18 E. Y. PERRY & CO. It is he who has l)uilt up many of our industries, especially the luml:)er and mill industry ; and real estate, that would often have been sacrificed, found in him a ready purchaser. He ^\'as mainly instrumental in brinoing the Hanover Branch Railway into existence. It was he who conducted it on such a strict and successful Imsis, that it was the only road, probably, in the United States without bonds and with virtually no debt at the time of its purchase by the Old Colony in 1887. At this time Mr. Perry again felt the press of l)usiness and Avas glad to withdraw from the Presidency of the Hanover Branch Railway, and when the Old Colony R. R. signified a wish to buy it he was strongly in favor of selling out to them at par, which price they paid. He did not forget to speak a good word for the employees and recommend that they all be retained, which was done. j\Ir. Perry was l>orn in Penil)rt)ke, now Hanson, Mass.. Xov. 4, 1812, married Mary B., daughter of David and Deborah B. Oldham of Pembroke, Mass., July 8, 1834, and now resides in South Hanover, Mass. They had but one child which died in infancy, Mr. Perry still continues in business, his mind being as clear and active as ever. He has recently passed through a severe illness, ])ut his strong constitution, which he inherited and has kept perfect by his regular habits, came to his rescue, and he is now about as of old, quite himself again. His grand- father died in his ninety-third year and his grandmother li^^ed to be within less than three months of one hundred >'ears old. Mr. Ezra Phillips was born in Pembroke, now Hanson, Oct. 10, 1810, and married Catherine H., daughter of Dr. Calvin Tilden of Hanson, Nov. 27, 1834. In 1848 Mr. Phillips pur- chased one-third of the factory in Hanson, owned until then l)y Mr. Hobart and commenced the manufacture of tacks for him- self. Upon his entering into partnership with Mr. Perry, he assumed the management of the mechanical part of the business, being " a good manager of workmen and an excellent judge of the worthand merits of machinery." Mr. Perry, " an excep- tionally good financier and general manager, clear-headed and a cool and accurate calculator," managed the business part. A more fitting tril^ute could not be paid to Mr. Phillips than Mr. Perry's testimony of his connection with him. He says, "After an intimate business and soci:d relationship with Mr. Phillii)s for more than thirty years, I consider him one of the grandest and best men I ever knew. The routine of business was robbed of its monotony and vexation by the tact, geniality, pure < o MILLS ON THE INDIAN HEAD RIVER. 19 methods, and mcnly way in which Mr. Phillips bore himself. It was simply pleasure to do business in connection with such a man." Mr. Phillips died in Hanover, May 15, 1882, and his two sons have since successfully carried on the business under the same firm name. At the present writing they employ at this factory from forty-eight to fifty two hands, running seventy- one tack and nail machines, a rolling mill, machine shop, and have a sixty horse-power engine. They cut last yearaliout 750 tons of nails and tacks and rolled 250 tons of zinc and lead. The tacks average about 6400 to the pound, or 12,800,000 to the ton ; nails about 750 to the pound, or 1,500,000 to the ton. This factory is one of about forty now in this country.* Ascending the Indian Head river, about one half mile above Phillips's tack works, we come to its junction with the Drink- water River. We will follow up the Indian Head, then come back to the Drinkwater. The first dam on the Indian Head stream is about one mile from its junction with the Drinkwater, and was probably finished in the spring of 1715, as we find that on May 30th of that year "Joshua Gushing, Joseph Foord, and Thomas Barker of Pembroke and Thomas Rowland of Marsh- field enter into an agreement in regard to a Saw Mill that they are Iniilding on the Indian Head stream near the road that leads to the little Cedar swamp." In 1827 Dr. Samuel Barker sold the right for mill privilege to Elihu Hobart, who erected a tack- factory and employed Hervey Dyer as agent. He remained ten years, when it was sold to a Company and by them to Luther Howland of Hanson, who manufactured tacks until about thirty years ago, when the factory was burned. It has not since been rebuilt. The privilege is owned by Lewis Wliite. Farther up the stream is the dam built by the Thomases. Col. Nathaniel Thomas f bought a large tract of land in this vicinity in 1694-95 and his son, Isaac, settled on that portion 40 rods east of the mill. The cellar is still visil)le. It is doubt- ful if Nathaniel ever lived here. If he did it is certain that he later moved to Marshfield, as appears by an account of his wife's death in an old paper. " Marshfield, October i6 (1727). On the Sth Instant, the Lord's Dav Morning, died here, Mrs. Mar}' Thomas, Wife to Nathaniel * See account Cushing's Mill above Teague's Bridge, t See Thomas's Brick-kila Yard. 20 Thomas's saw mill. Thomas, Esq : of this Place. A truly valuable Person, for bright and unblemished Vertue, unfeigned and unaflected Piety, rare and excellent Wisdom and Discretion : yea for all or most of those Ornaments and Endowments of Nature and Grace, which sei've Adorn and Distinguish Her Sex : One in whom the united characters of a Compleat Gentlewoman and solid christian, \vere exemplified and Beautified to an uncommon degree : One who by Her prudent, humble, afiable, peaceable, courteous and obliging temper and carriage, gained and to the last maintained a great interest in the esteem and affection of all that knew Her ; Her death has filled many hearts with grief, and has caused an universal lamentation. She was decently Interred on Wednesday the nth Currant." — The New Eng. Weekly Journal. In 1712 the above mill, (erroneously called Cotton's Mill in Kurd's History of Plymouth Co.) was written in the old records "Colonel's Mill," which is correct. A deed dated January 1716, mentions "the old saw-mill called Col. Thomas's Saw Mill." In 1722 it is spoken of as Isaac Thomas's Saw Mill, and in 1737 as Edward Thomas's Saw Mill, formerly owned by Col. Thomas. Edward was son of Isaac. Later a grist mill was built here, which was run by Dea. David Beal. The following advertisement shows that Col. Thomas either had business in Marshlield about the same time, or else did iron work here. "August 24th, 1713. A Cast Hammer, Anvil Plates and all other need- ful cast iron work for a forge or iron works, all new, to be sold by Nathanael Thomas, Esq., at Marshfield." About 1829 Benj. Hobart of Abington bought the mill and put in machinery for cutting tacks. It was burned in 1835, but rebuilt, and used as a tack factory until 1848, when Nathaniel Cushing bought two-thirds of it for a trunk factory, Ezra Phillips buying one third for a tack factory. Cushing soon sold out to A. J. Taft & Flavel Shurtleff. Later Mr. Shurtleff bought Taft's share. ]Mr. Phillips went into company with Mr. Perry from here. Henry H. Brigham of So. Abington later bought the whole, and used it as a tack factory until it was burned in 1859. Since then there has been a saw-mill here. This privilege is now owned by E. Phillips & Sons. The stream rises in the Indian Head Pond in Hanson, from whence it received its name. Returning to the junction, we follow the Drinkwater River up to Teague's Bridge, so named for Daniel Teague, w^ho lived in Hanover, a few rods above it, about 1750 to 1760 and hatch's mill, 21 whose cellar can still be seen. This bridire was built before 1740, at which time it was spoken of as Hatch's Bridge. Just above the bridge there is a dam built probably about 1716, as, "On July ist, 1716, John Rodgers of Marshfield, John Gushing, Amos Turner, George King, Joseph Barstow,* Samuel Barstow, Michael Wantonf and James Hatch, all of Scituate,J and Joseph Stockbridge of Pembroke, enter into an agreement in regard to a saw-mill that they are building in Scituate upon Drinkwater Fiver, near where the line between Scituate and Abington crosses the river." This was known as Hatch's Mill,Dea. James Hatch probably owning the largest interest. He lived on Hanmer's Hook, on land bought by Jeremiah and Walter Hatch of John Hanmer before 1680. This estate was sold to Cornelius White in 1743, a descendant of Peregine AVhite, the tirst male child born in Plymouth Colony, — and in 1850 was occupied by Albert AVhite,"^ Esq. In TJie Boston Post-Boy and Advertiser of May 20, • 1765, is the following : " By order of the General Court : On Wednesday the 22d of the present month of May, at 4 o'clock p.m. at the h©use of Mr. Foster, Inholder in Plimouth, will he exposed to sale by publick auction, several tracts of land in the County of Plimouth, viz ; one tract formerly belonging to Jtremink Hatch, lying in Hanover, one tract on the Northerly side of Assonet River in Middleborough, formerly belonging to Benj. Booth & Jsaac Pierce, jun., two tracts in the town of Rochester, &c. all which several tracts were mortgaged to the Commissioners for the hundred thousand pounds loan, in the year 17 IG, and judgment has been recover'd and possession taken for the Province." In 1814 the Hatch Mill, which for nearly a century nad been used as a grist-mill and saw-mill, was bought by a stock com- pany with a capital of $20,000, and a cotton factory erected. Among other owners were Nathaniel Cushing, father of Elijah, who lived at the old place now standing at Cushing's Corner, Hanson, Abishai Stetson, ftither of Nahum of Bridge water, prominent in the iron business for the past fifty years, and Chas. Josselyn, father of Mrs. Hira Bates of 80. Hanover. Later, Thomas Hobart, who lived in Hanson, near East Bridge- water, had an interest. They made common cotton sheeting * He was afterwards. associated with Benj. Stetson, t Son of Edward, see Delano and Foster Yards. X Part of whicb is now Hanover. 22 COTTON FACTOHY ON THE DRINKWATER RIVER. and shirting. The people in the town and in the towns of Hanover, Pembroke and Marshfield, had private looms, and used to weave, obtaining the cotton yin-n from the factory. The small amount of money received for weaving was the principal in- come of the women of Hanson and its vicinity. The work was done by the families of the best people, and the daughters were not too proud to toil day by day and earn the pennies that formed the nucleus, in some cases, of independent fortunes later. They were [)aid so much per yard for the work. At Squire Joseph Smith's* they had two or three looms and his daughters wove after his death. At Gad Hitchcock's they had two looms. Tlie llass. Gazette and Boston JVetvs-letter, Boaton, April 11, (1765) states that : "The Rev. Mr. Gad Hitchcock, of Pembroke, is chosen by the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company to preach the Sermon at the Anniversary of the Election of Officers for that Company on the first Monday in June next," At Isaac Bowen Bowker's, father of Dr. Bo wen Bowker, there was one loom. Noah Bonney's family also wove. The Company ceased giving out w^ork after a time and put a power loom into the factory. They also owned a store and a boarding house, which were run in connection with their business. Nahum Stetson was in the store when about nineteen years old, and went from there to Lazelle, Perkins & Co., where he has been nearly ever since, Ethan Allen Stetson, (brother of Nahum), Isaiah Perry and his brother, E. Y. Perry, Esq., were clerks afterward — think Isaiah Perry was owner at one time. Business was carried on at this store until the fire of 1852. The superintendents of the factory at ditierent times were Job Luther, Luther Faxon, L. B. Hatch, A. M. Hobart and others. The business gradually decreased and l)ut little was done after 1830, owing to the competition of the larger factories at Fall River, Lawrence, Manchester, and other places. During the panic of 1837, business at Hobart's tack-factory in Hanson became very dull, and Ezra Phillips, who had been working there, hired room and power in the cotton mill, and during the winter of 1837-38 manufiictured shoe-pegs. Later in 1838 Cobb & Cushing occupied the building as a saw-mill, and the boarding-house w-as occupied by Theodore Cobb as a private residence. In 1852 the factory, store, and residence were burned to the ground. Soon after Elijah Cushing erected a * Grandfather of Joseph Smith, who was engineer of the Hanover Branch Railway. MiG hill's iron works. 23 saw-mill on the same dam and, together with his sons, Georg-e and Theodore, carried on the business until this mill was burned al)ont ten years ago. A few years ago E. Phillips & Sons bought the privilege which they have since used as a reservoir for the factory below. In Dec, 1888, this firm bought a factory at Brockton, where they now run thirty-six tack and nail machines, employing thirteen or foui-teen hands, with a pros- pect of increasing the production this year. They intend eventually to move their lirockton factory to the al)ove priv- ilege, which is often spoken of now as Teague's Bridge (because of its close proximity to said bridge), but if that site is found to be undesiralile, they will move from Brockton to their works at South Hanover instead. A little more than half-way from this latter privilege to that of Stetson's at King St., there tlows into Drinkwater River, Torrey's Brook, a small stream rising in the woods back of the Cemetery at Centre Hanover, and flowing across Main, Hanover, Grove, Myrtle and Winter streets into the river. About seventy rods east of King St. on the Drinkwater River there formerly stood a fulling-mill, improved many years ago ])y Bailey Hatch, and others. About the middle of the eight- teenth century, Caleb and Robert Barker had a foundry here. From The Boston Gazette or' Weekly Advertiser for January 15, 1754, the following is taken : "Caleb and Robert Barker in Hanover: Cast bells for Meeting- Houses and other uses, from a smaller to a greater, even to one of two thous- and weight ; cheaper than they can be imported : By whom all persons may be supplied on reasonable terms." About 1830, Joshua Barker, a descendant of Caleb and Robert, erected an iron foundry on the old site, at which stoves hollow ware, and machinery of diflferent kinds were cast. The foundry was torn down a long time ago and a little tack-factory was built by Barstow & Russell. This building is now gone and the vacant site is owned by Chas. T. Stetson. Just al)ove this site, where King St. crosses the river, is a dam with a large water privilege and buildings now known as Stetson's Machine Works. About 17]0,"Mighill's Works," or the " Drinkwater Iron Works, ' were erected here by one Mighill, probably a son of Rev. Mr. Mighill, who was settled over the South or Second Society in Scituate in 1G84, though little is known of him or 24 DRINKWATER KIVER. his business. Tradition says that he manufactured iron from bog ore, which he dug at "Cricket Hole," near the Third Herring Brook, and in the low grounds in the vicinity of Dam Brook, where it can now be obtained in moderate quantities. These works have had many proprietors and tradition says again that, during the Revolution, cannon were cast here and carried down to the old fulling-mill near the iron foundry and tested, and that Tilson Gould was killed by the bursting of one of these guns, the pieces of which are said to be still lying in the bottom of the old furnace pond. About this time Hanover was very prosperous and in 17"J4, there were within the town of Hanover 3 saw-mills, 6 grist-mills, 2 forges, 1 anchor shop, 1 fulling-mill. About the year 1816, Chas. and Orrin Josselyn, Timothy Rose, Calvin Bates, and others, erected a forge on this dam. Beside the forge there were a grist-mill, a saw-mill, a box-board mill and a shingle-mill, all owned by the same company. Messrs. Bates & Holmes finally came into sole possession of these works and usually employed tive hands in the forge mak- ing bar iron, and from fifty to sixty tons of anchors annually. Edwin Barstow was the last anchor maker in town, and the last anchors manufactured in town, only a few years ago, were made here under his supervision. The property is now owned by Charles T. Stetson and run as a machine manufacturing shop, making rubber hose covering, electric light wires, etc. At the head of this pond or privilege, which is the largest in town, Longwater Brook forms a junction with Drinkwater River. Drinkwater being one of the sources of North River, should be traced to its source. It rises in Weymouth, just over the Rockland line, flows across the north-west corner of Rock- land into Abington, where it is known as French's stream, then back through Rockland into Hanover, where it receives Long- water Brook, the name Longwater being the English interpre- tation of the original Indian name for the stream. About eighty rods up the Longwater stream, where it crosses Circuit St., is Magoun's Bridge, formerly called Ellis' Bridge, built before 1(576. Here was located one of the oldest mills built in tlie Colony, but which, tradition says, was burned by the Indians during their famous raid into Scituate in 1(J76. Longwater Brook is one of the more copious indirect tributaries to North River, and it attracted the attention of the settlers at a very early date. Little is known of the first mill built there, but DRENKWATER AND " ELIHAB'S " MILLS. 25 tradition says it was built by a ]\Ir. Wade, who became dis- couraged when it was destroyed hy the Indians, and moved to New Hampshire. It was rebuilt and received the cognomen of "Drinkwater" for the reason, it is said, that no ardent spirits were used by the builders during its construction. That a mill was built in this locality is certain. "On May 7, 169(>, Edward Wanton, Robert Orchard, John Rodgers, Thomas Macomber, Timothy White, and Joseph House held together as tenants in common and undivided, a tract of land lying at and near a place called Drinkwater, and adjoining to a tract of land formerly granted to Timothy Hatherly, of which they proceed to divide the part that was on the southerly side of the saw-mill, called Drinkwater Mill. Wanton and Orchard had one half, and Rodgers, Macomber, White and House the other half." The mill is not spoken of as part of the property divided, but some of the land is mentioned as belonging to the mill. On Nov. 12, 1711, the remainder of the land was divided and the first divided part is referred to as the "mile of land." At this date Wanton appears to have become possessor of Orchard's share, so Wanton had half. White had died, so the other half went to Rodgers, Macomber, House, and White's heirs. It would be interesting to know the history of this ancient mill, but almost unpardonable neglect has left it and much more history of our town to fast fade away to tradition, and the scattered fragments of old wills, deeds, and other papers, that occasionally come to light, are all we have in many instances. Beaver Dam Brook rises east of Plain St., which it crosses. It also crosses Hanover St. and enters Longwater Brook a little way above the old mill. The next tributary to the Longwater stream is the Studley Mill Brook, which has two sources, one rising in the north part of Rockland, just on the Hingham line, and the other in the extreme north-west part of Hanover. This brook flows south-east and where it crosses Pleasant St. near the West Hanover Railway station, there is a mill. The first mill erected here, of which we have anv account, was improved by Eliab Studley about 1730. It was known as " Elihab's Mill." Barry says, " He was a noted tavern-keeper, his house being a favorite place of public resort." The following is taken from The £oston Gazette aiid Country Journal : 26 Absalom's eock and the "money hole." "Monday last, (June 16, 1766), ^Ir. Eliab Studley of Hanover was- killed by a Flash of Lightning." Another paper says : "We hear from Hanover that on the] 6th, Ult. (July, 1766), as Mr. Stndely and his Son were returning from his Wood Lot with a Cart Load of Wood, a Thunder Storm came on, and his Son taking a Tree for Shelter : wa& instantly struck Dead by a Flash of Lightning.— T?ie Mass. Gazette OA'e Mill street. Large quantities of lumber have been sawed here for the trunk and box factories of Hanover and Seituate. John Clapp, son of the above John, now owns the mill. T. J. Gardner's saw and grist mills are located on the Third Herring Brook, not far below the Clapp Mill. Long and short boards are sawed here now. This site has been used a great many years for mill purposes. Tradition says that Benjamin Curtis, who was born in 1667, built the Curtis Mills near the site of the present mills. After the Curtises, T. J. Gardner, who married into the Curtis family, owned these mills until they fell into the hands of their present owner, Samuel H. Church, late one of Hanover's selectmen. He married Mr. Gardner's daughter. Barry says " the bridge between Curtis' and Clapp's Mills, over Third Herring Brook, was built as early as 1690." We next come to the south branch of the Third Herring Brook. This is Hugh's Cross, or Silver Brook, which rises in the woods east of Grove street, Centre Hanover, flows across \ s ir c - o > S c 3 '^ 9 . . Hugh's cross brook. 31 Main street, northwest of the Cemetery, then running parallel with Silver street, it crosses Washington street, near the resi- dence of the late John Curtis, a little way above which it takes a sudden turn and flows east into the Herring Bro(jk. There is but one mill on Hugh's Cross Brook. Deane refers to a new saw mill, in 1678, above ''Old Pond at Curtis'." What mill this refers to is not clear, but it was probably the Benjamin Curfi's Mill, on the Third Herring Brook. Church's Hill, ou the Plymouth Road in Hanover, is a half mile west of Hugh's Cross Brook. Hon. Jedediah Dwelley, who has been one of Hanover's selectmen for over thirty years, and who is to-day the most valual)le man to the town of all her inhabitants, writes as follows : "Curtis' Mill, on Hugh's Cross Brook, was an old mill when I was a boy, and either fell or was torn down thirty years or more ago." The dam is in a fair state of preservation ; the site of the old pond is now grown with vegetation. The propeity belongs to the estate of the late John Curtis. Thomas Tindale, of South Hanover, has recently completed an extensive cranberry bog at the head of the pond. Returning to the Third Herring Brook, we come next to a trib- utary from 'isov\;e\\, ^largarefs, no called, or Wildcat Brook, sometimes called Slab Brook or Sltv^ken Log Brook. There was a grist mill on this brook in 1829, which was built about 1795 by Elijah Turner; but since the death of his son, Elijah Bailey Turner, it has not been used. The original name of this brook was Margaret's Brook, so named for Marijaret Proutv, who lived to a great age and died unmarried. She was a daughter of Richard, who was in Scituate in 1670, and sister of Edward, who had a house on the west side of the brook. Margaret's Brook rises in a swamp between Otis and Simon Hills, Scituate, and flows into the Third Herring Brook not far from the Old Indian Trail. The next point of interest on the Third Herring Brook is the site of one of the Jimt saw mills in the Colony, located at the Old Indian Path, foot of the Old Pond and Old Pond Swamp, which is said to have been a large reservoir for this mill, and which is now covered with a heavy growth of timber. The following is an extract from the Colony Records ; 32 ONE OF THE FIIIST SAW MILLS SAW MILL REGULATIONS OF THE YEAR 1 656. " At a full town meeting of the town of Scituate, Nov. lo, i6£;6, free liberty was this day granted to any man or men of the town to set up a saw mill upon the third herring brook, as near the North River as conveniently it may be, on these conditions, viz. : that in case any of the townsmen do bring any timber into the mill to be sawed, the owners of the ISIill shall saw it, whether it be for boards or plank, before thev saw any of their own timber, and they are to have the one-half for sawing of the other half." " And in case any man of the town that doth not bring any tim- ber to the mill to be sawed shall want any boards, for his own par- ticular use, the owner of the mill shall sell him boards for his own use, so many as he shall need, for the country pay. at three shillings. and six pence an hundred inch sawn ; but in case the men of the town do not supply the mill with timber to keep it at work, the own- ers of the mill shall have liberty to make use of any timber upon the common to saw for their benefit. The said saw mill to be built within three months from this date ; otherwise this order to be void. James Torrey, Toivn Clerk.'''' The same year Cornet Robert Stutson, with ]Mr. Hatherly and Joseph Tilden, built a saw mill on tlie above site and flowed a large tract of land, since called tlie " Old Pond S\yamj)." This mill was burned by the Indians in 1676, on their raid into Scit- uate during King Phillip's War. The dam still remains. James T. Tolman and his brother Samuel luive pieces of the charred wood of the old mill carefully preserved. . A^'IXSLOw's Bridge, so named for Nathaniel AVinslow, who resided there as early as 1750, is about four rods below the site of the old mill. It was called AVinslow's Bridge in the records as early as 1765. A few rods below Winslow's Bridge is located Tollman's Tack Factory, now fast going to decay, though the machinery inside was recently in good condition. This factory was built in 1^37 by Col. Samuel Tolman. It is now owned by his sons, Samuel and James T. , and has been used as a tack factory ever since it was erected. Colonel Tolman also built a box-board and shin- gle mill on the Hanover side of the stream, which was burned several years ago. Next below the Tolman mills and factory is a mw mill, now owned by Charles Simmons of Norwell. It may have been the mill site of the original Jonah's Mill, and was owned and run twenty-five years ago by Pratt & Lapham. The Tiffany Pond, which has been a favorite resort for the young of many generations in the winter time, for skating, is next below. This pond was named for Recompense Tifl'any, JONAH AND TIFFANY MILLS. 33 who, ho-\vever, was not the first OAvner of the property. Tlie first buihliiig erected here was a grist mill l)y Charles Stock- bridge, grandfather of David 8tockl»ridge, of Hanover.* Cricket Hole, so called in 1(140, from which bog iron ore was obtained for Mighill's and Bardin's iron works, is a short dis- tance west of Tiftany's. In 1673 the Town's Committee of Lands offered a premimn of " 30 acres of land to any person who, within six months, should erect a grist mill on the Third Herring Brook, and enirage and tend the mill for fourteen years." Charles Stockbridge accepted the proposals, and erected his mill in 1674. The property descended to his sons, Charles and Thomas, and in 161I2 Thomas sold one half of the mill to John Bryant and Samuel Stetson. In 1729 Thomas's son Thomas sold " one quarter of the saw mill " to Jonah Stetson, Samuel Stetson having sold one-quarter of the "corn mill " to the said Jonah Stetson in 1726. It was tlien called Jonah's Mill, which name it was known by until it received the cognomen Tijfa)n/. Tack works were erected about 1830, near tlie site of these mills, and the business of manufacturing tacks carried on by Capt. Ze})haniah Talljot and by John and William Salmond, brothers of Samuel and sons of Robert. John Tower, when about eight years old, fell through the floor of this mill while it was building, and hung on one of the sills, and over the rocks, until he was rescued by his brother David. In 1\^hite's Ferry at " New Harbor Marsh." This was called White's Ferry as early as 17G8 as the following tends to show, taken from The Boston Chronicle 176«, April 4-11. o a white's ferry. 4^ " A few days ago, Jacob Lincoln, a lad about 20 years of age, apprentice to Mr. Thomas Dillingham, blacksmith of Soituate, going in a ferry boat to a whaling vessel lying at White ferry, in North River, in jumping up to send otf, unfortunately fell down between the vessel and boat and was- immediately carried out by the tide ; his body was found at the Hummocks- nine days after."' In 1638 a ferry was established at North liiver l)}^ Jonathan Brewster of Diixbury. This ferry was at a phice called "Xew Harbour Marsh," and it is now called "White's Ferry." Jonathan Brewster of Diixbury was the first ferryman. In 1641 ]Mr. Brewster sold his ferry privilege to Mess. Barker, Howell and others for £60. In 1645 it was kept by Ralph Chapman, who, in 1656 implored the court to excuse him "as it would bring him to extreme poverty" &c. He was excused "except on. special occasions as bringing the magistrates over who dwell there." At "New Harbour jNIarsh " North River is very wide and contains many islands. • Here it approaches the sea as if tO' burst through the beach, but turns almost at right angles to the east, and flows nearly south, parallel with the seashore for nearly three miles, before it linds its outlet, leaving a beach 20 rods wide and about 20 to 40 feet high, composed of round smooth pebbles. South River, a shorter but more rapid tide stream, flowing from jNIarshfleld and uniting with it near the sea, aids in causing a shifting of these rivers' mouths to which mu.st be added the mighty efiect of the heaving and restless ocean, the conflict of winds, of tides, and contexture of the immediate shores. North River has at its mouth during full tide but nine feet of water, owing to the liar. Its embouchure shifts, advancins; south a half mile, then receding as far, sometimes having one outlet and occasionally two, which was the fact in 1815. Vessels of over 200 tons were lifted up by gondolas lashed to the vessel at low tide or heaved with kedges.* At White's Ferry there was a wharf for many years where vessels built at the yards above would receive their rigging. Ships were built here by the Halls and Keens. Vessels wintered in Fourth CliflT Bay in early times, finding good moorings at "Pincin's Bank." John Barker, who purchased the ferry of Jonathan Brewster in 1641, was drowned there in 1652. The colony records gave the verdict of the jury on the death of Isaac Robinson of Scituate, who was drowned in Barnstable as follows. Verdict : "Drowned in going into a pond to fetch two geese, the pond beinge full of w^eedy grasse." * See Chapter on North River Pilots. 46 THE EARLY FISHERIES. John Kose of ^Nlarshtield died while gunning on the beach in 1676. Verdict : " Perished bv the sevei-ity of the weather." In the Cokmy Records under date of July 31, 1656, is the fol- lowing verdict : " Wee finde that this present day John Phillips Jr. came into his dwelling house lately known or called Mr. Buckley's house in good health as good wile Williamson affirmeth and sat upon a stoole by the chimney and bvan immediate hand of God manifested in thunder and lightning the said John came by his death." Deane takes from the Colony Records the following : "Richard Berry, Jedediah Lombard, Benjamin Lombard and James ]\Iaker lined for smoking tol)acco at the end of Yarmouth ]Meet- ing House on the Lord's Day," and referring to tradition Deane says, "the early settlers were greatly addicted to smoking and that they would often disturb divine service by the clicking of j9[ints and steels to light pipes and the clouds of smoke in the church." Hence the colony passed a law in 1669, viz : "It is enacted that any person or persons that shall Ije found smoking of tobacco on the Lord's day going to or coming from the meet- ing within two miles of the Meeting House shall pay 12 pence for every such default," &c. The will of Capt. Williams gives his brother-in-law his two l)oys, " George and Thomas whom I obtained with my sword and my bow." These were undoulrtedly Indian slaves. ]Mary White, a resident of Scituate married about 1600 an African slave named James Xewell, and from them there descended quite a numerous posterity. The company that arrived in the ship "William," set up a tish- ing station at Scituate in 1633 and from that time the fisheries of Scituate were very important. North River was also noted for its fisheries, a principal station for herring fishery being at Gravelly Beach. Most of the vessels used in the fisheries from Scituate were built on North River. For twenty years prior to 1830 an average of twelve or more vessels were built per year of from 40 to 400 tons each, and the average cost of getting them out of the river was §1.00 per ton. Lindsay in his "History of Ancient Commerce" asserts that in 1572 "the largest merchantman that sailed from the Port of London was only 240 tons register." THE FIRST VESSEL BUILT IX MASSACHUSETTS. 47 Only one of the vessels that composed the squadron of Columbus in 14U2 had a deck, and the "]Maytlower" that brought over the Pilgrim Fathers in 1620 was of but ISO tons burthen. The advantages to be derived from the encourage- ment of shipbuilding in New England were early appreciated by the managers of the Massachusetts Bay Comjiany in London. In their first letter dated April 17, 1629, they state that six shipwrights had been sent to New England of whom Ii()l)ert Moulton was chief. The first vessel built in the ^Massachusetts Colony was launched July 4, 1631, into the *' Mistick " River at Medford. This was the Bark " Blessinr/ of the Bat/," 30 tons, owned l)y Governor Winthrop. In 1636 she was valued at £160. Richard HoUingsworth launched a ship of 300 tons at iSaleni in June, 1641. At Gloucester a ship was built in 1643 by a Mr. Stevens and others. In 1724 so important had ship- buildino; become in Massachusetts that sixteen Master Builders belonging to the Port of London petitioned the Lords of the Committee of Plantations "not to encourage shipbuilding in New England l)ecause workmen were drawn thither." The war of the Revolution brought business t(} a standstill. Ships could no longer be built on English account and the danger of capture rendered navigation of the sea extremely hazardous. When the independence of the Colonies was fully established shipbuilding again l)ecame active. AVilliam Yassall in writing to Rev. John AVilson of Boston, June 7, 1643, describing his and jNlr. Hatherly's and other farms said : " Our lands reach ten miles or more to the Southwestward, by which runneth a faire river navigable for boats ten miles and hay grounds on both sides and hath an outlet into the sea about four miles from the meeting house." The forests of white oak, which the early settlers found here, have long since been converted into ships. The black walnut has entirely disappeared, the spruce nearly so, and but few white oaks of any size are now cut. Pine, ash, beech, maple, birch, sassafras, and walnut are now common in our forests. A number of ship carpenters went from the North River to Beaver Harbor, N. B., to work on a vessel. Where they boarded there was a male cook, who used to take too much liquor. One day, when in this condition, he got otiended with " Uncle Sam," whom many will remember, and tried to scald him. "Cncle Sam " gave him a black eye ; and when the cook appeared, the next morning, he was asked how he came to have such a black 48 EAELY SHIPBUILDING ON NORTH RIVER. eye. "A horse kicked me," he replied, "and a mighty smart beast it was, too." Constant Oakman built a schooner some time between 1821 and 1826 on North River. Below are given the names and his- tories, so far as can be learned, of some vessels that are regis- tered as having been built on North River; but it is impossible to ascertain at what yards any of them were built: 1709. Sch. " SALLY," 35 tons, of Boston, George Homer, merchant, owner. This vessel was destroyed in 1803. 1774. "MI- NERVA," which was in China trade, and afterward whaling, and broken up at Nantucket in 1821. 1777. Sch. "BEE," 33 tons, William Boardman, of Boston, owner. 1781. Sch. "IN- DUSTRY," 31 tons, of Welltleet. 1781. Sch. "SALLY," 25 tons, had a deep waist and a short quarter deck ; of Boston ; owned by Joshua Torrey of Weymouth. 1783. Sch. "SUC- CESS," 30 tons, owned bv Eben Parsons, merchant, Boston. 1784. Sch. "JENNY," 63 tons, of Boston. 1784. Sip. "WELLFLEET," 25 tons, of Wellfleet, Thomas Melville, Sur- vevor. 1784. Sch. "WILLIAM," 56 tons, of North Carolina. 1785. Sch. "MOLLY," 55 tons, of Barnstable. 1785. Sch. "NEPTUNE," 67 tons, of Cohasset. 1785. Sch. "ESTHER." 1785. Brtff't'n "HOPE," 134 tons, of Bost(m. 1786 Sch. "DILIGENT," 81 tons, Robert Gray, owner, of Boston. Probably lost on a voyaije to Guadaloupe in 1807. 1786. Sch. "LUCY," 58 tons, James Tisdale, of Boston, owner. 1786. Brig "FRIENDSHIP," 118 tcms, of Boston. 1787. Sch. " FLYING FISH," 32 tons, Eben Parsons, merchant of Bos- ton, owner; James Taylor, master. 1787. Briir'tn "LADY WASHINGTON," 118 tons, of Boston. 1789. Sch. "RUBY," 85 tons, of Boston. Condemned at Sandwich Islands in 1824. 1789. Sch. "PHCENIX," 68 tons, of Hingham, George R. Gushing, of Hingham, owner. 1790. Brig't'n "HANNAH," 130 tons, of Boston. 1790. Ship "UNION," which was the first ship that ever had whaling agreements for proportions of captured oil, etc. Prior to this time men shipped l)y contract by word of mouth, — no writing. She made two voyages, and on going out, in 1807, was supposed to have been sunk one niijht by a whale. The crew took to their boats, and in twenty ckys reached Fay al. 1791. "WASHINGTON." 1791. "HEC- TOR." 1792. Brig "PEGGY," 134 tons, of Boston. 1793. Sip. "CATHARINE," 85 tons, of Boston. Lost near Mt. Desert in 1816. Ship "COMMERCE," 241 tons(?), Capt. , HISTORY OF THE AVHALE SHIP "ESSEX." 49 Hardy, was built on North River in 1795. Probably the same " Commerce " that was condemned at Tonningen in August, 1810. 1796. Sch. "SALLY," 24 tons, of Kingston. In 1796 there was also built on North River the whaleship "ESSEX." Pollard, who was master of her, was an officer on Fulton's steamer in 1807. The " Essex " was bought from Salem by Nantucket merchants in 1804. She and her crew have quite a history, which is given in a book pul)lished by Capt. R. B. Forbes in 1884. The " Essex " sailed from Nan- tucket Aug. 12, 1819, under command of George Pollard, Jr. They had an uneventful passage around Cape Horn into the South Pacific, but Nov. 20, while in Lat. 40° So. Lon. 119° W., they sighted a school of whales, and all the boats were sent in pursuit. Owen Cha.-e fastened to a large whale, which smashed his boat, but he stuffed cloths in the hole and reached the ship. A large sperm whale was lying quietly on the ship's weather- bow, Avhich spouted and went down, but came up again and slowly made his way toward the vessel, but increased his speed, and struck with great force with his head just forward the fore chains, throwing those on board off' their feet. He disappeared, and was next seen, apparently in convulsions, about a hundred rods to leeward. Finally, after much manceuvreing, he again came at the ship at full speed, and struck her directly under the cathead and completely stove the bow. The ship was noAV fill- ing rapidly, and there was only time to snatch two compasses, two quadrants, two Bowclitch navigators, muskets, powder, files, rasps, nails, turtles gotten at Galapagos Islands, and about six hundred pounds of dry bread, and each boat had sixty-five gallons of water. The ship soon fell over on her beam ends, full of water. The allowance of food was one bis- cuit and a half pint of water a day for each man. Washboards were fitted to the sides of the deeply laden boats. On Dec. 9th, some flying fish struck against the sails, dropped into the boat, and were devoured, l^ones, scales, and all. On Dec. 16th, the allowance of bread and water was reduced one half. Some relief was found by bathing in the sea. This led to the dis- covery of barnacles on the boat's l)()ttom, which were eaten with a relish. On Dec. 20th, land was seen, and upon examina- tion of their " Bowditch," it was found to be Ducies Land, Lat. 24° 40' S., Lon. 124° 40' W. Eggs, birds and shell-fish were found and devoured raw. Two days afterward they found a spring, and nearly died from drinking the water in excess. 50 HISTORY OF THE WHALE SHIP '"ESSEX." The only vegetable was pepper-grass. By Dec. 27tli, they had exhausted everythino: on the island, excei)ting the water, and departed, leaving behind them William AVright and Setli Weeks of Barnstable, and Thomas Copper of Plxmouth, England. They now headed for Juan Fernandez. Jan. 10th, M. P. Joy, the second mate, died. This was the first death. Jan. 12th, the three boats were separated in Lat. 36° 16' S., Lon. 112° 20' W. The allowance of bread was now an ounce and a half per day in Chase's boat. Jan. 20th, Richard Peterson died, and was committed next day to the sea. Feb. 8th, Chase says, "Our speech and reason seemed impaired." Isaac Cole became mad and soon died. Consultation was held, and the terrible verdict rendered that he must serve for food. Chase's journal says : " We separated his limbs from his body, cut off all the flesh, t-ook out the heart, sewed up the remains in canvas, and committed it to the deep, and, making a fire, partook of it and preserved the remainder for future use. The next morning, 10th of Fel)ruary, we found the fiesh spoiling, and made a tire to cook it to prevent its being wholly lost. For six or seven days we lived on it. On Feb. 15th, our stock of flesh was exhausted, and we were down to the last two cakes. Our limbs had become swelled, and pained us exceedingly.'' On Feb. 18th, Chase's boat was rescued by the brig "Indian," Capt. William Crozier, of London, in Lat. 33° 45' 8., Lon. 81° 03' W. In Capt. Pollard's boat a like necessity obliged them to sustain life by eating the body of a colored man, Charles Shorter. Stephen Shepherd, colored, died in the second mate's boat, and Samuel Reed, colored, in the captain's boat, and were used as food. The second mate's boat became separated from the cap- tain's Jan. 28th, in Lat. 35° S., Lon. 100° W., and was never heard from. In Capt. Pollard's boat, he and the three remain- ing men cast lots to see who should be sacrificed, and the lot fell to Owen Coffin, cousin to Capt. Pollard, who wished to take his place ; but Coffin claimed the right to be sacrificed to save his comrades, and submitted to his fate with great fortitude. Lots were drawn to see who would be his executioner, and it fell to Charles Ramsdale. On Feb. 11th, Brazilla Ray died, and on these two bodies the captain and Ramsdale subsisted until the morning of the 23d, when they were rescued in Lat. 37° S. by the whaleship "Dauphin," Capt. Zimri Cofiin, of Nan- tucket, and arrived at Valparaiso on j\larch 17th. At Val- paraiso, Capt. Downs, of the U. 8. frigate "Macedonian," bargained, for one thousand dollars, with an English ship bound HISTORY OF SHIPS BUILT OX XORTH RIVER. 51 to Australia, to stop at Ducies Island, which she did, and res- cued the three men left there. Such were the sufferings of the crew of one of the North River luiilt vessels. There are no survivors of the ill-fated " Essex " now living. Capt. Robt. B. Forbes gives a most elaborate account of this vessel, the sub- stance of which the author has endeavored to state in the fore- going sketch. There was built on North River, in 1804, the " SAMUEL," a whaler. Rol)ert Jnott, who commanded Fulton's steamer in 1807, was master of the " Samuel." She was condemned, full of oil, at Rio Janeiro, 1822. 1805. "BROTHERS," which was lost on the coast of Brazil in 1824. Also in 1805, ship "CHARLES," which was lost in a " Norther" in 1823, at Val- paraiso. In 1809, the "THOMAS," condemned at Woahoa, Sandwich Islands, 1825. In 1816, "GEORGE." She was condemned in 1857, at Woahoa, Sandwich Islands. In 1817, " GOVERNOR STRONG ; " in 1823 sold to Uruguay. Also in 1817, the "VULTURE ; " sold to New York, and in 1826 con- demned at Gibraltar. In 1818, "EQUATOR;" about 1851 broken up at San Francisco. Also in 1818, "EAGLE;" in 1837 she was broken up at Nantucket. Also in 1818, "RAM- BLER;" condemned at Apia, Navigator Islands, one of the Hervey Group, in 1852. F. C. Sandford owned, and in 1838 went around the world in her. In 1818, the "HERO;" she made many good voyages, and in 1856 was condemned at the Cape of Good Hope. 1819, "COLUMBUS;" broken up in California in 1851. F. C. Sanford saw this ship broken up by Chinamen alongside the ship "Cadmus," that in 1824 brought Lafayette to America. 1821 . " LOPER ; " made a sperm whale voyage in the Pacific Ocean in 1830, bringing 2270 barrels of speiTU oil in fourteen months, twenty days. Most oil in given time. In 1835 she was lost off Marinam, W. I. 1822. "KING- STON ; " in 1850 sold to Sydney, N. S. W. Also in 1822, " FALCON ; " on her second voyage she went ashore at Society Islands, and was a total loss in 1826. Coffin Chase, now living at Philadelphia, aged ninety-two, was on her when she was lost. Sch. "SPECIE," 72 tons, was built in 1827 on North River; commanded by Capt. Smith; owned in 1865 by Smith & O., Philadelphia. CHAPTER III. NORTH RIVER PILOTS. Capt. Anthony Coll amore, Wantons, Samuel Doggett, John DoGGETT, Mark Hatch, Capt. Bardin Sylvester, Benja- min Hatch, Benjamin Damon, James Eldredge, Frederick Handerson, Job Young, Benjamin House, Jr., Jacob Ames, James Ames, Alvin Hall, Samuel Hall, Benjamin Keene, Asa Sher3ian, Asa Sherman, eJR., Tobias Oakjvian, Capt. David Church, Timothy Williamson, Uncle Tom Tripp, Capt. Luther Rogers, Calvin Lewis, Jerry GUNDERWAY, CaPT. ChARLES L. TiLDEN. TN the earliest records North River was recognized as being -*• the most important stream in the Colony, not only for its fisheries and the shipbuilding on its banks, but as an outlet to a large inland country. Packet lines were established prior to 1700, and trade carried on with coasting vessels which found their way up this branch of the sea. The population of Scituate at various periods was as follows : In 1638, freemen 22, townsmen 19, total male population 41 ; in 1643 males from 16 to 60 years, 100. By the United States census of souls in 1800 there were in Scituate, 2728, number of houses 421. In 1681 the bark "Adventure," 40 tons, sailed from North River for the West Indies. She was owned by Scituate and Marshfield parties. Capt. Oollamore and the Wantons carried on a considerable trade on the North River previous to 1670. Capt. Anthony Collamore was wrecked while on a coasting voyage from North River to Boston, and lost on Scituate Beach December 16, 1693, at a place now called Collamore's Ledge. Samuel Dogget sailed from North River about 1700.* He * See Chapter on North River continued. EARLY NAVIGATION. 53 owned the sloops " Dolphin " and " Swan." John Doggett, the son of the first Thomas, had a grandson John, the son of Mb son Thomas, who kept Doggett's Ferry, now Little's Bridge, in 1730. He Avas also a mariner and sailed at one time as captain of the sloop " Patience,^' as appears in the following : "March 19, 1728-9 John Holbrook Jr., of Scituate secures Thomas Doggett of Marshfield on a bond by a Bill of Sale of ^ of the decked sloop " Patience," Capt. John Doggett, about 60 tons now filled for sea and at anchor in North River." There entered at the port of Plymouth, ]\Iass., from North River during the year 1773 the following vessels • March 10, 1773. Marh Hatch enters Sip. "Ranger," 65 tons, from North River, with 3 bbls. cider. This is probably the same sloop referred to in the following receipt. "Hanover, July 12, 1777. Rec'd of Samuel House and Atherton Wales £133 six shillings eight pence in full for one quarter part of ye sloop cal'd ye " Ranger " and one quarter of her cargo consisting of lumber now on a voyge to ye West Indies Together with one quarter part of ye net proceeds of sd. voige. We paying one quarter part of ye men's wages & victuling ye sd. vessel commanded by Capt. Burden Sylvester. Caleb Turner." March 19, 1773. Benj. Hatcii enters Sip. "Patty," 20 tons from N. River, with 12 cords of wood. April 6, 1773. Benj. Daman enters Sip. "Hannah," 25 tons, from Marshfield, with 12i cords of wood. May 11, 1773. Jas. Eldredge, enters Sch. "Dolphin," 24 tons, from North River, with Ballast. Fved'h Handerson, enters Sch. " Speedwell," 15 tons, from No. River, with Ballast. Benj. Hatch, enters Sip. "Polly," 18 tons, from No. River, with 12 cords of wood. May 15, 1773. Benj. Daman, enters Sip. "Polly," 18 tons, from No. River, with 11 cords of wood. May 28, 1773. Benj. Daman, enters Sip. "Hannah," 25 tons, from No. River, with 11 cords of wood. May 28, 1773. Benj. Hatch, enters Sip. "Polly," 18 tons, from No. River, with 9 cords of wood. 54 PILOTING VESSELS OUT OF THE RIVER. June 3, 1773. Job Young, enters Sip. "Union," 15 tons, from No. Eiver, with 2 tons Pott Iron. July 28, 1773. Benj. Daman, enters Sip. "Hannah," 35 tons, from No. Eiver, 20 cords of wood. Jan. 5, 1774. Benj. House, Jr., enters Sch. "Defiance," 25 tons, from Scituate, with 150 l)bls. mackerel and 3 cords of wood. These packets are all said to have been built on North River. The captains of these vessels were of necessity skilful pilots, as only those who were thoroughly acquainted Avith the shoals, rocks and bars could navigate North River with safety. Vessels coming into the river from other ports and those built on the river were piloted by North River Pilots, few of whom are now living. In getting large vessels down and out of the river the pilots had to work very quickly and bury an extra " kedge " ahead before they had "heaved up to" the previous one, or the vessel would lose steerage way and drift to the shoals on either bank. Below Little's Bridge the channel is very crooked, and near the mouth of the river is a bar, through which at times it was necessary to cut the vessel's keel. On the way down river the vessels were kept in the channel by four guys, two from the bows to each bank, which were called breast lines, and two from the quarter decks, called quarter lines. When a vessel drew so nmch water that it was necessary to cut her keel through the bar, they would go to the beach beyond and ])ury heavy planks in the sand five or six feet deep, laying them at right angles with the position of the vessel, and from their centre attached chains, which they carried along in covered trenches until some distance from the planks, where they would lay them on the surface. The process of burying these planks was called "buryino; nisrofers." A tackle would be attached to the end of the chain and carried up the river to the windlass on the bow of the vessel. Scows also were invarial)ly lashed, just below the bow and stern at low tide to help raise the vessel. With much tackle and large blocks, and often with fifteen men heaving at the windlass, they would get the vessel inch by inch through the bar, or shoals. Sometimes vessels could not be gotten out durini; one course of tides and would have to lay until the next course of high tides. A very smgular feature of North River is the shifting of its mouth from Beetle's Rocks, which are located about a quarter of a mile south of the present PILOTING VESSELS OUT OF THE EIVER. 55 mouth of tlie river, to the shoals, a shallow place, where the tide is strongest, and which was the cause of great annoyance in navigation. Vessels grounded about half a mile from Beetle's Bocks, it requiring sometimes several days to get them otf. ^Vithin Capt. Asa Sherman's remembrance, the mouth of the river has worked its way nearly to the shoals and back agam, and is now coming north. An old sea captain, who lived near North River and used to pilot vessels, was going down one day on a new ship after launching. He was very anxious about a rock in the river, and being afraid the vessel would strike, sat out on the bowsprit, and kept singing out, "Haul her over to Scit-i-ate ; " by and by he took out his snuti"l)ox, and while taking a pinch managed to fall into the water. He arose to the surface shouting and calling out "at the top of his lungs," "Haul her over to Scit-i-ate." He evidently thought she had struck. Jacob Ames, James Atnes, and Alvin Poi-ter used to ])ilot vessels down the river. There was one old pilot, a retired sea- captain, who (like many others, undoul)tcdly) used to give his orders in the iin})erative mood. On the meadow banks on ])oth sides of the river were many men with h>ng ropes from each bow and each quarter to pull or to check, according to the command received from between the "knight heads." "Old Neptune" magnified his office and roared out his orders like the voice of many waters. He was not at all fastidious al)out his language, and his epithets were not suited to ears polite, but to "Jack Tars" with whom he had had to do. His "Pull away there on starboard bow," or, "Hold on port quarter," would have had no moving force without the torpedo snap that made the command tingle with authority. He was a character in his day and has sworn many a good ship from Barstow's Yard do^vn to the mouth of the river. Samuel Hall, who was born 1770, and died 1806, was captain of the packet ship "Dolphin," which plied on North River. Benjamin Keen ran a North River packet ship in 1820. Asa Sherman of White's Ferry is the oldest North River pilot and packet captain now living. For 37 years he Avas in command of Packets running between North River and coast- wise ports. He was son of Asa Sherman of Centre JNIarshfield _ and was born February yt. J^^^^.^ s.. 28, 1801. Asn. semov, ^ was captain ot packets 56 NORTH RIVER PILOTS AND CAPTAINS. nmning between North Eiver and Boston for about ten years. The tir.st sl'oop that Asa, Jr., commanded was the "Albion," which uas running on the river line when he took her in the year 1827. His next vessel was the "Hanson," built in Pembroke in 1833 by Briogs & Turner. His third vessel was the Sip. "Susan," built in 1834 by the Halls at AVhite's Feny, which he took in 1837. His foui-th was the " Betsey Ransom," which he took in 1844. This vessel was bought from Scituate. His tifth packet was the "Herschel," 1851, bought from Sandwich. His sixth was the "Prompter," bought at Portland, and his last packet was the "Ellen Elizal)eth," which was bought in Boston, and which he sailed from 1856 to 18(54. The location of the landings he made were as follows : beginning at the mouth of the river, 1st., White's Ferry, 2nd, Little's Bridge, 3rd, Union Bridge, 4th, Hobart's or Briggs' Landing, 5th, Foster's Landing, 6th, Job's Landing, 7th, Alden Briggs' wharf, or the Brick-kiln, 8tli Town Landing at No. River Bridge, Hanover. The vessels were owned by the principal business men of the towns border- ing on the river. Capt. Sherman's regular trips were for carrying freight to and fnmi Boston and occasionally to other places, as Scituate Harbor, Duxbury, Plymouth and any of the towns on the coast from (^ipe Ann to Cape Cod. Freights to Boston were usually wood, charcoal and farmers' produce ; returning with lumber, sliip-supplies, goods for the stores, &c. He made yearly trips to the camp meetings held at Provincetown, where he carried a great number of passengers. He brought the lumber and materials for erecting the original Daniel Webster house and farm buildings. He was an eye-witness of the engagement between the men-of-war " Chesapeake " and " Shannon." Before the battle the British came into North Eiver for provisions ; they took three calves from the farm of Waterman Thomas, on Marshtield Neck, and caused some disturbance among the i)eople in the vicinity. The father of Asa Sherman, Jr., Capt. Sher- man, miiNtered his company of militia, and went to meet them, but they quickly took their booty and left for their vessel. Capt. Asa Sherman, Sr., was in command of the Sip. " j\Iay- liower" from 1824 to 1828, and of the Sip. " jNIaonolia " from 1828 to 1833. The "Mayflower" was built in Pembroke in 1823, and the "Magnolia" in 1828, at Hanover, l)y Barker Turner. The Sch. "Nancy," built by Samuel Kent at the Harbor in 1803, was used as a packet on North River, and commanded by Capt. Sherman, Sr. NORTH RIVER PILOTS AND CAPTAINS. 5V Tobiafi Oakman, of Oakm:iu'.s Ferry, was master of a packet sloop sailing from North River Bridge, Hanover, to Boston, for over forty years. Caj)t. David Church was his successor. Capt. Church was w^ell known in his day, and was calle 1 by the old settlers " a substantial man." He had many peculiarities, one of which was his manner of dress. With the exception of his boots and shoes, every garment he wore was made in his own house, of wool from his flock of sheep or flax from his field. He wore everything its natural color, and his trousers were always tucked into his stockings. It is said he was never known to wear a dyed garment. The shipl)uilders had so much confidence in him that he made nearl}- all of their purchases. At one time he went into a Boston store where he had not be- fore traded, to purchase five tons of iron, and, while making his inquiries, he noticed that they regarded him with some sus- picion. "Fogs," said Capt. Church, "you look at me as if you had some doubts about me. I Avant you to understand that I do not come out of North River w^ithout five or six thousand dollars about me." He then took a package of several thousand dollars from his pocket. The firm replied, "AVe are pleased to make your acquaintance, and shall be happy to attend to all your requests." Timothy Willia7nson used to run a packet sjoop between Boston and North River. He was a great gunner, and, being usually the only man on board his small craft, he would begin firing his "flint-lock" some time before reaching the draw- bridge, in order to have it opened for him. Those living in the region of Little's Bridge remem])er hearing the " bang," "bang," "bang," and they always knew it Avas Tim Williamson coming up the river. He was a high-tempered fellow and a smart w^orkman, and used to pilot vessels out of the river from the yards above. About 1819 he Avas paid $11.6(5 for fourteen tides on the ships "Foster" and "Peruvian," l)uilt at the AA'"an- ton Yard. He once had a terrible fight Avith a shark, near Lit- tle's Bridge, Avhich he finally killed. He ran his sloop from about 1840 to 1846, and finally accidentally shot himself, which injured him for life. Until 1820 or later, cA'ery male citizen was obliged to keep a gun and twenty-four rounds of amnuniition. Inspection Avas the first Tuesday in ^Nlay, and if the gun lacked good order, Avas not properly oiled, or the flint was not right, a fine was imposed. There Avas another queer character, which any sketch of the 58 NORTH RIVER PILOTS AND CAPTAINS. North River pilots sliould include. This was Undo Tom Tripp, Of his origin or nationality there is little or nothing known. He was uncle to everybody living on either bank of North River. Rev. AVilliam P. Tildcn says, " Uncle Tom Tripp seemed an old man when I was a small boy." He was evidently so queer looking that he might have been taken for almost any age. He was very short, almost a dwarf, and wore a slouch hat, h)ng coat, and boots coming up to his middle, which, together with his weather-beaten face, made him a curiosity to look at. He lived on the river, a sort of human muskrat. If a pair of bilge- ways were to be floated from one yard to another, or spars or logs transported from one landing to another, " Uncle Tommy " was the man to do it. He m'ouUI lash the long timl)e]'s or spars together, wait for the tide to float them, and then jump on with his water-proof boots, and, with a long setting-pole, keep the "water-logged" craft in the channel, and coax it leisurely down or up with the tide, as the case might be. AVhen the tide turned he would tie his charge to a stake, and cut across the fields to the nearest house for refreshments and lodging. He was a great "storyteller," and a very harmless one. There was one place especially where he always found a cordial wel- come. This was the hospitable home of Mr. Sam. Hatch, who lived on the banks of the First Herring Brook. "Uncle Tommy " could get here by water. Mr. Hatch had a large farm and a yet larger heart. He was a "good liver," as they used to sa}^ and there was always something in his well-filled pantry for any poor waif who might happen along. It was in his spa- cious kitchen, in front of his open hard-wood fire, that "Uncle Tommy" found an earthly paradise. Here he could eat, drink, smoke, and tell stories to his "heart's content." How or Avhen he finally " shuftled oflf this mortal coil " (a most fitting phrase, by the way, for one so often coiled up in his wet ropes during life), no one appears to know. Perhaps, like his prototype, he went into a hole in the river's bank, and there sleeps sweetly. Let the river, every reach of which he knew l)y heart, be his monument. Many will remember the North River packet "Pico." The "Pico" was originally an old North River "gundalow." Capt. Luther Rogers* built on a bow and stern, after which he used to "take his umbrella and go to Boston in her." Calvin Lewis ran a packet between Marshfield and Boston about 1850. * See Rogers's Yards. Jeruy Gunderway. NORTH RIVER PILOTS AND CAPTAINS. 5'9 Jerry Gunderivay was a negro, "l)lack as the ace of spades,'* and a North River pilot, who would pilot anything from a small fishing smack to a " gundalow " of salt hay, or a full-rigged ship. At one time he was quite intemperate, and a great smoker, but during the last forty years of his life he was a slave to neither habit. One day he went to old Mr. Torrey, and asked him if he would come to his house and chain him, as he often did when he felt he was going to have an attack of the delirium tremens. Jerry always knew when he was going to have an attack. Mr. Torrey drove staples in the floor, and locked the chains which bound Jerry to them. Jerry then requested that his wife Cecilia should have the keys, telling her that she must not give them to him, no matter how loud he called for them. At one time he was confined in the cell of the almshouse. One of the old " rum-sellers " of those days happening along, asked Jerry what brought him there. " Your rum," said Jerry, He used to eat a half a pound or more of raisins a day after he stopped drinking. The habits were broken for the following reasons : He was piloting a " gundalow " of green hay, which caught fire from his pipe, and he came to the conclusion that, if he was such a smoker that he set green hay on fire, and burned it up, he would stop ; and he never smoked again. He never drank after being confined in the almshouse with delirium tremens. He was a sensible fellow, and knew, he said, that then it was time to stop drinking. He was a great dancer. He had many peculiarities, especially in his manner of living. He lived at one time in a little old house in Scrabble Lane, and slo})t on the hearth with his head on a block of wood ten inches high. The block is now in existence. One of his favorite anuisements was getting a party of men and boys, and an ox sled, and ooino- to Coleman Heights or Hills to slide down in the winter time. Once the boys invited Jerry to ride on the tongue, which was turned back over the sled, and they so guided the sled that it should strike a fence ; consequently, the tongue, acting as a lever ])y the sudden stop of the sled, threw Jerry far over into a snow-bank in the field beyond. Jerry took it in good part, and undoubtedly got square with them later. He once chased a fox ofi* the Fourth Clitf, and, not being able to stop, fell some twenty or more feet. Jerry died many years ago in the So. Scituate Almshouse, where he desired to be when sick, for he was sure of good care. At other times he lived alone, and there was therefore no one to care for him during the latter part of his life. fiO CAPT. CHAS. L. TILDEN. Capt. Charles L. TUden was the last North River pilot run- ning in the packet line between North River and Boston. He was born May 9, 181U, in East Marshtield, where he now resides, and is still a " live man," though now past his seventh decade. He has a fine home in the village, made more pleasant by a family, who look after his interests and make him forget that he is now on the do\vn grade in years. In seeking an interview with Capt. Tilden, a short time since, we found him busily engaged in a grave-yard, evidently not on his own account, as he shows no signs of needing a resting place there for many years to come. Like most boys that are born within the sight of water, a boat was his first thought, and at a very early age he made dady trips in quest of cod and haddock, which were then so plentiful on our coast. He had learned the trade of a shoemaker, at which he worked during the winters, but with the pleasant days of s})ring he launched his little schooner " George Washington," and betook himself to his favorite calling. As he grew older, his skill in handling craft gave him command of one of the packets. It required a daring man to run a vessel over the quicksands and shoals, at the mouth of the river, that were con- tinually shifting in storms and tides ; but Capt. Tilden made his trips with great regularity, and his vessel could always be depended upon to arrive at her eight landing-places on the river at nearly her stated hours, under any conditions of weather. He ran the sloop "J. Franklin," (built at East Greenwich), thirteen years, when she was sold. His next packet was the Sch. " Daniel Webster," 43 tons, built for Samuel Hall and Capt. Tilden, at Bath, Me., and his last was the sloop "Trader,"* which was the last packet run on the river. The heavy baggage wagons run between Marshtield, Pembroke, Hanover, and Bos- ton, succeeded in turn by the railroads, caused a decline in the packet business, which eventually had to lie discontinued. Ca})t. Tilden's knowledge as a pilot now came into play, and for a dozen years he piloted the shi})s built on the upper yards to Boston, and other places, under jury masts, to be rigged and receive their cargoes. His last ship he took from Union Bridge to Provincetown in a fog so thick that eyesight was of little use ; but he got it safely into port a few minutes start of a northeast gale, which, if it had qaught him, judging from its power, he thinks would probably have carried Iiini right over the Cape into Buzzard's Bay. Capt. Tilden is blessed with a happy * See Rogers's Yard. ONE OF THE GOOD OLD FARMS. 61 disposition, and reminiscences of his early days are to liim pleas- ant memories. He and his family are very fond of music, and some forty live years ago he was a member of the East Marsh- field Brass Band, which travelled quite extensively among the towns on the Cape, giving concerts. He also played the bass viol in the church for forty years. The church and headstones in the little graveyard beside it still stand, monuments to prove that his playing was of the mildest sort, and not the real old Orthodox kind that we used to hear, which would scrape the rafters in the church at every draw of the bow. The schooner "Daniel Webster," spoken of above, is now used as a packet between Provincetown and Boston. Capt. Tilden made eight landings on the river during the most prosperous seasons. The farthest landing up river was Alden Briggs', at the Brick-kilns. Second. Job's Landing. Third. Ichabod's Bank, named after Ichabod Hatch. Fourth. Gravelly Beach. Fifth. Block House, where James's ship-yard was located. Sixth. Union Bridge. Seventh. Stephen's Bank, named after Stephen Rogers. Eighth. White's Ferry. He also made land- ings at North River Bridge regularly when there was freight. He made his last trip as a North River pilot just prior to 1870, and his last trip as a commander of a North River Packet was made since the close of the Rebellion, or only a few years pre- vious to 1870. Below are some verses, written nearly fifty years ago by an old North River ship-builder, descriptive of one of the good old farm-houses where the " latch-string " was always out, and where all were sure of a Avarm welcome : Of Green Bush farm 'twill be no harm To take a slight survey ; The tenants next shall be our text, Judge ye of what I say. Horse, sheep, and cows run loose to browse Throughout the spacious fields ; Turkeys and hogs, hens, cats and dogs, The farm profusely yields. Munroe and Ben are all the men Who work upon the soil. Old Mr. ***** surveys each patch, And shows them where to toil. 62 ONE OF THE GOOD OLD FARMS. Here peddlers stop to fill their crops, And sell their pretty toys, — Chat with the girls, admire their curls, And scold the little boys. Thus I have told, with feelings cold, How things out doors appear ; 'Twill be no sin to peep within, And view the dwellers here. The foremost one for making fun You'll find is Mr. *****; For native wit he never yet Has found an equal match. His form and size none can despise Who like the German caste ; His hands and feet are small and neat, To suit the Chinese taste. His body large, a spacious charge As all might well suppose, When he in haste, with rapid pace, Like Falstaff pufiing goes. His hair, once light, is now as white As snow-flakes when they fall ; His locks with knack he brushes back Upon his hoary ball. His whitened pate in size is great, Though odd the shape appears. Above the eyes, how small the size, — How huge behind the ears. Now let us quiz his noble phiz, — As red as any rose ; A lucifer match would surely catch If rubbed against his nose. His eyes are gray, most folks would say, With border cherry red ; Like diamonds bright they flash forth light, Though deep sunk in his head. He's so engaged he seems enraged When stories he does tell ; Your ribs he'll punch, your shoulders hunch. To make you listen well. ONE OF THE GOOD OLD FARMS. 63 To view his moutli, of spacious growth, Would cure a fit of dumps ; To see within, when he does grin, A ghastly row of stumps. His teeth are few and far between, And I have heard it said, It's rather doubtful if he can show More than seven in his head. CHAPTER IV. NORTH RIVER BRIDGE YARDS. — 1668-1836. DANIEL TURNER, JAMES BARSTOW, WILLIAM BARSTOW, WILLIAM BARSTOW, JR., BENJAMIN BARSTOW, GIDEON BARSTOW, NA- THANIEL OR " BUILDER SILVESTER," NATHANIEL SILVESTER, JR., JONATHAN SAMSON, BARKER TURNER, JEDUTHAN PALMER, ENOCH MAGOUN. T'^URNER'S YARD was the farthest point up the river at ^ which any vessels were built. The site is visible from the present bridge, being but a few rods above, in a small ravine or fforo-e, now somewhat levelled, on the land of the late Horatio Bigelow. It was improved by Daniel Turner, previous to 1699 and later ; but the names of none of his vessels have been ascer- tained. Daniel was a son of Humphrey Turner, of Scituate.* He removed from Scituate to a spot near Barstow's Bridge, which was just above North River Bridge, and in 1665 married Hannah, daughter of William Randall. He probably com- menced the building of vessels soon after this date, and may have resided where Mrs. Bigelow's house now stands. He had a grandson, Amasa, who removed with his family to Lancas- ter. Other descendants of his are now living in Hanover and vicinity. Previous to the Revolution, James Bamtoio used this yard, and until he removed to Duxbury, where he engaged in ship- building for many years. He died in Duxbury in 1808, leav- ing a family. His eldest son, James, a ship-builder, was killed at Kingston, in the great gale of Sept. 23, 1815, by the fall of * See Deane's History of Scituate. THE OLD BARSTOW YAKF). 65 a plank from the staging of a ship on which he was at work. His son James, born Nov. 25, 1786, was a ship-builder at Matta- poisett, where he died, leaving a large family, whose descend- ants are now living there. The next yard was the "Old Barstoio Yard,'''' so called. It was located just below the Barstow Bridge, and it is said that the vessels stood on land now occupied by the present abutments of North River Bridge, on the Hanover side. The bows were pointed up on the land now owned by the Bigelows, and the sterns were on land just below the present bridge. The road now passes over the spot where these vessels formerly stood. When the Barstows commenced building larger vessels, they abandoned this yard, and removed farther down the river, be- cause, when launched, their vessels frequently struck against the rocky ledge on the opposite shore. The Old Barstow Yard was next to the oldest on the river, and was tirst improved by William Barstow. He came to New England in 1635, in the vessel " Truelove."* He appeared in Scituate (now Hanover) in 1649, and built for himself a house about forty rods back of where the Second Congregational Church now stands, on Oak- land Avenue. The partially tilled cellar, and a few old apple- tree stumps, now mark the place of abode of the pioneer of ship-building in Hanover, which business was followed by his descendants for two centuries. He probably began building vessels a few years before his death, which occurred in 1668. From an old paper is taken the following : "Samuel Prince, Esq, died at Middleborough, Fri., July 5th, 1728. Born in Boston, May, 1649. Married Martha, daughter of Mr. Wm. Bar- stow, of Scituate, 1674, for his first wife. By her had three sons and two daughters." — The New England Weekly Journal. William Barstow's son William, born 1652, resided in his father's house, and followed the business of ship-building. Hig son Benjamin, born 1690, occupied the old homestead, and suc- ceeded to the yard at the bridge, where he built for many years. He had three wives and twenty-one children. His son James, born 1734, built in the yard just above his father's, the location of which has been described. James' brother Gideon, born 1738, succeeded his father, Benjamin, at the old yard, but finally removed to Mattapoisett, where he died in 1826, leaving several children. From their brother Thomas, born 1732, * See Barry's History of Hanover, and Deane's History of Scituate. 6G "builder SILVESTER." descended the Barstows, who built further down the river. It was prol)ably Benjamiirs father who decided that it was unwise to remain longer at the old yard, and established one at the ''Two Oaks," some time between 1745 and 1755. After the Barstows left the yard, or about 1745, it was im- proved l)y Nathaniel Silvester, familiarly known as Builder Sil- vester. He was born in 1718, and about 1743 built the house afterward occupied by Rufus Farnham, later by Zenas Sturte- vant, and now by John Fisher. It belonos to the farm of the late Horatio Bigelow, by whose widow Mr. Fisher is employed. This house was at one time, previous to 1815, a tavern, and kept by Tilden Crocker, or Crooker, who died in Quincy, Nov. 21, 1853, and was buried from Capt. Farnham's house, Han- over. Barry gives a most complete genealogy of the Sylvester family, so it will be but ])rietiy referred to here. '' Builder Sil- vester " has four great-grandchildren now living at South Han- over : Elijah W., a skilled house-carpenter; George F., who has a large greenhouse, and does an extensive business as a florist; Mary T., widow of the late Lebeus Stockbi'idge , Jr. ; and Elizabeth, who resides with her brother, George F. " Builder Silvester " was brother of Michael Sylvester, from whose son Robert descended a numerous posterity. ]Michael and Robert, sons of Robert, Sr., are still living. The follow- ing are their descendants : Michael Robert. 1st child of Michael, born June 24, 1825 ; married, July 3, 1849, Emily S. Spear, of Boston, who died, with her infant child, Sept. 21, 1851. He mar. 2d, Eliza- beth T. Waterman, May 31, 1855 ; she died June 26, 1856. His third wife was Maria W. Wright ; married Feb. 12, 1861 ; by her he had children : 1. Ruthetta M., born July 17, 1862. 2. Emily E., born Dec. 6, 1863. 3. Martha AV'. , born Jan. 25, 1866. 4. Robert W., born Sept. 11, 1868 ; died Dec. 30, 1871. 5. Helen, born Nov. 17, 1869; died Nov. 27, 1869. 6. Robert Irving, born June 10, 1872. 7. Maria W., born Jan. 27, 1876. 8. Herbert R., born July 1, 1878. Edmund Q., second child of Michael, born April 29, 1827 ; married, first, Dec. 14, 1858, Mary Salmond, daughter of Samuel Salmond. They had children: 1. Eliza Salmond, born April 15,1861. 2. Samuel Salmond, born Sept. 13, 1862. 3. Mary, born July 24, 1864; died Sept. 8, 1865. E. Q. Sylvester's first wife, Mary, died July 31, 1864, aged thirty-one years, and he mar- ried, second, Feb. 5, 1867, her sister, Eliza S., aged twenty-two SYLVESTER GENEALOGY. 67 years. By her he had children: 1. Edmund Q., Jr.; died Feb. 12, 18G8, in infancy. 2. Edmund Q., Jr., 2d, born July 12, 18(39. 3. Joseph Smith, l)ornNov. 5, 1870. 4. Albert Len- thall, born Nov. 30, 1872. 5. Francis Baldwin, born Feb. 1, 1880. Martha R., third child of Michael, was born Dec. 20, 1839 ; married Cyrus C. Holmes, of Hanover, May 14, 1865. He died in Xewberne, N. C, June 30, 1879. They had one child, Minnie A., born in Newberne, N. C, Aug. 12, 1866. Lemuel Curtis, fourth child of Michael, born May 14, 1842; is unmarried. Lydia, fifth child of Michael, born Jan. 12, 1845 ; married Henry E. Fuller, of Rockland, Mass., Dec. 1, 1867. They have children : 1. Fred Henry, born March 19, 1871. 2. Mabel Sylvester, born May 3, 1875. Robert Sylvester, the other son of Robert, Sr., and brother of Michael, had children: 1st. Loami B., born March 18, 1832 ; married Emeline A. Pratt, June 16, 1858. He died in the war, Sept. 6, 1862. They had one child, Sarah E., born May 27, 1859, who married William Stearns, of Wayland, Mass., June 16, 1884. Susanna F., second child of Robert, born April 5, 1834 ; married Wm. T. Lapham, of So. Boston, and they have two children. Belcher, third child of Robert, born May 26, 1837; died July 21, 1838. Elizabeth B., fourth child of Robert, born July 5, 1839 ; married, Nov. 9, 1859, 1. H. Macomber, of East Marslilield. They have chiklren : 1. Herbert I., born Feb. 19, 1866. 2. Walter S., born Aug. 8, 1884. Sarah E., fifth child of Robert, born Sept. 1, 1843; married, Nov. 9, 1864, George H. Allen, of Boston. They have children: 1. Fannie S., born Aug. 13, 1869. 2. Sadie S., born Sept. 17, 1871. 3. Grace H.", born June 29, 1874. Juletta, sixth child of Robert, born April 14, 1845 ; married Frank A. Clapp. They have two children, and live in Wake- field, Mass. Robert, Jr., seventh child of Robert, born June 20, 1847 ; married, Nov. 22, 1868, Mary Bailey Turner. They have one child, Robert B., born April 10, 1871. JNIichael Sylvester, Sr., married, for his first w'ife, Mary, sister of Sage Bardin, who became the wife of Nathaniel Syl- vester. Both were daughters of Capt. Thomas Bardin, the founder of the iron works at Curtis Forge. Michael's second wife was Ruth Turner. He resided in the old homestead for- merly occupied by his father Amos, which stood on Washington street, near the present residence of Robert Sylvester, and which was for many years a tavern stand. About three months after his QS SYI.VESTER GENEALOGY. father died, the old house was burned, as appears by an item in the Boston JSFews Letter and New England Chronicle, May 20, 1762: " The house of Mr. Michael Sylvester, at Hanover, lately took fire (occasioned, it is supposed, by a defect in the chimney), about two o'clock in the morning. The family escaped by jumping out of the windows, and could save nothing of the household goods, which, with the house, were soon entirely consumed." It was probably immediately rebuilt. Barry records the death of Michael's son Robert, June 4, 1768, but does not speak of the tragic circumstances attending it, as appeared in the Boston Evening Post, June 13, 1768 : " Last Friday, a child of Mr. Michael Sylvester, of Hanover, about three years old, fell into a tub of hot water, and scalded one arm to the arm-pit, of which it died next day." " Builder Silvester " built mostly schooners, as they were in demand at this time. During the years 1700 to 1775, there was a great business done in cutting and selling wood through- out these towns, which furnished freight for many of the schoon- ers which did a coasting business from North River. In an old account-book, now in the possession of Miss Sarah Thomas, Marshfield, commencing with the date 1693, there appears in the wood business the names of John Rogers, Amos Sylvester, Ebenezer Sprout, Capt. Barker, and Nathaniel Winslow (who owned the book) . " Builder " or Nathaniel Silvester died Feb. 21, 1781. His son Elijah was a ship-builder, but his son Na- thaniel succeeded him at the bridge yards. He continued here, building mostly schooners, until 1795, when the yard passed into the hands of Jonathan Sampson. Nathaniel Sylvester soon after removed to Winchendon, Mass. There is recorded one vessel surely built by him in 1786, Sch. "SWALLOW,'* 68 tons ; built at Hanover, and owned by Nathaniel Winslow of Scituate, Nathaniel Silvester of Hanover, and others ; and in 1789 the Sch. " LYDIA," built at Hanover, afterward hail- ing from New Bedford, was probably built by him. ^ A^ ^ built here from He was born in Pembroke (at Crookertown) , and probably descended from Henry Sampson, who arrived in Duxbury in 1620, according to Winsor. He lived, after his first marriage, in the house now occupied by Aurora Sampson; but, after JONATHAN Samson's yard. 69 taking the above yard, he is said soon to have accumulated a large fortune, for those days, building ships for the residents of Duxbury and Boston, and many vessels for the cod fishery at the Grand Banks. He built the " Caliban," 311 tons, re- ferred to later, which was the largest skip ever built at this yard. How they got her out of the river from here is a mystery. He is said to have built thirty-two vessels in Hanover. He is re- membered by the old residents as a very social man, and one of the many hospitable men of his day who loved their "eleven o'clock and four," and his wealth enabled him to indulge in all the luxuries of his time. He was honest and upright, and the traditions of fifty years ago say that he paid his men off by carrying to his yard a bushel of silver dollars, from which they paid themselves. This also speaks well for the honesty of our old shi})-carpenters. Soon after his first marriage, he built the house afterward used as a tavern, and later occupied by Sum- ner Stetson, now the residence of Ex-Mayor Bacon, late of Chelsea, Mass. It overlooks the old ship-yard, being located in Pembroke, near North River Bridge, on the hill just oppo- site, and on the other side of the river from the residence of the late Horatio Bigelow. In his palmy days he conceived the idea of erecting an ice- house for his own use. Many will remember having heard of Jonathan Sampson's ice-house. It was a new thing in those parts, at that time, and when Mr. Sampson built it, about half way between his house and the river, it became an object of much interest to the town's people, and excited a good deal of com- ment. It was built " upon honor," and during the winter packed full of ice. Ice being such a nov^elty in the summer time in those days in the country, he decided to wait until the middle of June before opening it, and then to iuA'ite all the prominent peoi)le, and especially ship-carpenters in the region round about. Accordingly on the day appointed, they all met at the ice-house, where Mr. Sampson had large quantities of lemons, brandy and sugar, and all that was wanting was the ice and water to make the celel)ration complete. An axe was procured and the door cut down, but to the amazement of all it was dry and warm as a summer's day inside. Mr. Sampson was very much disturbed, and the wag of the town, Joshua Stetson, coming up and asking him if he could hire the house for his wife to dry her apples in, did not make him feel any more comfortable. Jonathan Sampson married for his first wife, Chloe, daughter 70 HISTORY OF VESSELS BUILT BY JONATHAN SAMSON. of Nathaniel Stetson. She was born in 1763. They had several children among whom were JNIelzar, Chloe, Timothy, John and Sarah. They have four grand-children now living, two in Medford, Alexander Sampson, who lives with liis son and daughter on High street, Duxbury, and Aurora Oldham Samp- son, married, lives in the old homestead and has several children. The stern posts of Jonathan Sampson's ships stood quite u\) to, and the staging was actualy over, the old road, which at this place Avas but 2i rods wide. The first vessel recorded as having been built by him was the ship "PEMBROOK," LS4 tons, for Nathaniel Cushing of Pemliroke. He also built, in 1801, the ship "BENJA]\IIN," 188 tons, of Boston, built at Hanover; and in 1802 the sch. "JANE," 98 tons, of Boston, built at Hanover. In 1803 it does not appear that he built any vessels ; but in 1804 he built the sch. "AMAZON," 107 tons, of Duxbury, built at Hanover, and in 1805 the ship "COR- DELIA," 252 tons, of Boston, built at Hanover. The two vessels named "MARTHA," were probably built by him. The first was the double decked bark "MARTHA," 255 tons, 14 feet draft, built in 1805, at Hanover, Mass. Oak, iron and copper fastened. Sheathed with yellow metal, Nov. 1867. In 1872 used as a whaler from New Bedford. Capt. Gartland. Afterwards sold and put under the Dutch flag. She was owned in 1875 ])y Van Loon & Son of Harlinger, and may ))e in exist- ence now. Her name was changed to ^^ Marnix" when she was put under the Dutch Flag. The other "MARTHA," built in 1809, was a London Packet from Nantucket. In 1815 was whaling, and in 1849 she sailed for San Francisco, where she was broken up in 1851, being one of the many old vessels bought by companies of men who fitted them up to go to Cali- fornia during the gold fever. Jonathan Sampson built his large ship in 1811. The ship "CALIBAN," 311 tons, of Boston, built at Hanover, Jonathan Samson, M. C. In 1812, Jonathan Sampson also built a ship sold to James Penniman, Boston. Tradition says that Jonathan Sampson had a vessel buildinoj at the Brid2:e when the Embaro^o Act became a law. He left a vess'.l half finished on the stocks wdiere it stood during: the embargo, sometime after which it was finished. This was probably the vessel he launched in 1815, the ship "SARAH," 307 tons, of Boston. She was lost on the Arklow Banks off the coast of Ireland on the nisjht of the 15th of Feb- ruary, 1818. He built in 1816 the sch. "FAIR LADY," 104 tons, of Kingston, built at Hanover. She M^as in the Atlantic, TUKNER, PALMER & MAGOUN. 71 whalins:, in 1822. Also, in 1816 he built tv:o schooners, sold to Peter Windsor. Later he built the " WELCOME RETURN." He prol)al)ly built few vessels after the war of 1812. The Embargo was a severe blow to hira as it was to all shipbuilders. His first wife died previous to 1821, and he married for his second a young lady named Pliggins, and removed to Medford, havino; lost much of his fortune. Jonathan Sampson was succeeded at this yard by the firm of Turner, Palmer & Magoun, who had built at the Brick Kiln Yard in Pembroke, separately, and Turner also built at the Eox Hill Yard, in So. Scituate, nowNorwell. They had as many as three vessels on the stocks at one time. Their yards covered all of the land on the water-front of the present French estate. About the time the bridge was built they were obliged to change the position of their vessels built at the old yard, as it was found im[)racticable to launch from the former position on account of a rock in the river, and they moved a few rods l>elow the present l)ridge, as hereinafter stated. This firm built mostly small vessels. Barker Turner, the senior member, is said to have built twenty-two vessels for Scituate Harbor alone. He was a musician in the old military company, 2nd Regiment, in 1815, and his descendants have been musicians ever since. Mr. Turner lived on the old Plymouth Road, towards the south from the bridge and at the corner of Brick Kiln Lane, in the house now occupied by his grandson, Charles Turner.* The Turners of Pembroke were nearly all shipbuilders or ship-car- penters in those days, and they so trained their children to the use of the broad axe and maul that to-day " the sight of a white oak tree that is large enough to make a shi})'s knee will make their eyes dilate and the nmscles in their arms and fingers con- tract with a desire to grasp the handle of a broad-axe and hew it into shape. No more ships will be built in the old yards, no more ship-carpenters will be seen wending their way in the early dawn to the old Brick Kiln Yard, through deep drifts of snow, even with the fences the entire length of Brick Kiln Lane. No more vessels loaded with the necessaries of life from ]\Iedford, and whose weekly arrival brought joy and consolation to the strong as Avell as to the weak, will navigate the beautiful and winding river. Never again will be heard the twang of the maul or the ring: of the blacksmith's hammer. All these * See Brick Kiln Yard, continued chapter. 72 JEDUTHAN PALMER. things have passed away, and the Sabbath stillness that pervades the locality is suggestive of a peaceful rest in a higher sphere."* Jeduthan Palmer,^ the second member of this firm was born in Hanover al)out 1786, on what was then known as the old Drink water Road (now Hanover street), near Randall's swamp, at the headwaters of the Beaver Dam Brook, in the house still standing in good repair and occupied by the family of the late Norman Chaml^erlain. His house was formerly the residence of Richard Fitzgerald, the first schoolmaster of the town, and later of Dr. Melzar Dwelley a noted physician in his time. The estate joined that of Rev. Benj. Bass, the first minister of the town, whose ordination was noticed in a paper at the time, as follows : " Hanover, Dec. 11, (1728). This Day was Ordained here the Rev. Mr. Benjamin Bass. The Rev. Mr. Gay of Hingham began with Prayer, and the Sermon on the Occasion was preach'd by the Rev. Mr. Sam'l Checkley of Boston, from Ezek. 3, 17, 18, 19. 'Son of man I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel : therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die, and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way to save his life : the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity • but his blood will I require at thine hand. Yet if thou warn the wicked and he turn not from his wickedness nor from his wicked way he shall die in his iniquity, but thou hast delivered thy soul.' The Rev. Mr. Ells of Scituate gave the charge, and the Rev. Mr. Lewis of Pembroke the Righthand of Fellowship."— 7%e Ntw England Weekly Journal. Jeduthan Palmer was the son of Ephraim and Desire Old- ham Palmer and a lineal descendent of John Palmer, a farmer, who settled in the Plymouth Colony in 1657, and whose resi- dence was near Church Hill in what is now Norwell. His descendants built ships at Fox Hill and on the Chittenden Yard. John Palmer, Sen., belonged in Boston and was sent to Scituate as a Stock Raiser, by the Massachusetts Court. J It was probably John Palmer, Jr. , that was on the council of Gov. Andros, 1686-90, and who was sent prisoner to England with the Governor about the latter year.§ Jeduthan was al)out eleven years of age when his father died, in 1797, in * Article on Ship-building by John Tower in the North River Piotieer. t For further account of Palmer see Brick Kiln Yard, continued chapter. X See Colony Records, about 1635. § See Drake's History of Boston. Jedutiian Palmer. TURNER, PALMER & MAGOUN. 73 Hanover, and a few years later he was sent to Pembroke to learn the ship-carpenter trade of Calvin Turner. After serving his time, and having learned his trade, he married his master's daughter, Miss Sally, sister of Luther Turner. They began house-keeping at her home at the Brick-kilns, but afterwards removed to the Lapham House (so called) at the corner of Brick-kiln Lane, (formerly occupied by Christopher Jones the pump-maker, a native of North Carolina, who has descendants in Rockland), and later to the Jonathan Sampson house now owned and occupied by A. J. Bacon, Esq., a former Mayor of Chelsea. At this time Mr. Palmer commenced building vessels on his own account, and for a number of years he built at the Brick-kiln Yard, and also at the Yard where the present Bridge stands and in its near vicinity. In 1827 he was paid $6.00 for four and one half days work at Keen's Wharf on Foster's ship, ** Lagoda." About 1830 he withdrew from the firm and pur- chased the house in So. Scituate where the late Roger Stetson resided, near the old Tom "Church's Hill Muster Grounds," and continued following the trade of ship-carpenter until he sold out, and removed "with his family to Waltham. Mr. Palmer had a family of nine children: 1. Charles, now living in Hanover. 2. Sally, who married a Mr. Brackett of Waltham, where she now resides. 3. Jeduthan, who went to sea and was knocked from the main boom and lost overboard. 4. Mary Ann, who married Gen. N. P. Banks, who was also Governor of Massachusetts, now residing with her family in Waltham, and whose daughter, Maud, is a distinguished actress. 5. Amanda, now dead. 6. Alice, who married Mr. Seaman, a portrait painter and lives, we believe, in New York. 7. Julia. 8. William, who we hear lives with his sister, Mrs. Banks. 9. Daniel, who lives in Waltham. Mr. Palmer died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Banks, in 1858, or '59, after a long and useful life. Charles, his oldest son, born in Pembroke, July 18, 1812, was educated as a ship-carpenter and worked in Pembroke, Hanover, South Boston and Medford. AVhen al)out twenty-five years of age his mind became mysteriously affected, incapacitating him for work, not so seriously impairing his faculties, however, but that he is still able, at the age of seventy-eight, to enjoy life. He is social in his disposition, gentlemanly in his manners, and is an appreciative lover of music. The third member of this firm, Enoch Magoun, was bom near High street, Pembroke, about 1792, and died there in 74 TUKNEK, I'AL^IER & MAGOUK. 1840. Pie was son of Joshua, who lived near him and died one year later. They were ))ot]i sliip-lniilders.* This firm built one vessel in 1S27, hns^ " LYSANDER," 110 tons, built by Turner, Palmer & jNIagoun for Isaiah and Ichabod Alden and Matthew Hall, Scituate. In 1828 they had three vessels on the stocks at one time. The one farthest down stream was the brig 'TjARCLAY," lOG tons, of Newburyport, afterwards of "Westport, INIass. , built tit Hanover, by Turner, Palmer & ]\Iagoun. The next above was sch. " WOLGA," 73 tons, length 60 feet, breadth 17 feet, depth 7 feet, built at Hanover. Owners : Jesse Dunliar, Sr. and Jr., John Beal, Peleg Jenkins, Alfred, Catharine and Henry Clapp, Robert Paul and Seth Webb, all of Scituate. Slie was commanded by Capt. Chandler Chipp. Charles Howard of Pembroke went one voyage to No. Carolina in her. A raft of timbers was placed on the other side of the river for her to strike against, thus retarding her headway when launched, it being the custom at some yards, to prevent vessels from getting stuck in the mud on the opposite bank. She was built very full, and Joshua Stetson went down and looked at her just before she was launched, then proceeded to the store at Haliover Four Corners, where were assembled a group of men, ]-)robal)ly ship carpenters. They asked him what he thought of the craft. He replied, " a very handsome vessel, gentlemen, l)ut an eighth of an inch too full on her lug water line."t She was finally lost at sea. The last of these A^essels, which were on the stocks at the same time this year, and the one nearest the bridge, was after- wards used as a North River Packet, and had one half as many owners as she was tons in size. This was the sloop "MAGNOLIA," 30 tons, built in 1828, length 50 feet, breadth 17 feet, depth 4 feet. She was owned l)y Asa Sherman, Jonathan Stetson, Stephen Rogers, Elisha and Daniel Phillips, and Chandler Sampson of Marshfield ; Aldcn and Luther Briggs, Horace Collamore and Calvin Shepard and Ben. Rogers, Pembroke ; Gushing O. Briggs, Elisha Foster, Anson Bobbins, William Copeland and Henry Briggs, Scituate ; and Aurora W. Oldham, of Hanover. This schooner Barker Turner built lying up and down river or parallel to it. At the old }'ard in * See Pembroke Yards. t The term " lug water line" was often used in speaking of a vessel when the water line came at a poiiit on her hull, which caused her to lug a good deal of water under her stern. BARKER TURNER. 75 Hanover, located where the present bridge now is, it happened just before the launching of this schooner, that Cyrus and Isaiah Alden Turner, (the latter commonly known as Alden Turner), then quite small, and both now living in Peml)roke, were play- ing in a boat on the river, and tinding a rock a few rods below the present middle pier of the bridge, Cyrus got out and stood on it, the Avater being nearly to the tops of his boots. His father, seeing him, called out to him to remain where he was, as the rock was not known to the builders. He did so, and it was found that in launching the vessel, she would probably strike on the rock, which was only two or three times her length from the ways, and in a line following the course she would take. They concluded, therefore, to launch her sideways, which was accordingly done, and she was taken through the channel, which was then on the north side of the rock. After this the vessels were built about six rods below the present bridge abutment. The work-house was in the rear of the yard, and for many years stood on the land owned by the late Dr. French, but was afterwards moved to Frank Arnold's, North Pembroke. Later still, the firm moved a little farther down the river, to the upper part of Elijah Barstow's yard, and just below the boat-house formerly owned by Clifford Kamsdell, now of Abington, and Eben C. Waterman, of Hanover. Vessels launched from this yard stuck in Sherman's meadows,, and often required bed-screws and other furniture to get them out. Sometime between 1829 and 1835 Palmer and Magoun with- drew from the firm, and the latter year Barker Turner built alone the sch. "PHILEXIA," 96 tons, of Boston, owned by John Peters, Charles Cole, Jr. and John C. Otis, of Scituate, which was built at Hanover. The next year he built two vessels, viz: 1836, sch. "QUEEN," 100 tons, of Boston, Barker Turner, M. C, built at Hanover, and the same year, 1836, sch. "GARNET," 66 tons, of Provincetown, Barker Turner, M. C, built at Hanover. The "Garnet," Avas built entirely of pitch pine, not one stick of oak being used in her. She was in the fisheries for many years, and was the last vessel built at this yard, and probably the last built by Barker Turner alone, although he built the sch. "Roanoke" in company with Joseph L. Bates and others at Barstow's Yard in 1842.* The * See Barstow's Yard. 76 BARKER TURNER. river is now so filled up with lilies and grass, which hold an accumulation of mud, that it is hard to realize that vessels of any size were launched into the stream at this point, but if it were thoroughly cleaned of all the mud to its good, hard, rocky bottom there would be to-day plenty of depth for vessels of equal size to lloat. CHAPTER V. MISCELLANEOUS YARDS IN PEMBROKE.— 1 793-1 803. NATHANIEL GUSHING, COL. GEORGE TURNER, THOMAS TURNER, ROBERT MAGOUN, JOB RANDALL, JR., EPHRAIM RANDALL, AND AARON SHERMAN. "\ 1 /"ITH the exception of the Brick-kilns, we have been unable * * to find the records of any vessels built in Pembroke pre- vious to the Revolution. It is impossible to tell which of the early vessels were built in Duxbury and which were built on what is now Pembroke territory. That the yards at Seabury Point and Job's Landing were used there is little doubt, and possibly Turner's yard ; but during the excitement of Revolu- tionary times, ship-building was probably like most other busi- ness, at a standstill. That the fever of excitement ran high in this vicinity is shown by the following, taken from the 3Icfssa~ chusetts Gazette and the Boston Weekly JVews Letter, March 2, 1775: " The following is an address to Gen. Gage, presented by the Selectmen of six towns in the County of Plymouth, occasioned by a number of soldiers being stationed at Marshfield, in said county, in time of peace : ' To His Excellency, Thomas Gage, Esq. : May it please your Excellency, we. His Majesty's loyal subjects. Selectmen of the several towns of Plymouth, Kingston, Duxborough, Pembroke, Hanover and Scituate, deeply affected with a sense of the increasing dangers and calamities which menace one of the most promising countries upon the earth with political excision, cannot but lament that, while we are endeavoring to preserve peace and maintain the authority of the law, at a period when the bands of government are relaxed by violent infractions on the Charter of the Province, our enemies are practising every infictious stratagem to seduce the people into acts of violence and outrage. We beg leave to address your Excellency on a sub- ject which excites our apprehensions extremely, and in the representations of facts, we promise to pay that sacred regard to truth, which, had our 78 rWMBEOKE DT TIXESt OF WAK. €taasej ci - , a were f'-rmed . " ''rtl- r ... It : ' ■■\t^ . . . ... ..<« • Xi^ i^/^M* MA T^tUeur* Y»»//i, ** 0^>cerz xwd P-rirzaxe^ iff ths PemOmke L.igi£ I SoScaers. — EarrJ" se- '- ^ - - - - ^ - _ ^ ------ -- —-_.=-- ■JBESt rt abrrr- - It ^t^ accepted by tii-e ILa^igs. of tiihe Coisafaaj. »^il^:?. "sdao said : ■W-^- fc_ir^T -L.-f- >ir-. yarzjzz=z - '—- ^ -r^z-iars ^Mliiies liTe. I3 wya'^^ -. - alcce cocnfined to ■' : : ^ eva- to be re-^xrded "wriidi ^r--" — fr:] v=-r=— ?~~- in e^ .: ■ -.-_._ -_';]*£ r*" r~~:" ■ "'Inere arsr":": . _- fif T-^ <=":- =~=- -^ .TTP rxHi hmtyiil- ^BPP -WTT 'rfcriiK CEliiS Itl "~ ' r='~'— — - 2-. . - _ - ..'."- DOC IS 2_5c cn.rr"i;r-2 r" ~-' _ . ; Tie c~rers and r ' - - r . k Circ-j::ri :>.ir. I: - . - to bill menn a? a fi-ee a^d TX-ited peocilie : . ..-::■ :.- destMve rise srerv— -f "~*^t ot scgs. oc^ 'TciI" . - r_^ lackers acri'tgrt : dieseacir:^ rise 5: j tn^ device toej ere--: T_ - _ --—rd. Iti?-?' - , : - - >-'"^^: zepirj.-T? of pe>re ; : . li tise r _ ..r recnro. we ■Till rsHv irocr- / : . . . - - . " " ... ..."..;. .i riC'Clv resolve : . ^ . . . . . 80 turner's siiir yard. Toast : " May the standard so ]iolitely given by the hulies, and so galhintly received by the Ensign, never be unfurled but in the defence of liberty." Miss Lucy Gushing may have lieen of the same family as Capt. Neheniiah Cushing, whose death, just pi'ior to the Rev- olution, is recorded in the MassacJiusetts ,Sjji/ or Tliomas' Boti- ton Journ(d, March 11 , 1775 : "Died, at Pembroke, Capt. Nehemiah Cushing." It will be seen from the above that I'embroKe was active during time of war, and her citizens were j^robably too patriotic not to lay by the broad-axe and plough. They gave their ser- vices, and in many instances their lives, to their country. Looking down the river from the North River Bridge, any time during the years 1799 to 1808, eleven ship-yards could have been seen filled with ship-carpenters, and with vessels in various stages of construction. First, on the right or Pembroke side was the Tamer Yard, located just below the ledge of rock extending east from the bridge, and called Rocky Reach. The Turners also built on the same side about one hundred feet below their u})i)er yard. Both yards were located on land now owned by Lorenzo Sherman. "Deane," of Scituate, and "Bar- ry," of Hanover, give the genealogy of the Turner family so fully that but little of value can be added. Col. Ezekiel Tur- ner was quite a prominent man of his day, and a notice of his death appears in Tlte BoMon Evening Post, JNIonday, Aug. 16, 1773: " Died, at Hanover, Col. Ezekiel Turner, agre 73." Caleb Turner, who died in 1767, was great-grandson of Thomas of Hingham, and a ship-builder; but whether he built here is not known. I am inclined to think that George Turner built at Job's Landing, before coming up the river, and that this yard was occupied by Nathaniel Cushing before it was by the Turners. The following is taken from The Boston Evening Post, July 20, 1772 : "Married, Nathan Cushing, Esq., of Scituate, Barrister-at-l.nw, to Miss Abigail Tilden, of Pembroke." It is doubtful whether this was the same Nathaniel Cushing. Col. George and Tliomas Turner liuilt in Pembroke about A.D. 1800. Thomas had a son Thomas, who had, among other TURNER GENEALOGY. 81 children, Thomas, now a wheelwright at Hanover Four Cor- ners, where he resides, and a daughter, now a widow, who resides near her brother. She married the late Dr. Ira Warren, who at one time was Principal of Hanover Academy, and was author of AYarren's "Family Ph3^'^ician," a most valuable book to families, and almost the Bible of many of the sea captains, by whom it is used the world over. The following is the gene- alojrv of a few of the Turners : Tlwmas Turner^ of Pembroke, married Joanna Phillips ; she died March 27, 1828. They had three children : Charles Tur- ner, born Sept. 8, 1766 ; married Ruth Thomas, of Pembroke, Jan. 7, 1789 ; died Aug. 9, 1804. Joanna Turner, born Dec. 20, 1771 ; married Seth Whitman, of Pembroke, May 5, 1806. Thomas Turner, Jr., born Dec. 2'!, 1782; married Deborah Stockbridge, of Hanover, May 8, 1811 ; he died July 8, 1829. She died Oct. 15, 1882. CHILDREN OF DR. CHARLES AND RUTH TURNER ; GRAND-CHILDREN OF THOMAS, SR. Charles Turner, Jr., born June 8, 1789. John Phillips Tur- ner, born Sept. 12, 1792. Pie resided in Coals Mouth, Kana- wha Co., West Virginia. CHILDREN OF SETH AND JOANNA WHITMAN. Charles Henry Whitman, liorn Oct. 3, 1807 ; married Mary Delano, of Duxbmy, Jan. 17, 1831. Ann Phillips Whitman, born May 20, 1809 ; married Elisha Delano, of Duxbury, Dec. 9, 1838; died June 9, 1841. Seth Wlrtraan, Jr., born Jan. 31, 1811; married Sarah C. Goodspeed, of Duxbury, March 2)i, 1839. Thomas Turner Whitman, born Feb. 16, 1813; married Rebecca Barker, of Pemln-oke, April 25, 1841. CHILDREN OF THOMAS AND DEBORAH TURNER. Thomas Turner, Jr., born Dec. 21, 1812 ; died Jan. 21, 1813. Ruth Stockbridge Turner, born Dec. 17, 1813; married Ira Warren, M.D. , of Boston, Nov. 27, 1834. Thomas Turner, Jr. (second of that name), born Nov. 22, 1815; married Susan Maria Thayer, of So. Boston, March 29, 1838. Jane Reed Turner, born Dec. 26, 1817; died Aug. 9, 1819. Charles Phillips Turner, born June 13. 1823. 82 seabury's point yard. CHILDREN OF CHARLES AND MARY WHITMAN; GREAT-GRAND- CHILDREN OF THOMAS, SR. George Turner Whitman, bora Nov. 28, 1831 ; died Aug. 8, 1833. Ann Eliza Whitman, born March 29, 1834. Seth Ber- nard l\niitman, born Dec. 17, 1839 ; died April 9, 1841. Henry Barker Whitman, born July 28, 1838. Peter Salmon Whit- man, born Nov. 23, 1842. CHILDREN OF THOMAS AND SUSAN MARIA THAYER TURNER. 1. Thomas, born at So. Boston, Feb. 1, 1841 ; died Feb. 7, 1841. 2. Susan J. , born Jan. 18, 1842 ; married J. W. Phinney, Oct. 30, 1868 ; died Dec. 8, 1882. They had children born in So. Boston : 1. Warren, born Aug. 20, 1869. 2. Arthur Thomas, born Nov. 6, 1873 ; died July 2, 1874. 3. Thomas, 2d, born July 17, 1844; died May 18, 1849. 4. Adelaide W., born Sept. 22, 1848, So. Boston; married J. F. Beale, Sept. 30, 1869, and now living in Brockton. They have one child, Lillian G. V. , born Aug. 12, 1870. 5. Charles P., born April 5, 1851; married Caroline I. Gushing, April 5, 1873 ; no children. 6. Mary G., born Dec. 16,1854; married J. D. Fiske, Oct. 5, 1881 ; no children. built in Pembroke alone, dTA^ f-y ^^^ in 1801, the Sch. "MAKY," ^ ^ j^*-^ f •- When spoken of as build- ing alone, it is understood that the builder had no one in com- pany with him, so far as has been ascertained, though of course he had a large force of men under him. Also, in 18^01, he built the Sch. " SPANKER," of 103 tons, for Jubal Harrington and Joseph Chapin, of Boston. He built here, in 1803, the Sch. " ELIZA," of Boston, 39 tons, owned by Alden Briggs, Thomas and George Turner, Mercy Mandall, and David Church, of Pembroke. This was the last vessel on record as having been built at this yard. The indentation, where the saw-pit was located, can be seen at the present time, and some of the dis- placed rocks that once formed a wharf. The next yard in Pembroke was located at Seabury's Point, about one " reach " and a half below, and on the opposite side to, the Third Herring Brook. This yard is now grown up to woods, ^vdlich are known as " Seabury's Woods." Robert Magoun is said to have built one vessel here, and Barry says that Col. « Tc H CO ^ I job's landing. 83 George and Thomas Turner built here at one time. Little is known of the Seaburys in this locality at the present day. The man from whom this Point received its name, was son of John Seabury, of Duxbury, who died before 1(362, leaving several daughters and two sons : 1. John, who went to Barbadoes. 2. Samuel, born Dec. 10, 1640. Samuel was a physician, and lived in Duxbury in 1662. He owned land at the Gurnet, Island Creek, North River, and at the Brick-kilns. He mar- ried, first, at Weymouth, Patience Kemp, Nov. 9, 1660 ; sec- ond, Martha Pabodie, April 4, 1677. He died Aug. 5, 1681, leaving several children, who have descendants living on Cape Cod. Next below, on the Pembroke side, we come to the "Brict:- kilns Yard," to the history of which two chapters are devoted. Nearly a mile below the Brick-kilns, on the same side, is Job's Landing, where the packets called for freight ; and ships were built here prior to 1800. The landing is said to have been named after Job Randall, Jr.* It joined the ship-yard, and both were located on land formerly owned by Ephraim Randall, and now owned and occupied by Anson Hatch. Below are accounts of a few of the vessels that were built here : George Turner and Aaron Sherman probably built here, in company with the Ran- dalls, at one time. There was built, in 1793, Sch. "BETSEY," 33 tons, owned by Ephraim Randall and David Church, of Pem- broke. Built at Pembroke, 1794, Sch. "RUTHY,"39 tons, owned by Ephraim Randall, Pembroke. 1796, Sch. "BET- SEY," 37 tons, owned by David Church, George Turner and Ephraim Randall, of Pembroke. Built at Pembroke, 1797, Sch. "ELIZA," 108 tons, of Pembroke; owned by Elisha Ford, of Marshfield. Also, in 1797, Sch. "POLLY," 23 tons, of Pembroke ; owned by Benj. Thomas, Samuel and John Jones, and Aaron Sherman, of Marshfield, shipwrio^ht, and in 1799, Sch. "EVELINA," 109 tons, of Boston, afterward of Sandwich ; owned at one time by Ephraim Randall and Joseph Hunt, of Pembroke, and others. While the accounts of the above yards are far from complete, they are sufficient to prove to the reader that ship-building was carried on to a consideral)le extent daring the a])ove years ; and because the records of but few vessels have been found, it must not be inferred that only a few were built, for such is probably wot the fact. * See Chittenden Yard. CHAPTER VI. SMITH YARD. 1 792-1819. (afterwards EELLS' & BARSTOW'S YARD.) COL. JOHN BAILEY, DEA. ISAAC PERRY, JOSIAH SMITH, ALBERT SMITH, THOMAS SMITH, MILLER SMITH, BENJAMIN BASS, JR., WILLIAM DELANO, BEZAL EELLS, EDWARD EELLS, SAMUEL EELLS. npHE Smiths built in the ship yard previously occupied by ■*■ Col. Juo. Bailey, back of the present residence of Edmund Q. Sylvester. This land was owned by David Stock- bridge, and he was paid rent at a rate per ton for the vessels built there. After the Smiths the Eells l)uilt here, and they were succeeded by the Barstows who moved here from their upper yard in 1817.* The Smiths also occupied a yard further "up river," the upper part of which yard had been used by Dea. Isaac Perry, and was then called Paige's yard. It was next the old Barstow & Eells yard at the " Two Oaks,'* and was located a little way above said yard. They also occupied the Dea. Isaac Perry yard between their lower yard and the "Two Oaks." Here the Smiths built their smaller vessels and used these yards when they were build- ing more vessels than they could accommodate at their lower yard. In 1819 J«siah Smith and Edward and Samuel Eells in company built a ship which was probably built here, as the Barstows then had possession of the lower yard. There seems to be no account of any particular vessels built by Dea. Isaac Perry, spoken of above, but he built here late in 1700, or until the yard was occupied by the Smiths, he * See Chapter on Barstow's Yard. EARLY SHIPBUILDERS ON THE SMITH YARD. 85 having previously occupied the small yard next below the Clarks, also located on the land of the late J. O. French, ]\I.D. He was son of Amos, grandson of AVilliam, and great- grandson of Thomas Perry, who appeared in Scituate before l(j47. Dea. Isaac was born Sept. 5, 173G, and died August 16, 1825, aged 89. He married Jemima Farrow and lived near the corner of Htmover street, on the site where the late Josiah AVinslow lived, now Mr. Bower's residence. Of his children : 1. Priscilla, married Elijah Packard in 1803. 2 and 3. Timothy and Isaac, went to St. Johns, X. B. 4. Betsey, married a Smith. 5. Ruth, w^ent to Maine. Isaac descended from the same common ancestor as E. Y. Perry, Esq., of So. Hanover. Dea. Isaac Perry built one vessel at the Kingman yard.* The oakum used at these yards was pre})ared at the alms-house ; the iron work was furnished by Robert and Joseph Eells. Hon. Albert Smith, Josiah Smith, Thomas and Millar Smith were brothers, sons of Dea. Josiah, grandsons of Rev. Thomas Smith of Pembroke, and great-grandsons of Joseph of Yar- mouth, Mass. Albert timith] took no personal part in the building of the vessels on North River, though he owned and sailed many of them, furnishing a part of the capital, and being a member of the firm with his brother Josiah. Capt. Albert was also proprietor of a store at "Hanover Four Corners." There were many men of superior intelligence at work on the yards in those days, who brought up profound questions for aroument, from which the younofermen gained much knowledge. Col. Samuel Tolman, Michael Ford, Elisha Bass, Col. John B. Barstow, Capt. Ichabod Thomas, William Delano and the Smiths M'ere among the number. Capt. Albert Smith was born March 22, 1703, married Anne L. daughter of Capt. Robert L. Eells, August 23, 1787. He settled in Hanover, in the old mansion house on Broadway, afterwards the home of the late Martin Stetson, and now owned by Daniel E. Damon, Esq. He died May 28, 1823, and his widow, who was born July 18, 1765, died May 7, 1835. They had children: 1. Anne L., born Oct. 4, 1788. 2. Joseph, born March 30, 1790. 3. Albert, born Jan. 3, 1793. 4. Mary, born Oct. 21, 1795. 5. John, born Dec. 10, 1797, died Sept. 5, 1813. 6. Thomas M., born August 15, 1799, died * See Miscellaneous Yards, Hanover, about 1800. t See Kurd's History of Plymouth Co., page 401. 86 SMITH GENEALOGY. Jan., 1803. 7. Elizabeth, l)orn March 20, 1801. 8. Sarah B., born Nov. 23, 1802, died j-ouns;. 9. Sarah B., born Jan. 7, 1808. Anne L., first child of Albert Sr., married Nathaniel Crooker, March 9, 1808. She died in 1846, he died Jan., 1847. No children are now living, but they have one grandchild in New York state, and one or two in the West. Rear Admiral Joseph Smith, second child of Albert, Sr., married Harriet Bryant of Maine. She died 1855, aged 58. He died March 17, 1879, in his 89th year. They had four children, two daughters, one of whom died in infancy, the other, Anna, is unmarried and resides in AVashington. Both sons were naval officers. Albert died in Boston. Joseph's life was sacrificed for his country while in command of the " Congress," when she was sunk by the "Merrimac.''* Albert, Jr., third child of Albert, Sr. , married Eoxa Shat- tuck, June 24, 1814. He died May 29, 1867, aged 74 years, and his wife a few years later. They had two daughters, both now living. Annie Lenthal, who married Horatio Bigelow of Boston, and Adeline, who married Dr. Whelan of the Navy, Horatio Bigelow died in Boston, Oct. 25, 1888. His widow and the following children survive him. 1. Horatio Ripley, a physician, who married Sarah Z. Batten, at Baltimore, and resided in Washington, D. C, until recently, when he went abroad. 2. Adeline A. 3. Albert S., who was married at Grace Church, Baltimore, Maryland, Nov. 4, 1875, to Mary De Ford of Baltimore, and they have three sons born as follows; Horatio, Jan. 11, 1877; William De Ford, Jan. 29, 1878; Albert Francis, Oct. 4, 1880. 4. Joseph S., was married at Trinity Church, Boston, in April, 1877, to Mary Cleveland Bryant, of Boston. The births of his children are as follows: Joseph Smith, Feb. 16, 1878; Henry Bryant, Oci . 3, 1879 ; Arthur George, Dec, 1881 ; Cleveland, March, 1883 ; Mary Cleveland, Nov. 29, 1884. 5. Annie S., married Oct. 28, 1884, at the Church of the Advent, Boston, Thomas Nelson of Marshfield. ]\Iary, fourth child of Albert Sr., married Capt. David Whittier of Belfast, Me., Sept. 27, 1815. She died July 19, 1848. He died Oct. 8, 1849. They had two daughters, 1. * See Kurd's History of Plymouth Co. SMITH GENEALOGY. 87 Marianna, married Mr. Madigan of Houlton, Me., since de- ceased. She still resides at Houlton and has several children, and, 2, Harriet, wU'^ ' unmarried, and resides in Washington. Elizabeth, seventh child of Albert, Sr., married Samuel Salinond of Hanover, July 20, 1820. He died May 25, 1859, aged 70 years, 10 months.* She is still living at the old home- stead on AVashington street in her 89tli year. They have had two sons and two daughters. The oldest son, Robert, a promising youth, died Oct. 18, 1845, aged 18 years. The other son died in infancy. Maiy, the eldest daughter, married E. Q. Sylves- ter, and died leaving three children. Eliza the second daughter, afterwards married E. Q. Sylvester. | Sarah B., ninth child of Albert, Sr. , married Joseph Eells, Jr., ]\Iarcli 11, 1829. He died in the West, probably in Arkansas, where she died, April, 1889. They had a family of eight children who reside in the West and South. builder, brother of Albert, Sr., was born jNIarch 2, 1707, mar- ried 1st, A'^ab- by, daughter of Capt. Roliert Lenthall Eells, March 13, 1794. She died Aug. 3, 1812; married 2nd, Jane, daughter of Jeremiah Smith, and died in Hanover, April, 24, 1842, aged 75. Jane, his wife, died 1850. He had children. 1. Nabby E., born Aug. 26,1795, married Theo. Whitney, of Niagara, N.Y., and died in 1870, no children. 2. Lucy W., b. Nov. 12, 1790. (For descendants of Lucy, see account at end of this family.) 3. Ruth C, b. Jan. 2, 1798 ; d. 1874, unmarried. 4. Elizabeth B., b. May 20, 1799. (For account of Elizabeth, see end of Lucy's family.) 5. Mary L., b. Oct. 20, 1801 ; mar. Edward E. Nash, of Medford, :\rass., and d. in Arkansas, leaving children and grandchildren. 6. Josiah Miller, b. Feb. 12, 1803 ; mar., 1st, Frances Waterman , of Scituate ; she d. April 12, 1X54, aged 46; 2nd, Charlotte AYaterman Baile}', a widow, tuid sister of his first wife ; no children ^^A--^^iyt/yy(j * See continued chapter on North River. t See chapter ou Bridge Yard 88 SMITH GENEALOGY. Lucy in, second child of Josiah. the builder. m;ir. in 1819, "William Little Loving, M. D., of Duxburv. He was a grad- uate of Harvard College, and a lineal de^oendant, in the tifth generation, on his mothers side, of John and Priseilla Aldeu. Their children were : 1. Lucy Williams, b. April 20, 1820 ; mar. in the Episcopal Church in Hanover, Eev. Dr. Samuel Crothers Logan, of Indiana, Aug. 17, 1852. He was a Pres- byterian, a graduate of Princeton, and was settled in Constan- tine, Mich., in Cincinnati, O., and Valparaiso, Lid. For twenty-one years he has been pastor of the First Preslnterian Church of Scranton, Pa. They have had live children ; two have died, and three are now living in Scranton, viz. : Harry Vannuys. a physician, b. !May 21. 18,i3 : Arthur Collin, a law- yer, b. Oct. 23, 1854 ; and Lillie, who mar. Judge Henry A. Knapp. 2. Benjamix "Williams, b. Oct. 14, 1821 ; who was in the Union Xavy during the Rebellion, later in the Revenue Marine Senice, and now on the retired list. In 18(i(>, he mar. Xellie Cahoun, of Morrisiana, X. Y., and they have had five children. The following are now living : Benjamin Williams, Jr., b. May 10, 1867 ; John Alden, b." March *G, 18(^!> ; Xano Jennie Gladden, b. April 17, 1879. 3. Makia Kittredge, b. Feb. 23, 1823; mar., in 1850, James "W. Carswell. a Georgia planter, who d. in December, 1885. She resides in Baiton, Ga., and has had four children : Lucy, d. 1878, aged 27 : "William, d. 1878, aged 25; Lillie, mar. a merchant ; ^Mnry, mar. a physician. The above three chiklren of Dr. William L. and Lucy Loring were b. in the old Loriiig homestead, in West Duxburv. The remaining four children were b. in Springfield. 4. Mary Lexthall, b. 1825 ; d. aged 11 months. 5. Bailey Hall, b. Dec. 12, 1827 ; went to California, where he was cap- tain in the Home Guard during the war, and d. unmarried at Sierra, Cal., Feb. 14. 1874. 6. Eliza, b, Aug. 5, 1832 ; mar. Jan. 23, 1S73, Rev. Heiwey Logan Vannuys, of Goshen, Ind. ; no children living. 7. Sophia Bradford, b. April 14, 1836. Over two years of her life have been spent in Beirout, Syria, where she taught in a young ladies' seminary. She mar. Sept. 24, 1885, "Rev. Dr. William M. Taylor; no children. EJizaheth £., fourth child of Josiah, the l)uilder, mar. Am- brose Packard, of Niagara, X. Y. ; both now dead. They had children : Ambrose, d.. leaving a widow but no children ; Jo- siah, mar., and lives in Providence, R. I., where he has several children; Rhoda, mar. a Dr. Palmer, of Canada; Ralph, mar., and lives in Brooklyn, X. Y. & «* IX «*\^ _;; -2 1' i- t:-^ a, t^ OO-M c => JS o '^^ t^ '^ W :h2 0) vj s s <> lo tS S >- J •dcQdOpq'fildWt-ifcdi-JS M THE SMITH SHIP YARD. 89 Caj)f. Thomas Smith was b. March 22, 1775. He lived in Pembroke, but Imilt in Hanover, and sailed many of the ves- sels l)uilt by himself and brothers. He d. unmarried, in Xova Scotia. JSIUJer Smith (or ^Nlilliar, as it was sometimes written) was b. Feb. 9, 1782. He built alone and in company with his brothers, and was also captain of some of the vessels. He was washed overboard at sea, and lost, near the "Three Sand Hills," on the coast of Noi-th Carolina. He mar. Jane, dau. of David Stockbridoe, Esq., and they had one dau., Jane S., who mar. Gen. A. W. Oldham, of Pembroke, Mass. The Sch. "Hazard," under Capt. Albert Smith, who sailed for Nehemiah Somes, Eben Wales, and Moses and Aaron Davis, was, in 1789, at Cape Francois (probably Old Cape Francis), on the Island of Hispaniola, now Santo Domingo. The first vessel there is any account of as having been built by the Smiths, was in 1792, Brig't'n "APOLLO," 139 tons, of Bos- ton. This vessel was commanded by Capt. Albert Smith, and- broken up at the Vineyard about 1825. The next record found is in a letter from the Smiths, dated Hanover, INIarch 10, 1795. They set forth the "contract of a vessel oi 115 tons" which they were Iniilding, as follows : " Dimensions, 57 feet 4J inches keel ; 10 feet hold ; 22 feet beam. To be built of good, sound, white oak timber, and planked. * * * Cal- culated to sail fast and carry a good burthen ; to finish the upper work as may best suit the owners ; to be completed the first day of July next." In 1796, Albert Smith built a hrig for Nehemiah Somes, and in 1797 was built the ship "EOMULUS," 2(34 tons, of Boston; owned by Albert Smith, Hanover ; Josiah Smith, builder. This was probably tlie same " Romulus " which was wrecked and con- demned at Honolulu, H. I., 1849, then fifty-two years old. The Sch. "RESOLUTION" was built by the Smiths about this time. Also, the "DILIGENCE" was probably built before 1799. Half her cost, as per bill, was £1406. Josiah built for Albert Smith, in 1799, the ship "AURORA," 244 tons. The ship-carpenters were : Tilden Crooker,* who, with his boys, worked on a sloop in the same 3'ard in 1802 ; Elijah Randall, who lived near Randall's Swamp, in HanoA^er, and others. Two * See Bridge Yards. 90 THE SMITH SHIP YARD. compasses for the " Aurora " cost £1 4s. The anchors cost, at Reuben Curtis' fors^e, £81. He also built another vessel the same year, 1799, the ship "CICERO," 227 tons. Elisha Cur- tis, who calked her, lived on the Recompense Tiffany place. Those who worked on her otherwise were : Belcher Clark, Wil- liam Copeland, Benj. Bass, Jr., Elijah Sylvester, Benj. Dwel- ley, Charles Sprague, who lived in the house now occupied by Thomas Hunt, So. Scituate, Isaac Perr}', Michael Ford, INIi- chael Stetson, Elijah Randall, Reuben Curtis. Half the ship " Cicero" was sold for £1603 17s. 6d., to Capt. Thomas Smith. The third vessel they built this year, 1799, was the ship "BP^T- SEY." Elijah Randall and the other men worked on her. Durino; the next year, 1800, they built two vessels, and started a third, a schooner. The first was the ship "DEDALUS." The ship-carpenters were : Benj. Bass, Jr., Elijah Sylvester, Benj. Dwelley, and Isaac Perr}^, who also made the rudder for £2 8s. Elijah Randall and Timothy Robbins, who also worked on a schooner and a gundalow in this yard the same year, and others. Also in 1800, the ship " NEPTUNE," of 280 tons, for New York parties ; Josiah Smith , builder. Michael Stetson did the joiner work, and also on a brig of 93 tons in 1801. The anchors came from Reuben Curtis' forge ; weighed 2706 pounds, and cost over £89. In 1824, the "Neptune" hailed from New London, and was in the South Seas, whaling ; in 1850, in the Indian and Northern Pacific Oceans, and in 1857 was sold and broken up at the Sandwich Islands. 1801 was the " Red Letter" year for these yards. During this year, six vessels were launched from the two Smith yards, all of good size. Josiah Smith was the builder of four, and master carpenter of the other two. No other firm, and no yard on the river except the Wanton Yard, can show a record equal to this ; and to see the quiet spot, at the present writing, it is hard to realize that six large vessels were launched l)y one firm dur- ing one year, besides many others, all from the shores of Han- over, below the bridge, but such is the fact. The first vessel launched here this year, w\as built by Josiah Smith for his brother Albert. This was the ship "HANOVER," 281 tons. Ship-carpenters employed on this vessel were Charles Sprague , Michael Ford, Josiah Smith, Jr., Reuben Curtis, who also fur- nished anchors for the "Hanover" for £93 6s. Robert and Joseph Eells did the iron work for $973.26. In January, 1804, the ship "Hanover," then under Capt. Barney, was at Sumatra. Josiah Smith built, for his brother Albert of Hanover, and WM. OR "bill" corlew. 91 Thomas of Pembroke, and others, in 1801, the ship "GAR- LAND," 280 tons. Ship-carpenters employed on this vessel were Jabez Witherell, Benjamin Dwelley, Turner Stetson (who also worked on a brig and ship previously on this yard, and was paid £3, 14s. for getting one of these vessels over the shoals), Nath. Stetson, father of Harrison Stetson, who now lives on S])ring street, in Hanover ; Isaac Bowen Barker, a Pembroke Quaker, who did planking on a brig and ship |n"e- viously ; Isaac Cox, Peml)roke ; Enos Palmer, of Church Hill ; Reuben Cuilis, Elijah Sylvester, who worked planking on many of the vessels, and helped to get them down river; Job Hall, Abner ]\Iagoun ; also Wm. Corlew, or Bill Corlew, as he was familiarly known, who was a descendant of Edward, who came from the north of England prior to 1730, and was wrecked on the beach near the mouth of North River. Many were lost, but Edward was among the saved. William was a good-hearted fellow, but finally succumbed from too much indulgence in the "ardent," a result too common even at this day. Ephraim Stet- son kept a grog-shop, where the drug-store now is, at the Four Corners. That corner was called, by the temperance people, " Stetson's Shoals." The following letter, on the death of Bill Corlew, written by Squire Wood to an old ship-builder, ex- plains itself: " Tuesday Morning, Nine O'clock. Dear Sir : — I hasten to inform you of the melancholy tidings just received, of the loss of the ' Bill Corlew,' an old and success- ful steamer of 250-horse power. The ' Bill Corlew ' has had her hull frequently strained and damaged, wdiile beating in the fog oft' and on ' Stetson's Rocks,' and though she has long successfully navigated herself, yet repeated disasters had so enfeebled her that her boiler failed about eight o'clock this morning, and she immediately sank, beyond soundings, of course, a total loss. The Distilleries of New England, by whom the 'Bill Corlew' was wholly owned, will shortly have a meeting to settle her concerns, and probably pur- chase or charter one or more steamers to supply her place. It is not expected that it will be so difhcult as it has been to supply steamers on this dangerous navigation, as it is reported that the ' Massachu- setts Charitable Society ' intend furnishing several safety barges to ply off' ' Stetson's Rocks,' to relieve those who may be wrecked thereon, and save them from the bottomless gulf that beats upon this dangerous place. And it is further currently reported that some humane members of the ' Hanover Temperance Societv,' residing on the borders of said Rocks, are now daily acquainting themselves with this navigation, not to supply the place of the ' Bill Corlew,' but with the laudable design, no doubt, of administering relief to 92 BENJ. BASS, SHIPBUILDER. those unfortunate souls who are here obliged to sacrifice their com- forts and their lives. Any further information shall be promptly communicated. Yours, &c., Spy. P. S. — The ' Bill Corlew' was launched in Scituate about the year 1770; originally built on the low-pressure principle, but altered to that of the high-pressure about twenty-five years since, since which, by the daring inclination of her commander, she has always borne the highest steam. It is not known whether any passengers were on board at the time her boiler failed ; if so, they must have made a hasty, though reluctant retreat. All property on board was inevita- bly lost, and not a wreck is left behind." He left no descendants. The next vessels built and launched in 1801 were the ship " FAME " and the brig " FAME." These two vessels were on the stocks at the same time. Amonsj the ship-carpentei-s employed were Benj. Dwelley, uncle to Capt. JS^athan Dwelley, and great-uncle to Robert E. Dwelley, of Hanover; Nathaniel Stetson, Enos Palmer, Job Hall, Elisha Curtis, Jr., and Jabez Witherell. Josiah and Albert Smith built these vessels toaether. The same year they launched the Brig't'n "CAMILLA," 108 tons, for Stephen Gorham, Boston. The ship-carpenters were Benj Bass, Enos Palmer, and others. Josiah Smith, Jr., builder. The sixth and last vessel launched in 1801 was the ship " MARY," 211 tons, of Boston. Built for William H. Borman, Josiah Smith, Jr., builder. Benj. Bass and the carpenters who were employed upon the other vessels, worked on, or furnished material for, the "Mary." The next year, the Smiths built three vessels : The sloop " HECTOR," 61 tons, built in 1802 by Josiah and Albert Smith; and the same year, 1802, the sloop "BETSEY," 65 tons, l)uilt by Josiah Smith, and sold to Plymouth ; afterward owned by Samuel and Abel Lunt, of Newburyport. This was pr(jl>ably the same " Betsey " which is recorded at the Boston Custom House as having been " taken by the French, papers detained, and vessel destroyed." The ship " PEARL " was built in 1802, by Josiah Smith, Jr., and Benjamin Bass, Jr., for Capt. Albert Smith. Benjamin Bass, who built here, in company with Josiah Smith, was the son of the Rev. Benjamin Bass, first pastor of the First Church in Hanover. He lived on Broadway, near the corner of Spring street, in the house later occupied by his son Elisha, and where Charles Dyer now resides. Benj. Bass has descendants living in Rockland. VfM. DELANO AT SMITH'S YARD. 93 In 1803 was built the ship " AIMERICA," 280 tons, of Balti- more, by Josiah Smith, master carpenter ; Miller Smith, master ; Albert and IMiller Smith, owners ; and, in 1804, the ship " MERCHANT," 263 tons, of Boston ; Josiah Smith, master carpenter. In 1804-5, Milliar Smith built a s/up for Capt. Albert Smith. There was also built here in 1805, the ship " INTREPID," 282 tons, of Plymouth ; Josiah Smith, master carpenter; owned by Thomas Smith, Pembroke, and All)ert Smith, Hanover. They built two vessels in 180(5 : The ship "LYDIA," 280 tons, of New Bedford, Josiah Smith, master carpenter; and their second, ship "NEPTUNE," 278 tons, of Boston ; owners, Thomas Smith and others ; Josiah Smith, mas- ter carpenter. This " Neptune " was lost at sea in 1807. In 1807, Thomas Smith built, in Hanover, the ship "UNION," 231 tons. Owners, Albert Smith, Hanover; Thomas Smith, Pembroke ; Milliar Smith, Scituate, and others. The same year,, Josiah built the Sch. "PILGRIM," 62 tons, which he sold, in 1809, to Albert Smith and Edward Eells. After the "Pil- grim," the Smiths did not build any vessels alone, but were interested, especially Josiah, in the vessels built by the Eells for several years ; and in 1810, Josiah Smith and Edward Eells built a schooner in company. In 1811, WiUiam Delano* built a large ship in Hanover, and probably at this yard, viz. : ship "LADY GALLATIN," 358 tons, of Hanover, William Delano, master carpenter ; Miller Smith, master. It took a great deal of liquor, in those days, to build a vessel, which was charged to the vessels as was the material used in buildins- them. This was done on all the yards. The following are copies of two charges from an old account book : "To 78 gallons West India Rum, drunk in the summer of 1811, while at work on vessel ***** *^ $104.' In 1813, " To 80 gallons Gin and Rum, from March 22nd to August 25th, at 9s., $120." Later, the use of liquors was dis- continued in the yards. In 1789, the Sch "REVENUE," 27 tons, was built in Han- over, and owned by Robert and Barzilla Eales, Hanover; An- thony Waterman, Sr. and Jr., Scituate. It was afterward sold to Beverly. This was probably built by " Bezal " Eells, as they used to call him, who was a shipwright,! but at what yard he * See Wanton Yard Chapter, Scituate. t See Barstow Yard Chapter, for account of the Eellses, f- ■94 EDWARD AND SAMUEL EELLS. built is not known. Edward and Samuel Eells succeeded to the Smith Yard about 1809-10. (Samuel Eells was Adjutant of the First Brioade, Fifth Division, Second Reiriment, Scituate Militia, 1813.)" They built the Sch. " MERT," 131 tons, at Hanover ; owners, Albert and ]\Iilliar Smith and Edward Eells ; and the ship "SAMUEL," 310 tons; owners, Josiah Smith, Edward and Samuel Eells, after wdiom it was prolnibly named. In 1811, they commenced building a very large vessel, which, owing no doubt to results of the destructive Embargo Act, was not finished until 1815, when it was sold to Mr. Marcy. This was the ship " EDWARD," built in 1815, 346 tons, two decks and three masts, length, 102 feet, breadth, 27 feet, depth, 18 feet; owners, Miller Smith, who was captain of her; Edward Eells, the master carpenter, and Samuel Eells, Hanover. In 1816, they built a hrigy which was their last, excepting the ship spoken of in the beginning of this chapter. The Eells were, In 1817, succeeded by the Barstows, as stated elsewhere. " Poets " were not uncommon among the ship-builders on North River, and the Smith Yard had one who put in rhyme many of the occurrences of his time. A party of prominent ship-builders, and men interested in shipping, went to Scituate Harl)or, on horseback, intending to go lobstering, an excursion frequently taken in those days. So eventful was their journey that the following description of it was written, which many of the older people " know by heart " : Come now, my friends, and pray attend, While I to you relate What I've been told. I'll now unfold Of ****** and his mate. It happened so, not long ago, There sailed a Yankee fleet ; While on their route, not passage out, They met with a defeat. From Corners Four, their course they bore. With a light and pleasant gale ; Their course they shaped for Scituate, While under easy sail. While on this tour, six knots an hour They made by calculation. For 'twas but five when they arrived At their point of destination. ^£^^^^^^ <^^^^ LOBSTEU EXCURSION TO SCITUATE HARBOR. 95 They moored their ship, and lowered their peak, And hoisted out their barge ; And then did they, without delay, Their cargo soon discharge. This being done, they then begun To be a little merrie ; And round did pass the social glass. While all hands sung out " Steady." Then quickly they got under way, And gave the sailing cheer ; The wind was light, and just at night They all for home did steer. But soon came on a direful storm, Which shattered much their fleet ; And e're next day were cast away. And foundered in the street. The Frigate * * * * was driven on The little smelt brook shoal ; And then she bilged, and quickly filled, And lost was every soul. The ship astern could now discern Their sad and doleful fate ; And then to save did dangers brave. But, ah ! it was too late. The head ship wore, and down she bore, Under a press of sail. To give relief; but with much grief She saw her efforts fail. Then, with great speed, she did proceed To examine all around ; And of her crew, she found but two Lie prostrate on the ground. One of them fast, with a lobster gaft Directly through his leg : So bruised was he, no doubt could be, — They took him up for dead. The other one had now begun To call for some relief; For, searching round, they quickly found He'd loosened all his teeth. 96 LOBSTER EXCl i;8IOX TO 8CITUATE HARBOR. Nor was tliat all, for in his fall, In tr\ing to get by. On that stone bed he hit his head, Which gave him one black eve. No time to waste, but in great haste The doctor thev did call ; He examined well their wounds, to tell If he could cure them all. " Be not afraid," to them he said, " Your wounds I soon shall cure ; Now go to bed, and grease your head, — From harm you are secure." And now 'tis passed, and they at last Are likely to recover ; The doctor savs, in thirty days They both may take another. CHAPTER VII. BARSTOW'S "TWO OAKS," AND LOWER YARDS. 1760 — 1846. THOMAS BAESTOW, CAPT. ROBERT LENTHAL EELLS, NATHANIEL BARSTOW, THOMAS BARSTOW, JR., COL. JOHN B. BARSTOW, DEA. ELIJAH BARSTOW, ABNER STETSON, MICHAEL FORD, JR., ISRAEL H. SHERMAN, COL. JOHN BAILEY, CAPT. ELIJAH BAR- STOW. JR., BARKER TURNER, JOSEPH S. BATES. THOMAS BARSTOW and Capt. Robert Lenthal Eells built at the yard marked, until within comparatively a fewyear^, by two gigantic white oaks, at least three centuries old. The yard was located between Isaac Perry's and Paige's yards. It was occupied by Messrs. Barstow & Eells for about thirty years, when they were succeeded by Mr. Barstow's sons. Thomas Bavstoio was son of Benjamin and grandson of William. (See Bridge Yard.) He was born Feb. 27, 1732, and died in 1797. He lived in Norwell, near Palmer's Bridge, by the Third Her- ring Brook, where now resides his grandson, Capt. Elijah Bar- stow. During the Revolution he l)uilt several small })rivateers, some of which were for Mr. Derby, of Salem. It was his brother James who built at the old yard by the Bridge. His brother Gideon, also his nephews, Gideon, Wilson, Benjamin, Elias, and his grand-nephews, James, Calvin, Wilson, and Na- than H., were ship-])uilders in Mattapoisett, where many of their descendants now live. He was great-grandfather of Benja- min B. and Herbert Torrey, of Hanover. In 1792, Joshua Barstow, proprietor of Barstow's Forge (see Chapter I.), had a vessel built by his cousins, and named it after his Forge. 1792. Sip., afterward Sch., " NEW FORGE,'' 98 BAR8TOW & EELLS. 37 tons, of Hingham ; owners, Geo. Turner, Nathl. Cashing, Thos. Hubbard, Joshua Barstow, and others. She was built in Hanover. The second meml)or of the firm, Caj^t. Robert Leu- tlial EeVlx^ was a direct descendant of John, through Samuel, and Nathaniel and Samuel. John was among the early settlers of Dorchester. His son Samuel commanded a garrison at Dart- mouth, Mass., in King Philip's War, 167(), and married Anna, daughter of the Rev. Robert Lenthal, for whom Ca})t. Robert was named. Nathaniel, son of Samuel, a graduate of Harvard, 1699, was a minister over the Second Church in Scituate, and married Hannah North, of Hingham, aunt of Frederick, Lord North (afterward Prime jNIinister of George III.). Samuel, son of Nathaniel, was also a minister, and married Hannah, great-granddaughter of Rev. William Witherell, of Scituate.* Capt. Robert Lenthal Eells lived on the site now occupied by the residence of his great-grandson, Robert E. Dwelley, at Han- over Four Corners. During his partnership with Thomas Bar- stow, he superintended the iron work of the vessels, and ]\Ir. Barstow the wood work. Capt. Eells' blacksmith shop stood on one of Hanover's Four Corners, near his residence, and op- posite the hotel property. The black earth in the field now marks the si)ot. Capt. Eells also did the iron work of vessels built at many of the other yards. His sons Robert and Joseph succeeded him in the iron or blacksmith trade. His sons Ed- ward and Samuel w^ere shipwrights, and built at North River (see Smith Yards) ; also his nephew, Bezal, w^ho died in INIaine. Ca})t. Robert Lenthal Eells was one of the wealthiest citizens of his day. Barry says, " He was an extensive landholder, a man whose chief greatness consisted in the greatness of his soul; of unbounded hospitality, charitable, patriotic; an able oflScer in the war of the Revolution, who opened his doors cheerfully to all who were engaged in that struggle, and whose daughters evinced their zeal for lil)erty in ministering to the wants of the soldiers, and in manufacturing cartridges for the use of the companies enrolled in the town." His daughter Bet- sey married Col. John B. Barstow, and his daughter Lucy mar- ried Dea. Elijah Barstow, who, with his brother. Col. John, succeeded to the business at this yard. In other words, two sisters married two brothers, so their descendants are doubly related to this firm. The late John P. Eells, whose widow now • For a complete a<5count of the genealogy of the Eells family, see Barry's His- tory of Hanover. BARSTOW AND EELLS GENEALOGY. 99 resides at Hanover Four.Corners, with her daughter Harriet L., was a grandson of Capt. Robert and son of Samuel, who built on the Smith Yard. John Pierce Eells was born Aug. 12, 1822; married Anna Mitchell, Jan. 5, 1848. She was born Oct. 10, 1823. Their children were: 1. Annie Elizabeth, born Nov. 3, 1849 ; married Fred. Stetson, April 3, 1872, and have children : Ethel Pierce, born April 26, 1876 ; Una Wil- liams, born Jan. 3, 1878 ; Helen Wood, born Sept. 6, 1879. 2. Ahirtha Fobes, born Nov. 10, 1854 ; died June 6, 1856. 3. Harriet Louise, born July 5, 1859. John Pierce Eells died Nov. ^b, 1883. No very large vessels were built by this firm. The merchants used smaller vessels in their trade, large numbers of such craft being employed in the early part of the eighteenth century, in commerce with the West Indies, taking out beef, pork, fish, and oil, and bringing back rice, pitch, spices, and logwood, rum and sugar. Later, when the whaling business increased, there was a demand for larger vessels, and their successors built next to the largest vessels built in Hanover. Messrs. Barstow and Eells were both born in Feln-uary, 1732. They were cousins, and always companions in life. • Mr. Eells died in 1800. Thomas Barstow married Sarah Studley, and had children: Sarah, born Nov. 27, 1754; Thomas, born Dec. 20, 1756; Rebecca, born March 8, 1759; Nath., born Oct. 10, 1761 ; John Burden, born Jan. 15, 1764, who died Aug. 6, 1854, ao:ed ninetv years ; Molly, born Aug. 1, 1768; Elijah, born Feb. 13, 1771. John B. Barstow was Lieutenant Colonel, Second Regiment? 1815. The Parade Grounds were located on the Indian Fields, in Pembroke, east side of the ponds. John Burdin Barstow, third son of Thomas Barstow and Sarah Studley, born Jan. 15, 1764; married Betsey Eells, second daughter of Robert Len- thal Eells and Ruth Copeland. Children: 1. Sarah, born May 21, 1788; married Joseph S. Bates. 2. Betsey Eells, born Sept. 22, 1789. 3. John, l)orn Feb. 17, 1791. 4. Jane, born July 24, 1792 ; married David Ilersey. 5. Hannah, born Jan. 27, 1794. 6. Edward, born Aug. 27, 1795. 7. Robert, mariner, born Feb. 1, 1797 ; died in England, Oct. 13, 1818. 8. Benjamin, shipmaster, born Dec. 15, 1799. 9. Salome, born July 24, 1801; married Haviland Torrey, son of Wm. 100 BARSTOW'S SHIP YARD AT THE " TWO OAKS." Torrey, of Pl3'mouth.* Dea. Elijah married Lucy Eells, sis- ter of Col. John B. Barstow's wife, and died in 1842. They had children; Nathaniel, born Aug. 1, 1799; Lucy, born Dec. 22, 1801 ; Elijah, born Oct. 2, 1805, now living ;t Edwin, born July 30, 1811 ; Abby, born Dec. 6, 1812 ; Andrew, born Dec. 30, 1813. Andrew left Caldera, So. America, Oct. 2, 1856, master of the Salem ship "Lantao," and was never heard from after. Thomas Barstow's four sons succeeded him in the business. Later, Nathaniel withdrew, and went to Camden, Me., where he died. Thomas, Jr., John B,, and Elijah then built until 1818, when Thomas retired, and Col. John B. and Dea. Elijah continued in business until 1832, when Elijah, Jr., son of Dea. Elijah, bought out his uncle, and went in business with his father, where he continued until 1841. The Barstows built one whaler, for Nantucket, that was fifty-eight years old at last accounts. The first vessel I have any account of, ])uilt by the successors to the old firm, was in 1799, ship " EODOLPH FREDERICK," 271 tons, of Boston, built in Hanover, by John B. and Elijah Barstow. Thomas, John B.,and Elijah Barstow, in company, built, in 1800-1, a i^/iip, name unknown ; also, in 1800, Sch. " LUCRETIA," 114 tons, of Boston ; John B. Bar- stow, master carpenter. 1801. Sch. "FREDERIC," 107 tons, of Boston, for Nathl. Goddard ; John B. Barstow, master car- penter. 1802. A schooner, name unknown. J 1803. Ship "POCAHONTAS," 279 tons, of Boston, for Capt. John Hoi- * For genealogy of the Barstow family, see Barry's History of Hanover. t See Briggs' shipyard and genealogy t Articles of an agreement made and concluded on by and between Thomas Barstow and Elijah Barstow, of Scituate, and John B. Barstow, of Hanover, all in the County of Plymouth, shipwrights, of the one part, and Jonathan Philips and Mathew Allen, both of Harwich, in the County of Barnstable, mariners, as the other part, witnesseth that the said Thomas, John, and Elijah, doth agree to build a scJiootter of the lollowing dimentions, viz. : t was too far up to build such large vessels, the new tirm concluded to go a few rods farther down stream, and therefore secured the yard where Edward and Samuel Eells had been building a few ves- SHIFS BUILT BY JOHN B. AND ELIJAH BAESTOW. 103 sels, and occupied previously by Albert and Josiah Smith. Samuel Eells died in Hanover, March 17, 1863, aged eighty- two years. The first occupant of this yard, of whoniTre have any knowl- edge, was Col. Jolni Bailey, a distinguished officer in the Kev- ohitionary A¥ar. He was Lieutenant Colonel of Col. Thomas' Regiment. Ho was with Col. Thomas at Roxbury, and had charge of the regiment when Col. Thomas was commissioned as general officer.* He probably built here previous to the Rev- ohition. Jo.<<€j)Ji Houf^e was his master workman. Prior to this time, John B. Barstow had been the master carpenter of the firm. When the two brothers started in their new yard, it was on an equal footing, and both attended strictly to business. An amusing incident occurred at this yard about this time. It is related that one day an old shi]i-builder went to the Four Cor- ners for a jug of rum for the yard, (it was the custom in those days to serve grog to " all hands " at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m.,) and returning to the yard with the handle and part of the nose knocked otf, said, " AVell, bo3's, I met with a shipwreck on the way down." " Yes," said the one who had just taken the first serving, "and shipped a lot of w^ater, too." Four vessels lay on the stocks during theAVar of 1812, above Barstow's Yard. The first year the new firm occui)ied this yard, they l)uilt four vessels, which was the best years work recorded on any yard in Hanover, Smith's exce})ted. The vessels were launched in Ai)ril, May, July, and November, 1818. The first was the ship " STATES," 290 tons, Capt. David Swain, 2nd, owned l)y Zenas Coffin, of Nantucket. In 1820, she was whaling in the Pacific, and sold to New York after making two voyages whaling from Nantucket. The second was the ship "PERU," of Nantucket, 257 tons, launched in May, 1818. In 1820, she was whaling in the Pa- cific, under the command of Capt. David Harris. About 1833, she was changed into a bark, and from then until 1864 was Avhaling on the South coast, and in the Pacific, when she was sold to Williams & Haven, of New London, Conn. Starl)uck, in his "History of American AMiale Fisheries," claims that the "Peru " was the first ship brought over the bar at Nantucket by the "Camels." "Bells were rung," he says, "and guns fired, * See Brick Kiln Yard. 104 SHIPS BUILT BY JOHN B. AND ELIJAH BARSTOW. and a great concourse of citizens greeted lier arrival." The "Camels " were practically a floating dock, with which vessels were taken over the l)ar at Nantucket. The " Peru " was trans- ferred about 183i»-42. On Dec. 2, 18()6, while the "Peru" was at Honolulu, H. 1., the third mate, Charles N. Marsh, died. March 2, 1872, while whaling in the Atlantic, a boat's crew were lost )\y capsizing. In 1874, she was sold to John McCul- lough, of New Bedford, and in 1877 was still whalins: in the Atlantic, under Capt. Jasper M. Ears. In 1888, she was broken up at New Bedford, being then in her sixly-sixtJi year. The third vessel was the Sch. " BANKER," launched July, 1818, 75 tons, David Elliott, Provincetown, owner; and the fourth, which was launched in Novemlier, 1818, was the ship "CLAY," 299 tons, of Boston, John B. and Elijah Barstow, master carpenters. She was l)uilt for a merchantman, com- manded by Benj. Hichens, and owned by Hon. William Gray, of Boston, ancestor of William Gray Brooks, Esq., formerly of Hanover. William Gray, who had quite a number of ships built on North River, was probably the largest ship-owner ever in this country. He was born in 1750, died in 1825. At one time he is said to have owned sixty square-rigged vessels. He was first President of the State Bank, and Lieutenant Governor when Elbridge Gerry was Governor.* From 1819 to 1833, the Barstows built one or two vessels each year. The ship " AVASHINGTON," launched 1819, whaler, 309 tons, was owned by Reulien Swain and Zenas Coffin, Nantucket. Capt. Thomas Barstow Donnell, a cousin of Elijah Barstow, went in her the first voyage. He left her for the grocery business in New York, and was prostrated with small pox, which obliged him to give up, and he settled in Hanover, where his widow still resides. He died JNIarch 8, 1865, aged sixty-one years. His descendants are : 1. Ruth, married, and living in the West. 2. Nancy, deceased. 3. Jennie, now widow of Henry Pratt. 4. Reuben. The ship " Washii>gton," in 1819, Mas whaling in the Pacific, under Capt. Reuben Swain, 2nd; and in 1825, lost her first mate, David Star])uck. She was condenmed at Oahu, Hawaiian Island, in 1849, being then thirty years old. In June, 1820, they launched the ship "SPERMO," whaler, * Drake's Landmarks of Boston, p. 20. SHIPS BUILT BY JOHN B. AND ELIJAH BAllSTOW. 105 296 tons, Capt. James Bunker ; Aaron ]\Iitcliell, Nantucket, owner. She was whaling in the Pacific in 1)520. Sold in 1823 ])y A:uon jMitchell, and, while in the merchant service, she foundered at sea. and all hands lost, coining from Liverpool to New York, in l'S2.i. The next vessel built at this vard was the ship "CONSTITUTION;' 325 tons, launched in March, 1821. The same year she Avas in the Pacitic, whaling. She was owned by Zenas CofEn, Nantucket ; Capt. David Swain, 2nd, master. 1820, Capt. Isaac Chase, who was then master of her, it is re- ported would not go around Caj)e Horn, but went to the "Banks," and returned, accusing his crew of mutiny. From 1830 to 1856, she was owned by C. G. and H. Coffin, of Nan- tucket, and used whaling in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. In 1847, Mr. Prince, her third mate, died at sea. She was whaling until 1ucket of lather was made of slush and tar, and with an iron hoop Gallup was shaved while they Avere crossing the line, Aug. 20. Previously, or on July 31, Russell Bourne was injured l)y the breaking of a l)elaying })in, around which "the watch" had a turn of a ro})e ; he lieing at the end of the rope they fell on him. The first land they sighted was Pernaml)uco, but they did not " put in." Sept. (3, another meml)er of the Company, Hilborn, paid one hundred and fifty dollars and became a passenger, having tired of sailor life, Gallup having previously done the same. Some of the Company wanted to " put in " to Rio Janeiro, and, when the question was voted on, it was found to be the minds of the majority so to do. They then consulted their many consular and marine l)ooks and guides, and found the port charges were some sixty dollars. They took up a subscription, Init could only raise thirty dollars ; so decided it was useless to attempt to "put in" to Rio, for fear they could THE BOSTON MARINE MINING CO. 115 not get out without selling the schooner. jNIoilon had been to the Isle of Grande, Latitude 20° So., and told the crew of the delicious yams to be got there, and it was voted to go there for a rest and to "provision up." At first they were unable to find the Island, but, while searching, they saw a little vessel which, from her appearance, they thought was making land. They followed her until they reached the coast of Brazil : and they inquired along the beach, of the natives, and, following their directions, on Sept. 17, at 10 a.m., found themselves in the bay of Ila Grande, at Ville Grande, a village with a nice harbor, situated about fifty miles south of Eio de Janeiro. Immediately they dropped anchor, the natives, seeing so many men on deck, all armed to the teeth, fled to their houses and bairicaded the doors. Capt. Shelley then ran up the Stars and Stripes, and soon there appeared along-side two men m a boat, which was loaded with oranges as a present to the " Capitaine," as they called Capt. Shelley. Not long after, an Englishman came out and told them that it was not a port of entry, and they would not be allowed to stay ; and if they did not get out pretty soon, the Governor would probal)ly send to Rio for a revenue cutter. Things were looking pretty bad, when a boat came out, and in it they recognized an American. He had been cast away while on a whaler, many years before, and married a native woman. He had spoken their language so long that his English was quite broken, but good enough for all purposes, so he was em- ployed at two dollars per day as interpreter. He told them that, if they invited the Governor off, and gave him a good dinner, everything would be all right. They accordingly in- vited the Governor oft' that night, and gave him the best the vessel aftbrded. So well did they treat him that at midnight they were obliged to carry him ashore. He had a glorious time, and, during his short visit, signed a permit allowing them to remain in port ten days ; and to properly account to his superior, at Rio Janeiro, the cause of a vessel being in port, he sent word that a vessel had put in there in distress. That they enjoyed every moment of the ten days it is needless to add. One of the watches had freedom one day, another the next, and they made excursions through the narrow guts or inlets into the beautiful bights or Ixiys, which were enclosed by high moun- tains, and surrounded on the shore by large orange groves and coft'ee plantations. At first, the Spaniards showed much fear, as the crews were always heavily armed ; but their fright was soon quieted by the interpreter, and they invited the strangers 116 THE BOSTON MARINE MINING CO. ashore, and into their thatched houses, giving them coftee, with- out sugar or milk, so strong thov could not swallow it, and sending thoir little Mack slaves up the trees after oranges, and also having them set their seine for the anuisement of the vis- itors. On the trip down to A'illa Grande the crew used to practise with their guns ; and many bets were made with Wil- liam B. Josselyn as toAvhether they could shoot a bullet through the waving corners of a silk luuulkerchief which was hung up by its two other diagonal C(n-ners, a trick hard to do : also whether they could shoot a tallow candle through an inch board ; and one bet was made that a bullet could be shot through the blade of a broad-axe. An axe Avas procured from the carpenter, Avho valued it at three dollars. If the bullet went through, AVil- liain 1> Josselyn Mas to })ay for the axe ; if it did not, the marksman was to pay for the damage done. The first bullet indented the axe, and left its perfect form on the other side, but did not go through ; the others made no impression. Such were the amusements of the Coin[)any. A favorite target was a bottle hung from the end of a swinging boom, but one ball being alh)wed in the charge. The only man who succeeded in hitting this mark was JMorton, who made no pretense as a marks- man, but Avho one day quietly loaded his gun with buckshot (only one other person being aware of the fact), called the crew to witness, tired, and caused the bottle to disap})car as if by magic. George M. Josselyn had presented to him, by Josiah Dunham, a friend of Cyrus Alger, a new breech-loading ritie before leaving Alger's foundry, at South Boston, where he was employed. He became quite disgusted because he could not hit anything with it, and explained it by the rolling of the vessel ; so when he got ashore, and while at Villa Crrande, he bought a rooster, and set him on a Avail to shoot at. At his lirst shot, two bullets went otf, nearly wounding ]Mr. Josselyn. This ended his shooting with that gun. The ten days soon passed and they received word from Rio to leave innnediately and they reluctantly sailed away. Before sailing they bought* 10000 oranges at $1.00 per 1000. Their eyes were bigoer than their vessel : barrels, lockers, and buckets were tilled, and even berths had to be given up to make room for the oranges. A few days out they realized they had bought nothing but fully ripe fruit which was fast decaying. They would tind hundreds spoiled every morning and remem- ing their snow-balling days they obtained permission from the THE BOSTON MARINE MINING CO- 117 captain and putting on their oil clotliing appeared on deck, which had been cleared for action, -vvitli arms full of decaying oranges. They chose sides and the battle raged ; they pelted each other until the allowance of rotten oranges was exhausted. They then washed down each other and cleared the vessel, which looked very much like the inside of a swill cart. These battles were repeated until the supply of oranges gave out. Whist was the favorite game of cards and it was usually played during the dog-watch from 6 to 8, p.m. One night when off the River Platte, South America, the Avatch were down in the cabin playing whist with the captain, excepting two men, one at the wheel and one on the lookout. The latter, seeing a squall approaching, called repeatedly to the captain to send up the watch, Ijut the game was probably very interesting and it was hard to break off. Finally the lookout could stand it no longer and he "hollered" down the gangway. " Say, Captain, if you don't send that watch up to take in the flying jib you can take it in yourself. I'll be damned if I am going to get wet." As they neared Cape Horn, the question was put to vote whether they should go round the Cape or through the Straits of Magel- lan, and the majority voted in favor of going through the Straits. They entered the Straits Oct. 12. In forty-eight hours they were one-half way through, but it was twenty-eight days before the passage was accomplished. While in the Straits they shot white, speckled and steam l)oat ducks ; they saw the natives building tires to attract them ashore that they might rob and plunder the vessel , and often saw bottles hanging to trees near the water's edge, inside of which would be the full account of the vessel preceeding them ; they would hang other l)ottles in their places containing an account of the "Roanoke." They would weigh anchor and start again and again only to return at night to anchor in the same place, usually in one of the harbors or inlets that were entirely sheltered from the storm. These harljors were so completely surrounded l)y high hills that it was necessary to send a boat around the point in the morning, where it was often found to be blowing a " living gale " in the " Straits " of which there was no indication in the harbor. After they left Port Famine they discovered a vessel ])eached, which proved to be the "J. A. Sutter," of Warren, K. I. Part of her cargo had been a frame house which her crew had erected on shore from which they were rescued by a steamer. With an 118 THE BOSTON MARINE MINING CO. eye to business tlie Yankees of the " Roanoke " took what lumber they could conveniently carry from the house and wreck, and also fished out of the wreck about 100 lbs. of lead pipe. The lunilier they afterwards sold in San Francisco for $300 per thousand and realized from the sale of this and part of their cargo, about $1500. When they reached the last harbor in which they could anchor in the Straits, called the Harbor of Mercy, the storm w^as still heavy, with a thick fo<; and no siofn of abating. It was dangerous to sail out, for they could only lay three or four points free and might go ashore as the current was strong. They put it to vote and voted to sail out Nov. 9th, but there was very little talking on board the " Roanoke " until she was fairly into the Pacific, when they probably had an extra glass of punch all around and a grand time generally. Among the harbors in the Straits in which they anchored Avere Possession Bay, Playaparda Bay, Marion Bay, Morton's Bay, and Tamar Harbor. Little of consequence occurred before they made the port of San Francisco, except about Dec. 22 in the night, when Mr. Barstow caught a porpoise. When he struck the porpoise he was so excited that he sung out loudly for help, and the crew rushed out of the forecastle half dressed, not knowing what was the trouble. The porpoise was eight feet long, and it took six men to get him on deck. They arrived in the harbor of San Francisco after djirk, in a heavy rain on the last day of December, 1849, just in time to enalile them to become California Pioneers, the ever memorable "forty-niners," the highest of all honors in that now beautiful country. The next morning was dreary and the country looked rough with its tents and cotton cloth houses, in and out of the sand banks. Nearly all were homesick. The first thing in the morning Win. B. Josselyn called down the cabin to Leonard, "Wish you a happy New Year ;" he answered, " It will be a hard New Year for me, I guess." So thought many of them. They came out as a company, l)ut now decided to separate and scatter over the country, after selling the lumber, stores, etc., including some of the butter they had brought in kegs, packed in hogsheads of salt, at $1 per lb. They sold the vessel and what was left on board for about $10,000 and gave $525 to each of the 21 men now left. The vessel was afterward used as a river boat on the Sacramento. Michael R. Sylvester went to work as a carpenter at $16 per day. Some engaged in mining and others kept stores. William B. Josselyn's cousin, George, afterwards sold his $14 gun for him to a Spaniard for $100. William was ^±VO_L1>0 - ,y Seth Bates, shipwritrht. Col. 8eth Bates, was b. 1735, and mar., in 1757, Anne Neal. He built the house on Centre street, near Myrtle, at So. Hanover, afterward the residence of Enos Bates, where the widow and son of Enos, Jr. now live. He d. in Boston, April 9, 1820, leaving a numerous posterity, whose descendants can easily be traced in Barry's "History of Hanover." Passing the Perry, Smith, Eells, and Barstow yards, accounts of which are given in the preceding chapters, we come to the "King- man Yard," so called, which is next to the last yard in Hanover in location, and was situated a little below Barstow's lower yard. David Kinciman, who built at this yard, employed, for a time, David Stockl)ridge as agent to look after his ship-building in- terests, jNIr. Kingman being l)usy at the Four Corners, where he built the tavern stand, afterward kept by Joseph Pocorny, later by Henry Costley, Frank Howard, William Hand, and W. B. Ames, respectively, but still owned by the widow of Frank Howard. It is now known as the " Hanover House." David Kingman was b- 1763, at East Bridge water, and mar. Elizabeth, dau. of Col. or Capt. Smith, of Mendon. He was son of Capt. David, b. 1733, wdio was son of David, b. 1708, who was son of John, b. 1664, who was son of John, who was son of Henry, of Weymouth, who was made free in 1<)36. David d. 1812, aged forty-nine years, leaving children : 1. So- phia, who mar. Simeon Ford, and d. 1839. 2. Mary, who mar. Lauren Ford, 1816 ; both reside in Herkimer, N. Y. 3. Eliza, mar. 1809, Elijah Hay ward, who became a partner of Mr. Kingman ; she d. 1834. 4. Lucy, mar. Oran Gray Otis, of Herkimer, N.Y., and d. in 1837. 5. Susan. 6. George. 7. Frances. David Kingman lived at East Bridgewater, in the house occupied later by Mr. Chamberlain, opposite the Common, on the left hand side going from Hanover, opposite the Soldiers' Monument. His ships and Smith's stood less than three rods apart when building at the ship-yard. His son George w^ent Avith Elijah Barstow to a private school, ke})t by Walter Wal- cott and Parker, over Flavell's store, at the Four Corners. The entrance used to be by the present back stairway. He evi- dently came to Hanover about 1799, as he launched, in 1800,. 126 SAMUEL ROGERS, ELIJAH HAYWARD, JOSHUA TURNER. the ship " MIAXTINOMO," 2^1 tons, of Norwich, named after a famous Narragansett Sachem ; David Kingman, builder. She was seized by the Spanish, and condemned at Valparaiso in 1801. This vessel he built on his own account. In 1801, he built the Sch. "UNION," 8(3 tons, for Mr. Jaxson of Plymouth. He built, in 1802, BrigTn "CALLISTO," 190 tons, of' Boston. In 1803, ship " NANKING," 21)0 tons, of Boston. In 1804, he l>uilt two ships, and in 1805 three, as follows : 1804. Ship "ROLLER," 293 tons, of Boston ; David Kingman, master carpenter. 1804. Ship "ANN," 29(i tons, of Baltimore ; David Kingman, master carpenter. 1805. Ship "LAURA," 293 tons, of Boston ; David Kingman, master carpenter. 1805. Ship "ROMEO," of Boston, 312 tons, two clecks, three masts; length, 96 feet; breadth, 27 feet; depth, 13 feet. David Kingman, master carpenter. 1805. Ship " SUSAN," 311 tons, of Plymouth ; David King- man, owner; built at Hanover. Samuel Rogers was master carpenter of the " Susan," which is the only vessel he built in Hanover. Later, he is found building in Marshlield, and at the Poster's yard, in Norwell. It will be seen that the following vessels, built by David Kingman, averaged larger than those l)uilt at any other yard in Hanover, nearly all of them beino: over three hundred tons. In 1806, he built the ship " CILIRLESTON c^ LIVERPOOL PACKET," 325 tons, of Boston, David Kingman, master car- penter ; and in 1807, ship "ISABELLA," 3*08 tons, of Hing- ham, David Kingman, master carpenter. The next year he formed a partnership with his son-in-law, EUjuh Htnjward, and they built in company until the year of David Kingman's death. Mr. Kingman discontinued active connection with the business, and the new hrm emjiloyed Joshua Turner as " boss," to super- intend the building of the vessels. An account of him can be found under accounts of the Pembroke Yards. They launched, in 1809, ship "MASSACHUSETTS," 286 tons, built in Han- over, by Joshua Turner; owned in New York. In 1810, ship "AMERICA," 3()2 tons, buih in Hanover, by Joshua Turner; owned by David Kinuman, Hanover, Luke Hall, Marshtield. Also, in 1810, they launched the ship " MT. VERNON," of 352 tons, which they sold to New York. The next year, 1811, they built their last vessel, Avhich was probably the last vessel built at this yard ; and this gave them the honor of 1)uilding the largest vessel ever built in Hanover. This was the ship Barstow's Lower Yard. Cushinu's, Wing's, anrl Stockbridge's Yards, helow the wall, on the left. THE LARGEST VESSEL EVER BUILT TN IIAXOVER. 127 ** MOHAWK," 407 fons, built in Hanover, by Joshua Turner; owner in New York. That emi)ty casks, and perhaps gunda- lows, were used to get the " Mohawk " out of the river there is little doubt ; and it is truly wonderful that so large a vessel could be launched at this point in the river, and safely reach the ocean. The next yard below, which w^as the last in location in Han- over, was known in later years as the "Wing Yard." Its tirst occupant of record was Dea. Isaac Perry, who came down from his old 3^ards above and built one ship, of some 300 tons. This was undoubtedly the yard used by Wm. Coushing & Co., who built, in ISOl, for David Kinsman, a briir, probablv the "FREDERICK," 153 tons, afterward sold to William Gray, of Boston. Mr. Coushing (or Cushins:) also built, in 1803, the brig "SHORT STAPLE," 172 tons, of Boston. There ap- pears, by a certificate from the Deputy Collector of the District of Barnstable, dated Aug. 30th, 180(3, and filed at the Custom House in Boston, that this vessel having been stranded, the papers were surrendered at Wellfleet. She was condemned as unsea worthy, and broken up at Teueritie. She was built at Hanover, by master carpenter. Who William Cushing was I have been unable to ascertain. He lived in Peml)roke, and may have been a descendant of Col. Cushing, whose death is recorded in the Boston JSfews Let- ter and JS/ew England Clironicle, of June 28, 1762 : "Saturday last, as Col. Cushing, of Hanover, having been transacting some business in the town, was preparing to return home, while he was putting on one of his boots, instantly dropped down dead, without com- plaining of any disorder, or speaking a word." In 1806, Sch. "RISING SUN," of 80 tons, was built in Han- over, by Calvin Turner and Ichahod Thomas, who were pre- viously the "(fi Co." of Wm. Coushing & Co. She was owned by Freeman and Ebenezer Burgess, of Harwich. David Tur- ner was son of Calvin Turner, and grandson of Capt. Benjamin. He lived on the Briggs Farm, on the Neck, m Pembroke, and moved to Duxbury, where he died, leaving a family. (See Pembroke Yards for Thomas and Turner.) In 1814, Benjamin and Martin Stockbridge built a " pinka" on the Wing Yard, and the next year they built a vessel next 128 stockbridge's yard. to the largest ever built in Hanover, which ruined them and their father, and was the cause of their losing all of their prop- erty. This was in 1815, the ship "SOLON," 402 tons, of Hanover; owned by Benjamin and jMartin Stockbridge, of Han- over; Benjamin Stockbridge, master carpenter. This was the last vessel built by them. After keeping it until the interest money had eaten up most of their princiiial, they got Alden Briggs to sell it at a great sacrifice. Benjamin and Martin were sons of Squire David Stockbridge, who lived on the farm now occupied by E, Q. Sylvester. Squire David owned all the land which was built on by the Barstows, Smiths ( Josiah and Al- bert), Kingmans, and Benjamin and Martin Stockbridge, and others. Squire David d. in Hanover, May 15, 1858, aged sev- enty-four. He had children : Benjamin, who mar. and had a dau. Mary, who mar. Robert Eells. JMartin, Avho mar. late in life. David, whose grandson, Benj. F. White, son of Caroline, has recently been appointed Governor of Montana. Joseph. Jane, who mar. Capt. Miller Smith, who went in Stockbridge's ship, which was the elephant on the hands of the Stockbridge family. Deborah, who mar. Thomas Turner, father of Thomas Turner, of Hanover. Ruth, who mar. James Turner, father of the present James, of Hanover, and lived on the farm now occu- pied by Welsh, near the Third Oliff. The following account of the death of John, brother of S(iuire David Stock])ridge, ap- peared in The Boston Chronicle for 1768, Feb. 8-15 : "On Wednesday last, Mr. John Stockbridge, of Pembroke, son of Col. Stockbridge, of Hanover, was unfortunately killed by the falling of a tree. This young gentleman's death is much lamented." Also, in The Boston Chronide for 1768, Feb. 15-22 : "Mr. John Stockbridge, the young gentleman who was unfortunately killed by the falling of a tree, as mentioned in our last, was second son of David Stockbridge, Esq., and grandson of the Honourable John Gushing, Esq., and of the worthy and aged Deacon Stockbridge; was only twenty- six years old." Their genealogy may be found in Barry's " History of Han- over."* * On his grave-stone in the Cemetery at Centre Hanover is a representation of his accident (he being beneath ihe tree, with axe in hand), and the following inscription: " .Sic Transit Gloria Mitndi , Memento Mori. Erected in memory of Mr. John Stock- bridge of fair & unblemished character. In deportment modest, benevolent, uniform & virtuous. Son of Coll. David Stockbridge descended from ye mother's side from ye eld- est daughter of the Hon. John Cushing, Esq : whose mortality has rendered the male issue of that branch of that respected family extinct. He Lived beloved and died uni- versally lamented. His death was sudden, premature, awful & violent, providentially occasioned by the fall of a tree. He was born December Anno Domini 1741 and de- parted this transitory life February 10, A. Domini 1768 aged 26 years 1 month 23 days. No sum can purchase such a grant that man shall never die. Naked as from the earth we came and crept into life at first We to the earth return again and mingle with the dust." wing's yard. 129 The next year, ISlfi, the Wings l)uilt a vessel at this yard which came near ruining them, and which was finally sold for them by Alden Briggs at a great loss. Isaiah built the vessel, and interested with him were Baclielor and Elijah, his brothers, who furnished timber from their extensive lands. Benjamin Wing, another brother, was also interested in this vessel. Their yard was located about where the wall now runs to the river, below Barstow's last yard in Hanover. Paul Perry was their master workman. This vessel was finished in 1816, after lying at Union Bridge until the Embargo was removed, and was finally sold to Capt. Levi Starbuck, of Nantucket. Isaiah Wing was a nati\'e of Hanover. He attended the Academy, after which he studied law with Mr. Winslow, and practised for a time at the Four Corners. He finally removed with his fam- ily to Cincinnati, O., where he died. The Wings, including iSylvanus and Ebenezer, lived in the western part rf the town, corner of Winter and Circuit streets, on the site of the house afterward erected and occupied by Thomas M. Bates, a relative. Isaiah Wing, 2nd, was Lieutenant Second Regiment, First Brig- ade, Fifth Division, Hanover Militia, 1815. The male branch of the family is probalily extinct, and of the female descend- ants, Lydia, dau. of Bachelor, mar. Capt. Thomas M. Bates, 1807. William, possibly a brother of the elder Wings, mar. Huldah C, dau. of Eobert L. Eells, Nov. 2(), 1789. She d. in New York. The following is a list of vessels built in Planover, but at what particular yard each was built is not known : 1784. Sch. "POLLY," 52 tons, of Plymouth. 1784. Sch. "LARK," 40 tons, of Plpnouth. 1784. Sch. " SALLY ROBBIN," 58 tons, Thomas Jackson, Jr. , Plymouth, owner. 1784. Sch. " SALLY," 58 tons, of Newburyport. 1784. Ship "BRITANNIA," 163 tons, of Boston. 1784. Sch. " AMERICA," 49 tons. 1785. Sch. " HAWK," of Plymouth. 1787. Sch. " LYDIA," 54 tons, of Plymouth. 1787. Sch. "AMERICA," 50 tons, of Boston. 1788. Sch. "BETSEY," 43 tons, of Plymouth. 1789. Ship "ROBERT." 1791. Sch. "DIANA," 52 tons, of Cohasset. 1792. Ship "FRANKLIN," 179 tons, of Boston, afterward sold to Marblehead. 1792. Sch. " PAULINA," 74 tons, of Boston. 1793. Brig "JANE," 145 tons, of Boston. 1793. Sch. "JANE," 120 tons, of Boston. 1795. Brig "NEP- TUNE," 138 tons, of New London, Conn. 1795. Sch. "LYDIA," 54 tons, of Plymouth. 1796. Sloop " PACK- ETT," 22 tons, owned by Jed. Ewell, Marshfield, and Reuben 130 VESSELS BUILT IN HANOVER, MASS. Cui-tis, Hanover. 1796. BrUj; "ALERT," 1(U tons, of Bos- ton. 1798. Sch. EEBECCA," 77 tons, of Duxbuiy. 1798. Sch. "NEW STATE," 51 tons, of Plymouth. 1799. Brig't'n "MARY," 169 tons, of New York ; at\erward sold to Boston. She wjis formerly rigijed a ship. 1799. Sch. "LUCY," 93 tons, of Plymouth. 1801. Sch. "FREDERICK," 107 tons, of Boston. 1802. Sloop " PACKET," 22 tons, of Boston, " the said vessel having been forcilily entered, and the original pa- pers stolen," as appears by the oath of James Fenno, master and owner, tiled in the Custom House at Boston. 1803. Ship " MENTOR," of New Bedford. 1804. Sloop " PACKET," 52 tons, of Plymouth. 1804. Ship "HURON," of New Bedford. 1804. Ship "ALONZO," of New Bedford. 1806. Ship "CEN- TURY," 280 tons, of New York. 1806. Ship "LEONID AS," of New Bedford. 1807. Ship "FANNY," of New Bedford. 1810. Ship "ELIZA BARKER," of New Bedford. 1810. Ship "LUCIES," of New Bedford. 1817. Bark "FRANK- LIN," of Rochester; lost at Macio, on the coast of Brazil, in 1834. In 1881, there was at Greenport, L. I., the whaleship " PENN," which, after sixty-three years of service, was to be broken up at New Bedford. She was built in 1818, in Hano- ver. 1823. Ship "COREL," 335 tons, of New York. 1838. Hermaphrodite Brig " PAULINE TAYLOR," 150 tons, oak, copper and iron fastened, one deck ; owned in 1859 by H. Lin- coln, Boston, Capt. Taylor. 1844. Brig "PARANA," 209 tons, oak ; owned in 1863 by H. S. French & Co., Sag Harbor, Capt. Green. Fox (or Sunset) Hill Ship-yard. Nortli River. CHAPTER IX. FOX HILL YARD. 1 690-1 S69. NATHANIEL CHURCH, JOHN PALMER, MICHAEL FORD, WILLIAM COPELAND, ELIAS W. PRATT, ELISHA TOLMAN, MR. MERRITT, CAPT. THOMAS WATERMAN, JOSEPH S. BATES, CAPT. ELISHA BARSTOW, THOMAS B. WATERMAN. CCARCE a mile below North Eiver Bridge at the foot of *^ the easterly slope of Fox Hill and at the foot of Sunset Hill was located a shipyard, whose earliest occupants were probably Nathaniel Church and John Palmer, about 1690. Nathaniel Church settled in Scituate (now Norwell), in 1666. His form was on North River, south of Cornet Stetson's, and included the " Bald Hills." His house stood by the river nearly opposite Job's Landing. He was a younger brother of Col. Benj. Church, the noted hero of the Indian wars. Nath'l had sons : Nathaniel, Joseph and Caleb, who have descendants living in Hanover and Marshfield. Nathaniel, the shipbuilder, d. in 1700. John Palmer's son, John Jr., lived near the junction of the roads southeast of Church hill, not fVir from the 3rd Herring Brook. The father was in So. Scituate previous to 1660, and during that year built " John Palmer's Log Bridge," so called, over the 3rd Herring Brook, near where the present bridge that connects Planover and Norwell is located. The descend- ants of Church and Palmer probably continued the business of shipbuilding here. The next names that appear to have been used in connection with shipbuilding at this yard were those of ]Michael Ford and his brother-in-law William Copeland. 132 MICHAEL FORD. yy , ^ ^ *) was ofr. son of Wm. of ^Nlarshfiekl, (^^y^/o^^pn^'^^ ^^^^^i/f^y~ "^'ho lived on the east side of Xorth River, near " Gravelly Beach," where Michael was born. ^lichael. Sr. mar. Roda Copeland in 1778, and settled on a farm purchased of Ebenezer Stetson, one half mile above Cornet's Rocks on Xoith River. His son ]Michael succeeded him. William Copeland and ^lichael Ford, Jr. worked on Smith's Yard in Hanover in 1799. Michael Ford was Sergeant in the militia company commanded by Lieut. Tolman. He did the joiner work on the vessels on the way down river, and while working on the "Samos," (?) stuck a chisel into his knee, which lamed him for life. ^Michael Ford had sons : ^Michael, now living in East Boston and spoken of foither on, AVilliam C, now dead, and David Barnes, who married Lavinia Sherman, and they have children : Angela B., Chauncy 1)., Edith F. and Howard I. David Barnes Ford now resides in Hanover Four Corners. Michael Ford, 2d. died in ls77, at an advanced age. His son Michael, who now lives in East Boston, works in the ship yards there at the age of 75, and can hew a spar more " trae " than most carpenters at 30. He was b. in 1814, mar. ^Mary A. Russell of Ipswich, and had children : Mary G. and John W. At sixteen years of age, Michael 3d, went into the shipvard of his father — Copeland, Ford & Pratt. The "Mary Ballard" was the first vessel that Michael, 3d, worked on. He remembers going down river in her and anchor- ing off the Gurnet, being one of the crew under Capt. Cushing, and he also remembers nearly freezing to death, l)esides being very sick, while waiting for a wind to get to Boston. He went to Medford in 183w of a Copeland. AVilliam's father, William, and his uncle, Ebenezer, were shi})buil(lers. William Copeland, Jr., was born in the house now owned and occupied by AVilliam C. Tolman, grandnephew of William, Sr., next the old Dea. Eben Stetson place. William, the shii)builder, left no children. ]\lichael Ford and his ancestors were shipbuilders and carpen- ters at the old Chittenden yard and at the yards in Marshtield, Hanover and Pembroke, previous to Michael's occupying the Fox Hill yard. William Copeland was joiner on other yards before building as partner with i\Ir. Ford at this yard. It is therefore a t''^,-y^ l^a-^^^^^^^*^'*'''*^ of New Bedford. / The oak for this sch. cost $7 per ton. She was begun in Oct., 1815, and launched May, 1816. They also built the sch. "MILO," 53 tons, of Boston, built at Scituate. William Copeland built alone the same year, 1816, the sch. "FRIENDSHIP," 53 tons, of PIull, owned by Paul Billings, James H. & Martin D. Merritt and Reuben Damon of Scituate. Owned in 1850 by Jacob Waldea & O. at Boston, William Copeland, Jr., M. C. Built prob- ably on the same model as the"Milo." These two latter schooners were pink sterns, or "pinkies," or " pinkas," as they used to call them, and built for fishing smacks. They were launched on the same ways ; one was on the stocks ahead of the other and both were launched at dusk in the early evening of the same day. Mr. Turner signalized the event by lighting a numl)er of tar barrels, the illumination l)eing visible for miles around. An incident is related of a certain Mr. Nye of Pem- broke, who, while Mr. Turner was building at this yard, would come across the river at night and "hook" rum from a jug that Mr. Turner used to keep in his chest. Finally two men were set to watch and after Air. Nye had taken a good drink and filled up his flask they seized him. Sometime afterward Mr. Nye suddenly died from the efl'ects of an overdose of liquor, taken throuoh a straw from a barrel. In 1817 the sch. "FAME," 47 tons, was built by Barker Turner for Isaiah Alden, Jr., H. Damon, Cummins Jenkins and James Turner Ford, Scituate. About this time Oaleb Turner built here in company with his brother Barker. Wil- liam Copeland appears not to have built many vessels prior to 1819 when he built in company with Thomas AVaterman and Joseph S. Bates. Caleb Turner was grandson of Capt. Benja- min of Pembroke and son of Nathaniel of Scituate, and brother of Barker Turner, Sen. He lived in the Uncle Roger Stetson House and left a family who moved to South Bridgewater. built in 1818 the sch. (^ ) "ROXANXA," 73 tons, for John Beal, Snell Wade, ^^**^/<7^ /TV Simeon Litchtield and William Vinal, Scituate,. ■afterward sold to Boston. GC^'^'^-^wCc^ JtM,^-^^,,^^, COPELAND, FORD & PRATT. 135 She was commenced in Nov, 1817, and launched, in May, 1818, Also in 1818 they built the sch. " MAKY JOXES," 56 tons, of Scituate, owned by Gushing Otis, James and Asa Litchfield. Caleb Baily, 3rd, and Haywood Vinal of Scituate : used in fish- ing and coasting, and in April, 1819, sch. "CYRENE," 58 tons, of Boston, which they began in Nov., 1818. Owners, Howard Vinal, Silas Prouty and Cashing Otis of Scituate, & O., Caleb and Barker Turner, M. C. In 1820 the sch. " GEORGE WASHINGTON," 67 tons, was built by Barker Turner for Isaiah Alden, Jr., Ichabod Alden, Colman Jenkins, Cushing Otis, and Elisha Foster, Jr., Scituate. This vessel was after- ward lost at sea. Also the same year, 1820, sch. "LARK," pink stern, 40 tons, built by Barker Turner and sold to Kings- ton. Not lono; after this Barker Turner removed to the Brick- kiln Yard. In 1819 William Copeland, Michael Ford and Elias W. Pratt formed a partnership under the firm name of Copeland, Ford & Pratt. Joseph S. Bates and Thos. Waterman also built in company with Wm. Copeland. Gad Leavitt lived on the yard about this time. William Copeland was the master carpenter of this and the succeeding firm. Major Elias W.Pratt came from some other town into Scituate. He mar. three times and had children by his first two wives : Elias E., (mar. and living in New Haven, Conn.,) William B., (now dead,) Charles C, (mar. Hannah Hart and has one child,) Elizabeth B., (who mar. George W. Stetson and now lives in Medford,) Abby and Ruth (l)()tli dead,) and Emeline A., b. Jan. 9, 1831, mar. Nov. 1, 1850, Seth E. Bartlett of Duxbury, who died March 18, 1852. They had one child, born 1851, who mar. Annie Eatough, of Taunton, May 6, 1876. Their children are 1. John E., bom Jan. 25., 1878 ; 2. Sadie E. b. Aug. 24, 1880. They now live in Montreal, Canada. Emeline A. mar. secondly Loami B. Sylvester of Hanover, June 1(5, 1858, he d. in the war, Sept. 6, 1862. They had one child, born May 27, 1859. (See Bridire Yards, Hanover). Emeline A. mar. for her third husband Henry S. Bates, Jan. 22, 1888. In 1819 Copeland, Ford & Pratt built a Schooner for Capt David Whiting & O., Hingham. /^T^jyifyy^ x=' j^ c-^ built the same year, 1819, /^^^C^^^»-.^^^ ^^^^--^-^^trrrxh^ bri^ " CASHIER," 73 ^^^''^^tt^ ^^^^JcV-y^c^^v-, . tons, of Boston. Owned y^At< /^ j€jt.^^~^ ^\y ^Villiam Copeland, ^ ^ ^ Jr., Thomas Waterman, l;>(i AVM. COrKLANO S: CO. Scituato : Kboiuvor (^hiulwick and ,losoi>h 8. Bntos;, of Ilanover tt O. This vossol may liavo boon built in Ilanovor :is lior voiiistor statos but as two or throo vossols \Yore soniotinios on tho ways at tho Fi>x Hill Yard at tho sanio tinH\ sho may have boon built horo. S<^niotinio botwoon 1S1;> and 1824. tlioro ontorod into this tirni Kiislia TohnaiK Klisha Morritt* and «ino i^thor, and tho tirm namo was ohangod about 1824 to ]]';Uia»i Cojye- hiiid d* Co. Elislia Toliuan was a diroot dosoondant ot" Capt. Bouianiin. who came to Soituato from Dmvhostor in 1709. Klisha hixd ohildron, Sanuud. C'harlos anil othors. Sanuiol had ohildron : Sanuiol and flosoph, who woro ship Jdinors. and Koboooa. Sanuiol was Captain o( a militia oompany ot' t\>ot in 181.'>. ITo was intorostod in many oi' tho Yards, boiuir ono of tho tirm during tho buiidiuii- o^ many vossols at tho Fox Hill and Wanton yards, anil workod joinoring on most all tho yards. Ho had sons ; Sanuiol and Jamos T., who workod on the yards up river, and two ohildron who died. Sanuiol mar. 1. Sarah, dau. of ^Villiam AA'inslow. 2. Abigail, dau. ot' Klijah Amos, and widow of Israel Hatoh. There was one ehild by tho tirst marriage: Samuel dr.. who mar. Evoleen Loland, and they ha\o one ehild, Gladys. James T., son of Samuel. Sr. mar. Mary T., daughter ot' C O. Briggs.and lives eornor of Oakland Avenue and Broadway, in tho house formerly oeeupied by Doetors Fobos, Ciarratt. and Howns sueeessivoly. They have two ehildren, ]M. Annaf and Herbert (\. a graduate ot' Yale. Klisha Tolman fell down the hold ot' tho Brig ^SIosoow ( ?) on her wav down river and broke his nook. The now tirm built in 1824 tile brig '"BYKOX," 193 tons, for AVilliam Lovering of Boston, afterward sold to Now Bedford. AVilliam Copoland. Jr.. M. C. 182:i. brig "LKXIXGTOX." 197 tons, of Boston. AN'illiam Copoland, dr., M. G.. eondemned at Mauritius. 18rni. In 182(1 brig "MOSCOW." 277 tons, of Boston. Lost otl' California before it was annexed to the United States. William Copoland. dr.. M. C\ 1827 brig "SAMOS." 248 tons, of Boston, owned by Windsor Kay i?c O. Owned in 1844 by Vernon Brown, of Boston. A\'illiam Copoland, dr., M. C. Capt. C. B. Graves wont in tho In'ig '" Samos." in 1>;>>. from Stoekholm to Now York. She used to sail bitwoon the AA'ost Indies and the Bait lo. regularly. Page Browor was master of her. after him tho late "William Keed of Chelsea. Capt. vxraves * See Chapter Miscellaneous Yards, Scituate^ ■- See Chap. Brurjrs Yar Js. C^<^c.^<^^ WM. COPELAND & CO. 137 thinks she was put under the Spanish flao- Liter. In 1828, was built the brio- '' LEDA," 258 tons, for David Eells, or Ellis, of Boston, William Copeland, M. C. 1829, sch. "ORION," GO tons, of Cohasset. Owned by Howard Vinal, William Cope- land, Jr., William Haskins, Elias W. Pratt and INIichael Ford, of Scituate. William Copeland, Jr., M. C. The next year they built two vessels. 1830 ])rig " ODESSA," 180 tons, built at Hanover ( ?), and owned by Isaac Hall and Thomas Curtis, of Boston. William Copeland, Jr., M. C. 1830, sch. "LYCEUM," 65 tons, owned at Scituate by John Beal, Peleg Jenkins, Melzar Litchfield, Edw. J. Porter, Michael Ford, Elias W. Pratt and William Copeland, Jr,, M. C. In 1832 the firm built their last vessel, though Michael Ford had an interest in other vessels subsequently built at this yard. This vessel was the bark " MARY BALLARD," 260 tons, of Boston, built in 1832. Copeland & Pratt, M. C. She was built for William Fay, of Boston, was used in the liquor trade and lost while in said trade. Mr. Fay sent down a quantity of liquor wdien she was launched, and the Rev. David Barnes Ford, remembers dealing it out. He was probably obliged to do this, for we cannot imagine his doing such a thing at the present day. Some verses were written concerning this vessel of which only the following lines have been preserved : — One day it chanced to cross my roving thought That James and I would take a walk, Down to the ship yard we would go, There was a lady for a show. Mary Ballard was her name. If to the ship yard you would go. Take care and not be climbing so. Joseph C. and Samuel Tolman, Jr., did the joiner work on the "Mary Ballard." George B. Tolman, son of Elisha, who was a descendant of Charles, fell from a staging on board the "Mary Ballard" and was injured. When lost the "Mary Ballard " was owned by John H. Pierson ; she was cast away on the Bahamas in the spring of 1843, loaded with ice for the Gulf of Mexico. In 1832 this firm sold out to Thomas Waterman and Joseph S. Bates. Water7na7i & Bates began to dig for a yard a little way up river, by the swimming place above 138 WATERMAN & BATES. the southwesterly slope of Fox Hill. While enijaged pre- paring to locate here, Copeland & Ford decided to go out of business, and sold their yard to Waterman & Bates, who built in company three years, or until 1836, when Mr. Bates retn-ed from the tirm. was l)oni in 1791, and ?^^rP?7^ JJayf^/^^/7/^^J^/ agrdTevent; years. His father, Thomas, born 1765, was grandson of Thomas of Marshfield, and son of / rty > (Jv- Capt. An- thony, who came from Marshfield in ^ 0^ / 1760. Capt. Thomas Waterman resided east of the brook, at the ancient Copeland place. He had two children : Thomas B., who mar. Clara Crooker of Norwell,and succeeded his father at the yard, and Sylvia, who d. in August, 1844. Thomas B. has had two children: 1. Thomas W.,born May 4, 1868, a noble fellow, who was taken from them by typhoid fever in the fall of 1888, just as he was attaining manhood ; 2. George, born Oct. 30, 1870, now in a bank in Boston. Josej)h S. Bates was a descend- ant of Caleb, of Hingham, through Comfort of Pemliroke,in which town he was born. He served his time with Col. J. B. Barstow and mar. his dau., Sarah, Oct. 2, 1820. They lived on Broadway, northeast of Hanover Four Corners, and had three children : 1. Henry S., 1). Nov., 1821, mar. 1st, Gardner,, 2nd, in 1888,]Mrs. Emeline Sylvester. 2. Sarah Ann, b. Nov., 1823. 3. John Burden, b. Feb. 17, 1826, who mar. Lydia Waterman, and lives corner of Rockland street, next to the Episcopal Church at the Four Comers. The first year Waterman & Bates built two vessels, as follows, viz : 1833, ship "IHLO," 390 tons, of New York, the largest vessel ever built at tit is yard, and which is said to have cost $1000 to get out of the river. She was used as a Avhaler. 1833, ship "ONTARIO," 367 tons, of Sag Harbor. Her length was 108 feet, breadth 27 feet, depth 13 feet. She after- ward hailed from New Bedford. They built in 1835 the brig "ALMINA," 175 tons, of Boston, a fruiter, used in the Medi- terranean trade, and in 1836 the sch. "RIENZI," 108 tons, of Boston. The "Rienzi," was captuved and burned at sea by a rebel privateer in 1863. This was the last vessel built by Waterman & Bates. CAPT. THOMAS WATERMAN. 139 Capt. "Waterman carried on the business alone until 1846. The first vessel he built after ^Ir. Bates retired was the next year, 1837, the brig " VINTAGE," 199 tons, of Boston, a fruiter used in the Mediterranean trade, Thomas Waterman, M. C, and in 1838 the brig"OTHO," 132 tons, of Boston, Thomas Waterman, M. C, and in 1840, sch. " LAKE," 99 tons, owners: George M. Allen, Eaton Vinal, Thomas L. Manson, John ]\Innson and Thomas Waterman, of Scituate, who built her. The " Lake," was conmianded by Capt. Vinal in the West Lidia logwood trade, etc., and during her second or third voyage she ran otf Maguena Reef, near Crooked Passage, and was totally wrecked. "Rebuilt in 1841 bark "WAVE," 197 tons, owned by Nathaniel H. Emmons, George W. Wales,. Thomas B. Wales, Sr., and Jr., and Samuel Quincy of Boston. Thomas B. AVales had a son, Thomas B., whom he wished to send to sea, probably thinking this to be the most advantageous way of starting him in a mercantile life. To induce him to go he had this bark built and fitted up Avith fancy cabins, and expense was not spared to make it an attractive and comfortable vessel. As a further inducement he put his son in as captain, but as he had never been to sea before it Avas necessary to have for the first mate an experienced "old salt; " so Capt. Winsor went as first mate on her firsl; voyage, which was to be aj-ound Cape Horn to the Northwest coast, trading. It was the custom in those days for the Captain to stay below, leaving his mate in charge of the ship, and it is fair to presume that Capt. Wales let the mate run the ship most of the time. The " Wave " })robably did not go to the Northwest coast, and young Wales may have disappointed his father and never have gone in her, but the aliove is the story as told the author. The bark " WaA-e " in 1 841 made a voyage from Boston to Rochelle ; in 1842, Rochelle to Boston with brandy, fruit, etc. , and Norfolk, Va. , to Rochelle with staves, &c. In 1843 from Rio de Janeiro with coflee, and from New Bedford to Cowerand with 288 casks, 447 gross gallons of oil and 10 tons of logwood. In 1843-4, Norfolk to Rochelle and back again with potash, rice, staves, &c. In 1884 she was owned in New Bedford, then 42 years old. At this vard was built in 1842 the sch. "MANSON," 93 tons, owners Vieorge M. Allen, Moses R. Colman, John, Thomas L. and Joel L. Manson, Eaton Vinal, the builder Thomas Waterman, and Michael Ford, Scituate. The "Manson" was commanded l)y Capt. IMoses Coleman and ran between Boston and Venezuela, taking out mixed' cargoes and bringing back goat skins. The last 140 BARSTOW & "WATERMAN. vessel built by Capt. AVaterman alone at this yard was in 1845, the sch. "ST. PAI'L," 94 tons, of Boston. 'Owned by (^apt. John Cushinir ot" Hanover and "William H. Talbot, of Scituate. The "St. Paul," Avas commanded by "Capt. Bill Talbot "and used in the coastini»; trade in the Gulf of INIexico. AVilliam Chirk of Hanover was one of the crew of three that went before the mast on the tirst voya«re of the " St. Paul." They went to ]Matanzas and New Orleans with oeneral cariro and brought back molasses, sui>ar, etc. She was rinallv lost. who WJ > t is at U^-^ ^^''- im e b u 1 Id ing in the old Barstow Yard back of Edmund Q. Sylvester's in Hanover was approached in 184() by George ]\I. Allen of Scituate Harbor with a proposition to build for him a vessel of 250 tons, but on account of the great expense necessary to get the vessels over the shoals below his yard, which would consume the small profits of those days, Capt. Barstow decided it Avould not pay to build the vessel at his yard, and therefore invited Capt. Waterman to build her in company at hin, Cajit. AVaterman's, yard. He accepted and they began their partnership, which lasted until 1859, when Thomas B. Waterman succeeded his father, and in company with Capt. Barstow, built until 1869, when was built the last vessel at this yard. Capt. Barstow now l)ecame the master carpenter. The first vessel built by the new firm was the bark " TOM COR WIN," 250 tons, launched in 1847, and owned by Joel L., John and Thomas L. Manson, George INI. and William P. Allen, of Scituate Harbor, and commanded by Capt. John Alanson. Charles Le Roy, of So. Scit- uate, went in her on her first voyage to St. Petersburg, Russia, in the spring of 1847. In 1859 she was owned by Elisha Atkins, at Boston, and was lost when an old vessel. Capt. John Manson, her conmiander, was born in 1805 at Scituate Harbor, where he deceased July 14, 1889. In 1815 he went with his father mackerel fishing in the "Rosebud." In 1812-13 the British frigate "Xymph," and the British 74 "La Hogue," sent their boats into Scituate Harbor from time to time and burned or carried ofi' the vessels there. Capt. JNIanson remembers once when a fleet of these boats were com- ing in, that the women began to carry ofi* their beds and furni- ture, but an officer in one of the I'ritish l)oats cried out, "Good CAPT. JOHN MANSON. 141 women don't cany your liecls off, we ain't going to hurt you." At this time the "Rosebud," which belonged to the elder Manson, the "Orient," and the "Sophronia" were car- ried off, and five or six other vessels were burned in the Harbor. The British returned the " Rosebud," which was finally sold to Maine. The "Orient" they kept, and the master of the "Sophronia," which was loaded with hay, went on board the man of Avar and induced them to give her up and let him take her back to the Harbor. Caj^t. Manson commanded first the sch. "James Otis," built in Pembroke, and about 1830-1 the "Mary," built in Kenncbunk ; later the sch. "Abigail," built by Magoun & Turner in Brooklyn about 1834, afterward the Her. Brig "Allen," the bark "Tom Corwin," and the ship "William Sturgis," built in Med- ford, all used in the New Orleans and European trade, and in 1851-4 the ship "Meridian," built by Jackson & Ewell, East Boston, 1740 tons, new measurement. This was the largest vessel then afloat. He commanded the ship " George Peabody " to Europe from Mobile and New Orleans and back from Liverpool with emigrants. He brought the Hum- boldts from Norfolk to Baltimore in 1857 and from 1858 to the end of his sea life in 18(31 he made three voyages in the ship "Golden Fleece," (built l)y Paul Curtis at East Bos- ton,) to San Francisco. He retired from the sea in 1861 on account of the war. It is remarkable that Capt. Manson never met with any accident except to carry away some small spar or lose a man overboard. During the later part of his .sea going he sailed for AVm. F. AVeld & Co. He superintended the laying of the keel for the first vessel they ever built. Before sailing for them he always sailed for himself. In one voyage to New Orleans and back he cleared for the Welds $60,000, and while in the jNIeridian she paid for herself and $27,000 surplus in three voyages. Barstow c& Waterman built in 1848 the bark "ZION," 199 tons, of Boston, owned in 1859 by Pierson and under Capt. Reynold, a part owner. They had on the stocks at the same time, in 1848, the brig " ABRAM," 158 tons, owned by Moses R. Coleman, George M. Allen, Michael Ford and Thomas Water- man, of Scituate. She took the place of the " Manson " in the Venezuela trade and was built of oak, copper and iron fastened and owned in 1861 by Vose, Livingston & Co., New York. In 1849 they built two vessels. 1849 bark " ADELIA ROGERS," 199 tons, of Boston, owned in 1861 by Taylor & 142 BARSTOW & -WATERMAN. others ; Capt. Snow. This vessef was, in her registers, sometimes called the ^^ Adelaide Hogers.^^ She was com- manded by Capt. George Taylor, of Chatham, and was after- wards lost on the Southern Coast. They built the sch. "ROBERT RAIKES," in 1849, 81 tons, oak, iron and copper fastened, single bottom, owned in 1874 by E. & E. K. Cook, of Provincetown, and used as a fishing vessel. Capt. T. J. Coorigan. Capt. Swift, the largest owner, had this vessel named the " Robert Raikes " because of his strong sympathy w^ith this o-reat Methodist. In 1850 they built the brig " SARAH," '^1()5 tons, for Capt. Moses Coleman, of Scituate, who used her in the AVest India trade. The sch. " ANTARTIC," was built here in 1851, 101 tons, of oak, iron and copper fastened, single bottom, whaler. In 1872 she was owned by J. E. & G. Bowley, of Provincetown, Capt. Hill. In 1884 she was at Provincetown and still whaling. She was on her way down North River when Minot's lioht was blown over. The same year they built the sch. "JOSHUA E. BOWLEY," 95 tons, owned in 1884 at Provincetown, Mass. In 1852 they built, on owner's account, the Her. Brig "KERNISAN," 127 tons, and sold to William F. Weld. Owned in Boston by N. J. Weld, in 1859, deck cabin. It is reported that she was lost with all on board on a voyage to the AVest Indies. Also the sch. "SEA DRIFT," 99 tons, oak, iron and copper fastened, built by them in 1852, owned in 1805 in Scituate. They built the sch. " A^7LLIAM INIARTIN," in 1854, which is registered at some ports as having been built in Hanover, but this mistake is easily explained. The builder's address was Hanover, and the owners in registering naturally thought the vessels were built in Hanover, l)ut this mistake in registry has been corrected wherever found. The sch. "William Martin," built by them in 1854, was 130 tons, flush deck, was owned in 1859 by William Martin, of Orleans, Mass. Built of oak and hackmatack. Iron and copper fastened. Sheathed with zinc in Oct., 1867. In 1862 she was transferred from Orleans to Boston and sent whaling in the Atlantic. On July 6, 1889, the "William Martin," under Capt. Howard, arrived in Boston from a 25 months' whaling voyage in the Atlantic with sperm oil to Heman Smith. She landed 100 bbls. at Fayal, during the voyage, and since Jan. 20, 1889, at which time she sailed from Dominia, she has got 60 bbls. of sperm oil. In 1855 the firm built the sch. "N. & H. GOULD," for Capt. Gould, who was drowned off Philadelphia while trying to save a man who had ScH. "William Martin." Built by Barstow & Waterman. BARSTOAV & WATERMAN. 143 fallen overboard. Just as he was going down he held up his pocket book, then sank. Capt Gould used this vessel as a freighter. In 1863 she was owned by Yates, Potterfield & Co. of Orleans, Mass., and in 1"J lllOMAS (,.r.NKAl.Oi;Y. ThiiN (mmk riu>ni:i>. I'lillotl tVoiu lii> pnnul position ;it Por- I'lio^ttM'. \v;is proinolt^l -Aud :ipi>oint<\l to a nu>io f\lousi\t^ and intporlant nnnnh-uul «>f an oxju-dilion whioli piovoil disastrous to his oountfv anil tatal to hinisoll'. AIUm- ivai-hinir his }H>sition iioar Quol>or. iv-onl"oivoiniM\ts and pi\>visions tor thr army faiUHl to ani\o. Init (lon. 'lMu>n\as was i'otvn'ininod to rolain hi> po>-ition as lon^' as possible, hrarinu' that laim^ iv-cMit\>ivo- i\ionls wiMo passinu' tho lako and nui^ht l>o daily oxjHH'tod. 'V\w ii>-ont'orotMnonls not ani\ inir. as his adviros indnood him lo hopi\ and tlu^ onomy ad\ anting" in t'.>ivo. ho >vas ohligod io lotroat to Sorol. Ou tho »nd ol' .Tnno at OhamMoo, on tho ri\orSoiol. whiK' an\!ou>ly awaitinu' tlio oxpoolod iv-ont\nvo- niiMits. ho dit^l ot' tho small-pi^x. ajiod .">!' yoars. Tho disoaso was so inaliii'nant that ho was ontiroly Mind somo days bot'iuo his doa\h. Puvinii' his oourso o( pvotossional lit'o ho had boon nnoiMimu>nly >lvill'nl in its troatmont, hut havl uo\ortakon it by inoooulatiiu\ tn' othorwiso. In poisi>n ho was six loot high, oiiH't auvl wcW pri^pin'tiouod. appoaraiioo oonnuandinii- and with mannors allablo. giMUlomanly and of unall'ootod sinoority. llo was suoooodtnl by (lon. Linooln. Sanih, s/.iV// ohild o( .lohn and Lydia. was b. N\n. o, l7"Jt>: mar. fliMvmiah Kinsman. o\ Norwioh. C'oun. 7. Koziah, b. No\. 7. 17;>0: d. Poo. 11. 17,M. Xof/inn T/iOinim. a tannor by trade, mar. Alioo Ivikor. ^laroh 4. 17l.'>, who d. ,luno 1, 171.^. agod twouty-ti\o. Ho mar. lM\vUy. Abiah. dau. o( .losiah Stiow, dan. '2, 17l«>: sho d. Fob. 1. 17fS. agod twonty-l'our. llo m.ar. orally . Sarah Fv^stor. vlau. ot' Ooa. dv^hn Fostor, o( Flymouth. and gr. dau. ot' Poa. dohn Fostor. o( Marshtlold. k^/k' mar. l^ully. .lododiah Inuirno. and d. Fob.. I77v'^. agod oighty-two. Nathan d. Nov. ;>. 1741. in hi.i tifty-thivvl yo.ar. llo had ohildron : 1. Sarah. i>. Poo. \'2, 17iH>: d. whilo visitiniT hor sistor. Mrs. Phillips, at Uosion. and was buriod thoro. i*. Alioo. b. Ooo. -,'>. 17i*« : mar. C'api. IVnj. riullips. ol* Boston. Nov. \u, 17 4o. Thov lived on Fort Hill, auvl had ot\o ohild. Alioo. bon\ tho following voar. Dr. Winslow Lewis. o\' WoMon. was a desoendant of Alivv and l>eni. Phillips, o. AVilli.am. b. d.an. ol. 17^7: mar. tii-st. Mary. dan. o( Abmham Hill. o\' Maiden: sooond. Abiah. ilau. i>f r.apt. dames Thomas, of Ouxbury. Mareh 11. 17r>4. 4. Nathat\. b. .Vug. oO. 17o0: mar. Sandi, dau. of IVa. dodediah Uonrno. Nov.. 17.">(>. r>. fchafkhh l>. dmio i8. 173»^, in a house that stiwl on tho site and oollar of tho present ivsidonoe oi CAPT. ICHABOD TIIO.MAS. 153 Luthor Thomas, the first house on the loft, staiulini:: on ti iiill after erossinii' the raihoad traek at the ^Nlarshfield depot, on the road from the Mar.Nhfiehl Post Offiee to Brant Koek. This house was built hy Nathan Thomas, and torn down in iSii;}. The jirojK-rty has oeen in the Thomas family over one hundred and tifty years. IchahoJ mar. Kuth, dan. of Capt. Benj. Turner, and settled in Pembroke, Mass. They were mar. Jan. "22, 1701, by the Kev. Thomas Smith. Kuth d. Oct. 12, 1801, in her sixty- sixth year. lehalxxl d. March 2, 1788, aged tifty-five. They had six sons and two daughters, viz. : I. Ichabod Thovufs, Jr., b. Oct. 23, 17G1. II. Sakah Thomas, b. Nov. 8, 17()3; was the tirst wife of the Rev. Levi Whitman, of Wellfleet, jNIass. Theii" children were: Levi, b. Jan. 1(>, 1789; Sarah, b. Fel). 21, 1790 ; mar. Albion K. Parris, who was Governor of Maine in 1822, and when Gen. Lafayette visited there, and Ma}or of Portland in 1852. Mrs. Parris d. in Washington, D. C, Jan., 1883, aired ninetv-three. Josiah and Kuth, b. Jan. 2>>, 1793; d. in Mav, 1793.^ Kuth, 2nd, b. June 21, 1794. Ichalxul T., 1st, b. May 7, 179(i ; d. July 27, 1798. Elizabeth S., b. Oct. 19, 1797. Hope Doane, b.^Feb. 3, 1799. lehabod T., 2nd, b. July 7, 1800; d. July 18, 1800. Catharine, b. Nov. 8, 1802; d. March 14, 1803. AVillianiT., b. Dec. 17, 1803; d. Jan. 9, isn4. The mother, Sarah Whitman, d. Dec. 17, 1803. Kev. Mr. AMiitman mar. 2ndly, Dorothy Drew Thomas, relict of Charles Thomas, April 1(), 1807, and by her had one child, Thomas, b. 1809 ; d. aged two months twenty-six days. jNIr. Whitman d. in Kingston, Mass., Nov. 7, 1838, aged ninety. Dorothy d. ia P)oston, Feb. 4, 1840, aged seventy-seven. III. Benjamin Thomas, b. about 1764. Followed the sea. lY. Charles Thomas, b. Aug. 31, 1765; mar. Dorothy, dau. of William Drew, in 1788. He went to Macomb, ]\leDonough County, 111. The date of his death has not been aseertained. His ehildren were : Charles, b. Oct. 23, 1788; enlisted as an artificer in Capt. AValbach's Company U. S. Artillery, in the sprinij of 1814; was discharged April 25, 1815, and d. Jan. 20,1818. George, 1st, b. Dec. 22, 1789; d. Jan. 4, 1790. George, 2nd, b. Dec. 30, 1790, who, by si)ecial act of the Court, :Mareh 10, 1827, had "Priest" added to his name, making it (leorge Priest Thomas. He mar., April 5, 1809, ]Maria West, dau. of Kobert and ]\Iary (West) Foster. She d. in Boston, Jan. 27, 1847, aged fifty-six. He mar. 2ndly, 164 IIIOAIAS OENEALOliV. June 25, lH51,l\Iary VyuH Niclmls, of lloadiii^, Mass., hy whom lie had im cirildrt'ii. lie d. in liostoii, Jan. 2-1, 1H(!7, aiicd sovciity-hnveu. I lis cliildirii liy Ids Hi^t wile wimc : 1. flidia rarvisi 1st, )». .Imio 14, l^^lO; d. Aii^-. 12, 1«12. 2. ('utlia- rine Drew, h. Dec. U, IHll ; d. in IMynionlh, :N. II., Oct. 1(1, 1875, unniavrieil. 8. INlaria .An,t;nsta, 1». Sept. 80, 1H18 ; mar. elan. 1(S, 1H-Il,,l.ilm l'\ Mditon, (tf riyinoulh, N. II., a descend- ant (if the. Mtmlttins, of Kllswoitli ; he d. May 15, 1S75, a^ed sixly-livc; she d. Ang. fi, l^^o, aiied stixcnly- 'I'hey ha»l ejul- dren : .h.hn F., h. Sept. 2, 1845; d. daii. 24, 184(1. Kate ]\hiiia, h. March 4, 1848; mar. Charles .1. Goidd, Dec. 25, 1877. They iiave had tonr children. 4. Waldo L., b. Sept. 27, 1815 ; liiar. Sa.ah Ann York, of New Market, N.II., Sept. 12, 1841. lie went t«t('nlta, for his lu-altli, lint returned to Dorchester, where he d. May 15, 1857. She d. in New York City, ISIay 2ll, 1881. Their children were: KlU^n, Knnna, Laura, Valentine, Ralph \\'aldo, who mar. ]\Iary De lions, and Kva, who mar. and li\ es in Newton, ]\Iass. 5. Charles Fred- eric,* b. Aug. 211, 1817 ; mar. Dec. 2, 1838, Abigail Locke, * An nutiiliiiigvaiiby (if the eventful life of Ohaiies Frederic Thomas, to the present day, woiilil muko a must interesting,' lumk, and the anthor regrets that want of space allows hint liiit lii'ielly to refer to the main points thus far, he being nt>w seventy-two years of a^(\ and a^ ailive as a man of tliiily. 11c LTiadnutcd at lllaisdci's Academy, aside the (»UI Noitli Cininli, Huston, and soon after went to Antwerp, in the hrig " Volant," ('apt. liphraim I'inney, of I'lynuaith, Mass. Iteinniing ahont ISlil, ho went to Jvingston, Mass., to Icaru tlie trade of car|ieiitcr and hniithi, of Lewis Itiplcy, and later workcil tor Abraham Sliennan, of Cambridge. M'hile aiiciuiing tlie trial of Mar- \ in Mercy, w hi^ w as indicted tor bnrning the I'isniine ('nn\ent at Charlestow n, he made the acipiaintance ot somi Lo\vcll wtirlunen, \vlu» pirsnaiied liim to engage w ilh l^icker- Ing ^ Malliers, wiiere lie tinialicd his trade. Later, he worked tor his brother Waldo, at ^^'ate^tow n, a slmrt time., w hen he shiiipcd in the brig " Uoderiik lUm," to St, lago, W'. I. tbt the Islanil of Cuba, and in the mines of San Fernando, he hail a mo.-'t inter- esting experience, including matiy narrow escapes. Soon after Ins return to Uoston, he sailed tor Mobile, in the ship " Tiger," of 5110 tons, ow neil by Wheelwright & Co., Oen- lial WMiarl. Krom Mobile ho \ve\it to Liverpool, whence he saded for itoston, Jan. 8, lS;t3. T\\ (I weeks after his arri\ al in lioston, he joined the ship " New Jersey," 6.iO tiais, bound ftir New Orleans, Mo'iile, anil Li\eipool. lie shijipi'd in the same vessel fora second voyage to those ports, and, while lying at lUibuy island, at the month of the Parien River, lie bathed every day in the river, using a large sponge. A slave, w ho was very black, askeil him w hat made his skin so w hite. Mr. Thomas replieil, " The constant use tif this sponge." The negro, thinking the sponge would make him white, offered to give him a boat-load of provisions for the sponge, which Mr. Thounia ac- cepteil. Mr. Thounts says, "Not having seen hint sinie, I do not know whether he be- came whneliefore Mr. Lincoln's Kmancipatuin t'roclamation (>r not, but I ho|iehedid." Alter his letnrn from this voyage, he shipped as one of thooiticcrs mi the ship "William Fngs," for Liverpoid and Havana, arriving back in Litiston, Aug. 15, 1S;W. On the 2i)th of August, 18;i8, Charles became of age, and he and his brother Waldo were set up as iarpenters in Lowell, lie soon went to Waltham, and thence to Meilford, w here he worked jomeriiig for Ooodwm i^ Ventrin, JohnWinslow, aiul Anthony Waterman. From here he was hired by Cyrus Alger, of South lioston, to put in the toiindaiions for his anclmr forge on Ihachester Turnpike. Sears ^; Fitcli, of Boston, employeil him afterward in budding A. ^; A. Lawrence's sbne, on Milk street; the Swedenborgian Church, on Uowdoiu street; Old Colony Uailroad Station, on Kneeland street, etc. In IMl, he became u mechanical eugiuew', and later a, desiguex- ul locoiuutives and other THOMAS GENEALOGY. 155 tlau. of Edward Page, of Deerfield, N. 11. She was b. May 21, 1811 ; she d. in Brooklyn, May 14, 1885. Their cliihh-en were : Charles Frederic, b. in jNledford, April 13, 1841 ; d. in Brooklyn, N. Y., March 19, 1808, unmarried. Abbie Maria, b. in Boston, INIay 11, 1840 ; mar. first, Benjamin B., son of Major Benjamin B. French, of Washington, 1). C. He d. in Barronqnilla, So. America, Mny 2U, 1881, leaving children: Abl)ie jNIaiie, who was b. in Brooklyn, June 30, 18(57 ; Charles Francis, b. in New York City, July 25, 1869. Abbie Maria, the mother, mar. secondly, Hermann Joerns, in Brooklyn, N. Y.,. Feb. 28, 1882. He was b. in Hamburg, Germany, June 27,, 1842. They have one son, Herman Ormond, b. June 4, 1884. machinery. "While employed by Uriah A. Boyden, at Manchester, N. H., he super- intended the construction of Turbine water wheels, and machinery for the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company and Suncook Cotton Mills. Under the instruction of Oliver Bailey, he constructed the locomotive " Mameluke," for the Manchester and Lawrence Railroad, which, on her trial trip, ran two miles in seventy seconds, and, on a later trip, tore herself to pieces. While here, be constructed a lathe twenty-two feet in diameter, the largest ever made. In 1852, William Mason, of Taunton, sent for Mr. Thomas.who located Mr. Mason's works at Taunton, and designed and superintended the construc- tion of the so-called Mason locomotive. In 1856 he received a bronze medal and diploma from the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association, for his skill in designing, drawing, and water-coloring. Mr. Thomas was called to Washington, D. C, by Gen. Montgomery C.Meigs, Cliief U.S. Engineer Corps, to take charge of the mechanical branch of the Department of Pul>lic Works under his charge, in 1857, viz. : United States Capitol Extension, New Dome on the Capitol, Washington Aqueduct, United States Post Office, and Fort Madison. The construction of the new dome was remod- elled at his suggestion, and it was successfully built under his supervision. He placed the statue of Freedom on the top of the dome, Dec. 2, 1863, planned all the scaffolding for its erection, and received a certificate, signed by Thomas U. Walter, Architect; Benjamin B. French, Commissioner of Public Buildings ; J. P. Usher, Secretary of the Interior; and countersigned by Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, acknowledging his valualile services. Mr. Thomas was removed from the Public Works in 1S61, and entered the United States Army, April 19, 1861, to serve three months. He was a member of the " President's Mounted Guard," District of Columbia Volunteers, served his time, and received an honorable discharge July 19, 1861. With others, he applied to President Lincoln for a commission to raise a regiment of cavalry, the "Mounted Guard" to be a nucleus; papers were endorsed by Mr. Lincoln, and passed through the proper offices, and returned, as that arm of the service was already supplied. Afterward, he Avas elected Captain of "K" Company, Interior Department Regiment, composed of all the workmen on the Public Works and Department of the Interior. When the statue was put in position, Mr. Thomas, after two sections of the scaffold were removed, stood upon the head, and was photographed, a copy of which photograph he has preserved; and then, with steel letters he marked President Lincoln's, Benjamin B. French's, Thomas U. Walter's, and his own name, in full, on the upper- most feather of her helmet. When the dome was completed, Mr. Thomas resigned his position as Superintendent of the Public Works, to take one more remunerative, with the Chester Manufacturing Company. Later, he tooK a position with J. B. & W. W. Cornell, architectural iron works, in New York, and served them as a Superintendent for six and one-half years. In 1871, Messrs. Thomas Otis Le Roy & Co., manufacturers of shot, sheet lead, and pine, employed him as engineer and general superintendent. He was with them eleven years, and made many improvements in the machinery, in- vented the spray and mist in the tower, so that larger shot could be dropped at less ele- vation, and originated and successfully got up the new standard scale for shot, which was adopted by the New York State Sportsmen's Association, at Batavia, N. Y., in 1873. He is, at the time of this writing, engaged in building a street motor which he has perfected. It is a car run by steam and water stored in pipes connected with a small lire-box charged with mcandescent coal. ifli; rilOMAM (JKM-.AI,0«n . (uMMii*' Homv, l». it» lloslon. S«>|)|. 1»(, ISIS. ;i p!il(«Mn-tnMk(M' ; \\\',\y. .Ininic 11. (Jliiss. of N»m\ ^luK, in ISTl*. TluMr <-liiI«lron tiii< : (iroriio I'.'iLiv. I«. in \r\\ \ oil ('it\. Oct. i.';i. lS7i». l''l(U«M\n, Mmss.. Nov. im;. IS.M ; ,1. Frl>, i>7, is.'.a. CliMilos l''itMl«Mio, Sr., lUMr. i.*i\«ll\ . HmummIi Sophji Autlorson, (>!' S\\(m1«m\. ( ^*'l. 1*'K 1SS7, ItN \\l»«>in ln' lias oiuM-liiM. I'',(l:» Anu^li.-i, It. .Iimo 2.'), 18SS1. <;. DmiuoI llrij^iis. l,.()i-l. ll*. ISIK; (|..l:m. ."U. ISilO. 7. Miiry KostiM-, 1>. .Imm. It^ ISi'l ; uv.w. I'li.-irK's A«wlr«Mv l'\tsti>r. !i porhiiil-p.'iinttM-. ,liiM«> A, isil ; ln> ^\. ,Iulv IS. ISS((, it) Kiuiislon. Thoir rliiMicn \\(Mi': ,luli;\ !M;>ri:i, tuMv. lii^l . \\ illi.'M\» Hiirns ; sot'oml. l''rr»l»Mi«'K PiirslnH^. ('Ii.nios n\\«>n. iu:ir. tirsi , lljillii^ \\'!i(soii ; sot'oinl. l-'.li/.ahrtli rmill. M;uv \\'Mi\ \\\:\\\ .Iolii\ (M.-n'Muoo. NoiM, lusu". K. I'M\\;moniitlisl\o»l n\'!inr<'s Urown. ol' Hos- t»>i\. Thov havi' l»:ul rhiMvon : I'atnno. I>. Nov. lM), ISH. in So. Boston. Mass., i\\\y\ Ma (owh^s. h. .Inly l.'l, ISA'i.sit Mont- gonuMT, vVIa. Fain\iiMn;n'. l"'\«Ml»Mirk U. HassiMt. «>!' nrooUlyn, N. v.. Pro. \'.\, ISii.t. rhi'ir ohiMvon .Mn» : .hilius W illi.nn, h. Ovt. (». 1S(!(?. now vosiilino in Hiooklyn, N. ^". l-'retkMiok Uivwsloc. It. Jan. 1. 1S(»;>. no\v(lSSl>) a naval i>a«l«M. T. S. Na\y, ;nui .mI |t(«>-^«MU on \ . J^. S. " Kiolnnond." at Montovitloo, rruiiu.'iy. Ida ro\>U's, u\:\v. lv\>llin \\. l-'islior. ol* lUvston, Ww \l\. lS7»t. Thov h.a\o thiUlnM^ : l"\annio. 1>. l>tH\ \l\, 1S77. laa May. 1». Juno (!. IS7:>. lv»tllin U.. 1). Nov. U^ ISS;{. K. 'rhojuas. It. l>ri\ '.\, ISS7, all «>! \\l\on\ woro It. in Boston. :K (uH)!^^ lloniv Auiinstus TluMtditro. I». I'ob. 7, liSi>.'>. Sonod his tiniowilli I>;\;u' an*l Sotli Ailanis, in Uoslon. LattM- luMvont to fnlta, whoro ho was I'onsnltiuii oniiinotM' ot' suiiav ost.atos. Ho d. o\\ tho t^stati^ ot' I. OS. l>os n«Mn\it\«tsoi\. July 'J.'). 1S.">7, .a«:ovl tlurty-tw»i y«>ars. tVoni tho olVoots ot' an aooi«tont. a oolnnui o\ a sto.'MU onuino t'alliuii' tu\ his lt;nk. !(K .Vd.alino ."-^niith. l>. Juno 7, lSi*7 : mar. llonry H\o\\ii. ol' l\o\hury. M.ass.. ,Iui\o l.t. ISI.'k Sho vl. in Ivoxltuw. No\. \0. 1S:>I. llo d. in May. ISSO. Thoir ohiM\'on \\«>ro: IKM»iy. who <1. in iul'anoy. Char- lotto, mar. Ch.arlos M. l-'ord. ol' rhiv'.aui^ .'>ntl thoy havo two l>oys, llarrv and l"'.«hlio. //. .lulia I'aiiis. i'n»l, h. May 1(>. IS.'U ; n\ar. (Jooi^o l.oriui: Urttwn. tho lU>>7, is described, in a ])ass- '' 'iV / / f^/ _^, port issued in 1803, -^(^/^/irA»^ J*//^ffr>^ ^hen he was thirty- *" "^^^ six years of age, as follows : " Color, fair ; height, six feet ; mark, top of riglit arm ; eyes, gray ; nose, large; mouth, small ; chin, long; hair, ligiit brown." He mar. July 15, 1784, Huldah Dwelley ; their dau. mar. Thomas Barstow. Children: 1. iVIary, mar. ,] . Park- liurst, of New Bedford. 2. Julia, mar. Phillip Smith, of New Bedford. 3. George Barker, d. young. 4. liel)ecca Barstow, d. young. 5. Lydia Shaw, d. aged sixteen. (5. Eliza1)eth I)., d. young. 7. Elizabeth D., 2nd, mar. Capt. Stephen M. Pot- ter, and now lives at 479 County street, New Bedford. VI. Ruth Thomas, b. April 12, 17()I), mar. twice ; first. Dr. Charles Turner. Their chiklren were : Charles, Jr., b. June ^!, 17. ^lary Thomas, 7. Lloyd, 8. Franklin, (see Briggs and Fox Hill Yards for the descendants 158 CWT. ICHABOI) THOMAS. of this fiiniily). 2nd, ]\Iai;y, mar. Joshua Perry of Hanson, and died without issue. Ca[)t. Ichabod, Jr., Avas an intelli^Lrent reader ; he liad a prood knowledge of oeouraphy, with k)cality large, and his brothers who were the saihirs said he knew more about foreign poits and phu-es than they did. lie was a h)ver of history and read the ne\vspa})ers until a short time before his death. He always had a steady hand and shaved himself on his last birthday. He was a master shipbuilder, and at different times was a partner with his uncle, Calvin Turner, with Elisha Briggs and William Cushing. Later he and his wife resided with their dan., Mrs. Perry, in Brooks, Maine, •and afterwards at their home in Hanson, his wife for 20 years and he for 40. He was fond of relating anecdotes, especially one about Mr. Cobb of Kingston. "When Mv. Cobb was 100 years old he sent to Plymouth for a certain minister to preach the century sermon. Mr. ^Villis his minister at Kingston did not like it and so expressed himself. j\Ir. Cobb to pacify him 'told him that he should preach the next century sermon. Mr. Thomas used always to add that if he should live to be 100 he •should like to have his grandson (Rev. ^^'illiam Thomas Briggs,) who was a minister, settled in Princeton, Mass. at that time, preach his century sermon. Ichabod Thomas, Jr., was in 1791 appointed Ensign by Gov- ernor John Hancock in a com})any of the 2nd regiment, 1st l)rigade, 5th division of the ^Massachusetts Militia, comprehend- ing the Counties of Plymouth. Barnstal)le, Bristol, Dukes and Nantucket. In 17U5he was appointed Lieutenant of the said company by CTOvernor Sanuiel Adams, and ai)j)ointed by Gov- ernor Caleb Strong, Captain in 1802. The muster roll of Capt. Thomas's company for the year 1804 contains the names of three commissioned officers, four sergeants and nuisicians, and rifty six men, including the names of Turner, Taylor, l^arstow, JNlagoun, Keen, Briggs, Bates, Hatch and others. On the first Tuesday in ]May in each year this company was called together for inspection. Cai)tain Thomas' resignation was accepted and he was honorably discharged at his own recjuest, March 1, 1807. William Thomas succeeded to the home of his father Xathan Tlumias, and mar. Mary Hill, dau. of Abraham Hill of ^Maiden. Their children were: 1. AVilliam, b. Sept. 21,1747: 2. Mary, b. Feb. 17, 1749; 3. Nathan, 1). Jan. 18, 1751. d. Dec. 15,1751; 4. Sarah, b. Jan. 21, (New Style) , 1753, mar. Thomas Baker, and Capt. Ichabod Thomas, Jr. THOMAS GENEALOGY. 159 she died Jan. 6, 1822. The mother died 16 March, 1753, (New Style) ao-ed 24 yrs, 10 mos, 15 days. Capt. Wm. mar. 2udly, Abiah Thomas, March 11, 1754, they had: 1. Deborah, b. May 28th, 1755; 2. Luther, b. Jan. 25, 1757; 3. Jesse, b. Feb. 5, 1760 ; 4. Alice, and 5. Abiah, twins, b. July 6, 1762. Alice d. July 8, 1763, Abiah d. Sept. 18, 1768. William Thomas, eldest son of Capt. Wm. Thomas, mar. Abigail Sherman April 12, . They had 1. Mary Hill, mar. Abijah Waterman; 2. Abigail Chapman. Israel Thomas, 6th and youngest son of the Ancestor John, and Sarah Pitney, mar. Bethiah Sherman, Feb. 23, 1698. He died Jan. 29, 1755, in the 85th year of his age. She died in 1728, aged 50. Children : 1. Gershom, b. April 17, 1699, mar. Mercy Hewit ; 2. Joseph, b. Jan. 4, 1702, d. single ; 3. Amos, b. Oct. 2, 1703, mar. Ruth, dau. of Joseph White and moved to Lebanon, Conn ; 4. Bethiah, b. 1705, mar. Israel Hatch Oct. 27, 1725; 5. Keziah, b. Jan. 13, 1708, mar. John Dingley, Nov. 17, 1730; 6. Abigail, b. April 5, 1710, mar. Thomas Waterman, Jan. 25, 1732 ; 7. Nehemiah, b. July, 2Q, 1712, mar. Abiah, dau. of Nathaniel Winslow ; 8. Sybil, b. Jan. 6, 1714, mar. John Tilden of Hanover, Dec. 2, 1742 ; 9. Jane, b. Dec. 31, 1718, mar. Thomas Ford, Jan., 1739-40 ; 10. Deborah, b. April 28, 1719, mar. Jabez Washburn of Kingston, Oct. 4, 1751. Nehemiah Thomas, son of Dea. Israel, b. July 26, 1712, mar. Abiah AVinslow, dau. of Nathaniel and Deborah Barstow Bryant Winslow, widow of John Bryant, b. Dec. 9, 1741. Dea. Nehemiah d. May 30, 1782, aged 70. Abiah, wid. of Nehemiah, d. Aug. 7, 1809. They had children ; 1. Elithia, b. May 1, 1742, mar. Joseph Drew of Dux bury ; 2. Abigail, b. March 12, 1743, mar. Briggs Thomas, son of Col. Anthony Thomas ; 3. Ruth, b. Aug. 3, 1746, died young : 4. Nehemiah, b. Jan. 3, 1748 : 5. Nathaniel, b. Oct. 1, 1750, died unmarried ; 6. Olive, b. Dec. 28, 1752, mar. Joshua Winsor, Duxbury ; 7. Ruth 2nd, 1). June 14, 1755, 2nd wife of Joshua Winsor; 8. Lucy, b. Nov. 27, 1757, died unmarried, aged 30 ; 9. Hannah, b. July 22, 1760, mar. Judah Thomas; 10. Winslow, b. July 21, 1763, mar. Abigail Delano; 11. Nehemiah 2ud, b. Fel). 3, 1766, mar. Hannah Otis of Scituate, at which place he settled in the niiui;.try ; 1^. Charles, b. Feb. 6, 1768, mar. Saba Ever- son of KiniTston. 160 TH03IAS GENEALOGY. James Thomas, 4th son of the ancestor John, and Sarah Pitney, settled inDuxburv, near ]\Iarshfield ; mar. Mary . They\ad: 1. Mavy, b. Sept. 27, 1(393: 2. James, b. Feb. 10, l(i96; 3. Hannah, b. Aug. 30, 1098, mar. Wrestling Brewster of Kingston, 1722; 4. John, 1). Nov. 4, 1700, mar. Hannah Spofford and settled in Lebanon, Conn ; 5. E])enezer, b. Sept. 30, 1703, mar. and settled in Norwich, Conn. ; 6. Ezekiel, b. Sept. 29, 170(5, mar. and moved to Lebanon, Conn. Capt. James mar. Deborah, dau. of John and Jane Hatch Sherman, Feb. 12, 1715, and d. Jan 16, 175S, aged 54. Debo- rah, his widow, d. Feb. 5, 1774, aged 84. They had chil. : 1. Abiah, b. March 25, 1720, mar. Capt. William Thomas of Marshtield; 2. Deborah, b. May, 7, 1722, d. July 19, 1747, aged 25 yrs., 2 mos. ; 3. James, b. Feb. 1, 1720, mar. Priscilla Winslow. They are ancestors of Hon. B. W. Harris of Bridge- water ; 4. Jesse, b. Sept. 10, 1728, a merchant and sm'veyor, d. of consumption, while waiting at ]\Ieduncook, Me. for a passage home. He was a man of much property. Ebenezer Thomas, of Norwich, Conn., 5th child of Jas. and Mary, mar. for his tirst wife Hannah Haskins, March 7, 1735. She died July, 1747. They had chil. : 1. Hannah, b. Sept. 3, 1733; 2. Ebenezer, b. Oct. (i, 1734, probably d. early; 3. Mary, b. March 9, 1735 ; 4. Lucretia, b. Sept. 5, 1738 ; 6. Abigail, b. Sept. 8, 1740; 7. Ebenezer, b. Feb. 28, 1742-3; 8. Elizabeth, b. July 2, 1747, d. 1799. Ebenezer Thomas mar. 2ndly Deborah Hyde. They had chil. : 1. Deborah, b. Oct. 10, 1749, mar. Captain Frederic Tracy; 2. Clarissa, b. Dec. 13, 1753, d. Aug. 21, 1758; 3. Simeon, b. Dec. 13, 1753, mar. Miss Deshon of New London, parents of Edward Thomas of Augusta, Ga., b. 1793. Thomas Langrel, the youngest son of El)enezer and Deborah Hyde Thomas, b. Aug. 1, 1757, left no sons. Henry Thomas, father of Caroline Thomas of Norwich, Conn., w^as son of Ebenezer, b. 1742-3. Ezekiel Thomas of Lebanon, Conn., 7th child of Jas. and Mary, mar. Sarah Trumbull, Feb. 25, 1735-3(5. They had chil. : 1. Ezekiel, b. Dec. 15, 1736, d. May 8, 1737. Sarah, the mother, d. Dec. 18, 1736. Ezekiel mar. 2ndly, Ann Haskins, 1740. They had chil. : 1. Sarah, b. Aug. 4, 1741. 2. Ezekiel, b. Feb. 1743; 3. Ann,b. Feb. 20, 1744; 4. Sybil, b. March 8, 1747 ; 5. Lord, b. Aug. 29, ]»748 ; 6. Jethaniah, b. July 1, 1750; 7. Daniel, b. May 5, 1753; 8. Josiah, b. THE ANCESTORS, JOHN AND SARAH PITNEY THOMAS. 161 Oct. 17, 1755 ; 9. John, b. May 29, 1757 ; 10. Mabel, b. March 4, 1759; 11. Josiah, b. Sept. 17, 1762; 12. Jesse, b. Aug. 21, 1764. To return to the ancestor John : — the following is taken from an address delivered by the late Marcia Thomas, on the occasion of the re-union of the Thomas family at the old home- stead in Marshfield, Sat., elune 15, 1872, and the presentation of a statue by Stephen M. Allen, Esq. of Boston. " All of the descendants of John Thomas and Sarah Pitney, who were among the first settlers of Marshfield, and Avere married Dec. 21, 1648, occupying the farm adjoining the Daniel Webster place, now the residence of the family of Miss Adelaide Phillips, were invited to take an interest and part at the family gathering and memorial services at the old home- stead spot to-day ; complimentary to the members of the Thomas family, as well as a tribute of respect to Miss Phillips, whose kindness and hospitality so many of the descendants of the Thomas family have had occasion to acknowledge during the last twelve years, on visiting the old homestead. "The memorial presented is a metalic female figure; (a Grecian nymph,) two-thirds size of life, which is to stand near the street upon the edge of the old cellar, looking down upon the ruin. She holds in her elevated left hand an inverted water-urn, or vase, and in her right, which also clasps the drapery of her dress, a wreath. The design idealizes the return to earth of the ancestress, to visit the homestead, bringing a wreath of flowers and laurel for the fair songstress, now resident there. The attitude is the chosen moment when the nymph steps upon the mound of rock and earth, and seems lost in wonder at the changed appearance of the ancestral home, and inadvertently raises the hand which contains the urn, pouring out the water upon the ground, still clasping the wreath. The statue is one of rare grace, delicacy, and beauty, and was east in Germany. Of that woman who stands at the head of our Ime in this country we have much to say, and the heart warms in the consciousness that where we now stand, she has often stood before : that on this beautiful landscape, which entrances our own eyes and heart, she has often gazed with all the fervor of romance and all the enthusiasm of love which we can know or feel. Her emotional life must have been deeper than ours, for here, at her bridal home, were entertained, with perhaps the highest domes- 162 THE ANCESTORS, JOHN AND SARAH PITNEY THOMAS. . . 1 i.ov firP^Kle shades of constant fear. Here, in {'' J",^T/Jhr^t.u a«d t e lie: httone «ere never free from the her day, the altai ana uie pitnev was a heroic London in the ship P^'^jl^; 'f.,tVer James Pitney, had pre- phK.eof^vo,■s.n;,an.y■e-« to^^ ;™^*™ ,„i„,^t be able gai-meiits, with his nfle by hi,, '!<=<»»'";_,. ^ ^^^^ Their r„ reiKler a^-t™ce to t^^^^ r,; ;;"t"?tiint were never fears ot ""a^k fum. » ;;;f;^ '^^^Ver carried into captivity reahzed. Uie peopie diyuu^ v.votectinff care of their " H"'--" •• :^tt:^':s^^<^ ';L"-7w.?b"te i,y third entered "" '^e -eo.jls rf^^^^^^^^ ^\J^.^^^. ,^ ^he this homestead, which hail u^e" ^; , ., ,,eiohh<.rliood, and for town for the tetter accomnioati(,nt a ntahoo , furnishing -'di ad.litic^ to lieu ^^^A^^^^^o^i his ;:pp^vfr" n w^S; berwe'd on Robe.. Cai.er, brother to THE ANCESTORS, JOHN AND SARAH PITNET THOMAS. 163 the first Governor of the colony, who, after the lapse of five years, with the approl^ation of Mr. Wii slow, transferred it to John Thomas, and the former remo\'ed to another grant, where his descendants yet reside. This neighborhood was one of the most favored in the colony. The domains of Mr. Winslow and Mr. Wm. Thomas, another of its founders, were extensive. On this spot, midway between their fortified mansion-houses, she reared her family, numbering six sons and two daughters. Her eldest daughter, Elizabeth, deceased in early womanhood. Her other daughter, Sarah, married Ben j. Phillips of this place ; one of her sons, Ephraim, removed to Providence Plantation; her other five settled in this section of the old colony, mostly on lands granted from time to time to their father. They all left a fair record on the pages of history, and their descendants can now be counted by thousands, scattered from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast. Her days were passed amid stirring, and to us, historic scenes, too numerous to name. Courts for magistracy and councils of war were holden at Careswell. After the lamented decease at sea of Gov. Edward Winslow, in l()5(j, his son Josiah presided at the family mansion. He became the first native-born Governor of the colony, and chief commander of its military forces. His useful life was closed in KiSO, at the age of fifty two. Philip's war, as it was termed, was far more alainiino; to the settlers of this reio;n than previous difficulties with the native tribes ; but Careswell was fortified, and here, with the 3^ounger children of her household, she doul)tless found a retreat of measurable safety under the protecting arm of the colony and the invulnerable Standish." Capt. Ichabod Thomas, after his marriage with Ruth Turner, the daughter of his instructor, Capt. Benj., left his native town, and settled on an estate in Pembroke, purchased of James Randall, as the following extracts from a deed prove : " To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting, &c. : Know ye that James Randall of Pembroke in the County of Plimouth in New Eng. Blacksmith, for and in consideration of the sum of One hundred and Eight pounds in Lawful Money of New Eng. to me in hand paid by Ichabod Thomas of the town, etc. afoies'd, Ship- ivrig-ht, the rec'pt whereof I do hei-eby acknowledge and myself satisfied content, etc. Have given, granted, etc. unto him the s'd Ichabod Thomas, his heirs, and assigns forever a certain farm or tract of land with the buildings and fencing thereon, standing and belonging, etc. in ye township of Pembroke afores'd, containing by estimation 21 J acres more or less, bounded as follows : — Beginning at a large Rock lying on the South side of the county road near 164 CAPT. ICHABOD THOMAS' YARD. where the house stood, formerly Lclonging to old Levt. Barker, now Isaac Taylor's, from thence is bounded by s'd roade to the land of David Magoim, and thence westerly by s'd Magoun's land to tlie land of Col. James Otis, Esqr. — taken by virtue of an Execution s'd Otis had against s'd Randall, and thence southerly by s'd Otis' land to the land I sold to Capt. Benjamin Turner, and thence east- erly by said Turner's land to said County road, thence northerly by s'd county road unto the s'd great Rock, the bounds first mentioned, except and alwa}'S reserving the way which formerly belonged to Abraham Booth, from.tlie County road to his land. To have and to hold, etc. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal this twenty-ninth day of January, Anno Domini, 1761. James Randall [6"Wye>'," Capt. Hezekiah Cotiin, with the rest of the tea. He was ordered to proceed to GriflSn's Wharf, and discharge all of his cargo excepting the tea. On Dec. IG, there was held, in Faneuil Hall, the greatest meeting ever held in Boston up to that time, two thousand persons coming from the country, besides thousands from the city. Mr. Kotch reported that the Collector would not give him a clearance. He was then ordered upon his peril to get his ships ready for sea, and proceed directly to the Governor, then at Milton, and procure a pass for his ships to go by the Castle. Mr. liotch returned at 5.45 p.m., and reported that the Gover- nor would not grant the permit. The meeting lasted until well into the evening, which was bright moonlight. The following- account is taken from the Massackm^etts Gazette : "Just before the dissolution of the meeting, a number of brave and resolute men, dressed in the Indian manner, approached near the door of the assembly, and gave the war-whooji, which rang through the house, and was answered by some in the galleries ; but silence was commanded, and a peaceable deportment again enjoined till the dissolution. The Indians, as they were then called, repaired to the wharf where the ships lay that had the tea on board, and were followed by hundreds of peo])le, to see the event of the transactions of those who made so grotesque an a])pearance. They, the Indians, immediately repaired on board Capt. Hall's ship, where they hoisted out the chests of tea, and, when on deck, stove the chests, and hove the tea overboard. Having cleared this ship, they proceeded to Capt. Bruce's, and then to Capt. Coffiii's brig. They applied themselves so dex- terously to the destruction of this commodity, that in the space of three 166 THE TEA SHir " BEAVER." hours they broke up 342 chests, valued at £18,000, which was the whole number in those vessels, and discharged their contents into the dock. When the tide rose, it floated the broken chests, and the tea, insomuch that the surface of the water was filled therewith a considerable way from the south part of the town to Dorchester Neck, and lodged on the shores. There was the greatest care taken to prevent the tea from being purloined by the populace. One or two being detected in endeavoring to pocket a small quantity, were stripped of their acquisitions, and very roughly handled. The town was very quiet during the whole evening and the night following. Those who were from the country went home, and the next day joy appeared in almost every countenance, — some on occasion of the destruction of the tea, others on account of the quietness with Avhich it was eftected. One of the Monday's papers says that the masters and owners are well pleased that the ships are thus cleared." Some of the men were belated, and, not having time to get up a costume equal to their brethren, hurried to the nearest l)lacksmith's shop, smooched their faces, borrowed a blanket from some neighbor, thus concealing their clothing and iden- tity, and proceeded to the ships, to join the rest of the tril)e, shouting, as they went, " Hurrah for Griffin's Wharf! " " Bos- ton Harbor a tea-pot this night ! " etc. There were about one hundred to one hundred and fifty tea-throwers, and, bef(jre leaving the wharf, all were searched, and pockets and shoes emptied of the tea, that none of it should be landed. One of the tea-party, Archibald MacNeil, died in Scituate, Mass., Feb. 1, 1840, aged ninety years. The "Beaver" was built al)otit the same time as the " Bedford." F. C. Sanford has an account of her voyage to London with a load of sperm oil, Dec, 1772, consigned to a man who did an inunense business with Nan- tucket, Samuel Enderby, grandfather to Pacha Baker, who was murdered in Egypt a few years ago. The " Beaver " followed whaling from New Bedford for years. After the tea was thrown out of her, both she and the "Bedford," Capt. Robt. Header, went upon the Brazil Banks, and filled with oil. While on the coast of Brazil, Capt. Hezekiah Coffin, of the "Beaver," al- lowed an exchange of Alex. Hay, one of his men, to come to Nantucket, and one of Capt. Header's, from the ship "Bed- ford," by the name of Seymour, to go in the "Beaver," to Lon- don. Seymour wanted more of the ship's voyage than the agreement upon the Banks, so they had to send to Nantucket for Cai)t. Header's affidavit, for Capt. Coffin having died, they could not settle his estate. F. C. Sanford has Capt. Header's affidavit, dated Jan. 27, 1783, also the entry of the "Bedford," Nantucket, May 31, 1783, in the book kept by Geo. Gardiner, Esq., first U. S. Custom House officer appointed to Nantucket. SHIPS BUILT BY CAPT. ICHABOD THOMAS. 167 In the spring of 1774, the "Bedford" returned to Nantncket, !ind the "Beaver" to England, where Capt. Hezekiah Coffin, of the "Beaver," died, and the ship was sold. The "Bedford" lay at Xantucket seven years, then loaded with four hundred and eifihty-eiirht hutts of oil, sailed for J^nizland, and hoisted the U" S! flag. Another " BEAVER " was built on Xorth Eiver in 1791. She went to the Pacific, and was afterwards sold in New York. The "Dartmouth," built at Dartmouth about 1767, was also a tea-ship ; and after the tea was thrown into Boston Har- I)()r, she came down to Xantucket, and in the following April, 1774, loaded oil and sailed for London. On her way back, she foundered, in November, and her crew were picked up by Shu- bael Cofiin, Nantucket. The next ship of Ichabod Thomas', of which there is any account, is the ship " HARMONY," built on North River pre- vious to 1769, at which date F. C. Sanford has a voyage made by her. She belonged to Wm. Rotch. In company with the "Falkland," in 1790, she went from Dunkirk, France, to the Pacific Ocean, both sailing in November. They were the first that went into the Pacific, after the " Amelia." They filled with sperm oil, and both arrived in Dunkirk in Feb., 1792. They were at Callao, Peru, when the ship " Columbia," Capt. Gray, was there, on his way to the Northwest Coast. Mr. Rotch was induced to send these vessels to the Pacific, from information given him by Archelus Hammond, who arrived in London, Septeml)er, 1790, in the ship "Amelia," (Capt Shield,) full of sperm oil. She belonged to Samuel Enderby, who did much business with Nantucket people. Hammond was a great whale- man, and struck the first whale struck in the Pacific Ocean. He died in 1830, aged seventy-one years. F. C. Sanford writes, "I knew Hammond well. Sam Enderby was grand- father to the late Gen. Gordon, of Egyptian memory." The "LEO" was built on North River in 1774, went whaling, and was broken up in 1823, at Nantucket. The " Harmony " was in company with the ship "Leo" in 1796. On the Brazil Banks in 1796 a whale leaped out of the sea across the "Har- mony's" deck and sunk her, the, crew jumping from their berths, having barely time to get into their l)oats and escape aboard the "Leo." Abel Rawson was Captain of the "Har- mony." This is the only case of the kind on record. The "FALKLAND," spoken of above, was built on North River in 1785, by Ichabod Thomas, and owned by Wm. Rotch. She 168 SHIPS BUILT BY CAPT. ICHABOD THOMAS. was finfilly sold to France, and, as a French privateer, did noble work in the English Channel, taking English ships. The next vessel was the ship "TAMA," built "before the "Bed- ford " She was a London packet from Nantucket. Five Nan- tucket men were carried to Portsmouth in the sloop-of-war "Rattlesnake," with the news of Cornwallis' surrender, Octo- ber, 1781. On arriving there, they were pressed into "Rod- ney's" sliip, were taken to the West Indies, and fought in the great l)attle of the 12th of April, 1782, saving the West Indies from DeGrass.* They returned to England, were paid off, and went round to London in a lugger, and there met the " Tama," Cajit. Shu1)ael Coffin. They took passage, and arrived at Nantuc- ket safe. The " Tama " went ashore on Long Island, comino; from New York, in 1807, and went to pieces. The " SOMERSET," a North River ship, built at the Brick-Kilns, was under Alex- ander Coffin, and on her passage from London to Nantucket, during the Revolution, as a London packet, she was taken by Com. John Paul Jones, and badly handled. Capt. Coffin had despatches from Dr. Franklin to the Continental Congress, an- nouncing the Treaty with France of that glorious alliance.f The papers were afterwards restored, by Com. Jones, to the Congress. Nantucket had tifteen London packets at that time. Alexander Coffin was a strong, splendid man. He moved to Hudson in 1784, and was a prominent man in that city, being Mayor twenty years. He died in 1839, aged ninety-seven years, eight months. At no yard on North River were such a numl)er of fjimous ships Iniilt. The name of Ichal)od Thomas should certainly be perpetuated in the memorials of his town, for he, more than any other man, spread the renown of North River in foreign ports, and there appears no excuse for not having recorded, years ago, the history of the ship-building here, and the ships that became so ftmious, which were sent out from the then little town of Peml)roke. Between 1775 and 1783 the fisheries produced but little. Nantucket was the only port which attemi)ted to carry it on, and at the close of the war 134 vessels had fallen into the hands of the English and 15 had been lost at sea. This discouraged the merchants,* and comparatively few vessels were built durinof these vears. But before the dull season Ichabod * See London Illustrated News, 1859. t See Genealogical Journal. SHIP "BEDFORD," FIRST VESSEL TO CARRY THE 169 Thomas l)uilt one more vessel, which became famous, and was the first vessel that carried the American Stars and Stripes into a British port. She caused such consternation on her arrival as probably no other vessel ever did before or has since. This was the "BEDFORD." She was first rigged as a schooner, afterward changed to a brig, and finally rebuilt, raised upon, furnished Avith an additional deck, and rigged as a ship. After all these alterations, she measured only 170 or 180 tons. No portrait of her has been preserved. The orig- inal receipt of the last payment made by her owner, Wm. Eotch, to her builder, Ichabod Thomas, is in the possession of F. C. Sanford, Esq. The following is a copy : — Nantucket, ii mo. 13th. 1772. Received ofWilliam Rotch Ninety Pounds, twelve shillings, 4 d., L. M. (lawful money), supposed to be in full for his building me a Brigantine, " Bedford.^'^ including Elisha Tolman's joining said vessel. Signed " Ichabod Thomas." The "Bedford" was first sent to Philadelphia, and arrived in Nantucket from Philadelphia, with a cargo of flour, under Capt. Thomas Bunker, when she registered at Nantucket. She sailed in 177G for Brazil Banks and ai'rived home March 13, 1777, full of oil. The " Bedford " lay at Nantucket several years and in Sept. , 1782 , the " Maria " came new from Ichabod Thomas. She was not completed, and the old Quaker merchants had private imformation that a peace was coming, and as the " Maria " could not be despatched in time they hauled down the Bedford and sent her to London. She arrived Feb. 6, oft' Trinity, with the Stars and Stripes flying. Custom House officers had to apply to lower solicitors to know what to do with her. She entered, and that was the first IT. S. flag ever displayed in Europe. Her appearance was thus chronicled by an English magazine of that day. "The " Bedford," Capt. Mooers, belonging to Mass., arrived in theD wns on tlie 3rd of February, passed tlie Gravesend the 4th, and was reporti at the Custom House, the Gth. inst. She was not allowed regular entry until some consixltation had taken place between the Commissioners of the Cus- toms and the Lords of the Council, on account of the many Acts of Parlia- ment yet in force against the rebels in America. She is loaded with 488 butts of whale-oil, is American built, manned Avholly by American sea-men, weai's the rebel colors, and belongs to tlie Island of Nantucket in Massa- chusetts. This is the first vessel which has displayed the 13 rebellious stripes in any British Port. The vessel lies at Hoi'sely Down, a little below theTower and is intended immediately to return to New England." 170 UNITED STATES FLAG INTO A UKITISII POKT. It is related that one of the crew of the ship "Bedford," while she was lying in the Thames, was humpbacked. One day a British sailor met him, clapped his hand on the American's shoulder, and said "llilloa. Jack, what have you got here?" "Bunker Hill, and l)e damned to you," replied the Yankee. "AVill you mount?" The British sailor, calling to mind the experience of his next of kin, the British soldier, in mounting Bunker Ilill in America, decided not to attempt it on the British Isle. Capt. Wm. Mooers, the master of the " Bedford," and afterwards master of the "INIaria," is traditionally reported as one of "nature's noblemen," and his prowess as a whaleman is familiar to all who have made themselves acquainted with that hazardous branch of our national enterprise. Erect and commanding in appearance, standing over six feet, and weigh- ing more than two hundred pounds, he would have been a marked man in a thousand. He died in 1819, in France, where he was then doing business as agent of Wm. Rotch & Co. The first publication of the terms of the treaty was Jan. 2S, 1783, in a ])ostscript of the London papers, about a week before the arrival of the "Bedford." The King's proclamation was not published until the loth of Febuary, twelve days after her arrival. The news was first received in Boston, April 23rd, but the treaty was not signed until September. It is, therefore, no wonder that when the master of the " Bedford " appeared and demanded to enter his vessel at the Custom House, with her cargo of oil, coming from a country and people who were still considered rebels, his appearance created astonishment. In general, the proof in full of vessels having been built at the different yards on North lliver has not been given, as it would take too much space, but where it is stated that vessels were built at certain yards, proof positive has been found of the fact, us in the case of the " Bedford. " Besides the.receipt from Ichabod Thomas, now" in existence, there is additional proof in the form of a letter, of Avhich the following is a co})y, written by AVm. Rotch, Jr., one of her owners, and dated at New Bedford, 8th mo., 3rd, 1842: " Dear Friend : In my reply to thy letter of the 2ist ult., received last evening, according to the best of my recollection, my father had a vessel built by Ichabod Thomas^ at No7-th River ^ just before the Revolution, for himself and Champion & Dickason, of London, for the London trade. After the war commenced, she laid at Nantucket several years, imtil a license was procured for her to go to London with a Ship " Maria." Built by Ichabod Thomas at the Brick-kilns, in 1782. THE FIRST U. S. FLAG EXHIBITED IN QUEBEC. 171 cargo of oil, Timothy Folger, commander. Several gentlemen froni Boston took passage in her, among whom were the late Governor Winthrop, Thomas K. Jones, Hutchinson, and some others whose names I do not recollect. We sent the sloop "SPEEDWELL" (also built by Ichabod Thomas) to Aux Cayes, St. Domingo. She was taken and carried into Jamaica, but her Captain was released one day after. By the treaty, the war ceased in that latitude, and she was released when she showed the first United States flag there. On her return home, everything was very low ]:>y the return of peace. We put on board two hundred boxes of candles, and with William Johnson (whose widow, I learned, lives at Qiiassi,) as supercarpo, sent her to Que- bec, where her's was the first United States flag exhibited. Should thee wish any further information within my recollection, I will freely communicate it. I am, with love to thy wife, Thy aflectionate friend, Wm. Rotch, Jr." What finally became of the " Bedford " I have been unable to ascertain. To Ichabod Thomas, also, must be given the credit of building the vessel which, as far as any record is preserved, was in the service longer than any other vessel built on North River. This was the "MAEIA," built in 1782, and broken up in 1872, at Vancouver's Island, after sailing for ninety years, during which time she touched at nearly every seaport of the globe. She was at Falkland Islands in 1785 ; Greenland, 1788, as high as 79° N. in the ice on June 22nd. Her career would make a romantic book. She was built at Pembroke for a pri- vateer, but never used as such. When finished, she was pur- chased by Mr. Rotch, for a merchant vessel, and brought by Capt. Wm. Mooers to Nantucket, previous to his sailing thence in the "Bedford." On his return from that voyage, he took the " Maria " to London with a cargo of oil ; and on a subse- quent passage, he made in her the voyage from Nantucket to Dover in twenty-one days. She sailed from Nantucket for London, July 4, 1785. Her owners, William and Benjamin Rotch, the father and brother of Wm. Rotch, Jr., were on board as passengers, going to estaljlish the whale fishery from an English port. It is narrated that, on the passage, Mr. Rotch, during a storm, became alarmed, and, venturing part way out of the cabin gangway, said, "Capt. Mooers, it Avould be more conducive to our safety foi* thee to take in some sail ; thee had better do so." To which Capt. Mooers replied, " Mr. Rotch, 172 " MARIA " BUILT BY CAPT. ICHABOD THOMAS. I have the deck, you have the cabin." He could not brook dictation, even from his owner. The "Maria "was lying at Nantucket when the " Bedford " was at anchor in the Downs. Mary Thomas, afterward JNIrs. Joshua Perry, granddaughter of Ichabod Thomas, wrote, many years ago, the following : " ]\Iy grandfather, Ichabod Thomas, built the ship ' Maria ' during the Revolution. After many years being out of repair. My. William Kotch who Ijought her, told his son-in-law, Samuel Eodman, he would give it to him. He said he would not ac- cept it. Mr. Rotch said it was built by his old friend, Ichabod Thomas, and must be repaired. He repaired it, and then asked his son-in-law to accept it ; and he did." After her voyage to London, the "Maria" was employed in the whale fishery, and for tifty or sixty years was owaied by Sanmel Rodman of Xew Bedford, and his descendants. It is said there stood to her credit, in 1859, $250,000 ; and she had been of expense to her underwriters but once, and then only for a trifling amount. She made five voyages to the Pacific within the short space of six years, returning each time with a full cargo of oil, 1215 barrels. She concluded her first whaling voyage on the 26th of September, 1795. In her seventy-seventh year, she arrived at New Bedford from a three years' cruise in the Indian Ocean. " She was," says the /Sfaudard of that date, " built at the town of Pembroke, for a privateer, during the Revolutionary A\'ar. Her flag is now in existence, though in shreds. Her model is of old French construction, tumbling home, or rounding very much, in her top sides, and she is consequently very narrow on deck in proportion to her size, 202 to;^s'." She sailed from New Bedford on her twenty-seventh and last Avhaling voyage under our flag, on the 29th of September, 1859. On these voyages, she is credited with having taken 24,419 barrels of sperm, and 134 barrels of whale oil. In 1856, Mr. Harditch, of Fairhaven, who, sixty-four j^ears before, had assisted in making her a suit of sails, was again em})l()yed in the same service for her. Feb. 24, 1863, she was re})aired and sold at Talcahuana, Chili, under the name of "Maria Pachaco," and, under the Chilian flag, probably to avoid the risk of her capture by rebel cruisers, continued sailing in the Pacific until 1870. Her purchasers, INIessrs. Burton & Trumbull, of Talcahuana, employed her in the coal trade. July 1, 1866, she was fitted out for Talcahuana, on a whaling voyage, under command of David Brio-os, of Dai-tmouth, JNIass. At the time of her loss she was in such s^ood condition that she bade fair to outlast her c;^ct VESSELS BUILT BY CAPT. ICHABOD THOMAS. 173 century. The flag she first wore is said to be in existence in New Bedford. The "Maria," then owned in Chili, was con- demned at Vancouver's Ishmd in 1872. Francis Rotch died in New Bedford, 1822. He was brother of Wm. Rotch. " AVni. Rotch was born in 1734, and was tiie greatest merchant that ever lived." (Sanford.) I have been unable to obtain definite information as to any of the other vessels built by Ichabod Thomas, Sr. , between 1782 and 1788 ; but the following were built in Pembroke, and probably at the Brick Kiln Yard : 1782. Sloop "SALEM PACKET," 42 tons, of Ipswich. 1783. Sch. "DOLPHUS," 32 tons, of Boston. 1783. Sloop "DIANA," 51 tons, owned by Samuel and Amos Jones, and Ruth Eales, of Scituate. 1784. Brig't'n "CADET," 100 tons, of Boston. 1784. Sch. "HOPE," 55 tons, of Boston. 1786. Sloop "MARY," 22 tons. 1786. Sch. "JOHN," 60 tons, of Boston. 1786. Sch. "MARS," 53 tons, of Wellfleet. 1786. Sch. "NAUTILUS," 60 tons, of Boston. 1787. Sch. "PEG- GY," 37 tons; owner, John Soule, Marshfield. 1787. Sch. "AARON," 43 tons, owned by John Soule and John White, of Marshfield. 1787. Sloop " NANCY," 41 tons. This sloop was in existence in 1842, then fiftij-five years old., and was owned by John Reed, of Boothbay, Me. Mr. Thomas died in 1788, comparatively young, and was buried in the Thomas burial-lot in Pembroke, opposite Dr. Francis Collamore's. The follow- ing is copied from the headstone : " Erected in memory of Capt. Ichabod Thomas, Who was removed by death, March 2, 17S8, In the 55th year of his age. ' The sweet remembrance of the just, Shall flourish while he sleeps in death.' " Another stone has — " Wm. Thomas died in 1802, age 27 years." Capt. Ichabod Thomas, son of Capt. Ichabod, lived in the same house that his father occupied, and worked in the ship-yard until he had passed three-score years. In July, 1820, his wife Polly Thomas, wrote to her daughter in Maine, Mrs. Joshua Perry : " Your pa is at work at the Yard every day, and en- joys his health." The record of his decease appears on a stone 17 1 VKHHKLH I'.; 11,1 I'.V « AI'l. IIIOMAH AM> f'AI-VIN riH.'NKI!. ill lilt' I'rtllltl'olo' ( VliK'fciy, ulicrc. Iir, lic^ luilinl ill llir ,s;mim^ lot iiH IliM I'iiIIkt : " C'ipl. I( Ii;iIiir.| N<»v. I J, i'S5'j, in I lie (/>lli yen <>\' ITiH ;i!4C." 'I'lir (irsl, vi'SHi'l of uliicli I line i,-t po-^ilivr idool" of lijiviii;^; Iktii liiiill, l.y lr|iiil,(>t-(iii;j;lil coin IVoiii Vii'/iiiiiti in (lio winli-r, iimi in (Ik; miiiiiiikt vvcnl. (i-tliiii!/. hiiriii;^ (li<^ \v;ir willi l*iii;.'liin(i, nnd wliilc iiikIit Mm? roiiiiii!iii(l of ('jipl. l'"Jis|i)i lIowcH, slio vvjih ciiiifiircd l»y ^\\^'. liiilisli (1y llie i^'reneli, in |S||. Tlie folio win;; vessels, linill. in l'eiiil)ioke helwei'M I 7HH mid I HO/"*, were pfol)!il»ly iMiill, l>y (hem nnd Aldeii l'.ri-;rs : I7.SS. Sell. " 1 1 A \\ A 1 1," i^ tons, of j'ly- inontli. I7.S!I. Uri^iTn "MAI.'V AW," 7M (oiis, <.f I'.oslon. 17:10. Sloop " SA LLV ," owned liy Selli llnlcli, I'eiiiltroke. 171)1. r.ri;.' "I'()I>LV," I'.l ioiiH", of I'.osO.n. I7:)2. S(^li. "UNION," 'l:i ((.iiH, of P.oslon. I7:i;;. SliM.p " LVDIA," 100 1(.iis, of r.o(.llil)!iy, M<-. I7!M. SIo..p " DOMMIIN," 7H Ions, of liostoii; Idiill :il rcniltroke; owikmI l»y IoiImtI, iJ.'irker .-iiid Aldeli l>^i"•;,^s of I'enilnoke, Leliuiel ( liiircli iiiid Sleplicn Slork- l.rid;;e of^Seiln.-il.-, nnd olliern. 17!).'.. Ship "SAIJAII," ;;I0 foils, of iS'evv r»edford, Mflerwiirds of I'.oslon. I7Im;. liii;;, jiflerwiirds Ship, " ALKX A N I )l":i:." i:;;}fons,of r.oston. I7:»7. Seh."()l>IVIO, 70 ioilH, of DiixImiiv. I.SOO. Sell. "VVASII- lI^(iT()N," 107 loriM, of r.os((,ii. lAoo. I'.ri;.r')"ii "'riflTON,'' VESSELS BUILT BY ICHABOD THOMAS AXD CALVIX TURNER. 175 170 ton.^, of Boston. 1803. Sch. "LAUEEL/' 00 tons, of Duxburv. 1804. Ship ".AJlCTURrS," 300 tons, of Duxbury. 1805. .Sch. "H.AN'XAH.'' 50 tons, of Plymouth. Calvin Tur- ner was brother of Joshua and son of Capt. Benjamin. Calvin had a son. a s h i p - C^ — builder. ^^gw«^- v -.*- * *-v^- ^^/^'^-'^^'-^-t-*-*-)-''*''^' y who went ^ to Med- ford ; also a son David, a ship-builder, who lived on the Bri^rfs farai, on the Xeck, m Pembroke, and who afterwards moved to Duxbury, where he died, leaving a family. Previous to 1805, Calvin Turner formed a partnership with his nephew, Ichabod Thomas, and built one vessel at the Brick Kiln durin2' the lat- ter year. 1805. Brig "OXLY SOX,'' 170 tons, Ebenezer Nickerson, of Provincetown ; owner, Calvin Turner ; Ichabod Thoma.5, master cai-penters ; built at Pembroke. They gave up buildinL' here about this time, and built in Hanover together, and aUo with Wm. Cushing.* The history of the succes.'^jrs of the Thomases, at the Brick Kiln Yard is given in the fol- lowing chapter. See Ch^ter Miscellaneoas Yards, ander Hanover. raoKii coiT 0? jiik-- CHAPTER XI. BRICK-KILN YARD, (Continued). 1796-1848. WILLIAM LEAVIS, ALDEN BRIGGS, ELTSHA BRIGGS, JONATHAN SAMSON, SAMUEL ROGERS, ISAAC HATCH, LUTHER BRIGGS, AARON S. MAGOUN, JR., ENOCH MAGOUN, JOSHUA MAGOUN, JEDUTHAN PALMER, BARKER TURNER, CALEB TURNER, GUSH- ING O. BRIGGS, SILVANUS SMITH, MELZAR S. TURNER. "X IZM. LEWIS, Alden and Elisha Brings, Jonathan Sampson, * * Sam'l Rogers and Isaac LLatch bui It in Pembroke about 1796 and later. There were two yards at the Brick-kihis, and three or four vessels side by side on the stocks at the same time was not an unusual sight. Little can be found relative to Wm. Lewis. He probably came from the Marshfield family, as his name does not appear on the church or town records in Pem- broke. There is little doubt that he was the Wm. Lewis of Marshfield belonging to the following family ; William Lewis, mar. Christiana White, had children: 1. Christiana, b. April 11, 1774; 2. William, b. Feb. 29, 1777, mar. Welthy Sampson; 3. Catharine, b. March 9, 1779, d. Sept. 30, 1850; 4. Sarah, b. June 11, 1781, mar. Randall; 5. Daniel, b. May 5, 1784; 6. James Hawkes, b. May 1, 1786; 7. Samuel, b. May 4, 1788; 8. Jesse, b. Auff. 14, 1790; 9. Elizabeth, b. June 24, 1795, d. May, 1874. Daniel Lewis, mar. Mercy Winslow, Jan. 21, 1768, no family ; he died Feb. 20, 1829, aged 87 years; his wife d. Dec. 15, 1822, in her 82nd year. Taken from a family Bible supposed to have once been the property of Joseph Lewis, of Hingham, a graduate of Harvard College, 1705, and probably disposed of by his descendants, to Nath. Winslow of Marshfield. WILLIAM LEWIS, SHIP-BUILDER. 177 Joseph and Sarah Lewis' children were: 1. Sarah, b. Dec. 15, 1703 ; 2. Joseph, b. Oct. 1, 1705, died young; 3. Thomas, b. Sept. 20, 1707; 4. Paul, b. March 25, 1710; 5. James, b. Sept. 9, 1712; 6. Jonathan, b. Dec. 3, 1714; 7. Mary, b. Sept. fi, 1717 ; Sarah Lewis, the mother of these seven chil- dren, "was taken out of this world,'' Jan. 5, 1718. Joseph's children by a second marriage were: 1. Elizabeth, b. July 1, 1719; 2. George, b. July 23, 1721; 3. Hannah, b. July 24, 1723, d. Aug. 17, 1723 ; 4. Samuel, b. June 21, 1724, d. Oct. 28, 1725 ; 5^ Jehiel, b. April 19, 1727, d. July; 6. Ebenezer, b. July 28, 1728 ; 7. Leab, b. Oct., 1730 ; 8. Hannah, b. Dec. 1734; 9. another name illegible, May 11, 1736, probably Joseph. There is one report that Wm. Lewis went to Plymouth, and built one vessel, and finally moved to Matta- poisett. \A^hether the following item from an old account book belongs to the same family, we do not know : "June 3rd, 1S16. Capt. Saml. Tolman to Rogers Lewis Dr., to 10 tides labor on board of your ship at 4-6 — $7.50. Rec'd payment, Rogers Lewis." Certain it is that Wm. Lewis did build in Pembroke, (prob- ably at the Brick-kilns,) the following vessels, the first of which is described in a copy of his certificate, as follows : North River. Pembroke, Jan'y 30, 1796. This certifies that the Ship called the " HELEN" of Boston was built by me upon the North River in Pembroke and launch'd in December last part for James S. Lovell, Merchant of Boston. That she is square sterned has two Decks & three masts that Her Length is seventy-five feet her Breadth twentv-six & half feet her Depth seventeen & lialf feet measuring Two hundred & seventy-seven Tons and having a figurehead. The second and only other vessel found, built by him, was in 1803, sch. "MAY FLOWER," of Plymouth, afterwards of Boston. 178 BRIGGS GENEALOGY. KlisliM, Aldoii, and Luther Brig^s ])uilt hero al)()ut this time. Enos, Daniel, Tlionias, and Soth Briggs,the prominent buikiers of Sak^m and ]Milton, served their apprentkesliip here Mith their fathers and brothers, and often had to call on them to assist in special work on sonu^ of the noted vessels Avhich they liuilt after they left the little liriek-kiln yard. To better under- stand who this tamily was the following genealogy is given. /Se(/> Bn'fff/s, shipwright, was b. Aug. '2Si., ITL'l.at Scituate, and d. at Pembroke, July 2o, 1801. lie was the fifth child of James Briggs, who was b. March 2, 1083-4, and who mar. 1st, Eliza))eth (xarrett. May 7. 1718, and 2nd, Hannah Stoweli, (X-t. 4, 171(?. .lames ]>riggs was the third son of Ensign Cornelius l>riggs, who was the third son of Walter Rriggs, who a})i)ears in Scituate in ItUo. The date of the birth of Cornelius has not been found, but it is stated that at the time of his death, Oct. 20th, 1()!U, he was (i7 years of age. He mar., 1. Mary Doughty, dan. of James Doughty and widow (^f Samuel l\ussoll, ^larch 20, 1(>77, by whom only, he had children. He mar. 2nd, ISIehitable Amiable of Barnstable, May (i, 1083.* Seth Brigirs, mar. in 1745 Abiaail Church, who was b. in Scituate, FeCll, 1720, and d. Nov. 3, 171)"). They had children as follows: l.A'nos,h. July 21>. 174(5, d. at Salem, Oct. 10, 181H :t 2. Sefh, h. Nov. 8, 1748 : 3. FhWni, b. Dec. 21. 1750, d. Sept. 10, 1830 ; 4. Daniel, b. April 14, 1754 ; 5. Nabby, b. July 1, 1750; 0. T/iomm, b. Aug. '22, 1758, and d. in 1809 : 7. Marv, b. Mav 25. 1700, and d.^Sept. 3, 1834; 8. AJden. b. I\Iarch"l7, 1703; D. Judith, b. May 7. 1705; 10. Khoda. bap. Feb.. 1772. IJno,^, the tirst child of Seth, mar. Sarah, dan. of Edward and Kachel (Cushing) Thomas, who was b. in Pembroke, Feb. 6, 1755, and d. in Salem, Dec. 9, 1833. Their children were : Sally, b. Oct. 25, 1778 ; died April i), 1850. Enos, b. March 25, *1781 ; d. Oct. i», 1837. Samuel, b. Dec. 10, 1783 ; d. Nov. 10, 1859. Judith, b. Am:. 20, 1780 : d. Sept. 3, 1830^ Polly, h. :\hirch 1, 1789; d. Maa'h 24, 1834. Betsey, b. March 19, * See Chapter on Briggs' Ship Yard. t The Saletu Gazette of Oct. 12. 1S19. thus notices his decease: "In this to^^n Mr. Enos Bnggs, aged 73, one of our most vahiable and worthy citizens. He came to this town from" Penibroke in the year 17!'l. and has been eminent as a master shipbuilder. !rom \vbose yard a great number of our liest ships have been launched. He was also the master builder of the frigate ' Essex,' the work of which did him great credit in the eves of the nation. In his death his family suifer a severe loss." (^Hist. Coll. of Essex liist. Vol 6.. pp. 171-174.) BRIGGS GENEALOGY. 179 1792 ; d. Jan. 7, 1814. Rachel, b. Feb. 28, 1796 ; d. Sept. — , 1836. Sally, first child of Enos, mar. 1st, David Smith ; 2nd, John Bott. Enos, son of Enos, mar. Lucy A. Morse, and had children : Lucy, mar. Sargent ; Susan, mar. Merriam ; Enos, Charles, Edward, Nathaniel, and one other, name unknown. Samuel, third child of Enos, mar. 1st, Susan Whittemore, Oct. 16, 1808 ; she d. Oct., 1810, aged 26 years. By her he had one child, Edward Thomas, b. Aug. 25, 1809 ; d. Nov. 25, 1815. He mar. 2nd, Mary S. Bowles, July 5, 1818 ; she d. Nov. 16, 1853. By her he had children : Susan, b. May 20, 1820 ; d. March 20, 1822. Edward T., b. July 31, 1824; d. May 20, 1882; mar., but left no children. Susan, b. April 22, 1830 ; mar. 1st, Wm. H. Clarke ; 2nd, George P. Farrington ; she is now a widow. INIary Eunice, b. Jan. 22, 1832; d. July 21, 1832. Judith, fourth child of Enos, mar. George Deane. Polly (or Mary), fifth child of Enos, mar. Nathan Cook. Betsey, sixth child of Enos, d. unmarried. Each el, seventh child of Enos, mar. John Burleigh (or Burley) . Sftit, second child of Seth, mar. Deborah Barker, and had children : Seth, (who mar. , and had children. Sarah, who mar. Shook. Catharine, who mar. Woods ; and George C, who mar. Anne Loring, and had children, viz. : Annie Loring, who mar. George C. Briggs ; and Catharine, who mar. Henry P. Briggs). Deborah, who mar. Theoph. Gushing. Elisha, third child of Seth, mar., Nov. 20, 1777, Laurentia, dau. of Dr. Jeremiah and Elizabeth Bailey Hall, who was b. May 15, 1755, and d. June, 1837, they had children : Rhoda, b. March 4, 1779, mar. Calvin Turner. Elisha, b. 1781; d. about 1850 ; mar. twice. One wife's name was Sally Webb, and the other Margaret Doyle ; no children. Luther, b. Oct. 20, 1783, at Pembroke; d. April 2, 1864. Lucinda, b. Dec. 15, 1789 ; mar. Alden Loring. Laurentia, b. Sept. 20, 1792 ; mar. Horace Collamore. Robert, b. July 30, 1795, and d. in 1859. Lucretia, b. Dec. 13, 1798, mar. Dion Bryant. Luther, son of Elisha, mar. 1st, March 27, 1812, Susan Stet- son, who was b. Nov. 29, 1784, and d. Oct. 19, 1832; 2ndly, Mercy, widow of Aaron ]\Iagoun. His children were : Susan Stetson, b. July 26, 1813 ; mar. Nathaniel Smith. Sil- vina, b. July 6, 1816 ; mar. B. F. Chandler. Luther, Avho d. in infancy. Luther (another of that name) , b. July 24, 1822 ; 180 ELISHA BRIGGS, SHIP-BUILDER. mar. Adeline Collamore ; no children. Alexander Parris, who d. in infoncy. Augusta, b. Aug. 7, 1827 ; mar. Royal Cheny. Robert, the son of Elisha, mar. Caroline Morton, March 11, 1821. She is a descendant of George Morton of Plymouth, was b. May 30, 1796, and is still living. They had children, viz.: Robert, b. May 18, 1822; mar., 1st, Julia Kidder; 2ndly, Louise Wagner ; no children. He resided in Philadel- phia, and is now deceased. Silas Morton, d. young. George Henry, who mar. Elsie Hollenbeck ; has two daughters and one son, and resides at Mountain View, Cal. Charles Edward, who mar., in 18(i9, Rebekah Whittaker, and has one daughter and three sons, and resides in St. Louis, Mo. Caroline, unmarried. Elizabeth, mar. Erastus Woithington of Dedham. Emma, mar. Henry Allen of AVest Roxbury. Daniel^ fourth child of Seth, mar. and lived in Milton. Nahhy, fifth child of Seth, mar. William Briggs, Nov. 29, 1787. Thomas, sixth child of Seth, mar. Sukey Blake ; lived in Milton, and has no descendants. Man/, seventh child of Seth, mar., Oct. 8, 1788, Thomas Sproat "of Middleborough. Alden, eighth child of Seth, mar. Mercy Hatch, and had chil- dren, viz. : Sophia, who d. unmarried. Alden, mar. Eliza- beth Robinson. Harriet, b. Oct. 3, 1801 ; mar. J. H. Whit- man. Thomas, mar. Eliza Sturtevant, and had children, viz. : Alice, mar. Charles Cushing. Alden, mar. Elva Sampson. Judith, ninth child of Seth, mar. 1st, Drew ; 2ndly, Bill Vose. Rhoda, tenth child of Seth, did not marry. formerly resided where Na- thaniel Smith now resides, in Pembroke. About half way om Schooset Creek to the ^ /y^^ residence of Nathaniel Smith, e^s *^ ^ is the foundation of what is supposed to have been an Indian wigwam ; and the traditions of Pembroke say that it was a kind of factory for the making of arrow and spear heads. At the depth of two feet it is paved with stone covered with charcoal dust mixed with the soil, sug- gesting the idea tliat it had been used for a fire-place for a long period. The great numl)er of arrow heads found in the imme- diate vicinity, also show that it must have been a fixed habita- tion for the red man in the days long gone by. It is situated on the western slope of the range of hills that forms the bound- ary of the Schooset valley, on the farm of Mr. Smith. Elisha -'4' VESSELS BUILT BY ELLSHA BRIGOS. 181 always had a large numl)er of apprentices, and usually took two or three into his hospitable home. In 1800, he built the sch. " WASHINGTON," 100 tons ; sold to Alden Briggs. He built two vessels at the Brick Kiln, in Pembroke, in 1801. Brig'tn "CUMBERLAND," 183 tons, of Providence. 1801. Ship "ANNAWAN," 299 tons, of Boston ; two decks and three masts ; owned by Alden Briggs and others, Pembroke. Elisha Briggs built the next year, 1802, sch. "ELIZA," 41 tons ; owned by David Church, George Turner, Benjamin Whitman, Mercy Randall Alden, and Chas. Briggs. In 1803, he built the ship "MOSES MYERS," two decks and three masts, 306 tons, of Boston. In 1804, the sch. "LIVELY," 122 tons; Elisha and Alden Brio-gs, owners. Also in 1804, sch. "FIVE BRO- THERS," 93 tons, of Duxburv. Elisha Briggs also built the following vessels at the Brick Kiln : 1805. Ship "CANOWA," 263 tons, of Boston ; owned ])y Thos. Briggs of Roxbury, and Alden Briggs of Pembroke , and others. 1806. Brig " NANCY," 177 tons; built for Alden Briggs; afterward sold at Roches- ter. 1807. Ship "SUWARRdW," 303 tons, of Plymouth ; owned by Alden Brigos, Pembroke, and others. 1810. Ship "MISER," 304 tons, "of Boston. 1811. Ship "ACASTUS," 343 tons, with two decks, three masts; length, 100 feet; breadth, 28 feet; depth, 14 feet; of Boston; owned by Alden Briofofs of Pembroke, Paul Nash of Petersburs:, Va., and others. Also" in 1811, sloop "SOPHIA," 35 tons." He and David Church, Daniel Phillips, Joseph Rogers of Marshtield, and Alden Briggs, owners. Alden Briggs was in partnership with Elisha in building some of the above vessels. Elisha after- wards built in Newburyport.* On a head-stone in the Pem- broke Cemetery is the following : " Elisha Briggs, son of Seth, died 1836, age 86." We will now leave the Briggs family for the present, and speak of the other ship-carpenters who built at this yard at the very beginning of the present century. ^ _jA ^ built alter- y ^'^'2^t^2^'7t^-^;^^^>*^^^^r7'tnately in (^ C/ ^ Hanover and Pembroke, between the years 1800 and 1820. Of the vessels * See John Currier's " History of Shipbuilding on the Merrimac," at State House, t For further account of Jonathan Samson see the Bridge Yard at Hanover. 182 JONATHAN SAMSON SAMUEL ROGERS. he built in Pembroke, accounts of the following have been found: 1801. Ship "PEMBROKE," 193 tons, of Boston; owned by Nathl. Cushing of Pembroke, Robert Salmond of Hanover, and others ; built at Pembroke ; Jonathan Sampson, builder. Capt. E. A. Faucon, of Milton, remembers seeing the " Pembroke " lying at Lloyd's or Wales' Wharf, on Sea, now Federal street, Boston, many years ago. 1803. Sch. "WASHINGTON," 70 tons, of Boston, was built at Pembroke by Jonathan Sampson, master carpenter. 1810. Ship "MAR- THA," 273 tons, of Bost(m ; owned by Nathl. Cushing, of Pembroke, and others ; built at Pembroke by Jonathan Samp- son, master carpenter ; afterward sold to Nantucket, and used as a whaler. During her first voyage in the Pacific, whaling, under Capt. Reuben Weeks, 1815-17, she was detained tw^enty days at Valparaiso, and part of her crew placed on a patriot armed vessel for a short cruise. In 1821, the "Martha," then under Ca})t. J. H. Pease, rescued the crew of the ship "Two Brothers," Capt. Pollard, of Nantucket, which was lost in the Pacific on a coral reef in Lat. 24° N., Long. I(i8° W. About 1841, Capt. Baxter left the " Mailha " at Zanzibar, and R. C. Gibbs took command. In 1849, she was owned by Peter Fol- ger, of Nantucket, and still used Avhaling in the Pacific. She was broken up by the Chinese in San Francisco, Cal., in 1851. Jonathan Samson built in Hanover, in 1803, the sch. "WIL- LIAM," 71 tons. In 1801, Samuel Rogers, of Marshfield,* was master carpen- ter of a vessel built here, as follows : 1801. Ship " JEFFER- SON," 2()7 tons, of Boston. This vessel was afterwards a New Bedford whaler. In 1804 Aaron S. Magoun, Jr., built a large sLip at this yard. An old ship's carpenter whose memory at nearly ninety years of age seems very clear, gives the following information about the Magouns. He says that Aaron S. Magoun lived in a house now occupied by John Stetson, at the end of a lane opposite the Quaker Meeting House, Pembroke. He had, among other children, three sons, Aai-on, Robei-t, and Daniel, one of whom was Lorenzo Sherman's wife's father. One of the daughters married Jonathan Stetson. Aaron S. ^Magoun, Jr., lived in a house down the lane, opposite Nath'l Smith's, Pem- broke, and with Robert built a vessel just after the war of 1812> & * See Rogers' Yards, Marshfield, and Wautou's, Scituate. MAGOUN & HATCH. 183 on the Pembroke side, opposite Seabury's Point, which ruined Robert financially, he being the principal owner. Robert Magoun married a Bates. Aaron S. Masfoun, Jr. , left sons: Robert, Daniel and others. In 1804, the ship "XENOPHOX," 299 tons, was built in Pembroke, by Aaron S. Magoun, Jr., and owned in Plymouth. Joshua jMagoun of Duxbury was a ship-builder and probably built in Duxbury. He had two sons, Enoch and Joshua, who built in Pembroke at the Brick-Kilns, Enoch in company with Turner & Palmer, and Joshua in com- pany with Isaac Hatch, and alone. There was built here in 1804, the sch. " NEUTRALITY," 123 tons, of Duxbury. Capt. Phineas Sprague , of Duxbury. Joshua Magoun and Isaac Hatch were the master carpenters. In 1808 was built the ship "]\IIX- ERVA,"223 tons, at Pembroke, owned by Ezra Weston, Jr., Duxbury, Calvin Sampson, Joshua Magoun and others, Pem- broke. These are the only vessels it has been possible to locate as having been built by Joshua Magoun in Pembroke, though he later went to Charlestown and there built with Francis Turner, son of Charles, formerly of Scituate, under the firm name of Magoun & Turner. He died leaving a family in Charlestown. Two of his children were named Winchell and Phillip. When in Pembroke he lived at " Brimstone Corner ;" his fother's name was Joshua. We will now take up theBriggs family again. Alden Briggs, as before stated, built in partnership with his brother Elisha many of the vessels before mentioned. After Elisha removed to Newburyport, Alden continued building at the Brick-Kilns for himself and in company with others. He lived a little way up Brick-Kiln Lane, not far from the ship yard in the house recently owned and occupied by Mr. Foster, but now occupied by H. N. Magoun, a descendant of the Thatchers Magoun. Alden Briggs also engaged in farming and making bricks, obtaining the clay from large pits back of his house. Just beyond, on the bank of the river, lives his grandson, Alden Briggs, 3rd, in the house formerly occupied by Alden Briggs, Jr. Sen., was a very interest- ing old man. He had a peculiarity of adding from year to year, by compound interest, to the original cost of his possessions, so that each year he valued his properties higher and higher instead of depreciating 184 VESSELS BUILT BY ALDEN BEIGGS. them, as most people would do. For instance he valued his watch at one time at over $2000, and his anvil at about $1500. In the same way his losses would grow larger and larger each year, as he would reckon up the compound interest on the sum or con- tract that he originally lost. He was leader of the new choir of the church in Pembroke. Previous to this time, the Deacon ahva}'s read two lines, which the congregation sang, then the Deacon would read two more. The minister wished a new choir that would sing the whole verse or psahn, which the old choir objected to. The minister got the old choir in one part of the church by themselves, and the new choir together in another part ; he then let the Deacon read the first two lines, and the old and new choirs started. The old choir stopped at the end of the two lines and the new choir kept on, but not to be outdone the Deacon got up and commenced reading two more lines, amid the singing ; the Minister reached over the pulpit and spoke to his son, the Deacon, saying, " Sit down Cy, sit down," and the new choir prevailed. Alden Briggs was in the North Company, 2nd Reg., 1st Brig., 5th Div., Pembroke Militia, 1815. In the year 1800 he built the brig "PALLAS," 156 tons, for Stephen Gorham of Boston. In 1805, he built a s/n'p of 250 tons. His yard was just below that of his brother, Luther Briggs. The sch. "RIVAL," was built by Alden Briggs, and probably the brig " ELVIRA," of New Bedford, which was condemned at St. Thomas, in 1859. In 1818 he built the brig "FLORIDA," 244 tons, owned by Thos. B. Wales, Bos- ton, and in 1820 the In-ig "PEMBROKE," 199 tons, owned by her builder, Alden Briggs, at Pembroke. He sold her to Thos. B. Wales & Co. about two years after he built her, and the fol- lowing are some of the voyages she made : brig " Pembroke," in 1824, from Sicily to Buenos Ayres with oil and wines; from Palermo in 182() with merchandise ; in 1827 from Rochelle with brandy, ochre and wine ; in 1833, to Rotterdam with a mixed cargo. She was lost at sea in 1851. In 1825 the brig " MONUMENT," 211 tons, was built by Alden Briggs at Pem- broke for himself. This brig was also sold to Thos B. Wales & Co., Boston, and the following are some of the voyages made by her; ship "Monument," 211 tons, 89 ft. long, in 1827 sailed to Amsterdam; in 1831, from Charleston to Cowe's, etc., and from New York to Marseilles. In 1832 the brig " ALEX- ANDRIA," 206 tons, of Boston, was built at Pembroke, prob- ably by Alden Briggs. The last of his vessels of which any account appears, was built the same year, 1832, the brig " OLD ENOS BRIGGS. 185 COLONY," 244 tons, Joshua Smith, master, and owned by Alden Briijafs, at Pem])roke. She was afterward sold to Thos. B. Wales & Co. and made voyages in 1834, from Alexandria to Amsterdam with tobacco, fustic, etc. ) and from New Castle with coal ; in 1835, Charleston to Hamlnirg, with rice ; in 1836, from New Orleans with cotton and from Charleston to Ham- burg ; in 1837, New Orleans to Liverpool ; in 1840, Havana to Cowe's for orders, etc. Chas. Howard, of Pembroke, who was born Feb. 23, 1810, is now living, in quite feeble health, but remembers working in the old ship-yards and on the brigs " Pembroke " and " Old Colony." Alden Briggs was getting on in years and prol)ably gave up active business life about this time, although he was later a large owner in a great number of vessels built on the river, as the registers of vessels built in the different yards show. The followins' is taken from the grave- stones in a Pembroke cemetery, opposite Dr. F. Collamore's : "Alden Briggs, son of Seth, died May, 1849, age 86." " Wm. T. Briggs, died July 4, 1S73, age 40 years, 9 mos." "Alden Briggs, born Feb. 20, 1797, died April 30, 1861, aged 64 yrs." The latter Alden was son of Alden ; William Thatcher Briggs was son of Alden and Elizabeth C. (Robinson). Although it may appear l^y record that Alden Briggs did not build a very large number of vessels here, it is easily explained when one sees the amount of work he was doing elsewhere. He was especially in demand at jNlilton and Salem by his brothers, Enos and Daniel. AVhen the Essex was built in Salem they had no good iron workers nearer than the North River, so they sent for Alden Briggs who was an expert, (being considered one of the best iron workers of his day,) to go down and do the iron work. Enos Briggs built the frigate '^ESSEX," in 1798-99. From an old paper the following is taken : "The Salem Frigate. Take Notice. Ye Sons of Freedom! all true lovers of the Liberty of your Country step forth, and give your assistance in building the Frigate, to oppose Frencli insolence and i^iracy. Let every man in possession of a White OaJi Tree, be ambitious to be foremost in hurrying down the timber to Salem, and fill the complement waiting, where the noble structure is to be fabricated, to maintain your rights vipon the Seas, and make the name of America respected among the nations of the world. Your largest and longest trees are wanted, and the arms of them for Knees and Rising Timber. Four trees are wanted for the Keel, which all together will measure 146 feet in length, and hew 16 inches square. Please to call on the Subscriber, who wants to make contracts for large or small quantities, as may suit best, and will pay the Ready Cash. Salem, Nov. 23, 1788- ^(Tiri ^/ ^roke to Milton, and ^/"^^'^^^j^^^^ -^ occupied a large house built by Abel AUyne, where a double cottage now stands. It was pur- chased and added to by John M. Forbes. Thomas S. Briggs built a house, in 1830, on the site of Capt. O. W. Peabody's residence, Milton. The "History of Milton" states that "Mr. Joseph Blake, a merchant of Boston residing a part of the time in Milton, employed Mr. Daniel Briggs, of Pembroke, to build a vessel for him at the ship-yard in Milton, which was launched Oct. 26, 1786." This was the beginning of an extensive busi- ness in ship-building, continued by Mr. Briggs until 1815. Sept. 30, 1788, there was launched in Milton a large vessel built by Daniel Briggs for Ebenezer Wales, Esq., of Dorches- ter. " Some of our citizens now living remember the ' Kanawah,' 7/ * For a list of these vessels, see Historical Collections of Essex Institute, Vol. VI., pp. 172 and 173. DANIEL BRIGGS. 187 the ']\Iilton,' and the 'Jane,' and were present at their launching. Capt. Nat. Thomas,* from Pembroke, who married Jennie, the dau2:hter of Capt. Briijo's, lived in the Briffors house on Milton Hill. He was commander of the 'Kanawah,' and also of the ' Milton.' The Milton was caucfht in Neponset Bridge, on her way to Boston, and was got through w^th diffi- culty. This vessel, though built seventy- four years ago, is a New Bedford whaleship, still afloat." Daniel Briggs also built the following vessels in Milton: 1798. Sloop "John,"' 23- tons, of Milton. 1805. Brig "Osprey," 197 tons, of Boston. 1806. Ship "President Adams," 313 tons, of Boston. 1810, Ship "Alert," 376 tons, of Boston. 1810. Ship " Jane," spoken of above, 326 tons, of Boston ; owned by Alden Briggs, of Pembroke, and Daniel Brisfgs, master carpenter, of Milton. 1811. Ship "Huntress," 395 tons, of Boston. 1815. Ship "Milton," spoken of above, 387 tons, of Boston, owned by Nathl. Thomas, of Milton, and others, and Daniel Briggs, mas- ter carpenter. The following is taken from the " History of Milton"; "Capt. Briggs was a man of large frame, stately and commanding in person, also genial and benevolent in like degree. The following incident shows the humor of the man : On one occasion, when busy in his ship-yard, a stranger came up, asking for work. ' What can you do ? ' inquired the Cap- tain. ' I am a ship-carpenter,' was the reply. 'Can you make a tree-nail on a rock without dulling your axe?' 'Yes, sir.' ' Well, here is your timber, and here is a sharp axe ; let's see you do it.' He went to work, finished the tree-nail, passed it to Mr. Briggs for inspection, and asked if that would do. Mr. Briggs, viewing the excellence of the work, assented, when the man raised his axe and struck a heavy blow upon the rock, breaking the edge, and nearly ruining the tool. 'What are you about?' exclaimed the excited captain. The workman replied, ' My master always taught me, when I had finished a job, to stick my axe in the block.' 'All right,' rejoined the mollified captain ; 'throw off your coat and go to work.' Mr, Briggs died in Milton, Aug. 11, 1825. He was a useful and excellent citizen, honored and respected by all. At the time of his death he owned the land on the east side of ]\Iilton Hill, between Adams street and the foot of the hill, from the Russell land to the old Kinsley estate, including the Peabody and the old Foy estates, exce])t the Swift, now Tappan lot. His daugh- * See preceding Chapter for account of the Thomases. 188 THE BRIGGS BROTHERS. ter, Alice C, bom in Milton, April 2, 1802, married Capt. Charles Taylor, of Milton, April 2S, 1833." She died al^out 1889, aged S(y. The following account of the famous ship " jNIassachuselts," from "Amasa Delano's Voyages," is given to show how high the standard of our ship-builders was, and their reputation abroad, viz. : "The ship ' Massachusetts ' was built at Qtiincy and launched Sept., 1789, for Shaw & Randall. The contractor was Eli Hayden of Braintree, the draughtsman, Capt. Wm. Hackett of Amesbury on the Merrimack. She was of 900 tons, built expressly for Canton trade, was brought to Boston under jury masts, and was the largest ship built at that time in the United States. She excited consider- able sensation in the commercial part of the community, and parties of people in every rank of society came on board of her to gratify their curiosity, and express their admiration. Five French men-of- war were then in the harbor, and their officers often visited the 'Massachusetts' and gave her great praise. She was pierced for 36 guns, but her armament consisted of 20 six-pounders, and musketry. Her crew consisted of 61 men. Capt. Amasa Delano w'as second officer. He was born in Duxbury, Feb. 21, 1763, on the North side of Blue River. His father was Sam'l Delano : his uncle Amasa. In 1772 the family removed to Braintree, where his father attended to ship-building, but they remained here only about two 3'ears, when, owing to the interruption of navigation occasioned by the disputes between Great Britain and the Colonies, they returned to Duxbury. Capt Amasa went to sea at a very early age, but about 17S2 com- menced laboring with his father, ship-building at Duxbury, some- times being the master builder. His first voyage as commander was in a schooner belonging to his uncle, Joseph Drew. He sailed from Duxbury in 17S6. His brothers have been master builders, riggers, and navigators of ships. His brother, Sam'l Delano, was carpenter on board the 'Massachusetts,' and while on a voyage with Amasa in the ' Perseverence,' he built a small vessel, the ' Pilgrim,' with which he explored, and discovered the Pilgrim Islands, in the Pacific in 1S05. Thos. Lunt of Portsmouth, N. H. and Prospect Carpen- ter of Pembroke, Mass., were seamen on board the 'Massachusetts.' Job Prince, Esq., of Boston, was her commander, and John Prince, his son, was a mid-shipman. The ' Massachusetts ' was sold to the Danish East India Co., at Canton, for $65,000, Dec. 4th, 1790- The name of the master builder of the ' Massachusetts,' was Daniel Briggs. Capt. Delano says ' he was one of the best men I ever kuew to keep a large company of men at work, and to make their labor productive.' He writes : ' The family of Briggs in Pembroke, Plymouth county, was celebrated for extraordinary merit. There were five brothers. Elisha continued in his native town an excellent ship builder. Alden was brought up a blacksmith, was remarkable for the talents he showed in the heavy work of a ship, was the TURNER, PALMER & MAGOUN. 189' mechanic employed for the ' Massachusetts ' in this department, and afterwards became a merchant. Enos is a sliip builder at Salem, and built the Essex frigate. Daniel united mercantile speculations with ship building, and has lived many years in Milton. Thomas was educated a ship builder also, went to sea afterwards as captain, transacted business as a merchant in Boston for many years, and died in Dorchester in 1S09, beloved and respected by all who knew him. The five brothers were employed upon the 'Massachusetts.' It would not be proper for me to say here all that I know and feel in praise of this family.' The other mechanics were generally from the North River, County of Plymouth, and were faithful in the per- formance of their duties. The ship was as well built as any ship could be under the circumstances. The timber was cut, and used immediately while perfectly green. It was white oak, and would have been very durable had it been docked, or properly seasoned. Notwithstanding the unprepared state of the materials, the ' Massa- chusetts' was so well built, that on her arrival at Batavia and Canton the commanders of English, Dutch, and other European ships were continually coming on board to examine her and to admire the model and the work. She was acknowledged to be the handsomest vessel in the two ports." — Delano' s Voyages. Luther Briggs was the last member of this family who built in Pembroke. 8eth Briggs, a great-grandfether of Luther Briggs, Jr., learned his trade of Capt. Benj. Turner. Calvin Turner was son of Captain Benjamin ; he had a son, Calvin,, who went to Medford. was building vessels in Medford on the Medford River in 1807. Joshua Turner was also a son of Capt. Benjamin, and married a daughter of Joshua Briggs, brother of Seth Briggs. We will take up Luther Briggs in connection with otiier ship-l)uilders and by himself later, and now look into the business done here by others about this time. Turner, Palmer, d* Magoun built separately at this yard before going over to the Hanover side, where they built in partnership.* Luther Briggs was also a member of the firm at one time as his old account books show. Jeduthan Palmer built here alone in 1816, the ship "SUF- FOLK," 314 tons of Boston. For full account of this firm see Bridge Yards. 190 PALMER GENEALOGY. GENEALOGY OF JEDUTIIAN PALMEr's FAMILY.- Jeduthan's father was Ephraim, who died Jan. 10, 1797. His mother was Desire Oldham who survived herhusl)and and mar. 2ndly, in 1798, tlie father of Benjamin Pratt. The house where Jeduthan was born, h)cated on the Drinkwtiter road, (now Hanover St.,) was puroliased l\v his father, Ephraim, March 7, 1782. Jeduthan mar. Sarah the daughter of Calvin Turner April 25, 1811, and died in 1860. Sarah his wife died in 1872. The children of Jeduthan and Sarah Turner Palmer were : 1. Chaeles, b. 1812. 2. Sakah, b. Dec. 5, 1814, died 1889. She mar. Samuel P. Brackett in 1847, and they had three chil- dren : Sarah, b. 1848 ; Fred, b. 1850 ; Mary Cora, b. 1858 ; the last child only, is living. 3. Jeduthan, b. Jan. 25, 1817, d. a1)out 1833, unmarried. 4. Mary Ann Turner, b. Oct. 26, 1819, mar. in 1847, X. P. Banks, Jr. They have had four children: Harry Waltham, b. 1848, d. 1853 ; Mary Binney, b. 1852, mar. in 1880 Eev. Paul Sterling; Joseph F., b. 1855; Maude; h. 1857, all are living excepting Harry AV. 5. Amanda F., b. Nov. 6, 1822, d. in 1845, unmarried. 6. Alice W., b. July 26, 1825, mar. Emory Seaman, by whom she had four children, Julia, Alice, Emery and Mary; only Alice is living. 7. William T., b. Dec. 6, 1827. 8. Daniel T., b. July 27, 1830. 9. Julia O., b. Dec. 4, 1833, mar. in 1867 Charles Edward Bulkley, and they have one child, Charles. Most of the vessels built by Turner, Palmer & Magoun were for Baker & Hardy, and Charles Cole of Boston, and for Scit- uate Harbor parties. Barker Turner was a son of Nathaniel, of So. Scituate, and built at So. Scituate, now Norwell, at the Copeland & Ford Yard, at Fox Hill, until alwut 1820, when he went into partnership with Luther Briggs, at the Brick Kilns, where Mr. Turner did the drafting of the vessels. TURNER genealogy. Capt. Benjamin Turner, of Pembroke, mar. 1st, dau. of Kev. Mr. Eells, of Scituate. 2ndly, Ruth Briggs, of Pembroke. He had by his first wife two children : 1. , who mar. a Mr. Lane, of Scituate. 2. David, of Plymouth. /''Pf-' ^ - 9 the ship-builder, was y^ Q /^ A ^ son of Nathaniel, C^^y^A-A-^ C^AZ'C<,^'*-^T_,.c^ who was a son of Capt. Benjamin by his second wife. Nathaniel Turner mar. ^:cv/-^1a„ C>^^-''^''*1^-U^-^ TURNER GENEALOGY. 191 Lucinda . lied. Nov. 19, 1814, aged 81 ; she d. Dec. 11, 1807, aged 67. They had children as follows: 1. Christo- pher, d. in Salem. 2. Caleb, mar. Deborah Turner, and had six children, Myra, Jane, William, Temperance, Joseph G., and ^A'arren. Caleb d. in Bridgewater. 3. Benjamin, mar. Wheeler. They had five children, Ambrose, Lydia, Joseph M., Charles, and Ruth. 4. Barker, the ship-builder. The genealogy of his family is given below. 5. Polly, mar. John Bassett, of Hingham, and they had two children, John and Caleb. 6. Lucy, mar. John Thomas, of Marshfield, and they had three children, Henry, Ray, and Ann. Barker, the fourth child of Nathaniel, mar. Polly, dau. of Melzar and Lucy W. Stoddard, of Scituate. Melzar d. April 19, 1839, aged 79. Lucy W., his wife, d. July 6, 1850, aged 88. Polly, wife of Barker Turner, d. Aug. 4, 1835, aged 48. CHILDREN OF BARKER AND POLLY TURNER. 1. Barker, b. Feb. 1(3, 1808 ; mar. Sophia Baker, of Pem- broke. They had five children, Edwin, Israel H., Polly, Frederick, and Augustus. 2. Mary, b. June 23, 1809 ; d. Aug. 1, 1819. 3. Elmina, b. Nov. 16, 1811; d. March 2, 1842. She mar. Eben AVitherell, of Pembroke, and they had two children, Augustine and E})en Herbert. 4. Andrew, b. Aug. 13, 1812 ; mar. Hannah Bell, of Boston, and they had two children, Susan L. and Andrew W. o. Delia, b. Nov. 26, 1^13 ; mar. Calvin Baker, of Pembroke, and they had six children, Calvin L., Andrew H., Delia T., D. Webster, Bar- ker, and Walters. 6. Huldah L., b. Nov. 20, 1816; mar. Joseph R. Sheperd, of Pembroke, and they had three chil- dren, Joseph J., Julius R., and Huldah T. 7. Isaiah Alden, b. Oct. 25, 1818 ; mar. Mary Childs, of Hingham, and they had two children, Alden D. and Elmer E. 8. Cyrus, b. Feb. 20, 1821 ; mar. Mary A. Baker, of Pembroke, and they had three children, Eliza (who d. young), Morris, and Anna. 9. Susan, b. March 13, 1824; mar. Walter B. Studley, of Rockland, Mass., and they have had two children, Susan L. and Addie. 10. Elizabeth, b. Jan. 21, 1828 ; d. Jan. 27, 1828. 11. Ed- ward Everett, b. Sept. 17, 1831-; mar. Elizabeth Sturtevant, of Pembroke, and they have had two children, Ella and Charles. Barker Turner and Luther Briggs built in Pembroke, in 1824, sch. •■ VIRGINIA," (y2 tons, of Boston. They also built the sch. "CHARLES," in Pembroke, in 1825, G2 tons, owned 192 VESSELS BUILT AT THE BRICK-KILN YARD. by Jesse Dunbar, Sr. and Jr., Isaiah Alden, Charles Vinal, and Gushing Otis, of Scituate. She was built of green plank brought from Bridgewater. Cyrus Turner worked on her at Hingham in 1848. The same year, 1825, Barker Turner built on his own account the sch. "JUNO," 85 tons, for Noble E. Jenkins, Moses Rich, Elisha Foster, Jr., Isaiah Alden, Cush- ing Otis, John Beal, and Peleg Jenkins, of Scituate; after- ward sold to Gloucester. In company with Luther Brisks, he built, in 1827, the brig "TENEDOS," 245 tons, of Boston. In 1840 she was bought by Lawrence & Co., New London, Conn., and sent whaling in the So. Atlantic. In 1844, while in the Indian Ocean, Churchill, the first mate, was injured by falling off a water cask, and died iii 1847. In 185(>, the " Tenedos " was one of the "Stone Fleet," No. 1. Barker Tur- ner also built alone, at the Brick-kilns, in 1827, the sch. "JAMES OTIS," 80 tons, owned by Geo. Manson, Anthony AVaterman, Peleg and Elijah Jenkins, Jr., John Beal and Jesse Dunbar, of Scituate ; commanded by Capt. Manson in 1820, engaged fish- ing summers, and in the coasting trade winters.* This schooner was of perhaps the poorest model of any ever built on the river. When launched, it was almost impossible to make her sail. She would act like a tub at sea, which she resembled somewhat. She was always known as " Barker Turner's tool- chest." For several years, about this time, Mr. Turner a})pears to have been building on his own account. In 1828, the sch. "DANUBE," 71 tons, was built by Barker Turner, master car- penter, at Pembroke, and owned by Howland Otis, Peleg Jen- kins, Jas. Damon, J. Dunbar, Sr. and Jr., Seth AVebl), John Beal, Simecm Litchfield, and Francis G. Chubbuck, of Scituate. She was afterward sold to Cape Cod. In 1829, he built the sch. "RAILWAY," 86 tons, Pembroke; Jesse Dunbar, Sr. and Jr., and Thos. L. Manson, Scituate, owners. In 1830, the sch. "PERFECT," fi8 tons, of Pembroke ; owners, Isaiah Alden, Colman Jenkins, Sr. and Jr., Geo. M. Allen, Thos. Burroughs, of Scituate, and Horace Collamore of Pembroke ; afterward sold down East. Also, in 1830, he built the sch. " ELIZA ANN," 99 tons, of Boston. In 1831, the brig "VERGES," 151 tons, of Boston. The following year he again built a ves- sel in company with Luther Briofgs, 1832, the bark "MI- RANDA," 189 tons, of Boston, the last vessel Barker Tur- ner built in Pembroke, of which we have any account, was in * See account Capt. Manson, under Fox Hill Yard. ■I 2: < .E < 5 VESSELS BUILT AT THE BRICK-KILN YARD. 193 1833, the kirk "LEONID AS," 183 tons, of Boston. He had during the past few years been l)uildinu:; in Hanover, also, and })rol)al)ly decided to take all of his business over there about this time. From his sons, Barker, Andrew, Aldcn, and Cyrus, much information has been gleaned. Cyrus says his father told him that he had built thirty-two vessels on North River, liarker Turner, Jr., died since the compiling of this vohime was begun. Among the characters of his time, located here, none were better known or more popular than Tom Briggs, of Pc^mbroke. He was an excellent workman and ship-carpenter of those chiys ; but he preferred nmsic and excitement rather than work. He was a skillful bugler, and his widow, who now lives in Dor- chester, has the Inigle which he formerly played. At one time he decided to go to Mexico, with Elijah Laphain, but the scheme fell through. He and Horace Collamore used to joke each other whenever an opportunity presented. Thomas Briggs was b. in 1803, and d. in 187(5. To ao back to 1815, we find Caleb Turner building a vessel at the" lirick-kilns, the ship " LAURA ANN," 5'75-| tons, of Boston. Her length was 103 feet; breadth, 28 feet; de})th, 14 feet. She was owned by David Greenough and Sam- uel Parkman, Jr., of Boston, and Alden Briggs, of Pembroke. She was the largest vessel built at the Brick-kiln Yard. Caleb proba1)ly did not build many vessels here, as in 1)S18 we find him at the Fox Hill Yard, in Norwcll, building with his brother Barker. (£ci4Jt^ ^ ^--^fci, built here in 1815-1 (5, the •st vessels he built on (y his own account.* He left his home in Scituate and came to Pembroke, apprenticed to P^lisha Briggs, a relative, both being descendants of Walter. Cushing having served his time and become of age, and being a skilled artisan, built at the Brick-kilns, in 1815, the brig "PERSEVERANCE" of 184 tons, with two decks, two masts, length, 78 feet; breadth, 23 feet; depth, 11 feet; of Boston, Thos. Snow, master. Owned by Elijah Loring, Joshua Ellis and Robert Thompson, of lioston. And in 1'G IN TEMBnOKE. two masts ; length, S6 feet: l)readth, 23 feet; depth, 11 feet, of Boston. Innnediately after this he went to Scituate, where we find him building at Hobart's landing. The following sketch, written by an old resident of Pembroke, gives a good idea of the last of shi[)-building at Pembroke : "The name of Briggs seems to be identified with ship-building from the early settle- ment of Scituate. Whether Walter, the elder, was a ship- builder, we are not able to say, but that many of his posterity followed that vocation successfully has come within the mem- ory of many now living. Luther Briggs, the subject of this sketch, was the son of Elisha, and grandson of Seth, who removed from Scituate to Pembroke early in the last century, having a large family, several of whom followed the occupation of their father. Luther learned the art of ship-1)uilding of his father and was apprenticed at the same time with Gushing O. Briggs, Avho in company with his brother Henry, became a suc- cessful builder at Scituate. The apprenticeship of Luther and Cushino; O. Brigfo^s was a remarkal)lv conixenial one which resulted in a lifelong friendship terminating only with death. The one quarrel, it is said, that they ever had, was when a dis- pute arose as to who Avas occupying the larger half of the bed one night. It was settled by their getting out and measuring their sides off, when peace reigned again. The early years of Luther Briggs' life were much interrupted ]\y ill health, which prevented him from engaging in active business for several years after his majority, but later he commenced business at the Brick-kilns, (so called), where his father and grandfather had previously built in company with the late Barker Turner. One incident occurring at the time they built, seems worthy of notice. It had been tlie custom in all the ship-^ards to carry around li(juor at stated hours and distribute to the men, as it was eon^sidered indispensable to a good day's work. After taking into consideration the great evil of intemperance they resolved building a ship without furnishing licjuor to their men. They were told it could not be done, that men would not work with- out their accustomed dram, and proba])ly many drank at their own expense, but it was the last of their furnishing it, and they had no trouble in building without it. It was an innovation which was soon followed in other yards on the River, where it had been thought indispensable to successful business. Luther Briggs deceased in 1864, aged eighty years, much respected as an honest and just man in all his business relations. He left one son, Luther, an architect in Boston, who still survives VESSELS BUILT AT THE BRICK-KILN YARD. 195 him." Luther Briggs built alone and in company with Barker Turner, Silvanus Smith, and Melzar S. Turner at different times. In 1836, Melzar Turner (as he was commonly called), left the Brick-kilns and built on his own account at Scituate Harbor. Later, he again built in company with Luther Briggs at the Brick-kilns, carrying on his Harbor Yard at the same time. He was not very successful financially, and becoming somewhat embarrassed, in 1845 Luther Briggs was obliged to go down to the Harbor, and "help him out" on a vessel he was building. From this time Luther Briggs continued in business at the Harbor and together they were very successful. Luther Briggs built at the Brick-kilns until 1850, when he gave all his time and energies to the Harbor Yard. He is described as being an extremely nervous man, especiall}^ if anything went wrong, just the opposite of his son Luther. Melzar Turner was a son of Luther Turner, who was a cousin of Barker Turner, Sr. He died leaving children. (See Harbor Yards) . The schooner "CATHERINE," 70 tons, was built here for John Bates, of Cohasset. Benj. Barnes, who will be remem- bered by many of the residents in the vicinity of North River as havinor brought fish to their doors, was commander. There was also built here during Luther Brings' tune the schooner "NOBLE E. JENKINS," 100 tons, which we find later in the Mediterranean trade ; the "INDUSTRY" and the brig "SUN," 200 tons, C'apt. Rich, which was prol)ably the same "Sun" that was used later as a packet between New Bedford and the South, and which was condenmed at the Bay of Islands in Aug., 1863; the brig "BENJAMIN FRANKLIN," 164 tons, which had a figure head of Benj. Franklin. She was added to the Beverly, Mass., whaling fleet in 1850, sold to Fall River in 1856, was Fall River's last whaler, was bought in 1862 by E. Maxwell, of New Bedford, and while engaged in whaling was lost near Zanzibar, Sept. 8, 1867; and the "KENEDOS," but we have been unable to find out the exact years when each was built. Luther Briggs built in 1823 the sloop " MAYFLOWER," 32 tons, of Pembroke ; owners : Asa Sherman, Jr., her captain, Elisha Phillips, Stephen Rogers, Jonathan Stetson, Jesse Reed, and Chandler Sampson, of jMarshfield, Alden Briggs, Luther Briggs, the builder, Elias ]\Iagoun, Horace and Gilman Collamore and Daniel Magoun, Pembroke, Elisha Foster, Jr., and Elisha Tolman, Scituate. He also built the "PHILENA OTIS " about 1828. 196 VESSELS BUILT AT THE BKICK-KILN YARD. T^fd^^^ X^^ built in 1833 the "Han- son" a centre board sloop. She was a very , >^-5— > heavy craft and very rtft.^/-^ ^^y^ / ^^^V— — ^'^^' ^^^'^o o"^y three '^^'^^-^ <^-i^'-'»^'~>-ulJ ' niches "dead rise." She was used as a North River packet, running between Boston and the Brick-kilns, and had many owners, as the following regis- ter shows: — 1S33, sloop "HANSON," 47 tons, Pembroke"; own- ers ; Asa Sherman, Sr. and Jr., elolm Stetson, Daniel Phillips, Ephraim Randall and Stephen Rogers, Marshheld, Horace Colla- more, Calvin Shepard, Aurora W. Oldham, Alden and Luther Briggs, of Pembroke. In 1834, Luther Briggs built the "SU- SAN " for Hardy & Baker. Mr. Hardy married Susan Holmes and named this vessel after her. Mrs. Nathl. Smith was then Miss Susan Briggs. She says on invitation of j\Ir. Hardy, the two Susans were launched in this vessel. He Iniilt the same year, 1834, the bark " BLACK HAWK " after the model of the " Black Hawk." In 1835, he built the "PALERMO" for Hardy & Baker. During the latter two years he also built at the Brick- kilns the following vessels in company with Melzar Turner. In 1834, the schooner "CORNELIA," owned by Thos. J. Bur- rows, Geo. M. Allen, of Scituate, Horace and Anthony Colla- more, Ephraim Randall, Melzar Turner, Luther Briggs and Luther Maijoun, of Pembroke ; and in 1835, the schooner "ADELINE," 99 tons, owned by Geo. M. Allen, Scituate, Horace Collamore, Alden and Luther Briggs, and JNIelzar S. Turner, Pembroke. AI)Out this time, in company with Melzar Turner, he built a vessel at Kingston for Cai)t. Delano, and in 1836, at the Brick-kilns, the schooner "KEMP" for Wm. Kemp & Co. He also built at the Brick-kiln, in 1836, the schooner "SWAN," 129 tons, of Bostcm ; and in the same year, the schooner" EDWIN," 103 tons, of Boston, afterward of Newburyport, and used whaling from Provincetown in 1846. In 1837, he built the brig " AVILLIAM PENN," 158 tons, of Boston, which had a figure head nu)delled after the man for whom she was named. In 1838, he built the sch. "RED ROVER," 99 tons, of Pembroke, sold to Kingston, also in 1838, a hriif for a Mr. Flynn, and about this time the sch. "CORDOVA."^ In 1839, he built the brig "VHLLIAM PITT," 174 tons, Howes Baker, master, and owned by Al- pheus Hardy, of Boston, and others. In 1841, he built the bark "SOPHRONIA," 197 tons, of Boston, copper and iron fastened, VESSELS BUILT AT THE BRICK-KILN YARD. 197 owned by Trull and others, Boston, in 1859, Capt. Drew ; built of mixed wood. In company with Melzar Turner, he built in 17^^ ^'^ y=^ 17 8 2; mar. , yy S3pt.l5,1803, Lavinia Soule, who was b. Jan. 21, 1784. By her he had one dau., Jane S., b. May 15, 1804, who mar, Dea. Hiram Oakman, and is now living, the venerable mother of Col. Hiram A. Oakman, H. P. Oakman of Neponset, Otis B. and Nathan S. Oakman of North Hanover (who mar. two Brooks sisters), and ]\lrs, Henry Abiel Turner of Norwell. Thomas' first wife d. May 19, 1805, and he mar., 2nd, Mary (or Polly) Clift, Nov. 28, 'l806. She was b. Nov. 14, 1787. By her he had four daughters : Judith C, 204 llOGERS GENEALOGY. 1). Feb. 23, 1820, avIio mar. Adia P. "Wilde, and left one or more descendants. ]\lary A., 1). July 17, 1822. Lavinia, b. Aug. 9, 1825; mar. John L. Clapp. They have one child, Elton B. Clapp, now living in East ^Nlarshtield. Bethiah O., the youngest child of Thomas and ]\rary Rogers, b. April 29, 1827, is now living in East Marshfield, unmarried. 2. Mar- tin, b. April 13, 1784; mar. Sarah Grinnell of Belfast, ^Nle. 3, Phillips, b. March 14, 1787, a ship-carpenter; mar. Judith Smith, of Duxbury, and removed to Medford. 4. Agatha,!). July 25, 1795; mar. Nathan "Williamson. 5. Howland, b. Jan. 18, 1797, a ship-carpenter; mar. Philenda, dau. of Capt. Xathaniel Clift. He succeeded to his father's estate, but after- ward sold it, and lived upon his wife's place on Clift, now Spring street, Marshfield. He had four children : 1. "Wales Allen, who mar. Sarah A., dau. of Capt. "Wales Tilden. 2. George Howland, who mar. Eunice Ann, dau. of Abijah Rogers ; and they had one son, George Calvin, who mar. Eve- line, dau. of Edwin Curtis, and now lives in East Marshfield. 3. Nathaniel Clift ; and 4, Philenda Adeline. 6. AVaeren, b. Oct. 9, 1804 ; mar., and removed to Lynn, Mass., where he has one son, Henry AVarren, who is mar., and has two sous and one daughter. jLsa Hogers (4), the ship-builder, b. 1754, the fourth child of Israel, the pioneer ship-builder, mar., Dec. 13, 1781,Alnah, dau. of Edward Oakman, and lived on Cornhill avenue, where some of their grandchildren now reside. They had ten chil- dren : 1. Abiah, b. Sept. 7, 1783. 2. Sarah, b. Nov. 9, 1785 ; mar. a Mr. Pratt of Boston. 3. Asa, Jr., b. June 21, 1787; d. 1851. He mar. Euth, dau. of Zaccheus and Ruth (Oakman) Rogers, and succeeded to the homestead; and had the following ten children, most of whom settled in Marshfield : Ruth L., b. Aug. 5, 1813 ; d. Jan. 2, 1818. Martha, b. Nov. '22, 1815; mar., 1st, a Mr. Studley ; 2nd, a Mr. Day. Be- thiah, b. Aug. 25, 1817 ; mar. N. J. Damon. Ruth L., the second, b. Dec. 6, 1818 ; unmarried. Augusta, b. Sept. 28, 1820 ; mar. Edwin Curtis. Louisa Forbes, b. May 18, 1823 ; unmarried. William, b. Jan. 21, 1825 ; unmarried. Edwin Thomas, b. Oct. 1, 1826; mar. Almaria Covell. Ann Caro- line, b. July 27, 1829 ; mar. James Lamliert. Mercy, b. Feb. 3, 1831 ; d^ Feb. 20, 1834. 4. Temperance, the fourth child of Asa, Sr., the ship-builder, b. Oct. 12, 1788 ; d. in Maiden, unmarried. 5. Aaios, b. Feb. 24, 1791 ; mar. and had sons : BOGERS GENEALOGY. 205 John, who went to Warren, Me., and Josephiis, a ship-buikler of Bath, Me., where his children and grandchiklren have suc- ceeded to the business. 6. Bethiah, b. May 25, 1792; mar. Wm. Smith, who kept the well known "Half-Way House" at West Scituate (now Norwell), on the road from Plymouth to Boston. They removed to Bedford. 7. Alice, b. Sept. 19, 1793 ; mar. a Mr. Turner, of Boston, and had a son, Henry, with whom she lived in Maiden after the death of her husband. 8. Edward, and 9. Henry, twins, b. Aug. 23, 179(5. Edward resided at South Boston, where he was at one time in partner- ship with his brother Henry, who was a master ship-builder at South Boston and at Medford. Henry was also for some time Quartermaster in the Charlestown Navy Yard. 10. Thomas, b. July 21, 1802 ; mar., in 182(5, Jane, dau. of Elisha Tilden,, and removed to Medford, where they died, leaving three daugh- ters, who have descendants. Samuel (10), who built at Gravelly Beach, and lived where Benjamin White now resides, was b. 1769, the tenth child of Israel. He mar. Mary Rogers, who was b. INIay 3, 1772. He d.-Aug. 2, 1832; she d. Feb. 20, 1812. They had six chil- dren : 1. Rachel Clift, b. Feb. 8, 1784. 2. Maria, b. Jan. 23, 1800. 3. Alfred, b. Sept. 1, 1803, who has two sons residing in Boston : 1. Samuel, who mar., and has a son Wil- liam F. 2. William A., who mar., and has two daughters, Ilattie B., and Grace. 4. Zadoc, b, March 23, 1810. 5. Sam- uel, Jr., b. Feb. 5, 1814; d. Auo;. 12, 1817. 6. Rachel W., b. June 12, 1818 ; d. Dec. 20, 1853. Of the Little Bridge family, Peleg Rogers mar. Hannah Stevens in 1754, and had several children. Among them was Peleg Rorje vs., Jr., the ship-builder, w^ho mar. Jemima Eames in 1784. They had children: 1. Peleg, b. 1785. 2. Jede- diah, b. 1788. (3. Isaac, who mar. Hannah Ford, and resided at the homestead, near Little's Bridge?) 4. Nathan, b. 1793 ; d. young. 5. Salome, b. 1794; d. 1882, unmarried. 6. Arthur, b. 1798, a ship-carpenter; mar. Sarah F. Lapham, and d. at East jMarshtield, leaving descendants. 7. Isaiah, b. 1800 ; mar. Emily Tobey. He was a somewhat noted architect in Xew York. He came into possession of the old homestead, and sold it to its present owner, Amos F. Damon. 8. Laura, b. 1802; mar. Thaddeus Wheeler. 9. Jotham ; mar. Louisa Bowker, of Bowker street. South Scituate. 10. Alden, b^ 206 VESSELS BUILT BY AMOS IIOGEIIS. 1807 ; mar. Adeline Humphrey, and resided at Seaview, Marsh- field. He had quite a laroe family. One dauo;hter mar. Amos r. Damon. 11. Susan I)., mar. Isaac Ewell, and resides in Medford. 12. Amos ; was killed by an accident in New York City, soon after his marriage, while working ■with his brother Isaiah. Peleg and Hannah Stevens Rogers had a son Nathaniel, b. Aug. 6, 1757, (who mar. Hannah Ford, of Duxbury?). He lived "up the hill," in the house next south of Isaac Rogers. Samuel, Jr., and Experience (Thomas) Rogers had a son, Simeon, b. 1737, who mar. Mary Clift ; by her he had a son, Luther, b. Aug. 21, 1778, who became a master ship-builder. Luther mar., in 1802, Abigail L. Tilden, and lived in a large house, on a corner, at East Marshfield village, which he built for a hotel. It is now owned by his son, Alvin, who resides in Quincy. Of his other sons, Clift mar. a Quincy lady, where he was in the tannery business for many years. He now re- sides in East Marshfield ; no children. Wales was a black- smith in East Marshfield, until succeeded by his son, Mar- cellus W. He has one other son, James L. , and four daughters, all married. Avery resides in I]ast Marshfield, and has a son, Alfred, in South Boston. Luther, Jr., was a merchant at East Marshfield for many vears. He mar. Lydia Clift, and they have had children T John L., b. 1836. Henry C, b. 1839 (who write their name "Rodgers,'' and both of whom are mem- bers of the M^ell known leather firm in Boston). Herbert, b, 1845 ; resides in Quincy, and does business in Boston. Mary L., b. 1850 ; is married. built in Marshfield, as early as 1792, the sch. "PERSIS," 90 tons, of Marshfield ; Amos Rogers, owner. He built, in 1794, the sch. "NEP- TUNE," 114 tons, of Marshfield; Amos Rogers, owner. In 1796, he built the sch. " SALLY," 96 tons, for Thomas Lewis, Sr. and Jr., and Joshua Ellis of Boston. The last vessel registered as having been built by him was in 1798, the sch. "CONCLU- vSION," 109 tons, of Boston, afterward of Castine, Me. ; Amos Rogers, Iniilder, of iNlarslitield. Prince Hatch built in ]Marshfield in 1801, at Capt. Joseph Hunt's ship-}'ard, \vliich was pro]:)ably located on the South Map of Marshfield, A.D. 1794. VESSELS BUILT BY JOSEPH ROGERS. 207 River, a schooner for Gorham Lovell of Yarmouth, and Zenas Oage and Abner W. Lovell of Barnstable. ?X -^ a Quaker, built in ^ r> Cf^£^ f Marshfield, in 1794, ■^g;^^"^'^ the brig "SISTERS," ^ 83 tons, of Boston. In 1795, the sch. "BETSEY," 121 tons, owned by Samuel Truant, Joseph and James Rogers, at Marshfield ; also in 1795, the sch. "ELIZA," 106 tons, of Boston. Probably foundered at sea in 1807. Sheffield, in his book on "Commerce," pub- lished in 1783, says that "In New England, ship-builders build many vessels for sale ; most of them are bought in Great Britain." He says that an English contractor paid in New England " £75 sterling for a mast of 33 in. diameter." In some old newspapers are found the following items of interest to Marshfield people. From the New England Weekly Journal: •' On or about the 23d of February, 1728, Capt. Bass, in a fine large ship belonging to Boston, coming from the Bay of Honduras, run ashore on or near Marshfield Beach, and is not likely lo be got otf, though most of the cargo will be saved." From the Massachusetts Gazette and Boston Weekly JSTews- Letter : " On Wednesday last," (Thursday, April 10, 1766,) " the Rev. Mr. Wil- liam Shaw was ordained to the Pastoral care of the Church at Mansfield (or Marshfield)." " Last Sunday " (Thursday, Xov. 22, 1770,) " was married, at the church in Marshfield, by the Rev. Mr. Thompson, Pelham Winslow, Esq., of Ply- mouth, Barrister-at-Law, and eldest son of the Hon. Gen. Win&low, of Marshfield, to INIiss Joanna White of that town ; a lady possessed of vir- tues and accomplishments which tend to render marriage not only agreea- ble but honorable." From Boston Evening Post, July 20, 1772 : "Died, at Marshfield, John Gooch, Esq., late of this town (Boston)." From Boston Evening Post, Dec. 7, 1772 : "Died, at Marshfield, Mrs. Maiy Winslow, consort of the Hon. Gen. Winslow." From Boston Gazette <& Country Journal. " April 25, 1774, Died at Scituate, Gen. Winslow." Martin Rogers, one of the old ship carpenters, boarded at one time with a Mr. Phillips. The sameness of the table made 7 208 VESSELS BUILT BY ASA ROGERS. them wish for a change, so one day when Mr. Phillips invited Mr. Rogers to ask the blessing at the table he said, "Dear Lord, by the means of beef and beans are our lives preserved. "We thank God we are not starved." Israel Eogers built many vessels at Gravelly Beach prior to 1790. son of Israel, built at Gravelly Beach from 1794 until 1803 and ])ossibly later. He built in 1794 the / / ' TT^ sch. " FEDEEAL GEORGE," 103 tons, of ]Marshfield. Isaac Wmslow, owner. During the six months ending July 27, 179(5, he built the mow "PACIFIC TR VDER," 141 tons, for INIartin Bicker & Son of Boston. She had two decks, three masts, was 53 ft. long, 21 ft. l)road, and 10 ft. deep. A snow was a vessel equipped with two or three masts resemblinij a main and foremast of a shiv:) and three small masts abaft the mainmast carrying a trysail. They were much used in the merchant service during the Revolution. There was built at Gravelly Beach by Asa Roirers in 179(3 the sch. "THREE FRIENDS," 32 tons, eloseph Hunt of Marshfield, owner, and in 1798 the sch. "LUCY," 39 tons, Jesse Dunbar and Asa Yinal of Scituate, owners. In 1799 the sch. "CAM- ERON," 98 tons, of Boston, was built at Marshfield by Asa Roo-ers, shipbuilder. In 1801 he built the sch. "FOUR FRIENDS," 75 tons of Plymouth. The last vessel we have found recorded as having been built by him was one he built in Scituate, but at what yard is not known. This was in 1803 the sell. "iMORNING STAR," 82 tons. Owners, Jesse Dunbar, Asa ^ Vmal and Eli Curtis of Scituate. Built at Scituate, Asa Rogers M. C. In 1799 he built his second schooner named ^^ Federal Georr/e,'' 8(3 tons, for George Keith, Jr., of Marshfield. This vessel he built at " Keith's Building Yard," on South River. He used to walk to Boston after setting his men to work in the yard and walk back in time to discharge th(>m at night. He has also been known to walk to Medford Saturday night and leavnig there Monday morning arrive in Marshfield in time to go into the yard with the men ; and the ship carpenters began work soon after sun rise in those days. Asa's son Edwin T. Rogers, (who has furnished the author much information and is now living at Marshfield Two-]\Iile,) used to say he wished he could live to see the day that there would be no shipbuilding on ROGERS YARD. 209 North River. His reasons were because he had to take his father's dinners across the meadow wliere the water was some- times nearl}^ up to his waist and in the av inter the snow was very deep and often slushy. Edwin T. Roijers was a ship carpenter for many years. There is a tradition in the Rogers family that Asa, Jr., with Amos and possibly Samuel, built at Gravelly Beach the '^Hornet,'" the war vessel which becarne celelirated durins^ our last war with Eno:land. Tradition also says that this vessel was lost during the Mexican war, being sunk l)y the enemy, and that William Henry Rogers, a past mid- shipman, swam five miles to land. Instead of the U. S. man-of- war, "Hornet," the vessel built here was undoubtedly a priva- teer of the same name. . ; Bevj. Rogers, who was either agent or captain of the sloop "Albion," in 1823, was brother of Isaiah and lived in Marsl>- field where Clifford Rogers, his grandson now resides. Stephen Rogers, a Quaker, and a prominent man of his day, lived in the Block-house, Marshfield, wliere H. W. Nelson, Esq., now resides. Marshfield has always been famous for the fires that have occurred within its borders. The following is found in an early number of the JSfeto England Weekhj Journal. / "On Wednesday last the 24, current " (May 1727) "two houses we.i;e burnt at Marshfield standing several rods distant from one another. It seems that in the house where the fire began a J oung man had in the after noon of the foregoing day been combing wool, and having occasion to put some coals into his comb-pot, a small one happened to fall into a chink of the floor, which he espying, poured into the place almost a pail of water, and concluding that the fire was utterly extinguished took no further notice of it; but about two hours before da}- the woman of the house awaking, perceiving the house to be on fire, she immediately called up her chil- dren, who had not time to dress themselves but were glad to escape with- out their clothes. There was an aged man in the house (the woman's father) whom they had much ado to get out. The substance of what w-as saved out of the flames was a few beds and some pewter." The following is taken from the Boston Chronicle for 1768, (April 18-25) : "We hear from Marshfield that last week a farmer in that place burning some brush on his land during a high wind, the flames spread and set the woods and fences on fire for near three miles, greatly to the damage of the people in that place." There used to be a young man who came down to one of the yards to see the ship carpenters and who was not called very bright. One day he was telling about a grsat fire in Marsh- field woods, when he said what 2:rieved him most Avas to see 2J10 SAM I. KOO.KKS (.Wri". IHOS. lUXiKKS, ,1K. tl»o poor littlo i-iibbits runniuir out ot' the woods with their tciils burnod otV. SiimueJ Iioaei\<. who lived in the liouse now oeoupied hv IVniannn White at (.inivelly Ueaeh, built at Cinivelly Boaell, also at Hanover and in the l>riek-Kiln Yard. Pembivke, and ^^ anion Yard, 8eitiiate. He was at one time in partnership with the Fosters. He built in Soituate in ISIT, the sip. '^MANl'Y," To tons, of Seituate. Owners. Jonathan Stetson, Chandler Sampson, Stephen and Luther Kogei-s, and Asa Sherman, of Mai'shtield, and Elias ^lagoun. Pembroke, and Klisha Foster. Jr. . Soituate. Built probably at Foster's Yard. AVe liave been unable to aseertain the names or histories of any vessels built by him in Marshtield, thouirh there are quite a immber of models in existence of vessels he built at Gravellv IVaeh. Capt. T/iomas JRoaers, Jr., brother of Stimuel, and son of Thomas, lived at the head of the lane that leads up from liniv- elly Ueaeh. He was a liner, that is. he lined for plankiuir ves- sels, whieh took givat skill. He also worked in Medford. in Uoston. and on Oampobello Island, in the Ray of Fundy. He built, in 1^-JO. the seh. "^ RACHEL." :^i» tons,' of Marshtield. mSTKlCr OF MASSACUrSETl^S. SrRVFYOKS Ofvick. Port of Haxovkr. I do Coi-titv that the sohoonor n;mitKl tho i?.i be 7 vn" Marshtield is ameri- CA« Inuit that she has one dtvk two masts her loiiirth is lifty sovou l\vt Kiirhr Inchi's her Bivdth is sixteen l\vt six i Inches her debiii seven feet two i Inches and n\easnTvs tiity nine ton lH>-iK^ has a squai'^ stern has no Oallevies «y no head (^and that her name and the name of the jx->rt to w hioh she IvloniTS ftiv painted on the stern in the manner iv^niitnl by the thiixl s<.vtion ot the Act for ivsristering ships or vessels of the Vniteil States) Given under my hand at Hanover aforessaid this thinl day of May one tlK>u<>nd Klirht hundivd >lt iweutv. ^ i>'.irvc>jor. NATHANIEL ROGERS, JR., .Sllll'-HUILDKU. 211 We Constant F. Oaknian, Samuel Joyce, Samuel Joyce Jr. James Keith, Samuel Oakman, Hatch Oakman, John Jones, Josepli ('lift, Jr. owners of the aforesaid schooner do agree to the foregoing description and measuro- ment. ^'yt^^t'^t^ ;*a»*c ^/w-nct/n Nathaniel Hor/cr.'^, Jr., built in Marshiiold, pr()l):il)ly :it Lit- tle's Bridge, in i7!)4, the sell. "ELIZA," l»^< tons, oi" iioslon. The following is a eopy of the certificate of the "Lli/a," signed by jNlr. llogers, wliich Avas not written by liiin, but by the flus- tice before whom he signed : "these may sartyli that I built Uio schoner Called the Eliza in marslilicld in the County of i)Iyoutii Said Schoner l^aycd at mr. John hanes woi-f in Charlstown on the Last Criinas day which had her foremast taken out by Ileaiscn of her for mast being Sprong on her payeseg from marshliehl to Charlstown the Said Sclioncr is now oncd by mr. Samuel Toby of Charls- town the said schoner is Singel deak with a Round stern. marshfield 13 Jenuary 1795." As has been previously stated, ])efore Little's Bridge was built there Avas a ship-yard located on tlu^ site of the })resent abutments of the bridge, on tlie Marshtield side. This yard 212 VESSELS BUILT BY TELEG ROGERS AND THOS. ROGERS. was ocoupiecl by Peleg, father of Isaiah Rogers, and by others of the Kogers family. It was not far above the CarAer & Tay- lor Yard. Peleg Koi>:ers set out the hirge tree now standinor near the bridge. He is said to have made the tirst model of a certain style of vessel that was ever made. built at Little's K^-7^ ''^^^' Bridije, in 1795, the ship "AKGO," 221 tons, of Bos- ton ; owners, Albert Smith, of Hanover, and others. The "Argo" was a double decker with three masts, 06 feet keel, 24 feet beam, 15 feet depth of hold. This was probably the ves- sel referred to in a letter addressed to Ste})hen Gorman, or Gorham, Boston, and dated at Hanover, March 10th, 1795. The writer says : " Mr. Roggers has met with some difficulty in procuring a few particular sticks of timber. I have urged him to hasten your ship, and not scant her in depth of hold. She will be so good a vessel that particular attention should be paid to have the rigging of the best quality." There was built here, in 1798, by the Rogers', the sch. " REINDEER," 20 tons ; owners, Jedediah and^Luther Little, at :\Iarshticld. In 1800, the brio't'n " GEORGE WASHING- TON," 131 tons, of Boston, was" built at Marshfield by Peleg Rogers, ship-builder. This vessel was later sold to Nantucket, and used in the wine trade. In 1818, she left the Azores full of wine, but never was heard of after. Peleg Rogers built, in 1800, the sch. "RUBY," 28 tons; owned by^'Daniel, Timothy, Nathaniel, Isaac, and Peleg Rogers, jMarshtield. She was after- ward sold to Provincetown. The last vessel we have found recorded as having been built by Peleg Rogers, Jr., was the sch. " Trial," 94 tons, which he built at Deer Island, in the Harbor of Boston, in 1804, for Joseph Hunt of Marshfield. Thomas Boqers, Jr., was master carpenter, in 1819, of the packet sloop "ABIGAIL LITTLE," 20 tons, built and owned by Luther Rogers, at East JMarshtield village. This vessel was built on land near the house of Luther Rogers. Farming was rather dull, and Mr. Rogers found that he could make more by building vessels on his farm than in raising vegetables. He took this vessel to the river at Little's Bridge, in the winter time, on sleds, and launched her on the ice. She was run as a LUTHER ROGERS, SHIP-BUILDEK. 213 packet between Boston and North River for a time, but was afterward sold to Chelsea. It has been stated to the author that Luther Rogers also built the sloop " TRADER," on land back of where Alvin Rogers lived ; but no records have been found to prove the fact. It is said this vessel was swung on sets of wheels, which were drawn by oxen to Little's Bridge, where she was launched, and that she was afterward converted into a steam vessel, and sold down East. Luther Rogers built two or three small vessels at his home place, and conveyed them to the river. One was made as an open "gundalow," or scow, and afterward lengthened, covered in, and made into the packet "PICO."* * See Chapter on North River Pilots. CHAPTER XIII. WANTON YARD.— 1670-1840. EDWAl^n WANTON, UOREUT HAHKKI{, KBKNEZER STETSON, SNOW STirsON, IJKN.T a:\I1N DKLANO, "WILLIAM DELANO, 8AMUKL HAUTT, WILLLVM II. I>KLANO, BEN.JAMIN F. DKLANO, JOSEPH CLArr, ELISIIA F0STE15, ELISIIA FOSTEU, JR., SETII FOSTER, SAMUEL FOSTER, WALTER FOSTER, SAMUEL ROGERS, ELIJAH BROOKS, J. TURNER FOSTER, CUMMINGS LITCHFIELD, JAMES 8. UUUKILL. npiIK AV:»nt(Mi Yard was on llio oKl Wanton estate, located on -^ llie Stituato side of North Kivor, u little east of, or below, tlie pi'es(>nt residence of Sanniel ('. (.^idworlli, Ksc]. The old yard was later divided by a wall, thus making two yards, which were vised separately during tlie last century and the early part of this. Edward Wanton began ship-building here, })robably, as early as 1(>70, and vessels are recorded as having been built by him as late as 1707. Tradition says he came from London. lie appeared in Boston before IdaS, and in l()f)*J-()l assisted at the execution of Quakers. He soon became deeply sensible of the cruelty, injustice, and impolicy of these measures, and was greatly moved by the tirnmess with whiih they met death, and won by their addresses before their execution. He tinally re- turned to his house, after one of these executions, saying, "Alas! mother, we have been murdering the Lord's people." He took olf his sword, with a solenni vow never to wear it again. From this time, he conversed at every opportunity with the Friends, and soon rest>lved to become a public teacher of their faith. In l()()l, he })urchased a farm of eighty acres of William Parker, in Scituate, a little below Till's, or Dwelley's Creek, where the river sweeps so grandly through the upland. EDWARD WANTON. 2 1 5 Here he conducted the business of ship-building. His house stood near the bank of the river, on land afterward inijiroved as part of the ship-yard, and where was located one of the work- houses in ISoO. As a teacher of Quakerism he was (juite suc- cessful, and soon gathered a large congregation, and won many followers from the prominent tamiiies of the town. He had nothing to fear now, except the minor persecutions, as corporal punishment, in this connection, was forbidden l)y King Charles about 1()(]1. In 1()78, the Society })ecame so numerous as to necessitate the building of a house of public worship, and a small piece of land was purchased that year, of Henry Ewell, and a house erected. This was located on the site of the gar- den of the late Judge William Cushing. Later, another house of worship was erected on the Wanton estate. This house is now in Peml)roke, part of it having been removed, and now occupied as a residence by Charles Collamore. The remainder is still used by the Society of Friends, who worship there, hav- ing at the present day between twenty and thirty members. Tradition says the house was moved from the old Wanton es- tate to its present location, v/rt North liivcr, on "'gundalows." One of the many persecutions W^uiton and his followers were subjected to, was, in " 1()78 Edward Wanton (of Scituate) for disorderly joining himself to his now wife in marriage in a way contrary to the order of Government is fined £10;" and no doul)t their persecutors, if allowed, would have })unished and tortured them as were forgers and thieves, an instance of which is given below, taken from an early paper : " We also hear from New London, that at the Superior Court Holden there the 30th of March last, (1727) one William Warkins was Tried for Theft, found Guilty, and Sentenced to be Branded, and his right Ear cut oft', which was done the same Day : He intended to have had his Ear put on again, but being unskilful in Surgery, he kept it 'till it was dead, that it was attempted in vain : so that as the poor man could not do as he would, he must e'en do as he can." — The New E^igland Weekly Journal. Edward Wanton died Oct. 10, 1716, aged 85, and ^vas buried on his own plantation, on a rise of ground below the ship-yard. Some of his and several of the Rogers family were buried here later, and the land })rohahly l)elongs to their descendants ; and though it has l)cen tres[)assed upon by vandals, in times past, we hope some action may be taken by the town, ere long, to protect it hereafter. Members of the Wanton family are also buried in the " Old First Parish Cemetery," opposite School- house, District !Xo. G. Deane gives some interesting and 216 EARLY MINISTERS IN SCITUATE. apiusing anecdotes about the Wanton's, in his "History of Scituate," to which the reader is referred. Edward left quite a family. AVilliam and John were invited to Court, in Eng- land, in 1702, and Queen Anne granted an addition to their coat-of-arms, and presented to each a silver punch-l>owl and salver for their daring and successful capture of pirate and French vessels in 1694-97. Undoubtedly, the vessels the Wan- tons used in their captures were built by their father, on the North Eiver. The Wanton family furnished three Governors fpr Rhode Island : William, son of Edward, was Governor during 1732 and 1733. Gideon, grandson of Edward, was Governor from 1747 to 1748 ; and William's son, Joseph, another grandson of Edward, was chosen Governor in 1769, and re-elected for six consecutive 3'ears. Edward's son Joseph, father of Gideon, removed to Tiverton in 1688, and was a ship- builder at " the narrows, or gut." The ministers who came later to Scituate undid much of the teaching of Edward Wan- ton, and few, if any of the Quaker sect are now left there. One of the first ministers of Scituate was the Rev, Nathl. Eells, who preached for about fifty years following the year 1702. He is described as one of the best " old-fashioned men " that oyer lived in town. Later, Dr. Barnes was pastor here. He was not an educated man, but substantial, and knew wdien and how to make a good point. He was very popular, always lis- tened to by large audiences, and had a singular way of speak- ing, starting a sentence in his ordinary tone of speech, then dropping his voice very low on the last few words. He once undertook to give the character of Joshua of old, as follows : "He rose gradually, went slowly, but at what period he arrived we do not know." Here is an anecdote the}^ used to tell in the ship-yards about Dr. Barnes : Dr. Barnes said he " ate a red herring one morning, rode all day in the rain, and came home at night dry." An old ship-carpenter, in attempting to tell the story after him, said, "Dr. Barnes ate a red herring in the morn- ing, rode all day in the rain, and came home at night and was not wet." Below is the record of the death of another Scituate minister, clipped from an old paper : " Scituate. (Mon. Jan. 13, 1766) Mr. Elijah Packard (formerly Minister at Scituate) was frozen to death in walking over the Neck from Kenne- beck to Sheepscut." — The Boston Oazette and Country Journal Also an account of the death of the Rev. Mr. Bourn from The Boston Clironide for 1763, Auo:. 8-15. o VESSELS BUILT BY EDWARD WANTON. 217 " Yesterday died at Roxbury of a paralitick disorder, under which he had been languishing several years, the Rev. Shearjashub Bourn, who for a long course of years was a minister in the first parish of Scituate and removed from thence to Roxbury soon after his first indisposition had pre- vented liis being farther useful in the ministry."* Edward Wanton was a very successful ship builder. He built many vessels for Benjamin Gallop of Boston. For three years, at least, 1700-01-02, Robert Barker was in company with him. Rol)^^ Barker was son of liol)ert and ancestor of the Pembroke family of Barkers. The first record of any par- ticular vessel being built here was for Benjamin Gallop in 1692, sip. "BLACKTIIORNE," 30 tons, Capt. Holland; owner, Benjamin Gallop. Later, vessels were built here as follows : 1604, sip. "HOPEWELL," 40 tons, Capt. Joseph Vickars ; owner, l^enjamin Gallop, Boston. 1694, bark "MARTHA & ELIZABETH," 70 tons. Owners, Robert Howard, Giles Dyer, Merchants, William Everton, Benjamin Gallop, William Wallis and Florence Maccarty, of Boston. Also in 1694 brig't'n "MARTHA and ELIZABETH," 70 tons, Capt. John Halsey. Owners, Robert Howard, AYilliam Everton, Benjamin Gallop, William AVallis, Giles Dyer and Florence Maccarty, Boston. In 1698, sip., afterwards brig't'n "BENJAMIN," 20 tons, Capt. William Cole. Owner Benjamin Gallop of Boston. In 1699 sip. "UNITY," .30 tons, built at Scituate, Benjamin Gallop of Boston, owner. Also the same year, 1699, ship "DOVE," 100 tons. Owners, Capt. John Pullen, John Foster, Robert Howard, William Everton, John Hobby and Benjamin Gallop, all of Boston. Also the same year 1699, sip. "HOPEWELL," 30 tons, built at Scituate. Owners, Richard Claton of St. Christopher, merchant, Richard Shute, Andrew Belcher, and ]\Iary Edward, widow, of Boston, James Sawyer, Gloucester, and Edward Wanton of Scituate. Capt. Richard Shute. Robert Barker built in company with Edward Wanton, com- mencing about 1700, when they built the brig't'n " SARAH & ISABELLA," 50 tons. Owners, Capt. Thomas Tomlin, Robert Wing, William Tilly of Boston, Edward AVanton and Robert Barker of Scituate. Also in 1700 brig't'n "HANNAH," 60 tons. Owner, Benjamin Gallop, and the same year, 1700, sip. "ISIARY," 20 tons, Capt. Joshua Cornish. Owners, Benjamin Gallop, Thomas Thornton, Boston, and Edward Wanton and * See Scituate Harbor Yards. 218 VESSELS BUILT BY EDW. AV ANTOX AXD ROB't BARKER. Eobert Barker of Scituate. In 1701 sip. "MARGARET," 20 tons, Ca|)t. Benjamin Thaxter. Owner, Benjamin Gallop. Also the fc^ame year 1701, sip. "HOPEWELL," 30 tons, Capt. Jonathan llender. Owners, Benjamin Gallon, Benjamin Alford, Adam Winthrop, Florence Maccarty and James Barry, all of Boston. In 1702 the brig't'n " ADVENTURE," 60 tons, Capt. John Halsey. Owners, Benjamin Gallop and John Devine. Also the same year, 1702, brig't'n "ADVENTURE," 40 tons, built at Scituate. Owners, Henry Franklin, Benjamin Gallop, Florence JMaccarty and John Devin, Boston, and also the same year, 1702, sip. "EXPENDITURE," 40 tons, Capt. Edward Lloyd. Owners, Thomas Peterson and Daniel Zachary, of Boston, and Edward AA'anton and Robert Barker of Scituate. In 1705 brig't'n " ENDEAVOR," 80 tons, built at Scituate. Owner, Benjamin Gallop of Boston. In 1706 sip. " HOPE- WELL," 20 tons, built at Scituate. Owner, Benj. Gallop of Boston. In 1707 brig't'n "ADVENTURE," 50 tons, built at Scituate. Owner, Benj. Gallop, of Boston. Also the same year 1707, sip. "MARY," 20 tons, built at Scituate. Owners, Tobias Oakman and Joseph Tilden of Marshheld and Edward Wanton of Scituate. Many of these vessels were l)uilt for privateers and used as such during the French War. Nothing has been found relative to the vessels built later by the Wantons as most of the records of ship building for over sixty years following are missing. The above therefore is only a partial list of vessels built at this yard during the early times. Edward Wanton like rdl of the w^ell-to-do citizens of his day kept slaves and in following the history of Wanton, there is found one slave that gave him much trouble, by continually running away. First, in an old paper there appears the follow- ing : • " Ran away from his master Edward Wanton of Scituate shij^ carpenter the 2ik1 of this inst. September. A mulatto man Servant named l)aniel about 19 years of age pretty tall, speaks good English, thick curled Hair, with bush behind, if not lately cut off. Black hat, cotton and linen shirt. He had with him two coats one a homemade dyed coat, the other a great coat dy'd and muddy color, striped homespun jacket Kersey Breeches, gray stockings, French fall shoes. Who so ever sliall take up said lluiiaway servant and him safely convey to his above said Master at Scituate or give any true intelligence of him so as his Master shall have him again, shall have satisfaction to Content beside all necessary charges paid." — Boston News Letter, Sept. 22. 1712. From the following, it appears that he ran away two years later from Edward AVanton's son-in-law, John Scott : "bald hill." 219' ♦' Ran away from his Master, John Scott, the 17th of this instant August. A muUitto man named Daniel formerly belonging to Edward Wanton of Scituate ; he is indifferent, tall and slender, by trade a shipwright but 'tis thought designs for Sea. Who so ever shall stop, take etc., and bring him or give notice of him to his master at Newport, R. 1. shall be well re- warded and reasonable charges paid." — Boston Neios Letter, August 23rd, 1714. The will of Edward Wanton dated in 1716 ffives : " To daughter Elizabeth (Scott) a mallato boy called Daniel, if he be found he being now run away." Josiah Barker was Naval Constructor at the Charlestown Navy Yard from about 1810 until 1842, wdien he was appointed Naval Constructor at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, where he built the ship of war "Portsmouth." He was a descen- dant of Robert and served his time on the banks of the North River, and built many years in St. Andrews, St. Johns, West- port, Weymouth and Pembroke. While at the Cbarlestowai Navy Yard he rebuilt the frigate "Constitution." The " Vir- ginia," 74, w\as built by him ; also the "Frolic," 22, " Indepen- dence," 74, and many others. In 1730, JoJui Stetson, a descendant of Cornet Robert, pur- chased the Wanton estate, and ship-building was carried on here by the Stetsons. The only records apparently in exist- ence now, of the vessels built by the Stetsons, are those of the few built by Ebenezer & Snow Stetson. Tradition says that vessels were built at "Bald Hill " by the Stetsons, which may be the fact ; but as it is in doubt at which place they built, alt the history of them, and of their ship-building, which the most diligent research has discovered, will be put into this chapter. That Ebenezer and Snow Stetson l)uilt vessels at one of these yards, it is certain, and possil)ly at "Bald Hill," or "Ball Hill." There is some question as to the origin of the name of this hill , situated on the old Michael Ford place, on the bank of North River. Mr. Cyrus Turner says its true name is "Ball Hill," and gives as his authority, or reason, that lialls or dances were given there, on platforms, "in ye olden time," and that the old Hanover Artillery used to go there to practice, with ball and powder, shooting at a target on the Brick-kiln side of the river. It is true that dances were held, and the Artillery did practice here ; but the true name is pr()])ably "Bald Hills," as the earliest records sj^eal; of them as such. In the church record of the Rev. Benj. Bass, under date of Oct. 27, 1741, is recorded the 220 VESSELS BUILT BY THE STUTSONS. death of "William Ford, " drowned in the North River, near Bald Hills, and found about a week after." John Tower says, when very youns; he asked an old man why it was called '' Bald Hill," which he always understood to be the name, and he re- plied by taking otf his hat, and rubbing his smooth pate with his hand, saying, it was because it was as destitute of trees as his head was of hair. Ehenezer Stutson built, in 1748, a ship for George Stutson. In 1749, a schooner for Capt. Jonathan Tilden ; and the same year, 1749, the brig't'n "WILLIAM CLIFT," built, owned, and commanded by Eben. Stutson. Matthew Stutson did the iron work. Ebenezer and SnoAv Stetson were descendants of Eobert Stetson, commonly called "Cornet Robert," because he was cornet of the first Horse Company raised in Plymouth Col- ony in the year 1658, or 1659. Tradition says he came from County of Kent, Eng. He settled in Scituate in 1634, on the North River. His house stood on a sloping plain near the bank, and an unfailing spring, which supplied him and his de- scendants with water for two hundred years, still marks the spot. (See Third Herring Brook.) William, son of Robert, and great-grandson of Cornet Robert, was grandfather of Wil- liam, of Medford, and of Stephen. He died in 1761, his body being found in North River, opposite his house, under circum- stances of a very suspicious character. Cornet Robert had, among other children, a son, Capt. Benjamin, b. Aug., 1641. His son Benjamin was b. Feb. 16, 1668; mar. Grace Turner, Jan. 22, 1690. Their son Matthew, b. Nov. 5, 1690; mar. Hannah Lincoln, Sept. 24, 1730. Their son Matthew, b. Aug. 24, 1731; mar. Mary Randall, of Pembroke, Feb. 5, 1761. Their son JNIatthew, b. March 3, 1763 ; d. June 9, 1782, of fever, in Boston. Thomas, b. Dec. 11, 1639, was the third son of Cornet Rob- ert. His son Ebenezer was born in 1693, and is buried on Church Hill. He is said to have been a very zealous church- man, and built the church on Church Hill, So. Scituate, at his own expense. The church here was originally founded July 'i'r^, 1725, by Dr. Timothy Cutler, of Boston, who conducted divine service, after the Church of England form, in the North Meeting-house at Scituate^ which stood almost opposite the residence of the late Hon. Geo. Lunt, and where his family now reside. The church edifice was erected on Church Hill (now in Norwell) in 1731, and torn down in 1810. The tim- STETSON GENEALOGY. 221 ber was in such good condition that part of it was used in the construction of the residence now occupied ])y Mr. James T. Tohnan, on Oakland avenue, near Hanover Four Corners, it being built by the then pastor of the church. The old panels may now be seen in the dining and other rooms. Snow Stetson, son of Ebenezer, b. March, 1730 ; mar. a French lady named Dupee, in Newport, R. I., and d. in the West Indies, aged 27. Their son, Snow Stutson, mar. Lydia Tohnan, of Scituate, Dec. 7, 1780, and d. in Bridgewater, leaving a widow and several children, who moved to Buffalo, N. y . He kept a tavern in Scituate before removing to Bridge- water. Capt. Thomas, a ship-master, was b. 1752, and was great-grandson of Thomas of 1639. Ebenezer of 1693, had also a son Ebenezer, b. Dec. 12, 1728, who d. in Antigua, W. I., 1768 ; and a grandson Ebenezer, b. 1761, who lost his right leg while in the navy, during the Revolution, on board the privateer " Viper," in the engagement with the " Resolu- tion," 1780. His descendants live in Cambridge, Medford, and Boston. John, son of Sergeant Samuel, who was fourth son of Cornet Robert, built the tirst tide mill at the Harbor, and in 1730 purchased the noted Wanton estate. Here he had a ship-yard, and many ships were built here during his time. His son Sam- uel, b. 1748, mar. Mary Clapp, of Scituate. He was a great .•-inirer and a shipwright, probably continuing the business in the" Wanton Yard. He d. 1788. Snoio Stutson built the gambrel-roofea house opposite the present residence of Chas. Randall, in Pembroke. Wm. J. Baker occupied the house before the present resident, Nathan Howard. Capt. Silas Morton's daughter, who now lives in Dedham, at the age of ninety-three, writes: "I remember Snow Stutson very well. He lived opposite my father's for many years, and was a brilliant, handsome man, but not of strong principles. While living there, he married Lydia Tol- man, of Scituate, and they had a large family of children. Three daughters and one son lived to adult age. The oldest daughter, Eliza, married for her first husband a Mr. Larkin ; after his death, Mr. Clapp. She had no children. The next daughter, Lydia, married a jNIr. Athearn, and left three chil- dren, who now reside in New York State. ^liss Eliza and Miss Frances lived at Niagara ; George, I do not know where. 222 VESSELS BUILT BY SNOW STETSON. Snow Stetson's son John lived in Bridgewater, where Snow Stetson finally went, and, in his old age, while under an ab- erration of mind, committed suicide. His wife received a pension after his death, so he was probably in the Revolution- ary army." Geo. F. Athearn now lives at Niagara Falls, N. Y. Fanny is dead, and her sister Eliza's mind was so affected by the loss that it became necessary to place her in an asylum, where she now is. These two are the only direct descendants of Snow Stetson now living. In 1783, the sch. "HOPE," 38 tons, of Boston, was built on North River, and owned by Thomas Wal- ter of Boston, Snow Stutson of Scituate, and others ; Peleg Rogers,* master. Snow Stutson built, in 1785, the sch. "IN- DUSTRY," 42 tons, owned by him and Elisha Briggs.f In 1786, was built the sch. " SALLY," 54 tons, owned byVilliam and Stephen Vinal, Nathaniel Wade, Jr., Thomas Mann, and Snow Stutson of Scituate ; in 1787, the sch. "AMERICA," 47 tons, owned by Joseph Tolman and Snow Stutson, who was master of her in 1790; and in 1794, there was built here the sch. "BACHELDOR," which ran to North Carolina; also, in 1796, the sch. "INDUSTRY," for Capts. Cook, Witherell, and Covin ; and in 179(5, the brig "PACIFIC." Thomas Stutson, of Scituate, went mate of her, and S. Dunham, captain. She was used as a blockade runner, and for smuggling goods from Havre-de-Grace to Lisbon and back. Ebenezcr, a descendant of the above Ebenezer, helped build this last vessel. Snow Stutson had been appointed Inspector of Vessels for the District including Hanover, Scituate, Pembroke, and Marshfield, prior to 1793, and probably gave up ship-building, as in 1801 we find him master of the sch. " Polly," of Scituate. Many descendants of the Stetson family were ship-builders or carpen- ters, and many learned their trade here and built elsewhere. Prominent among them were Ebenezer Stetson, d. INIarch 14, 1881, aged 93 years, 5 months, buried at the First Parish Cem- etery, Scituate ; and Matthew, d. July 29 , 1888, aged 71 years, buried at Church Hill. Thomas Stetson is buried in Hatch- ville. George Stetson, son of Melzar and brother of Matthew, is now living at Medford. The following are members of the * See Roger Yards. t See Brick-kiln Yard, Continued Chapter. SHIP-BUILDERS WHO WENT FROM NORTH RIVER. 22o Stetson family who were ship- carpenters, and went from Scit- uate to other ship-yards : Melzar Stetson, h. 1805, went to South Boston. Charles " " 1752, " New Bedford. Thomas " " 1766, " Barnstable. Lincoln " "1774, " Salem. Wiswell " "1785, " Kingston. Jotham " " 1794, " Medlbrd. Elisha " "1799. " Medford. John " "1811, " Medford. Alpheus " " 1794, " South Boston. Also, William Turner went to Boston from a North Eiver ship-yard. "Uncle Josh" Stetson, the wag of the ship-yards, was a descendant of "Cornet" Robert. One day, while eating dinner in the work-house, the men were discussing which ani- mals would fight most desperately. Some said the lion, some said a tiger, and so on. "Uncle Josh" said, "I saw two cats fioht once 'till there was nothing left but their tAvo tails." " Uncle Josh " was called a great joker. A man cut his knee, in the yard, one day, and "Uncle Josh " told him he ought to have a " scabbard on his axe and a skillet on each knee ;" but the tables were turned on him when he fell from a vessel into the water. One of the workmen looked over the side of the vessel, and asked, "Are your boots tight, Joshy?" At another time he Avent out in a boat fishing on the river, with his two brothers, one of whom could not swim. They upset the boat, and had hard work to save themselves and the brother who could not swim. After they reached home, "Uncle Josh" re- lated what had happened, and said, "What pleased me most, was to see Melzar's doughnuts bobbing on the water." The Delanos built on the AVanton Yard, located on what was called the "Molly Stetson Place," soon after 1770. Benja- min Delano, the first of that family who built here, came from Pembroke in 1770, and settled on the ancient Richard Dwelley place, on the north side of the bank of the brook then known as Dwelley's Brook, but later as Till's Creek. His house Avas on the east side of the road, and has since been occupied by Major Samuel Foster. The Delano sisters now own the old place, and it is occupied by John H. Corthell. The earliest record that is preserved of any of Delano's vessels is in 1796, the sch. " ROVER," 79 tons, of Duxbury ; owner : Silvanus 224 DELANO GENEALOGY. Delano, of Duxliury, shipwright; surveyor, Samuel Delano, Jr. ; built at Seituate, afterward sold to Nantucket. Benjamin Delano Avas succeeded by his son. For a l)rief account of cer- tain members of the Duxbury branch of this family, see the continued chapter of the "'Brick-kiln Yard." The following account of a branch of the Delano famdy, was prepared many years ago 1)y the late Miss Thomas of Marshficld : " Lemuel Delano, a descendant, doubtless, of Philip De La Noye, one of the Pilgrims, mar. Mary Eames, 20th April, 17(52. Children : 1. Mary, b. Jan. 23, 17(i3. 2. Thomas, b. Jan. 25, 176G ; bap. May 25, 176G. 3. William, b. Jan. 27, 1770; bap. May 20, 1770. 4. Elizabeth, b. March 25, 1772; bap. May 17, 1773. This family removed to Sunderland, Mass. They had also, 5. Charles, bap. Aug. 27, 1774. Hezadiah Delano, of Duxbury, mar. Mary Taylor, 1731. William Delano, of Seituate, mar. Eleanor Stevens, 17()1. Joseph Delano, mar. Judith Damon, and had children: 1. Joseph, bap. Aug. 31, 1755; mar. Mary Thomas; d. in the lievolution. 2. Judith, bap. April 17, 1757 ; mar. John Hatch. 3. Jesse, bap. July '1'2, 175U ; mar. Margaret Lea vitt. 4. Zebulon, bap. June 21, 17(31. 5. Mary; mar. Luther White. 6. Hannah, bap. July "i'l^ 1769 ; mar. Ronse Bourne, Jr. 7. Edward, bap. July 'i'6, 1771. Joseph Delano mar 2nd, Lucy Cushing, widow of Ron.se Bourne, and had one chik I". <. Ji,^ was born in 1775. ^^^^"^ He built many y£//Cj^r-i ^y^ /? ■ — very large vessels. V/^^^Pr- ^>^^^/^^ I^^■io^to the time - — L \^ ' lie l)uilt here, the Wanton Yard had l)ecn divided into two yards ; the Delanos built in one yard, and the Fosters soon began building in the other. After serving his time, and building one vessel in Hanover in the year 1799, spoken of in the account of tliDse yards, William Delano came to this yard and built the same year, 1799, the ship "INDUS," 338 tons, of Boston. The next year he built two, as follows: 1800. Sch. "HANNAH," 118 tons of Boston. 1800. Ship "HARLEQUIN," 33() tons, of Boston, two decks and three masts, drawing eighteen feet of water, (^lore than any other vessel built on the river.) In 1801, he built the ship "ALEXANDER HODGDEN," 377 VESSELS BUILT BY BENJ. AND AVM. DELANO. 225 tons, of Boston, which was one of the larijest vessels built at this yard. In 1802 he built the ship " C'OLUMBINE," 270 tons, of Boston. Benjamin Delano built here, in 1804, the sch. "CHARLES," 123 tons, of Duxbury. This is the last vessel on record of which Benjamin Delano was the master carpenter. There was built at this yard, by William Delano, in 1805, the ship "TOPAZ," 385 tons, which was one of Delano's largest vessels, two decks and three masts ; owned by David Sears, at Boston. William Delano was master carpenter, in 180(i, of the ship "Granges" or "GANGES," 215 tons, of Boston. This was prolwbly the " Ganges " condemned at Tul- cahuano. Chili, in June, 1858. In 1806, he built the ship •' AUGUSTUS," 325 tons, of Boston ; and in 1801), the ship "IDA," 363 tons, of Boston. The next vessel built by the Delanos was one of the two famous vessels spoken of by Deane as being the largest vessels ever built on JVorth River, l)ut he failed to give either their names or any further particulars con- cernmg them. The first was built in 1810, by William Delano, and the second was finished in 1815 by his family. The first built in 1810 was the ship "LADY MADISON," 450f, tons, of New York. She was 112 feet long, 30 broad, and 15 deep, and was owned by Thomas Hazard, Jr., of New Bedford, and Jacob Barker, of New York. The following anecdote, related by F. C. Sanford of Nantucket, and by Israel H. Sher- man of Norwell, is familiar to all the old merchants of New York and ^ev7 Bedford, and many of Boston. The correctness of this story is attested by the fjict that it was told to Mr. San- ford hy Wharton Barker, grandson of Jacob Barker. Barker "ran" the Government at AYashington, so to speak, during Madison's time, by his great influence and wealth. Jacob Bar- ker was son-in-law of Thomas Hazard. At one time, the "Lady Madison "was out on a whaling voyage, and on her home- ward passage, laden with sperm oil, she encountered much rough weather. The delay alarmed her owners, who feared she was lost. Jacob Barker, who was a Quaker, went to the in- surance office, and requested the agent to make out a policy for the insurance of the ship, but not to sign it until the agent had heard from him. In the mean time, the Quaker heard that the ship was lost. He immediately sent his boy to the insurance office, with the message, " If thee hast not signed the policy thee need not, for I have heard from my ship." The agent, 226 LARGEST VESSEL EVER BUILT ON NORTH lUVER. supposing the ship to be safe, and wishing to get the premium, immediately signed the policy and sent it to the Quaker. To his dismay, he found that the ship was lost, and had to pay one-half of the insurance in settlement. She was lost on "Goodwin Sands," in the English Channel, about 1815. Jacob Barker died in 1872, aged 92. William Delano probably built few vessels during the last years of his life, though he may have begun the " Alt. Ver- non," which was finished in 1815 by Samuel Hartt, a relative of his wife's, whose son, Joseph T., mar. Nellie L., dau. of Dr. Brownell, and had a son Joseph. William Delano d. in 1814, leaving seven children: 1. William H. 2. Benjamin F., b. Sept. 17, 1809. 3. Edward H., b. Aug. 12, 1811. 4. Mary. 5. Prudence. (3. Sarah. 7. Lucy. The three latter now re- side in Norwell, in a beautiful place that overlooks the old homestead and the far distant sea. William H. and Benjamin F. worked in the ship-yard in company from the time they were old enough until the former removed to East Boston. William H. was often called "Lord North " about this time. The " Mt. Vernon" referred to before, was the largest vessel ever BUILT ON THE NoRTH RiVER, and the excitement caused by the building and launching of this ship is well remembered by the older people of to-day, who have not yet ceased to talk of it. The ship "MOUNT VERNON," 464 tons, was built in 1815, and sold to Philadelphia. /Samuel Hartt was her master car- penter. It is certainly wonderful how a vessel of her size could be launched from this yard ; but such is the fact, and she was gotten out of the river safely, and was a well-built and suc- cessful ship. Samuel Hartt was Naval Constructor on the Ports- mouth and other yards. He died at So. Scituate, Dec. 18, 1860, aged 78 years. Benjamin F. Delano w^as educated under the Rev. Samuel Deane, and, dis])laying quite a talent for ship- building, he was placed in the draughting office of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where he served his time. He then returned to So. Scituate, and, in company with his oldest brother and Jo- seph Clapp, built, in 1829, the sch. "ONLY DAUGHTER," JO tons, of Hingham ; owners, Seth Gardner, Jr., Scituate, Hi- ram and Capt. Thomas Jefferson Gardner of Hanover, and others. THE DELAXOS. 227 were the master carpenters. Jo- seph Clapp has two grandsons living, Herbert and Joseph, sons of John Otis of Norwell . Joseph mar. Lizzie, dau. of Joseph Corthcll. In 1833, Stephen White and others bought Grand Island, on Niagara River, and engaged Benj. F. Delano to convert the forest of oak timber that was there into vessels. He took with him his two broth- ers and twenty picked men from his native town. The venture proved a success, and they built seven vessels. A $100,000 hotel is about to be erected on Grand Island. He also built the first steam vessel that plied between East Boston and Boston. In 1847 he received an appointment as Naval Constructor, and was stationed at Portsmouth, N. H., and from there was trans- ferred, in 1850, to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where he was Chief Naval Constructor, and was retired June 11, 1873. At Portsmouth he constructed the "Saranac." He constructed twenty-one war vessels from 1861-G5, among them the darmg dispatch boat "Iroquois," the "Oneida," "Xy^^ck," " Wampa- noag," and "Mattawaska." He also converted numbers of harmless merchantmen, bought by the Government, into death- dealing war vessels, and worked day and night over his plans for their reconstruction. He d. April 30, 1882, leaving a widow, Jane, dau. of Seth Foster, who now resides in Brook- lyn, and one son, Alfred Otis, living in Norwell. The life of Edward II. Delano was not unlike that of his brother Benja- min. He served his time in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, was with his brother later, and in 1848 was commissioned Naval Con- structor, and oi'dered to Pensacola, and afterward transferred to Norfolk and Charlestown. He built the U. S. steam frigate "Merrimac," and Admiral Farragufs flagship, the "Hartford." He d. at Charlestown, Mass., April 9, 1859, while in charge of that station. He mar. Mary li., dau. of William James of Scituate, by whom he had two sons, William E. and Edward Franklin. He mar., 2nd, June 1(), 1858, Avoline S. Frost, of So. Berwick, Me. The Fosters built next to the Delanos, and at times in company with them. _^^^ /_ was the first of this family ^C Oyf^^C'^^^ recorded as having built ^ here. He used to say that in 17G0 his friends earnestly advised him to abandon his design of becoming a ship- 228 FOSTER GENEALOGY. Wright because the timber was so far exhausted ; they thought the business must soon fail, but he did become a shipwright and obtamed enough tnnber to successfully carry on the art, and his sons also, for many years. Certainly there were some large trees standing at that time in Scituate, as later a tree of immense size was cut there, as appears in an item taken from the Boston JEvening Post of March 2, 1772. "We hear from Scituate that on the 12th ult. a tree was cut there and brought to tlie mill which made 2809 feet of inch boards, 2000 shingles and four cords of wood." Elisha Foster was a descendant of Edward the Liwyer, one of the men of Kent, who settled in Kent street, Scitiuite (after- ward Cai)t. Webb's place), in 1633. His children were 1. Tnnothy, b. KUO; 2. Elizabeth, b. 1(145. Timothy's children were 1. Kuth, b. 1664; 2. Elizabeth, b. 1667; 3. Naomi, b. 1668 ; 4. Hatherly, b. 1671 ; 5. Rebecca, b. 1675 ; 6. Timothy, b. 1681; 7. Edward, b. 1682; 8. Thomas, b. 1686; 9. Eliza- beth, b. 1688. Hatherly, b. 1671 (son of Timothy, Sen.), mar. Barthshua Turner and had children : 1. IVIargaret, b. 1699 ; 2. Jose])h, b. 1702; 3. Ruth, b. 1704; 4. Timothy, b. 1706; 5. Elisha, b. 1708; 6. John, b. 1711; 7. Elizabeth, b. 1721. Elisha, son of Hatherly, mar. Temperance Freeman, of Har- wich, in 1739. Tlieir children were 1. John, b. 1740; 2. Barthshua, b. 1742; 3. Elisha, b. 1745; 4. Temperance, b. 1747; 5. Sarah, b. 1749; 6. Mary, b. 1751; 7. Ruth, b. 1754. Elisha, son of Elisha, mar. Grace Barstow of Hanover in 1769. Their children were: 1. Capf. /Seth, b. 1770. He was a ship-budder and mar. Abigail Otis. They had : 1.0tis(?) who died ; 2. Jane (wife of nenjannn Delano). 2. 3Iargaret, b. 1772, who mar. Capt. Samuel Tilden of JSIarshfield, and had children : 1. IVIargaret (wife of Capt. Benj. Smith of Duxbury) ; 2. Samuel ; 3. Mary, wife of William Smith (of East Bridge- water). 3. Elisha, b. 1775, the store-keeper who furnished "black-strap" and other necessaries of life to the yards. He mar. a Miss Turner and had sons : 1. Joshua Turner, 2. George, 3. Phillip, and 4. Henry (who is now living in Berkeley, Cal.). George and Phillip are dead. An account of J. Turner will be given later. Elisha had daughters : 1. Grace, who was the first wife of Captain Nath'l Barstow of Hanover, and left one dau. Grace. 2. Sally, who mar. Isaac Haskins and left two chil- dren (1. Esther, mar. Edward Barnard; 2. Edward H.) ; 3. VESSELS BUILT BY ELISHA FOSTER. 22D Mary, whom ar. Capt. William IL TaIl)ot and left three sons: 1. William, 2. Frank and 3. Richmond. 4. Mary Frances, who died. It will l)e seen that of Elisha's seven children, two are now living. 4. Freeman, a physician, b. 1777, married ; he d. July 18, 1863. 5. Samuel, b. 1779, was a ship-builder, mar. Sarah Delano and had children: 1. Sarah Delano, b. 1810; 2. Mary Louisa, b. 1824. Sarah Delano, mar. John K. Nash in 1832. They had children: 1. John Cushino-, born 1839, mar. Sarah Brown in 1860 and had children : 1. Mary Louisa Foster, b. 1862, (mar. Arthur L. Power in 1883. They have children : I.Nelson Foster, b. 1884; 2. Samuel Foster, b. 1885; 3. Howard Stone, b. 1887) ; 2. Sarah, b. 1865; 3. Helen Eliza, b. 1868 ; 6. Charles, b. 1781, a farmer, mar. and had children 1. Walter; 2. Charles. 7. Temperance, b. 1782, (died early). 8. Daniel, b. 1787, mar. Leafy Sampson and had children : 1. Seth ; 2. Caroline ; 3. Benjamin P. ; 4. Helen. 9. Walter, b. 1789, a ship-builder, mar. Betsey Pierce, no children. Elisha Foster, who is described as a heavy, stout man, built alone until 1803-4. Li 1795 he built the brigantine " GAR- LAND," 128 tons, for Daniel Sargent of Boston. The good old blacksmith at Foster's Yard was in the habit of lendinir his narrow hoe to a young ap})rentice, who was very tardy in returning it, and one day when he came for it the old man said, " When you have done with it, you just put legs to it and send it home." Elisha Foster built the following \'essels : the ''CASPIAN," and in 1800 the ship "HANNAH & ELIZA," 255 tons, of Boston ; in 1801, the sch. " GEORGE," &2 tons, of Chatham, OAvners, Samuel & Elisha Foster, Jr., of Scit- aate and others, afterwards sold to Gloucester ; and the same year, 1801, ship "FORTUNE," 339 tons, of Boston, one of the largest vessels built at this yard. She had 2 decks and 3 masts. He built the same year, 1801, ship "PERSEVER- ANCE," 214 tons, of Boston, afterwards of Nantucket. He built in 1802, the ship " O'CAIN," 280 tons, of Boston, which (" O'Cain ") was quite a noted ship, and when on the northwest coast she was commanded ])y Capt. Blanchard, of Briahton, she was lost in 1826 at Valclalia, coast of Chili. The ship ''ASIA," 274 tons, of Boston, was probably built by Foster in 1803; she was sold May 21, 1813 to a Spaniard and called the "Fer7iando Septrmo." The next year Elisha Foster took into partnership his son Elisha and thev launched in bsuo the sch. •* FAVORITE," 74 tons, of Chatham, owners, Elisha Foster, 230 VESSELS BUILT BY THE FOSTERS. Sr. and Jr., of Scituate. In 1807 thev built two ships, the "GOLCONDA" and the "ELIZABETH," both afterward hailed from New Bedford. In 1809 the Fosters built a s/n'p sold to Salem. In 1810 they built the ship " FRANCES ANN," for the launching of which $5.20 was spent for lemons. In 1811 they built the ship "ROWLAND." Both the above named vessels were whaling from New Bedford later. Also in 1811 they built the ship "HELLENOH." Charles Foster, in 1811, built the ship "FRANCISCAN." Joseph Tolman worked on her. The ship "AMERICA" was built by the Fosters in 1812. Capt. Peleg Kent, son of Peleg Kent and father of Smith Kent, commanded her. Very dull times followed the war of 181 2, and one of the vessels that was built at Foster's Yard lay two or three years before launching, until the Embargo Act was off. She was finally launched and much admired as she lay at Union Bridge until her spars and rigging were sent down from Boston ; she had a very fancy fiirure head of an ea^le. A "Kanaka" or Hawaiian came down to help rig her and used to amuse the ship-carpenters at noon time by lighting their pipes by rubbing two pieces of wood together. At this yard there was also a vessel launched at one time that beat the Kanaka, the friction caused by launching making a fire so great that the Captain lighted his pipe from the blaze. The village minister at Scituate was considered a good judge of horses as well an historian. One day a certain man was trying to sell a horse, and when asked how old he was, answered that ]\Ir. Deane the minister told him that the horse was nine years old. Before buying, the purchaser thought it well to ask Mr. Deane, who replied, "Yes, I did tell him so; but that was nine years ago." The Fosters built two vessels for David Ellis of Boston, also one for Capt. Howes of the Cape, who went master of her. On her first voyage Capt. Howes ran near the shore on the other side of Cape Cod to signal his family a good bye, l)ut running too near she struck and capsized ; all hands were saved except one of the crew. Phillip Foster was on her. Prior to 1815 Elisha Foster had taken into the firm his sons Seth, Samuel and Walter, and it was styled Elisha Foster & Sons. Walter was an officer in the 2nd Regiment of ]\Iilitia. The " WARSAW," a New Bedford whaler, was built here. The Fosters were also interested in the bark "Maria Theresa" (built at Block House Yard). AVilliam Delano died in 1814, and VESSELS BUILT BY THE FOSTERS. 2S1 Samuel Hartt finished his hist vessel, and then,accordino: to the old Foster account books, sold in 1815 one pair of bilo;eways and launching plank to Elisha and Samuel Foster, and judging from the number of vessels the Fosters built the next year they probal)ly occu[)ied both yards. There was built at this yard by Elisha Foster & Sons, in 1815, the ship "ATLAS," 360 tons, of Boston. This vessel had 2 decks and 3 masts, and her length was 102 feet. In 1823 she was cast away off the Port of Helder, Germany, and was a total loss. The same year they built a vessel that became famous the world over, and a book was published giving her history. This was m 1815 ; the ship " GLOBE," 293 tons. Her keel was 78 feet; l)eam, 26 feet; hold, 11 feet; between decks, 5 feet 6 inches ; the mainmast, 63 feet ; foremast, 58 feet ; niiz- zen, 55 feet. This vessel was the first to bring two thousand barrels of sperm oil into the Laiited States. A horril)le mutiny occurred on her in 1824 off Fanning's Island, in which captain and mates were killed. The following is gleaned from the account published by the two survivors, Hussey and Lav: The ship " Globe " sailed from Nantucket 20th Dec., 1822, on a whaling voyage. She was then owned by C. Mitchell &, Co., and commanded by Thomas Worth of Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard. She sailed direct to the Sandwich Islands, where she arrived May 1st, 1823. At Hawaii they received a wel- come supply of potatoes, sugar-cane, yams, cocoanuts, bananas, fish, etc. At Oahu, another of the islands, six of the crew deserted at night ; two were re-captured, but again escaped. From Oahu, the "Globe" sailed on a cruise to Japan ; then re- turned to the Sandwich Islands for vegetables, and sailed south towards Fanning's Islands. Jan. 26, 1824, Joseph Thomas in- sulted the captain, and was punished by being whipped with the end of a main ])untling. Whether this had anything to do with the murderous mutiny, which followed on the evening of the same day, is not known, but it would seem as if the mutiny had been planned some time before. On the night of Jan. 2{), Samuel B. Comstock and Silas Payne went into the cabin, taking with them an axe, knives, and muskets with fixed l)ayo- nets, and murdered the captain and the first and second mates, by shooting and then running their bodies through with knives and bayonets, seeming to enjoy their writhings in pain and their entreaties for mercy. The bodies were then thrown over- board. A rope was made fast to the feet of John Lambert, 232 SHIP "globe." the second mate, and he was pulled up on the deck and thrown over while yet alive, after practising cruelties the harrowing details of which one would loathe to relate. Is it strange the rest of the company were stunned with fright, fearing lest they might be dealt with in the same manner? Comstock and Payne had accomplices who were in the plot. Among these was^Vil- liam Humphrey, the former steward, who was hung, by order of Comstock, on Jan. 29, to a studding-sail boom, rigged out eight feet upon the fore yard, for treachery to his leaders, though it was not proved. Not daring to go to any civilized port, it was decided by the nuitineers to run the vessel ashore on one of the Mulgrave Islands, and, after taking out the pro- visions, and stripping her, to burn her to the water's edge, and live the rest of their clays with the natives. While unloading in the harbor, and before all the effects and provisions were ready to divide, Comstock gave some of the clothing and other articles to the natives. This caused trouble, and-, fearing lest he would lead the natives against them, they shot him on the morning of Feb. 17, 1824, and Payne nearly severed his head from his body with an axe. Thus ended the life of the blood- thirsty leader of the nuitineers, twenty-two days from the be- ginning of his hellish career. The ship "Globe" was this day put in charge of six men, under Gilbert Smith, and, during the night, they made sail and escajied from the island, leaving their murderous companions, and some of the innocent ones, behind. After a long and boisterous passage, they arrived, in June, at Valparaiso, where the " Globe " was taken possession of by the American Consul. From here she sailed for Nantucket, where she arrived Nov. 21, 1824. Of the men left at the Mulgrave Islands, all l)ut two were massacred by the natives. Cyrus M. Hussey, of Nantucket, and William Lay, of Saybrook, Conn., were saved by friendly natives, and tinally rescued l)ytheU. S. man-of-war " Dolphin," Capt. John Percival, after living twenty- two months on these islands. The " Globe " was sold out and broken up at Buenos Ay res in 1828. On Sept. 21, 1815, Foster & Co. received $520 to bind a contract to build a schooner for Caleb Nickerson of Chatham. It was finished in 181(3. In 1816, Samuel Rogers,* of IMarsh- field, was taken into the firm, and the same year * See Roger Yards cA^r^/cW»^^'" fCTT' VESSELS BUILT BY SETII & SAMUEL FOSTER & CO. 233 and Samuel l\()ger.s built the "BETSEY PIERCE," 73 tons, of Scituate, named for AVulter Foster's wife. In Jan., 1817, Seth, Samuel, and Walter Foster, and Samuel lloo-ers, agreed to l)uild a schooner in company, under the firm name of Seth & Sanniel Foster & Co. To show the interest that each had in the lirm, the divisions made on a ship in 1sii;u8. (() Hosloii. Tlw l''()sl(M-s jilso Imill, ill isi';;, Ihc I)ii^- "NI'IP- 'rnNK,"2I I Ions; Diivid KIlis, ol" Uosloii, ownrr. 'r'li.-y hnill, iUv lU'xl yciir, llu' Imil!," " I'itniccr," :il lli(> limMclnni:; <»!' wliicli liflccn j)oiiiil ions, ol" l)ii\ltnry, wiis owned hy Sclli, Sanintl, and Mlislia P'oslt-r, «^' 1 I " r 1^' .:i....t . " I .4\ i^M I I I . I." oi I Mixitnry , WHS o\\ iKMi hy r^ciii, pianinti, and iMisiia iy liini lo New iMMllord parlies. Mlislia rolinaii did IIh^ planking', and l)aiii('l Mall lli(> joiner worU. Laler, slu^ WHS eliaiif^cMJ iiilo a hark, and in IS72 was held al MaiirirmM for sexcral liioiillis, hy llie IWiiled Slates ('oiisiil, l»iil was released, and linally sold l(» l'"rane«' when orcr Jij'li/ i/cais old. 'The ship "Jl'LIAN" was hiiill al iM.sler's Vanl" l.eroii> ISl*:.; ('apt. HeiijaiiiiM Smilh, eoiimiander. She was sohl lo New ^'ork hy iier New lledford owners in iSl'il*. The l<\)slers hnill, in IcS'if), the l)ri on lluMvays ; and the l)n on lluMvays ; and in May, IS^f), " I'ork, hiead, saiiee, ele. , lor Ihe lannehin^ of llu^ hrii; ' hiaiiii,' $l.2;»." Nalliani«d I'leis w (»rked on (he "Diana." 'riu< lannehin^^s W(M'(^ iilleiided by all Ihe p»«oph^ iiroiind ; schools <"lo.sed, and hnsiness was o».|i(.|;illy siispeiidi'd. A spread was always <^i\('ii l»y Ihe Itiiiideis, wjiich was iisiially siihslani iai, willi pl(Mily of lemons, sii'j;ar, water, etc., (o wash it down, as Til 10 FIRST AMERICAN FLAO IN TIIK I'.I.ACK SKA. 237 and sailed her for five years. WliiU; in coiiiiiKiiid of tlu; " Smyrna," Ae (xirried, in I80O, llie Anwrlcan Flag into Ilia Black >S'w. Tlds was the firxt lime the American Flag ever Jloatrd orcr iJiiK sea. lie was next conmiMndcr of tlie sliij) "Kenown," ))uilt at I)uxl)ury. In licr 1mi went to Jticiiniond, Va., and other Soutlicrn j)oils, after which slie was sohltoNevv York parties. Jlis next ship was the "Minerva." In her he made two trips to New Orleans, and one; (Voin Soiilli (';ir()lin;i to Liverpool and London. His fouiUi vessel was 1h(! staunch ship " Vandalia," of 4«S() tons. In this shij), wliich h(^ com- manded two years, he made four voyages across th(! Atlantic, from New Orleans to Liverpool, and to oth(!r [)orts in the; United States and elscnvhere. His fifth and last vessel was the ship "Mattakecsett," of .500 tons, also l)uilt at DuxlMiry. In her he made many voyages from IJoston to N(!W Orleans, I'ensa- cola, Havre, and otJier ports. It is ninny years since ('apt. Sprague retired from active life with a comi)(!tence for his de- clining years, and now, at tl)e great age of ninety-one, Ik; takes his daily walk to the Post Office;, and chats freely and eiitcir- tainingly with his neighbors, and strangers, ahout the days when to be master of a ship of live hundred tons was as great an honor as any am})itious man need seek. In 1820, the ship "LAGODA," 340 tons, was built l)y S.-th and Samuel Foster, and owncid by them and Thomas Otis of Scituate. Sold afterward to I'oston. In 1811, she was pur- chased by Jonathan Bournc! of New Bedford, who owned her forty-five years, during which time; she made twelve successful whaling voyages. She is now owned by William Lewis and others, and whaling in the Pacific and Arctic Oceans, from N(;w Bedford, in her .s/;/'/y-;/onr//< yf^ar. She arrived in San V\:\n- cisco in August, 1889, from the Arctic, with a cargo of oil and bone, and returned to the Arctic soon after. Some of the men who worked or furnished material on Foster's Yard, from \X()1 to 1827, were : EliiJithan Ousliing, bf)ring holes; Anson Pol)- bins, painter and varnisher, grandfiither of Jas. A. K. Fnder- wood of Rockland ; Warren Sylvester, Mr. Knights, Samuel Tilden, Jr., Joe Barell, Samuel Rogers, Joe and Jonathan Mer- ritt, William Nash, (l)anl. Merrit, for boring (148 holes, $3.24), 'romLa])hani, Thomas Ruggles, Jr. ; Moses Pardons, })l;inlrig "CAMILLA," 233 tons, of Boston, was built by Seth and Sanuiel Foster. Also the In-ig "BOSTON," probably built by them in 1827, 242 tons, for Thomas B. Wales & Co., lioston. The following tare some of the voyages made by the "Boston:" 1827. ('harleston to Amsterdam. 1828. Matanzas to St. Petersburg; Charleston to Amsterdam. 1829. Matanzas to Antwerp. 1830. Havana to Marseilles. 1831. Matanzas to Hamburg. 1832. Savannah to Hamburg, and Havana to Hamburg. 1833. Sa- vannah to Hamburg, and Baltimore to Bremen, with logwood, lignum vitte, etc. 1834. Charleston to Rotterdam. 1835. Charleston to Amsterdam. Samuel & Walter Foster built, in 1828, the brig "RUSSLVN," 222 tons, of Boston; and the next year, 1829, a vessel well known in Soituate, the brig "MARSHAL NEY," 192 tons, of Boston, named after Napci- leon's General, who was afterward shot. The "Marshal JSey" was rigged at the yard, taken to Boston, and Capt. Crowell of Chatham there took charge of her. George Foster was very anxious to go \n her, and tinally ])ersuaded the oai)tain to allow him. They took a cargo and sailed for the West Indies, but, when tive days out, struck on Handkerchief Shoals, and were nearly a total loss. George Foster came home from his long voyage after two weeks absence. The vessel was raised, taken to Boston, and repaired on the Marine Railway. The under- writers threw her on to the owners, and the captain lost all of his property. After Capt. Seth Foster died, Sanniel and Wal- ter took in ETijaJi Brooks as partner for a time. About 1830, the Fosters built the brig " MAGNOLIA," about 250 tons, and about the same time a shij} of about 300 tons, which broke :ue & James. Here he served his time, and at twenty-one, when he became free, returned to Scituate, and built four vessels in partnership with Joseph Clap}), under the firm name of Clapp & Foster. They were the brig "WATER-WITCH," 1()7 tons, Imilt in 1831, for B. C. Clark, Boston, of which Joseph Clap}) was master car})cnter ; in 1832, the l)ark "MADAGASCAR," of 242 tons, built for Curtis & Hall of Boston, Clap}) & P\)ster, master car})enters ; and in 1833 the brig '" GANGES," 2M tons, owned by WdliamC. Fay and John H. Pierson, and lost on the S})anish Main, under Ca}it. Raymond, about 1848. The last vessel built by this firm was in 1833, the brig " ATTILA," 20(5 tons, of Boston, named after the famous Hun leader. Mr. Cla})}) then went into })art- nershi}) with Samuel Foster and brothers. Turner Foster, who had now reached his twenty-fifth year, returned to the S})rague & James Yard, in Medford, as fore- man. He mar. Ellen Sprague, dau. of a member of the firm, and they had five children and three now dead. 4. William T., who has two sons ; 5. Laura, who mar. Edwai'd H. Parker, and has one son. Befoi'e Mr. Foster l(;ft Scituate, the first time, he used to hel}) his father at the store, and often carried the " black-stra}) " (rum, sweetened with molasses,) down to the yards, but, during the seventy-eight years of his life, has never used tobacco, nor tasted s})irit save as a medicine. He used to l)lay the clarionet, and, together with Uncle Sam Rog- ers, went to singing school in P(!m))roke. At that time Mr. Rogers was courting a Miss Standish, and Mr. Foster was obliged to wait for him to go to her house and do his couiting, before they went home, as Mr. Rogers had the team, and it was a long walk. Mr. Foster has built in Medford, as successor to S})rague & James, on the same yard, sixty-four vessels, from 1250 tons down, building the last one, the "Pilgrim," in 1872, which was also the last vessel built in Medford. He has held many positions of trust, being Ensign at nineteen, and Captain at twenty-four years of age, of the old Medford military com- })any, holding commissions signed by "old Gov. Honest John Davis " and Gov. Levi Lincoln. He has been on the School Com- mittee, and Selectman for eleven difi'erent years, Assessor four 240 CLAPP GENEALOGY. years, and Representative to the Legislature in 1883 and 1884, the latter year being the oldest man in the House. He can now dance with as light a step as a boy of sixteen, and is as bright and clear in his mind as he ever was. An epita})h current in connection Avith this yard reads as follows • " Under this greensward pat, Lies the hulk of old *********. Shepherds rejoice, and do not weep. For he is dead who stole your sheep." The deceased was noted for putting other farmers' sheep into his own flock, and marking them with his private mark. We have no proof as to the identity of the writer, but the lines are not inconsistent with Mr. Foster's jovial disposition. Joseph Clapp was a direct descendant of Thomas Clapp, Avho was born in Dorchester, Eng., in 1597, and came to Dorches- ter, Mass., with the early settlers of that phice. His grandson, Thomas, born 1703, was one of the most distinguished men of his time. Thomas was President of Yale College from 1740 until 1764, when he resigned and returned to Scituate, where he died the following year. He wrote many books, among them a valuable history of Yale College. A notice of the death of his brother Nathaniel's child appears in an old paper, as fol- lows : " We hear from Scituate, that on Monday Morning last (Thurs. Aug. 16. 1770) a promising Youth, about li Years of Age, Son to Nathaniel Clap, Esq. of that Town, driving a Cart down a steep Hill, one of the Wheels taking the rising Ground overset the Cart, and killed the Lad instantly on the Spot." — The Mass. Gazette and Boston Weekly News-Letter. The new firm of Samuel Foster & Co. built, in 1833, the briij "BOSTON," 170 tons, of Gloucester, whaling off Califor- nia" in 1857. Also in 1833, the brig "BALTIMORE," 169 tons, of Boston, afterward of New Bedford, a whaler; in 1834, the bark "NIAGARA," 232 tons, of Boston ; in 1835, the bark "SARATOGA," -I^i^) tons, of Boston. Also in 1835, the bark "NEPTUNE," 231 tons, of Boston. Joseph Clapp was the master carpenter of the "Niagara" and "Saratoga." The " Neptune " appears to be the last vessel biult l)y the Fosters, and, excepting those built by Litchfield & Burrill, was proba- bly the last vessel built at these yards. " Hay ward's New Eng- land Gazetteer," 1839, says, under "Scituate," that the LITCHFIELD & BURRILL. 241 "North River is noted for the fine ships built on its banks, the value of vessels annually built being $40,000. These vessels are of superior mechanism, and are built of native white oak, remarkable for its durability. During the year ending April i , 1S37, Scituate had twenty-two vessels engaged in fishing, and took 6500 barrels of mackerel, valued at $46,000." The Wanton Yard, after the Fosters left it, was next occu- pied by Cunwiings Litchfield and James S. Burrill. James S. Burrill was born in Weymouth, Mass., and was son of Isaac, who was also born ni Weymouth. He married Martha Stock- bridge of Scituate, Mass., and finally moved to Medford, Mass. Cunimings Litchfield was son of Bernard and grandson of Eli- jah Litchfield. He was born in 1815, and has been a mo^t active man. His education has been acquired chiefly by expe- rience and observation He left school at the age of ten, and went fishing with his father in the sch. "Hope." His first trip was made in three weeks, when they returned to port with a full fare, two barrels being credited to young Litchfield. His next adventure was in the sch. "Beaver," cod-fishing. In making the run home from the Bay of Fundy, in a storm, they endeavored to make a port near Cape Ann, but were run into and sunk. The crew was saved by the colliding vessel, and safely landed. The next day Mr. Litchfield took the packet for Boston, and walked home, barefooted. Pie continued fish- ing, summers, until he was seventeen, and made occasional trips to Southern ports during the winter, in the coasting trade. He went to Medford and learned the ship-carpenter's trade of builder Jotham Stetson. He served three years or more with Mr. Stetson, and his first job afterward was at Grand Island, N. Y., where, with Mr. Delano, he helped build a steam])oat. He then returned to Massachusetts and worked in the Navy Yard three months, when he went to Brooklyn, N. Y., and helped repair the LTnited States ship " Ohio." We next hear of him in the British Dominions, just over our eastern boundary, where he helped build a ship of 1200 tons, all of white oak, being the first ship of that material built at that place. In 1838, he commenced building vessels on his own account, on North Iviver. This year he built, in company with Mr. Burrill, the sch. "LITCHFIELD," 65 tons, one deck and two masts, of Boston. She had a billet-head, which was afterward substi- tuted by a figure-head. Capt. John White was at one time master of her. She was in the Curacoa fruiting trade, and was lost, in about five years, on the back side of Cape Cod. T!:o 242 LITCHFIELD & BURRILL. crew were saved. Mr. Litchtiekl and his partner built at this yard, in 1839, the sch. "LYDIA KING," 22 tons, owned by Capt. Bernard and Cummings Litchfield and James S. Burrill, at Scituate. Mr. Litchfield afterward sold one-half of her to Oakes Lawrence. Later she was sold to Martha's Vineyard, and ran as a packet to Boston. She was at one time owned in Dartmouth, and was finally run into and sunk in Vineyard Sound. This firm also built, at this yard, a brig, in 1840 ; probably the "FRANKLIN," 172 tons, of Provincetown. The firm dissolved, and thus ended the ship-building on this yard, possibly for all time. Cummings Litchfield built near his pres- ent residence in So. Scituate in 1852, and later at Union Bridge.* In the meantime he worked at the different yards on the river, and also went to sea. He is now living in Norwell, where he carries on an extensive farm. * See Miscellaneous Scituate Yards. CHAPTER XIV. CHITTENDEN YARD. — 1690-1871. JOB RANDALL, EDWARD PROUTY, ISAAC PROUTY, ISAAC CHIT- TENDEN, NATHANIEL CHITTENDEN, OBADIAH MERRITT, NOAH MERRITT, SAMUEL SILVESTER, GEORGE TORREY, JAMES TOR- REY, ISAAC TORREY, GEORGE TORREY, JR., DAVID TORREY, JOSEPH NASH, ELISHA BARKER, LABAN SOUTHER, JOSEPH PRATT, CHARLES COLE, WALTER FOSTER, ELIJAH CUDWORTH, LABAN CUDWORTH, JOSEPH CUDWORTH, JOHN CUDWORTH, HENRY MERRITT, JOSEPH MERRITT. 'T^HE Chittenden Yard was located next below the Wanton ^ Yard, on the Norwell side of North River, on the first rise of land just above and near the mouth of the Second Herring Brook. In 1673, it was agreed that the land between the Sec- ond Herrino; Brook and Edward Wanton's land be reserved for the use of the ministry. It was sold in 1702-3. Until 1799, there was a Town Landing at this yard Job Randall, who built here about 1690, was probably the first shipwright to occupy this yard. He was son of William Randall, who came to Marshfield from Rhode Island in 1636, and later moved into So. Scituate where he lived a]>out twenty rods north of TilTs, or Dwelley's Creek, on the site of the late Elisha Foster's residence. Jol) Randall was b. in 1654. He mar. , and settled one-quarter of a mile south of Herring Brook Hill, where David Torrey lived later. He had children : 1. Mary, b. 1680. 2. Job, b. 1611 and l\Mnbroko. Isaac, brother of ,Iol), lived lo ho one hinuh-ed and two years okl. It will ho seen from (he iollo\vini»: records Ihat -loh Randall hnilt moslly for Sainnel Li'.lic and .Vndrcw rx'lcher of l'»oston, and for Sandwich partii^s. Many of An, hew Uelcher's vessels were }nivaleers used in the French war. The hrst record of vessels prohahly l)uil("at (his yard was in 1(>04, hriii'fn "IIOPEWKLL," 40 tons ; owners, Capt. Samuel Prince of Sandwich, and dohn Devin of P»os(on. Also the same year, lii".' I. sloop " I>Ul>AirrPvS," i>") (^ns ; owners, An- drew Peleher, mcrchan(, dohn t'oUMuan, Boston; master, Koh- ert Starkey. KilM). Ship " llAXNAU,"' 70 tons, Capt. Thomas Lillie ; owner, Samuel Lillie of Boston. Also the same year, l(i5):», briii'Cn "INIAKV," 40 (ons, rai)(. Thomas Parker; owner, Samuel Lillie, Bos(on. 1700. Ship " MFdlKTABLE," 8(1 (ons, Capt. Jonathan LanduM'l ; owncM', Sanuicl Lillie, Bos(on. Also the same year, 1700, ship "TWO BKt) i ITLHS," (iOtons, (\ipt. John Welsh ; owners, Andrew IV'lcher, Sanmel Lillie of Bos- ton, merchants. 1701. Sloop "TRVAL," l'O (ons, of Sand- wich ; owners. Capt. Samuel Prince of Sandwich, dob Kandall of Scituatc, and Catcret Cillani of Saybrook. 1702. Ship " CONTENT, " iL'O tons, Capt. Iluiih Shaimon ; owner, Sanuicl Lillie. 170.'>. Briji'fn " ADVENT URL," (50 tons, built at Scit- uatc, and la(t'ly called the " /»Vr»(/()/" ; owners, Andrew Belcher and Samuel Lillie of Boston, and David Bucklyn of Boston. ,b>b Randall was succeeded at this yard by citluM' Kihrard or li^aac I*rouf>/, or perhaps by both. Tlu\v were brothers, and were sons of Richard, who came to Sci(na(e in HuO, and each has descendants in Hanover, Spencer, and Scituate, INlass. No records of the vessels buiU by (he Prou(ys seem to be in ex- istence. Tlu^ Chittendens built here, as early as 1 70J\ (he shnip "SEA- FLOWEK," 1^0 tons, Nathaniel Tildinp:, Moses Simons, Joseph Tildino-, fstnic C/n'tfeiufen, and Sanmel Marshall of Boston, owners. They also built, as late as 1714, the sloop " SEA- FLOWER." 40 tons : owners, Thomas Afacomber, John Koi:- ers and Isdac C/n'((e)i(h'i) of Si'itnatc. and Sanmel D»\i:<:c(t of ]Marshtield. The above are (lu* tuily vessels that have been posi(ively loca(cd as havinsi' been built at (his yard by the Chit- tendens, though they probably built a great many, and some CHITTENDENS. 245 later than 1714. From the time of their ownership, prolxibly before 1709, until the present time, the spot has ever been known as the Chittenden Yard. ]\lembers of tlie Chittenden family are buried in the "Old P'irst Parish Cemetery," opposite No. 6 School-house, on the road to Greenbush. Isaac Chitten- den was son of Isaac, who was killed May 20, 1676, in defend- ing Scituate from the Indians during King Philip's War, and grandson of Isaac, one of the men of Kent, who came into Scituate with his father, Thomas, in 1633. Isaac w^as probably succeeded at the yard by his nephew JSfathaniel, b. 1724. ^-a- th&meV s BO\\ JSFathaniel, b. 1751, lived near the mouth of the Second Herring Brook, and probal)ly built at this yard then. He mar. Ruth Foster, afterwards wife of Dea. Elisha James. a member of this family, was at one '^^j^Bt^ CiCt'^^^wft^n tii^i^' pi'ior to 1700, a Selectman, and Surveyor of the town of Scituate. Descendants of the Chittendens moved to Charlestown, Prince- ton, and other towns in Massachusetts. The following, taken from the Boston News- Letter oi Dec. 10, 1761, is interesting, as it shows that lighters or packets were used during the early days for transporting the necessaries of life : " Saturday nitrht last we had here very violent gusts of wind, which we hear has blown down considerable fencing in the neighboring towns ; a Lighter going from this town to Hingham or Scituate was sunk near Spec- tacle Island ; the people with great difficulty got ashore alive." Shipwreck, however, was l)ut one of the dangers that men- aced our packets before the Revolution. Insults and assaults w^ere frequent, until "patience ceased to be a virtue," and, added to the persecutions and unjust taxation, hastened to bring on that glorious struggle that made us free, the last centennial of which — the inauguration of Washington — we celebrated on April 30 of this year (1889), and which day our Governor, through some unexplained reason, failed to appoint a day of thanksgiving. Massachusetts, heretofore far ahead in patriot- ism, was certainly unpatriotic this time. AVe have had a pros- perous century, and let us hope that every true American gave thanks on that day, for the blessings of God and our present prosperous condition. Scituate bore her share of the persecu- tion during the Revolution, one instance of which is recorded in the Boston Gazette and Oountry Journal of Sept. 25, 1769 : ' ' On Friday last a Coaster, belonging to Scituate, w^as passing one of the ships of War in this harbour, when they dous'd their mainsail, but it not 246 VESSELS BUILT BY THE MERRITTS AND SAM'L SILVESTER. being quite to the satisfaction of tlie commanding; officer of the ship, they sent their boat on board and upon the Officer's stepping upon the sloop's deck he immediately drew a cutlass with which he struck the master of the coaster on the cheek, which cut a gash near three inches long, after which he damned him for not showing more resj^ect to the King's ship and then cut the halliards of the main-sail and let the sail run down upon deck. We are told that the coaster apply'd to the Lieut. Gov. for his advice and assist- ance in procuring redress for this naval & insolent, but now-a-days, too common treatment, given some of his Majesty's American subjects. We do not yet learn how his Honor advised or concluded on this occasion " While ship-building was probably the largest business car- ried on in Scituate at this early date, it was by no means the only business. The Boston Evening Post, Jan. 11, 1768, says: " Last week a gentleman at Scituate sent up here (Boston) 15 samples of different kinds of cloths lately manufactured there, consisting of broad cloths, serges, tammys, shalloons, camblets, figur'd stufis &c : which are said by good judges to be superior in quality to any of tlie sort usually im- ported from abroad." The inhabitants of those days were obliged to look into the dictionary to find out the meaning of the word "lazy." The Merrilts built here before 1800. In 178n, the sch. "LiVELY," 56 tons, was built at Scituate ; Obadiah and Noah Merritt of Scit- uate, owners. Obadiah, b. 1723, was a descendant of Henry ]\Ier- ritt, who was in Scituate in 1628. He has descendants living in Scituate and Norwell. His son Noah, b. 1759, has descend- ants at New Orleans, La. Early in the last century is recorded an accident happening at this yard : Bezaleel Palmer, b. 1706, was killed by a fall. He left a widow and children. He was son of Bezaleel, and grandson of John, Jr. Among the first vessels l:»uilt here after the Revolution Averc, in 1786, the sch. " BACHELOR," 44 tons ; owned by Noah and Abijah Otis and Gid. Chittenden of Scituate. 1789. Sch. "SALLY," 32 tons, of Scituate ; William Barker, owner, Scituate. 1793. Sch. "LYDIA," 50 tons, of Portsmouth. 1794. Ship " MER- CHANT," 179 tons, of Boston. 1795. Sch. "JANE," 65 tons, of Provincetown. 1795. Sch. " MARY & NANCY," 41 tons, of Scituate ; owned and probably built by Sani'l Silvester ; afterward sold to Boston. There used to be a Weymouth man who carted lumber to the ship-yard, and " Uncle " Sam Silvester, as he v/as called, was one of the workmen who was considered good at telling stories. One day, when the Weymouth man came, the carpenters got him to tell some stories, to see if he could get ahead of Uncle Sam. He tried to make out the Scituate peo- THE TORREYS AT THE CHITTENDEN YARD. 247 pie quite ignorant compared with the people of Weymouth. He said that on his way over to Scituate, the Sunday before, to hear old Dr. Barnes preach, he called at a house on his way across lots to get a drink of water, and, finding the lady of the house washing, said, "Do you wash Sundays?" "No," she replied, " I do not intend to ; I did not know it was Sunday." Uncle Sam heard the story through, and then said, "I knew that woman ; she was a Weymouth woman." among other vessels, the sch. "Hero," 57 tons, in 1806, for Job Turner of Cohasset. Prominent among the old school- masters of his tmie was Elisha Sylvester, of the same family. He was a o-ood scholar and had a good school. When the Rev- olution commenced he did not like the idea of joining the army, so he became a Quaker, after which he was always called "Elisha Quaker." George Torrey was liuilding at this yard as early as 1794.* He was son of Caleb, a direct descendant of Lieut. James, who was in Scituate before 1640. George's son George succeeded his father. ^ yn. « was representative to the r^/iLXr\nJOV^^4^ ^ General Court from Scituate ^ 1749. There appears in The Massachusetts Sj)y of May 14, 1772, the following : «• Died, at Scituate, Capt. Caleb Torrey. He was formerly a representa- tive in the General Court for that town." George Torrey built, at the Chittenden Yard, in 1794, the sch., afterwards brig, "BETSEY," 111 tons, of Boston. Owners, James Torrey of Boston, shipwright, Joseph and James Eogers and Samuel Truant of Marshfield, and George Torrey of Scituate. Benjamin Briggs, Jr., was captain of iier. He buih, in 1796, the sch. "^BETSEY," 95 tons. Owned by Samuel Truant, Sr., & Jr., Georo:e Torrey, Joseph and James Rogers, of Marshfield. In 1797^ he built the sch. "THANK- FUL," 129 tons, of Marshfield. Owners, Joseph and James Rogers and Amos Hatch of Marshfield, George and James • See Block-house Yard. 248 TORREY GENEALOGY. Torrey of Scituate. This vessel is one of the chiimants to the French spoliation. He built in 1799 the sch. " LYDIA.," 81 tons. Owned l)y James Little and Oliver and Coleman Jenkins of Scituate. The shipbuilders in the Torrey family were all descendants of Lieut. James Torrey, a clothier who was in Scituate prior to KUO (see Briggs Yard). Jornes son of Capt. Caleb was b. in 1 7/)5 and had sons : James, who went to Maine ; Rev. William, who removed to Canandaigua ; and Charles, who deceased early. Isaac, brother of James, was b. in 1740, d. in 1812, unmarried. George Torrey, who built many vessels for the Rolfes of Virginia and other large ship owners prior to 1800, some of which are given above, was also son of Capt. Caleb. He was b. in 1758, d. July 13, 1813. He had children: 1. George, Jr.; 2. David ; 3. Isaac, who had one dau., now residing in Maine ; 4. Otis ; 5. Sally, mar. twice, no children ; 6. Lucy, mar. twice, had two children ; 7. Betsey. George and David succeeded their father and built together on the river for some time, after which they dissolved partnership. George went to Buffalo, N. Y., where he built vessels for service on Lake Erie. David formed a co-partnership with A\'illiam James and built vessels at Quincy as early as 1816, and AVm. James built there as late as 1822, and on North River later. Georrie Torrey/, Jr., mar. Day; they had children: 1. John D., who kept the South Shore House, Scituate, for many years. He mar. a widow Vinal ; 2. Thankful O. ; 3. George O., who mar. and has children. He was born Aug. 27, 1820, and until he was twelve years old worked on the farm the year round with the exception of three months w^inter schooling. At twelve he went to sea in the ship ''Henry Took," to the East Indies. Vernon H. Brown the present great merchant of Kew York after whom the author of this book was named, was supercargo. He next went in the ship " Seaman," to New Orleans where she was sold, and he shipped in the "Concordia" of 700 tons. He went to Liverpool and then came home. At eighteen he entered one of the ship-yards of North River and learned the trade of ship-carpenter, which trade he followed for many years. Mr. Torrey has always been noted for his genial hearty laugh, and for his ability to excite something similar in others l)y his many jokes and stories. He is invariably in good spirits and a valuable man in a sick room. 4. Elizal^eth ; 5. Henry ; 6*. Otis ; 7. Josiah ; 8. Frances ; 9. Al)igail ; 10. Albert, mar. dau. of Ira Barker and has several children. 11. Lucy TORREY GENEALOGY JOSEPH NASH. 249 mar. Tower. Five of these are now living. David Torrey, bro. of George, Jr., mar. Vesta Howard, of West Bridgewater. He d. Oct. 10, 1877, aged 90 years, 7 months. They hud children: 1. Mary Otis, who mar. Walter Bobbins, no children. 2. George Howard mar. Harriett Gushing and has three children : Howard Gushing, George Everett and Florence. 3. David, Jr., mar. Eveline Bowker ; he d. in 1884. They had two children : Emma Howard, who mar. Edgar Bates, and Edwin Bowker. 4. Vesta H., who mar. 1st, Albion Turner, by whom she had children, who d. young ; 2nd, Job A. Turner, by whom she had two children : Carrie, who mar. George F. Blake, Jr., of Worcester, and Albion Bryant, now of Boston, who mar. Alice Rawson of Newton. 5. Charles. now of Boston, who mar. Adelaide J. Bowen. They have three children : Charles Everett, who mar. Lucy K. Paine of Cali- fornia, Edith A., who mar. Fred Allen, and Harry B., who is unmarried. 6. Everett, now of Boston, mar. 1st, Eliza D. Webb, who d. in 1884, 2nd, Julia Stetson of Lexington, no children. 7. Franklin, who has resided in Italy since 1851 ; mar. Sarah Lincoln Spinney, of Boston. They have two chil- dren : Sarah Vesta Hernienia, who mar. Edward J. Berwind, of New York ; and Charles Franklin, who mar. ]\largaret Rolfe, of London, a descendant of the Rolfes of Virginia. They now reside in London. jNIargaret Rolfe christened the steamship *' Missouri," when launched, the same vessel which lately rescued 700 persons from the "Danmark," in mid-ocean. The tirm of Charles Franklin Torrey, Williams & Field built the " jMissouri," which is running in their steamship line. 8. Willard, now a special sheriff for Plymouth county residing in Norwell, mar. Martha R. ]\Ierritt. They have three children : Frank H., (who mar. Grace E. Gassett, of Boston, and now resides in Melrose, Mass.,) ; Walter Robbins, (who mar. Nellie T. Fogg of Nor- well) ; and Martha Willard. In 1800 the sloop "PACKET," 37 tons, was built and owned in Scituate, by James Little, Lemuel & AVilliam Vinal, Jr. Joseph JV^ash was her master builder at Scituate. This vessel was undoubtedly Imilt at this yard and Joseph Nash probaljly belonged to the large family of that name who liAcd on " No Pork Hill," in Norwell. This may have been the following Joseph Nash : Joseph Nash, son of Joseph and Del^orah Nash, was b. Feb. 24, 1739; he d., Nov. 1818. This was probably the same Joseph Nash who mar., Feb. 7, 1799, Lucy Mayhew, 250 ELISHA BARKER GEORGE TORREY. of Scituate. They had children: William, b. Oct. 30, 1799; Joseph Parker, h. Dec. 18, 1800; Benjamin, May 25, 1803; Lemuel, I). July 1. 1806 ; Thomas, b. Sept. 13, 1808 ; Lucy Ann, b. Feb. 5, 1811. In 1801 was built the sch. "ROVER," 89 tons, by George Torrey, master Iniilder ; owners, William and Lemuel Vinal, James Collier, Ira Bryant, and Cushing Otis, of Scituate, and the same year, 1801, George Torrey built the sch. " ALMIRA," 8(5 tons, owned by James Little, Oliver and Elijah Jenkins of Scituate, and in 1802, the sch. "JAMES BAYARD," 85 tons, of Boston, owned by Pel eg Jenkins, Cushing Otis, and Isaac Torrey, of Scituate. There was also built in 1802, the sch. "SALLY," 95 tons, at Scituate, by Elisha Barkev, master builder ; owned by Cor- nelius Church, Samuel Donnel, Stephen Stockbridge, Silas Morton, Elisha Barker, Elisha Curtis, Horatio Cushing, and Reuben Curtis of Hanover. It is doubtful if the " Sally " was liuilt at this yard, but it is more than probable, as she was built "up river." In 1803, the brig "LIGHT HORSE," 162 tons, of Boston, was built here by George Torrey, master carpenter; owners, William Vinal, Jr., Cushing Otis, Nehemiah Manson, James Torrey, and others, Scituate. This vessel was afterward cast away and lost. Also in 1803, Geo. Torrey built the sch. " SO- PHROXIA," 83 tons ; James Little, of Scituate, owner. In 1.S04, the brig "INDEPENDENCE," 160 tons, of Boston, was built by George Torrey ; owners, AVilliam Vinal, Jr., Oliver Jenkins, Elisha Tolman, Cushing Otis, and George Torrey of Scituate, Amos Hatch and Joseph Rogers of Marshfield. In 1805, he built the ship "AVILLIAM TELL," 258 tons, of Bos- ton ; owned by ^^'illiam Vinal, Quincy ; Joseph Rogers, Marsh- field ; Cushing Otis, Oliver and Elijah Jenkins, James Torrey, and Georoe Torrey, all of Scituate. George Torrey also built in this yard, in 1806, the sch. "ENTERPRISE," 119 tons, of Scituate ; owners, Samuel Eclls and Timothy Church, Hanover ; Elisha and Charles Tolman, Jr., Lemuel Haskins, Lemuel fJen- kins, Ezra Vinal, and George Torrey, of Scituate ; and in 1807, the ship "REGULUS," 237 tons, of Boston; owners, Capt. Trouant and Nathaniel Clift of Marshfield ; Samuel Eells, Timothy Church, Hanover; John Ruggles, Jr., Lemuel Has- kins, Elisha Turner, Elisha Tolman, Samuel Foster, James, ^^^^^4^z^a^y^^ GUSHING OTIS. 251 Geor2:e, Jr., and David Torrey of Scituate ; and Capt. Brooks, Jr. . /^/. wh'^ was interested in so* ^^ jO jU^jY~~/~^ many of the vessels built on ^'^'t^'^l^Zo^ ^/ <-^t!<^^ North liiver, was a promi- ' ^r^ nent man of his day. He ^ was son of Dr. James Otis of Scituate, a distinguished physician, and nephew of Dr. Isaac Otis, Jr., a distinguished })hysician of Bridgewater. He w^as a descendant of Dr." Isaac Otis, Sr., in the following line : Isaac Otis, M. D., mar. Deborah . He d. Nov. 11, 1777, aged 78 ; she d. March 17, 1783, aged 84. They had six children : Isaac, M. D. , Deborah, William, Stephen, Hannah, James, M. D. Dr. James Otis mar. Lucy . He d. May 24, 1807, aged 73 ; she d. June 24, 1810, aged 80. They had seven children : Lucy, James, Hannah, Gushing, M. D., Elizabeth, Abigail, and Thomas. Gushing Otis graduated from Harvard Gollege in 1789, and studied his profession under Dr. Hitchcock. In 1792 he returned to his native town, and practiced in connec- tion with his father. He soon became distinguished for his skill in the healing art, and was repeatedly elected one of the counsellors of the Massachusetts Medical Society, of which he was a member to the time of his death. His forensic powers were of a high order, his enunciation clear, and his diction ele- gant. His oration in commemoration of American Independence, pronounced at Scituate, July 4, 1800, at the request of the in- habitants, though the production of his youth, gave evidence of a highly cultivated mind and rhetorical powers. In 1801 he was elected a member of the Massachusetts Humane Society, John A^"arren, President. He was elected from his district ta the House of Kepresentatives in 1809 and 1812, and to the- Senate in 1822-23. On Nov. 11, 1830, he was chosen Presi- dent of the Franklin Association for Mutual Improvement, South Scituate, John Foster, Jr., Secretary. He was also a member of the Bunker Hill Monument Association. On July 15, 1831, he presented the Second or South Society with a handsome clock, which was placed in front of the gallery of the church. He mar. Abigail, dau. of Judge Nathan Gushing. He d. Oct. 16, 1837, aged 08 ; she d. June 9, 1852, aged 77. Their only child, Abigail T. Otis, did much for this Society during her life, and at her death left goodly sums to the church and town. She died in So. Scituate, Oct. 15, 1884, aged 73» 252 TORREY PRATT COLE. Ill relio:ious sentiment Dr. Otis was decidedly liberal. He was a distinguished member of Rev. Samuei J. May's church. While he stood aloof from those who would "call down tire from Heaven," he was far from ])eing a latitudinarian. He was content with the privilege of believing his faith to be right, without exhibiting any disposition to represent others as lieing in the wrong. \Miatever might have been his particular form of faith, he was a tirni believer in the great essential truths of natural and revealed religion. He adopted Christianity as a Divine system on the ground of its great external evidence, its perfect adaptation to human nature, and the truth and divine philanthropy which gives life and vigor to all its precepts. In social converse he was affable, comnuuiicative, and instructive. His refined taste, unaffected and habitual couitesy, vivacity of spirit, and discriminating mind rendered his society at all times endearing, and his death created a void in the community not easily filled. George Torrey & Sons built their last vessel at this yard in 1812, the sch. "NEW SALLY," 56 tons: owned by Ensign Otis, Jr., Nehemiah Manson, Ephraim L. Young, George and David Torrey, Joseph Rogers, and Isaac Pierce of Scituate. Afterward sold to Waldol>oro. The Torreys about this time removed to the Block-House Yard. They were succeeded at the Ghittenden Yard by Laban Souther, who at first built alone, but later formed a jxirtnership with Elijah Cudworth, under the firm name of Souther & Cudworth. Joseph Pratt is said to have built at this yard at one time. Charles Cole, probably, also built at this yard, and he cer- tainly was interested in vessels built at the Harl)or. He built in Scituate, in 1811, the sch. "INDEPENDENCE," 87 tons, of Boston ; owned by Charles Cole, Elijah Curtis, Perez Pynchon of Scituate, and others. Years later, Charles Cole purchased a wreck on the Scituate coast, which he had repaired on North River. He lived in Beech Wood, below " No Pork " Hill, Nor- well, where his grandson, Charles Alfred Litchfield, now re- sides. His son Charles removed to Boston, and was at one time President of the ^Mechanics Bank, So. Boston. Charles Cole was son of James Cole, and was b. Sept. 1, 1759, and d. in 1840. He had three sons and five daughters. Mary, b. June 1, 1801, mother of C. A. Litchfield, is the only child now livino'. SOUTHER FOSTER CUDWORTH. 253 Lahan SontJter came from Cohasset. He was uncle to Elijah Cudwortli, and lived just north of the gate on the road leading to the residence of Samuel C. Cudworth, Esq. He d. Dec. 19, 1840, aged 78, and was buried in the First Parish Cemetery, Norwell. He probably left no descendants. He laid the keel of the "President," May 9, 181B, and she was launched Mai-ch 29, 1817. In 1816, the sch. "PRESIDENT," 85 tons, of Bos- ton, was built at Scituate by Laban Souther, master carpenter. In 1818, the sch. "MARGARET," 89 tons, of Cohasset, was built at Scituate by Walter Foster* and Elijah Cudworth. In our researches into the business of ship-building on the North River, we find that no man stood higher, or has left a better record of honesty and industr}^, than Elijah Cudworth. He was a descendant of Gen. eTames Cudworth of Scituate, and son of Capt. Joseph Cudworth and Elizabeth Souther. Deane, in his "History of Scituate," gives an elaborate account of Gen. James Cudworth. In 1(375, when over seventy years of age, he was chosen "General and Commander-in-Chief of all the forces that are or may be sent forth against the enemy," which office he continued in until the end of King Philip's AVar. He died in London, Eng., of small-pox, in l(i82, where he was sent by the Colony as their agent. The Boston Cudworths were proljably a l)ranch of this family. The following item is taken from an old paper, and dated "Scituate, Dec. 4, 1764 : " " Ran away from his ISIaster, Benjamin Jacob, a Negro .Fellow named Prince, not very black, about 26 Years old, has an Impediment in his Speech : Had on when he went away, a brown homespun Coat, with brass Buttons, a Pair of new Shoes, a black Jacket linVl with yellow, brown Breeches, and old light blue Great Coat. Wlioever shall take \\\) said Negro, and bring him to his Master in Scituate or to Mr. Benjamin Cud- woi'th in Boston, .shall be well rewarded, and have all necessary charges paid. All Masters of Vessels and others are forbid concealing, harbouring or carrying oft' said Servant, as they will be prosecuted for so doing." — The Massachusetts Gazette & Boston News Letter. The partnership of Laban Souther and Elijah Cudworth was particularly pleasant, and was only terminated by the death of Mr. Souther in 1840. Mr. Cudworth then took his four sons into the firm. They were all practical siiipl)uilders, having previously learned their trade at this yard. The firm procured timber from the vicinity at first, the forests then yielding plentifully white and black oak and other timber suitable for * See Wanton Yard. ■254 VESSELS BUILT BY SOUTHER & CUDWOIITH, shipbuilding. In after years it was procured from the forests of Bridge water and Abington, at a much greater cost, part of which was for transportation. Al)out 185,9, the business becoming less profitable the tirni dissolved. Mr. Cudwoilh, together with his eldest son, changed their occupation to that •of farming. The younger members of the firm continued the ;aii: of shipbuilding at Briggs' Yard in So. Boston, and in many of the yards at East Boston and Medford. Elijah Cudworth, died Sept. 20, 1878, aged UO years, 20 days, and is buried in the First Parish Cemetery at Norwell. He left four sons : 1. Elijah, died a few years ago ; 2. Laban, who resides in Marsh- field ; 3. Joseph, mar. Sarah Jane, dau. of Joshua Stetson, no children; 4. John, mar. Mary Hersey ; they have one dau., Mary Frances, b. July 17, 1859, who mar. Edwin Beal of Norwell and has two children : Edwin and Charles. Elijah Cudwoith had four daughters, two of whom are now living. Joseph and John Cudworth live in Hanover near the Four •Corners. ,^ ^ _ji/^ built at the Chittenden **^^*-*^'*'^'^ *y^iJ^Z^S^:?^ Yard, in 1818, the sch. ^y. y r^ ^ "PHARAMOXD," 84 ^ ^t^^pw'yi^ ^^T^*.^?''^,!^^^^-?,,^^ tons, of Boston ; owners, /^ Elijah Curtis, Laban Souther, Samuel Tolman and William James, Scituate, and Eoniuel Brackett, Quincy. This vessel was begun April 10, 1817, and launched March 19, 1818. It cost $175 to rig her, and $96 for duck for the sails. It appears that this vessel was fully rigged at the yard, was owned by a Scituate Company, and engaged in mackerel fishing for some years, making large returns to her owners. The last account of her w\as when she was sold to Boston merchants about 1821, and sailed on May :22nd of that year from there. In jNIr. Cudworth's settlement with the owners, he paid Samuel Tolman, Jr., $150, it being his part of the first payment. Mr. Cudworth received $(300. Mr. Souther $225, and he says, "Laban Souther and myself paid $124.50 each for the outfits of the sch. 'Pharamond,' and likewise received alike for the fish." They built here the next year, 1819, the sch. "SEVENTH SON," 87 tons, of Boston. The following copy of a charge from an old account book will show the rate of wages paid at this time. "Jan. 1, paid Thomas Puggles $20.50 for twenty and one half days ' worck don,' on the sch. ' Seventh Son.'" The "Seventh Son" was in FRUITFUL SYLVESTEIl SOUTHER & CUDWORTH. 255 the Atlantic whaling from Provincetown under Capt. Cook in 1822. Rum was freely charged from time to time to the differ- ent vessels in all the yards as will be seen by the following copies of some of the entries : " Eighty cents for one gallon of rum for the sch. . Sixty cents for one gallon of rum for the ' Sisters.' Paid for one gallon of rum for the ' Old Sch.,' 48 cents," etc. The old sch. was probably the " Pharamond." This firm built the sch. "THREE SISTERS," in 1820. In Nov., 1820, Ensign Otis paid Elijah Cudworth $189 on account of the earnings of the sch. "Three Sisters." One of the characters of the time was Fruitful Sjjlvester. He was a negro born of a slave in the service of a Mr. Sylvester who lived on the Chittenden place during the Revolution. He died about fifty years ago and will be remembered only by the older people. He worked for the Fosters in 1820, and to show what wages were at that time he was paid for "Killing, cutting up and salting a cow, 'o'l cents." "For shearing six sheep, 36 cents." " Cutting two cords of hard wood at Grey's Hill, $1.00," and other labor equally cheap. He was known the country round. In 1822 the firm built a vessel which they named after Mr. Souther. 1822, sch. "LABAN," 87 tons, of Boston. Owners, in Scituate, Samuel Tolman, Jr., Elijah Cudworth, and Laban Souther. The same year, Samuel Tolman, Jr., bought of Souther & Cudworth 1-16 of the hull of the sch. "Laban," for $135.93. William James had an interest in her and on her first fishing voyage received "$360 on account of the first fare of the sch. 'Laban.'" In 1823 Souther Jr., John Rogers, Samuel Tilden, and Joanna Butler of Marshiield. 1708. Sloop "RUTH," 30 tons; Timothy Cun- ninoham, of Boston, owner. 1709. Brig't'n "CHARLES," 40 tons; John Frizell, of Boston, owner. 1709. Ship "LYON," 70 tons ; AVilliam Blair and Andrew Belcher, of Boston, own- ers. 1710. Ship "DOROTHY," GO tons; John Frizell, of Boston, owner. 1710. Sloop "DOLPHIN," 30 tons; John Foster and Daniel Wair, of Boston, owners. 1710. Brig't'n " SUCCESS," 60 tons ; John Coleman, of Boston, owner. 1711. Sloop "EAGLE," 30 tons; owners, John, Thomas, Macy, and Abio;ail Howes, and Silvanus Hussey of Nantucket. 1712. Brig't'n "MARTHA," 50 tons ; owners, Nathaniel James and Peter Oliver, merchants, and Brattle Oliver of Boston. 1712. Brig't'n "FRIENDSHIP," 60 tons; James Pitts, Gyles Dyer, Jr., merchants, and Edward Martyn, of Boston, owners. 1713. Ship "THOMAS," 70 tons; owners, Jona. Belcher and Andrew Belcher of Boston. 1784. Sch. " SPHYNX," 43 tons, of Boston. 1784. Sch. "BECKEY," also w^ritten "^ecm," 54 tons, of Boston ; owned by David Tilden of Boston, John Sutton of Cohasset, and Howard Pierce of Scituate. 1784. Sch. "POLLY," 69 tons, of Scituate ; owned by George Mor- ten, Joshua Otis, Nathaniel Wade, and Seth Turner of Scituate. 1785. Sch. "SUKEY," 49 tons, of Provincetown. In 1810, this vessel was sold for the payment of seamen's wages. The first shipbuilder on this yard, whose records are preserved, was William James, son of Dea. John, Jr., who was son of Dea. John, who came into Scituate in 1668, probal^ly from Dedham, and purchased the Ephraim Kempton estate, near the Block- house. William was born 1746, and mar., in 1780, Mary, dau. of Capt. Benjamin Randall. They had children: 1. Lydia, (who mar. Capt. Bass of Quincy). 2. Betsey, (who mar. Rev. William Torrey). 3. William, Jr. 4. Hannah, (who mar., 1st, Briggs Alden of Duxbury ; 2d, Josiah Leavitt of N. Y.) William James, Jr., was born in So. Scituate, March 1, 1789, and d. Jan. 14, 1854, aged 64 years, being buried in the 262 JAMES GENEALOGY. First Parish Cemetery, Norwell. He succeeded his father at the shi})yard, and mar. Mar. 7, 1816, Welthea Alden, who was b. Aug. 13, 1792. They had children: 1. William Alden, b. March 7, 1818 ; d. June 13, 1819. 2. Mary Ran- dall, b. Jan. 12, 1820, mar. Sept. 26, 1843, Edward H. Dehmo, of New York, Naval Constructor; she died Sept. 10, 1854. They had two children : William Edward, b. in Vir- ginia in Sept. 1853 ; d. the same month, and Edward Franklin, b. in Dorchester, Mass., Aug. 21^ 1854. 3 and 4. Ann Appleton and twin fiister, b. Jan. 2, 1822. She d. Mar. 14, 18S7 ; her twin sister d. Jan. 3, 1822. 5. Henry Pack- ard, b. Aug. 4, 1823 ; d. July 26, 1825. 6. AVilliam Henry, b. Apr. 19, 1825. He w^ent to the Pensacola Navy Yard as clerk for Edward H. Delano, Naval Constructor, and there mar. Laura Ingraham, of that place, Dec, 1858. They had seven children : Harry Ingraham, b. in North Carolina, Minnie, Daisy, George^ Welthea Alden, Laura I. and AVilliam Henry ; of these George and Welthea Alden only are living. 7. Albert, b. Feb. 7, 1827, mar, June, 1863, Helen Hopkins of New York. They had one son, Josiah Leavitt, b. in 1864. 8. Welthea Alden, b. July 6, 1830, mar., Sept. 16, 1850, Benjamin Merritt, Jr., of AA^atertown, Mass. They had four children: Helen »Jaiiies, b. eTan. 9, 1852, (who mar., July 19, 1876, Abraham Hun Berry of Boston). Louisa Phillips, b. March (5, 1857. Benjamin Frederick, b. March 14, 1865, and John x\lden, b, Aug. 23, 1875. 9. Frederick Augustus, b. Nov. 27, 1832, mar. Ellen Foster, of So. Scituate, INIay, 1855. They had two children : Mary Delano, b. Oct. 7, 1. March 8, 1808 ; mar. Mercy Ford of Marshfield, and had children: 1. Mercy; mar. William F. Damon of Marshfield. Have several children. 2. Horatio A.; mar. Lucinda Damon, sister of William F. They have children : Carleton and Cora. 3. Helen ; mar. Dea. George Beal of Cohasset ; no children. 4. Lizzie, and one or two un- married. Luther Tilden, son of Samuel and brother of Jotham, was b. Jan. 2, 1777, and d. March 6, 1857, aged 80. On his grave- stone in the First Parish Cemetery at Norwell is represented a vessel, with the blocks under her, ready to be launched. He mar., 1st, Philenda Brooks, who d. March, 1837; and 2nd, Sarah S. Benson, July 4, 1841 ; she d. Jan. 13, 18(32. By his first wife he had seven children, viz. : 1. Philenda, b. March 2, 1802. She mar. a Mr. Bond of Waltham, and had two or three children, of whom, Josephine, mar. a Mr. Bramen of Brooklyn, N. Y. One other, Sarah, mar. a Mr. Foster of Waltham. 2. Luther Albert, b. June 2, 1804: mar., and had two children : Julia and Charles Albert. (Julia mar. John Turner, and has three children ; Emma, who mar. Charles Til- den of So. Scituate ; Nellie, and John.) Charles Albert mar. a Miss Glover of W. Scituate. 3. Julia, b Dec. 30, 1806 ; mar. Capt. James Southworth of Scituate ; she d. 1880. They had five children : Florence (died when two days old) , Edward, Sarah (d. aged two years), Catharine (d. aged two years), and Caroline. Edward mar., 1st, Eliza Talbot of So. Scituate, and by her had one child, Fannie. His second wife was Hattie E. Hill of Sherborn, and they have had three children : Frank, Stacy, and Alice. Both boys are living. This family now re- side in Quincy, Mass. Caroline mar. Oliver Prouty of So. Scit- uate, and had seven children : Elmer, Edward, James, Alvord, Ella, Lottie, and Olive. She moved to New Jersey, and d. al)out 1884. 4. Sarah, b. April 24, 1809 ; mar. William Turner of * See Brooks & Tilden Yard. 266 TILDEN GENEALOGY. Scituate, and had four children, viz. : Humphrey, William Francis, Aral)ena, and Eudora. Humphrey died lately in the AVest, where he was the editor of a paper and a prominent man. AA'illiam Francis mar. a j\Iiss Stoddard of So. Scituate. They had no children. Arabella, mar. Coleman Ford of So. Scituate, and has several children. Eudora, mar. Charles T. Bailey of Scituate, and has several children. 5. William Phillips, b. May 9, 1811. He mar. Mary Foster of Scituate, and had sev- eral children, three of whom are now living, viz : Laura, AMlliam, and George. Laura mar. Dr. James S. Greene of Fitchburg, and now lives in Milton. They have one son, Jo- seph. William mar, Anna Haynes of INIilton, and has two chil- dren, Mary and Cora. George mar. Alice Butler, from the West. Their oldest child, Laura, died when about four years of age. They are now living in JVIilton, and have three chil- dren : Charlie, Alice, and Edith. William Phillips Tilden is the only surviving child of Luther. He is now living in Milton with a second wife. 6. Lucy Brooks, b. Aug. 19, 1818 ; mar. Dr. Jarvis Lewis of Waltham, and had one dau., Helen, now living in Waltham. 7. Caroline, b. Sept. 4, 1820. She was never mar., and d. at 30 years of age, or less. The author is indebted to the Rev. Wm. P. Tilden for the following enter- taining sketch concerning his early life, and his recollections of the Block-House Yard : '• The neat little one-story house in South Scituate where I was born, seventy-eight years a^^o, holds its age finely. It is located four or five miles from the sea, but near enough to hear the distant roar of the surf after a storm. The first I remember is being out in the end yard of the house, after a rain which had made lakes and seas of the hollow places, trying to sail the top of a small trunk, torn oflf and turned over, to look like a vessel in one of these inland seas. It "v^^as a perfectly natural thing for me. I was born to it, as a duck to the w^ater. Wasn't my father a ship-carpenter, and hadn't I heard the sea roar, and wasn't I going to build ships and go to sea ? It was the prophecy of coming events, though there was no pulpit in the vision, that I remember. My childhood was a happy one. Its memories are very sweet. We were not poor and not rich. Father had a good trade, and plenty of work ; and mother, besides being so precious, was so bright, so good, so buovant, such an adept at her needle, keeping all the children neat, and trim, and clean. What would the world be without the tender and watchfal care of loving mothers ! When I was seven or eight, mv father sold the little place where I was born, and built a larger house on the bank of North River, where for some years he and his brother carried on ship- building together. Sixty years ago, Scituate, Hingham, and Co- SKETCH OF THE BLOCK-HOUSE YARD BY W. P. TILDEN. 267 hasset carried on the mackerel fishery to a very large extent, giving employment, during the summer season, to a large number of people in Plymouth County. A boy in our region who had never been mackerel fishing was lightly esteemed by his comrades. He was of little account. The summer I was thirteen, I got leave of father and mother to ship with a skipper they well knew. This was the begin- ning of my academical education. Many a boy goes to Exeter to prepare for Cambridge, with less pride and joy, I have no doubt, than I started oft' on my grand expedition, dressed in my fisherman's suit, every article of which, from my red flannel shirt to my pea- jacket and tarpaulin, was made by my precious mother's hands. For six or seven consecutive summers I continued in this academy, learn- ing some things, as is the case, I suppose, in other seminaries, which- had better be forgotten. The summer I was sixteen I was high line, as it was called, beating even the skipper ; packing one hun- dred and thirty-four barrels, I think it was, caught with my own hands. About this time I began to work with my fiither in the ship- yard, still fishing during the summer months while I was learning my trade. The daily recitations in this, my university course, needed no offset or balance of foot-ball, base ball, boat race, or other gym- nastics, we took all that the natural way. Our broad-axes and mauls were our dumb-bells ; our whip-saws and cross-cuts our vault- ing bars ; and deck beams, drawn up by the creaking stage on our shoulders, were our patent lifts. We worked from sun to sun in those dajs, often having a steaming forehood to bend after sunset, to use up the summer twilight. But you ' literary fellers,' whose education has been so sadly neglected in these directions, probably don't know what a forehood means ; and even if I sliould tell you it is a plank to be bent round the bows, set home, buckled to, reined in, wedged hard down, clamped to the timbers, butted and spiked readv for boring and tree-nailing, I doubt even then if I should give you a perfectly clear idea, so difticult it is for scholars trained in different schools to understand each other's terms. The Block-house Yard w^as not well adapted to building. The ground was mostly springy and wet ; the way to it was through a rocky pasture, with only a cart path, where deep ruts and frequent stones tried the heavy wheels, loaded with timber, and the necks of the patient oxen, which bore the swinging white oak trunks, planks, and knees. Then, when the timber was in the yard, there was not sufficient room for it. Beside this, when the vessel was launched, she had to run directly across the river into the mud on the other side. Souther & Cud- worth's Yard, a half mile up the river, and Foster's, above that, were far better yards ; more spacious, and with a finer chance for a glorious launch up or down a long reach. Still, there were many vessels built at this yard. But the Block-house, though not a No. i ship-yard, was a glorious place for us boys. Here came noisy and jubilant throngs from Front street. Back street, and all_ the lanes round about, in the dusk of a summer evening, for a glorious swim 268 BLOCK-HOUSE SHIP-YARD. and a good time generally ; especially Saturday evenings, when the week's work was over. What schools of human porpoises would roll and tumble in the star-lit stream, preparatory for the clean Sun- day shirt. We used to run a long spring plank out over the end of the wharf, hold down the shore end with a boulder, and running out, give a leap and a dive, and the next you saw was a yellow spot under water, away out, nearly half across the river, with a motion like a frog ; then, breaking the water, he would shake the beady drops from his head, clear his nose for breathing freely, and continue across, resting on the opposite bank, or making a graceful curve and coming back for another dive. When the frogs began to peep, in the spring of the year, there was fine eeling near the banks up and down the river. We used a pole and line, and a sinker with a worm strung on a thread, called a ' fishwoi^m bob.' W^hat fun it was to pull them out upon the meadow grass, and bag them for breakfast ! We had superb skating in winter, and good fishing through the ice for eels, perch, and the beautiful striped bass. When about twenty- three, I married a noble woman whom I had known and loved from childhood, and we moved to Medford, whose ' Ship street,' now desolate, was alive with ship-building. It was not long after this when, working with my dear ship-carpenter, classmate, and ortho- dox friend, Rev. W. T. Briggs, we discussed, almost fiercely, the high themes of fore-knowledge, free-will, and fate, and I hammered away on the hard side of ' Calvinism.' One day, when I was about twenty-five, while at work in the ship-yard at Medford, I saw my portly pastor coming, looking through his glasses, first one side and then the other, as was his wont going up the broad aisle. I dropped my axe to welcome him, and soon found he had a gospel of hope for me. He had taken counsel, and came to tell me he thought I might — yes, I might — enter the ministry. That spot of ground is still sacred. I have been to it as to the Mecca of my first hope. All signs of the old ship-yard, to a stranger's eye, were gone ; but I knew the old land-marks, and found the spot where I dropped the broad axe to hear the glad tidings that opened to me a new life. I was glad to stand there and feel something of that hour come back to me through the vista of nearly half a century." Jotham Tilden built here, in 1815, the sch. "NEW SO- PHRONIA," 69 tons, of Scituate ; owned by dishing and En- sign Otis, Jr., Coleman Jenkins, Elisha Foster, Jr., and Luther Tilden of Scituate. William James, George and David Torrey, and Jotham and Luther Tilden were in com[)any from about this time until later than 1821. The largest vessel recorded as having been liuilt at the Block-house Yard was, in 1815, the ship "MALABAR," 355 torn. She had two decks, three masts; length, 102 feet; depth, 14 feet; breadth, 28 feet; owned in Boston. ^ 2 < VESSELS BUILT AT THE BLOCK-HOUSE YARD. 269 and David Torrey were the master carpenters . The next year two vessels were built here, viz. : 1816, the sch. "MARY & POLLY," 77 tons, of Chatham ; and the same year, 1816, sch. "ANN ROSINA," 123 tons, of Peters- burg, Va. ; owners, Ebenezer Pope, of Boston, and others. Jotham Tilden was the master carpenter of both these vessels. The "Ann Rosina," it is said, was named after either the cap- tain's or mate's daughter. The captain was Thomas Manches- ter, and the mate Mr. Cudworth. She was used as a Boston and Richmond packet. An old ship-carpenter now living, and in his ninety-first year, remembers having worked on the " Ann Rosina." Is it not wonderful that there is a man now living who can tell you that he worked on this vessel built in 1816? This remarkable man is Harvey Hall, and the following ac- count of an interview with him may be of interest. He was born June 30, 1799, in East Marshfield, where he has lived the greater part of his life. He married Charlotte Tilden, in 1824, and has quite a progeny . I found him in the orchard of his farm, near East Marshfield village, then in his ninetieth year, in the top of a Baldwin apple-tree, on a ladder, gathering ap- ples. I asked him what he was doing, and he replied, " Gath- ering Baldwins," as he did every year between the 10th and 20th of October, for the old people used to say, in his day, that Baldwins should be gathered at that time of the year. Coming down, he invited me into his home, where he enter- tained me very pleasantly. He entered the ship-yard at the age of eighteen, under the instruction of Jotham Tilden, at the Block house Yard. The first vessel he worked on was the "Ann Rosina." From here he went to the Navy Yard at Charlestown, where he worked six months. He then went to work tree-nailing or "trunnelling" for Noah Brooks, at South Boston, working on the last shi}) he built there. Edwin and Harrison O. Briggs succeeded Mr. Brooks in ship-building at this yard, and Mr. Hall tree-nailed nearly all the vessels built, by them. He worked in the Magoun & Turner Yard, Charles- town Neck ; also in the following ship-yards in Medford : Fos- ter's, Taylor's, Waterman & E well's, Hayden & Cudwortli's, and James O. Curtis'. Later, he worked in Samuel Lapham's, Ja- rius Pratt's, and Hugh & Donald McKay's, East Boston ; at John Souther's, at Quincy ; and Nathan Josselyn's, at Quincy Point, 270 VESSEL BUILT AT THE BLOCK-HOUSE YARD. where he worked on the " ]\Iount Wallaston." He also worked on many vessels built by Gushing Otis Briggs and his l^rother Henry, in Scituate. He renieml>ers Isaiah Wing's ship, as she lay at Doggett's Bank, during Embargo times, until nearly un- fit for sei'vice. He was also an eye-witness of the l)attle be- tween the " Chesapeake," Capt. Lawrence, and the English frigate "Shannon," oti' Cohasset. Here, he says, the action began in earnest, and, after a hard, short fight, the " Chesa- peake " was captured June 1, 1813. When ship-lniilding be- came dull, he retired to his present home in his native town, and is now enjoying the competence acquired by the laljors of his youthful days, and living Avith his widoAved daughter. In 1817 there was l)uilt, at the Block-house Yard, the sch. "WILLIAM," 49 tons; sold afterward to Freeport. Alsp in 1817, the sch. "PHILEXDA," 72 tons, of Boston, named after Luther Tilden's daughter, "one of the prettiest girls in the neighborhood." It was also the name of Mr. Tilden's wife. The "Philenda" was owned by Elijah Turner, John Beal, Sam- uel Jenkins, Jr., Jesse Dunbar, Snell Wade, Gideon Vinal, Doane Damon, and Nathaniel Clapp, Scituate, Nathaniel Clift of Marshfield, and Smith T. Reed of Abington. In 1819, the sch. "BETSEY," 91 tons, of Provincetown, was built here, of which David Torrey was the master carpenter. There was also built here, in 1821, the sch. "VESTA," 91 tons, of Boston; afterward of Provincetown, and used whaling; David Torrey, master carpenter. This schooner was named after Vesta, the wife, or Vesta, the daughter, of David Torrey. The same year, 1821, the sch. "PRIMROSE," 71 tons, of Chatham, was built at this yard, of which Jotham and Luther Tilden were the master carpenters. In 1823 there was built here the brig "WILLIAM & HENRY," 185 tons, of Duxbury ; afterward sold to Philadelphia, and in 1855 she was whaling from Warren, R. I. James N. Sparrell, who worked on Foster's Yard, also worked on this vessel on the way down river and at the Ferry. In 1824 there was built at this yard the sch. "EMILY COOK," 116 tons, of Boston. She was altered into a brig Sept. 13, 1827. David Torrey was master carpenter of her. Daniel Hall worked joinering on the " Emily Cook " in 1824. At this yard were built the following vessels, viz. : In 1825, the brig "LE VANTE," ^^ ^r—^ and William James, Jr., /^"y "/ O^ f^--»,'?--e-j„^ built here in 1801 , the sch. /-^* *t2S^>^X "THREE FRIENDS," '^^ K£^tCC^ CTO^ll^^^^'^ 74 tons, of Barnstable. EUsha Ford, Jr., built in Marshtield, the next >ear, 1802, the brig " ELIZA," 165 tons, of Marshtield. Elisha Ford, Sr., and Jr., of Marshtield, owners. Aaron Sherman built in Marshtield, in 1809, the sloop "POLLY," 35 tons, owned by Benjamin Rogers and Ebenezer Sherman, Marshfiekl. She was afterward sold to Boston. Aaron Sherman lived near "Old Skunk Meeting House," Marshfiekl. While vessels were building on the beautiful river shore of Marshfiekl, other vessels were being destroyed on her rocky coast, driven before the easterly gales, and many are the sailors who have found their graves in the sands of this town. T/te Boston J^ews Letter records the following, dated Marsh- field, Nov. 28, 1712 : "On Tuesday the 2oth current, 1712, six men going off the Gurnet Beach in a whale boat at Duxbury by reason of boisterousness of the sea oversetting the boat they were all drowned, viz. : William Sprague, Eben- ezer Bonny, Thomas Baker, of Duxbury, Thomas Wright, Job Cole and Andrew Seaward, of Marshfiekl." The Boston Evening Post speaks of two great storms. The first under date of June 11, 1759, viz. : " We hear from Marshfiekl that Capt. Inglish in a schooner from Xo . Carolina was drove on shore there, the men's lives and some part of the 274 EARLY SHIPWRECKS ON THE MARSHFIELD COAST. cargo saved but the vessel lost and that another schooner was cast away, not far from the above, which was stove to pieces and the people all drowned, but who she was, or where from, is not yet known." The second under d:ite of Sept. 11, 17G9, reads as follows : " Last Friday noon came on a very violent N. E. storm, attended with rain which lasted till next morning and it is said several vessels are drove ashore at different parts in our Bay, but as yet we have no particulars, only a sip. Capt. Atwood from the Eastward on Nahant Beach, a vessel on Baker's Island ; Capt. Stutson* in a sip. from the West Indies, at Cohasset and a sch. at INIarshfield." From The Boston Hews Letter^ dated Dec. 25, 1760, is taken the following : " Last week some men landed in a boat at Marshfield, they belonged to a sloop laden with lumber from the Eastward, which in a hard gale of wind lost every sail and the men not being able to manage her, they took to their boat and left her." The Massachusetts Spy of Feb. 1, 1771, contains an account of a wreck here as follows : " Capt. Cooper bound to Bermuda was cast away in the night of the 22nd. ult. at Marshfield and the vessel entirely lost, but the men saved. He sailed from hence the morning before." We will leave the account of shipwrecks to record the follow- ing remarkal)le paragraph, which appeared in TJte Boston Gazette and Countrij Journal of Feb. 5, 1774 : *' We hear from Marshfield that the puissant A W Esq. lately went into a neighboi''s house and being seated, though very uneasy, he vvas inquired of what made him so, when he instantly arose and drew forth a .sword (being formerly a valiant soldier) declaring he would make day- light shine through 'em but what he would carry iiis point, giving as a reason that he was afraid of his life without being arm'd, tho' never assaulted. Being tluis accout'red one day on going to his barn, his cattle being affrighted and taking him to be a stranger, surrounded him ami we hear 'twas with difficulty that he escaped with his life and the loss of his sword." This was during the Revolutionary period and in no town in Massachusetts was there probably more excitement over the •stirring events of these times than in Marshfield. Undoubtedly the feeling would not have been so strong if there had not been in their midst three noted Tories or Loyalists, led by Nathaniel Ray Thomas. The first mention we find of him in the papers was in the Boston J^eivs Letter, of Dec. 4, 1761, ( ?) the foUowino' : See account of the Stutsons, Wanton Yard> NATHANIEL RAY THOMAS. 275 " Wednesday, the 13th day of Januarj-, 17G2, the Gov. signed the fol- lowing act. An act for exchanging meadow and meadowish ground belonging to the First Precinct in Marshfield in the County of Plymouth with Nathaniel Ray Thomas of said Marshfield, gentleman, for salt- meadow." Nathaniel Ray Thomas was the sole surviving child of John and Mary Thomas, John Thomas mar. Mary, dau. of Simon and Judith (Manwaring) Ray, of New London, Conn., 1124:. They had eight children b. between 1724 and 1737. John Thomas and his wife both died in 1737, leaving but one child, the noted Loyalist of Marshfield. They were not related to the Thomas family of Marshfield, descendants of John and Sarah Pitney Thomas. William, the common ancestor of the Loyalist's family, came over in the "Mary and Anne" in 1(536. Nathaniel Ray Thomas was b. in Marsh- field in 1731, and d. in Windsor, Nova Scotia, Sept. 19, 1787, he having gone there at the time of the evacuation of Boston in 1776. His wife and all his children, except John, followed after the war. She died there in 1810, aged 78. The home of Nathaniel Ray Thomas, of over 1500 acres, became the home of Daniel Welistcr in Marshfield, he buying it in 1832 of John, son of Nathaniel Ray Thomas. Walton Hall now owns and occupies the farm. Near his house, which is on the site of the Daniel Wel)ster house, is a large tree to which many of Capt. Balfour's soldiers were tied and flogged for misdemeanor. In the following extracts taken from the papers of the times there will l)e seen many references to the Loyalist, and what a deal of trouble he occasioned in Marshfield. He evidently caused the town to pass some Resolves which it did not voice and which it afterward virtually rescinded, as will be seen by the following paragraphs under different dates. Bos- ton Gazette and Country Journal. Extract from a letter from Duxbury, Feb. 5, 1774: " I imagine you have by this time heard of the very remarkable Resolves of the town of Marshfield respecting the destruction of teas, &c • which was effected principally by the insinuating act of a certain man, who hav- ing lately rendered himself odious to the Province by his conduct in a pub- lic station, is endeavoring to wipe off the infamy on the people of that town. His insinuations are (as I am informed by people of veracity) that the tea must be paid for; that any town remonstrating against the destruc- tion of it, will eff"ectually secure them against paying any part of the expenses and if it is paid for that his particular shai-e will be £40 who commonly pays scarce £o per annum of the Province tax. However the sentiments of the Old Colony are not to be collected from those of Marsh- field." 276 MAKSHFIELD DURING THE REVOLUTION. Two days later appeared, in the same paper, the following : " We are informed that the Resolves of the town of Marshfield were carried by a majority of only one vote, and we soon expect a more intelli- gible account of the meeting than has yet been given in a public paper." In the Massachusetts 8py, of Feb. 23, 1774, appears : " A protest signed by a large number of the prominent inhabitants of the town of jNIarshfield against the proceedings of said town on the 81st of January last," as follows : " We the subscribers think ourselves obliged in faithfulness to the community, ourselves and posterity, on every proper occasion to bear our public testimony against every measure, calculated to destroy that harmony and unanimity which subsists through the colonies and so eventually to the destruction of those liberties wherewith the Author of Nature and our hapi)y constitution has made us free. Were they not already notoiious, it would give us uneasiness to mention the Resolves which were voted in this town the 31st of January last. To the first of these Resolves we do not object; but do heartily join in recognizing our loyalty and subjection to the King of Groat Britain and our readiness to be ever subject to the laws of our legislature. In their second Resolve, they say that the 'measures and pi'oceedings in the town of Boston in the detention and destruction of the teas, belonging to the East India Com- pany, are illegal, unjust and of a dangerous tendency,' against which we take the liberty to protest. We have long groaned under the weight of an American Revenue Act and when by the virtue of the people in not purchasing any goods loaded with a duty, the malignity of the act was in some measure evaded, a scheme was devised and prosecuted by the min- istry, to enforce said act by permitting the East India Company to force their infectious teas upon us, whether we would or not. At this, not only the inhabitants of Boston, but of the whole province were very much and very justly alarmed and while they were prosecuting every method that human wisdom would devise that the tea should be sent back undamaged, it was destroyed, but whether by the people of that town, or any other town of this province does not appear. 3dly. They resolved to instruct their Re]3resentalive 1st, to endeavor that the perpetrators of these mis- chiefs be brought to justice. This appears to us to be the business of another department. We have executive courts and officers, whose busi- ness it is to punish offenders and we trust they are faithful. 2dly. They instruct him to endeavour that his tOAvn be excused from paying for said teas, which we think might have been omitted, at least, till there was a probability of a requisition from proper authority for payment. They conclude with a denunciation ' of all methods of imposition, violence and persecution, such as has been most shamefully exercised upon a number of inhabitants of Plymouth by obliging them to sign a recantation ' &c : Such bitter, virulent and injurious reflections on our brethren at Plymouth, ought not to have taken place until some shadow of proof had been adduced to the town, that any such violence &q. was ever practiced by them on a single person. The occasion of this our protest has given us gi'eat uneasi- ness and we were confident those extraordinary resolves would not have taken place but by the insinuations of a cei'tain gentleman who seems will- ing his constituents should share in the resentment of the whole country, which he has incurred by his conduct in a public character. We mean not to countenance riotous and disorderly conduct but, being convinced that liberty is the life and happiness of a community, are determined to con- MARSHFIELD DURING THE REVOLUTION. 277 tribute to our last mite in its defence, against the maciiinations of assuming, arbitrary men, who, stimulated with a hist of dominion and unrighteous gain are ever studying to subjugate this free people." Marshfield, Feb. 14, 1774. {signed) : Anthony Thomas, John Brown, William Thomas, Thomas Foord, Thomas ^Vatt'rman, Isaac Phillips, Samuel Tilden, John Dingley, Joseph Kent, Benjamin White, Joseph Hewit, Thomas Fish, Jeremiah Low, Benjamin Tolman, Jetheo Taylor, Samuel Williamson, Nathan Thomas, Nehemiah Thomas, Benjamin White, Jr., Lemuel Delano, Jabez Dingley, Isaac Carver, Thomas Dingley, Samuel Smith, Thomas Waterman, Jr., Peleg Foord, Asa Waterman, John Waterman, John Shurman, Samuel Tilden, Jr., Samuel Oakman, Gershom Ewell, William Cllft, Joseph Bryant, Paul Sampson, John Oakman, Joseph Oakman, King Lapham, Barnard Tuels, Peleg Kent, Zenas Thomas, Joshua Carver, Lot Howes Silvester, David Carver, Nathaniel Thomas, William Thomas, Jr. Luther Peterson, Briggs Thomas, Elisha Kent, Timothy Williamson, Joseph Clift. In September of the same year, "patience ceased to be a virtue," and the inhabitants of the surrounding towns decided they could not permit Mr. Thomas to longer remain among them ; accordingly they marched to his house, but their bird had flown. The Boston Evening Post, of Sept. 12, 1774, says: " We hear from the County of Plymouth that, on Wednesday last, up- wards of 2000 of the substantial yeomanry collected from the several towns of Plymouth, Hanover, and I'embroke, repaired to the house of Nathaniel Ray Thomas, of Marshfield, one of the new Council ; but, having had some previous intimation of the intended visit of the people, he thought it unsafe to remain, even in Marshfield, and accordingly fled, the night be- fore, with all speed, to the City of Refuge." At the request of Nathaniel Ray Thomas, and three hundred other Loyalists of Marshfield, a company of the Queen's Guard, under Capt. Balfour, was sent down and quartered in Mr. Thomas' house. The wine closets constructed in the cellar by Capt. Balfour, for the use of himself and officers, were in ex- istence until the house was burned. (See foot note.) The Foot Note. Isaac Thomas who d. in Marshfield, March 6, 1859, remembered Capt. Balfour's visit plainly. Isaac Thomas descended from the youngest son of John and Sarah Thomas (see Thomas Genealogy, Brick-kiln Yard). Isaac, the only son of Zenas and wife Abigail, was b. Nov. 11, 1765, and d. Mar. 6, 1859. He was in his tenth year at the commencement of the American Revolution, and the strange acts of both Whig and Tory citizens of the place were indelibly impressed on his mmd. On Dec. 20, 1774 he beheld and followed with bo3nsh curiosity the Queen's Guards commanded by Capt. Balfour as they marched by the common, where his school room was situated, on their way from North River to their destined quarters at the mansion house of Nathaniel Ray Thomas. lie often spoke of the brightness of their bayonets as they glittered in that midday sun of one of the mildest days that the annals of past Decembers have recorded. He also, ou the morning succeeding the battle of Lexington, witnessed Capt. William 278 MARSHFIELD DURING THE REVOLUTION. presence of troops greatly annoyed the inhabitants, and, after vainly applying to Gen. Gage to withdraw them, (see Chapter on Peml)roke Yards,) the militia of the surrounding towns marched to Marshtield for the purpose of routing them ; but Capt. Balfour embarked on board some British vessels lying off Brant Rock, a few hours before the arrival of the militia, part of it under Col. Bailey of Hanover. Had the militia arrived three hours earlier, the second battle of the Revolution would, without doul)t, have been fought in Marshfield. Another ac- count of how the British troops annoyed the inhabitants of these towns appeared in the Boston Gazette and Country Jour- nal, under date of Jan. 30, 1775 : "Card players are said to be no CEconomists. If the troops at Marsh- field do not pay Barrack money for the houses they occupj' there, yet where they fright a wife and children from home into a neighbour's house, pence may be saved, and thus Simple Saplin may be called (Economist." We will now return to the history of the ship-building at the Brooks & Tilden Yard. Elijah Broohs and George Tilden built here for about ten years. In 1838, William H. Tilden was interested with them. Elijah Brooks, b. Feb. 25, 1793, was the son of William. He mar. Maria Tilden, dau. of Jo- tham Tilden. They had children : 1. Elijah, (who mar. Liz- zie Turner, dau. of Samuel A. Turner, Esq. ; they had one child, now deceased.) 2. Franklin. 3. Maria, (who. mar. Benjamin A. Hathaway of Plymouth ; she d. leaving two daughters, Emma and Helen.) 4. Elizabeth. Elijah Brooks d. July 1, 1854, aged 61. William, his father, d. April, 1794, aged 80. Both are buried in the First Parish Cemetery, Nor- well. George Tilden d. about 1868. He married three times. By his first wife, Mercy Little Clift of Marshfield, he had on6 child, George Wales, b. 1833, who mar. Alice Tilden, and they have one child by adoption. Mr- Tilden's second wife was Thomas and bis young kinsman as they ascended to the summit of the hill, and saw him discharge the three alarm guns while his attendant beat the drum, which was the concerted signal to acquaint the surrounding inhabitants of the commencement of hos- tilities. He saw the l)urning of the obnoxious tea on the height which yet bears its name, and saw the torch touched to the fire fated pile by that devoted Whig, Jeremiah. Low. He was fond of relating descriptions of the olden schoolroom. " Surely 'twas a rustic school-room All unplastered there it stood. Broad and deep its ancient hearthstone Where they rolled the logs of wood ; Coarse tlje furniture within it, Diamond lattices for light, Cross-legged table for the master Where he did the copies write." VESSELS BUILT BY BROOKS & TILDEX. 279 Sybil Stetson of Scituate, and by her he had two danghters, Sybil, now dead, and Georgiana, who mar. Henry T. Jenlvins. He had no children by his third wife, Catharine Bailey of Scit- uate. In 1837, Brooks & Tilden built the sch. "HURON," 106 tons ; owned by James Damon, Elijah Jenkins, Jr., Henry Bowsers, Seth Webb, and Francis Thomas of Scituate. James Damon was captain, and Mr. Anderson mate, to North Caro- lina From North Carolina she went to Barliadoes, loaded with staves and naval stores, with orders to sell at a limited price. They went to seven islands, including Guadaloupe, Martinique, Dominique, and finally sold the cargo at St. John, Antiqua ; then went to St. Thomas for provisions, and back to Little Wasliino-ton, N. C. The " Huron " was lost two or three years afterward, bound from Boston to Nassau, in the same hurricane that Capt. Coleman (formerly of Scituate) was lost in, in the brig " Anawan," wdiich left New York on the same day in Sep- tenTber, for Cuba, on which the "Huron " left Boston for Nas- sau. The same year, 1837, they built the sch., afterward Her. brig, "LEAVIS BRUCE," 113 tons, of Provincetown. This ves'sel was owned by Heman Smith of Boston, and was under Capt. Cook. She was condemned at the Cape de Verde Islands many years ago. The next year, 1838, they built the sch. " ERIE," 113 tons, of Scituate ; owners, Lemuel and Seth Webb of Scituate, and Elijah Brooks, William H. and George Tilden of Marshfield. They also built here the brig "MICHIGAN" and the sch. " ROANOKE." In 1840 they built the brig " JO- SEPH BALCH," 153 tons of Boston. Elijah Brooks built, in 1843, the brig "ALLEN KING," 206 tons; owners, John Manson and o'eorge M. Allen of Scituate, and Elijah Brooks, master carpenter, of Marshfield. This was probably the last vessel built at this yard, and was not a successful one for her builders. She lay in Boston Harbor all one winter, and, while at anchor there, was damaged by a gale, and sold for a very low fio-ure to George N. Allen and Mr. King of Scituate Har- bor, and for these two gentlemen she was named. Being a very fast vessel, she was used as a fruiter, and coined money for her new owmers, under Capt. John Manson. He took her to the West Indies, and to Brazil, once or twice, but most of the time to :Malaga, in the Mediterranean. He left Malaga with a full caro-o ot^ fruit for New York, and arrived back in Malaga, with a full caro-o of staves, in sixty-two days, carrying back to Mal- ao-a the report of his own arrival in New York, being the quick- est passage ever made. He was fifty-eight days from Gibraltar 280 EAELY OCCURRENCES IN MARSHFIELD. to New York and back. It will perhaps not be too much out of place to insert, between the history of these two yards, the record of a severe shock felt in jNIarshfield over one hundred years ago, a notice of which appeared in the Boston Evening Fosty Monday, March 15, 1773 : " We hear from Marshfield that, on the 21st ult.. in the night, the inhab- itants there were wak'd with a very loud noise, and considerable jar of tlie houses, which they took to be an earthquake ; but it is since conjectured that it was occasioned by the severe frost, as it was heard several times, sometimes louder than at others, by many, who rose immediately. The ground is cracked in many places several yards in length, so wide that a man may put his whole arm into the chasms." The same year there occurred here a sad accident, which is re- corded in the Boston Evening Post, Monday, July 19, 1773, as follows : "Last week, two boys went bathing into the water at Marshfield, when one of them, venturing beyond his depth, was unfortunately drowned." Two years before the above, a death occurred, the cause of which was probably, like most sudden deaths in those days, unknown, Init Avould be recognized to-day as apoplexy or heart disease. This was on May 20, 1771, an account of which is found in the Boston Evening Post, of June 10, 1771, as fol- lows : " We hear from Marshfield that, on the 20th of May, Mr. Kenelm Bake., ao-ed about 76 years, being at his mill, grinding a grist of corn, complain- ing of a pain in his stomach, when the corn was out went and stopt the mill, and, turning himself, fell against another man, and died in a minute or two." The William Taylor Yard, referred to earlier in this chapter, was occupied in later years by William Taylor and Israel Car- ver. William Taylor now lives (Sei)tember, 1889), on Tele- graph Hill, Marshtield, and is, without doubt, the oldest living ship-builder of the North River. Mr. Taylor was the son of Kichard and Lydia (Perry) Taylor, and was born in Scituate, Feb. 14, 1796. He learned his trade of a I\Ir. Thomas of Dux- bury, a somewhat noted ship-builder of his day, and imme- diately went to work on the River. On Dec. 6, 1825, he mar. Miss Eliza Kent, dau. of Capt. William Kent of JNIarshfield, who d. in 1875 ; and in 1881, in his eighty-fifth year, he mar. jNIiss Lydia Allen, who lived Init a few years. ]NIr. Taylor had the rei)utation of being one of the best workmen that wielded a broad axe in these parts, and his services were eagerly sought by all the master l)uilders on the river. Soon after his first VESSELS BUILT BY WM. TAYLOR & ISRAEL CARVER. 281 marriage, he rented lialf of the house now owned by Mr. Bacon, near the North River Bridge, Pembroke, and com- menced to build vessels on his own account at the Brick-kiln. He built three or more vessels besides those at this yard, and took the position of foreman in different yards, which he held to the end of his lal)ors. He retired from work a few years since, and lives on his farm, surrounded by his sons, who have all been ship-masters in their younger days. Mr. Taylor has two daughters ; one is the wife of a sea captain on the Cape, and the other the wife of Ed. Arnold of Rockland. Mr. Tay- lor is a very humorous man, and loves to tell of his boyish pranks. For some fancied or real slight by a bevy of girls, in his younger days, he induced them to ride in a tip-cart, which he was driving, and, coming to quite a deep and swift running brook, he withdrew the fastenings, and dumped them all into the water, from which they emerged more wet than hurt. On some gentlemen observing to him, not long since, that he must have been strictly temperate to have arrived at his great age, he very humorously remarked that he had drank rum enough to float the largest ship tliat ever swam, and chewed tobacco enough to load her. Mr. Taylor has the appearance of a per- fectly well man of sixty. There was Iwilt at the Taylor & Carver Yard, in 1848, the sch. "LAKE," 74 tons, oak, copper and iron fastened, 67 feet long, break deck ; owned in 1863 by E. Barnard & Co., Bucksport, Me., Capt. Hopkins, and in 1869 at Orland. In 1850 was built the sch. "HORN," Laban Smith, owner: Capt. Roliert Hall. Afterward, James Marble com- manded her. The " SOUTHER" was built here by Israel Car- ver. About 1860, William Taylor and Israel Carver built a schooner of about 70 tons, probably the "EDIE LITTLE," named after Edw. P. Little's wife. Among the ship-lmilders who left the North River were Henry and John Taylor, who went to Medford ; afterward, John Taylor went to Chelsea, and was the first to build there. Joshua T. Foster went to Medford from So. Scituate. Paul Curtis, William Cudworth (born in Sea View), and Elisha Hayden (of So. Scituate), went to Med- ford. Many of Scituate's first settlers came from Kent. Ed- ward Goodwin, of Boston, Mass., a shipwright, was of Chat- ham, in Kent, Eng., and without doubt the art of ship-building, so early established at North River and Boston, can be traced to the dock-yards of Chatham, on the jNIedway. CHAPTER XVII. BRIGGS YARD. (hobart's landing.) I 645-1 842. THOMAS NICHOLS, SAMUEL HOUSE, JR., JEREMIAH HATCH, WAL- TER HATCH, JEREMIAH HATCH, JR., ISRAEL HOBART, JAMES BRIGGS, SETH BRIGGS, JOHN BRIGGS, THOMAS BARKER BRIGGS, GUSHING OTIS BRIGGS, HENRY BRIGGS, CHARLES C. BRIGGS, WILLIAM T. BRIGGS. 'T^HIS yard was located in Scituate, a short distance up the •^ river from Little's Bridge. It joined "Belle House Neck," which leads down to Little's Bridge. The old workhouse is still standing, and it is the only one now left on the river. On the side of the workhouse is the outline of a ship, cut nearly fifty years ago by H. O. Briggs, a descendant of the family who built vessels here for nearly a century. The old spring down by the stone landing is still running freely. The stone landing marks the spot about where the vessels stood. Vessels launched on this yard would shoot across the river into the opposite bank, and it would sometimes take two or three days to dig them out. Rufus Clapp claims the distinction of being the first to stop this, by putting planks across the stern, leav- ing the ends far out on each side, thus retarding the headway of the vessels in the water. Thomas Nichols, a shipwright, had lands, in 1645, near and southwest of the spot since known as Hobart's Landing, at which latter place he carried on the art of ship-building. We have been unable to learn of any living descendants of Thomas 5 < ^ tr^ SHIPBUILDERS HOUSE HATCH HOBART. 283^ Nichols, unless there be some in Cohasset. Thomas, Jr., suc- ceeded to his father's lands in Scituate, and his son Joseph, b. 1673, lived near George Moore's Bridge. Joseph lost three sons in the French War, viz. : Joseph, Jr., Thomas, 3rd, and Noah. Israel, son of Joseph, resided at the old homestead, near the landing. He lost three sons in the Revolutionary War, viz. : Israel, Jr., Samuel, and Thomas, 4th. Caleb,, grandson of Israel, Sr., son of Caleb, lost three sons by ship- wreck — Caleb, Henry, and Reuben — at Cape Cod, in the "Cyrus," under Capt. Seth Gardner, in August, 1830.* Noah, who d. in the Revolution, left a ftmiily, viz. : 1. Nabby. 2. Betsey, who mar. Charles Jones. 3. Cynthia. 4. Lucy, wha mar., in 1818, ('hristopher Cushinsf, Esq., and, in 1827, Judge Wood of Middleboro'. Rebecca Nichols, dau. of Thomas, the ship-builder, mar., in 1664, Samuel House, Jr., who succeeded his father-in-law at the yard, and continued the building of ships. Samuel resided a short distance northeast, and near the ship-yard. He was- son of Samuel, who resided southeast of Coleman's Hills in 1636. Descendants of Samuel, the ship-builder, settled in Hanover, west of the Third Herring Brook, and in Pembroke, near the ponds. /^ and Walter Hatch built at the landing at ifivf*"^ ndx-JTi a later period. They were brothers, and sons of Elder William Hatch, who settled on Kent street, at the Harbor, in 1634. Jeremiah and Walter resided near each other, southeast of the Second Society's Meeting-house. They have numerous descendants in Plymouth County, and Vermont. Jeremiah mar. Mary, dau. of John Hewes, " the Welshman," and had fourteen children. Jeremiah, the oldest, succeeded to the ship-building at the landing. Israel Hobart, a shipwright, came into Scituate in 1676 from Hingham, where his house had been l)urned by the Indians in the spring of that year. He settled on North River at Hobart's Landing where he carried on the art of shipliuilding for many years. His house stood near the ship-yard and it was a spacious mansion adorned with two carved cherulis over the door. He was son of the Rev. Peter Hobart of Hingham, and was b. 1642, and d. 1731, aged 89. He probably occupied the ship-yard * See Block-house Yard. 284 VESSELS BUILT IN SCITUATE. until it was used by the Briiigses. Previous to the time the Briggses occupied this yard, the following vessels were built in Scituate and probably many of them were built at Hobart's Landing by the above builders. In 1678 the brig't'n "SWALLOW," 35 tons, Capt. Ebenezer Dennis; owners, Penn Townsend, James Barton, Samuel Lillie, Boston ; owners in 1698, Penn Townsend, Samuel Lillie, Boston, Capt. John Ober. 1678, sip. " DESIRE," 16 tons. A round sterned open vessel ; owners in 1698, John Wing, mariner, Boston, and Mary Ellery, widow, of Gloucester. 1682, sip. " INDUSTRY," 20 tons; owners, Capt. Jonas Clarke, Jonas Clarke, Jr., Camlnidge. 1683, sip. "JOHN & ABIGAIL," 25 tons. Captain in 1698, Joseph Flood, ownei, James Flood, Boston. 1684, "JOSEPH & BENJAMIN," 30 tons, owners, 1698, Capt. James Flood, of Boston, and Peter Coffin of Exeter, N. H. 1692, brig't'n "HOPE," 40 tons. Capt. Abraham Hill : owner, Samuel Lillie, Boston. 1692, sip. "THREE FRIENDS," 16 tons, square sterned open vessel. Daniel Ware, master; owners, Samuel Lillie, Boston, and William Peperel, Kittery. 1693, sip. " WILLIAM & MARY," 40 tons, John Tulley, master; owners, Jonathan Evans, Bronsden & William Hobby, merchants, John Gerrish, gun- smith, Samuel Greenwood, shipwright, and James Berry, mariner, Boston. 1693, bark "MARY," 60 tons; owners, Capt. John Foster, Samuel Legg, Edward jSIartyn, Benjamin Alford, Edward Thomas and Thomas Walker, of Boston. 1693, ship "NINETY," 90 tons; James Barnes, Jeremiah Allen, merchants, Bartholomew Green, William Dewsbury, Jeremy Dumer, Robeil Calep, John ]\Iarshal and Capt. Nathaniel Green, who was master, were the owners. 1694, ketch "GOOD- HOPE," 25 tons, Capt. John Peabody ; owner, John Coleman, Boston. 1694, ship "MARY," 80 tons; owners, Capt. Benjamin Thaxter, Benjamin Alford, Samuel Lego;, Thomas AValker and Edward Martin of Boston. 1694, slp^^'^BLACK- THORNE," 30 tons, of Gloucester; owner, Capt. John Harradine. 1697, ship " SARAH," 90 tons, a square sterned vessel ; owners, Robert Howard, merchant, John Hob1)y and Robert Crosby of Boston. 1698, brig't'n "SAV ALLOW," 20 tons, lately called " Blessinrf ; owners, Thomas Miers and Samuel Lillie of Boston. 1698, brig't'n "SPEEDWELL," 40 tons; owner, John Frizel of Boston. 1699, ship "PROVI- DENCE," 80 tons, Capt. Joseph Royal, Jr., John Coleman, Andrew Belcher and Samuel Legg of Boston, OAvners. 1699, ship VESSELS BUILT IN SCITUATE. 285 "PRUDENCE & DOROTHY," 60 ton.s, of Island of Barbadoes ; owners, Ca})t. John Frizell of Boston, John Phillips and John Trent of Barl)adoes. These were all built as is seen prior to 1700. Connnencing with the next century there was built in the year 1700 the brigt'n " DOROTHY," 30 tons, Capt. Thomas Clutty ; owners, John Frizell, John Plobby and Thomas Hutchinson of Boston. 1702, ship " LEOPOLD GALLY," or ^^ Leopold," a gallei/ s/n'p, 70 tons, Capt. John Pitts; owners, Stephen Vassal, of the Island of Jamaica, merchant, and William Clarke of Boston. 1703, sip. "ANNE," 35 tons; owners, Ebenezer, James and Daniel Coffin of Nantucket, and Andrew Belcher of Boston. 1704, sip. "LYON." 30 tons; owner, Andrew Belcher of Boston. 1704, brig "TRYALL," 60 tons ; owners, JohnColman of Boston, and Richard Eaton of London, merchants. 1705, ship "VICTORY," 90 tons; owners, Samuel Lilly, merchant, and Lewis Hunt, of Boston. 1705, ship "REBECCA," 90 tons, lately called the " F/ctor^." owners, Thomas Clark, David Jeffries, Francis Burroughs, Samuel Phillips, William Clark and Eliah Adams of Boston. 1706, brig't'n "UNITY," 65 tons; owners, Daniel Oliver, Joseph Wadsworth and Nathaniel Oliver, of Boston. 1706, sip. "MAYFLOWER," 25 tons; owners, Joseph and Isaac Ryal of the Island of Antigua. 1711, ship "FRIENDSHIP," 60 tons. Jon'a Belcher, merchant, and Andrew Belcher of Boston, owners. Hobart's Landing and the Briggs ship-yard was late the residence and farm of Nathan Rogers. It is now owned by his heirs. Adjoining this farm toward the sea is a high elevation of land called the "Bell House Neck" from the fact of there having been a bell hung there over two centuries ago, which was rung to warn the early settlers of the approach of hostile Indians. The Neck was not far from Little's Bridge, it was an ancient Indian burying place, and was later known as Cush- ing's Neck. Brookhall Field was on the the North side and Schewsan's Neck was on the Northeast. The first landholder excepting William Vassall, of record at Bell House Neck appears, to have been Samuel Fuller one of the " Mayflower " company. He owned twenty acres of ^and " on the East of Bell House Neck," and adjoining the farm of Mr. Vassall. In 1643 Peter Collamore succeeded to the Fuller land and erected a house. This farm was known as the Collamore Place for two centuries. In 1634-5 Elder Thomas ICing came into Scituate with Mr. W^il- 286 BELL HOUSE NECK. Ham Vassall and built a house a few rods south of Mr. Vassall's on the top of the hill at Bell House Neck. Resolved AA'hite, who came to Plymouth in the "Mayflower," in 1620, had by order of the Colony Court, in 1640, a grant of "100 acres of upland and marsh on 'Bell House Neck' adjoining Mr. Vassall's farm on the south-east." The same year he mar. Judith, eldest dau. of William Vassall and in 1646, Mr. Vassall gave him other lands adjoining his. Later Jeremiah Burroughs came into possession of the White farm and after him Lieut. Isaac Buck, a blacksmith, who in 1660 built a house near Scituate Harbor. William Vassall, also referred to in the chapter on " North River, Continued," received probably the first grant of land at Bell House Neck. Deane says, " He denominated his planta- tion 'West Newland,' his house, erected 1635, 'Belle House,' the whole neck of land, 'Belle House Neck,' and a beautiful field of planting land on the North side of the Neck, 'Brook hall field.'" The bell to warn the settlers of the approach of Indians was very likely at Mr. Vassall's house, and he with- out doubt first gave the above name to this neck. Captain John Vassall, son of William, succeeded to part of the plantation in 1634, and sold his part in 1661 to John Cushing. In 1743 John Cushing, 3rd, resided here. The latter year he built a house southeast of Walnut Tree Hill.* A large farm on the bank of North River adjoining the Briggs ship yard was owned by the noted Capt. George Little, master of the "Boston frio;ate." Captain Little also took the ship " Barsu " after a severe engagement about the year 1812. Capt. Little's son, Amos R. Little, went out with his cousin, Luther Little, of Marshfield, to shoot wild pigeons in 18 L5. Luther Little was partially deranged, and while on Belle House Neck he shot his cousin in a fit of insanity, and then himself. The sudden deaths of these two 3'oung men cast a gloom over Scituate and Marsh- field for some time. The Briggs family built ships at Hobart's Landing probably as early as 1750. James Briggs was the first of that name recorded as having built here. He was b. in 1719 and was a lineal descendant of Walter and a direct ancestor of the author. A genealogy of the Briggs family is inserted here ; the names of the direct line from the ancestor Walter are printed in small capitals, jpr^/?.raZ by Roman numerals, excepting the names of the shipbuilders, which are printed in italics. * See chapter, Miscellaneous Yards, Scituate. 5. s 5 2 WALTEE BKIGGS, " YEOMAN." 287 GENEALOGY. "\ 17" ALTER Briggs, the common ancestor of the shipbuilders * '^ in the Briggs family, was in Scituate as early as 1643. He purchased, in 1651, a farm of Timothy Hatherly, on the north side of Farm Neck, The Cove within the Glades was named, as early as 1650, after Walter Briggs, and still bears the name of Briggs Harbor. It is on the extreme northeast point of Scituate. The Indian name for this harbor was Mish- QUASHTUCK. Vcssels of small burthen were years ago built here and fishing and coasting craft used to winter in this cove. In the South Shore Herald, of April 8, 1884, there appears an account of the wreck of the sch. "Australia," Capt. Thompson, during a severe gale on the easterly banks of Briggs Harbor. The vessel made the harbor passing over White Head Bar safely, but her cable parted, and she was driven ashore. She was from Rockport, Me., bound to Boston with a cargo of 750 barrels of lime which caught fire soon after she struck. In the Plymouth Colony Records, Volume 8, under date of August, 1643, among " The names of all the males that are able to bear armes from 1 6 years old to 6o years within the sevrall Towneshipps " appears the name of "Walter Briggs, Scituate." In the same volume, and on page 183, appears the name of Walter Briggs of Scituate as having taken the "oath of Fidel- itie. " Januar. 15, 1644." On June 6, 1649, Waher Briggs was chosen one of the " Servayors of the Iliewayes " of Scitu- ate, and June 5, 1651, he was on the "Grand Enquest." In the census or list of Freemen, taken 1658, appears the name of "Walter Briggs Scitteatte." The Colony Treasurer's account states that he paid "June 13. 1660 To Walter Briggs for a woulfe 15 shilling." In 1665, June 7, Walter Briggs was appointed a constable of the town of Duxbury. He owned lands in the town of Swanzey in 1677-79, being one of the purchasers of Showamett. In the Suffolk County Records, Book 9, page 212, an instrument of writing, dated June 22, 1675, is recorded, whereby Samuel Winslow, of Boston, mer- chant, acknowledges having received from his father-in-law, Walter Briggs, " of Scitteate in the Collony of New Plimouth Yeoman," the sum of £200, which the said Walter Briggs had obliged himself to pay to said Winslow, when he should have purchased a house and ground of about that value, and secured the same by a proper deed to his wife, Hannah, (daughter of 288 WALTER BRIGGS. the said Walter) for her life, and at her death to be disposed of for the benefit of her children by the said Samuel Winslow :. And in the said instrument he further agrees that his wife Hannah shall stand and be seized on the terms and conditions, above set forth, of a certain piece of property described as follows : "All that his now dwelling house situate in said Bos- ton being butted and bounded Southwest by the street that leads from the Second Meetinghouse toward Century Haven, Northwesterly by the land of Esdras Read, Northeasterly l)y the land of Kichard Bennett and Southeasterly by the land of John Williams." On July 22, 1676, "the Court allowed Walter Briggs £5, 18s. 07d. in land for services in King Phillip's war." Walter Briggs held large landed estates in Scituate. Deane says "he was long a useful man in the plan- tation." By his will and the following deed, it will be seen he owned slaves. "Know all Men by these Presents that I, Margret Cock the wife of Edw. Cock of Boston in New England Marriner witnesseth that the said Margret Cock for and in consideration of the sum of fonrteen pounds tenn shillings payed by Walter Briggs of Scituate in New England aforesaid unto me the said Margret Cock the receipt whereof is acknowledged by these presents ; have for myselfe and husband, by vertue of a ietter of attorney and power thereby given to me by my saia husband ; given granted, bargained and sould unto the said Briggs all our right tytle intrest claime or demand that we the said Margret Cock or Edw. Cock have in or to a negro girle cilled by the name of Maria: And to the only pp. use and behoof of him the said Walter Brigg his heires, executors admrs. & assignes : During her natural 1 fe. And the said Margt. Cock on the behalf of her husband and by virtue of that power and authority granted unto her by her said husband and for him herself and their heires executors, admrs. & assignes doe covenant promise and grant to and with the sd Walter Briggs his heires, exectutors admrs and assignes that he the said Briggs his heires, exors admrs and assignes may and shall from this time and at all times during the naturall life of the said negro imploy, improve and in every respect comand and improve the said negro girl as his and their propar estate without the lest moliestaion hinderance contradicion or denyall of any pson or psons whatsoever claimeing or haveing or pretending to have any right title intrest claime or demand m or to the said ne^ro girle And that the said Cock for herselfe and husband doe covenant and promise to and with the said Walter Briggs his heires and assignes that they the said Margt Cock and Edw. Cock her hus- band at ye very time and'instante immediatt;ly before the sealsing, signeing, and di^^liv- ery of these presenrs weare tlie true and lawfull owners of the said negro girle And alsoe doe covenant and promise to defend the said Walter Briggs his heires and assignes against any pson or psons lawfully or unlawfully claimeing or pretending to have any right, tytle or intrest in the said negro girle. In witness whereof the said Margt. Cock on the behalfe of her husband ana herselfe in confirmation of this bill of saile have set to her hand and seale this six and twentyeth day of March one thousand six hundred seaventy "St three, signed sealed & this bill of saile and negro girle above written de- the marke of livered to the said Walter Briggs Margrett (N) Cock [seal] by the said Margt Cocke in the presence of us the marke of Richard (jt) Bennett Joshua Holdsworth." The name Cock is now usually spelled Cox. WILL OF WALTER BRIGGS. 289 BOND. Know all Men by these Presents that I Mar?ret Cocke on the behalfe of ray husband Ed\v. Cock as also for niyselfe our heirs, execturs admrs and assisnes have firmely bound ourse ves our heirs, execturs admrs & assignes unto Walter Briggs of Scituate in ^ew England his heires;^exectors admrs & assigns in the sum of twentv-nine ?wenl4t'h d""orCri67/"^' '^"°"''°' '''''' ''''''' ""' ^^"^ '^'^^ '''' '^^^ ^^^ -^ The condition of this obligation is such that if the above written Walter Brin-o-s ';hall enjoyea negro gu-Ie called Maria according to the true meaning of a deed of saTle beare- mg date with these presents then this bond is to be of noe force or otherwise to be in full power and vertue in law. Signed sealed and delivered in presence of us the marke of RichtdT^) Bennett Margrett (Mc) Cock [seal] Joshua Holdsworth Walter Briggs probably married twice, his first wife's name being Mary; his second, Frances. He died about 1684. The following is a copy of his will taken from the Plymouth Colony Eecords, Court Orders, Vol. 6. ptige i), Part 2. WILL OF WALTER BRIGGS. In ye Name of God Amen, ye 16th. day of January in ye year of our Lord God one thousand six hundred seventy six. I, Walter Briggs, in ye jurisdiction of New Ply- mouth, m New England, in America, yeoman, being aged, but of sound & perfect memory, praise be given unto God for ye same, and calling unto remembrance ye uncertam estate of this transitory life, & that all flesh must yield unto death when it shall please God to call, & being desirous to settle things in order do make constitute ordain and declare this my last will or Testament in manner and form following revoking & annulling by these presents, all & every Testament or Testaments, Will & Wills heretofore by me made rn, innnediately after which they were separated during a violent gale. The ''Washington," continuing her course through the Pacitic, made the Northwest coast in Aug., 1788, near the 4(?th degree of latitude where she was in danger of destruction, having grounded while attempting to enter an opening which was most probably the mouth of the river afterwards named by Gray, the "Columbia." She was also attacked there by the savages, who killed one of her men and wounded the mate, but she escaped without fuilher injury, and, on the 17tli of Sep- tember, reached Nootka Sound where the foreign vessels "Felice" and " Iphigenia " were lying. Meares, in his Jour- nal, writes, on Sept. 17, 1788: "A sail was seen in offing. A long-boat was innnediately sent to her assistance, which, instead of the British vessel we expected, conveyed into the sound a Sloop named the ' Washington,' from Boston in New England, of about 100 tons burthen. ^Ir. Gray, the master, informed us that he had sailed in company with his consort, the 'Columbia,* a ship of 300 tons, in the month of August. 1787, being equip})ed under the patronage of Congress to examine the coast of America and open up a fur trade between New England and here, and jn'ovide funds fi>r their China ships. That he expected the ' Columbia ' if she was safe every day to join her at Xootka." The "Columbia" did not enter the Sound until some days afterward : she had been seriously injured in the storm which separated lier from her consort and Kendrick was obliged in consequence, in ^lay, 1788, to put into the harbor of the Island of Juan Fernandez, where he was received with great kindness and aided in retitting his vessel by Don Bias Gonzales, the Commandant of the Spanish garri- son. Repairs having been completed, the "Columbia," continued her voyage and arrived, without further accident, at Nootka Sound, which had been selected as the place of rendezvous, in SHIP "COLUMBIA" ON THE N. AV. COAST. 301 October. After her departure from the Ishmd of Juan Fer- nandez the Connnandant connnunicated tlie circumstances of her putting in there and rctitting by a despatch to his imme- diate superior, the Captain General of Chili, who thereupon recalled Gonzales from the island, and placed him in arrest, addressing at the same time a report on the subject with a request for instructions to the Viceroy of Peru. The Viceroy, after consulting with his official and legal adviser, replied to the Captain General at length on the subject, and expressed his surprise and displeasure at the misconduct of the Connnandant of Juan Fernandez in allowing the strange ship to leave the harbor instead of seizing her and her crew, as he sliould have known that, by the Royal Ordinance of Novcml)er, 1692, every foreign vessel found in those seas without a license from the Court of Spain was to be tried as an enemy, even though belonging to a friend or ally of the King, because no other nation had, or ought to have, in those seas any territories making it necessary for its vessels to pass around Cape Horn or through jMagellan's Strait. In so serious a light did the Viceroy regard the matter that a shij) was sent from Callao to track or intercept the "Columbia." The authorities on the coast of Peru and Chili were specially enjoined to be vigilant and in case any foreign vessel should appear in the vicinity to seize her ; and the whole afiair was made known by a despatch to the Viceroy of Mexico, in order that similar precautions might be adopted on his part. The unfortunate Conmiandant Gon- zales was cashiered for his remissness, and he subsequently addressed a petition to the government of the United States for its intercession with his Sovereign. Thus were half of the Spanish dominions in America thrown into alarm and agitation by the appearance of a trading ship from the United States on the Pacific. The "Columbia" and "Washington" spent the winter in Nootka Sound Avhere the " Columbia " also lay durino- the following summer. On the 28th of April, 1789, the ves- sel "North West America" left Nootka Sound for a short trading trip along the coast. The " Washington " aliout the same time departed on a similar expedition. The "Iphiire- nia," lying at Friendly Cove, and the "Columbia," at ]Maw- hinna, were the only vessels in Nootka Sound, on the 6th of May, when the Spanish Commander Martinez arrived there in the corvette " Princesa " to take possession of the country for his sovereign. Martinez immediately communicated his inten- tions to the other vessels and examined their papers ; he .302 SHIP "COLUMBIA" AT NOOTKA SOUND. apparently met with no opposition, and there was good feeling between all, Martinez supplying them with articles they were in need of, and accepting bills drawn upon the owners of the vessels in payment. At the end of a week another Spanish vessel, the "San Carlos," arrived, and, on May 15th, the following day, Martinez invited Viana, the Captain, and Doug- las, the supercargo of the " Iphigenia " to come on l)()ard his ship, when he told them they were prisoners, and their vessel was to be seized. " I enquired," says Douglas in his Journal, "the cause of his not taking the 'Washington' sloop, as he had orders from the King of Spain to take every vessel he met on the coast. He gave me no satisfactory answer, luit told me my papers were bad ; that they mentioned I was to take all Eng- lish, Russian and Spanish vessels that were inferior force to mine, and send their crews to jNIacao, there to be tried for their lives as pirates." While they Avere removing the charts, papers and instruments to the ships of Avar, and preparations were being begun for sending her as a prize to San Bias, Martinez altered his intention and proposed to release the " Iphigenia " and her crew on conditions that her oiBcers would sign a declaration to the eft'cct that she had been kindly treated and not interrupted .during her stay at Nootka. This being refused, other arrange- ments were afterwards made, in consequence of which a declara- tion was signed by the officers of the " Iphigenia " and her crew were liberated on the 26th of jNIay. Gray, Captain of the "Washington," and Ingraham, mate of the " Columbia," were both at Nootka during the occurrences of these aflairs. The "Argonaut" was seized, also the sloop "Princess Royal" and the sch. "North West America," whose officers and crew with some of those of the "Argonaut" and "Princess Royal" were placed on board the "Columbia" to ])e carried as passengers to China, 100 sea-otter skins found in the "Princess Royal," being allowed in payment of their wages and transpor- tation. The " Columbia" had remained in the Sound ever since her first arrival there in Oct., 1788, while the "Washington" was engaged in trading along the coast north and south. The officers of these vessels were thus witnesses of nearly all the occurrences at Nootka during the summer of 1789. That Gray and Kendrick profited by the quarrels between the two parties is probable, but no evidence has been adduced that they on any occasion took unfair adA^antage of either, though it is also probable that their feelings ^^^ere rather in favor of the Spaniards, by whom they Avere treated with courtesy and kind- THE UNITED STATES FLAG WAS CARRIED AROUND 303 ness, Avhile the British were at that time olnjects of hatred and ridicule. Capt. Kendrick often acted as mediator between the Spanish and other ships at Nootka, and it was through his infiuence that an amicable settlement was reached between Martinez and the officers of the "Iphigenia." While trading, in June, 1789, Gray in the "Washington" explored the whole east coast of Queen Charlotte's Island which had never before l)een visited by the people of any civilized nation. He called it Wash- ington Island. In a subsequent excursion in Xootka Sound Gray entered an opening between the 48th and 49th parallels, which had been found by Berkeley in 1787, and was supposed to be the mouth of the strait of Juan de Fuca. Through this opening Gray sailed, as he informed Vancouver in 1792, fifty miles in an east-south-east direction and found the passage five leagues wide. Gray then returned to the Pacific, and on his way to Nootka Sound he met the " Columbia " which had just left the sound with officers and crew of the "North West America" on board as passengers for China. It was best agreed between the two Captains that Kendrick should take command of the sloop and remain on the coast while Gray in the "Columbia" should carry to Canton all the furs which had been collected by both vessels. This was accordingly done and Gray arrived at Macao, in Dec, 1789, with the "North West America's" passengers and officers who communicated the news of the capture of that vessel and the " Argonaut " and " Princess Royal " by the Spaniards. The owners immediately determined to apply to the British Government for redress. On her way to Canton the " Columbia " touched at the Hawaiian Islands for refreshment and provisions. On the 6tli of Decem- ber, Gray arrived at Canton where he sold his furs and in exchange took a cargo of tea, valued at $00,000, with which he entered Boston on the 9th or 10th of Aug., 1790, via Cape of Good Hope, having carried the flag of the United States for the first time around the world. On going into the Harbor of Boston the " Columbia " fired a Federal salute as she passed the Castle and another on coming to her moorings. It was doubt- ful if her destination was generally known when she went away, but the announcement of her achievements in "The Fed- eralist " had filled the community with enthusiasm and the wharves were crowded with people who gave her a hearty wel- come on her return. Kendrick immediately, on parting with the "Columbia," proceeded in the "Washington" to the Straits of Fuca through which he passed in its whole length. Thus it 304 THE "WORLD FOR FIRST TIME, BY SHIP "COLUMBIA." appears that the passage of the "Washington" through the strait, as reported by Meares, took place under Kendrick after Gray had quitted the command of that sh)op. Descriptions, given liy Kendrick, of what he had seen, correspond exactly with the geography of that part of the American coast. Under these circumstances and others, Kendrick is to be con- sidered as the first person belonging to a civilized nation who sailed through the Straits of Fuca after its discovery l)y the '' Greek Pilot," in 1592. The ship " Columbia " returned to' Bos- ton on the 10th of August, 1790, as has already been mentioned, but the cargo of Chinese articles brought l)y her was insuflS- cient to cover the expenses of her voyage, and her owners were so little satisfied with these results that some of them sold out their shares to the others, who, determining to persevere in the enterprise, refitted the "Columbia " for a new voyage of the same kind. Before her departure, however, the brig "Hope," of 70 tons, which had also been equipped for the North Pacific trade, sailed from Boston under the command of Joseph Ingra- ham, the former mate of the "Columlna," and these vessels were followed by the "Hancock." under Ca} t. Crowel ; the "Jeffer- son " under Capt. Eoberts, likewise from Boston, and the "Margaret," under Capt. Magce, from New York. Capt. Kendrick in the " AVashington," A\hich had been altered into a brig, arrived at jSIacao while the "Hope" was lying there in 1791. He had been engaged since 17(S9 in various speculations, one of. which was the collection and transportation to China of the odoriferous wood, called sandal, from the tropical islands of the Pacific, mainly the Hawaiian Islands, and which was and is in great demand throughout the Celestial Empire. Vancouver pronounced this scheme chimerical, but experience has proved that it was founded on just calculations and has been prosecuted with advantage ever since. Another of Kenclrick's specula- tions has not hitherto produced any fruit. He purchased, in the summer of 1791, from jNIaquinna, Wicanish and other chiefs several large tracts of land near Nootka Sound, for which he obtained deeds duly marked by those personages and wit- nessed by the officers and men of the "Washington." Attempts were made by the owners of that vessel to sell these lands at London in 1793, Init without success. Applications have since been addressed by the legal representatives of the owners and of Kendrick to the Government of the United States for a con- firmation of the title. The circular addressed by the owners for the sale of this land was written in four languages, and w^as as follow^s : DEATH OF CAPT. JOHN KENDRICK. 305 "The inhabitants of Europe are informed that in 17S7 Capt. J. Kendrick, while prosecuting an advantageous voyage to the natives for furs, purcliased of them for the owners a tract of dehghtful country comprehending 4 degrees of latitude or 240 miles square, and that such as may be inclined to associate for settling a Common- wealth on their own code of laws, on a spot of the globe nowhere surpassed in delightful and healthy climate and fertile soil, claimed by no civilized nation, and purchased under a sacred treaty of peace and commerce, and for a valuable consideration of the friendly natives may have the best opportunity of trying the result of such an enterprise." The liind.s were thus sold by the savage chiefs, and there is no reason to doubt but they would as readily have conveyed the whole of America to any one for the consideration of a copper kettle. Greenhow writes "the validity of the acquisi- tion will scarcely be recognized by the civilized nation which may hereafter hold the sovereignty of the country about Nootka Sound." Neither Kendrick nor his vessel ever returned to America. As has been previously stated, after purchasing the lands, he sailed for the Sandwicli Islands and there engaged in a jaew l)raiich of commerce of which he was the originator, collecting and transporting to China, sandal wood, but he did not live long enough to profit by it. He was killed in 1793 at Karakakooa Bay, in Hawaii, by a ball accidentally fired from a British vessel while saluting him. Another account says Capt. Kendrick was killed while exchanging salutes with a Spanish vessel at the Sandwich Islands ; the wad from one of the Spaniard's guns struck him as he stood on the deck of his vessel in his dress coat and cocked hat, as the commander of the expedition, and was instantly fatal. Delano in his voyage gives probably the only correct account of Captain Kendrick's death, and which account is verified by official reports, viz. : "Captain John Kendrick, of Boston, the first American com- mander that ever visited the northwest coast of America, and who opened the channel of commerce to this country, also died at this place. [Hawaiian Islands.] His death was occasioned by a salute that was fired by an English commander in honour of him. One of the guns through accident, was loaded with round and grape shot, which killed Capt. Kendrick and two boys, while on his quar- ter deck." Capt. Amasa Delano says " I think it no more than jus- tice to say something to the memory of this American captain ; any- thing written on this able commander would be but superfluous, as he is generally known, and so justly celebrated by all the world for his extraordinary merit. I was intimately acquainted with him 306 SECOND VOYAGE OF THE "COLUMBIA"' TO N. W. COAST. in Canton Bay, in the year I'J^i, and I also knew his character afterwards as long as he lived. He was a man of extraordinary good natural abilities, and was noted for his enterprising spirit, his good judgment, and superior courage. As a seaman and navigator, he had but few equals. He was very benevolent, and possessed a heart filled with as tender feelings as any man that I ever was acquainted with. He was esteemed and beloved by all who knew him in his last absence from the United States. I wish to impress it strongly on the minds of every American, not to let his rare merits be forgotten, and to cast a veil over his faults, they being but few compared with his amiable qualities." The " Columbia,'" under Captain Gray, left Boston on the 28th Sept., 1790, ten days after the departure of the " Hope," and, without the occurrence of anything worthy of note on her way, she arrived at Clyoquot, near the entrance of the Strait of Fuca, on the 5th of June, 1791. She then proceeded to the eastern side of Queen Chark)tte's Island and remained in that vicinity trading and exploring until September. He examined many inlets and passages between the .54th and 5Gth parallels one of which, prol)al)ly the one called by Vancouver, Portland Canal, he penetrated to the distance of 100 miles northeastward without reaching its termination. This inlet he supposed to be the Rio de Reyes of Admiral Fonte, and part of it was named by Gray, Massacre Cove, in commemoration of the murder of Caswell, the second mate, and two seamen of the " Columbia " by the natives on the shore on the 22nd of August. Gray soon after returned to Clyoquot where the crew of the " Columbiti " passed the winter in a fortified habitation which they erected on the shores of the Bay and called Fort Defiance. They employed themselves building a small vessel, and named it the " Adventure," Avhich, in the spring of 1792, sailed for Queen Charlotte's Island, under command of Ilaswell, the first mate of the " Columbia" while Gray went on a cruise southward along the coast. Another account says, at Fort Defiance Gray and his crew built and launched the schooner " Enterprise," the first vessel constructed by Americans on the northwest side of the Continent of the United States. Whilst preparing for sea they were visited by two of the principal chiefs of the surrounding country with a number of followers, between whom and a Sandwich Islander on board the " Colum- bia " it became evident there was some understanding. Gray questioned the Sandwich Islander who at length confessed that the Indians had formed a plan for seizing their vessels and mur- dering their crew, promising to spare his life and make him a Mouth of the Columbia River. From an original drawing. The Columbia Point, below the Dalles. EXPLOllATIONS BY THE "COLUMBIA" ON N. \V. COAST. 307 chief if he would :iiil tliem by wetting the priming of all the gun.s at a particular tune. Thus forewarned the Americans were on their guard, and the savages who surrounded the vessel on the following day were kept at a distance. Vancouver, in his Journal, speaks of sighting the "Columbia," on the 29th of Apr., 1792, as follows : "At four o'clock a sail was discovered to the Avestward, standing in shore. This was a great novelty, not having seen any vessel but our consort during the last eight months. She soon hoisted American colors, and tired a gun to leeward. At six we spoke to her ^ she proved to be the ship 'Columbia,' commanded by Captam Kobert Gray, belonoing to Boston, whence she had l)een absent nineteen months." After parting with the English ships, Gray sailed along the coast of the continent to the south, and on the 7th of May, 1792, he saw an entrance which had a very good appearance of a harbor in latitude 46 deg., 5>^-^>^^ Wanton Yard as early as 1810. ^^ ^ ^r After he mar. he resided in the house he probably built and which was the next house south of the late Judge Cushing i)lace on the same side of the road. Henry and C. O. Briggs were noted shipbuilders, enjoying to a high degree the confidence of Boston merchants. Messrs. T. B. Wales & Co. were among those who employed them as long as they continued building. Cushing survived his brother Henry, who died in 1837. " The Messrs. E. &. H. O. Briggs, who built at So. Boston, and who turned out so many fine specimens of naval architecture, were the sons of C. O. Briggs. The honorable reputation of the father fell to the sons and they enjoyed the esteem of the Boston merchants. Cushing Otis * See Chapter on Brick-kiln Yard. ■ The School-koom." Interior of the Old Briggs Homestead, Scitctate. Built A.D. 1712. GUSHING O. & HENRY BKIGGS' YAKD. 313 and Henry Briggs built together for many years and then sepa- rately on adjoining yards at Hobart's Landing. Gushing O. occupied the old or upper yard, and He ry the one further down the river. Israel H. Sherman, now .56 years old, served his time on the C. O. & H. Briggs' yard as planker. He remembers a story about one of the carpenters, named Ruggles. It is said once when he went to New Bedford, he stopped over night at a certain house ; he was a very tall man and the room which was assigned to him was small and the bed short with its foot next the window. In the night he thrust his feet out of the open window and in the morning awoke to find a number of turkeys roosting on his lower limbs, calling out, "Ruggles, Ruggles." The first vessel the Briggs Brothers built together was in 1817, the sch. "CATHARINE," 61 tons, for Capt. Moses Rich, of Scituate, for whose wife she was named. John Bates was the first mate. The rigging was fitted in the yard in front of the late Dr. Stockbridge's dwelling, since occupied by Rev. Pelham Williams, that part which is now a grove near "the wide spreading pond " made famous by Samuel Woodworth in his poem, " The Old Oaken Bucket." When she was launched, Tom Briggs, brother of Cushing and Henry sat on the cap of the bowsprit and christened her by breaking a bottle of wine over her bow. The "Catharine" had one deck, two masts, length 62 feet, breadth 17 feet. John Bates, Samuel Jacobs, Jr., Anthony Chubbuck, Nath. Cushing and Cushing O. Briggs of Scituate, were interested in her. The following are some of the men who w^orked on the Briggs Yard at different periods ; Amos F. Damon, now living at Little's Bridge, who has directed the author to many channels of information ; Nath. and Samuel Damon, Abijah Holland, David, Charles and Otis Briggs, Capt. Thomas Rogers, Thomas Holmes, Harvey Hall, Chandler Clapp, Allen Randall, Joseph Eames, William Turner, Barker and Samuel Turner, Abijah Rogers, William Studley, Sanmel O. Ruggles, Josiah Stoddard, Nathan Rogers, Theodore Turner, Elisha Delano, Luther Magoun, Benjamin Nichols. George Curtis furnished anchors. Ira Barker and Consider Merritt did iron work. Abel Kingman and Briags Magoun, Nath. AVhiting, Joshua Curtis and George Leonard furnished timber. Amiel Curtis furnished elm timber at $5.00 per ton, white oak at $6.00 per ton; Samuel ^Mitchell, jNIichael Ford, Capt. Nath. Cushing, Shadrach, Barnabas, Sylvester and Wil- liam Briggs, Alb^ert Tilden, John Foster and John James also 314 VESSELS BUILT BY C. O. & H. BRIGGS. worked on tlie yard. AVaires paid at that time were from 75 cents to $1.25 per day. Wales Tilden also worked on the Briggs yard and Foster's yard. Uncle Charles Briggs used to tell a story a1)oiit Colonel Curtis, who went to Maine in the days of lumber speculation as agent for a company of men. He boarded with a widow 1)y the name of Wass. The neigh- bors at his home used to tease his wife telling her, until she was nearly insane, that her husband, the Colonel, Avas going to marry the widow Wass. Cushing 0. ^n(/(7s Avas master carpenter, in 1818, of the sch. "MARY ANN," 76 tons of Boston; her length Avas m feet, breadth 18 feet, depth 7 feet. She was owned by Thomas B. Wales and Nathaniel H. Emmons of Boston, C. O. Briggs of Scituate, William Weeks of Tisbury, and Edmund Bridge of Wilminirton, North Carolina. Henry Briggs was master car- penter in 1820 of the brig " WAVE," 124 tons, of Boston, single deck, two masts, length 75 feet, breadth 20 feet, depth 9 feet. She had a billet figure-head and was owned by Thomas B. Wales and Nathaniel H. Emmons, Boston, Henry Briggs, Scituate, and Freeman Norton, Tisbury. The "Wave " Avas at Bilboa in February, 1825, and her expenses while lying there were $400. In 1826 she made a Aoyage from Amsterdam Avith 50 casks and 1060 jugs of oil, and 75r)0 lumps of clay, 10 packages of duck, 20 pipes of gin, and other merchandise. In 1827 she made a voyage to Eochelle and back Avith cargoes of rough pipes, barrels, hogsheads, ashes, brandy, etc. In 1828 Boston to Rochelle, New York, and ]\Iobile to Rochelle,and in 1831 from Trinidad with sugar, then to Bremen Avith sugar, wood, indigo, raisins, lumber and ho|)s. She Avas either sold or lost soon after this. The lirig " A\'ave " Avas a A'ery success- ful craft and made for her owners $15000 on one A'oyage to France. Mr. Wales was a very decided man, and wanted things his own Avay. When the " Wave " was building, he requested the builders to have the treenails " Avell drove." When she Avas nearly built he came down from Boston to look at her. Treenails or "trunnells," as they Avere often called, have little punches driven into their centres after they are in place to spread and hold them. Taking a handful of those punches, Mr. Wales Avent to Henry Briggs and said, " Didn't I request you to have the treenails well drove ? " Mr. Briggs ansAvered, "Yes, sir, and they are." "Well," said ■Nlr. Wales, "and here you are clriAdno^ in these d d little plugs." VESSELS BUILT BY C. O. & H. BRIGGS. 315 It showed how much he knew about treenails ; but he did know a good vessel when he saw one. Henry Briggs was master carpenter in 1820 of the briir "OAK," loOlons, of Boston; her length was 79 feet, breadth 20 feet, depth 10 feet ; owners, Thomas B. Wales and Nathan- iel H. Emmons, Boston, Henry Briggs, Scituate. The follow- ing are some of the voyages made by the " Oak" while she was owned by T. B. Wales & Co : 1826, from 8t. Petersburg with hemp and sundiy merchandise. 1828, Philadelphia to Rochelle with staves, hides, bark, etc. ; also voyage to Amsterdam, with 9 hogsheads, 44 tierces of sugar, also oil, etc. 1832, New Bedford to Haml)urg with oil. 1833, New Bedford to Bremen with oil. 1834, Qiarleston to Antwerp and to Amsterdam. 1835, St. lago to Trieste with sugar, coflee, etc. In 1836, she made three voyages, Charleston to Amsterdam with cotton and rice, Richmond to Amsterdam, and from Amsterdam with gin, oil, madder, beans, wine, seed, barketts, tenzel, nutmegs, sappan wood, etc. 1837, Richmond to Rochelle, and Charles- ton to Havre. 1838, to Rochelle, from Rochelle with brandy, vinegar and ochre, Charleston to Amsterdam, and from Rochelle again. 1839, to Havana with gin; cargo from Havana to Co we, etc. ; Charleston to Havre, and from Savannah to Liver- pool. She sailed from Liverpool, Apr. 24, arriving in Boston May 25th. 1840, Matanza.s for Cowe and a market ; Boston to Rochelle. 1841, from Matanzas to Rotterdam. 1842, from Rio de Janeiro to Charleston ; from Charleston to Amsterdam. 1843, from New Orleans to Hamburg; from Matanzas to Trieste; and New Orleans to Boston with pork, ham, lard, cotton, etc. Henry Briggs built vessels that curved from bow to stern, being very low at the centre with bow and stern high,* and as the style changed he asked Mr. Wales if he would not have the bow and stern dropped a little to make a .straio-hter vessel. Mr. Wales replied, "If you drop the bow and stern, you drop me ;" but afterward, in building the " Oak," he had her bow and stern dropped. Henry Briggs was master carpenter, in 1822, of the brio- "LAPWING," 176 tons, of Boston; length 84 feet, breadth 22 feet, depth 10 feet. She was owned by Henry Hovey, Francis Fisher, Francis Stanton, Ezra Hyde, Boston, Jesse * It was the custom until 1815 and later to build vessels with crooked gunwales and rn hiVh. Stem high. 316 VESSELS BUILT BY C. O. & 11. BRIGGS. Dunbar, Jr., Scituate, Orrice King of Brewster, Gustavus Locke and James Sizor, Richmond, Va. This vessel Avas sold at Canton, China in 1S2(). C. O. & H. Briggs built, in 1823, the brig "OCEAN," 173 tons of Boston: owners were Nathan- iel H. Emmons and Thomas B, "Wales, of Boston, Cushing O. and Henry Briggs, Scituate. In 1826 the brig " Ocean " made a voyage to Rochelle, returning with lirandy, wine and mer- chandise ; and in 1^^y,_o VESSELS BUILT BY C. O. & H. BKIGGS. 317 carpenter in 1825 of the sch. ""ADAMS," 111 tons, owned by- Nathaniel H. Emmons and Thomas B. Wales, Boston. Capt. Henry Vinal, of Scituate, says that about 1825, C. O. Brings built the sch. "ONTARIO," for him. The Brio-crs brothers built, in 1826, the brig "OREGON," 200 ton.s^^of Boston, length 89 feet, breadth 22 feet, depth 11 feet. Her owners were Henry Hovey of Boston, Jesse Dunbar, Sr. and Jr., of Scituate. The next year they built another vessel for T. B. Wales & Co. 1827, the brig " BOSTON," 242 tons, of Boston. She was a two decker, with two masts and a billet head, 95 feet long by 22 feet, by 11 feet, and owned by Nathaniel H. Emmons and Thomas B. Wales of Boston. There was a " Boston " built at the Wanton Yard, which has been incorrectly stated as being this vessel. The "Boston" made many voyages similar to the "Billow," the "Wave," etc. In company with Gushing O., Henry Briags was master carpenter, in 1828, of the brig "IVANHOE," 192 tons, of Boston ; owned by Joshua Blake, Francis Stanton and George Hallett of Boston. For a time in Briggs's Yard they missed large amounts of the chips, which were excellent for kindlings. One night they employed an old captain to watch the yard as they mistrusted a man who lived down the river. After waiting for several hours the suspected man came rowing up the river and soon began to load his boat with chips. The captain who was on the watch called out, "I am here." The man replied, " So am I," but it frightened him so, that he did not come again. Gushing O. & Henry Briggs built of oak, in 1829, the brig "GRONSTADT," copper and iron fastened, 273 torn register : length 100 feet, breadth 24 feet, depth 12 feet, with two decks and two masts and full model. Her owners were Nathaniel H. Emmons, Thomas B. Wales, Samuel Quincy and Moses Wheeler of Boston. There is a water-color painting of the brig "Gronstadt," hanging in the office of Thomas B. Wales & Co., 40 Water street, Boston, representing her ashore on Falsterbo Reef, off Sweden, Aug. 12, 1840, then under the command of Capt, Hatch, from which painting the following cut is engraved. 318 BKIG CKONSTADT. The " Cronstadt " avus engaged chiefly in the Eussian trade. The following are some of the voyages made by her while she was owned by Thomas B. Wales & Son. In 1831 , she made a voyage to Matanzas and Russia with a cargo of coftee and sugar. In 1832 she made three voyages : New Orleans to Boston with cotton ; Matanzas to St. Petersl)urg with 186(3 l)oxes of white sugar, 15 tons of logwood, 419 hogsheads of tobacco, 109 boxes of sugar; and from Alexandria to Amsterdam. 1834, two voyages : Cuba to St. Petersburg, with sugar ; Charleston to Marseilles with cotton. 1835, Matanzas to St. Petersburg. 1836, Charleston to Rotterdam and Matanzas to St. Petersl^urg. 1837, three voyages : two from Rio de Janeiro to Hamburg, one with $10,000 worth of coffee ; the other voyage, cofl'ee valued at £1962, 13s, and from Charleston to Amsterdam. 1836, Matanzas to St. Petersburg. 1839, Mobile to Amster- dam, and Charleston to Amsterdam. 1840, Matanzas to St. Petersburg, and from then until 1845 she made seven voyages between the ports of Matanzas, St. Petersburg, Antwerp and Charleston wdth sugar, rice, and cotton. In 1845, she also made a voyage from Matanzas to London. 1846, from New Orleans to Liverpool with cotton, wheat and staves ; and from New York to Glasgow with flour and oil. 1847, she made a voyage from Havana to St. Petersburg with oil. Of course she always made her home port, Boston, at the end of nearly all of the above voyages. In 1861-63 she was owned by C. H. s^ td 3- O 3 H CO P o w f:' fir VESSELS BUILT BY C. O. & H. BKIGOS. 319 Hogers at Gloucester, and was uiidei Captains Higgin.s and Herrick respectively. She was soon afterward sold to persons in South America, and in 1865, was owned by Capt. Lewin at Montevideo. In 1829, the sch. "BILLOW," 83 tons, of Scituate, 65 feet long, 18 feet broad, and 8 feet deep, was built by C. O. and H. Briggs, and owned by Jesse Dunbar, Sr. and Jr., Lemuel Webb, her captain, James S. and Shadrach Briggs. The " Billow " was built square stern and had a billet figure head. C. O. & H. Briggs still owned in the "Billow" in" 1836. In 1837, William 1\ Briggs bought into her, and al^out 1838, Charles C. Briggs took his father's interest. In 1844, the Briggses still had an interest in her. She was always used coast- ing in the winter and mackerel fishing in the summer. The "Billow" was built mainly for Capt. Lemuel Webb, who went master of her for many years and afterwards took a larger vessel. The last voyage made by the "Billow" was under Capt. Eaton Vinal, to the West Indies. While there the crew contracted fever, of which Capt. Vmal died on shore, and his mate j\Ir. Jacobs died the second day out. She was then in charge of two men, one of whom Abijah Otis, of East Stough- ton, is now living. They drifted about for some days, when they were obliged to leave her, and took to their boats and Avent ashore on one of the islands. The American Consul put them in prison for several months, thinking that they were pirates or had mutinied on board, and they were not released until they could get word from Boston, to prove their state- ments were true. The vessel drifted ashore and was broken up by wreckers. About 1830, or a little later, Cushing O. and Henry Briggs dissolved partnership and built on yai'ds adjoining, as previously stated. The following is a copy of an old letter : Scituate, Nov. 8th, 1S30. Messrs. Benjamin Rich & Son, Gents : We have got our brig down the river and have been waiting five days for a wind to go out. The season is so far advanced we think it more prudent to get her insured if we could get it done for $20.00. If you could get five thousand insured on the vessel for sixteen or twenty dollars, we should like to have it done. If not, we would like to know the 320 VESSELS BUILT BY C. O. & H. BRIGGS. lowest it could be clone for. You may send us an answer by the bearer of tliis. The vessel has two masts, three sads, chain, cable and anchor. Yours, etc., This letter probably referred to the brig; of which Gushing O. Briggs was master carpenter in 1830, the brig "HAMIL- TON," 1<)4 tons, Elislia Cushman, master; owned by John M. Pearson, lienjamin Humphrey and Robert G. Shaw, Bos- ton. Henry Briijgs was master carpenter in 1831 of the bark "AVON," 299 tons of Boston. Her length was 108 feet, breadth 24 feet, depth 12 feet; owned by Nathaniel H. Emmons, Tliomas B. Wales, Sr. and Jr., Samuel (^uincy and Moses Wheeler of Boston. John Foster in a letter, descrip- tive of an exciting meeting of the Franklm Association, dated at South Scituate January 15, 1831, and addressed to "Hon. Cushing Otis, jNI.D., Boston," adds the following postscrij)t : "One thing I have omitted which is of more consequence than anything 1 have stated. ]Mr. (Wishing O. Briggs met with a painful accident a few days since in the yard ; falling on a plank he struck a large nail in his knee, or rather just below it, and he has not been able to move it since. I think. Dr., he needs your advice and help. Dr. James attends him ; he is well otherwise but 1 understand it pains him very nuich. Yr. J, F., Jr." Mr. Briggs was contined some time, but later was able to resume work at the yard. Barnabas W. Briggs,* who has given me nnich information, writes, "Nov. 28, 1831, is the first date I have in an old account book for work for Cushing* O. and Henry Brigijs, although I worked for them before. I also find dates of Sept. 13, "1832, Dec. 28th, 1835, at which time I was workins: for them." Henry Briggs was master car- penter, in 1833, of the l)rig "OAK," 208 tons of Boston; owned by Nathaniel H. Ennnons, Thomas B. Wales, Sr. and Jr., Samuel Quincy and Ebenezer Sears of Boston. In 1834 the sch. " COLUMBIA," 75 tons of Scituate, length 65 feet, breadth 18 feet, depth 7 feet, was built by Gushing O. Briggs, and owned by John Beal, Peleg Jenkins, William Vinal, Henry * See Scituate Harbor Yards. GUSHING O. BRIGGS & SONS. 321 Yinal, Albert Clapp, Henry Bowers and Cashing O. Bviggs. In 1836 the Briggses still owned in her and she was under Capt. Peleg H. Collier coasting and mackerel fishing. Cushing O. Briggs was master carpenter in 1835 of the brig " COLUM- BIA," 131 tons of Boston ; owned by Ephraim Loml)ard and Amme C. Lombard of Boston and William and William H. Fowle of Alexandria, Ya. Henry Briggs was master carpen- ter, in 1836, of the bark "VERONA," ^J<9 tons, of Boston. She had two decks and three masts. Her length was 102 feet, breadth 22 feet, depth 11 feet, and owned by Nathaniel H. Emmons, Thomas B. Wales, Sr. and Jr., Joseph Perkins and Samuel Quincy of Boston. This was a very good sized vessel for this vard. At one of the launchings on the Briggs Yard jNlichael Ford, Jr. says that he remembers the vessel going off all right on only one bilgeway. She went as straight as with two. Of course it was by accident. Cushing O. Briggs was master carpenter, in 1836, of the brig "ANGEL," 157 tons, of Boston ; owners Jeremiah B. Thompson, Charles B. Fessenden and Benjamin Hard Skinner of Boston. This proved to be a very unsuccessful vessel for her builder, Cush- ing O. Briggs, who, paying his men, delivered her to Thomp- son & Fessenden who failed before they paid him for her. The loss fell heavily on Mr. Briggs, who soon after turned his ship- buildino; business over to his two eldest sons, Charles C. and William T. Briggs, keeping but a small interest in the firm himself. The last vessel built on the Henry Briggs yard was the brig " STAR," which was begun by him, but he died while she was building. Elijah Barstow, his son-in-law, was at his death bed and almost the last thing Mr. Briggs said was, "Elijah, you must help George finish that vessel." George Briaiis was Henry's son, and, although Mr. Barstow was build- ing a vessel at the same time in Hanover, he went to the Henry Briggs Yard nearly every day and assisted George. The ves- sel was launched in the spring of 1838. William T. Briggs was master carpenter in 1838 of the bark "EMMA ISADORA," 213 tons of Boston, Edward Fletcher, master, and owned by Henry W. Fletcher, of Bos- ton. In 1848 she was owned by Joseph Swift of Gloucester, and in 1849 by Sanford Henry of Chelsea. This vessel was engaged originally in the Smyrna trade, and was noted for her fine sailing qualities and for the number of missionaries and the quantity of New England rum she carried to Smyrna. 322 GUSHING O. BRIGGS & SONS. /i /y^ /^7^ • ^^^ William T. /^ y —r^ iC'y /J _y Briijo^s were master f(y of the brig " SENA- TOR," 193 tons of Boston, Bangs Pepper, jNIaster. She was owned by him and Elkanah Bangs of Boston, Jeremiah Mayo, Theodore Berry, Joseph Sampson and Joseph Crocker of Brewster and Charles C. and AVllliam T. Briggs of Scituate. Her builders sold her March 20, 1840, for $830o'. Some of the men who worked on her were Otis Briggs, Moses Rogers, James N. Sparell, Beia Lewis, Paul Litchtield, Harvey Litch- field, Ebed Hersey, Benjamin R. Jacobs, Samuel Hatch, Joseph Northe}', Waterman Bailey and many others. G. and S. Manly and Eliphalet Kingman furnished timber at $12 per M. Thomas Simmons and Experience Curtis also furnished timber. The " Senator " was finally sold at Rio de Janeiro, South America. Charles. C. and WiUiam T. Briqqs l)uilt, in 1840, the brig " MICHIGAN," 130 tons of ScituatV. She was engaged in the foreign trade and owned by Perry P. Coleman, ElTjah Jenkins, Jr., Seth Webb, Francis Thomas, Charles C. and William T. Briggs of Scituate. Alexander Anderson worked painting on the Briggs yard in 1840. Cushing 0. Briggs & Sons built, in 1841, the bark "SUSAN JANE," 274 tons, one deck and three masts ; owned by Edward Fletcher, her master, and Henry W. Fletcher, Boston. This was the last vessel built on this yard. The " Susan Jane " was used in the Mediterranean trade. Capt. Edwin Fletcher was in command of her on a voyage from Boston to the Medi- terranean, during which voyage she experienced a severe storm, and while running before the gale one mornmg a heavy sea washed the man at the wheel overlioard, but he was got on board aoain. In the evening of the same day in the second "doo- watch," while Capt. Fletclier and the mate were on the quarter deck they, together with the man at the Avheel were w^ashed overboard and lost. This was about 1843. Being without any one competent to navigate her, she was put into Gibraltar. In 1848 she was in Malta dismasted, and a])out 1859 she was off Sebastopol, one of the wrecking expedition raising guns, etc., from the Russian men of war which had been sunk before that city by the Russians to prevent them from fiilling into the hands of the enemy. John H. B. Lang, of Boston, who owned the " Susan Jane," at one time, says she was a " saucy ^t^fiyr -A^ "t^ J GUSHING O. BRIGGS & SONS. 323 little craft and ^vould sail like the wind." He sold her to the Fayal trade. After she returned from Sebastopol she sailed between New Bedford and Fayal. She was built of oak, was copper and iron fastened, had a deck ca])in, was 90 feet long, 24 feet In-oad, and drew 11 feet. In 1863 she was owned by W. H. Topham and others, New Bedford. The same year she was rebuilt and yeUow metalled. In 1865 she was owned by John Ferris of St. John, N. B., and under Capt. Huzford. In 1874 she was still owned in St. John, N. B., and sailing under the British flag, Capt. Hucksford, master. Of the sons of Gushing Otis Briggs, Charles C, who died April 11, 1843, of consumption, was a noble young man of great promise and exemplary character, bearing his long illness with courage and resignation. When but eleven years of age he received the following recognition from his teacher : REWARD. This certifies that Master Charles Briggs has committed to mem- ory Cumming's Modern and Ancient Geography once, and given correct answers to 665 questions, relating to places &c. on the maps. Woodbridge's Geography nearly once. 40 columns of Dictionary. 34 verses in the New Testament. 36 pages of definitions. Multi- plication Table, and 10 pieces on diflerent subjects. By obedience and good behaviour he has secured the esteem of his Instructress. {Signed) T.F.FOSTER, 1S24. William T., as stated elsewhere, together with his brother Charles, succeeded their father at the yard. William's common school education was supplemented by brief academic courses at Hanover and Weymouth. Through the kindness of an honored uncle he,was led to leave the ship-yard in 1841-2, and enter Oneida Institute, at Whitesboro', N. Y., from which college he graduated in 1845. He then entered Andover Seminary, and while there received a call to the Congrega- tional Church at North Andover where he was ordained and settled in 1846. Later he accepted a call to Princeton where he was installed in 1855, resignino- in 1863 to take charge of the Educational Department at Newbern, in the military dis- trict of North Carolina, which position he held until the close of the war. He Av^as installed in the Congregational Church in East Douglas, in 1866, resigning in 1887 after a pastorate of uninterru})ted harmony of twenty-one years. By vote of the said church, he is still "Pastor Emeritus." His services are 324 GUSHING O. BRIGGS' SONS. sought by several societies, but so far he has held to his reso- lution to spend his declining years in rest and quiet, free from labor, enjoying the competence it has been his fortune to accumulate. James Edwin and Harrison O. learned the art of shipbuild- ing at their father's yard on North Kiver, and when Edwin (as he was usually called) had attained his majority, the Ixilance of Harrison's time was given him by his father, and together they went to Boston and engaged as journej men shipbuilders. Subsequently they built in company with Capt. Noah Brooks at his yard at the foot of F. street. In 1847 this partnership was dissolved and E. & H. O. Briggs removed to South Bos- ton Point, near the rolling mills, where they built in company until after the war, employing mostly men from their native town whose skill in building vessels on the banks of the North River was recognized by the Messrs. Briggs, who built some of the fastest and most famous clipper ships that have ever been launched in the United States. The following are some of the ships built by them : the "Newton," 450 tons burthen ; "Reli- ance," 450 tons ; " Oxenbridge," 580 tons ; "Mary Glover," 650 tons; "Berkshire," 650 tons; "Southern Cross," 1,000 tons; "Northern Light," 1,050 tons, which was built for Capt. James Huckins. She made the quickest passage ever made between Boston and San Francisco around Cape Horn. (See report Secretary of Board of Trade for 1882.) Frank H., son of H. O. Briggs, owns a fine painting of the "Northern Lioht." E. & H. O. Brigss also built the " Cape Cod," 850 tons ;'" Winded Arrow," 1,150 tons; "Meteor," 1,150 tons; "Golden Light," 1,150 tons, which was struck by lightning when only a few days out on her first voyage, and burned to the water's edge ; the "John Land," 1,150 tons : "Bonita," 1,150 tons ; "Cyclone," 1,150 tons ; "Boston Liffht," 1,180 tons ; "Starlight," 1,180 tons ; "Grace Dar- ling," 1,240 tons ; " Saracen," l,3d0 tons; " Cossack," 600 tons ; "Vitula," 1,185 tons; "Mamaluke" 1,300 tons; "Fair Wind," 1,300 tons; "Alarm," 1,200 tons; "Joseph Peabody," 1,200 tons ; "Asa Eldridge," 1,300 tons ; "Dreadnaught," "Colorado," and many others. About 1865 the Briggs Bros, dissolved partnership and went out of business, each having secured a competence. J. Edwin Briggs never engaged in active busi- ness again. Harrison O. Briggs was elected a member of the Board of Aldermen in 1860, and was chairman of the commit- tee that received and entertained the Prince of Wales on behalf of the City of Boston. Soon after he gave up ship^ GUSHING O. BEIGGS' SONS. 325 Tjuilding he was appointed manager of the Bristol line of steamers, which position he held until in connection with his brother, Lloyd Briggs, he opened a bankers' and In'okers' office at 60 State street, Boston. At the time of his death he was president of the National Bank of the Republic, of Boston. Lloyd Briggs worked on the shipyard until 1846, when he went to Boston, and in 1847 entered the machine shop of Jabez Coney, who gave employment to about two hundred men, twenty being apprentices, and served his time as machinist. He was on the Portsmouth Navy Yard about a year and a half, and assisted in "setting up" the engines in the U. S. S. " Sara- nac." This vessel was afterward lost off California. He also assisted in "setting up" the engines for the floating dry dock at that yard. He was afterward on the Charlestown Navy Yard eno;ao;ed in the same kind of work. In 1853 he left the machine shop and went into the Broadway National Bank, then located on Broadway, South Boston, and in 1858 into the National Bank of the Republic, where he was teller during the War of the Rebellion, and during which time the work was so heavy that, in 1868, on account of his failing health, he removed to Hanson, giving up all business for three years. In 1870 he built his present residence in Hanover Four Corners, Mass. In 1872-3 he entered into the stock-brokerage Imsiness with his brother Harrison O., also doing the notary work for several banks. He is now notary for twenty-three banks, three Trust Companies and numerous bankers, his son L. Vernon, being associated with him. CHAPTER XVIII. SCITUATE MISCELLANEOUS YARDS AND BUILDERS I 694-1 868. ASA ROGERS, ELISHA MERRITT, SAMUEL TURNER, JR., WILLIAM BROOKS, SAMUEL ROGERS, LEONARD LITCHFIELD, FOSTER LITCHFIELD, CUMMINGS LITCHFIELD. QCITUATE is indebted to the substantial character of *^ some of her first founders, many of whom came from Kent, for so soon taking the lead in rates and levies of men, which superiority it maintained until the time of the latest annals of the colony. Samuel Deane so ably wrote the history and genealogies of her early inhabitants that to-day in many fam- ilies his book is prized more than any other in their possession. He touched on so many subjects that it was not possible for him to do each justice. This volume is devoted to but one suliject, but every subject referred to by Deane in his history, if properly written up before it is too late, would fill a volume as large as this. Let us hope that this work will inspire some one to .study other subjects in the town's history, and publish the result of his la])ors. Rev. Samuel Deane gave instruction to many of Scituate's young men, for which he received fifty cents per week. He was quite a poet, as well as a teacher, and wrote many hymns for the churches. The following poem is from his pen : NAPOLEON. (Napoleon, in Italy, wept at the sight of a faithful dog on the battlefield, moaning by the side of his lifeless master. See Las. Cases, Vol. 1. Part II.) Strange compound of passion, and why didst thou weep, At the faith of a brute to his master, though dead ? Was it pity thatmov'd thee, for thousands that sleep, Where thy cruel ambition has made their last bed ? REV. SAMUEL DEANE. 327 Dost thoii think of the nobles, whose generous birth, And whose bearings of honor cast shades on thine own, But whose blood thou wouldst pour out to water the earth, And whose corses stride over to mount to a throne ? Didst thou think of the widows and orphans, whose wail Strikes the clouds, and accusing to heaven may ascend ? Or that Justice, insulted, may wake and prevail, And send thee an exile from country and friend ? "Was it prophecy boding that e'en thou should'st die, And thy foes rend the biood-sprinkled wreaths from thy brow ? Or did shame wring the deep, scalding tear from thine eye, Even shame, that a dog was more noble than thou ? Strange compound of passion, ambitions's fierce sway, All mingled with meanness and pity's soft fire, The world shall admire, but admiring shall pray, God send us no copy of that we admire. Samuel Deane. Who among the thousands that refer to " Deane's History of Scituate," stop and think, "Who was this Rev. Samuel Deane to whom we owe so much ? " Perhaps the question may come into their minds, and they may turn to his book for informa- tion ; l)ut it is a fruitless search, as he scarcely mentions him- self there. In vain has the author searched for a likeness of him, but apparently none now exists, if, in fact, he ever sat for one. The memoirs of John and Walter Deane, published at Boston in 1849 by Wm. Reed Deane, give a very elaborate account of Samuel Deane's ancestors and their families, but does not give any information of value later than his marriage. He is described as being an erect and handsome man, being nearly, if not quite, six fset tall, with a beardless face full of character. He Avas the authority for miles around on horses, and loved a good horse dearly. Seldom was he seen travelling except on horseback, and riding was his daily exercise. A niece of his, now living in Boston, has a trunk in almost a perfect state of preservation, made by Samuel Deane, and covered with the hide of one of his favorite horses. <2-»-^ ^ — v.^ descended in the following ^-..---^'-O ^« c^^».,,j^. li^e from I. John Deane, who came from Chard, England, in 1636, or 1637. H. John Deane, b. 1639 or 1640, d. 1717. in. Samuel Deane, b. 1666, d. 1731. IV. William Deane, b. 1702, d. 1773. V. John Deane, b. 1740, d. 1808. VI. Rev. Samuel Deane, b. 1784, d. 1834. 328 DEANE GENEALOGY. Bev. Samuel Deane, son of John and Abigail (White) Deane, was ))oin in Mansfield, Mass., March 31, 1784. He received his education at Brown University, where he grad- uated in 1805. He was ordained Feb. 14, 1810, as colleague of Rev. David Barnes, D. D., over the Second Church in Scituate, Mass. In the cemetery opposite this church he and most of his family are buried. He was pastor of the Second Church for twenty-four years, and in July, 1834, resigned on account of ill health. He died August 9, 1834. His works were, (1.) "History of Scituate," published in Boston, 1831; (2.) "The Populous Village/' a poem delivered before the Philermenian Society of Brown University in 182r), and which was published ; (3.) "Discourse on Christian Liberty," 1825; (4.) "Discourse on Human Nature," 1827, and many poems, never published. Several of his sermons were printed. He left in MSS. a satirical poem on " Some Literary Errors of the Age," delivered before one of the literary societies of Brown University. Rev. Samuel Deane's Descendants. Samuel Deane, was born at IVIansfield, Mass., March 30 or 31, 1784, and died at South Scituate, Mass., August i), 1834, as has been previously stated. Stella Washburn, his wife, (daughter of Hon. Seth Washburn), was born in Raynham, ]\lass, Jan. 23, 1787; d. Jan. 12, 1850. Their children were, J. Martha Phillips, b. June 22, 1811, in Raynham ; d. July 9, 1802. 2. Charles Frederic, b. March 21, 1813, in Scit- uate ; d. in Chicago, 111., Dec. 24, 18(iO. 3. John Milton, b. June 13, 1816, in Scituate; d. May 22, 1832. 4. Helen Maria, b. April 9, 1819, in Scituate; d. June 24, 1820. 5. Helen Maria, 2nd, h. A\ni\ 21, 1821, in Scituate; mar- ried Dennis Rockwell, of Chicao:o, 111., Nov. 3, 1859, and d. Sep. 8, 1883 or (1882.) Charles Frederic, eldest son of Samuel Deane, married at St. Louis, Mo., Eloise Augusta Boardman, formerly of Middle- town, Conn. Their children were, 1. William Hcmice Board- man, b. Dec. 28, 1844, in Pekin, 111. ; 2. Charles Washburn, b. July 27, 184(3, in St. Louis; 3. Eloise Stella, b. July 2, 1848, in St. Louis; d. Dec. 30, 1849; 4. David Hartley Armstronij, b. Aus;. IB, 1850, in St. Louis; d. in Chicago, 1869 ; 5." Harry Stannard, b. Aug. 25, 1852, in Chicago. 6. Kitty Eloise, b. June 20, 1854, iii Chicago ; 7. Helen Maria, b. March 21, 1856 in Chicago; d. in April, 1888; 8. Stella REV. SAMUEL DEANE. 329 Martha, b. Dec. 7, 1857, in Chicago; 9. John Milton, b. Aug. 29, 1859, in Chicago. KiTTiE Eloise, the sixth chikl of Charles Frederic Deane, mar. March, 1874, Frederic M. Blount, of Chicago, 111. Their children, 1. Kittie, b. March, 1875, at Chicago; 2. Harry Deane, b. Dec, 1877. Thealiove is as complete as has been possible to compile in a limited time. That every lover of Deane may be able to form a better idea of the beautiful character of the man, the two following extracts are given. The first from an obituary, written by his friend, the Rev. Edmund Q. Sewall, for the ChrLstkm Reg ister oi Aug. 23,1834, Vol. XIV., No. 2. "Died at Scituate, Mass., Aug. 9th, Rev. Samuel Deane, Pastor of the Second Congregational Society of that place. "His attempts at poetical composition were not numerous. He gave, however, to the world, on some public occasions, several pieces of much merit ; and in this paper and other periodical works, he has at different times allowed to appear a few specimens of his talent in this kind, which were replete with images of household tenderness and natural pathos, and a part of which discovered a capacity for powerful and graphic desci-iption, both of objects in the outward universe, and of action and passion among men. He had a satirical vein, which he indulged without malice. His fancy was often sportive in conversation, but always innocent in its play. ********* " The last winter while subject to the pains whose fruit was his death, he applied himself with ardor to inquiries respecting the newly-developed science of phrenology, and gave the results of his inquiries in an ably written lecture. In the learning of his profession Mr. Deane was well furnished. In some departments his acquisitions were more than the common stock, and he continued to acquire. His taste for natural science was such as would have led him to much devotion in its pursuits had opportunity favored. He had at one time a carefully selected cabinet of minerals. He had acquainted himself with the books of Phillips, Cleaveland and others on this and kindred branches. For history he had a decided predilection and indulged it. There w^ere not many who were better versed than he in the colonial history of Plymouth and Massachu- setts, among those whose associations have not led them more directly to make such subjects their study. His " History of Scituate " affords evi- dences of research and talent highly respectable. ********* "Mr. Deane never ceased to speak of Dr. Barnes as of one whom he could not enough honor. The tribute he has inserted in his " History of Scituate " to his aged colleague is a memorial of the virtues of both, in a relation not the most easy to sustain without fault. Mr. Deane had pro- posed, in the hojie of recovering his health in some measure, to remove to the distant West. But God had appointed other issues. His purposes were broken up, his visions of hope deferred, dispelled forever, and his wearied spii-it, with no more pilgrimage, bidden to its final goal. He met his last disappointment with Christian firmness, and i^repared. himself to die according to the will of God. His end was tranquil." 330 REV. SAMUEL DEANE. The other extract is from the pen of the Rev. Wm. P. Tildcn, from a letter, and from an address delivered by him in Scituate, Aug. 8, 1857, (or 1858.) "Samuel Deane was settled here in Feb., 1810, the year before I was born, so that I have no distinct remembrance of his early life. I think of him only as he was in later years, when the gray hairs were upon his tem- ples, and ill-health had taken the freshness from his cheek. He was a man to be remembered for many qualities ; but my first impressions of him are more of his splendid singing in the pulpit than of his preaching. He was a dear lover of music. He had not only a delicate appreciation of it, but a rare capacity for making it. His voice was high and clear, wilh a peculiarly musical tone distinct from all other voices, yet blending happily with them, always alone, yet always in harmony. How his light gray eye would glisten, and his wide mouth open to pour out the high, liquid tenor when some favorite old tune kindled him. He had one peculiarity not easily forgotten, that of waiting till the choir had sung partly through the line, and then striking out at the beginning in bold, clear tones, catch up with the choir, and let his voice mingle sweetly with the closing notes. He was a man of genius, a man of thought, a man of many noble qual- ities ; but he Avas peculiar — his mind did not run in old ruts. He thought for himself, and spake his thoughts freely. He hated all shams, espec- ially in religion. Whittier's lines to John Randolph have seemed to me peculiarly applicable to him : ♦ Sworn foe of cant, he smote it down, With trenchant wit unsparing : And scoffing tore with ruthless hand. The robe pretense was wearing.' " He had no patience with pretense. Even now can you not see the scornful curl of his lip at mention of what seemed to him like hypocrisy in religion or meanness in daily life? Indeed, he carried this so far as to do injustice to his deeper and better nature ; for I have no doubt his strong repugnance to every species of pharisaisni often led him to hold back what his heart prompted to utter, and left the impression that he was less truly religious than he really was at heart. His position on the Arminian side in the old controversy with Calvinism doubtless strengthened this natural tendency. Very likely he may have felt in after life that he had erred in not speaking moi'e directly and freely with his people upon personal religion, for many of you remember what a change there was in the char- acte° of his preaching during the last few years of his life, when the angel of sickness and sorrow came down to trouble the waters. Under the baptism of trial his soul seemed to gain fresh fervor, and earnestness, and inspiration. My most distinct remembrance of him is at this period. I remember particularly the sermon he preached after John's death, and after speaking of his boy's lingering illness, with trembling lip, and eyes suftused with tears, he repeated in broken utterance those touching lines of Gray : ' One morn I missed him on the 'customed hill, Along the heath, and near his favorite tree. Another came, nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he.' " I remember, too, as some of you doubtless do, of his telling in that sermon, that in speaking with John one day during his last sickness about the Lord's Supper and his observance of it, John said to him, ' Father, do you remember how on such a time I went into the gallery to remain there THE CUSHINGS. 331 during the Communion Service?' *I do, my son.' 'Well, father, I went there to covimune with you in spirit.'' " He was a lovely boy ; his death was too much for the stricken father, whose frame was already shattered by repeated sicknesses. You remem- ber how often after this, his deep emotions would choke his utterance in his pulpit services. He failed rapidly, his old disease of the lungs, against which he had been struggling for yeai ' ited him more and more. As he was walking one day with his dear > the Rev. E. Q. Sewall, he repeated as applicable to himself, those toucumg lines of Cowper ; ' I was a stricken deer, hixrt by the archers, And have left the herd.' adding a beautiful line of Virgil, which speaks of the arrow quivering in the death-wound. He soon followed his boy. His memory is still green in many of our hearts, and I am glad, as one of the children of his flock, to drop this leaf upon his grave as a slight token of respect to his memory.' The Cushings were among the early aristocracy of Scituate, and the following items relative to Judge Cushing's family are taken from some old newspapers. From the J^eiv England Weekly Journal: " On Saturday last (Mon., Nov. 24, 1729) died here Mr. Nathaniel Gush- ing, Son of the Hon. Judge Gushing of Scituate, a Young Gentleman who had his Education at Harvard Gollege, and has since been em^jloy'd in the Secretary's Office, and several times as Glerk of His Majesty's Gouncil for this Province : It is but about a Month past he entered into a married state, and it is supjDosed he was seizeU by Death the night of his Marriage, since which he languished till the time of his Death. An affecting Instance of the vanity of human life, even in the Bloom of Youth, and affluence of Worldly Prosperity." From the Boston Post Boy and Advertiser, April 3, 1769 : "We hear from Scituate that Wednesday morning died there after a long confinement Mrs. Mary Gushing, aged 59 years, the virtuous consort of the Hon. John Gushing, Esq. of that place." From the Boston Evening Post, Sept, 16, 1771 : " Married, Thomas Aylwyn, Esq., of this town, merchant, to Miss Lucy Gushing of Scituate, daughter of the Hon. John Gushing, Esq., a judge of the Superior Gourt." And in a Boston paper of Dec. 12, 1885, there appeared the following : "Chrissie Turner, a colored woman, who died on the 12th inst. in Bour- nedale, having arrived at the age of 100 years, was born a slave and lived for many years in the family of Judge Gushing in Scituate, being a part of the doAvry of Mrs. Gushing at her marriage." Items relative to the Turner family, also among the early aristocracy of Scituate, are found as follows. From the Boston Gazette and Country Journal, of Monday, August 31, 1761 ; 332 TURNERS WM. VASSALL. «' We hear from Scituate that on the 22nd instant died Mrs. Hannah Turner, widow of Col. Amos Turner, and mother of Col. Thomas Clapp of that Town, in the eightieth year of her Age : In every Station and Condi- tion of Life, much of the Virtues and Graces of the Christian were con- spicuous in her, as she lived desired, so she died lamented. She died in a good old Age, an old Woman, and full of Years, and we have Reason to hope she is now Partaker of the Rest that remaineth to the children of God in a better World." In the Post of Nov. 29, 1773 : '• Married at Scituate, Mr. Wm. Turner to Miss Eunice Clap, daughter of Nathl. Clap, Esq." Also in the Boston Evening Post, Feb. 7, 1774 : " On the 22d of Dec. last was celebrated at Plimouth the anniversary of their ancestors' first landing in New England, on which occasion the Rev. Mr. Turner of Scituate deliver'd a discourse in the Rev. Mr. Robbins's Meeting House from Zach. IV. part of the 9th & 10th verses. After which a very suitable dinner was prepar'd at Mr. Howland's where a great num- ber of the people with five of the Clergy were genteely entertained and the day & evening very agreeably spent & to the honor of all present. Every countenance being expressive of gratitude & joy and every tongue exuberant in blessing the memory of their pious forefathers." The following relative to William Vdssall, after he left Scit- uate, is taken from a book entitled "The Vassalls of New Eng- land and their Immediate Descendants," by Harris, pp. 4 and 5 : "William Vassall in 1646 sailed for England in the 'Supply' in aid of a petition for the redress of wrongs in the government, and never returned, but in 164S returned to Barbadoes and there died in 1655, aged 65 years. His will is dated at Barbadoes, July 13, 16=^5. He bequeathed to his son John one third of all his estates, and the remainder to his daughters, Judith, Frances, Ann, Margaret and Mary. His son was appointed Executor, and in his absence Nicho- las Ware, who appointed, May S, 1656, Capt. Joshua Hubbard of Hingham his attorney for the sale of the Scituate Estate, by virtue of two writings, one signed by Resolved White and James Adams, Feby. 18, 1656, and the other by Margaret and Mary Vassall, Mar. 3, 1655-6. The estate was conveyed by Joshua Hubbard to John Cushen and Mathyas Brigs for £120, and consisted of about 120 acres, with houses and barns. The deed was signed by Joshua Hubbard, Resolved White and Judith his wife, and James Adams, July 18, 1657."* An old rhyme, which "went the rounds" lor many years * See further account of Vassall ia Deane's History, and in chapter on Briggs Yard. MAY REV. CHAS. T. TORRE Y. 333 about a prominent man ^Yith a poor character, is here revived for the editi coition of the older people, viz. : " Here lies the dull sleeper called ***** Who for thirty nine years has played off his jokes. Whose days of probation for marriage have past, And this is his last May ; yes the very last. In future his fate will be hard as a rock, He will lie snoring in bed till past ten o'clock. Without victuals to eat or a deary to cheer him, I solemnly hope no one will go near him ; A hater of man, an insulter of woman : Like a blasted old tree in the midst of a common. Crown his gates ye May nymphs with wormwood and myrtle More fragrant and fair than a salt water turtle." Rev. Sanil J. May was one of Scituate's strong abolitionists, he succeeded Mr. Deane at the Second church. A history of his life has been published in book form by the Unitarian Society. There came from Scituate one man who appeared before the world a beautiful example of strength of character, and who died a martyr in his efforts to free the people, for whom so many lost their lives later. This was the Rev. Charles T. Torrey. He was born in a one story gambrel-roof house, located in Greenbush Village, on the first left hand corner northeast from the old Stockbridge place on the road that runs by the pond to the harbor. This house was occupied for many years by Calvin Jenkins. During Mr. Torrey's incarceration in Baltimore jail, after his conviction, and while awaiting sen- tence, in 1844, he wrote a book entitled ''Home, or- the Pil- grims' Faith Revived." It should be read by every resident or native of Scituate. In this volume he speaks of Scituate, or "Home," as he calls it, as follows : " The first settlers were generally men of property. Many of them were scholars and accomplished gentlemen. They impressed on their children a love of learning and a refinement of manners that has never wholly disappeared, in the darkest periods of the annals of ' Home.' Sound in their religious faith, taught the value of a good hope towards God by the lessons of persecution, there was not perhaps for two generations a head of a family who did not belong to the church ; not a house in which the morning and evening sacrifice of prayer and thanksgiving was omitted. No law was ever needed to induce the people to sustain a sufficient number of excel- lent free schools, and for more than a century from the settlement, a 334 REV. CHARLES T. TORREY. public grammar school supplied to all who desired it, the means of a more enlarged course of study. While the rigor of the early faith and piety remained, no town set a greater value on the higher branches ot education. For a century and a half hardly a foreigner has entered ' Home.' The few who came were soon assimilated to the habits and feelings of a people born, living and dying on the same soil. I can remember twenty families in one section of the town which for seven, eight and nine generations have lived on the same spot ; no rare thing in the old countries but quite so in our new and ever moving land. No foreign sources of corruption therefore ever came in to make the sons unworthy to bear the names of their sires. If they have fallen the root of evil is from within." A stone erected to the memory of Rev. Mr. Torrey, in the •cemetery at Mt. Auburn, Muss., bears the following inscrip- tions : "REV. CHARLES T. TORREY Born at Scituate Nov. 3i, 1S13. Graduated at Yale College, Aug. 1S33. Ordained at Providence, Mar., 1837. Arrested at Baltimore, June 24, 1844. Died in the Penitentiary of that City May 9, 1S46." " Charles Turner Torrey was arrested for aiding slaves to regain their liberty. For this humane act he w^as indicted as a criminal, convicted by the Baltimore City Court, and sentenced to the Peniten- tiary for six years. While on his death bed he was refused a par- don by the Government of Maryland, and died of consumption after two years confinement, a victim of his sufferings. It is better to die in prison with the peace of God in our breasts than to live in free- dom with a polluted conscience. "Where now beneath his burthen The toiling slave is driven. Where now a tyrant's mockery Is offered up to heaven. There shall his praise be spoken. Redeemed from falsehood's ban When the fetters shall be broken. And the slave shall be a man." " The friends of the American Slaves erect this stone to his mem- ory as a Martyr for Liberty." Drake in his history, page 659, relates the following : "Feb., 1761, the body of Maj. Gen'l Edward Wbitmore was brought to Boston from Plymouth in the sch. "" Leoj)ar(J ,' Thomas Church, master. He was coming from Louisburg to Boston and fell overboard and was drowned." As Capt. Church was a Scituate SHIP-WRECKS. 335 man, the vessel ma}^ have been a Hanover or Scituate vessel. Barry says, "During the great storm of April 16-17, 1851, the sea broke completely over the narrow strip of beach between the Third and Fourth Cliffs." Wrecks strewed the coast after that fearful storm. From the Boston J^ews Letter the follow- ing is taken : "On Friday Apr. 6th. 1711, Capt. Brown in a large sloop from Surra- nan was taken off Scituate two miles from the shore by two Flacentia Privateer sloops, 32 men in each, no great guns. Brown and three of his men were put on shore, his mate and one of his men were sent away in the sloop." In an early number of the JSfew England Weekly Journal appears the following : "On Wednesday night last (Aug. 28, 1728) at eleven o'clock, Capt. Joseph Anderson coming from Lisbon, bound to this place in a Brigantine ran on the rocks near Scituate, whereby the vessel is likely to be entirely lost and much of the cargo, tho' the lives of the men are sav'd after abun- dance of fatigue and difficulty." Also the JSfew England Weekly Journal, of a later date, gives the following account of another vessel as follows : "In our last we gave an account that a large Ship had run ashore near Scituate : we have since been informed more fully of the same, and learn that the said Ship was commanded by Capt. Wellington, belonging to Bris- tol, and coming hither from Lisbon loaden with Salt, that on or about Friday the 10th Instant, (Oct., 1729) she ran aground on Marshfield Beach, and that after a while six of the Men got into the Boat to go on shore, but while they were near the Ship the Waves beat so violently, that the Boat filled with Water, and five of the said Men were drowned, and one held by the Boat and got again into the Ship, where were six more that remained on Board ; that soon after the Ship broke to pieces, and the Salt washing away, the part they were in lighten'd, and swung nearer the shore, by which means they all got safe to Land. The Vessel and cargo was entirely lost." Representations of the earliest vessels were those built and used by the Egyptians. They were small vessels or galleys built with keels, ribs, and planking, without decks, but strength- ened crosswise by numerous benches on which the rowers sat. It is mentioned in early history as a noteworthy circumstance that when Cnesar invaded Britain, his vessels Avere so large they could not reach the shore, and his troops on disembarking, were breast high in the water. John J. Currier, in his very interesting Hisfork-al Sketch of Shipbuilding on the Merrimac River ^ published in 1877, states that "In Newbury port, where they had every facility for Imilding and launching large vessels, 336 FIRST SHIPS BUILT IN AMERICA. they did not build a vessel so large as 594 tons until 1836." Undoubtedly the j^r.s^ vessel of size stifficient to navigate the ocean launched from the sliores of New England, was " a faire pinnace of thirty tons," called the " Virginia,'''' which according to Strachey, was built by the Popham Colony at the mouth of the Kennebec, in 1607, thirteen years before the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, and which made a successful voyage across the Atlantic, the same year. Twenty-four years after this, on the fourth of July, 1G31, Gov. Winthrop launched the ^^ Blessing of the Bay,''' the first vessel built in this part of the State. This vessel was built on what has since been known as the "Ten Hills farm " at Medford on the Mystic Kiver, and about fifty years ago the identical ways from which she was launched were still standing and in a fair state of preservation. She was built of locust timl3er cut up on the farm. * Capt. George Henry Preble, U. S. N., in an article entitled " Early Ship-building in Massachusetts," says, " The ship-carpenter, who came over to the Plymouth people in 1624, soon died, but not until he had built two shallops, one of which was employed in the Fall of the next year to carry a load of corn on a trading voj^age to the Kenneliec River. She had a ' little deck over her amid-ships to keep ye corne drie but ye men were faine to stand it out in all weathers without shelter.' The next year they 'tooke one of ye biggest of these shallops and sawed her in ye middle and so lengthened her some 5 or 6 foote and strengthened her timbers and so builte her up and laid a deck on her and so made her a conveniente and wholesome vessell very fitt and comfortable for their use which did them service 7 years after ; and they gott her finished and fitted her with sayles and anchors ye ensuing year.' Such were the first vessels of the Pilgrims." Between the years 1678 and 1706, Scituate far exceeded any other New England town excepting Boston in the number of vessels built. This latter year she was equalled only by Newbury and Salem. The following is a partial list of vessels which were built in Scituate during early times. Many other vessels built here dur- ing these years can be found under the chapters on the different yards. In 1694, there was built the sloop " MAYFLOWER," 25 tons ; owners, the Captain, James Truworthy, Boston, Joha Warren, Thomas Dalton of the Island of Providence. 1694, sip. "KATHARINE," 25 tons, Capt. Samuel Hill; owners, Samuel Heyman and Robert Knowles, Charlestown. 1694, * See Chapter, North River, Continaed. VESSELS BUILT IN SCITUATE PRIOR TO 1 700. 337 "brig't'n "PRIMROSE," 50 tons, Philip Bass, master; owners, Andrew Belclier, John Eyer, Jeremiah Dummer, AVilliam Clarke, Boston, Edw. Shippen of Philadelphia. 1695, ship " SPEEDWELL," 60 tons ; owners, Capt. Thomas Burrington, John Foster, Benjamin Alford, Edward Thomas, Abraham Blish, of Boston. 1695, sip. " SPEEDWELL," 25 tons ; James Seyward of Gloucester, owner and master. 1695, brig't'n "JOHN & ABIEL," 60 tons; owners, John Ireland, her master, Andrew Belcher, John Eyer, George Cable and Jeremiah Allen of Boston, and Richard Clayton and Edward Parson of the Island of Mount Serat. 1696, ship " DOLPHIN," 100 tons ; owners, Capt. Giles Fyfield, Samuel Lillie and Edward Martin, merchants, John Rusk, Samuel Greenwood, Thomas Baker, Nathaniel Henchman, all of Boston. 1696, brig't'n "ADVEN- TURE," 50 tons, Capt. Andrew Rankin; owners, Andrew Belcher, Daniel Oliver, Andrew Rankin, of Boston, and Isaac Little of Marshfield. 1696, ship "SPEEDWELL," 100 tons, Capt. Robert White ; owners, Samuel Lillie, Edward Martin, Samuel Greenwood, Thomas Baker and John Buck, Boston, and Giles Fifield. 1(596, sip. "HOPEWELL," 35 tons, Scit- uate ; owners, William Webster of Piscatag, N. H., and John Linkler, of Boston. 1696, ship "ANDREW & SAMUEL,'' 80 tons ; owners, Andrew Belcher, and John Colman, merchants, Samuel Lillie, and Daniel Oliver, all of Boston. 1697, sip., afterwards, brig't'n, "HOPEWELL," 60 tons, Capt. Wm. Rouse; owner, Samuel Lillie, Boston. 1697, brig't'n "MICHAEL & SAMUEL," 60 tons; owners, the Capt., Thomas Lillie, and Samuel Lillie of Boston, and Michael Lam- bert of the Island of St. Christophers, merchant. The follow- ing is a copy in full of the register or oath taken by the owners or builders, viz. : " 1697-8. Daniel Zachary of Boston in New England, Ironmon- ger, being a professed Qiiaker did solemnly declare in the presence of Almighty God the witness of the truth of what he said. That the sip. *' UNITY," of Boston, aforesaid, whereof Matthew Estis is at present Master, being a square sterned vessel of the burthen of about Forty Tons, was built at Scituate in New England around 1697, and that he the said Daniel Zachary is at present sole owner thereof and that no forreigner directly or indirectly hath any share or part inter- est therein. Declarat Cor. Willianj Stoughton & Jahted Brenton, Collectors. The above Mathew Estes was probably a Hanover man, and 338 VESSELS BUILT IN SCITUATE IN EARLY TIMES. the same that resided on a farm in West Hanover, where a descendant, Henry Estes, now resides, and this latter vessel, built for Quakers, may have been built by Edward Wanton. 1697, brig't'n "HOPEWELL," of the Island of Jamaica in 1()99 ; owners, Capt. John Sadler, Boston, William Smith of Jamaica. 1698, ship " TRYAL," 60 tons, hailing from Taunton, Capt. James Smith ; owners, David Jeftries of Boston, and Morris Hammond and Simon Stacey of Taunton. 1698, sip. "ENDEAVOUR," 20 tons, Capt. John Bowdon ; Benjamin Gallop of Boston, owner. 1698, sip. "FRIENDS ADVEN- URE," 30 tons, Capt. John Tapper ; owner, Robert Evans, of Boston. 1698, ship "JOHN & ABIAL," 100 tons, hailing from Mount Serat ; owners, Capt. John Ireland of Boston, Col. Anthony Hodges and James Donnalson of the Island of Mount Serat, and Thomas Thompson of Pool, in the Kingdom of Eng- land, residing in Boston in 1702, a professed Quaker. As will be seen the above were built during the sixteen hundreds. Commencing with the year 1700 there was built in Scituate, in 1700, the sloop " ELIZABETH," 20 tons ; owners, William Goddard, mariner, and Eleazer Darby of Boston ; also in 1700, the sloop " CONTENT," 30 tons ; owners, Samuel Lillie, mer- chant, and Tobias Greene, mariner, of Boston, and Nathaniel Lommis ; also in 1700, the brig't'n "PRUDENT SARAH," 50 tons ; owners, Capt. Thomas Tomlin and James Allison, of the Island of Jamaica ; and also in 1700, the hatch "HOPE," 30 tons ; owner, Capt. Thomas Lasenbv, Boston. There was built m Scituate, in 1701, the l)rig " MAYFLOAVER," 30 tons ; owners, Charles Shepard, merchant, and David Jeflries of Boston. In 1703, the brig't'n "WILLIAM & THOMAS," 72 tons, Capt. Francis Plaisted ; owners, William Fenton and son, Th(mias Fenton, and Jacob Doval of the Island of Nevis; also in 1703, the, sloop " HENNERETA," 20 tons, Capt. John Jarvis ; owner, John Frizell ; and also in 1703, the sloop "JOHN & DANIEL," 30 tons : owners, Daniel Middleton and John Frizell of Boston. In 1704, the sloop " FRANCES," 20 tons, was built at Scituate, before called the " Larke,'^ of Bos- ton ; owners, Tiino. Harris, English merchant, in Oporto, and David Jeffries of Boston ; also in 1704, the ship " JOHN <& DAVID," 60 tons; owners, David Jeffries, merchant, and John Frizell of Boston; also in 1704, the brig't'n "DORO- THY," 40 tons ; owners, David Jeffries, merchant, and John Frizell of Boston ; aUoin 1704, the brig't'n " DOVE," 45 tons ; owner, Samuel Lillie, of Boston ; and lastly in 17.04, the ship VESSELS BUILT IN SCITUATE IX EARLY TIMES. 339 '' ADVENTURE," 50 tons ; owner, Nicholas Roberts of Bos- ton. In 1705, the hrlgrn "SWALLOW," 30 tons, was built at Scituate ; owner, John Frizell of Boston; also in 1705, the brig't'n "ABIGAIL & SARAH," 60 tons; owners, Edward Martyn and William Hutchinson, merchants, and Thomas Pal- mer of Boston ; also in 1705, the sloop "BENJAMIN," 30 tons, owner, Benjamin Flood of Boston ; and lastly in 1705, the sloop "AMITY," 50 tons; owners, Daniel Oliver, Francis Clarke and William Wellsteed of Boston, merchants, and Nathaniel Oliver of Boston. In 1706, the brig't'n "TYGER," 60 tons, was built at Scituate ; owners, Thomas Palmer and Edward Martyn of Boston ; also in 1706, sloop "BETTY," 40 tons ; owners, Andrew Belcher and Charles Chambers of Charlestown; and also in 1706, brig't'n "GOOD LUCK," 70 tons ; owners, Samuel Liilie, merchant and John Ruffgles of Boston. In 1711, the ship "JOHN & DOROTHY," 80 tons, was built at Scituate ; «Tohn Frizell of Boston, owner ; and in 1712, the brig't'n "MAYFLOWER," 30 tons ; John Frizell, of Boston, owner. The absence of official records leaves the history of ship])uilding, during the middle of the 18th century, a blank as has been elsewhere stated, but the following })etition found among some old MSS. will be read with interest by many : ' ' 7^0 the Honourable Senate <£• Hottourable House of Representa- tives in General Court Assembled : The petition of the under- signed an inhabitant of Scituate respectft;lly shows. That in the year i775' he was the owner of \ part of a sch. burthened 44 tons, one year old, which was all the property he then had. Said vessel was laid up in a creek of Scituate, in the month of April, 1775. The rigging & sails were taken from their places and stored in the cabin and hold. Some time in June or July of the same year a party of soldiers sent by the committee of Public Safety of the town of Cohas- set went and took said sails and carried them to Roxbur}' to be used for tents for the Army. Your petitioner was at that time a Militia soldier in actual service. He was afterwards paid the number of dollars his sails were said to be worth in Continental money, the value of which at the time was a mere trifle. He afterwards lent the state a hundred pounds of his own hard earnings and took a note signed Henry Gardner. In about i8 years after, received a State note in lieu thereof for two hundred and ten dollars. The above facts your petitioner is abundantly able to establish before any com- Tnittee which jour Honours may depute to hear the same. He is now Si years of age, infirm & poor, has no relatives or friends of sufficient pecuniary ability to support him. He therefore prays your Honours to take a compassionate view of his case, and award liim 340 KOGEKS MERKITT TURNER. that justice which to you shall seem meet and proper, and as in duty bound will ever pray. {^Signed) Jared Battles." The first ship-builder, whom it has been found impossible to locate at any particular yard in Scituate, is Asa Rogers, who built here in 1803, the sch. "MORNING STAR," (see Rogers Yards). Another shipbuilder, whom it has been impossible to locate during all the years he built, is Elisha Merritt who lived on the Black Pond Road, South Scituate. He was brother of Consider, whose son Joseph built on the Chittenden Yard. Elisha had two sons, both of whom are now living in North Scituate. They are Joseph IL, a wheelwright and Cummings, a blacksmith. Elisha was the son of Elisha and Priscilla Merritt, and a lineal descendant of Henry Merritt, who was in Scituate in 1628, (see Deane's " History of Scituate"). built a fishing schooner, the Mozart," 40 tons, about 1837, above the tide mill at Cohasset for his brother Francis ; and earlier or in 1829 the sch. "Elizabeth," 57 tons, for James Collier. He also built one vessel at the Harbor at King's Landing by the old carding mill. He was partner at one time with Copeland, Pratt and others at the Fox Hill Yard,* and tlie following vessels which he built at Scituate, he may have built in this yard. In 1816, the sch. "UNION," 48 tons ; owners, Elisha, Benjamin and Consider Merritt, Jr., Freeman Litchfield, Samuel Hiland, Silvester Clapp and Caleb Bailey of Scituate. In 1819, the sch. "LITTLE MARTHA," 55 tons, of Boston. In 1825, the sch. " LAGRANGE," 73 tons ; owned by Lemuel Webb, Jesse Dunbar, Sr. and Jr., John Beal, Peleg Jenkins and Simeon Bates, Jr., of Scituate. He also built in Scituate, in 1831, the sch. "ELLEN," 61 tons, of Cohasset, afterwards of Orleans. .^ y9 , j^-^ was a shipbuilder in ^^r^^^^n^o'^^'-^S^^^^-^^'''^^ Scituate during the early ^""^ part of this century. One report says he built on North River, but an old resident at the harbor says he remembers his building the "Richmond" in the Samuel Kent yard ^\ the h&rbor. In any case, th© Q^^f^ ^^ >^ Stt* owned by Hall & Billings, and ^H€^^ MMA^lUXy^ Martin D. and Benjamin Mer- ^ ritt, Lindale Tilden, Elijah Pierce, Silas Clapp and Leonard Litchfield, of Scituate. The last shipbuilder that comes under this chapter is Cum- mings Litchfield. He had built in company with James S. Burrell, at the Wanton yard, and under the chapter de- *William Brooks, the shipbuilder, was probably the son of William and Betty Brooks, of Scituate, as they had a son William, b. March 12, 1771. 342 VESSELS BUILT BY CUMMINGS LITCHFIELD. voted to that yard, can l)e found a sketch of his life, and the vessels he l)uilt there. In 1852 he conceived the novel idea of building a vessel in his own door yard. He got his timber and plank ready, laid the keel, and went to w^ork on a schooner of 35 tons, and soon had "as handsome a little vessel ready for launching as was ever built three miles from the water ; " the keel being laid on the land between his residence in 1889, and the house of the late Misses Sally and Rachel Lapham. It was named the " ONLY SON," and great preparations were made to get it into the river. The roads in that vicinity are hard to travel, and most people thought the first rising ground would lie the last resting-place of the "Only Son." Not so Mr. Litchfield. He procured four sets of the heaviest axles and wheels, got his vessel well in position, hitched on eighteen . pairs of large oxen, and, accompanied by nearly all the inhabitants of Scituate and neighboring towns, slowly moved his cumbersome load to Union bridge, where it was launched without accident. The " Only Son " was named after Wil- liam, the only son of Cummings Litchfield. She is registered as 23 tons, built at Scituate in 1860, and she was owned by Mr. Litchfield. Her first voyage was from Charlestown to Grand Manan freighting. Later, she went to Bay of Fundy cod- fishing, under Capt. Trim. Afterward she was run as a packet from Scituate to Boston, and back to Grand Manan, where she saved forty tierces of wine from a vessel, and got quite a salvage. She was finally sold to Grand Manan to go cod- fishing. Cummings Litchfield had a ship-yard next to Union bridge, just below on the Scituate side, and here he built one schooner and several "gundalows." He built in 1868 the sch. "PER- FECT," 2Q tons, at Union bridge. She was used fishing two or three years under Capt. Israel Merritt ; then lumbering. Later, Capt. Litchfield, her builder, took command of her and went to Gloucester and other voyages. She was very fast, and cut a shnie in the difterent ports. His last trip in her was to Bucksport, Me., where he sold her in the spring of the year. Among other sondolas or "gundalows" which he built at Union bridge were the following: "SEA BOY," "EUREKA," and "RED ROVER." We now come to the vessels whose builders have not been ascertained, neither do we know at what yards they were built ; but it is certain they were all built in Scituate, Mass. There VESSELS BUILT IN SCITUATE. 34S was built here in 1786 the sch. " DIAXA," 30 tens, of Cohasset ; owners, Joseph Phillii)s and William Macomber, of Marshlield ; also in 1786, the sch. " CENTURION," 47 tons, Samuel Clapp, owner, of Scituate. In 1787, the sch. "BETSEY," 51 tons, of ■^oston. In 1787, the sch. "DOLPHIN," 44 tons, " deep waist id a long quarter deck." of Boston, captured and condemned by the British in 1812. In 1787, the sip. "HANNAH," 40 tons, of Boston. In 17.S7, the sch. " FISH HAWK," 41 J tons, of Scituate ; owned by Rowland Thomas, Calvin Litchfield and Calvin Jenkins, of Scituate. In 1787, the sch. "HOPE," 54 tons, owned by Anthony Waterman, Sr. and Jr., of Scituate; and also in 1787, tlie sch. "LUCY," 60 tons, of Duxliury ; in 1811 foundered at sea. In 1788, the sch. "FRIENDSHIP," 49 tons ; owned by George Morton, Joshua Otis, Jr., Samuel Simmons and Nathaniel Turner, Jr. , of Scituate ; afterward sold to Boston ; also in 1788, the sch. "FAVORITE," 64 tons; owned by Consider and George Merritt, and Bryant Steven- son of Scituate ; afterward sold to Sylvanus and David Snow, Jr., of Truro, David Snow, master. In 1781), the sch. "SEA FLOWER," 46 tons, of Boston. In 1789, the sch. " POLLY," 40 tons, owned by Samuel Arnold, Weymouth, innholder. In 1789 the Brig't'n "SWALLOW," 75 tons, of Boston; and also in 1789 tlie sch. "LUCY," 50 tons, of Duxbury. In 1790, the sch. "REVIVAL," 44 tons, owned by Caleb Prouty, Jr., Jesse Dunbar and Thomas Prouty, of Scituate; also in 1790 the sch. " BETSEY," 51 tons, owned by Matthew Pierce, James Merritt, and Luther Holbrook, of Scituate. In 1791, the sell. "REVIVAL," 44 tons ; owned by Jesse Dunl)ar and Eli Curtis, of Scituate. There was also built on North River the whaling ship " WASHINGTON," of Nantucket, and under the command of Cai)t. George Bunker, was the Jivfit to .shoio an American Flag in a Spanit^h Pacific port. The "Washing- ton " went to Calhio on the coast of Peru, and on the 4th of July, 1792, two months after the discovery of the Columliia River, by Gray, dis{)layed the stars and stripes in that port.* Lying there was an English whaling vessel and a French brig, both manned by Nantucket men, who assisted Capt. Bunker in his commemoration of the day. The following vessels were built at Scituate and registered at New Bedford : sch. "BET- SEY," iHiilt at Scituate in 1803 ; bark "RUSSELL," in 1804 ; ship " HELENA," 1806 ; ship " MODOC," 1810 ; ship " AVIL- * See accounts of the " Columbia " and " Washington," in chapter on Briggs yard. 344 VESSELS BUILT IN SCITUATE. LIAM PENN," 1810; sch. "FOUK BROTHERS, 1818. The sch. "MOUNT HOPE," 65 tons, oak, copper and iron- fastened, was built in Scituate in 1827, rebuilt in 1850. Owned in 1865 hy B. Clark, Rockland, Me. ; Capt. J. Spauld- ing. The sch. "ANGEL," 71 tons, fisherman, was built in Scituate in 1830 ; owned in 1865 by Stephen Luce, Scituate : Capt. J. Luce. The sch. "JOS. ATKINS," 131 tons, ofProv- incetown, w^as built in Scituate in 1838. The brig "JOHN B. DODS," 160 tons, of Provincetown, was built in Scituate in 1840. The brig, formerly bark, " SAMUEL & THOMAS," 190 tons, was built in Scituate in 1841, of oak, iron, and copper fastened ; whaler ; owned in New Bedford in 1872 by D. B. Kempton. The brig " Samuel & Thomas" in 1841 was owned by Samuel Soper, of Provincetown, and w'as named after his sons. She was whaling in the Atlantic Ocean, where she continued until 1850, when she was sold to Mattapoisett to R. L. Barstow and went whaling to the Indian and Pacific Oceans, until 1863, when she was sold to David R. Kempton, New Bedford. In Septemljer, 1866, Thomas Parker, the third mate, was killed by falling from aloft. In 1867, Capt. Cromwell had the command of her, and in 1869 she was sold to Talcahuano, Chili, and continued whaling from that port. The sch. "PRESIDENT HARRISON," 65 tons, of Orleans, was built in vScituate in 1841. The sch. "AGNES," of 53 tons, was built in 1842, in Scituate. She drew nine feet, was of oak, iron, and copper fastened. In 1874 she belonged to Francis Culpepper, of the Barbadoes, and was sailing under the Brit- ish flao;, Capt. Peter Spencer. She was probably the old " Talisman:' The sch. " CHATHAM," was built in Scituate in 1844, 65 tons, fisherman, owned in 1865 by J. G. Bowley, Provincetown, Capt. Latham. The sch. "ALEXANDER," 74 tons, oak, iron fastened, w^'is built in Scituate in 1848 ; 60 feet long, flush deck ; owned in 1863 by a Mr. Johnson, Province- town, Capt. Snow. The bark "MARNIX," 225 tons, oak and pine, was built in Scituate in 1849, and w^as owned in 1861 by G. C. Crommelin, at De venter, Capt. Wassenaar. The sch. " EMMA V. ," 149 tons, was built in Scituate in 1852 ; owned in 1859 by B. P. Burk, and others, of Provincetown. Built of oak and locust, copper and iron fastened ; trunk cabin ; Capt. Cook. The bark " SALEM," 260 tons, was built in Scituate in 1854; owned in 1861 by Goodhue & Co., N. Y. ; Capt. Conilard. We will close this chapter with some verses WTitten probal:)ly fifty years ago by an old shipbuilder, descrip- A STORY TWO SCITUATE MAIDENS. 345 tive of two of Scituate's maidens who died many years ago, and whose rehitives have long since followed them. On Nichols place of ancient date Two maiden sisters live, Enjoying all the happiness, That hogs and cows can give. Their father was a plain old man Who lived to need a staff, And lost his eye while toiling hard To help his better half. But he is numbered with the dead, His wife has followed him, And all that he was worth he left In neat and wholesome trim. These two young maids came in as heirs And settled on the farm, Well stocked with brutes of every kind And wood to keep them warm. Now you must know some skill 'twould need To manage every part, And Nabby was the sine qua non To give it her whole heart. But now methinks some one inquires How may this lady look ; What is her size and what her form, And is she a good cook ? Well then to gratify their whims I'll tell her looks and life, In hopes that some will be inspired To choose her for a wife ! Her form is squabbish like the swine, She waddles like a duck. And when the mud is very deep She'll easily get stuck. Her head a masterpiece in size, A good machine to bunt. Her hair she dresses gracefully. With cowlick right in front. Her eyes like Cupid's glow with love And glisten like a cat. 34(l TWO SCITUATE .^MAIDENS. And when she laughs, the little balls Seem nearly lost in fat. Her flabby cheeks like jewels hang An inch below her chin, Her mouth most delicately looks When she attempts to grin. But O ! ye wise ones who have toiled With care and anxious doubt Perpetual motion to invent, Lo ! we have found it out. 'Tis Nabby's tongue that never tires But clatters all the day, And gabbles worse than cackling hens Impatient at delay. Her mode of life comports full well With one whose fate has been, To live in "single blessedness" Amidst so many men. With taste refined she milks the cow With care she feeds her sheep, And stuffs her pig with sour milk Till it can scarcely creep. For instance, when she milks her cow She sometimes ties her tail, Tlie cow as often lifts her foot And sets it in the pail. Now neatness says, turn out tlie milk, But Nabby says not so ; " The more good things the richer cream, And I will let it go." But still she does all she can do, Of course she's not to blame For heavy snows sometimes block up This ever active dame. When summer comes 'tis worth one's while Her dairy to behold, Well lined with cheese of goodly size, And butter fine as gold. TWO SCITUATE MAlDKiNS. 347 But if her head should yield a hair Of most prodigious length, Nobly she toils to work it in, Employing all her strength. That she exec! ^ ' ^^aking cheese I believe no one es, Though all who cat them wrill confess They once were friends to flies. How she can cook, is still unknown Where judgment is required, But for old Indian Johnny Cake She truly is admired. Her hand has eagerly been sought By many lovesick swains, But like a heroine she has Dismissed them for their pains. But all coquets soon run their race And often get repaid, So Nabby will give up the ghost A poor forlorn old maid. Sometimes she muses on her state And envies married dames, Then ! then ! O, Cupid how she sighs ! To marry old John Now let me for a moment leave This interesting one. And take a view of Cynthia's life To see what she has done. For scenes of humor, mirth and glee She never was renowned, But in the sentimental parts No doubt she does abound. Of labor she but little does, But lives in ease and peace ; While Nabby sweats and scrubs and works. Their income to increase. Some years ago a new complaint Deprived her of her wits, 348 TWO SCITUATE MAIDENS. Made all her friends with horror stare, While she went into fits. The cause of this affliction sore With truth she could not tell, But thought that in her stomach lay This new-invented hell. Instanter she goes right to work To find if aught can cure, And finally alights on what She feels convinced is sure. And what my friend do you suppose This panacea like? W^hy nothing more than drawing smoke Through a tobacco pipe. She fills the bowl up to the brim With Cavendish's best. At every meal she takes a whiff" With most delicious zest But it performed a glorious cure, Her fits entirely ceased, And from that time it must be told Her laziness increased Religion now is all the go, Religion is her cry, Religion while she lives, and for Relieion she will die. Many creeds of different kinds In turn she has embraced. But none save one could bind her fast, On this her hopes are placed. This is the creed which Calvin taught This is the faith he hailed. It is the genuine Orthodox W^hich she so latelv railed. With philanthropic zeal she tries To warm her sister's heart ; TWO SCITUATE MAIDENS. 349" To make her seek Religion now, And choose that better part. Sometimes indeed poor Nabby weeps At what she does not know, Though she'll confess that something makes Her feel all over so. Here then behold these matchless maids Of forty years and more ; Of lovely form and noble size, Whom all that see adore. A single life they've always led Against their hearts desire ; And now with panting bosoms wait For all who may aspire. Why stand ye back ye single men When such bright hopes arise.? Come choose a partner now for life. The idol of all eyes. CHAPTER XIX. WHITE'S FERRY YARDS. — 1705- 1840. SIMEON KEENE, SIMEON KEENE, JR., BENJAMIN KEENE, ISAAC KEENE, LUKE HALL, WILLIAM HALL, SAMUEL HALL. "HP HE Keenes and the Halls built at these yards for many years, ■'■ but they were probably occupied nearly a hundred years prior to their time. As early as 1705 we find there was built in Marshfield the sloop " MARY & ABIGAIL," 40 tons ; owners, Bethia Little, widow, of Boston, Isaac Little, of Marsh- field, and John Henshaw, of Boston. In 1711, the ship "TAUNTON MERCHANT," 70 tons, was built at Marshfield; owners, James Cooks, of Cullumstock, James Norman, John Blake, Samuel Lucas, and John Southerton, of Taunton, Rich- ard Southerton of Wallington, and Joshua Norman, of Tops- Iiam; and in 1713 the sloop "BLOSSOM," 30 tons, was built at Marshfield, Joseph Flood, of Boston, owner. The al)ove vessels were undoubtedly built on these yards, as the next oldest yard in Marshfield was at Gravelly Beach. The next vessels built here of which any account has been found were those built by Simeon Keene, and later by his sons Simeon and Ben- jamin. Isaac Keene was also interested in a few . Benjamin was captain of a North River packet boat about 1820. The following is the genealogy of the shii)-building branch of the Keene famil}'^ : Josiah Keene mar. Hannah, dau. of elohn Dingley, and had one child, John, b. 1()()7. tSinwon Keene, the shipwright, was b. Sept. 30, 1725, andd. "of a Saturday, July the 17th day of the month, 1790." He mar. in 1751 Lydia Stevens, Avho was b. July 19, 1728. They had children: 1. Lucy, b. Nov. 18, 1752; mar. Oliver Porter 1773. 2. Nathanael, b. Aug. 8, KEENE GENEALOGY. 351 1754; 3. Ruth, b. July 31, 1756; mar. Peaboiy Little, and d. 1781. 4. Lydia, b. April 28, 1758. 5. Simeon, b. Nov. 20, 1761 ; mar. Christina Joyce. 6. Stevens, b. June 24, 1764. 7. Deborah, b. July 30, 1766. 8. Benjamin, b. Mar. 29, 1769. 9. William, b. July 11, 1771, d. Sept. 11, 1792. Five of Simeon's (the ship-builder's) children survived him, they were Lydia, Simeon, Stevens, Benjamin and William. Benjamm succeeded to the yard, and carried on the business of ship-buildinff there. Barstow Carver, father of Hatch Cai-ver, worked for him at one time. Benjamin Keene was a man of some property, very stern and arbitrary, and did not desire too many friends. He married Susanna Church, and had children : 1. Benjamin, now deceased. 2. Cornelius, who d. in Nov. 1888, in his 89th j^ear. 3. Nathaniel, who resides in Marsh- field. 4. Martin, who d. April 17, 1864, aged 49 years. 5. William, who left a numerous family in Hartford, Conn. 6. George R., now living in Abington, where he has a family. 7. Lydia, deceased. 8. Almira, who d. in March, 1884, aged 80 years. 9. Harriet, now living in Marshfield, and 10. Susan, deceased. Martin mar. and lived on Decatur St., Charles- town, during the latter part of his life, and was employed on the Charlestown Navy Yard. He left two sons and one dau. One son is mar. and resides in Weymouth, Mass., where he has two children, Mabel E. and Lillian F. The other son, Charles W. Keene, is unmarried and resides at Sea View Vil- lage, Marshfield, Mass. Ada, the dau. married a ]Mr. Rein- hart. She d. Nov. 11, 1876, aged 22 years, leaving one child, AdaK. Keene's yard was located on the Capt. Day place, where the Hall's afterward built. On this farm there is a well of fresh water that ebbs and flows with the tide. Simeon Ke^ne built in 1787 the sch. "NEPTUNE," 64 tons, owned by Simeon Keene, Sr. and Jr., Marshfield; and in 1789 the sip. "INDUSTRY," 60 tons ; owned by Joseph and Elisha Phillips, William Macomber, Joshua Vinal and Simeon Keene, Marshfield. He also built the following vessels : In 1793, the brio- "DOLPHIN," 122 tons, of Boston ; in 1794, the ship " SUPERB," 335 tons, of Boston ; in 1795 the brig "DESPATCH," 139 tons, of Portsmouth. The ship "COLUMBIAN PACKET," 220 tons, of ^Marshfield, built in 1802, Joseph Hunt, Adam Fish and Chandler Sampson, of Marshfield, owners, was probably l>uilt ]>y the Keene family. 352 VESSELS BUILT BY THE KEENES. /y^U^^^ /tfj /^ URN," 107 tons, owned by Ben- / • •- o/^""^-^^'^*^ jamin and Isaac Keene, and Samuel Baker, of Marshfield ; and in 1818 the sch. "EOS," 85 tons, of Boston, sold at the Sandwich Islands, January 25, a, d., 1820. The Keenes built many other vessels here, but no record has been found by which they may be identitied. The only other vessel of which we have positive proof of bavins: been built by the Keenes is the sloop "NORTH RIVER PACKET," 38 tons, built in 1820. She was owned by Benjamin and Isaac Keene, Jr., Alden Briggs, Pembroke, Benjamin Hatch, Daniel Phillips, Da sad Church, Nathaniel Pratt, Luther Little, Danforthe Hall, John Bourne, Jr., of Marshiield. She was afterward sold to Boston, and owned in 1839 by John Belcher, of Bos- ton, and Benjamin Bramhall, of Quincy. This was doubt- less the last vessel built by the Keenes. Between 1820 and 1825 no record has been found of vessels having been built here. In the absence of the five years history of these yards, a few old and interesting items, and one or two anecdotes, will be inserted. In the Boston Gazette and Country Journal of Dec. 13, 1773, is recorded the death of a Marshfield man, as follows : " Last Friday evening being very dark and rainy, Mr. Ezekiel Kent, of Fox Islands, formerly of Marshfield, having been on board a sloop lying at Minot's T, to see an acquaintance, about six o'clock, was returning to the vessel to which he belonged, but unfortunately fell from theT and was drowned. He was 27 years of age, and a man well respected." A most remarkable story is related in the Massachusetts Spy for the week of August 18th to 21st, 1770 : " Last Tuesday a whale about forty feet in length was discovered by a small fishing schooner off Marshfield, which was then attacked by three large sharks, one of whom the fishermen killed. It measured sixteen feet long, and upon opening it they took out of its paunch as many pieces of the whale as would make a barrel of oil, and it was thought the liver of the shark would make two or three barrels more. The whale was so wounded and worried by the sharks that it became an easy prize for the fishermen, who carried it into Marshfield." It will be seen that the men of Marshfield were alive to the whaling interest at that early date, and the above-mentioned whale probably furnished all the oil they burned during their short evenings for many a night. In two old papers there are related accounts of two very large families which are considered interesting enough to record here. One is taken from The Boston Evening Post, of April 20, 1767 : INTERESTING ITEMS RELATIVE TO MARSHFIELD. 353 " About a month since was born at Gen. Winslow's farm, a daughter of John Fullerton, whose age is 73 3'ears, his wife's 47, the child being his seventeenth. He has had two daughters that are grandmothers, the one has had two grandchildren, and the other three; the last mentioned was present at the birth of her sister. Mr. Fullerton has had fifty grand and great-grandchildren, forty of which are now living." The account of the other family appears in a paper seven years earlier, as follows, from The Boston Gazette and Country Journal^ Monday, October 20, 1760 : " We hear from Marshfield in the County of Plymouth, that on the 2nd, inst., died there Mr. William Carver, aged 102 years, who retained his reason to the last. He was brother's son to the ancient Gov. Carver of the Plymouth Colony, and has left behind him the fifth generation of male issue in all, children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great- grandchildren, ninety-six." In the same paper of a later date, (Monday, April 12, 1762), is the following : "We hear that the body of William Preston, of Dorchester, was taken up at Marshfield on Saturday, the 3rd, and decently interred there. He was drowned in September last, as we then gave an account, going home in a canoe from Castle William, where he had been to receive some money, the most of which was found loose in his pockets when taken up." There is a very aged man now living in Marshfield whose ancestors lived at White's ferry. This man is Benjamin White, who, at the time of writing, is prol)ably the oldest man in Marshfield. He is a Imeal descendant of Peregrin White, the first white child born in New England, and was himself born in Hanover, Aug. 27, 1795. Mr. Cornelius White, great grand- father of Benjamin, lived at W^hite's ferry. He was a ship- builder, and a man of considerable means in his day. He owned the ferry boat at one time, it is said. He had a son Benjamin, a Avilfui lad, who fell m love with Miss Hannah Decrow, a young lady of powerful build and great beauty, but who was not considered good enough for the son of an opulent shipbuilder and ferryman. This young Ben., appears to have been a favorite with his father, and was threatened banishment if he persisted in his attentions to Miss Decrow. The young man married her, and, it is said that true to his word, his father banished him to Hanover. This was about 1743, when Mr. White, Sr., purchased of Jeremiah and Walter Hatch many hundred acres of heavy timbered land on what is now Centre St., the old habitation being on the spot now owned by Frank Fish. Mr. White, Sr., gave him this valuable tract of territory, started him in housekeeping in great style for those 354 MAESHFIELD. days, and gave him also a horse, two cows, a yoke of oxen, and a gundalow, which he kept at North River bridge. Mr. White, Jr., cut and carted his vahiable ship-timber to North River bridge, loaded it aboard his "gundalow," and freighted it down to his father's yard at the ferry. Mrs. White was a resolute, God-fearing woman, and, in opposition to her more worldly companion, she was l)ound to have her children baptized in the true faith, as we find by the church records of Rev. Benjamin Bass, dated Sept. 7, 1754, "were baptized four children of Benjamin White, (his wife owning the covenant), Penniah, Robert, Hannah and Benjamin, (the father's name), who was not considered in the baptism of the children." Benjamin, Sr., died Feb. 10, 1786, aged 65, and his wife (Miss Decrow) March 22, 1814, aged 94. Her son Benjamin grew to man's estate and married Miss Mary Chamberlin, of East Bridge- water, in 1780, and died in Hanover July 12, 1839, aged 88, and his widow March 27, 1841, aged S6. The present Benja- min, son of the above, inherited the estate of his parents, and lived there with his wife (Miss Mary Hall, of Marshfield) and family, until 1847, when he sold all his possessions in Hanover, and moved to Gravelly Beach in Marshfield. He has a son Benjamin F. now living in North Pembroke. John Tower related an anecdote in the JSTorth River Pioneer some years ago about " Uncle Josh " Stetson, of Hanover, on mowing, as follows : ''Wal," said Uncle Josh, "I should raly like to see one young man more that knovved how to mow. Nobody seems to know anything about how to swing a scythe nowadays, and you can't find one man between here and Pembroke meeting house but what will tangle down more grass than his neck is wuth. I tried most everybody I could think of, and finally got a chap to help, but bless ye, he'd lop in and lop out, and 'twas more work by half to go over after him than 'twas to do tiie whole myself." •' We thought that you never wanted any one to help you mow," we suggested. " Wal, I don't; but T 'spose a man has a right to be sick once in a while, ain't he ? When 1 lived down to the old place they called me the best mower on the river, and I'd beat everybody on Sitewate side, and one morning when I was down side of the river fishing for parch, who should I see coming across the medder on t'other side, but old Marmaduke Mc- Donnellson. Says he ' Josh, I've got a boy ter hum that will mow round ye four times in half a day.' 'Fetch him down here,' says I, 'and we'll see.' ' Do ye mean it ? ' says he. ' Sartain,' says I, and he started for home arter the boy. While he was gone, (he lived way up in the south end of the " two-mile,") I started for home arter grandsir's scythe, and got back ao-in down to the river afore Mc. got along with his boy. Pretty soon I see him coming with his son Sam. ' Wal, Josh,' he said, • where ye goin' to mow ? ' ' Begin right where ye stand and go down river,' says I, ' and HALL GENEALOGY. 355 the one that gets to White's ferry fust is the best feller.' That made old Me. look rather blue, and he said, ' Sam, Vl\ go home and get the old horse and wagon and a load of provisions and foller along down. Ye'U get mighty hungry fore ye get to White's ferry.' Wal, we struck in, and the way we made the grass fall was a caution. Grandsir went up on the hill and watched, but he told me arterwards that he couldn't see noth- ing but a winrow of grass flying in the air, and going at the rate of ten miles an hour." " How did you get across Stony brook ? " we inquired. '* Never noticed the brook at all, mowed right across it down past Little's bridge and Will's Island, swam across the river to the ferry, and stru(!k in on t'other side, and in less than two hours 1 met Sam just pulling himself out of Fulling mill creek." " That must have made about eighteen miles," we remarked. " Wal, yes. Always mowed nine miles an hour, could mow ten if I let out a link." We left " Uncle Josh "' sharpening his scythe for a second crop. But now let us return to the history of the shipbuilding at White's Ferry. The Halls first occupied this yard in 1825. They commenced huildins; near the mouth of the river but later moved up to the Capt. John Day place, where they had two yards, and sometimes two and three vessels on the stocks at onetime. Luke, William and Samuel were descendants of Adam Hall, of trans-atlantic birth, who came to Marshtield early in the last century and mar. in 1725, Sarah Sherman, a grand-daughter of Peregrin White, and settled in Marshfield. She died Aug. 7, 1768^ aired 67; they had children: 1. William, b. Jan. 11, 1726; 2. Thomas, b. July 17, 1728; 3. Adam, b. Oct. 21, 1729; 4. Joseph, b. Nov. 6, 1733; 5. Sarah, b. Sept. 18, 1735; ^. Jesse, b. Sept. 27, 1737; 7. Mercy, b. Sept. 12, 1739 ; 8. Levi, b. Oct. 25, 1744. Adam Hall, 2d, mar. in 1752, Kezia, dau. of Samuel and Sarah Sarah Rogers Ford ; their children were : 1. Adam, b. Jan. 27, 1757 ; i?."lMercy, b. Sei)t. 7, 1759, mar. Andrew Keen, April 2. 1795; 3. Susanna, b. Xov. 8, 1761, died unmarried; 4. Kezia, b. Dec. 30, 1764, mar. Proctor Sampson; 5. Luke, b. April 20, 1767, father of the shipbuilders, mar. in 1793, Anne, dau. of Barnard and Experience Tuels. He died on Staten Island, June 28, 1815, aged 48 years; 6. Samuel, b. Aug. 3, 1770, d. 1806. lie was Caj)tain of the North River Packet "Dolphin ;" 7. William, b. Aug. 28, 1774; and 8. Jesse. Of 356 hall's shipyard. the other raeml)ers of the Hall family, Luke Hall mar. Jane Hatch of Scituate, April 26, 1763, and had children : 1. Sarah, b. June 30, 1764, mar. Isaac Porter, 1785; 2. Hervey, b. March 12, 1774. Of another branch, Joseph Hall, mar. Susanna , and had children : 1. Joseph, b. July 21, 1775 ; 2. Sarah, b. Feb. 13, 1777 ; 3. Rachel, b. Sept. 29, 1778 ; 4. Deborah, b. Jan. 20, 1781 ; 5. Peleg, b. Nov. 16, 1782 ; 6. John, b. May 14, 1785; 7. Martin," b. Aug. 15,1787; 8. Luther, b. Aug. 5, 1789; 9. Isaac Randall, b. Nov. 14, 1791. Of still another branch, John Hall mar. Deborah , and had children : 1. Abigail, b. Dec. 4, 1739 ; 2. Rhoda, b. March 27, 1741 ; 3. Lydia ; b, March 30, 1743 ; 4. Lemuel, b. July 15, 1747. The only other branches of which we have records, were Katharine Hall, wdio mar. Joshua Bramhall of Hingham, 1747, John Hall, Jr., who mar. Zilpha Crooker, 1746, and had chil- dren : 1. Lemuel, b. July 15, 1747 ; 2. Deborah, b. Dec. 23,, 1748; ^. John, b. Oct. 15, 1750; 4. Francis, b. April 15, 1752; 5. Martin, b. March 1, 1754, 6. Luther, b. Sept. 14, 1755 ; 7. Calvin, b. Nov. 4, 1758. Luke, William and Samuel were sons of Luke and Anna Tuels Hall ; they built in Marshfield together from 1825 to 1828, when Samuel, who was then about 28 years of age (being b. April 23, 1800) left the firm. He served his apprenticeship at Dea. Elijah Barstow's inPIanover. Luke and William continued in business toirethcr until 1837, from which time until 1840, Luke built alone. "The sch. "DRAY," was built by the Halls at the Ferry. In 1825, they built the sch. "DANIEL," 72 tons, of Marshfield ; owners, Caleb Prouty, Jr., Scituate, Jabez Hatch, Daniel Phillips, Luke, William and Samuel Hall of MarshficLl, and the same year, 1825, the sch. "TRITON," 75 tons of Dux- bury, of which Samuel Hall was master carpenter. The same year the brig "SMYRNA," 162 tons, of Boston, was built in Marshfield, probably at this yard. In 1827, the brig " WAV- ERLY," 232 tons, was built l)y Samuel Hall and sold to Plymouth and afterward to Salem. This was the last of Samuel Hall's building in Marshfield. To go back to his early life, when he had attained his majority, he left Barstow's Yard in Hanover, and with twenty-five cents in his pocket and a broad- axe on his shoulder he went to Medford and from there to hall's shipyard. 357 Camden, Me., from which latter place he returned to Marsh- field. From Marshfield he went to Duxbury and built for Ezra Weston, with Henry Tajdor as foreman. In 1837-8, he built on his own account in Duxbury, and in 1839, removed to East Boston. In April, 1839, he commenced the work of preparing a ship-yard about where the end of Maverick street is now. The first vessel ever built in East Boston was in 1834, so he can be called one of the pioneers there. In 1839, he built his first ship there, the "Akbor ;"from then until 1860, he built 110 vessels, some of them the largest, fastest and best ships that ever " skimmed the seas." Among the larijest were the " Game Cock," in 1851, of 1392 tons, the"" Oriental" in 1854, of 1654 tons, the " Wizard," 1853, of 1600 tons, and the " Hiahlander," in 1858, of 1049 tons. While in East Boston, Samuel Hall became interested in much beside shipbuilding. In 1847 he was president of the Dry Dock Company ; he was president of the East Boston Ferry Company from the time of its organiza- tion in 1852, until it was bought by the city ; he was president of the Maverick National Bank, (now located in Boston) from its incorporation until his death, which occurred Nov. 13, 1870. He mar. first, Christiana Kent, no children ; 2nd Huldah B. Sherman, by whom he had children : 1. Huldah, died in infancy; 2. Samuel, b. 1833, mar. Harriet A. Lovejoy ; 3. Walter Scott, mar. Mary Gregory ; 4. Marcia, b. 1836, mar. George W. Emery, late Governor of Utah ; 5. Anna Tuels, died young ; 6. Huldah Augusta, died young ; 7. Amanda Wliite, died young; 8. Hattie G., b. 1853, mar. William A. Rogers. Few of the old ship-carpenters of North River are now living, but there is one residing in Marshfield who worked for the Halls from the time they began building ; this is Hatch Carver. Among the Marshfield ship-carpenters we find the descendants of many of the most noted men in the colony, but none perhaps more noted than Carver, the first Governor of the infant settle- ment in Plymouth in 1620. Hatch Cai-ver, b. 1812, a lineal descendant of the Governor is now living near Roger's Hill. He was the son of Barstow Carver and Lucy Hatch Carver, and nephew of Luke Hall. He mar. Roxanna T. Sylvester, of Marsh- field, afterward of Quincy. He first went to Quincy intending to learn the trade of blacksmithing of his father-in-law, but getting dissatisfied he returned to Marshfield and went to work for Luke Hall on the shipyard at the Ferry. After a\ orking for Mr. Hall for a time he went to New York city, and worked • 358 VESSELS BUILT BY THE HALLS. at his trade on East River nine years, when he again returned to his old home and worked in the shijiyard and taking vessels down the river. He worked for Luke, AVilliam and Samuel Hall, building mostly packets to run on the river and small schooners, as the seh. "Daniel" and the sip. "Susan." About I80O, the Halls commenced building i'ov Ezra AVeston of Dux- bury, and a vessel for Uusscll of tiie Plymouth Iron Co. ; also several barks for a Connnercial Wharf Comptniy, and many for the Cape. Mr. Carver appears now to be taking life easy in apparently i-omfortablc circumslances, with all his family settled around him. In his younger days he was something of a sports- man, and some thirty to forty years ago, he in company with Amos AV. Cross, of Boston, a noted hunter, for nine years made annual trips into the wilderness of Maine hunting moose, bear and deer, which Mere at that time very common in many parts of the state. ]Mr. Carver claims to have killed the largest deer, (four hundred pounds) ever known to be cajitured in that region, it had fat two inches thick on the ribs, the antlers, ofunusual size, are still owned by ISlr. Carver, and show the mark of the first bullet, which missed. Mr. Carver has enjoyed perfect health all his days and has good prospects of exceeding his t\)ur score years. After Samuel Hall retired from the lirm, Luke and AVilliam continued shipbuilding here. They have numerous descendants living in Boston, East Boston, Quincy, Newtonville, Hingham and elsewhere. Luke and "William built in 1828 the brig, afterwards bark, "XEAVTOX," 2SS tons, of Boston. Jesse Dunbar, Sr. and Jr., of Scituate and others, owners ; in 1838, she was owned in New Bedford, and used whaling in the Pacitic Ocean. In 184o the crew nmtinied and a new crew was shipped at Oahu, H. I. ; in Dec, 1844. Capt. Sawyer died at San Diego, Cal. ; in 1854 she sent home from the Northern Pacitic, 140 bbls. of sperm and 600 bbls. of whale oil and 10200 lbs. of bone. She was lost in the Ochotsk sea in 1857, being stove by the ice. In 1820, the brig "FLORA," 151 tonsli^ of Boston, Avas built in Marshtield, probably by the Halls. They built in 1830 the brig " GEM," 1(^2 tons, of Boston ; in 1841, she was sold and used whaling in the Atlantic. In 1851, she returned leaking after starting on a new voyage, making 8000 strokes jier hour : she was withdrawn from whaling in 1855. The " Gem" was at one time owned in Salem and used in the African trade. The Halls buiU, in 1831, the sip. "LEADER," 42 tons, a North River packet ; owned by Luther Brig "Norfolk," 135 tons. Built by the Halls, in 1833, at the Ferry. VESSELS BUILT BY THE HALLS. 359 Rogers, Sr. and Jr., Stephen and Moses Rogers, Proctor Bourne, Jabez and Benjamin Hatch, Christopher Oakman, Jonathan Stetson, Wales Rogers, Luke and Wm. Ilall of Marshlieid, Ephraim Randall, Horace Collamore of Pembroke, Thos. Waterman, Joseph S. Bates, Elijah Barstow, Jr., Jos. Eels, Haviland Torrey, Reuben and Geo. Curtis, and Tilden Crooker, of Hanover ; and the same year, 1831, they built the brig "FAIRY," 185 tons, of Boston, of which Luke Hall was master carpenter. She was afterward sold to Provincetown and used whaling. The Halls built, in 1832, the brig "ECHO," 197 tons, of Boston ; Luke Hall, master carpenter. The brig "NORFOLK," 135 tons, Avas built by Luke and WilUiam Hall, in the spring of 1833, and was sailed by Capt. Reuben Matthews in the Norfolk, Va., and Boston trade, about 1837. Capt. F. M. Boggs commanded her at one time, and while under the command of these two captains she was also in the St. John trade, bringing plaster and tish from St. John, and taking merchandise back, and she went one trip to the West Indies. Soon after 1837, Capt. Reuben Matthews commanded her in the Philadelphia, St. John and Halifax trade. In October, 1844, she left Philadelphia under Capt. Matthews bound to Port Spain, Island of Trinidad, with a cargo of bread stuffs, &c., and never was heard from after leaving the Delaware. To Capt. Richard Matthew and Capt. F. M. Boggs, the writer is indebted for much valuable information concerning some of the above vessels. Many have been the pleasant cliats with Capt. Boggs at his office, 47 So. IVIarket street, Boston, where hangs a crayon picture of the brig "Norfolk." Several who have contributed valuable facts to this liook have passed away during the last 3'ear. It is to be regretted that Capt. Boggs is of the number. He died Jan. 19, 1889, honored and esteemed by hundreds of friends. He was a man of marked energy, a thorough seaman and an able commander. Born in New York, 78 years ago, he was taken, while still an infant, to Nantucket, and there left to his own resources at an early age, his father ])erish- ing at sea, and his mother dying before he was beyond boyhood. At the age of ten he sought his fortune on the sea as cook on a Bermuda bound sloop. Through the various grades from cabin boy he pushed his way pluckily, till at the age of twenty-six he became a master. He was then running in the old packet line between Boston and Philadelphia, and afterward took command of the steamers on the same route. Between these commands, however, he was in business in Philadelphia, and was post- 360 VESSELS BUILT BY THE HALLS. master at Waquoit, Mass. He was at one time partner with John M. Kennedy & Co. Capt. Boggs took great interest in the Boston Marine Society, serving as one of its trustees. He left a widow and three children. William and Lnl'e IlallhwWi the fishing schooner "DANIEL WEBSTP:R." In 1833 they l)uilt two vessels, the brig "DOVER," and the schooner "DOVER." The schooner "Dover" was of 87 tons, and owned by Luke Hall, the mas- ter carpenter, William Hall, Elijah Ames and Jabez Hatch, Marshtield. The brig "Dover" was of 1()6 tons and owned at Boston, by Luke and William Hall of Marshfield. In 1834, the Halls built three vessels. The first was a North River Packet of 36 tons, which had 24 owners as follows : The sip. "SUSAN," 36 tons, built by Luke and William Hall and owned by them and Proctor Bourne, Jabez Hatch, Israel Carver, Jonathan Stetson, Benjamin and Emmons Hatch, Asa F. Curtis, Amos Sherman, Nath. Bonney, James Hall and Henry Clapp, of Marshfield, Aurora W. Oldham, Horace Colla- more, John Holmes, Calvin Shepard, George Curtis, Ephraim Randall, Ezra Hatch and Alden Briggs, of Pembroke, Samuel Foster, Elijah Cudworth and Joseph Clapp. of Scituate. Smith Kent worked on the " Susan " in 1833. Mr. Kent remembers that in one year about this time 26 vessels came down river that were built on the yards above. The Halls' second vessel this year, 1834, was the sch., afterward brig, " DEPOSIT," 125 tons, of Boston ; owners, liuke and William Hall, Ephraim Randall, Benjamin and Jabez Hatch of Marshfield, afterward sold to a Mr. Kent, and commanded in 1839 by Capt. Howes in the West India trade ; sold later to jNIr. Upton of Salem, and run to Para. She would sail like a witch. The last vessel built by the Halls this year was the sch. "UNCLE SAM," 118 tons, of Boston, built in 1834, Luke Hall, master carpenter. The brig "ESTHP:R," 135 tons, was built at Marshfield, in 1835, by William and Luke Hall, and owned by Fabens of Boston ; she was lost in a gale oft' Cape Cod al>out 1852. The Halls built in 1836, the sch. "PLANET," 98 tons, of Scituate ; owners, Asa Curtis, Seth Wel)l) and Elijah Jenkins, Jr., Scituate, Luke and William Hall, of Marshfield. She was afterward sold to Newport, from Avhich port she sailed and was never heard of after. The sch. "GRAND ISLAND," 106 tons, was built in Marshfield in 1835-36 of oak ; was repaired in 1852 and owned in 1861 by Kebbin and others, Newlnirypoit, Capt. Reed ; and in 1874 by William Mclntyre of Camden, Me. THE ONLY STEAMBOAT BUILT ON NORTH RIVER. 361 About this time William Hall went to Hingham and Luke Ball continued building here, and in 1837, built the sch. "WILLIAM HENRY," 110 tons, of Provincetown. Also in 1837, the bark "PILOT," 199 tons, of Boston, and probably the sch. "JAMES FRANCIS," 101 tons of Provincetown, which was built in Marshfield, in 1837, and in 1838, the sch. "JOSHUA BROWN," 112 tons of Provincetown, from which port she was whalinof in 1845. In 1838, was built here the sch. "DANIEL FRANCIS," 113 tons, of Provincetown ; also in 1839, the brig " PHOENIX," 150 tons, of Provincetown. The sch,. " ROVER " was built at the Ferry for Asa Curtis, who afterward sold her. Tucker in his "Maritime Geography," 1815, says "Americans excel in shipbuilding and new ships form a considerable part of their export trade." In 1839, was built at thin yard the only steamboat ever built on JSTorth River. She was named for a powerful tribe of Indians, whose camping ground was on the Scituate bank of North River, extending from the Block House Yard to Union Bridge. This was the steamboat "Matfakees," sometimes called in her registers "MATTAKEESETT," 21 terns, built in 1839 by Luke Hall, and owned by him and Moses F. Rogers, Proctor Bourne, Jabez Hatch, Azel Ames, and Israel Carver of Marshfield, Horace Collamore, Ephraim Randall, John Holmes, of Pem- broke and George Curtis, of Hanover. This was virtually a com- pany that formed to build her. Her length was 49 feet, breadth 14 feet, depth 3 feet, and round stern. She was built with the intention of using her to tow out new vessels and also packets up and down the river, there being then three packets running on the river, but they had to use too short a tow line, or rather the river was too crooked to permit the use of a proper tow line. She was in the ice nearly opposite or a little below Till Rock all one winter. After she proved herself a failure on the Tiver, she was taken to Boston and sold where she Avas used for towing scows, &c. She was employed for a time prior to Iier sale towing scows loaded with iron to the anchor works in Hanover, and doing some freighting business on the river. While on the river, Byron Simmons, George Harvey and a Mr. Hewitt went on her at different times. After she was sold she was enlarged to 43 tons, and in 1846 was owned by Cephas Brackett of Boston. She was rebuilt in 1849, but what finally became of her does not appear. The last vessel built here is said to have been the sch. "ORLEANS " of Orleans, 100 tons, used fishing in the sunuuer and coasting in the Avinter, carrying 362 LAST VESSEL BUILT AT THE FERRY. grain, etc., in tlie North Carolina trade. A stone appropriately cut should be erected on- the site of these yards before the location is lost, and we hope some public spirited citizen, or descendant of the shipbuilders, will before it is too late, per- manent :j '^lark the spot where so many vessels were built. CHAPTER XX. SCITUATE HARBOR YARDS. 1650-1864. WILLIAM JAMES, JOHN KENT, JOB OTIS, JOHN NORTHEY, WILLIAM VINAL, SAMUEL KENT, ANTHONY WATERMAN, OTIS BRIGGS> JAMES SYLVESTER BRIGGS, BARNABAS WEBB BRIGGS, J. O. CURTIS, WILLIAM VINAL, JR., HENRY VINAL, WILLIAM BRIGGS, & CO., MELZAR S. TURNER, LUTHER BRIGGS, EDWIN OTIS, ANDREW COLE. SHIP building was probably first carried on at the Harbor by William James. Deane says he probably came from Marshfield as early as 1650, but he did not settle at the Harbor until 1673. He may have built here as early as 1650, but no proof has been found by the author of his having built any vessels before settling at the Harbor. He dug a dock and located his yard at the head of it, where Dunbar's wharf has since been built. The dock is still known as " Will James' Dock." He left no descendants of record ; his house was where "Young's Tavern" afterward stood. The first white settlers were using heavy timber at an early date, as the fol- lowing verdict shows : " 1673. Verdict that Experience Litchfield came by his death in attempting to cany a heavy stick of timber on board a boat at Rho- dolphus EeHme's landing place at Hoop pole neck, his feet slipping up and he falling on a plank and the timber on his head, he dying at his father's house the same day." Hoop-pole neck was near Great neck, north of the Harbor toward the Glades. The first drowning accident recorded as hap- pening at the Harbor was in 1676 : " Joseph Ellis at Scituate with John Vaughan and Daniel Hicks, Jr., going into the water at the Harbor to swim, said Joseph EUis 364 THE EARLY FISHERIES. was drowned. Jury's verdict that the water in the said Harbor was the sole cause of his death." The first mill in town was a wind-mill on the northeast part of the 3d clifl', erected by William Gilson in 1636. The tirst tide mill at the Harbor was built by John Stetson, who in 1730 purchased the Wanton Estate in Scituate. It does not seem out of place to record here the death of two daughters of a minister long settled in this town, pastor of the First church.* The first taken from the Postscript to Boston Evening Post, Jan. 15, 1759: "Death, on the 9th of this inst. died, & on the 11th was decently interred, Mrs. Bathsheba Emmes, wife of Mr. Saml Emmes, of this town, & youngest daughter of the Rev. Mr. Shearjashub Bourn, of Scituate, in the 29th year of her age. As she served God from her early youth, & lived a virtuous life, so she had the comfort of it when drawing near to death." And the second taken from Boston Evening Post, Feb. 11, 1760: " At Scituate, the 28th of January, died with Christian resignation, Mrs. Desire Bailey, wife of Mr. Benjamin Bailey and daughter of the Rev. Mr. Shearjashub Bourn, of that town, 2Eit. 31." The fisheries were an early source of income to the inhabi- tants of the Harbor village. In 1680, Cornet Robert Stetson, of Scituate, and Nathaniel Thomas, of Marshfield, hired the Cape Fishery for bass and mackerel. In 1770 over 30 vessels were fitted out from Scituate. In 1828 over 15,000 barrels of mackerel were taken by Scituate vessels. In 1830 thirty-five vessels were fitted out from the Har])or for mackerel fishing in the summer and were employed during the winter in the lum- ber and grain coasting trade. Deane says that in 1830 there were "two regular packets from the Harbor carrying on an almost daily intercourse with Boston." Charles T. Torrey,f the martyr, in his book entitled "Home, or the Pilgrim's Faith Revived," written during his incarceration in Baltimore jail, says : " The Eastern border, for some twelve miles rests on the seashore. It is a long, rocky beach on which the surges never cease to beat, which has been the last sand touched by many a shipwrecked sailor, * See Wanton Yard Chapter. t See chapter Scituate Miscellaneous. EARLY SHIPWRECKS. 365 and is interrupted by several high hills or cliffs. In some past century these cliffs were long promontories jutting out into the ocean waves. Storm after storm has beat upon them and now more than two-thirds of their soil has fallen and been washed away. Twenty years ago I remember riding on firm soil at a safe distance from the then peaceful brink of one of the cliffs, more than a hun- dred feet beyond the present reach of the fierce waves. And the huge rocks that once dotted the top, now help to break the power of the waters, far out from the shore. These cliffs in 1623 were cov- ered with the cornfields of the Indians. At the foot of them stood their wigwams. Near by, stands the old mansion, or its successor, built on the soil they gave the friendly Christian Tanner. Between another and a rocky headland, is our little tide harbor, giving shel- ter to our fishing craft and a few vessels engaged in the coasting trade." The early papers record many of these shipwrecks and besides the following, many are recorded under other chapters. From the Boston Evening .Post, Feb. 1, 1768 : " Last Thursday night the sip. ' Egmont,' Wm. Wilson, master, from the Island of St. John's, bound to this place, was cast away at Scituate ; the vessel lost but the people saved." From the Boston Evening Post, May 9, 1768 : " Capt. John Doubleday in a brig from the Mount, on Friday morning, the 15th ult., in thick weather, ran ashore on the rocks near Scituate. but luckily got off again but received so much damage in her bottom that they could scarcely keep her above water till they got into Plimouth Harbor, from whence after taking out part of her cargo, she came up to town last week." From the Boston Evening Post, Mon., Oct. 11, 1773 : " We hear that a sip. belonging to Scituate, Wm. Willson, master, bound- from Kennebeck to this place, loaded with lumbei", was stranded on Hamp- ton Beach last Saturday fe'n'night. Capt. Willson & one man and a boy took to a boat which soon after overset in the surf and the two former were drowned ; 3 other men and a woman staid on board the wreck but 2 of them with the woman were washed off and drowned. It is said that a vessel was also drove ashore the same day on Plumb Island." Scituate Harbor offered every facility for shipbuilding excepting that large vessels could not be gotten over the bar, there being; seldom more than ten feet of water at full tide. The two points which form the harbor are Crow Point and Cedar Point. On the northeast, or Cedar Point, there is a light-house, now unused, which was erected in 1811. Through the untiring efforts of the Hon. George Lunt, the Govern- ment has built a breakwater from this point, and has partially 366 VESSELS BUILT IN SCITUATE PRIOR TO 1700. dredged the harbor. Had Mr. Lunt lived and been able to carry out his plans of making Scituate Harbor safe for a port of refuge with a guiding light at its entrance the loss of life would have been undoubtedly much less the past year on Scituate's eight miles of rocky coast. In early times the shores of the harbor were skirted with timber to the water's edge, which made shipbuilding an easy matter for the early settlers com- pared with their descendants who had to cart timber ten and twenty miles. The following are some of the vessels built in Scituate and it is possible many of them were built at the Harbor. John Kent probably built here as early as 1700. One of his descendants, Samuel (referred to further on) built here a hun- dred years later. There was built in Scituate, in 1698, the ship "PROVIDENCE," 100 tons, Capt. Thomas Lillie ; owners Capt. John Thomas, Samuel Lillie, John Borland and Joseph Brigham of Boston ; also the same year, 1698, the ship "BLES- SING," 90 tons, Capt. Richard Lillie ; owner Sam'l Lillie of Boston; also the same year, 1698, the sip. "ADVENTURE," 15 tons, Capt. Daniel Weare ; owner Peter Butler of Boston. In 1699 the sip. "JAMES & THOMAS," 30 tons, was built at Scituate ; owners, James Pitts, merchant, and Thomas Sav- age of Boston, also the same year, 1699, brig't'n " SWANN," 45 tons ; owners, Joseph Jackson, William Clarke, Richard Middlecott, John Eyre, Thomas Cooper and George Hallett, all of Boston; also in 1699, sip. "MARY & ABIGAIL," 30 tons, Capt. Thomas Newman ; owners John Foster and Dame Mary Phips of Boston ; and also in 1699, Brig^t'n "SPEED- WELL," 50 tons, Capt. Thomas Simpkins ; owner, Samuel Lillie of Boston. Job Otis succeeded William James at his yard. The only vessel there is positive proof of having been built by Job Otis was in 1700, referred to in the following oath made Oct. , 1700: "Isaac Litde, of Marshfield, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, in New England, made oath that the Katch ' LITTLE OTIS,' of Scituate, within the said Province, whereof Samuel Prince is at present master, being a round sterned Vessel of the burthen of about Thirty Tons, was built at Scituate aforesaid, in this present year 1700, And that jfob Otis^ of said Scituate, together with him the said Isaac Little, are at present owners thereof, and that no forreigner, directly or indirectly, hath any share or part or interest therein Sworne before William Stoughton, Esq., Lieutenant Gov. &C.5 & William Payne, Deputy Collector." VESSELS BUILT IN SCITUATE EARLY IN 1700. 367 There was also built at Scituate in 1700 Brig't'n '^ UNITY," 60 tons, Capt. Samuel Simpkins ; owner, Samuel Lillie. The Northeys were also interested in Scituate vessels if they did not build at the Harbor themselves. John Northey came from Marblehead in 1675, and has descendants now living in Scit- uate. The following is a copy of an oath taken by him : "January 2nd, 1700. John iVorZ/^^jK, of Scituate, in Province Massachusetts Bay, in New England, made oath that the Katch "SARAH'S ADVENTURE," of Scituate aforesaid, whereof John Horton, Jr . , is at present master, being a round sterned Vessel * * * of 40 tons, was built at Scituate aforesaid in the year 1699, and that David Jacob, Nathaniel Tilden, Joseph Otis and David Northy, all of Scituate, and Samuel Lillie of Boston, * * * * together with the said John Northy, are at present owners thereof * * * * sworne before me, William Stoughton, Lt. Gov., &c., & William Payne, Dep Coll." A ketch or " katch " as they used to spell it, was always a small vessel rigged something like a sloop, with one or two masts, very much like the modern yacht. There was built at Scituate (possibly at the Harbor) the following vessels. In 1700 the brig't'n "AMITY," 25 tons; owners, John Frizell, merchant, and John Ruck, of Boston; in 1701, brig't'n "SWANN," 60 tons ; owners, Capt. Thomas Parker and Samuel Lillie, of Boston; and the same year, 1701, the ship "JOHN & ELIZABETH," 70 tons; Capt. Thomas ChiHy ; owner, John Frizell, Boston. Also in 1701, the bark " DRAGON," 65 tons ; owners, Capt. John Ruggles, John Devin and George Robin- son, of Boston, and William Smith, of Charlestown. In 1702, the brig't'n " DRAGON," 40 tons, Capt. John Jinkins ; owner, Samuel Lillie; and the same year, 1702, the sloop "INDUS- TRY," 40 tons, Capt. Thomas Barnes ; owners, James Barnes and Elisha Bennet, Boston ; and the same year, 1702, brig't'n "FRIENDS' ADVENTURE," 50 tons ; owners, Captain Jona- than Evans and Samuel Lillie, Boston ; and also the same year, 1702, brig't'n "JOHN," 40 tons, Capt. John Gurny ; owner, John Frizell, Boston. In 1703, the brig't'n " CHARLES," 30 tons ; owner, John Frizell, of Boston ; and the same year, 1703, the brig't'n " SEA FLOWER," 60 tons ; ownei-, Samuel Lillie of Boston; also in 1703, the brig't'n "SPEEDWELL FRIEND," 20 tons ; owners, David Northey and Samuel Noilhey, Jr., and John Northy of Scituate ; and the same vear, 1703, the sloop "ENDEAVOR," 36 tons; owner, Sa'muel Marshall, of Boston. In 1705 was built the brig't'n "THREE 368 VESSELS BUILT BY WILLIAM VINAL. SISTERS," 90 tons ; owners, Daniel Oliver, merchant, and Nathaniel Oliver, of Boston. In 1706, the sloop " DOVE," 30 tons; owners, John Foster, Esq., Gilbert Bant, John Eustice, and William Cole, of Boston. For the next seventy years the records of shipbuilding are missing, therefore the history of shipbuilding for those years will remain nearly blank unless the British Government sees tit at some future time to return the valuable papers they confiscated at the time of the Revolution. It was probably by some oversight that the records from 1675 to 1715 were left. The next earliest records we have found of vessels that were built in Scituate, and probably at the Harbor, are the following : 1780, sch. "HANNAH," 27 tons, of Cohasset ; owners, Nehcmiah Manson, of Cohasset, Ignatius Vinal, and Luther Holbrook, of Scituate. In 1785 the brig "FAME," 140 tons, of Boston; and the same year, 1785, the sch. "PATTY," 56 tons, of Newburyport. In 1795, the sch. " SOPHIA," 67 tons, of Boston. In 1796, the sch. "INDUS- TRY," owned bv James Little and others, of Scituate. In 1797, the sch. "LIVELY," 2S tons ; owned by Joseph Jen^ kins, at Scituate. In 1798, the sch. " LUCY," 39 tons ; owned by James Lither and Jedediah Little, and Israel Merritt, of Scituate. The same year, 1798, the sch. "POLLY," 39 tons^ of Boston ; owned by Jane and Nathaniel Waterman, of Boston, Nathaniel Wade, Jr., Nathaniel Turner, Jr., and Nathaniel Baker, of Scituate. In 1800 the sch. " HARRIOTT," 60 tons, owned by Lemuel and Levi Vinal, and Consider Mer- ritt, of Scituate ; afterward sold to Bowdoinham. In 1801 sch, "ELIZA," 99 tons, of Boston. William Vinal (whose son William built here later) built vessels at Scituate harbor as early as 1786. He was also largely interested in the fisheries. Major William, as he was called, was a son of Israel, Jr., and a descendant of widow Anna Vinal, who was in Scituate as early as 1636, with three children. William afterward projected a settlement at Quincy Point. Among the vessels he built at the Harbor are the fol- lowing : 1786, sch. "SALLY," 54 tons; owners, Nathaniel Wade, Jr., Thomas Mann, Barnabas Webb, Stephen and Wil- liam Vinal, Scituate. 1793, sch. " POLLY," 52 tons ; owners, Nehemiah Manson and William Vinal, shipwriijht. 1794, sch. "FANNY," 67 tons, of Scituate; Elijah and ^Oliver Jenkins, and William Vinal, Jr., Scituate, owners. 1795, sch. "BET- SEY," 35 tons, of Scituate: William Vinal, owner. 1796, sch. "SALLY," 54 tons, of Scituate ; Samuel Curtis, Deborah Rough plan of Scituate Harbor. (Figure references at the end of the book.) SAMUEL KENT, SHIPBUILDER. 369 Mann, Barnabas Webb, Stephen and William Vinal, owners. 1796, sch. "LYDIA & POLLY," 102 tons, of Scituate ; James Little, Oliver and Elijah Jenkins, and William Vinal, own- ers. 1797, sch. " FISH HAWK," 46 tons, of Scituate, Charles Ellms, Levi and William Vinal, owners. 1798, sch. "BET- SEY," 60 tons, of Scituate. Nehemiah Manson, Lemuel and William Vinal, owners. 1800, sch. "ROVER," 89 tons; owners, Nehemiah Manson, James Collier, William Vinal, Ira Bryant, Cushing Otis, of Scituate, and others. She afterward hailed from Boston, was changed from a schooner into a brig in 1804, and on Feb. 14, 1811, at Boston, was ordered to be sold for the payment of seamen's wages. In 1800 sch. "LIBERTY," 88 tons, of Scituate, Charles Ellmes, David Otis, Lemuel and WiUiam Vinal, owners. built more vessels than any one else at the Harbor dur- ing the first part of this century. His yard was lo- cated on the creek or inlet near the mouth of Satuit Brook, which was then quite clear and deep. It was on the Harbor side of the creek, and not far from the " Old Tavern House," which is still used for a public house. His residence stood on the present site of Mr. Film's grocery store. The first bridge over Satuit brook was built prior to 1648. This stream, for which the town was named, is scarcely a mile in length, and falls into the creek at the Harbor. The early settlers found beaver dams across it. East of the Harbor the territory was called Little Marsh in 1636. From the Boston Evening Post, of May 20, 1771, is taken an item relative to the Kent family, but not this immediate ])ranch. "Last Tuesday died Mr. Samuel Kent, of Charlestown, in the 57th year of his aofe, whosn death (on aecount of his remarkable diligence, upright- ness and goodness in the public as well as the private affairs of his life), is very justly regretted by all who knew him." Samuel Kent, the shij)l)uilder of Scituate was a descendant of John Kent, of Dedham. After much time and labor amonof the Dedham church, town, and other records, and the same records of Charlestowii Cambridge, Boston and Scituate, the following genealogy has been compiled : KENT GEXEALOGY. The first of this name we find in New England is " Jo. Kent, 370 KENT THE FIRST OF THAT NAME IN NEW ENGLAND. aged 23, sailed from London in 1635 in the ship 'William co John,' l)ound to St. Christopher."* The next earliest accounts of the Kent family are found in the "Dedham Records of Church and Cemetery," and the "Dedham Records of Births, Marriages, etc." Joshua Kent was in Dedham in 1643. He was admitted into the church there in Sept., 1644. In November, 1644, he went to England, the church records say, " with our testimonial!." He returned from England in 1645, bringing with him two brothers, one of whom was Jolin^ the direct or common ancestor of Samuel Kent, the shipbuilder, and the others of that name in Scituate and Marshfield. There was born to Joshua Kent, and Mary, his wife, Dec. 17, 1646, a dau., whom they named Lydia. Joshua became a freeman in 1646. In October, 1647, "for reasons not well satisfying his friends or church," accompanied by his wife, he went back to England, where he found the government in a very unsettled condition, trouble "having again arisen." Becoming disheartened at the convulsions of his native land, he and his wife returned again to Amei-ica in Octo- ber, 1648. Another child was born to them Jan. 27, 1650, whom they named Sarah. A third dau., Mary, was born Oct. 10, 1651. Mary Kent, deceased, Nov. 28, 1676 ; but whether it was the mother or child the records do not state. John Kent, I., bro. of Joshua, was received into the church at Dedham, May 16, 1652. He was a freeman in 1654, and mar. March 21, 1662, Hannah Grizold (also found recorded as Grizwold and Grissell.) She died in Charlestown, Mass., January 9, 1690-1. They removed to Charlestown, where they were admitted to the church April 13, 1663. Their children were, I. Hannah, b. July 2, 1667 ; mar. Joseph Cahoon. II. John. HI. Mary, b. Feb. 3, 1669-70. IV. Joshua, b. June 15, 1672, d. soon. V. Joshua, baptized July 5, 1673, afterward of Boston. VI. Joseph, baptized October 17, 1675, (mar. Rebecca Chittenden.) VII. Samuel, b. Mar. 23, 1678, d. aged 25 years. VIII. Ebenezer, b. Aug. 18, 1680, afterward of Scituate. IX. Lydii, b. July 16, 1683. X. Mary, b. May 12, 1686. XI. Susan.i, b. Aug. 13, 1689. John II., son of John I., mar. Dec. 22, 1692, Sarah Smith. They had children born in Charlestown. 1. Sarah, b. Oct. *" Emigration to America, by Hotten." KENT GENEALOGY. 371 11, d. Dec. 24, 1693. 2. John, b. Sept. 29, 1694, baptized in Cambridge. 3. Hannah, b. Mar. 5, 1695-6, baptized in Cambridge. 4. Elizabeth, b. Jan. 8, 1697-8, baptized in Cambridge; d. in Scituate Jan. 8, 1702. In 1698, John, the father, and Sarah, his wife, removed to Scituate, where the following children were born to them, 5. Ebenezer,* b. May 28, 1699, who mar. in 1728, Huldah Whittemore, and in 1738 was captain of S. Henley's Snow, "Eebecca." 6. Benjamin K., b. Jan. 8, 1701. 7. Sarah, b. Sep. 10, 1702. 8. Samuel, b. Dec. 18, 1703. 9. Ezekiel, b. Oct. 8, 1705. 10. Nathaniel, b. Feb. 18, 1708. This family removed from Scituate to Marshfield about 1709-10, and accounts of some of their fam- ilies can be found in this book at the end of the history of the Scituate branches, f Ebenezer VHL, bro. of John H., and son of John I., went from Charlestown to Scituate where he married in 1703, Han- nah Gannett. They had children: 1. Abigail, b. Oct. 12, 1706; d. March 12, 1709; 2. Mercy, b. July 31, 1708; 3. Elizabeth, b. Sept. 6, 1710. 4. Isaac, b. Sept. 27, 1712. 5. Mary, b. 1715. 6. Ebenezer, b. 1717. We will now go back to Joseph, 6, son of John I., mar. Nov. 26, 1702, Rebecca Chittenden of Scituate (mar. by Rev. Mr. Cushing). She d. Apr. 2, 1762, in her 81st year. He d. May 30, 1753. By his will, probated June 30, 1753 % ; he devised to his wife the use of all his estate except that given to Samuel. He gave his negroes, "Peggy to Mehetabel, Venus to Rebecca, Jenny to Benjamin and Violet to Stephen." Joseph and Rebecca (Chittenden) Kent had children : I. Joseph, b. Mar. 5, 1703-4, afterward of Boston, gentleman. § *For descendants see Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown," K to Z, p. 571. t" On 20th of May, in the year of our Lord 1700, John Kent, of Sittuate, brought to record a stray horse, as he sayd.of a darke bay coler, with two notches or peeces cutout of the near eare towards the top on each side one, said beast being taken damag feasant in Inclosures." — Sci uate Records. JSee Genealogies & Estates of Charlestown, K to Z, p. 572. ^WILL OF JOSEFH KENT. In the name of God Amen I Joseph Kent of Boston in ye County of Suffolk & Province of ye Massachusetts Bay in New England Gent'n do make and ordain this my last will & testament & I do hereby give and bequeath all my estate l)Oth real and personal that I now have or hereafter may have as wages prize money &c due or that shall become due from any person or persons whatever to ray brother Benjamin Kent of Boston atoresaid Uent'n his heirs & assigns and I do hereby nominate and appoint 372 KENT GENEALOGY. 11. Stephen, b. June 14, 1706. III. Benjamin. IV. Mehet- abel, b. Aug. 26, 1711, mar. Jotham Tuttle. V. Samuel, b. July 18, 1714, mar., Nov. 27, 1740, Eebecca Adams. VI. Jonathan, b. Mar. 29, 1717, afterward of Boston, gentleman. VII. David, b. June 1, 1719. VIII. John, b. Sept.' 24, 1722. IX. Rebecca, b. May 6, 1725, mar. Eben Rockwell. Benjamin Kent, of Boston, gentleman, who was attorney for David in 1749, and probably his brother and son of Joseph VI., mar. Elizabeth, dau. of Jacob Hassey, and had children: 1. Elizabeth who mar. Jiutman. 2. Sarah, mar. Blowers. 3. Benjamin who appears to have gone away and all trace of him was lost, possibly forever. Benjamin, Sr., and wife Elizabeth removed to Halifax, N. S., soon after or about the time of the Revolution. On April 15, 1785, he being about to visit Boston, leaving his wife and children in Halifax, deeded a certain messuage or dwelling-house in Boston in trust to Samuel Danforth, M.D., of Boston, to make use of for the support, etc., of his wife and children. This dwelling-house was formerly the residence of Benjamin, and was situated "at the north side of King street by the north end of the Town or Court House." Benjamin d. prior to 1794. His wife was residing in Halifax in 1808. David 7, son of Joseph 6, mar., in 1744, Abigail Damon, who survived him, and who notwithstanding the restrictions in her husband's will,* mar., 2ndly, a Mr. King. David probably him ye said Benjamin the sole executor of this my last will & testament In witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand & seal this twenty-ninth day of April Anno Domini seventeen hundred & forty-six sig. seal'd published & declared 1 in presence of \ Joseph Kent (seal.) Henry Venner, Eben'r Rockwell, Thos. Goldthwaitt J Probated Jany. 6, 17.')8. Letters granted to Benj. Kent Jany. 6, 1758. See Probate Records, Suffolk Co., Vol. 53, page 54 & 55. * WILL OF DAVID KENT. In ye name of God Amen, I, David Kent of Boston in ye County of Suffolk in New Eno-laiid Cooper do hereby make this my last will & testament hereby revoking all other & former Will or Wills and testaments hcretoiure by me made & being of sound mind & memory do dispose of all my estate bucli real & personal in ye following manner and effect. But Imprimis I restore my soul to my Almighty God & Father who has l)lessed me with ye same and depend on his infinite goodness & mercy for my present and eter- nal future felicity and my body I resign to ye grave to be decently inttr'a by my exec- utrix hereinafter named. Item, the use & improvement of all my real & personal estate I give and bequeath to my loving wile so long as she shall continue my widow. Item I give and bequeath severally to my sons David & Joseph Kent, Fifty pounds to be paid to each of them by my Executrix hereinafter to be mentioned as they shall sev- KENT GENEALOGY. 373 left Charlestown early and followed his trade of cooper in Bos- ton as in the Boston Town Records, 1742-1757, we find that " At a Town Meeting held in Boston. Mar. i6, 1743, Mr. David Kent and six others were chosen cullers of staves for the year ensuing," and " At a Town Meeting, held Mar. 22, 1743, Mr. David Kent a*nd eight others were chosen cullers of staves and hoops for the year ensuing." He had l)y his wife Ahigail two sons : I. David. II. Joseph, hoth minors at the time of the death of their father in 1760. Their mother Abigail was appointed their guardian in 1762, David then being "above 14 years of age." David, Sr., and wife Abigail resided at the north end of Boston, corner of Ship (afterward called Fore) street and Battery Alley (so called) in a two-story house "all wooden except a l)rick back," which he bought May 10, 1743, paying therefor £93, 15s. Wyman, in his Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, K to Z, page 573, states that David, Sr., removed to Philadelphia, but from what source he received this information the author has been unable to ascertain. Certainly at the time of his death, David owned the property on Ship street and his widow resided there for many years. We will give Joseph's family first, then David's. erally attain to the age of twenty-one years notwithstanding ye use and improvement aforesaid. Item, in case my said wife Abigail Kent should intermarry toith any man after my decease my loill it and I do thereupon give bequeath and devise to my son David one third part of my real antl personal estate to him and his heirs to have and to hold to him and them immediately upon and forever after his attaining to ye age of twenty- one years. Item one other third part of my real and personal estate (on such mtermamage as aforesaid) I hereby give bequeath "and devise to my son Joseph Kent to him and to his heirs to have and to hold to him and them immediately upon and forever after his attain- ing to ye age of twentv-one years. Item the other third part of my real & personal estate after my said wife's decease I do hereby give bequeath and devise to my said sons, the one'mnietii to my son David and his heirs and ye other moiety of said third to my son Joseph and his heirs forever. Item, my loving tvife Abigail Kent I appoint ye sole executrix to this my last will and testament. In Testimony of all which I have here- unto set my hand and seal this uiaeteenth day of April A.D. 17"i9 •^ DAVID KENT, (seal) sign'd seal'd, publish'd pronounc'd and declar'd to be my last will & testament in presence of ye subscribers William Thomas, Rebecca Rockwell. Jonathan Kent. Suffolk S.S. By ye Hon'ble ThomasHutchinson, Esq. Judge of Probate &c. The within written will lieing presented for probate by ye executrix therein named, William Thomas & Rebecca Rockwell made oath that they saw David Kent, the subscriber to this instru- ment sign the same and also beard him publish & declare it to l)e his last will & testa- ment & that when he so did he was of sound disposinsr mind and memory according to these deponents' best discerning and that they tosettier with Jonathan Kent (since deceased) set to their hands as witnesses thereof in the said Testators presence. Boston March 7, 1760, THOMAS HUTCHINSON. Probate office. See Bk 56 p. 279 (1760) 374 KENT GENEALOGY. JosErii II, 8on of David 7 was mar. to Mary, or Polly Clark, Oct. 24, 17G8, by Rev. John Lathrop. Joseph d. prior to 1789. The Massachusetts Magazine records the death of a Mary Kent, Aug. 1, 1789. They had children: 1. Joseph. 2. John who succeeded to their father's interest in the estate, cor- ner of Ship street and Battery (or Daggett's) Alley, which they still held in 1806, and also property on Prince street. Joseph, who was a cooper, was mar. to Hannah Trask, Oct. 18, 1795, hy Rev. Jeremy Belknap ; John, also a cooper, was mar. to Eunice Trask, Oct. 27, 1799, by Rev. Thomas Baldwin; both Joseph and John were residents of Boston in 1813. David I., son of David 7, mar. Lydia Damon in 1773. He was a shipwright l)y trade, and pro])ably built at Scituate Harbor, and possibly in Boston as he and his wife are spoken of in a deed dated 1797 as "of Boston." In 1789 he owned one undivided half of a dwelling house, located at the North end of Boston between Clark's and Hartt's building yards, near the North Battery, and on the corner of Ship street and Dag- gett's alley. This location suggests that he might have been a shipwright on one of the above yards. He d. in 1825. Lydia, his wife, died in Scituate, Dec. 12, 1831, aged 82. They had children : 1. Samuel the shipbuilder. 2. Sally, mar. Thomas Lapham ; shed. Mar. 11, 1821, aged 40 years. 3. Rachel, mar. Perkins Clapp. Samuel I., the shipbuilder, son of David I., mar. Hannah, dau. of Capt. Noah Brooks (who was b. in 1744, and d. at sea). She also had a bro., Capt. Noah of South Boston, and two sisters : one mar. William Bradford of Kingston ; the other mar. the Hon. John Holmes of Maine. Samuel Kent resided at Scituate Harbor for many years, where he built ves- sels. An account of his business here is given in this chapter. Later he and his family removed to South Boston, Init he after- ward returned to Scituate, where he d. Aug. 5, 1829, aged 56 years. Samuel and Hannah Kent had children : 1. Charlotte Appleton^ b. Jan. 12, 1800, d Jan. 3, 1885. She mar., June 12, 1820, Ivory Hall of Alfred, Me. He d. April, 1873. Children : 1. Ivory Bradford, b. March 7, 1821, mar. Phebe L. Nason, Dec. 5, 1847. He d. April 16, 1856, leaving children : 1. William Bradford, b. April 11, 1849, who mar. Lizzie Newhall, and resides in Portland, Oregon, where they have four children : Bradford, Ada, Hubert and Chester, KENT GENEALOGY. 375 and, 2, Noah Brooks, b. July 31, 1853, who is mar., and also resides in Portland, Oregon, where he has two children, Flor- ence and Ernest. 2. Hannah Francis, b. Jane 4, 1. They reside in South Boston, and have had six children : L. Gertrude, b. Feb. 19, 1867; Charles Bradford, b. Mar. 16, 1869; Lillian May, b. Aug. 22, 1871; Frank Ivory, b. Oct. 1, 1873; Nettie Estelle, b. Dec. 1, 1875 ; Florence Appleton, b. May 15, 1879, d. July 19, 1880. 5. Rachel Francis, b. Sept. 15, 1835, mar. Benjamin Parker, Aug. 29, 1877, and resides in Somerville, Mass. 6. Hannah Brooks, b. July 21, 1838, d. June 5, 1839. 7. Edward Kent, b. Mar. 28, 1840; d. Aug. 15, 1884. 2. Hannah Williams, b. Oct. 14, 1801, mar. Alpheus Stetson, Dec. 4, 1819. They had eight children : 1st. Alpheus M., b. Sept. 21, 1820, mar.\Sophia B. OsI)orn of So. Boston, Oct. 7, 1842, and had three children: I.John Alpheus, b. July 28, 1844, mar. Julia Van Veighton of Rome, N. Y., June 20, 1866, children: John Alpheus, Jr., b. Feb. 2, 1868; Archie, b. June, 1869, d. July, 1869 ; Herbert Osborn, b. June 3, 1871 ; Sophia Lawson, b. Aug., 1876, d. April, 1877 ; Wil- liam Gray don, b. Feb. 18, 1878; 2. Frances Sophia, b. Dec. 11, 1847, d. Sept. 8, 1848; 3. Herbert Osborn, b. Sept. 7, 1850, d. March 2^, 1872. 2d. Daniel F. W., b. Sept. 15, 1823, d. May 16, 1825. 3d. Edward F., b. June 18, 1826, d. Nov. 15, 1829. 4th. Hannah Elizabeth,* b. Nov. 7, 1828, mar. Harrison O. Briggs. 5th. Edward F., 2nd, b. March 23, 1830, d. Oct. 27, 1830. 6th. Sarah W., b. Aug. 15, 1833, mar. Joseph F. Baker of Boston, Oct. 11, 1854, children: 1. Frances Josephine, b. Oct. 2, 1855, mar. Henry Hunt Arnold of Boston, Sept. 19, 1877 ; 2. Annah Williams, b. Jan. 9, 1858, mar. Charles Everett of Boston, June 15, 1882. She has one child: Charles, b. Oct. 11, 1883. 3. Alpheus Stet- son, b. Feb. 6, 1860, mar. Martha E. Alden of Newton, Sept. 29, 1887. He has one child : Frances Josephine, b. Oct. 13, 1888. 4. Grace Sears, b. May 15, 1867. 7th. Franklin J., b. Apri 15, 1839, d. March 2S, 1841. 8th. Mary Adelaide, b. June * For Genealogy of her family see Chapter on Briggs "Yard. 376 KENT GENEALOGY. 25, 1843, mar. George F. Neale ; Oct. 3, 1865, children : Geo. S., 1). Oct., d. in Sept., 1866; MaryH., b. Sept., 1869; Alice K. and Forence, b. Jan., 1875, (Florence deceased) ; Lawrence I., b. July 1885. yf -v/^ b. Sept. 12, Boston, 2nd, Elizabeth Tripp Baker of Dorchester, Nov. 24, 1831. By his second wife he had children : 1. Samuel Henry, b. Sept. 14, 1832, mar. Maggie McCrea, Dec. 25, 1859, mar. 2nd, Mary J. Biggs, widow of Lee, and resides in San Fran- cisco, Cal., no children. 2. John Hawes Bird, b. Oct. 1, 1835, mar. Sarah E. Shaw of Boston, April 5, 1877, and they have one child, John Henry, b. Dec. 14, 1878. 3. Edward Francis, b. June 20, 1842, d. Jan. 4, 1823. 4. Kachel Clapp, b. Oct. 21, 1805, d. April 1, 1858. She mar. Ubert L. Pettingill, and they had children : 1. Charlotte Kent, b. March 6, 1838, mar. Edward L. Goodwin ; 2. Susan Jane Adams, b. Sept. 24, 1840, mar. 1st, Truman Flint; 2nd Curtis C. Goss ; 3. Hannah Brooks, b. Aug. 7, 1842, mar. Edward R. Taylor; 4. Frances, b. Nov. 29, 1844, mar. James Mackey; 5. Ubert Kalloch, b. June 2, 1848. All the above have descendants excepting Ubert K. 5. NoAii Brooks, b. in 1806, a shii)wright, d. Jan. 19, 1861, in Augusta, Me., aged 55 years. He mar. Elizal)eth Films, dau. of Josiali Dunham. f She w^as b. 1815, and d. in 1838, * His correct name was Sam'l Kinsj Kent, but he dropped the Kin^, he said to show his aversion to a king. He was a shipwright, and liuilt in 182o, at Boston, the sch. "Newcomb," 46 tons, for Lot Wheelwright, Loring Newcomb, Joseph Cotton, Jr., and Chas. Appleton. t Simons, in his History of South Boston, p. 271, says: "Prominent among those who have been for a long time identified with the interests and history of South Boston, stands the well known name of Josiah Dunham. He was born in New Bedford, March 11, 1775. He was son of Jesse and Susan Dunham. His father was a sea captain. The family were among the earlier settlers of Plymouth, the first record of whicii goes back as far as the year 1635. The branch from which he descended subsequently moved to Martha's Vineyard. When a j'outh he came to Boston and served an apprenticeship at the rope making business with'a Mr. Richardson, the father of the Hon. Jeffrey Richard- son, of Boston, whose ropewalks extended from Purchase street to Milk street, near to the present location of Pearl street. He first commenced the manufacture of cordage on his own account in a ropewalk which stood on or near Boyiston street ia Boston. In the year 1807, he became the purchaser of several acres of land at South Boston in the vicinity of B street and built a residence for himself and a ropewalk, where lie continued to carry on the cordage maniitacture until the close of the year 1853. During all the years of his residence in South Boston he was engaged in the building of dwellings and KENT GENEALOGY. 377 aged 23 years. They had children: 1. Mary Ann, b. April, 1832, in So. Boston, d. in 1847, aged 15 years; 2. Sarah Elizabeth Ellnis, b, Sept. 22, 1834, near Bryant's corner, Scit- uate, where Noah B. Kent and family resided for one year, when they returned to So. Boston. She mar. Nov. 15, 1858, Lloyd Brio:o:s. (For Genealogy of this family see chapter XVII.) 6. Barker B.,b. in 1811, a ship-joiner, mar. Sarah H., dau. of Josiah Dunham and sister of Elizabeth, wife of his brother Noah Brooks Kent. Barker d. June 27, 1876. Sarah, his wife, d. Nov. 7, 18S8. They had children: i. by adoption, Barker B. (formerly Nathaniel Tuttle) a physician, b. Aug. 26, 1841, d. Feb. 2, 1872. He mar. Helena M., dau. of Capt. Ezra H. Baker of So. Boston, and they had one child, Sarah Helena, b. Aug. 1, 1871, d. Feb. 2, 1872. 7. Sarah Ann, b., Feb., 1812, mar. in So. Boston, Benja- min, son of Elisha James, M.D., of Scituate. Children: 1. George Barker, b. July, 1837, mar. Adelaide G. Washburne and has four children : George B., William G., Robert K. and Addie. 2. Elisha Francis, b. Jan. 3, 1841, mar. Elizabeth Sears, and has four children, Edward S., Elisha F., Sarah A. stores, and, without erecting a large number in any one year, in the aggregate he wa8 the moving spirit in the erection of more buildings in the place than any other man. Though he did not have the advantage of early education, yet for foresight, energy, per- severance and power of memory, he had few superiors. He was impulsive, ea^ily excited, and an injury, real or supposed, was not soon forgotten. On the other baud his friend- ships were strong, his benefactions generous and long continued, and he would often do favors to others even to his own injury. He was an active participator in the clFurts for building the North Free Bridge, and was untiring in his zeal for whatever promised to be of advantage to the place of his chosen residence. He served the Twelfth ward in the Common Council in tlie year 1833, and for three succeeding years was an efficient mem- ber of the Board of Aldermen. While a meuilier of the latter Board he felt a deep interest in the grading of the streets of South Boston, but few of which previous to that time had been put in a respectable condition. Finding his associates in the Board rather slow in their movements in this work he followed the example of one of whom he was an ardent supporter and in his capacity as one of the Surveyors of the Highways 'took the responsibility.' He set men to work in ploughing down and levelling up Fourth street and Broadway. When completed he carried the bills for the same, amounting to some $2500, before the Aldermen, who with some shrugs of their shoulders and a few smiles at the boldness of the act of their associate, approved the bills and ordered their payment by the city. In the vear 1823, when the Congregational Church ■was formed which is now known as the Phillips Church, he generously erected a hall on Fourth street for their place of worship and gave them the rent and other substantial aid till thev erected their church l)uilding. He had a wonderfully strong and vigorous con- stitution and died April 28, 1857 being 83 years of age." Josiah Dunham mar. Mary Ann, dau. of William and Mary Elms ol Middleborough, Mass. She d. Feb. 16, lSo8, aged 60 years 8 months. Josiah and Mary were both interred in No. 11 St. Matthews Church, South Boston but in May, 186i, were removed to Forest Hills, their last restmg place. " In 1853 Josiah Dunham, Jr., was chairman of a committee appointed for the purpose of organizing a Shade Tree Society." (History of South Boston, p. 220.) "It is to be hoped that the day is not far distant when every street as soon as graded will be graced with flourishing and beautiful shade trees-" 378 RENT GENEALOGY. and Charles D. 3. Edward Brooks, b. Sept. U, 1843. mar. Smith and has had tivo children: Beujauiin K., (deceased) Edward B., (deceased) "Williams B., Reirinald S., Catherine 11. 4. Charles Little, b. Jan. 14, 1846, mar. Clith- eroe Dean, and has three children: Dean K., Benjamin, 3rd, and Clitheroe. 5. Benjamin, b. Dec. 2l>, 1851, mar. Kittie Greely, no children. O. Williams Kent. b. Dec. 2a, ls.")2, mar. Johnson, and has one child, Herbert J. Benjamin James, Sr.. mar. for his second wife Susan Hall, who was b. in 1823, and bv her had one child. 7. Erank Irvin, b. in 1802, d. youni:. The following are some of the Mai-shtield branches of the Kent family.* Elisha Kent, mar. Susiinna Ford June, 1741. They had children: 1. William, b. Oct. 1, 1742, mar. Marv Samson, 1773. 2. Smith, b. Oct. 22, 1744. 3. Elisha, b. 'Sept. 13, 1746, lost at sea. 4. Peleg, b. Oct. 4, 1748, mar. Elizabeth Ford. 0. Lucy, b. Oct. 5^ 1750. 6. Phebe, b. July 5, 1752, died eany. 7. Charles, b. Jan. 7, 1754, mar. Ruth Baker. 8. Sanih.'b. Feb. 19, 1756, mar. Melzar Samson, 1780. 9. :N'athaniel, b. Dec. 25, 1760. 10. AVarren, b. Dec. 20. 1764. 11. Alice, b. April 22, 1766. 12. Susanna, baptized May 11, 1766. Joseph Kent, mar. Lydia Thomas, Feb. 28, 1743. They had children: 1. Ann, b. Oct. 28, 1744, died early. 2. Thomas, b. Oct. 13, 1746, lost at sea, 1771. 3. Lydia, b. 1751. mar. Dr. Burnham of Norwich, Conn. 4. John, b. 1756, mar. B. Walker. 5. Nathaniel, b. 1760, mar. 6. Abiirail, b. Dec. 22, 1763, mar. Asa Weston. 7. Elizabeth, b. May, 1767, died June, 1856. Bexjamix Kent, mar. Persis Doggett, 1723. Benjamin Kent died at Kingston, Jamaica. They had children. 1. Penelope, baptized Nov. 8. 1724 or 1726, died early. 2. Joseph. 3. John, minors, at their grandfather's death removed to ^Maine. 4. Pei-sis, b. July 9, 1724. mar. Robert Jenkins of Boston. 5. Betsey or Elizabeth, (mar. a Bois [?] of Milton). 6. Nathaniel. 7. Mary, died young. The will of Benjamin Kent of Boston, mariner proved June 27, 1748, in Sutl'olk Count V, Mass., ffives a remainder of his estate to eijiht • Nat. Kent, Nat. Thomas and Nat. Ford all of Marshfield. who ased to be called the *' three Nats." settled at Readiield. Maine, and Kent's Hill at that place took its name from Nat. Kent. KENT GENEALOGY. 379' children, viz. : Bonjiimin, Nathaniel, Joscj)!!, John. IVrsis, Elizabeth, Batlisheba and ]\Iarv, and appoints his wife IVrsis execntrix. A ohuise from Henjaniin Kent's Avill reads, " My will is that my said wife shall have the nse and improvement of the rest of my real and personal estate to enable her to brin<; up my children until the youni!:est of them arrive to the age of twenty-one years, and if there should be occasion to sell and dis})oso of any or all of my real estate for that end I hereby give her power to do so and to execute proper deeds of the same." EzEKiEL Kent, mar. Susanna Winslow, Dec. 22, 1740, who was probably widow of Nath'l Winslow. They had children : 1. Penelope, 1). .June 26, 1743, mar. Josiah Winslow\ 2. Susanna, b. June 17, 1745. 3. Deborah, b. Oct. 18, 1748, mar. Stephen Carver. 4. Ezekiel, b. jNIarch 1, 1747, drowned. 5. Marcy, b. Oct. 2, 1754, mar. a Reveridge. 6. Ann, b. Jan. 12, 1758. 7, Benjamin, b. Nov. 6, 17(50, mar. a Beveridge. This family removed to Fox Island, Maine. William Kent, mar. Mary Sampson. They had children : 1.. William, b. Sept. 5, 1773. 2. Polly, b. Dec. 28, 1775, mar. Asa Sherman, Dec. 27, 1798. 3. Susanna, b. Nov. 15, 1778. 4. Smith, b Nov. 28, 1783. 5. Sylvia Church, b. July, 1788. 6. Elisha, b. Oct. 17, 1789, mar. B. Sprague. 7. Alice Warren, b. April 8, 1793. Samuel Kent, mar. Desire Barker, June 25, 1732. Desire died June 14, 1744. Samuel Kent mar. secondly, Mrs. Phoebe Cook, of Kingston, Dec. 8, 1748. Children all by the first wife. 1. Samuel, deceased early. 2. Nathaniel, b. Feb. 25, 1735, died at Portsmouth. 3. Hannah, b. Au<>-. 4, 173Z, mar. Nathan Brewster. 4. John, b. Oct. 13, 1739, settled at Portsmouth. 5. Sarah, b. Aug. 6, 1741, mar. John Friend of Newburyport. (i. lluldah, b. Dec. 2, 1743, died unmarried. 7. Ichabod, b. Dec. 13, 1747, settled at Duxbury. 8. Desire, mar. A. Hunt. The above Samuel Kent was probal)ly not a shipbuilder There is a tradition that the Kents originally emigrated iron, the continent of Europe to England. Judge Hoar, a descend- ant of the Kents, has looked up some valuable facts, the author understands, relative to this family, but the information came too late to investigate for this book. The first vessel built by Samuel Kent , of which we have found any record was in 1798, the sch. "ELIZA," 70 tons, owned by om 380 VESSELS BUILT BY SAMUEL KENT. Jesse Dunbar and Samuel Kent, of Scituate. The next year, 1799, he built the sch. "SALLY," «3 tons, of Charlestown ; owned at one time by Jesse Dunbar, Eli Cuilis, Samuel Kent and Asa Vinal. After they sold her, she was sold by the U. S. Marshal while she was owned by Charlestown parties, for a breach of the laws of the United States. Later she was owned in Sweden and called the sch. " JV/zsled." Samuel Kent built in 1800 the ship " CHARLOTTE," 154 tons, of Boston. Also in 1800, the sch. " LIBERTY," 88 tons ; owned by Wil- liam and Lemuel Vinal, Charles Ellmes, who was master, and David Otis, of Scituate. He built three vessels the next year, 1801, viz: ship "MARTHA," 192 tons, of Boston; sch. "EAGLE," 107 tons, of Boston, and the sch. "WASHING- TON," 87 tons ; Barnabas Hedge, owner, at Plymouth. In 1827 she was whaling and sealing in the South seas. In 1802, Samuel Kent built the sch. "HANNAH," 138 tons; two decks and two masts, of Scituate, Ira Bryant, master; Lemuel Vinal, Samuel Kenc, and Ira Bryant, Scituate, owners. He built in 1803 the sch. "INDUSTRY," 68 tons, of Scituate; Lemuel Vinal and Nehemiah Manson, owners ; also in 1803, the sch. "NANCY," 94 tons ; owned by Abner Bailey, Elijah Cur- tis, David Otis and Davis Jenkins, of Scituate. The "Nancy " was afterward used as a North River packet, and commanded by Capt. Asa Sherman, Sr. In 1804, the sch. "MARY," 82 tons, of Kingston, was built by Samuel Kent, master carpen- ter, and in 1805, the sch. " WASHINGTON," 108 tons ; owned by Ezra and Lemuel Vinal, Abraham Harris and Perez Pynchon, of Scituate ; also in 1805 the sch. " JAMES," 100 tons ; owned by Israel Merritt, Ensiirn Otis, Jr., Lydia Little, and Gridley Cole, of Scituate. In 1807, the sch. "FRIENDSHIP," 79 tons, owned by Samuel Kent, shipwright, Lenuiel Vinal, Nehemiah Manson, David Otis, Jr., and Perez Pynchon, of Scituate. He also built the brig " OREGON." Kent's yard was used by Anthony Waterman in 1813, which year he built the sch. "OLD CARPENTER," 22 tons; Lem- uel Vinal, owner, Scituate. He also built the sch. "JOLLY TAR" at this yard. Anthony was son of Capt. Anthony, the tanner, who came into Scituate from Marshtield in 1760. Anthony, tlr., b. 1763, resided at Buck's corner, near the Harl)or. His son James had a tannery on the old Turner and Copeland place. So. Scituate. Anthony Waterman has a grandson, Andrew, now living at the Harbor, where he keeps a tinshop op- posite the South Shore House. The British man of AVar, " Bui- SAMUEL KENT NOAH BROOKS. 381 wark," lay off Scituate Harbor during the war of 1812. Deane writes : "The militia of Scituate were called out certainly on one occasion, viz., July 7, 1814. The British 74, called the "Bulwark," had lain near Scituate Harbor several weeks, and had sent a demand on shore for fresh beef and vegetables, which the citizens of course did not furnish. Early in the mornino- of June 11, 1814, two tenders manned with marines came into the Harbor and set fire to the shipping, and returned to their vessel. Ten vessels, fishing and coasting craft were lost. A regiment of militia, under Col. John Barstow, repaired to the neighborhood of the Harbor; but their services were not needed, and they returned to their homes." The last vessel we find built by Samuel Kent, was in 1818, the brig " ORACLE," 144 tons, of Boston ; owners, Otis Vinal, Warren Clafiiin, of Boston, Thomas Hobart, of Pem- broke, and Edmund Freeman, of Orleans, Mass. Samuel Kent later moved to So. Boston, where he worked repairing old vessels. Afterward he returned to Scituate, where he died, and is buried in Norwell, in the cemetery opposite the Unita- rian church "on the hill." Ca2)t. JSFoah Brooks, who served his apprenticeship with Samuel Kent, built in the Kent yard in 1804 the brig " TROP- IC," 150 tons, owned by Thomas Motley, Jr., of Boston. This was probably the first ship he built on his own account, as he was then but 22 years of age. Noah Brooks was a direct descendant of William, who was a householder in Scituate in 1644, and resided south of Tills creek, near a clear spring of water. Capt. Noah Brooks was b. in Scituate, July 7, 1782, and d. in Dorchester, Jan. 28, 1852, from the result of an accident, he being thrown from a sleigh. As before stated, he served his apprenticeship with his brother-in-law, Samuel Kent, in the Kent yard at the HarI)or. For several seasons in the fall of the year he took companies of men down Eastand built one or more vessels there. He went to So. Boston, where he worked a short time for Lot Wheelwright, and afterward built ships on his own account at the yard foot of F street, later occupied by E. & H. O, Briggs, he being a partner with them at the time they built their first vessel. He built the bark "Edward Fletcher," which was launched from back of the forts, fully rigged. Capt. Noah Brooks was son of Noah who descended from Nathaniel, through Nathaniel, Jr., and Taylor Brooks. Noah, Sr., mar. Hannah, dau. of Ebenezer 382 BROOKS GENEALOGY. Stetson, who lived on North River. Captain Noah, Jr., the shi})l)uilder, mar. in 1812, Esther Stetson. She was born in Scitnate in 1785, and died in 1863. CHILDREN OF CAPT. NOAH AND ESTHER STETSON BROOKS. 1. Williams Barker, mar. Alvira W. Rice, and they have had nine children whose names are given below. 2. Esther Stetson, mar. Seth Pettee, and had one child, Noah Brooks, d. aged 11 mos. 3. Nancy. 4. John. 5. Lydia Sophronia, mar. Joseph Winsor, Jr., and had one child, Francis Herbert. 6. Sarah Copeland. 7. Hannah Elizabeth, mar. Benjamin B. ■Converse, and has had five children ; two now living, Herbert Brooks and Frank Battelle. Corel 335 ship 1823 Miscel. Hanover 130 Cornelia sch. 1834 Briggs & Turner, Brick-kiln 196 Cronstadt 273 brig 1829 Briggs Yard 317 Cumberland 183 brigantine 1801 Briggs, Brick-kiln 181 Cushing 78 sch. 1802 Briggs Yard 310 Cyrene 58 sch. 1819 Turner & Turner, Fox Hill 135 Cyrus 328 ship 1821 Foster & Co., Wanton 235 Daniel 72 sch. 1825 Hall's, White's Fprry 355 Daniel 240 bk. 1854 Briggs, Scituate Harbor 387 Daniel Davis Scituate Harbor 390 Daniel Francis 113 sch. 1838 White's Ferry 361 Daniel Webster 264 bk. 1836 Barstow Lower Yard 110 Daniel Webster sch. Halls, White's Ferry 360 Danube 71 sch. 1828 Turner, Brick-kiln 192 Deane 89 sch. 1846 Barstow Lower Yard 120 Debby 107 brig 1792 Brooks, Tilden & Taylor 273 Dedalus ship 1800 Smith Yard 90 Defiance 25 sch. 177- No. River Pilots 54 Deposit 125 sch., aft. brig 1834 Hall's, White's Ferry 360 Desire 16 sip. 1678 Briggs Yard 284 Diana 51 sip. 1783 Brick-kiln 173 Diana 30 sch. 1786 Miscel. Scituatei 343 Diana 52 sch. 1791 Miscel. Hanover 129 Dian^ — brig 1825 Foster & Co., Wanton 236 396 A LIST OF VESSELS BUILT OX KOilTH RIVER Name. Ton- nage. Rig. Built Town or Yard. Oh Diligence 17— Smith Yard 89 Diligent 81 sch. 1786 North River 48 Dispatch 139 brig 1795 Keene, White's Ferry 351 Dolphin 100 ship 1696 Miscel. Scituate 337 Dolphin 30 sip. 1710 Block-house 261 Dolphin 24 !:ch. 177- No. River Pilots 53 Dolphin 51 sch. 1786 Briggs Yard 309 Dolphin 44 sch. 1787 Miscel. Scituate 343 Dolphin 122 brig 1793 Keene, White's Ferry 351 Dolphin 78 sip. 1794 Brick-kiln 174 Dolphin 49 sch. 1799 Thomas, Brick-kiln 174 Dolphus 32 sch. 1783 Brick-kiln 173 Dorothy 30 brigantine 1700 Briggs Yard 285 Dorothy 40 brigantine 1704 Miscel. Scituate 338 Dorothy 50 ship 1708 Block-house 261 Dorothy 60 ship 1710 Block-house 261 Dove 100 ship 1699 Wanton 217 Dove 45 brigantine 1704 Miscel. Scituate 333 Dove 30 sip" 1706 Scituate Harbor 368 Dover 166 brig 1833 Hall's, While's Ferry 360 Dover 87 sch. 1833 Hall's, White's Ferry 360 Dragon 65 bark 1701 Scituate Harbor 367 Dragon 40 brigantine 1702 Scituate Harbor 367 Draper — Briggs, Scituate Harbor 385 Dray — sch. Hall's, White's Ferry 356 Dubartus 25 sip. 1694 Chittenden Yard 244 Eagle 30 sip. 1711 Block-house 261 Eagle 107 sch. 1801 Kent, Scituate Harbor 380 Eagle — 1818 North River 51 Echo 197 brig 1832 Hall's, White's Ferry 359 Edie Little 70 sch. 1860 Taylor & Carver, Tavlor 281 Edward 346 ship 1815 Eeils, Smith \ard 94 Edwin 103 sch. 1836 Briggs, Brick-kiln 196 Eliza 98 sch. 1794 Rogers Yard 211 Eliza 106 sch. 1795 Rogers Yard 207 Eliza 108 sch. 1797 Randall, Miscel. Pembroke 83 Eliza 70 sch. 1798 Kent, Scituate Harbor 379 Eliza 99 sch. 1801 Scituate Harbor 368 Eliza 41 sch. 1802 Briggs, Brick-kiln 181 Eliza 165 brig 1802 Ford, Brooks, Tilden & Taylor 273 Eliza 39 sch. 1803 Turner, Miscel. Pembroke 82 Eliza Ann 312 ship 1811 Barstow's " Two Oaks " 101 Eliza Ann 99 sch. 1830 Turner, Brick-kiln 192 Eliza Barker ship 1810 Miscel. Hanover 130 Elizabeth 20 sip. 1700 Miscel. Scituate 338 Elizabeth 20 sip. 1705 Block-house 260 Elizabeth — ship 1807 Foster, AVanton 230 Ellen 61 sch. 1831 Merritt, Miscel. Scituate 340 Elvira — brig Briggs, Brick-kiln 184 Emily Cook 116 sch. aft. brig 1824 Torrey, Block-house 270 Emma Isadora 213 bk. 1838 Briggs Yard 321 Emma V. 149 sch 1852 Miscel. Scituate & Scituate Harbor 391 Empire 497 brig 1848 Turner, Otis tS: Cole, Scituate Harbor 390 Endeavor 36 sip. 1703 Scituate Harbor 367 Endeavor 80 brigantine 1705 Wanton 218 Endeavour 20 sip. 1698 Miscel. Scituate 338 Enterprise 119 sch. 1806 Torrey, Chittenden Yard 250 Enterprise — ship Torrey, Block-house 271 Eos 85 sch. 1818 Keene, White's Ferry 352 Equator — 1818 North River 51 Erie 113 sch. 1838 Brooks & Tilden 279 Esther sch. 1785 North River 48 Esther 135 brig 1835 Hall's, White's Ferry 360 Essex ship 1796 North River 49 Eureka Litchfield, Miscel. Scituate 342 Evangeline 488 bark 1856 Briggs, Scituate Harbor 387 Evelina 109 sch. 1799 Randall, Miscel. Pembroke 83 Eveline 650 bark 1859 Briggs, Scituate Harbor 387 Excel 74 sch. 1848 Briggs & Turner, Scituate Harbor 369 Expenditure 40 sip. 1702 Wanton & Barker, Wanton 218 AX I) AT SCITUATE HARBOR. 197 Name. Ton- nage Rig. Built Town or Yard. 1 Fair Lady 104 soh. 1816 Samson, No. River Bridge 70 Fair Play 50 sip. 1803 Turner, Brick-kiln 174 Fairy 185 brig 1831 Halls, White's Ferry 359 Falcon _ 1822 North River 51 Falcon 128 her. brig 1862 Barstow & Waterman, Fox Hill 143 Falkland ship 1785 Thomas, Brick-kiln 167 Fame 140 brigamine 1785 Scituate Harbor 368 Fame ship 1801 Smith Yard 92 Fame — brig 1801 Smith Yard 92 Fame 83 sch. 1807 Turner, Brick-kiln 174 Fame 47 sch. 1817 Turner, Fox Hill 134 Fanny 67 sch. 1794 Vinal, Scituate Harbor 368 Fanny — ship 1817 Miscel. Hanover 130 Favorite 74 sch. 1815 Foster. Wanton 229 Favorite 64 sch. 1788 Miscel. Scituate 343 Federal George 103 sch. 1794 Rogers Yard 208 Fish Hawk 41% sch. 1787 Miscel. Scituate 343 Fish Hawk 46 sch. 1797 Vinal, Scituate Harbor 369 Five Brothers 93 sch. 1804 Briggs, Brick-kiln 181 Flora 306 ship 1801 Tiiden, Block-house 264 Flora 151 brig 1829 White's Ferry 358 Flora 293 bk. 1831 Souther & Cudworth, Chittenden Yd 256 Flora 70 sch. 1848 Scituate Harbor 369 Florida 244 brig 1818 Briggs, Brick-kiln 184 Flying Fish 32 sch. 1787 North River 48 Forest Bell 44 sch. 1862 Merritt, Chittenden Yard 257 Forest Oak 62 sch. 1862 MeiTitt, Chittenden Yard 257 Fortune 339 ship 1809 Foster, Wanton 229 Foster 317 ship 1818 Foster & Co., Wanton 234 Four Brothers 53 sch. 1811 Litchfield, Miscel. Scituate 341 Four Brothers __ sch. 1818 Miscel. Scituate 344 Four Brothers 53 sch. 1857 Scituate Harbor 391 Four Friends 75 sch. 1811 Rogers Yard 208 Four Sisters 67 sch. 1819 Litchfield, Miscel. Scituate 341 Frances, aft."Larke" 20 sip. 1704 Miscel. Scituate 338 Frances Ann ship 1810 Foster, Wanton 230 Francis 291 ship 1805 Barstows, " Two Oaks " 101 Francis ship 1816 Barstows, " Two Oaks " 101 Franciscan ship 1811 Foster, Wanton 231 Franklin 179 ship 1792 Miscel. Hanover 129 Franklin bk. 1817 Miscel. Hanover 130 Franklin 172 brig 1840 Wanton 242 Franklin brig 18— Turner, Scituate Harbor 388 Frederic 107 sch. 1801 Barstow, " Two Oaks " 100 Frederic 107 sch. 1801 Miscel. Hanover 130 Frederic 153 brig 1801 Cushing & Co., Miscel. Hanover 127 Freedom 54 sch. 1823 Souther & Cudworth, Chittenden Yd 255 Friendship 60 ship 1711 Briggs Yard 285 Friendship 60 brigantine 1712 Biock-house 261 Friendship 118 brig 1786 North River 48 Friendship 49 sch. 1788 Miscel. Scituate 343 Friendship 79 sch. 1807 Kent, Scituate Harbor 380 Friendship 53 sch. 1816 Copeland, Fox Hill 134 Friends' Adventure 30 sip. 1698 Miscel. Scituate 338 Friends' Adventure 50 brigantine 1702 Scituate Harbor 367 Ganges 215 ship 1806 Delano, Wanton 225 Ganges 250 bk 1833 Clapp & Foster, Wanton 239 Garland 128 brigantine 1795 Foster, Wanton 229 Garland 280 ship 1801 Smith Yard 91 Garnet 65 sch. 1836 Turner, No. River Bridge 75 Gem 162 brig 1830 Hall's, Whites's Ferry 358 George 82 sch. 1801 P'oster, Wanton 229 George 1816 North River 51 George Otis 175 brig 1844 Barstow Lower Yard 119 George Washington 130 brig't'n aft. brig 1800 Rogers Yard 212 George Washington 67 sch. 1820 Turner, Fox Hill 135 Globe 293 ship 1815 Foster & Sons Wanton 231 Golconda ship 1807 Foster, Wanton 230- Golconda 78 sch. 1818 Brooks, Miscel. Scituate 341 S98 A LIST OF VESSELS BUILT ON NOllTH KIVER Name. <5olden Horn Goodhope Good Luck (;onida8 J^onidaH J>eoriidaH J>;oi>o)d Gaily l>;variie J><:wi« liruce Lexirigfjn LU>erty Llf>erty Light Horse Lima Linnell Lion Lltcij field Little Cticruti Little Martha Little Otii! Lively Lively I>ively Li/,/,ie J. ljt{rtU)W Lo[><;r l>;ljiha Ix/uiha lyoulha A. Ijjf.ieh Liieretia J-'i'-y i,ij'y Lij'-y Jyijcy Lucy Lrjey Ltjf;y J^iike Lywiirn i^yeciim Lydia Lydia Lydia I>ydia Lydia Lydia Lydia Lydia Lydia & Polly Lydia & I'olly I^ydia King Lyon Lyon Ly(»an'ier 162 60 (ich. '.rj Mch. 122 8Ch. .- Khip 114 HCb. w HCh. 60 Hf;h. M KCb. v.) 8Cb. 39 «ch. 93 BCh. 72 HCh. m iirigantine v.:> HCb. 54 lich. — 8Cb. SO 8eb. 100 Mlp. M HCb. 81 H<:h. 28f) Hliip 329 Kbip 102 seb. — Hch. 22 Mib. V) Hip. 70 Hip. 110 brig Towir OB Yabd. Delano, WanU^n North River Merritt, Mi>-(*1. Kcituate l-ofcter Ac Co., \Vant*arhl/jw'h "Two Oaks" IHall'H, WhiU;'», Ferry ]f.'of'jr JJriggK, Lrick-kiln IJariitow A: Waterman, Fox Hill .North Uivcr .Souther K. Cudworth, Chittx;nden Yd Souther K. Cudworth, ChitU:nden Yd liarbUjw iic WatArmiin, I'ox Hill M\h<-jc\. Hanover iJarHtfjw'h " Two Oaku " North Jliver Mii5(«l. Seituate MifiwI. Hcituate Itogers Yard Hcituate Harlit*;bfield A: Lurrili, Wanfjn IJriggH Yard lilock-bouMs .Turutr, l'«li(i«r fc Mtfoun, Vo. W»tf Uriiit* AND AT SCITUATE HARBOR. 401 Name. Madapascar Maf?iiolia Mafiriolia Malatmr Malaga Man son Manson Margaret Margaret Margaret Maria Maria Maria Theresa Mariner Marion Marnix (see "Martha") Marnix Mars Marshal Ney Martha Martha Martha, afterward called Martha ["Marnix" Martha Martha & Elizabeth Martha & Elizabeth Martha Allen Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary- Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary Mary & Abigail Mary & Abigail Mary & Nancy Mary & Polly Mary Ann Mary Ann Mary Ann Mary Ballard Mary F. SJade Mary Greenish Mary Jones Marys Massachusetts Massachusetts Matilda Mattakeeset or Mattakees Mayflower Mayflower Mayflower Mayflower Mayflower Mayflower Mayflower Mehetable Mentor Mentor Merchant Merchant Mert Ton- nage. Rig. Built 242 bk. 1832 36 islp. 1828 2o0 brig 1830 355 ship 1815 IfO brig 1827 93 sch. 1842 20 sip. 1701 89 sch. 1816 185 brig 182fJ — ship 1782 64 sch. 1830 229 brig 1827 — sch. 1817 98 brig 1824 bk. 1805 225 bk. 1849 53 sch. 1786 192 brig 1829 50 Ijrigantine 1712 192 ship 1801 255 bk. 1805 — 'ship 1809 273 ship 1810 70 bk. 1694 70 brigantine 1694 283 bk. 1849 60 bk. 1693 80 ship 1694 40 brigantine 1699 20 Islp. 1700 20 islp. 1707 22 sip. 178f; 286 ship 1795 169 brig't'n, aft. ship 1799 100 sch. 1801 211 ship 1801 99 sch. 1804 82 sch. 1804 73 sch. 1843 30 sip. Km 40 sip. nor, 41 sch. 1795 77 sch. 1816 78 brigantine 1789 242 ship 1799 76 sch. 1818 260 bk. 1832 199 bk. 1818 140 sch. 1859 56 sch. 1818 329 ship 1831 400 ship 178- 286 ship 180f^ 60 sch. 1818 21 St. toat 1839 25 sip. 1691 30 brig 1701 30 sip. 1701 25 sip. 17W 30 brigantine 1712 sch. 1803 32 sip. 182.3 86 ship 1700 — ship 1803 98 sch. 1825 179 ship 179t 263 ship 1804 131 sch. Town oe Yahd. Clapp & Foster, Wanton Tumi-r, I'ulmir & Mh(?<>uii, No, lllvijr liridK'J Foster & Co., Wanton Torrey and others, Block-house Souther & Cudworth, Chittenden Yd Waterman, Fox Hill Wanton Foster & Cudworth, Chittenden Yard Foster & Co., Wanton Thomas, Brick-kiln Souther /t Cudworth, Chittenden Yd James, Block-house Barstow's "Two Oaks" Souther & Cudworth, Chittenden Yd Samson, No. River Bridge. Miscel. Scituate Brick-kiln Foster & Co., Wantfjn Block-house Kent, Scituate Harbor Sarnson, No. River Bridge Rarnson, No. River Bridge Sampson, Brick-kiln Wantfjn Wanton Briggs, Scituate Harbor Briggs Yard Briggs Yard Chittenden Yard Want^jn & Barker, V/anton Edward Wantower Yard Briggs Yard Tunier, Misfxd. Hanover Briggs & Smith, Brick-kiln Halls, White's Ferry Miscel., Scituate .VIisf;el., Scituate Block-house Briggs Yard Miscel., Scituate I/Cwis, Brick-kiln Briggs, brick-kiln Chittenden Yard Miscel., Hanover UnTHlDw Ixjwer Yard Chittenden Yard Smith Yard EellB, Smith Yard 402 A LIST OF VESSELS BUILT OX NORTH RIVER Nasie. TON- NAOE Rio. Built Town or Yard. Meteor 116 sch. 1S64 Scituate Harbor 391 Miantinomo 281 ship 1800 Kingman, Miscel. Hanover 126 Michael & Samuel 60 brigantine 1697 Miscel., Scituate 337 Miobifjan brig 183- Brooks & Tildea 279 Michigan 130 brig 1840 Briggs Yard 322 Milo 53 sch. 1816 Turnei & Copeland, Fox Hill 134 Minerva 1774 North River 48 Minerva 223 ship 1808 Magoun, Brick-kiln 183 Minerva 70 sch. 1818 Foster & Co. Wanton 234 Miranda 189 bk. 1832 Hriggs & Turner, Brick-kiln 192 Miser 304 ship 1810 Briggs, Brick-kiln 181 Modoc ship 1810 Miscel. Scituate 343 Mohawk 407 ship 1811 Turner, Miscel. Hanover 127 Molly 55 sch. 1785 North River 48 Monroe 47 sch. 1817 Turner, Miscel. Scituate 341 Monument 211 brig 1825 Briggs, Brick-kiln 184 Morning Star 82 sch. 1803 Rogers Yard 208 340 Morning Star 65 sch. 1816 Turner & Copeland, Fox Hill 134 Morris sch. Tunier, Scituate Hartxir 388 Moscow 277 brig 1826 Copeland & Co., Fox Hill 136 Moses Myers 306 ship 1803 Briggs, Brick-kiln 181 Mount Hope 65 sch. 1827 Mis'cel. Scituate 344 Mount Vernon 464 ship 1815 Hartt, Wanton 226 Mt. Vernon 352 ship 1810 Kingman, Miscel. Hanover 126 N. & H. Gould 142 sch. 1855 Barstow & Waterman, Fox Hill 142 Nancy 41 sip. 1787 Brick-kiln 173 Nancy 94 sch. 1803 Kent, Scituate Harbor 380 Nancy 177 brig 1806 Briggs, Brick-kiln 181 Nancy 75 sip. 1817 Foster & Co., Wanton 210 233 Nanking 290 ship 1803 Kingman, Miscel. Hanover 126 Nashua 301 bk. 1S;?3 Souther iv Cudwortli, Chittenden Yd 256 Nautilus 60 sch. 1786 Brick-kiln 173 Nellie Fenwick, formerly — bk. 1854 Scituate Harbor 391 Neptune [called Sarah — ship 1765 Thomas, Brick-kiln 164 Neptune 67 sch. 1785 North River 48 Neptune «4 sch. 1787 Keene, White's Ferry 351 Neptune 114 sch. 1794 Rogers Yard 206 Neptune 138 brig 1795 Miscel. Hanover 129 Neptune 280 ship 1800 Smith Yard 90 Neptune 278 ship 18()<) Smith Yard 93 Neptune 214 brig 1823 Foster & (Jo., Wanton 236 Neptune 338 bk. 1828 Barstow Lower Yard 107 Neptune 231 bk. 1835 Foster & Co, Wanton 240 Neutrality 123 sch. 1804 Magoun & Hatch, Brick-kiln 183 New Forge 37 sip., aft'ward sch. 1792 Barstow, " Two Oaks " 97 New Priscilla 125 sch. 1822 Foster & Co., Wanton 235 New Sally New Sophronia 56 sch. 1812 Torrey, Chittenden Yard 252 69 sch. 1815 Tilden, Block-house 268 New State 51 sch. 1798 Miscel., Hanover 130 Newton 283 brig 1828 Halls, White's Ferry 358 Niagara 232 bk. 1834 Foster & Co., Wanton 240 Ninety 90 ship 1693 Briggs Yard 284 Noble E. Jenkins 100 sch. Briggs, Brick-kiln 195 Norfolk brig 1765 Thomas, Brick-kiln 164 Norfolk 135 brig 1833 Hall's, White's Ferry 359 North River 27 sip. 1793 Brooks, Tilden & Taylor 273 North River Packet 38 sip. 1820 Keene, White's Ferry 352 Oak 150 brig 1820 Briggs Yard 315 Oak 208 brig 1833 Briggs Yard 320 O'Cain 280 ship 1802 Foster, Wanton 229 Ocean 73 sch. 1816 Foster & Co., Wanton 233 Ocean 173 brig 1823 Briggs Yard 316 Ocean 165 brig 1839 Barstow Lower Yard 111 Ocean Belle 65 sch. 18(i0 Brings, Scituate Harbor 387 Odessa 180 brig 1830 Copeland & Co., Fox Hill 137 Oeno 328 ship 1821 Barstow Lower Yard 105 Old Carpenter •>2 sch. 1813 WaterTnan, Scituate Harbor 380 Old Colony 244 brig 1832 Briggs, Brick-kiln 184 AND AT SCITUATE HARBOR. 403 Name. Ton- nage Rig. Built Town or Yard. bo eS P^ Olive 70 sch. 1797 Brick-kiln 174 Only Daughter 70 sch. 1829 Clapp & Delano, Wanton Yard 226 Only Son 170 brig 1805 Turner & Thomas, Brick-kiln 175 Only Son 23 sch. 1860 Litchfield, Miscel. Scituate 342 Ontario 367 ship 1833 Waterman & Bates, Fox Hill 138 Ontario — sch. 1825 BripRS Yard 317 Ontario 92 sch. 1838 Turner, Scituate Harbor 388 Oracle 144 brig 1818 Kent, Scituate Harbor 381 Oregon 200 brig 1826 Briggs Yard 317 Oregon — brig Kent, Scituate Harbor 380 Orianna Ill sch. 1837 Turner, Scituate Harbor 388 Orient 42 sch. 1813 Turner, Fox Hill 133 Orion 60 sch. 1829 Copeland & Co., Fox Hill 137 Orleans 100 sch. White's Ferry 361 Otho 132 brig 1838 Waterman, Fox Hill 139 Otis 87 sch. 1846 Briggs, Scituate Harbor 386 Outesie 99 sch. 1838 Stetson and others, "Two Oaks " 102 Pacific brig 1796 Stutson, Wanton 222 Pacific 314 sliip 1818 Foster & Co., Wanton 234 Pacific Trader 141 snow 1796 Rogers Yard 208 Packet 22 sip. 1796 Miscel. Hanover 129 Packet 37 sip. 1800 Nash, Chittenden Yard 249 Packet 52 sip. 1804 Miscel , Hanover 130 Packett 22 sip. 1802 Miscel., Hanover 130 Palermo — 1835 Briggs, Brick-kiln 196 Pallas 156 brig 1800 Briggs, Brick-kiln 184 Parana 209 brii 1844 Miscel., Hanover 130 Paulina 74 sch. 1792 Miscel., Hanover 129 Pauline 148 sch. aft. brig, 1837 Barstow Lower Yard 110 Pauline Taylor 150 brig 1838 Miscel., Hanover 130 Patty 20 sip. 177- No. River Pilots 53 Patty 56 sch. 1785 Scituate Harbor 368 Pearl ship 1802 Smith & Bass, Smith Yard 92 Peggy 37 sch. 1787 Brick-kiln 373 Peggy 134 brig 1792 North River 48 Pembroke 193 ship 1801 Sampson, Brick-kiln 182 Pembroke 199 brig 1820 Briggs, Brick-kiln 184 Pembrook 184 ship Samson, No. River Bridge 70 Penn ship 1818 Miscel., Hanover 130 Perfect 68 sch. 1830 Turner, Brick-kiln 192 Perfect 26 sch. 1868 Litchfield, Miscel. Scituate 342 Perseverance 214 ship 1801 Foster, Wanton 229 Perseverance 184 brig 1815 Briggs, Brick-kiln 193 Persis 90 sch. 1792 Rogers Yard 2 6 Peru 257 ship 1818 Barstow Lower Yard 103 Peruvian 334 ship 1818 Foster & Co., Wanton 234 Pharamond 84 sch. 1818 Souther & Cudworth, Chittenden Yard 254 Phenix 314 ship 1830 Barstow Lower Yard 108 Philenda 72 sch. 1817 Tilden Block-house 270 Philenia 96 sch. 1835 Turner, No. River Bridge 75 Phllena Otis 1828 Briggs, Brick-kiln 195 Phoebe 117 sch. 1806 Torrey, Block-houso 263 Phoenix 68 sch. 1789 North River 48 Phoenix 150 brig 1839 White's Ferry 361 Pico sip. Rogers Yard 213 Pilgrim 62 sch. 1809 Smith Yard 93 Pilot 199 bk. 1837 Hall's, White's Ferry 361 Pioneer 231 brig 1824 Foster & Co.. Wanton 236 Pinta 207 sch. 1865 Barstow & Waterman, Fox Hill 144 Planet 98 sch. 1836 Hall's, White's Ferry 360 Planet sch. Briggs, Scituate Harbor 384 Pocahontas 279 ship 1803 Barstow's "Two Oaks" 100 Pocahontas 41 sch. 1838 Briggs, Scituate Harbor 384 Polly 18 sip. 177- So. River Pilots 53 Polly 52 sch. 1784 Miscel., Hanover 129 Polly 52 sch. 1784 Brooks, Tilden & Taylor 272 Polly 69 sch. 1784 Block-house 261 Polly 40 sch. 1789 Miscel., Scituate 343 PoUy 131 brig 1791 Brick-kiln 174 404 A LIST OF VESSELS BUILT ON NORTH RIVER Namb. Ton- nage. Rig. 3UILT Town or Yakd. 8, Polly Polly Polly Polly Polly President 52 BCh. 1793 Vinal, Scituate Harbor 368 23 BCh. 1797 Sherman, Miscel. Pembroke 83 39 BCh. 1798 Scituate Harbor 36S 114 sch. 1800 :'aker, Brooks, Tilden & Taylor 273 35 sip. 1809 Sherman, Brooks, Tilden & Taylor 273 85 sch. 1817 Souther, Chittenden Yard 253 President Harrison 65 sch. 1841 Miscel., Scituate 344 President Washington 49 sch. 1834 :jhittenden Yard 256 Primrose 50 brigantine 1694 Miscel. Scituate 337 Primrose 71 sch. 1821 Tilden, Block-house 270 Priscilla 61 sch. 1803 Briggs Yard 310 Protection 270 ship 1805 Hartsow's "Two Oaks" 101 Providence 100 ship 1698 Scituate Harbor 366 Providence 80 ship 1699 Briggs Yard 284 Prudence & Dorothy 60 ship 1699 Briggs Yard 285 Prudent Sarah .50 brigantine 1700 Miscel. Scituate 338 Pyretus 57 sch. 1831 Briggs, Scituate Harbor 383 Queen 100 sch. 1836 Turner, No. River Bridge 75 Rachel 59 sch. 1820 Rogers Yard 210' Railway 86 sch. 1829 Turner, Brick-kiln 192 Rambler 1818 North River 51 Ranger Ranger Rapid Reaper 65 sip. 177- North River Pilots 53 57 sch. 1819 Walter Foster, Wanton Yard 234 48 sip. sen. 1817 Foster & Co., Wanton 233 94 1837 Turner, Scituate Harbor 388 Rebecca, Lately csllcd victory. 90 ship 1705 Briggs Yard 285 Rebecca 77 sch. 1798 Miscel. Hanover 130 Rebecca 62 sch. 1831 Souther & Cud worth, Chittenden Yd 256 Rebecca 63 sch. 1836 Souther & Cudworth, Chittenden Yd 257 Red Rover 99 sch. 1838 Briggs, Brick-kiln 196 Red Rover Litclifield, Miscel. Scituate 342 Regulua 237 ship 1807 Torrey, Chittenden Yard 250 Reindeer 20 sch. 1798 Rogers Yard 212 Resolution sch. 17— Smith Yard 89 Revenue 27 sch. 1789 Kells, Smith Yard 93 Revival 44 sch. 1790 Miscel. Scituate 343 Revival 44 sch. 1791 Miscel. Scituate 343 Revival 39 sch. 1791 Briggs Yard 309 Rice Plant 122 brig 1824 Souther & Cudworth, Chittenden Yd 255 Richmond 116 brig 1817 Turner, Miscel. Scituate 341 Rienzi 108 sch. 1836 Waterman & Bates, Fox Hill 138 Rising Sun Rival 80 sch. 1806 Turner & Thomas, Miscel. Hanover 127 60 sch. 1829 Tilden, Block-honse 271 Rival sch. Briggs, Brick-kiln 184 Roanok6 sch. 183- Brooks & Tilden 279 Roanoke 99 sch. 1842 Turner, Bates and others, Lower Yard 112 Robert ship 1789 Miscel., Hanover 129 Robert Raikes 81 sch. 1849 Barstow & Waterman, Fox Hill 142 Rodolph Frederick Roller 271 293 ship ship 1799 1804 Barstow, "Two Oaks" Kingman, Miscel. Hanover 100 126 Romeo 312 ship 1805 Kingman, Miscel. Hanover 126 Romulus 204 ship 1797 Smith Yard 89 Rosa Baker 109 her. brig 18G7 Barstow & Waterman, Fox Hill 145 Rose 60 brigantine 1705 Block-house 260 Rover 79 sch. 179G Delano, Wanton 223 Rover sch. 1800 Vinal, Scituate Harbor Rover 89 sch. 1801 Torrey, Chittenden Yard 250 Rover sch. White's Ferry 361 Rowena 69 sch. 1834 Block-house 271 Roxanna 73 sch. 1818 Turner & Turner, Fox Hill 134 Rubicon 67 sch. 1831 Torrey, Block-house 271 Ruby Ruby Russell 85 sch. 1789 North River 48 28 sch. 1800 Rogers Yard 212 bk. 1804 Miscel. Scituate 343 Russian 222 brig 1828 Foster & Co., Wanton 238 Ruth 30 sip. 1708 Block-house 261 Ruthy 39 sch. 1791 Randall, Miscel. Pembroke 83 AND AT SCITUATE HARBOll. 405 Name. Ton- nage Rig. BVILT Town or Yard. 1 Pi Salem 260 bk. 1854 Miscel. Scituate 244 Salem Packet 42 jslp. 1782 Brick-kiln 173 Salinas 162 brig 1841 Barstow Lower Yard HI Salinas, aft. called "Warrea." 150 her. brig 1863 Barstow & Waterman, Fox Hill 144 Sally 35 sch. 1769 North River 48 Sally 25 sch. 1781 North River 48 Sally 58 sch. 1784 Miscel., Hanover 129 Sally 44 sip. 1786 Brooks, Tilden & Taylor 272 Sally 54 sch. 1786 Stutson, Wanton 222 Sally 54 sch. 1786 Vinal, Scituate Harbor 368 Sally 32 sch. 1789 Chittenden Yard 246 Sally — sip. 1790 Brick-kiln 174 Sally 24 sch. 1796 North River 49 Sally 96 sch. 1796 Rogers Yard 206 Sally 54 sch. 1796 Vinal, Scituate Harbor 368 Sally, aft. called "Nysted." 83 sch. 1799 Kent, Scituate Harbor 380 Sally 95 sch. 1802 Barker, Chittenden Yard 250 Sally — sch. 1802 Hanover Sally 149 brig 1802 Briggs Yard 310 Sally Robbin 58 sch. 1784 Miscel., Hanover 129 Samos 243 brig 1827 Copeland & Co., Fox Hill 136 Samuel — 1804 North River 51 Samuel 310 ship ISIO Eells, Smith Yard 94 Samuel & Thomas 190 bk. 1841 Miscel., Scituate 344 Samuel Soper brig 18— Briggs & Turner, Scituate Harbor 389 Sarah 90 ship 1697 Briggs Yard 284 Sarah 310 ship 1795 Brick-kiln 174 Sarah 307 ship 1815 Samson, No. River Bridge 70 Sarah 63 sch. 1841 Vinal, Scituate Harbor 384 Sarah 165 brig 1850 Barstow & Waterman, Fox Hill 142 Sarah,aft,card*'NelIieFenwick" 2^0 bark 18.54 Scituate Harbor 391 Sarah & Betsey 85 sch. 1819 Barstow Lower Yard 107 Sarah & Isabella 50 brigantine 1700 Wanton & Barker, Wanton 217 Sarah Brooks 76 sch. 1849 Scituate Harbor 386 Sarah Jane 67 sch. 1S51 Merritt, Chittenden Yard 257 Sarah Wales 99 sch. 1835 Barstow Lower Yard 110 Sarah's Adventure 40 ketch 1700 Scituate Harbor 367 Saratoga 289 bk. 1835 P'oster & Co., Wanton 240 Saturn 107 sch. 1805 Keene, White's Ferry 252 Saucy Jack 90 sch. 1802 Hatch, Block-house 363 Scituate 86 sch. 1834 Briggs, Scituate Harbor 384 Sea Boy Litchfield, Miscel. Scituate 342 Sea Drift 99 sch. 18.52 Barstow & Waterman, Fox Hill 142 Sea Flower 60 brigantine 1703 Scituate Harbor 367 Sea Flower 30 sip. 1709 Chittenden Yard 244 Sea Flower 40 sip. 1714 Chittenden Yard 244 Sea Flower 46 sch. 1789 Miscel., Scituate 343 Seamew 199 ship 1833 Barstow Lower Yard 110 Seamoss brig 183 Souther & Cudworth, Chittenden Yd 257 Sears & J. Rogers 31 sch. 1848 Briggs, Scituate Harbor 386 Selah 199 bk. 1848 Turner, Otis & Cole, Scituate Harbor 390 Selma 266 ship 1824 Barstow Lower Yard 106 Senator 193 brig 1840 Briggs Yard 322 Seventh Son 87 sch. 1819 Souther & Cudworth, Chittenden Yd 254 Short Staple 172 brig 1802 Cushing, Miscel. Hanover 127 Sinus 55 slpr 1843 Turner, Scituate Harbor 388 Sisters 83 brig 1794 Rogers Yard 207 Smyrna brig 1825 Foster & Co., Wanton 236 Smyrna 162 brig 1825 White's Ferry 2.56 Solon 402 ship 1815 Stockbridge, Miscel. Hanover 128 Somerset ship Brick-kiln 168 Soper sch. 1852 Scituate Harbor 391 Sophia 67 sch. 1795 Scituate Harbor 368 Sophia 35 sip. 1811 Briggs, Brick-kiln 181 Sophronia 83 sch. 1803 Torrey, Chittenden Yard 250 Sophronia 197 bk. 1841 Briggs, Brick-kiln 196 Souther Carver, Taylor 281 Souther 198 her. brig ) 1S40 Souther, Chittenden Yd 257 South Shore 88 sch. 18.50 Otis, Scituate Harbor 391 Spanker 103 sch. 1801 Turner, Miscel. Pembroke 82 406 A LIST OF VESSELS BUILT ON NORTH RIVER Name. Spartacus Specie Speedwell Speedwell Speedwell Speedwell Speedwell Speedwell Speedwell Speedwell Speedwell Friend Spermo Sphynx Spright (or "Sprite") S. R. Soper Star Star States St. Paul Success Success Sutrolk Sukey Sun Superb Surprise Susan Susan Susan Susan Baker Susan Jane Susan N. Smith Suwarrow Swallow lately called ["Blessing" Swallow, Swallow Swallow Swallow Swan Swan Swann Swann Taglioni Talisman Tama Tarquin Taunton Merchant Tenedos Thankful Thomas Thomas Thomas Three Friends Three Friends Three Friends Three Friends Three Sisters Three Sisters Tiberias Token Tom Corwin Topaz Trader Trent Triton Triton Tropic Trval Tryal Ton- Rio. 3UILT nage. 92 sch. 1846 72 ,ch. 1827 25 ;lp. 1695 60 ship 1695 100 >hip 1696 40 wigantine 1698 50 jrigantine 1699 15 iCh. 177 — 5]p. 177 57 5ch. 1787 20 origantine 1703 296 ship 1820 43 sch. 1784 200 sch. 1856 130 sch. 1832 brig 1838 23 sch. 1839 290 ship 1818 94 3ch. 1845 60 ^rigantine 1710 30 ?ch. 1783 314 ship 1816 49 sch. 1785 200 brig 395 ship 1794 70 sch. 18:)2 311 ship 1805 36 sip. 1831 1834 99 sch. 1839 274 bk. 1841 150 sch. 1864 303 ship 1807 35 hrigantine 1678 20 hrigantine 1698 30 brigantine 1705 68 sch. 1786 75 sch. 1789 20 Sl.3. 1708 129 sch. 1836 45 brigantine 1699 60 brigantine 1701 34 sip. 1848 73 sch. 1845 ship 177 101 sch. 1836 70 ship 1711 245 brig 1827 129 sch. 1797 bk. 1698 70 ship 1713 1809 1692 16 sip. 32 sch. 1796 98 sch. 1797 74 sch. 1801 90 brigantine 1705 sch. 1820 298 bk. 1833 141 brig 1831 250 bkf 1847 385 ship 1805 — sip. 249 brig 1822 170 brigantine 1800 75 sch. 1825 150 brig 1804 60 ship 1698 20 sip. 1701 Town or Yard. Briggs & Turner, Scituate Harbor North River Miscel., Scituate Miscel., Scituate Miscel.. Scituate Briggs Yard Scituate Harbor No.- River Pilots and Brick-kiln Thomas, Brick-kiln Bates, Miscel. Hanover Scituate Harbor Barstow Lower Yard Block-house Barstow & Waterman, Fox Hill Scituate Harbor Briggs Yard Bnggs, Scituate Harbor Barstow's Lower Yard Waterman, Fox Hill Block-house North River Palmer, Brick-kiln Block-house Bnggs, Brick-kiln Keene, White's Ferry Cudworth. Chittenden Yard Rogers, Miscel. Hanover Hall's, White's Ferry Briggs, Brick-kiln Cudworth, Chittenden Yard Briggs Yard Barstow & Waterman, Fox Hill [Briggs, Brick-kiln j Briggs Yard ^ Briggs Yard I Miscel. Scituate [Silvester, No. River Bridge I Miscel. Scituate ; Block-house j Briggs, Brick-kiln Scituate Harbor Scituate Harbor Briggs, Scituate Harbor Scituate Harbor Brick-kiln Cudworth, Chittenden Yard White's Ferry Briggs & Turner, Brick-kiln Torrey, Chittenden Yai-d Scituate Block-house North River Briggs Yard Rogers Yard Briggs Yard Hatch, Brooks, Tilden cSc Taylor Scituate Harbor Souther & Cudworth, Chittenden Yd Barstow Lower Yard Foster & Co.. Wanton Barstow & Waterman, Fox Hill Delano, Wanton Rogers Yard Barstow Lower Yard jBrick-kiln i Hall's, White's Ferry Brooks. Scituate Harbor [Miscel. Scituate Chittenden Yard AND AT SCITUATE HARBOR. 407 Name. Ton- nage Rig. BVILT ToAVN OR Yard. (2 Tryall 60 brig 17U Briggs Yard 285 Turk 197 bk. 1841 Turner, Scituate Harbor 388 Two Brothers 60 ship 1700 Chittenden Yard 244 Two Friends 89 sch. 1802 Turner, Brick-kiln 174 Tyger 60 brigantine 1706 Miscel. Scituate 339 Uncle Sam 118 sch. 1834 Hall's, White's Ferry 360 Union 15 sip. 177- No. River Pilots 54 Union — ship 1790 North River 48 Union 42 sch. 1792 Brick-kiln 174 Union 86 sch. 1801 Kingman Miscel. Hanover 126 Union sch. 1803 Marshfield Union 231 ship-- 1807 Smith Yard 93 Union 48 sch. 1816 Merritt, Miscel. Scituate 310 Union 199 bk. 1847 Turner, Otis & Cole, Scituate Harbor 390 Unity 40 sip. 1097 Miscel. Scituate 337 Unity 30 sip. 1699 Wanton 217 Unity 60 brigantine 1700 Scituate Harbor 367 Unity 65 brigantine 1706 Briggs Yard 285 Verges lol brig 1831 Turner, Brick-kiln 192 Verona 238 bk. 1836 Briggs Yard 321 Vesta 91 sch. 1821 Torrey, Block-house 270 Victory, form. cal'd "Rebecca." 90 ship 1705 Briggs Yard 285 Vintage 199 brig 1837 Waterman, Fox Hill 139 Virginia 62 sch. 1824 Briggs & Turner, Brick kiln 191 Vulture — 1817 North River 51 Warren, form, caned "SaUnas" 150 her. brig 1863 Barstow & Waterman, Fox Hill 144 "Warsaw 331 ship 1831 Barstow Lower Yard 108 Warsaw Foster, Wanton 230 Washington ship 1791 Miscel. Scituate also North River 48 343 Washington 107 sch. 1800 Brick-kiln 174 Washington 100 sch. 1800 Briggs, Brick-kiln (continued) 181 AVashington 87 sch. 1801 Kent, Scituate Harbor 380 Washington 70 sch. 1803 Samson, Brick-kiln 182 Washington 108 sch. 1805 Kent, Scituate Harbor 380 Washington 309 ship 1819 Barstow Lower Yard 104 Water Witch 167 brig 1831 Clapp & Foster, \Vanton 239 "W^ave 124 brig 1820 Briggs Yard 314 Wave 197 bk.° 1841 Waterman, Fox Hill 139 Waverly 232 brig 18'^7 Hall's, White's Ferry 356 Welcome Return 77 sch. 1818 Foster & Co., Wanton 234 Welcome Return Samson, No. River Bridge 71 Wellfleet 25 sip. 1784 North River 48 Wildes P. Walker 188 brig 1839 Barstow Lower Yard 111 William 135 brigantine 1784 Brooks, Tilden & Taylor 272 William 56 sch. 1784 North River 48 William 71 sch. 1803 Samson Brick-kiln (continued) 182 William 49 sch. 1817 Block-house 270 William sch. 1823 Souther & Cudworth, Chittenden Yd 255 William & Henry 185 brig 1823 Block-house 270 William & Mary 40 sip. 1693 Briggs Yard 284 William & Thomas 72 brigantine 1703 Miscel. Scituate 338 William Allen 99 sch. 1836 Scituate Harbor 387 William Clift brigantine 1749 Stutson, Wanton 220 William Henry 110 sch. 1837 Hall's, White's Ferry 361 William M. Rogers William Martin 162 brig 1838 Barstow Lower Yard 110 130 sch. 18.i4 Barstow & Waterman, Fox Hill 142 William Penn ship 1810 Miscel. Scituate 343 William Penn 158 brig 1837 Briggs, Brick-kiln 196 William Pitt 174 brig 1839 Briggs, Brick-kiln 196 William Soper William Tell sch. Turner, Scituate Harbor 388 258 ship 1805 Torrey, Chittenden Yard 250 William Wilson 121 sch. 1835 Barstow Lower Yard 110 Wolga 73 sch. 1828 Turner, Palmer & Magoun, Xo. Itiver Bridge 74 Xenophon 299 ship 1804 Magoun, Brick-kiln 183 Young Turk 300 bk. 1853 Turner and others, Scituate Harbor 391 Zenas Coffin,*"''?'"''"^' "«"•<"' Zion ["Rising sun.' 338 199 ship bk. 1828 1848 Barstow Lower Yard Barstow & Waterman, Fox Hill 107 141 Zulette 198 bk. 1843 Turner, Scituate Harbor 388 INDEX. Absalom's Rock, , 27 Adams, Eliah, . . 28s Isaac, . . . 156 James, . 332 John, 151 John Quincy, 198 Samuel, 158 Seth. . is6 Alden, Briggs, 261 Ichabod, 135 Isaiah, . 13 3, 134. 135, 192 John, . . 88 Alford, Benjamin, 218, 284,337 Alger, Cyrus, • 116, IS4 Allen, Fred, . 249 George, . Ill, 119 George A., 120 George H., . 67 George M., 102, 13 9, 140, 141, 192, 196, 279, 384, 385 ,386 George N., . 279 Henry, . 180 Ichabod, 74 Isaiah, 74 Jeremiah, • 284, 337 Matthew, 100 Stephen M., . 161 William P., . 120, 140, 386 Allison, James, . 338 Allyne, Abel, 186 Alwyn, Thomas, 331 Ames, Azel, 361 Elijah, . 136, 360 Jacob, 55 James, . 55 Tilden, . 264 W. B., . 125 Anderson, Alexander, 322, 384, 389 Joseph, 335 Arnold, Ed., 281 Frank, . 75 Henry H., . 375 Samuel, 343 Assinippi stream, 29 Athearn, George F., 222 Atkins, Elisha, 140 Aynsworth, James, 261 Babb, Thomas, . 148 Bacon, A. J., 69. 73 Bailey, Abner, 380 Benjamin, 364 Caleb, . 340 Charles T., . 266 George W., . 383 Herbert B., . 383 Job F., . . 383 John, . . 84, 103 Oliver, . 155 Waterman, 322 Bailey's Brook, . 26 Baily, Caleb, 13s PAGE Baker, Alpheus S , . 375 Andrew H., . 391 A., ... 144 Barker, . 191 Calvin, . 191 Calvin L., . 191 D.Webster, . 191 Ezra H., "o, 377 Howes, . no, 196 Joseph F., 375 Joshua, . . Kenelm, 145 280 M.A., . 146 Nathaniel, 368 Samuel, 352 Scollay, 273 Thomas, . . 15 8,273.337 Waller S., . 191 William J., . 221 & Hardy, 190 & Morrill, . 119 Bald Hills, . 220 Baldwin, Frank F., 296 Roger N., 296 Thomas, 374 William H., . 296 Banks, Harry W., 190 Joseph F., 190 N. P., . 73. 190 Bangs, Elkan.ih, . 322 Bant, Gilbert, 368 Bardin, Abraham, 8 Isaac, . 8 Thomas, 8,67 Bardwin, Isaac, . 8 Thomas, 8.9 Barel, Joe, . 237 Barker, Caleb, . 23 Elisha 164, 250 Francis, 2- 3 Ira, 248, 313 Isaac 3. 4 Isaac B., 9' Jacob 225, 226 John, 45 Joseph 109 Joshua, . . . • 2, 23 Josiah, . , Robert, . 2, 23, 174, 21- 2, 219 , 218, 219 Samuel, . . . . 2, 19 Thomas, 19 Wharton, 225 William, 246 & Athearn, 235 Barker's River, . 6 Barnes, Benjamin, 195 David 328 James 284, 3^7 Thomas, 367 Barnard, Edward, 228 E. &Co., 281 Barnard, R. A., Barren, J. . Barrer, Joshua, Barry, James, Barstow, Albert, Albert H., Alton M., Andrew, Benjamin, Calvin, . C. &J., Edward, Edwin, . Edwin & Son Elias, PAGE 384 298 3 218 no, 296 296 296 100, in 65, 97, 99, 106 97 108 99, 105, 106 24, 100, 144 145 97 Elijah, 34, 75, 97, 98, 99, lOD, 102, 104, 106, 107, 108, 109, no. III, 119, 120, 125, 140, 143, 295, 321, ,356,359 Elmer W., , 296 E. W., . 144 George B., 157 Gideon, . . 65,97 Henry, . no Henry B., . 29s Henry H., . . 113, 114 James, . 64, 65, 97 John, . 99 105, 106, 109, 381 John B., 7, 85, 98, 99, 100, lOI, 102, 103, 104, 106, 107, 138, 210 Joseph, . 15, 21 Joshua, .15,97.98 Nath., . 99 Nathan H., . 97 Nathaniel, 100, 105, 106, 228 Robert, . 99 R. L., . 344 Samuel, 21 Thomas, 65, 97 98, 99, 100, 102, 108, 157 William, 28, 65, 97 Wilson, . 97 & Eells, . . 84 & Russell, . 23 & Waterman, . 141, 144, 145, Barstow's Bridge, 28 Barstow's Brook, 6 Barstow's Forge, . IS Bartlett, George, . 113 John E., 13s Seth E., 13s W. S., . . . 387 Barton, Benjamin, 30 ]ames, . 284 Bass, Benjamin, 72, 90, 92, 219, 354 Elisha, . 85, 92, no. Philip, . 337 Bassett, Caleb, . 191 Frederick B., . . 156 John, 191 John B., . . 156 Julius W., . . . 156 INDEX. 409 Bates, Caleb, Calvin, . Clement, Edgar, . Enos, Henry S., Hira, . Hira W., James, . John, John B., Joseph, . Joseph J., Joseph L., Joseph S., 99, 112, 138, 359 J., • • • Loring, . Reuben C, . Seth, . Simeon, Solomon, Thomas M., . & Holmes, "Battles, Jared, Beal, Charles, David, . Edwin Ensign O., George . John, 74, 134, 137, 271, 320, 340, 382 Beale, J. F., Bearse, Owen, Bearstow, Jacob, . Beaver Dam Brook, Belcher, Andrew, 217, 285, 337. 339 John, Jonathan, Belknap, Jeremy, Bell, Philip W., . Bell House Neck, Belle House, Belle House Neck, Benjamin Curtis Mill, Benner & Deake, Bennett, Elisha, . Richard, Bernard, Francis, Berry, Abraham H., James, . Richard, Theodore, Berwind, Edward J., Bicker, Martin & Son, £igelow, Albert F., Albert S., Arthur G., Cleveland, Henry B., Horatio, Horatio R., . Joseph S., William DeF., Billings. Paul, Bisby, Elisha, Black Bill, . Blair, William Blake, George F., John, Joseph, . Joshua, . Blish, Abraham, . Blount, Frederick M., Harry D., . Boardman, William, & Sanderson, Boggs, F. M., Bonny, Ebenezer, iBonney, James, . Nath., . Noah, iBooth, Abraham, . 192, PAGE 138 24 124 249 125 135. 138 15 IS 265 195. 313 108, 138 2, 3 136 75 135. 137. 197 387 384 124, 125 310, 340 124, 309 129 24 340 254 20 254 39' 265 197. 270, Booth, Benjamin, . . 21 Borham, William H., 92 Borland, John, . . . 366 Boston Marine Mining Company, 112 383. 3S4. 385 82 390 272 25 244, 261, 284, 3" 261, 283 374 i'3 285 286 38, 2S6 3^1 , 289 157 262 284 46 322 249 208 64 86 66, 69, 86 86 86 86 134 136 258, 259 261 ' 249 350 186 3'7 337 329 3'9 48 39' 359 273 197 360 22 164 Bott, John Bourn, Shearjashub, Bourne, Jedediah, Jonathan, John, Proctor, Ronse, . Russell, . Bouve, John, Bowdon, John, Bowers, Henry, . Bowker, Bowen, , Isaac B., Bowley, J. G., . J. E. &G., . Boyd, J., . Boyden, Uriah A., Brackett, Cephas, Fred, . Lemuel, Samuel P., Bradlord, James, . William, Bradley, Francis E., J. Pay son, Bramhall, Benjamin, Joshua, . , Branch Creek, Brayton, Isaac, . Brenton, Jahted, . Brewer, C. & Co., Page, Brewster, Jonathan, Nathan, . Wrestling, Bridge, Edmund, Briggs, Alden, 61, 74, 82, 129, 174, 176 178, 180, 181, 183, 164, 185, 1S7, i8^, 193, 195, 196, 352, 360 Alexander P., . . 180 179 • 217,364 152 143. 145. 237 352 359. 360, 361 224 • 113. 114 197 338 . 279, 321 Alfred, Arthur N., A.,. Barnabas, Barnabas W., Benjamin, 297 296 313, 384, 386, 387 320, 382, 383, 384 • 247, 382 Charles, 179, i8t, 292, 293, 297, 311, 313, 314.323 Charles C, 157, 294, 319, 321, 322, 323 Charles C. & William T. 322 Charles E., . . . 183 Charles O., . . . 297 "Clark," ... 382 Cornelius, 178, 290, 291, 292, 293 Gushing O., 74, 132, 136, 157, 193, 194, 270, 293, 294, 312, 313, 314, 316, 317, 319, 320. 321, 323. 385. 389 Gushing O. & Sons, . 322 C. O.&H., . 313,316,319,389 Daniel, 178, 180, 185, 186, 187, David, . Edward, Edward T., Edwin, . Edwin R., Elijah 172, 313. 386 179 179 . 269, 324 295 293 Elisha, 158, 176, 178, 179, 180, 181 , 183, 186, 1S8, 193, 194, 222, 238, 292, 312 Enos, 178, 179, 185, 189, 293 Everett L., . . . 296 E. & H. O., 132, 197, 258, 312, 324, Frank H., Frank S., Franklin, George, . Briggs, George C., George H., . Harlem P., . Harrison O., 157, 269, 324. 325. 375 Henry, 74, 109, 132, 194 295. 312,313. 3'4. 3'5 319, 320, 321, 389 Henry J., Henry P., Henry T., Horace C, James, 124, 178, 286, 289 292, 293, 297, 298, 309 382 James B., James E., . . 157 James S., 319, 382, 383 Job, John. 289, 290, 291, 292 310 John R., Joseph, . . .29 Joseph O., Joshua, J. S., . Lemuel, Lloyd, . 157, 295, 31: Luther, 74, 17S, 179, 184 igr, 192, 194, 195, 196 199, 388, 389 L. Vernon, Nathaniel, Otis, Robert, . Samuel, . Seth, 178, 179, I 189. 292, 309 Shadrach, Silas M., Sylvester, 313, 383, 384 387 Thomas, 178, 180, 181 293.310. 3". 312 Thomas B., 293,294, 295 31 313, 31 193. 194. (9, 290, 291 , 292, 293 293. 324 29^ 137. 295 321 Thomas W., " Tom " Walter, 178. 287, 288, 2 Warren, ^Villiam, ] William H., WilliamT.,157, 158, 185 3I9- 321. 322, 323 Briggs Harbor, Brigham, Henry H., Joseph, . Brigs, Mathyas, . Broad Creek, Brookhall Field. . Brooks, Elijah, 238, 264, 265 Frank, , Franklin, John, Joseph, , t Nathaniel, Noah, 269, 324, 374, 38 Noah W. Taylor, . . William, William G., . Williams B., & Tilden, Brooks &; Tilden Yard, Broughton, Daniel, Brown, Benjamin, 384, 38 George L., . Henry, . James, . . . John, . . Samuel, 27S 278 PAGE 179 180, 296 296 282, 295, 270, 293, 316,317, 296 179 297 297 290, 291, 310, 312, 293 . 294, 324 384, 386 292 293. 309. 297 I 292, 382 383 189, 292 385 293 325. 377 189, 190, 197,198, 295. 32s 179 , 322, 383 179, 180 , 179, 292 185, 186, , 384, 386 180 385. 386, 297 193. 313 255, 286, 292, 382 255 313.386 294 268,294, 287 20 366 332 44 285 2;8, 279 341 278 26, 382 27 26 381 382, 390 382 381 341. 381 104 382 279, 389 272 389 385, 391 156 155 263 277 197 410 INDEX. PAGE PAGE Brown, S 2q8 Chittenden Israel, 245 Vernon H., . 136 248 Nathaniel, 245 Bruce, James, 165 Thomas, 245 Bryant, Dion, 179 Chitty, Thomas, . 367 Ira, . . 237, 25c . 3''9 380 Christie, Michael, 7 John, . .33.34,3. , 159 237 Chubbuck, Anthony, . 313, 389 Joseph, . 277 Francis G., . 192 Bryant's Bridge, . 35 Church, Caleb, . . . 131 Buck, Isaac, . . i-i ,286 292 Cornelius, 252 John, . . 337 David, . . 57, 82 ,83, 181. 350 Bucklyn, David, . 244 Joseph, . 131 Budd, John, 108 Lemuel, 174 Buffington, James, 293 Nathaniel 13' Bulfinch, C 298 Samuel H., . 30, 119 Bulfinch's Harbor, 307 Samuel S., . 119 Bulkley, Charles, Charles Edward, 190 Thomas, 334 190 Timothy, 237, 250 Rumpas' Bridge, . 35 & Haskins, . 119 Bunker, George, . 343 Church's 1 nil,. . 31 James, . 105 Church's Hill Muster Grounds, 73 Paul 234 Clafflin, Warren, . 381 Thomas, 169 Clapp, Albert, 321, 388 Burden, Isaac, 8 Alfred, . 74. 271 Thomas, 8 Chandler, . 74, 313. 386, 388 Burgess, Ebenezer, 127 Elton B., 204 "Freeman, 127 Eugene H., . 10, ir Burleigh, John, . 179 Frank A., 67 Burley John, 179 Fred. W., 10, 11 Burns, William, . 156 George P., . 13 Burrell, James, . 341 Henry, . 74, 271 360, 388 Burrill, Isaac, 241 John, 30.41 James S., 241 242 John L., 2C4 Burrington, Thomas, . 337 Joseph, 227, 237, 238, 239, 240, Burroughs, Francis, . 285 291, 360 Jeremiah, Thomas, 286 Nathaniel, 240, 270, 332 192 Perkins, 263. 374 Burrows, Thomas T., . 196 Rufus, . 282 Burton & Trumbull, . 172 Samuel, 41. 343 Butler, Peter, 366 Silas, Silvester, 341 340 Cable, George, . 337 Thomas, . 157 240 332, 389 Cahoon, Joseph, . 370 & Foster, 239 Calep, Robert, 284 Clapp Mills, 41 Calvert & Co., . 388 Clarance, John, . 156 Cape Hancock, . 308 Clark, Andrew, . 297 Carpenter, Prospect, . 188 Belcher, 123 Carswell, James W., . 88 Benjamin, 123 William, 88 B.. ... 344 Cartwright & Harrison, III . M4 B.C., . iro, 239 Harrison & Co., . 144 Charles, 124 Carver, Barslow,. • 351 . 357 Charles C, . 124 David, . 277 George E., 297 Hatch, . . . 3S1 .357 John, Nathaniel, 123 Isaac, . 277 123 Israel, . . 280, 28 I, 36c ,361 Thomas, H3, 285 Joshua, . 277 William, . 90, "4 140, 285 Robert, . 162 Zebulon, 124 Stephen, 379 Clark Yard, 123 William, 353 Clarke, Francis, . 339 & Taylor 212 Jonas, . 284 Gary, William S., 105 William, 28^ 337. 366 Chadwick, Ebenezer, . 136 Willliam H., 179 Chamberlain. Norman, 72 Claton, Richard, . 217 Chamberlain Plain, 35 Clay, Samuel, 191 Chambers, Charles, 339 Clayton, Richard, 337 Champion & Dickason, 170 Clermont & Kendrick, 390 Chandler, B. F., . 179 Clift, Joseph 211, 277 Sceva, . . 384, 3? 5.389 391 Nathaniel 204 250, 270 Simeon, . 4 William, 12, 277 Chapin, Joseph, . 82 Clothing Mill, 41 Chapman, Ralph, 45 Clutty, Thomas, . 285 Chapman's Landing, . 6 Cobb, Theodore, . 22 Chase, A. S., 39' Cobb & Cushing, . 22 Coffin, . 51 Coburn & Ray, . 389 Isaac, 105 Cock, Edw., 288, 289 L., ... 145 Cockburn, Sir George . lOI N., ... 391 Cody, Jordan, 14* 0*en, 49 Coffin, Alexander, 168 Checkley. Samuel, 72 Barzillai lOI Cheny, Royal, 180 Charles, III Chillingworth, Thomas, 38 C. G. &H., . 105, 107 Chisholm, George H., 387 Daniel, . 28i Chittenden, Gid, . 246 Ebenezer, '85 Isaac, . 244 245 Francis C, 235 Coffin Henry, T07, iir Hezekiah, . . 165 , 166, 167 James, .... 285 Nathan 164 Owen 50 Peter, .... 284 Shubael, 167, it8 Zenas, . loi, 103, 104 , los, 107 Zimri, .... 50 Cole. Andrew, 384, 39° Br.iddock, . 390 Charles, 75, no, in , igo, 252 Gridley, 380 Isaac, .... SO James, .... 252 Job 273 William, . . n: , 217, 368 Coleman, David . 384 John, . . . 24^ , 261, 284 Moses, .... 139. 142 Moses, R. . . . 141 Perry P, 322, 384 Collamer, Anthoi y. 291 Collamore, Anthony, . 52, 196 Charles, 215 Francis, . . 6, 173, 185 Gilman, 195 Horace, 74, 179, 192, 193, 195, 196, H^t.t'^': . 312 Peter, . 28s W. H. H., . 164 Collier, James, 203, 25 h 340. 369 PelegH., 321 William, . . 291 Colman, John, 285, 337 Moses R., 139 Comstock, Samuel B., 231 Coney, Jabez, 325 Conner, E. G., . 388 Converse, Benjamin, . 35» Frank B.. 38a Heroert B., . 38* Cook, A 271 E. H 391 E. &E.K., . I4» Ichabod, 386 Josiah, . Luther D., . MS 108 Nathan, . 179. Robert, 386, 391 &Co., . 271 Cooks, James, 350 Cooper, Thomas, . 366 Coorigan, T. J., . 142 Copeland, Ebenezer, . 133 Joseph, . William, 74, 90, 131,132 133. 29» .133.134. 135, 13*^. '37 William & Co.. . 136 & Ford, . '38 Ford & Pratt, 132, 13s Copeland Tannery Brook, 34 Copper, Thomas, 5» Cordwood Hill, . 35 Corlew, "Bill," . 91,92 Edward, 92 William. 9i Cornell, J. B. & W. W., '55 Cornish, Joshua, "7 Corthell, John, 258 JohnH., Joseph, . 22j 227, 258 Cotton, Joseph, . 376 Coushing, William, "r William & Co., . "7 Cox, Isaac, 9i Cricket Hole, 33 Crocker, G. O. & Co., J 06 Joseph, 321 J. L Tilden, . Crockett, Smith D., . 1I3 Crommelin, G. C, 34J INDEX. 411 PAGt PAOE PAGE Crocker, Nathaniel, 86 Damon, James, . 192, 279 Dunham, S., • 222 Tilden, 66, 89, 359 Joseph, . 386 Durshee, Frederick, . .56 59, 188, 386 153 23 19, 24 90, 91, 92 14 31 9 72 Crosby, Robert, . . . 284 Nath 3'3 Drew, Joseph, . . i Cross, Amos W., . . 3i8 N.J., . . . 204 William. . . Crotch, 6 Reuben, 134 Drinkwater Iron Works, Crozier, William, 50 Samuel, . 313 Drinkwater River, Cudworth, Benjamin, . 253 William F., . 265 Dwelley, Benjamin, Elijah, 252, 253, 2 34. 255. 256. 257 & Waite, 271 James H., 271, 360 Danforth, Samuel, 372 Jedediah, Israel, 388 Darbey, Eleazer, . 260 Lemuel, James, . . 253, 290 Darby, Eleazer, . 338 Melzar, , John, 254 ^ J- • • • • 298 Nathan, 92 • 34, 223 92, 98 Joseph, . . 253, 254 Davis, Aaron, 89 Richard, Laban, . 254 John, 239 Robert E., . Samuel C, • 214, 253 Moses, . 89 Dyer, Charles, . 12, 92 217 261 William, 281 Dawcetl, James, . 145 Giles, . Culpepper, Francis, 344 Day, John, . 355 Gyles, . Culver, Albert, . 26 Deane, Charles F., . 328, 329 Hervey, 19 12 Cunningham, Timothy , . 261 Charles W., . 328 Theodore C, & Cobb, 112 David H. A., 328 Currier, John J., . 335 George . 179 Efemes, Joseph, . 313 Curtis, Amiel, 313 Harry S., 128 Ears, Jasper M., . 104 28s 93 Asa, . 360, 361 John, . 326, 328 Eaton, Richard, . AsaF., . 360 John M., • 328, 329 Eells, Barzilla . Benjamin, 30 Samuel, 226, 235, 326, 373, 328, Bezal, . 93, 98 Consider, 9 329, 330, David, . 137 Edwin, . 204 Walter, 326 Edward, . 84, 93, 94, 98, 102 Eli, . . 2 38,3^9,343.38- William . 326 John, 98 Elijah, . . 25 2, 254, 263, 380 William H. B., . 328 John P., q8, 00 Elisha, . 90, 92, 250 William R., . 326 Joseph, . . 85, 87, 98, 100, 359 Experience, . 322 Delano, Alfred O., 227 Nathaniel, . . 98, 216. 2:!6. George, 9, 10, 11, 1 3.313,359.360, Amasa, ■ 188, 30s Robert, 85, QO, 93, q8, 99, 128 361 Barak, . 224 Robert L., 85, 87, 97, 98, 99, 129 Harvey, 271 Benjamin, . 223, 22 4, 221;, 228 Samuel, 84, 94, 98, 99 102, 103, James 0., John, 269 Benjamin F., 226, 227 250 31 Charles, . 224 Eldredge, James, . 53 Joshua, . 313 Edward, 224 Eldridge, T., lit J. 0., . . 384 Edward F., . 227, 262 Elliott, David, 104 Lemuel, 9. 12 Edward H., . . 22 5, 227, 262 Ellis, David, . . 13 7, 230, 236 Martin, . . 102, 132 Elisha, 81,313 Joseph, . 363 Nathaniel, 12 Hezadiah, 224 Joshua, . . 193, 206 Paul, . . 13 2, 141, 197, 281 Jesse, 224 Ellis Bridge, 24 Reuben, . 9, 90, 91 , 129, 130, 250, Joseph, . . 224 Ellmes, Charles, . 263, 36 9, 380, 386 359 Lemuel, 224, 277 Charles O., . 42 Samuel, . . 234, 292, 368 Samuel, 188, 224 Rhodolphus, . • 41.363 Shadrach B., 384, 385. 386 Silvanus, 223, 224 William, 377 Thomas, 137 Thomas, 224 Ells, Edward E., . 297 Thomas J., . 389 William, 85, 93, 224, 225 , 226, 230 Emerson, James L., . Emery, George W., 375 & Tilden, . 36 William E. . . . 227, 262 357 Curtis Mills, 30 William H 226 Emmes, Samuel, . 36+ Cushen, John, 332 Zebulon, 224 Emmons, Nathaniel H., 139 , 314, 315. Gushing, Charles, 180 De La Noye, Philip, . 224 316, 317, 320, 321 Christopher, . 283 Dennis, Ebenezer, 284 Enderby, Samuel,. Estcs, Henry, 166, 167 Elijah, . 21, 32, 124 Despard Lambart, 2 338 Elnathan, 237 Mark, . . . . 3 Matthew, 337 George, . 23 Devin, John, . . 218 . 244, 367 Estis Matthew, , 337 George R., . 48 Devine, John, 2t8 Eustice, John, 368 Horatio, 250 Dewsbury, William, . 284 Evans, Jonathan, 284, 367 John, 7, 21, 128, 140, 200, 286, Dillingham, Thomas, . 45 Robert, . 338 331 Dingley, Jabez 277 Everett, Charles, . 375 John H., . 113,119 John, . . .159 , 277, 350 Everton, William, 217 Joshua, . 19 Thomas, 277 Ewell, A 237 ---Nathan, 80, 251 Doggett, Ebenezer, 39 Gershom, 277 Nathaniel, 16, 20, '. !I, 80, 98, 182, John, Nathaniel B., 35, 39, 52 Henry, . 215 331 39 Isaac 206 Nath 313 Noah, , . . . 39 Jedediah, 129 Nehemiah, 80 Samuel, . . 38, 39, 52 , 244, 261 Eyer, John, .... 337 Theodore, 23 Thomas, , 38, 39, 52 Eyre, John, . . , . 366 Theophilus, . 179 Donnalson, James, 358 Thomas, 235 Donnell, Reuben, 7, 9, 104 Fabens, B. E. & B. H. 145 William, 127, 158 . 175. 215. 258 Samuel, . . . . 250 Fairbanks & Adams, . 143 Gushing VI ill, 30 Thomas B., . 104 Farnham, Rufus, . 66 Cushing's Neck, . 285 Doubleday, John, . 365 Farrington, George P., 179 Cushman, Elisha, 320 Doughty, James, • 178, 291 Faucon, E. A., 182 Cutler, Timothy, , 220 Doval, Jacob, 338 Faxon, Asaph A., 389 Dumer, Jeremy, . 284 Luther, 22 Dagan, Barney, .. 12? Dummer, Jeremiah, 337 Fay, William, 137 Dalton, Thomas. . 336 Dunbar, Atwood L., . 384 William C 239 Daman, Benjamin, 53, 54 Jesse, 74, 192, 208, 270, 271, 310 Windsor, 136 Damon, Amos F., 205, 206, 313 315. 316. 317, 319.340, 341, 343, Fenno, James, 130 Daniel E., . 85 358, 380, 383 Fenton, Thomas, 338 Doane, , 270 J 192 William, 338 Franklin, . 386, 391 Dunham, Jesse, . 376 Ferris, John, 323 H., . , . 134 Josiah, . . . 116 376, 377 Fessenden, Charles B., , 321. 412 INDEX. PAGE 337 154 4' 351 353 277 3'S 66 .56 '56 82 72 321, 322 322 322 376 3^9 284 284, 350 235 182 171 19 277 277 186 49. 51 156 132 266 132. 137 156 148 83. 273 156 132 134 273 132 125 Michael, 85, gj, 102, no, 131, 132, ^33. '35. '37. '39, '4'. 219, 220, 3'3. 321 •■Fifield, Giles, •Finney, Ephraim, First Herring Brook, Fish, Adam, Frank, . Thomas, 'Fisher, Francis, . John, Rollin B., . R. Thomas, . Fiske, J.D., Fitzgerald, Richard, Fletcher, Edward, Edwin, . . Henry W., . Flint, Truman, Flood, Renjamin, . Tames, . Joseph, . Fogg, Ebenezer T., Folger, Peter, Timothy, Foord, Joseph, Peleg, . Thomas, Forbes, John M., R. B., . Ford, Charles M., Chauncy D., . Coleman, David B., Edward, Elijah, . Eiisha, . Harry, . Howard I., James T., Jonathan, John W., Lauren, 4.378 378 355 125 159 148, 220 132 271 229 229, 230 156 156 229, 258 228 210, 227 Nathaniel, Nat, Samuel, . Simeon, . , Thomas, , William, . . 13 William C, . Foss, A., Foster, Benjamin P. Charles, Charles A., . Charles B., . Daniel, . Edward, Eiisha, 74, 135, 192, 195, 228, 229, 230, 231, 233, 234, 23s, 236, 243, 2b8 Eiisha & Sons, . . 230,231 Freeman, . . . 106, 229 George 228, 238 Hatherly, . . . 228 Henry 228 John, 6, 148, 152, 217, 228, 251, 261, 284, 313, 320, 337, 366, 368 Joseph, .... 228 Joshua T., . . 228, 239, 281 Otis 228 Philip 228, 230 Robert, .... 153 Samuel, 223, 228, 229, 239, 231, 233. 234. 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 250, 360 Samuel & Co., . . 240 Seth, 227, 228, 229, 230, 233, 234, 235, 236,237, 238 Seth & Co., . . . 233 Seth & Samuel & Co., . 233, 235 Thomas, . . . 228 Timothy, . . . 228 Turner, .... 238, 239 Foster, Walter, 229, 230, 2?S, 238, 253 William T., . Fourth Cliff Ray, Fowie, William, William H., & Carroll, Franklin, Benjamin, Henry, . Frazier, A. A., Freeman, Edmund, Ezra, F. M., . French, Benjamin B., Charles F., . H. S.,&Co.. ^.J.O., . . Fnend, John, Frizell, John, 260, 261, 284 339. 367 Frost & Gurney, . Fuller, C , . FredH., George, . Henry E., . Samuel, . Fiillerton, John, . Fulling Mill Creek, Gage, Thomas, Zenas, . Gardiner, George, Gardner, Henry, . Seth, . Thomas J., GarreK & Mayer, Garrett, Joseph, . Gallop, Benjamin, Gallup, W. H. V , George Moore's Bridge, George Moore's Swamp Gerrish. John, Gerry, Elbridge. . Gibbs, A., . R C Gill, Michael', '. Gillam, Cateret, . Gilson, William, . Goddard, Nathaniel, William, Goldthwait, Thomas, Gonzales, Bias, Gooch.John, Goodhue & Co., . Gooding, Henry, . Goodwin, Edward, Edward L., . & Vcntrin Gorham, John, . Stephen, Gorman, Stephen, Goss, Curtis L., . Gould, Barney, Charles J., Tilson, . Gravelly Beach, . Graves, C. B., S. B., . Gray, Anthony, . Robert, ... 48 William, Gray's Harbor, Green, Bartholomew Nathaniel, Greene, James S., Joseph, Tobias, Greenish, J., Greenough, David, Greenwood, Samuel, Gunderway, Jerry, Gurney, James, . Fred J., PAGE 233. 234, 239 38 321 321 144 195 218 390 38' 143 387 155 '55 130 85, 123 379 28s, 338, 134 67 263 67 285 353 34 77 207 166 339 , 263, 283 226 30 107 292 ,2-8,338 113, 114 41 41, 259 284 104 no 182 261 244 364 100, lOI 338 372 300 207 344 '3 281 376 154 4 184, 212 212 376 123 154 24 46 no, 136 143. 144 383 299. 307 104, 127 307 2?4 284 266 266 338 '43 '93 284, 337 59 262 262 PAGE Gurny, John, S')? Hackett, William i83 Hall, Abraham, 203 Adam, . 355 ISradford, 374 Calvin, . 356 Charles B., 375 Charles H., 375 Chester, 374 Danforth, 352 Daniel, . 236, 255, 270 Edward K., , 375 Erne.st, 375 Francis, 356 Frank I., 375 Harvey, 269, 313 Hervey, 356 ilubert. 374 Isaac, 137 Isaac R., 356 Ivory, . 374 Ivory B., 374 James, . 360 Jeremiah, 179 Jesse, 355 Job, . 91,92 John, 356 Joseph, . Lemuel, 355. 356 356 Levi, 355 Luke, 126, 197 . '98 . 256, 355. 356, , 357, 358, 359. 360 ,361 Luther, . 356 Martin, . 356 Matthew, 74 Noah B., 375 Peleg, . 356 Robert, 281 Samuel, 55, 60 , 132 , 197, 355. 356, ^,357. 358 Thomas, 355 Walters., . 357 Walton, . 275 William, 355, 356, 358, 359. 360, ,„3^' „ ny O, II William B. & Billings, Hallett, George, Halsey, John, Hamblin, Nathaniel, Hammond, Archelus Morris, . Hancock, John, . Handerson, Frederick Hanes, John, Hanmer, John, Hanover Forge Compa Hanover Temperance Society Harding, David, Henry C, Hardy, Alpheus, & Baker, Harlow. Eleazer, Harradine, John, Harrmgton, Jubal Harris, Abraham, B. W. . David Timo., . Hartt, Joseph, Joseph T., Samuel, . Harvey, George. Haskins, Edward H. Isaac, Lemuel,. William, William C, Hassey, Jacob, Haste, Henry, Hatch, Amos, Anthony E., Anson, . Asa L., . 374 341 3'7. 366 217, 2l8 III 167 338 '58 53 211 21 '7 91 264 264 196, 388 i<,6, 390 148, 149 284 82 380 160 , 103 338 226 226 226, 331 361 228 119, 228 250 '37 "9 372 "3 247, 250 203 83. 258 386 INDKX. 418 Hatch, Hailcy, ... 23 Benjamin, 53, 203, 272, 273, 352, 359. 360 Charles, 272, 273 c, . 298 Daniel, . 263 P^mmons, 360 Ezra, . 360 Ichabod, 61, 203 Isaac. . . . 5. ' Israel, . . .13' >. T76. 183 '. "59. 203 Jabez, . . 356, 35' h 360, 36- James, . 21 Jeremiah, . z .283, 353 lohn. 224 L. B 22 Mark, . 5'i " Miller I'.cri," 20 •( Prince, . zo'J, 273 Samuel, 58, 322 Seth. . 174. 273 Thomas M., . 389 Turner, 37 Walter, ... 2 I, 283, 353 Warren, 237 William. 283 290 Hathaway, Benjamin A., 278 Ifathcrly, Timotliy, . 2, 25,40 287 Hay, Alexander, . 1 06 Hayden, Kli, J 88 Klisha, . 281 & Cudworth, 269 Ilayward, Klijah, 125. 126 Hazard, Thomas, 102 225 Hedge, Barnabas, 380 Henchman, Nathaniel, 337 Hender, Jonathan, 2l8 Henderson, Jolin, Henry, Sank.rd, . Hensfiaw, John, . 260 321 330 Herring Kiver, 6 Hersey, David, 8. 99 Ebcd, . 322 Hewes, John, Hcwit, Joseph, 283 277 Heynian, Samuel, 336 Tfichens, Benjamin, 104 J licks, r>anicl. 3'''3 & Bell, . 3^-8 Hilaiid, Samuel, . 340 Hilborn, Charles J., . "3 114 Hill, Abraham, . . i^ 2, 158 284 Samuel, . 3'fi Hillburn, Charles J. . 113 Hitchcock, Gad, . 22 106 HeniyJ., Hobart, Aaron, . T06 12 A.M., . 22 Benjamin, 20 Elihu, . 12, 19 Israel, . 283 Peter, . 234 283 Thoma?, 16,21 38, Hobby, lironsden. 284 John, William, 217 285 2 (it Ifod^cs, Anthony, 338 Holbrvjk, John, . 53 Luther, . 343 368 I Foldsworlh, Joshua, . ilolland, Abijah, . 288 289 3'-; John, Holfin^Ssworth, Richard, 100 1 01 47 ilolmes, Cyrus C, 67 lohn, . 148, 2'^2, 36' J'homag, • . 0, zCi 374 3'3 Homer, George . 48 Hooper, John !>., no Horton, John, . , 2O0 367 House, Benjamin, 54 loseph. , Sarnuel, . 25 53 103 283 Houston, Sarnuel, 385 Hovcy, Henry, . 3'S 3'7 Howard. Charles, Kratik, . Nathan, Robert, . Howes, Klisha, John, Macy, . Osborne, I'rince, , Thomas, Howland, JariuR, T.uther . Thomas, , Hubbard, Joshua, 'I'homas, , Huckins, James, . Hugh's Cross Brook, Humiihrcy, Benjamin, William . Hunt, A., . Albion W., . Joseph, . 83, 2<; I.,ewis, . Thomas, W. Webster, . Hunting, Samuel, Hussey, Cyrus M., Shubael, Silvanus, Hutchinson, Thomas, William, Hyde, Ezra, Hyland, Jlenry, . Indian Head River, Ingraliam, Joscpli, Ireland, John, . Iron Mine Brook, Jackson, Joseph, . Thomas, & Ewell, Jacob, Benjamin, David, . Jacobs, Barton, . Benjamin, Benjamin R., Charles, James, . Joseph, . Joshua, . Samuel. . Jacobs' Mills, James, A'bert, Arlburll., . P.enjatnin, i'enjamiri K., Charles I,., . f:harles T., . Dean K., Wward B., , Wward S., YAv/in I., Elisha, . Elisha F. Iraiifjs, I'rank I., Kretlerick A., George, . George B., Harry I., Henry I'., . Herbert J., . John. Josiah 1... Nathaniel, Nel»on P., Reginald S., ■ Robert K., . William, 227, 248, 262, 263, 268, 270, William A., William G., William H., T'AfJK PAOB • 74. ^^'i James, Williams B. , 37» I z '■, Williams K., . 37a 221 «: 'lorrey. . . 271 . 217,284 Jarvis, John, . 338 174 Jeffries, iJavid, . aSs, 338 261 Jenkins, Calvin, . 333, 34J , 248, 26& 261 Coleman, '35 192 256 Cummings, . '34, 384 , 388, 38<> 174 David S., 384 261 Davis, 380 4 Elijah, ir2, 792, 250, 271 279, 322» 19 , 360, 368, 369, 383. 384. 388 19 Henry 'J ., , . 279. 332 James, . 102 . . 98 John . . 271, 36; , 383. 384 3''8- 324 Joseph, . 30 320 I-eiiiuel, Noah, . 250 384. 189 232 Noble E., 19a 379 Oliver, . 848 2>5o . 318. 369 . . 383 ^'clcg. 74. 137. 192, •97. 250, 271, 06, 208, 212, 'jijf 320, 340, 383, PelegT., . 384, 388 28', 388, 389 90 ReMb.;n V., . 389 378 I, 352 262 John, . SS-J 262 Josiah, . Martin, . 350 . . 378 35' . 26'., 261, 313 Nathaniel, 3'/^35« 262 Simeon, 238 .35 ■-,35'. 352 261 Stevens, . 35« 294 William. Keith, Charles, . 35' 378 2',7 377 George, . 209 , 254, 255, 261, James, , 211 0, 271, 363, 366 Kemp, William & f '<>., i 262 Kcmplon, David R , , 344 377 D. B., , 344 262 Ephraim, • a/ji 414 INDEX. Kender. William J., Kendrick, John, . Kennedy, John M., & Co., Kent. Barker B., . Benjamin. . 371, 372 Benjamin K., Charles, Charles D., . David . Ebenezer, Edward F., Elisha, . , 277 E^ekiel, . Ichabod, Isaac, Jo., . . John, 366, 369, 370, 371 37S, 379 Tohn H., >hn H. B., . lonathan, Joshua, . Joseph, 149, 877, 370. 371. ^.374. 3.7S, 379 Nathaniel, . . 371, Noah B., . . 295, Peleg, . . . 230, Samuel, 56, 340, 366, 369, 372, 374, 376. 379. 3S0, uelH., . Sam Samuel K., Smith, . . 3 Stephen, Thomas, Warren, William, King, George, Orrice, . Thomas, King's Landing, . Kingman, Abel, . David. . Eliphalet, George, . Henry, . John, Kingman's Yard, . Kinsman, Jeremiah, Kirkoterp, C, Knapp, Henr>- A., Knowles, Robert, Lambert, James, . John, Jonathan, Michael. Lang, John H. B., Lapham, Elijah, . King, . Samuel, . Thomas, . WiUi.^mT., . Lascnby, Thoma<, Lathrop, John, Lawrence, A. & A., Cakes, o Thomas, & Co., . Lay, William, Laielle, Perkins & Co, Leavitt, Gad, Josiah, . Lee, Charles, Lcfurgey, Lemuel, Legg. Samuel, Lenth.il. Robert, . Leonard, Isaac, . George, . . Lc Roy, Charles, Thomas Otis & Co. Lewis, Abiel S., . Asa R., . Bela, . ;o, 360, 13 Lewis, B A., 145 2QQ, 305 . Caivin, . 59 29S, 305 I Daniel, . . 147. 176 360 Ebenezer, 177 , 377 George, . 177 . 37*. 379 James. . 177 371 /ames H., 176 37S j Jarvis, . 266 373 ! jehiel, . 177 . 373. 374 j . esse, 176 370. 371 1 l[ohn. 3S9 376 , onathaa. 177 . 378. 379 1 ,oseph, . 176, 177, 200 .371.379 Leab, 177 379 ; Paul, . 177 371 Rogers, . 177 369 Samuel, . . 176, 177 37a. 374. S. W. & Co., 257 Thomas, • 177.206 376 William, 176, 177, 237 37* Willi.-«nG., . III 372. 373 Winslow, 132 370 Lifkin & Ironside, 143 372.373. Lillie. Richard, . . 260, 366 Samuel, 244, 26c, 2S4. 285, 337, . 378, 379 ^338. 359. 366. 307 . 376, 377 Thomas, 244. 337. 366 , 277, 37S Lincoln, Abraham, • 155. 310 370,371. Cal\-in, . 264 3S1, 382 George H. . 297 376 Jacob, . Jerome, . • 45. 3JO 376 310 378, 379 Levi, 239 371. 372 Nichols, 297 37S Linkler. John, 337 '73 Litchfield, Addison, 241 37S, 379 Asa, 135 21 Austin, . 384 316 Bemani, 241 2S5 Cah-in, . 343 37 Charles A., . 252 313 Cummings, . 241 , 242, 341, 342 120, 127 Elijah, . 241 323 E.xperience, . 363 125 Foster, . 341 US Freeman, 340 125 Han-ey, . 322 "S Hersey, . 341 152 Isaac, :«8S II'? Tames, . 135 ss justice, . 3S4 336 John, 341 Leonard. 341 204 Meljar, . • 137. 387 1 231 Paul. . 3»2 244 Peter, . 258, 337 Simeon, . . 134. 192 1 322 William, 342 193 & BurriU, 240 277 Lither, James, 363 269 Little, Amos, R., . 2S6 237. 374 Edwin P , 273, 281 67 Francis B., . 382 338 George, . 286 374 Isaac, . . 39 337. 3«>, 366 134 1 James, . 248, 249 ledediah. 250, 36S, 369 242 1 . 212,365' 341 Luther, . 212, 2S6, 352 I 192 Peabody, 35' 232 Soloman, 30I 1 22 Little's Bridge, 38 : '35! Little's Creek, 44 ' 261 ; Lloyd, Edward, . Locke, Gusuvus, . »iS , 149 316 1 6 1 Logan, Arthur C, S3i 2S1 Harry v., . S3' 98! Samuel C, . SS 113, ii3 Lombard, Amme C, . 321 313 1 Benjamin, 4« 140 Ephraim, 321 155 Tedediah, 46 III Ji Hall. . 197 3S6 Lommis, Nathaniel, 33S ; i»2l Long Marsh, 4t . PAGE Longfield, Thomas, 106 Long\vater Brook, 24 Loring, Alden, 179 Bailey H., . 83 1 Benjamin W., 83 Elijah, . . 193 ' John A., 83 William L., . 83 Lovell, Abner W., 207 j Gorham, 207 1 James S., 177 Levering, William, 136 Low. Jeremiah, . 148, 277, 278 1 Lucas, Samuel, . 350 Luce, J., 344 Stephen, 344 Ludd.-un's Ford, . 7 Lunt, Abel, . 92 George, . . 220, 365 Samuel, . : ill Thomas, Luther, Job, 23 Macej- & Co., 143 Mackey, James, . 370 MacNeil, Archibald, . 166 Macomber, Herbert I., 67 LH., . . . 67 Thomas, 85, 244 Walter S., 267 William. • 343. 351 Magoun, Aaron, . . 179, 1S2 Aaron S., . 182, 1S3 Abner, . 91 Briggs, . 3'3 Daniel, . 182, 1S3, 195 David, . 164 Elia-s . . 19s, 2IO Enoch, . • 73. 183. H. N 183 Joshua, . Luther, . . 74. 183 . 196, 313 Philip, . 183 Robert, . 82, 182, 1S3 Thatcher, 183, 20I, 2^4 Winchell, 183 & Turner, 141, i33, 269 Magoun's Bridge, 24 itaker, James, 46 Manchester, 'Thomas, . 269 Manly, G . 322 S 322 Mann, Albert G., . •7 Benjamin, «7 Caleb, . •7 N. P. .% Co., . 143 Thomas, . 222,368 Manson, George, . . no, 102 Joel, . . . 306 Joel L., . . 139. »40, 386 John, . Ill, 139 140. 279, 386 Nehemiah, 119, 250, 25a, 310, 368, 369. 3S0 Thomas L., no 139. 140, 192 Marble, James, . <8i Thomas, 310 Marden, E. Edward, . 156 Margaret's Brook, 31 Marsh, Charles N., 104 Marshal, lohn, . 284 Marshall, 'Charles H., . 164 Samuel, . . 244, 367 Martin, Edward, . . 284.337 WUliam, 142 W 144 Martyn, Edward, . 261 Mason, William, . 155 Matthew, Richard. 359 Matthews, Reuben, 359 Ma.xfield. W. S., . i^ Maxwell, E., 195 May, Samuel T., . • 232,333 Mavo, Jeremiah, , 322 Meader, Robert, . xd6 INDEX. 415 PAGE PAGE PAGE ■Meigs, Montgomery C, . 155 Nash, Lemuel, 250 Otis, John C, 75 Melville, Thomas , . . 48 Nath. C, 297 loseph, . . . 124, 227, 367 Mercy, Marvin, 154 Paul, . 181 Joshua, . Noah, . 261, 343 Merrit, Daniel, 237 Thomas, 250 246 ^lerritt, Benjamir , . 262, 340, 341 William, • 237. 250 Oran G., 125 Benjamin F., 262 Neal Field, . 41 Stephen, 251, 291 Charles, 271 Neale, George F., 376 Thomas, . . 237, 251, 311 Consider, 235 , 258, 313, 340, 343, George S., 376 William, 251 368 Lawrence I., . 376 Cummings, 340 Nelson, H. W., . 209 Packard, Ambrose, 88 Elisha, . . 136, 258, 340 Thomas, 38,86 Elijah, . 85, 216 Francis , 340 Newcomb, Loring, 376 Josiah, . 88 George, . 343 Newell, Albert W., . 197 Ralph, . 88 Henry, . . 246, 257, 340 James, . 46 Palmer, Bezaleel, 246 Israel, . 5 57. 342, 368, 380,387 New Harbor, 38 Charles, . • 73. 190 James, . 343 New Harbor Ferry, . 38 Daniel, . 73 fames H., • 134. 3*59 Newman, Thomas, 366 Daniel T., . 190 '•Joe," . 237 Nickerson, Caleb, 232, 233 Enos, . 91,92 John A., 262 Ebenezer, loi, 175 Ephraim, 72, 190 Jonathan, 237 Elijah, . lOI Jeduthan, . 72, 73, 189, 190 Joseph, . • 257. 238, 340 Nichols, Benjamin, 3'3 John, . . 34, 7 2, 131, 246 Joseph F., . . . 258 Caleb, . 263, 283 Thomas, 261,339 Joseph H., 340 Henry, . 263, 283 William, 73 Malley, . 258 Israel, . 283, 386 William T., . 190 Martin D., . 134, 341 Noah, . 283 Panton, Lawrence, 114 Noah. . 246 Reuben, 263 383 Parker, Benjamin, 375 Obadiah, 246 Samuel, . 283 Edward H., . 239 Walter, . . . 258 Thomas, 282, 283 George S., 383 William, . . 258 Norman, James, . 350 Joseph S. B., Perry L., . .38 382 William 0., . . 258 Joshua, . 350 2. 389. 391 Middlecott, Richa rd, . . 366 North, Lord, Frederick, 98 Thomas, . . 24 4. 344, 367 Middleton, Danie . . . 338 North River Bridge, . 29 William, 214 Miers, Thomas, . . 384 Northey, David, 367 William G., . 383 Mighill's Works, 23 John, 42, 367 Parkhurst, J., '57 Miller, Josiah, . . 87 Joseph, . . .32 2. 385. 389 Parkman, Samuel, 193 Mills, Carleton P. 2Q4 Samuel, 367 Parris, Albion K., 153 Misquashtuck, . . 287 Norton, Freeman, 314 Alexander, 200 Mitchell, Aaron, 105 Nye, Jonathan, 106 Parson, Edward, . 337 Archibald, 391 Parsons, Eben, 48 Christopher & Co., . 235 Oakman, Christopher, . 264, 359 Moses, . 237 C. & Co., . 231, 234 Constant, 48 Page, Edward, 155 Paul & Sons, 235 Constant F., . 211, 235 Paine, Thomas, . 387 Samuel, . 3'3 Edward, 204 Paul, James I , . 383 Molly Stetson Pla ce, . . 223 Hatch. . 211 Luther, . 383 Momentague, Jere miah, . 2 Hiram, . 203 Luther G., 383 Money Hole, 27 Hiram A., 203 Robert, 74 Mooers, William, . 170. 171 H. P., . 203 Payne, Silas, 231 Moore, George, . 41,2.9.283 John, 277 William, 366, 367 Morris, George P. 42, 43 Joseph, . 277 Peabody, John, . 284 Morse, Jabez, 157 Nathan S., . 203 0. W 186 Morten, George, 261 OtisB., 203 Pearson, John M., Pease, J. H., 320 Morton, Frederick "3 Samuel, . 211,277 182 George, . . 18.., 343 Tobias, . 57.218 Pendergast Bros., 391 John F., 154 Oakman's Ferry, . 36 Penniman, James, 70 Nathaniel, 290 Ober, John, . 284 Peperel, William, 284 Silas, . 221, 250 Old Barstow Yard, 65 Pepper, Bangs, 322 Motley, Thomas, . . 381 Old Pond, . . , . 3t Percival, John, 232 Moulton, Robert, 47 Old Pond Swamp, 31 Perry, Amos, 85 Murray, R., . McCooke, J. M., . . 3*6 Oldham, Aurora W., . 196, 360 Edward Y., 12, 15, 17, 8, 22, 26, 390 A. W , . 89 85 McCullough, John 104 David, . 18 E. Y., & Co , 17 McDonnellson, M armaduke, 354 Jonathan, Joseph, . 237 Isaac, . . 84, 85, )o, 97. 127 Samuel, . 3';4 235 Isaiah, . 22 Mclntyrc, Willian 1, . . 360 Oliver, Brattle, . 261 Joshua, . Paul, . 158 McKay, Donald, . 132, 197 Daniel, . . 285, 33 7.339. 368 129 Hugh & Dona Id, . . 269 Nathaniel, . . 28 ). 339. 368 Thomas, ?5 McLaughlin, Lew is, . . 197 Peter 261 Timothy, 85 Orchard, Robert, . 21? William, 85 Namassakeeset, . I Osborn. David C, 316 Peters, John, 75 Nash. Albert E., . 296 Osgood. J. C, . 143 Peterson, Luther, 277 Arthur L, 296 & Bachelder, 293 Richard. 50 Benjamin, 250 Otis. Abijah, . . 246 . 319. 382 Thomas, 219 Charles E., . 296 Gushing, 135, 192, 235, 250, 251, Pettee, Noah B., . 382 Chauncy C. . 296 263, 268, 293, 311, 320 369 Seth, 382 Edward E., . 87 David, . . .26: . 369. 380 Pettingill, Phineas, "3 Franklin, 296 Edwin, . . . . 390. 39 1 Ubert K., 376 Herbert, 296 Ensign, 133, 252, 25. , 268, 380 Ubert L.. 376 Israel, . 296 Henry T., . 384 Warren, 114 John, John C, 235 Herbert, . . . 227 Perkins, Joseph, . 321 • 229 Howland, . . 192, 391 Phillips, Benjamin, . 14 3, 152, 163 John F., 296 Isaac, . . . . 251 Calvin T., . 14, '7, 36 ^'ohn K., . 229 James, . . .164 .251.293 Daniel, 74, 181, 196, 198 . 352, 356. [oseph, . 249 Job 0^1, 366 ^?^l Joseph P., . 350 John, . . . ■- 227 Elisha, ... 7 h 195, 3S 416 INDEX. 17, 18 Phillips, Ephraim, Ezra, E., & Sons, 1 Isaac, John, Joseph, . Lot, Lot & Co., Morrill, . Morrill A., Samuel, Phinney, J W., W. L.. - Pickering & Math Pierce, Elijah, Howard, Isaac, Matthew, Pierson, John H,, William, Pincin, Elias, Pincin's Bank, Pintard, J M., Pitney, James, Pitts, James, John, Plaisted, Francis, Pocorny, Joseph, Point Adams, Pollard, George, Pope, Kbenezer, Porter, Alvin, Edward F., Edward J., Isaac, Oliver, . Post, George, & Small, Potter, Stephen M Power, Arthur L., .A. H., . Howard S., Nelson F , Samuel F , Pratt, Benjamin, Charles C, Elias E., Elias W., Henry, . Jarius, . Joseph, . Nathaniel, William B., & Lapham, Preble, George H Prentiss, Henry, Preston. William, Price, Job, . John, Samuel, . Project Dale, Prouty, Alvord, Caleb, . Caleb W,, David, . Edward, Elmer, . Isaac, James, . Margaret, Oliver, . Richard, Silas, Thomas, Thomas L., Pudder Wharf, Pullen, John, Pynchon, Perez, Quaker Meeting House Shoals, 29 Quincy, Samuel, 139, 317, 320, 321 PAGE 163 19, 20, 22 17, 20, 23 277 46, 285 272, 343. 351 26 26 124 17 285 82 257 154 341 261 21, 252 343 137.239 107 341 45 298 148, 162 261, 366 2S5 338 125 308 49. 50 269 55 385, 389 137 356 350 107 390 157 229 390 239 229 229 190 135 1^5 13s. 137 104 269 252 352 135 32 336 297 353 , 244, 366 12 265 343. 356 388, 3^9 27 . 244. 265 265 244 265 31 265 31.244 135 343 39' 39 217 252, 380 Rainbow Bridge, Ramsdale, Charles, Son 29, 122 I 50 I Ramsdell, Clifford, Rand, William, Randall, Alien, Benjamin, Charles, . Elijah, . Ephraim, Isaac, Tames, . "Job, Nehemiah, Samuel, . William, Randolph, John, Rankin, Andrew Rawson, Abel, Ray, Brazilla, Simon, . Read, Esdr.is, Reed, Jesse, John, Samuel. . Smith T., William, Rich, Benjamin & Moses, Richardson, Jeffrey, Richmond. Perez Rider, Thomas, Riddell, Samuel, Ripley, Lewis, Roberts, Nicholas Robbins, Aaron Anson, . Timothy, Walter, . Robinson, G eorge Isaac, Rockwell, Dennis Eben, Ebenezer, Rocky Reach, Rock Run Brook, Rocky Swamp, Rocky Water Stream, Rodgers, Henry C, John, John L., Luther, . Rodman, Samuel, Rogers, Abiah, Abijah, . Alden, . Alfred, . Alvin, Amos, . Araunah, Arthur, . Asa, 203, 204, 208 Avery, . Benjamin, Clifford, . Chft, . C. H.. . Daniel, . Edward, Edwin T., George C , George H., Henry, . Henry W., Herbert, Howland, Isaac, Isaiah, . Israel, . James, , James L. Jedediah, John, Joseph, . Jcfiephus, JothAm, . 75 125 313 261 221 89, 90 . 359. 360, 361 244 163, 164, 243 83. 243, 244 243 243 64, 243 330 337 167 50 275 288 4. 15. 195 15&. 17? 50 270 136 319 192, 313 376 146 30 133 105 154 339 235 . 235. 237 90 249 367 45 204 21, 25 206 201 172 204 ■ 204 313 205 205, 206 206, 213 , 206, 209 203 205 238, 340 , 202, , 207, 206 235. 273 209 198, 206 318,319 212 208, 209 204 204 205 204 206 203, 204, 237 205, 206, 212 2C6, 209, 212 204, 205, 208 . 207, 247 206 205 205, 244, 261 I 247, 250, 252 205 205 PAGE. Rogers Luther, 58, ig8, 199, 202, 206,. 210,212, 213, 358,359 Marcellus W., . . 206 Martin, . . . 204,207,238 Moses 322,359. Moses F., . . . 361 Nathan, . . 205, 285, 313 Nathaniel, 202, 203, 206, 211, 212 Nathaniel C, . . 204 Peleg, . 202, 205, 206, 212, 222 Phillips, . . . 204 Samuel, 126, 176, 182, 203, 205, 206, 209, 210, 232, 233, 237, 239, .341 Simeon, .... 206 Stephen, 61, 74, 195, 196, 209, 210, 212, 359 Thomas, 202, 203, 204, 205, 210, 212, 237, 31; Timothy, Wales, . Wales A., Warren, William, William A., William F., William H. Zaccheus, Zac, Zadoc, . Rogers Brook, Rogers Whatf, Rose, John, . Joshua, . Laban, . Timothy, Rotch, Benjamin, Francis, . William, 167, I Wiufam & Co, Rouse, William, Royal, Joseph, Ruck, John, . Ruggles, John, Samuel O., Thomas, Rusk, John, Rus.sell, Benjamin Charles, . George, . Samuel, . Solomon, Ryal, Isaac, . Joseph, . Ryder, B. G. & G 170, 203, 212 206, 359 204 204 204 20s, 357 205 209 204 237 201; 3^ 44 46 124. 124 24 171 165, 173 171. 172, Sadler, John, Saffin, John, Salmond, John, Robert, Samuel, . E. 170 337 284 367- 250. 339, 367 313 237. 254 337 42 108 41,42 178, 291 9 285 285 14S Samuel & Son, William, Sampson, Alexander, Aurora O., Calvin, . Chandler, Henry, . John, 333 290 33 15, 16. 33. 87, 182 13. 16, 33, 66, 87, 123 33 33 70 68, 70 . . 185 74. 19s. 210, 351 68- 70 Jonathan, 63, 69, 70, 71, 73, 123, 176, 182, 234 Joseph, . Melzar, . Paul, . Proctor, Timothy, Samson, Jonathan, Melzar, . Sanford, F. C, 51, 16 235 Sargent, Daniel, , Savage, Thomas, . Sawyer, C, . 322 70 277 355 70 68, 70,181,182 378 167, 169, 225, 229 366 257 INDEX. 417 PAGE 217 285 380 34 2i8, 219 3Q0 Sawyer, James, Schewsan's Neck, Schmidt, G. F., . Schooset Creek, . Scott, John, . Scudder, N. D., & Co. Seabury, A H. & Bro., . 106 John, .... 83: Samuel 83 Seabury's Point, ... 82 Seabury 's Woods, . . 82 Seaman, Emory, ... 190 Sears, David, . . . 225 Eben, .... 143 Ebenezer, . . . 320 J. B. 390 & Davis, . . . no & Fitch, ... 154 Seaward, Andrew, . . 273 Second Herring Brook, . 35 Se^/er. John E , . . . 114 Sewall, Edmund Q., . 329 E. Q. 331 Seyward, James, . , . 337 Shannon, Hugh, . . . 244 Shaw, Robert G., . . 320 William, . . . 207 & Randall, ... 188 Shearmon, Isaac, . . . 101 Shelley, William N., . 113,115 Shepard, Calvin, . . . 196, 360 Charles, . . . 338 Sheperd, Joseph J., 191 Joseph R., . iqi Julias R., . . . 191 Shepherd, Calvin, . . 6 Nathan T 6 Stephen, ... 50 Sherman, Aaron, . . , 83, 273 Abraham, . , . 154 Amos, .... 360 Asa, 55, 56, 74, 195, 196, 210, 379, 380 Ebenezer, . . 273 Israel H., . . io2,225,3r3 John, .... 148, 160 Lorenzo, . . . 80, 182 Shimmin, William, . . 133 Shippen, Edward, . . 337 Shorter, Charles, ... 50 Shurman, John, . . . 277 Shurtleff, Flavel, ... 20 Shute, Richard, . . . ?I7 Silver Brook, ... 30 Silvester, Csee also Sylvester) "Builder," . . 66,63 Elijah W., . . . 66,68 George F., . . . 66 l^ot H., . . . 277 Nathaniel, ... 66, 68 Samuel, .... 246, 247 Simmons, Byron, . . . 361 Charles, ... 32 Samuel, .... 343 Thomas, . . . 322 Simons, Moies, . . . 244 Simpkins, Samuel, . . 367 Thomas, . . . 366 Sizor, James, . . . 316 Skmner, Benjamin H., . 321 Slab Brook, .... 31 Smith, Albert, 85, 86, 87, 89, 93, 92, 93, 94, 103, 128, 212 Benjamin, David. . Erasmus F. Gilbert, . Heman, James, . Jeremiah, John, Jonathan, Joseph, . Joshua, . 228, 236 179 197 232 '42, 144, 145. 279 338 87 85 IC2, 106, 107 22, 85, 86, 387 185 Smith, Josiah, 84, 85, 87, 88, 89, 90,92, 93, 94, 103, 128 Josiah M., ... 13 J. H., . . . . 144, 390 Laban, .... 281 Miller, . . 85, 89, 93, 94, 128 Milliar, ... 89, 93, 94 Nathaniel, 179, 180, 182, 198, 312 Phillip, . . . . 157 Richard, . . .40, 261 Samuel, .... 277 Sidney, . . . 197 Silvanus, . . 195, 197, igS Thomas, 85, 89, go, 91,93, 153 iS7 Thom?sM., ... 85 William 205, 228, 260, 261, 338, 367 Zelpha D., . . . 197 & Townsend, . . 197 Snow, David, . . . 343 E.,^ .... 257 Josiah, .... 152 Sylvanus, , . . 343 Thomas, . . 193 Somes, Nehemiah, . . 89 Soper, Robert, O., . . 387 Samuel, . . . 344 Soule, James, , . . 17 John 173 Southard, John, . . 236 Souther, John, . . 269 Laban, 237, 252,253, 254,255, 257 & Cudworth, 252, 255, 256, 257, 267, Southerton, John, . . 350 Richard, . . . 350 Southworth, Edward, . . 265 Frank, .... 265 James .... 265 Stacy, .... 265 Sparrell, James N., . . 270,322 .Spaulding, J., . . . 344 Spear, William, . Spencer, George W., Peter. Sprague, B., Charles,. Phineas, Samuel, . Seth 236 William, . . . 273 & James, . . . 239 Spring Brook, ... 35 Sproat, Thomas, . . . 180 Sprout, Ebenezer, . . 68 Spruce Swamp, ... 35 Stacy, Simon, . . . 338 Standish, Miles, . . . 292 Shadrach, . . . 133 Stanton, Francis, . . 315, 317 Starbuck, David, . . 104 Levi, .... I2Q & Co 107 Starkey, Robert, . . 244 Stearns, William, . . 67 Stedman, Isaac, ... 41 Stephens, C. J., . . , 391 Sterling, PanI, . . . 193 Stetson, (See also Stutson.) Abishai, 21 Abner, Alpheus, Alpheus M., Archie, , Benjamin, Charles, Charles T., Daniel F. W. Eben, IS. 102, 132 223. 295. 375 375 375 6, 21, 220 14s, 223 23. 24 375 133 Ebenezer, 219, 220, 221, 222, 3S1, 382 Edward F., . . . 375 Elisha, .... 223 Ephraim, ... 91 Ethan A., . . . 22 PAGE Stetson, Franklin J., , . 375 Fred, .... gg George, .... 222 George W., . , . 135 Harrison, ... gi Herbert O., . . . 375 Horace,. . . . ro2 John, 29, 35, 182, 196, 219, 221, 222, 223, 364 John A., ... 375 Jonah .... 33 Jonathan, 74, 182, 195, 210, 359, 360 Joseph 12 Joshua, 6g, 74, 102, 132, 223, 254 354 Jotham, . Lincoln, Martin, . Martin W Matthew, Melzar, . Michael, Nahum, Nathaniel, Robert, CCornet) 12 221, 223, 364 Roger, . Samuel, Silas, Snow, 219, 220, 22 Stephen, Sumner, Thomas, . 2: Turner, . William, William G., . Wiswell, Stetson's Brook, . Stetson's Shoals, . .'^tevenson, Bryant, Stockbridge, Benjamin B. &M., Charles, . Stockbridge, David, 3 128 John, . Joseph, . Lebeus, . Mariin, . Stephen, Thomas, Stockbridge's Mills. Stoddard, Enos M., Josiah, . Melzar, . Stoker, Philip E., Stony Brook, Stoughton, William, Strong, Caleb, Studley, Benjamin, Eliab, . Walter B., . Wilbam, Studley Mill Brook, Sturtevant, Ichabod, Peleg, . Zenas, . Stutson, (see also Stet 220, 221, 222 George, . Matthew, Robert, . Snow, Thomas, Sunken Log Brook, Sutton, John, Swain, David, George, . Reuben, Swan, Benjamin, . Sweeny, Edward, Swift, C. W., Josep.i, . 132, 223, 241, 294 223 8S 17 220, 222 222, 223 90 21, 22, 26 39, 70, 91,92 34, 219, 220, 73. '•34 ', 33. 221 ^TO 381,582 220 69 222, 223 9' 220 375 223 26 91 3+3 127, 128 133 33. 34,41.42 84, 89, 125, 4t, 128 21, 128 66 127, 128 174, 250 33 42 272 313 191 "3 ?8 366, 367 158 9 25, 26 191 313 25 29 124 66 son) Ebenezer, 220, 221 220 32 221, 222 221, 222 31 lOl 261 , 105 102 104 389 9 "3 321 418 INDEX. Sylvester, Csee also Silvester) Albert L., Amos, . Barden, . Belcher, Benjamin, Charles W Edmund, Edmund Q., 29, 33, 66, 109, 128, 140 Elijah, . Elisha, . Francis B., Fruitful, Harvey, Herbert R., Ichabod, John, Joseph, . Joseph S , Lemuel C, Loami B., Michael, Michael R., Nathaniel, Robert, . . . 66, Robert B., Robert I., Robert W. Warren, Taft, A. J., . Taggard, John, & Co., Talbot, " Bill," Frank, . Richmond, William, William H. Zepheniah, Tapper, John, Taylor, Charles Edward R., . . . 376 George, .... no, 142 Henry, .... 281, 3^7 Isaac, .... 164 James, .... 4^ Jethco, .... 277 John, .... 281 Richard, . . . 280 William, . . . 280, 281 William M., & Carver, . . . 281 Teague, Daniel, Teague's Bridge, Thatcher, B. B., Thaxter, Benjamin, John, Thayer, George A., " The Old Oaken Bucket Third Herring Brook, Thomas, Amos, Anthony, Benjamin, Briggs, . Charles, Charles F., Christopher, Daniel, . PAGE 67 67,68 53 67 14 256 100 67, 84, 87, 90, 91 247 67 256 66 255 16, 17 16 67 67 67. 135 66,67, 68 , 113, 118 67 7, 68, 2ro 67 66 66 237 20 17 140 229 229 229 140, 229 33 Daniel B., Ebenezer, Edward, 20, 160, 17 Ephraim, Ezekiel, . Francis, George, George H., George H. A George P., Gershom, Gideon, . Henry, . Ichabod, 85, 127, 147 153. 157. 158, 163, xf 169, 170, 171, 172, rj 294, 312 . T., 235 295 43 29 159 '49. 159.277 83 153 159. 277 153. 159 155. 156 157 148, 160 156 160 284, 337 160 1, 322, 388 i;3. 157 156 ij6 »53. "56 159 148, 149 160, 191 149, 152, 167, 168, ■74. 175. PAGE Thomas, Isaac, ig, 20, 277 Israel, .... 148, 159 James, . . . 148, i<;2, 160 Jesse, , . . 159, 160, 161 Jethaniah, . . . 160 John, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 157. 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 191, 27s, 277, 366 Joseph, . . . 148, 159, 231 Josiah, . . 149, 160, 161 Lord, .... 160 I'"ther 153, 159 Nathan, 148, 152, 153. 158, 277 Nathaniel, 19, 20, 159, 187, 277, 364. 378 _ " 274,275,277 378 42, 159, 277 154 iqi 312 29 343 149, 203 160 163 154 154 Nathaniel R., Nat, Nehemiah, Ralph W., . Ray, Robert, Robert B., . Rowland, Samuel, Simeon, . Thomas L., . Valentine, Waldo L., . William, 151 152, 157, 158, 159, 160, 163, 173, 277, 278, 373 William K., Winslow, Zenas, . Thompson, Jeremiah B Robert, . Thomas, & Fessenden, & Wiley, Thornton, Thomas, Tiffany, Recompense Tiffany Pond, Tilden, Albert, Allen C, Benjamin, Calvin, . Carleton, Charles, Charles A., . Charles L., David, . Edward, Edward F., . Elisha, . Frederick, George, . George W., Hatch, . Horatio A., Horatio N., John, Jonathan, Joseph, . Josiah, 156 '59 277 321 193 338 321 256 217 32, qo 32 313 264 37 '8,37 265 37. 265 265 60 261 36 265 37, 205 264 264, 266, 278, 279 278 36, 37, 265, 272 265 265 159, 263 220 32, 218, 262 65 Jotham, 36, 37, 263, 264, 265, 21 269, 270, 278 Lindale, . . . 341 Luther, 36, 37, 263, 264, 265, 266 268, 270 Luther A., . . . 265, 386 Nathan, . . . 37, 235 Nathaniel, . . . 3'i, 367 Samuel, 36, 37, 2s8, 237, 261, 264, 265,277 Stephen, 148 Thatcher, 263 Thomas, 148 Wales, . 204 3'4 William, 266 William IL, 264, 265, 278, 279 William P., 58, 266 271 330 Tilding, Joseph, 244 Nathaniel, 244 TiU-s Creek, 34 Tilly, William, 217 PAOE Tindale, Thomas, . . 31 Tisdale, James, ... 48 Toby, Samuel, . . . 212 Tolman, Benjamin, . . 136, 277 Charles, . . 133, 136, 137, 250 Elisha, 136, 137, 169, 195, 236, 238, 250 George B., . . . 137 Herbert C, James T., John, ■ '36, 295 3?, 136, 221, 295 36 Joseph, , . 34, 136, 222, 230 Joseph C, . . . 137,256 Joseph R., . . . 233 Samuel, 32, 85, no, 136, 137, 177, 233. 235. 254, 255, 256 William C, . . . T33 Tolman'sJTack Works, . 32 Tomlin, Thomas, Topham, W H., Torrey, Albert, Benjamin B., Caleb, . Charles, Charles E., Charles F.. Charles T., Daniel, • 217, 338 323 248 I'. 97 247, 748, 264 . 248, 249 249 249 299, 333. 334. 364 ^ . - • • 391 David, 35, 238, 241, 248, 249, 251, 252, 264, z63, 269, 2;o, 271 Edwin B., . Ever tt, Frank H., . Franklin, George. 238, 247. 251, 264, 268, 269 George E., 248, 249, 249 249 249 249 250, 249 George H., 249 George O., 248 George & Sons, 252 Harry B., 249 Haviland, ".99.359 Henry, , 248 Herbert, 11,97 Howard C, . 249 Isaac, . 248, 250 James, 12, 32, 4 . 247, 248, 250, 263, 264 John D., • 248, 391 Joshua, . 48 Josiah, . 248 Otis, . . 248 Walter R., . 249 WiUard, 249 William, 10 0, 248, 261 Torrey, Williams & F eld, 249 Torrey's Brook, . 23 Totman, Benjamin O. 391 Tower, Benjamin, 234 David, . 234 James, . 234 John, . 33, 72, 22 0. 234. 354 Lynde, , 234 Matthew, 234 Towne, William II. 296 Townsend, James L., 197 Penn, . 284 Tracy, Frederick, 160 Trent, John, 285 Tripp, Uncle Tom, 58 Trouant's Island, 44 Trout Brook, 6 Truant, Samuel, . 207, 247 Truworthy, James, 336 Tiiels, Barnard, . 277, 3 '5 Tulley, John, 284 Turner, Abiel, 271 Albion, . 249 Albion B., . 249 Alden, . 75. 193 Alden D., . 191 Amasa, . 64 Ambrose, 191 Amos, 21, 332 INDEX. 419 Turner, Andrew, . . . 191, 193 Andrew W., . . . 191 Arthur T., ... 82 Augustus, . . . 191 Barker, 56, 71, 74, 71;, I33. '34. 13s, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 196, 201, 313 Benjamin, 127, 134, 147, 153, 163, 164, 175, i8q, IQO, 191, 258 Caleb, S3, 80, 134, 13s, 191. '93 Calvin, 73, 127, 158, 174, 175, 179, 189, 190 Charles, 71,81,157,183,191,264 Charles E., . . . 388 Charles P 81,82 Christopher, ... 19' Cyrus, 75, 191, 192, 193, 219 Danforth F., . . . 388 Daniel 29. 64 David, . . . 127, 175, 190 Edward E., . . . 191 Edwin, .... 19' Elijah 31, 270 Elijah B , ... 31 Elisha 250 Elmer E., . . . 191 Ezekiel, ... 80 Francis, . . . 183 Frederick, ... 191 George, 80, 82, 83, 98, i8r, 387 George C, . . . 271 George H., . . . 296 George R., . . . 271 Henry, . . . . 20=, Henry A., ... 271 Henry J., . . . 388 Humphrey, . . 64, 266, 291 Isaiah A.,, . . .75. '9' Israel 237, 238 Israel H., . . . 191 James, . . . . 128 Job, .... 247 Job A., .... 249 John, .... 265 John D., . . . 271 John H., . . . 271 John P.. . . .81, 157 Joseph F., . . . 296 Joseph G , . . . 191 Joseph M., . . . 191 Joshua, . 126, 127, 175, 189 Lemuel, . . . 42, 235 Luther, .... 73 Melzar, 196, 197, 198, 271, 384, 387, 388, 389 Melzar S., 195, 196, 197, 387, 388, 389. 390 Morris, .... 191 Nathan S.. . . . 271 Nathaniel, 134, 190, igi, 343, 368 Roland, Samuel, Samuel A., Seth, . S. A , . Theodore, Thomas, Warren, William, 3^7 271 237. 238, 313. 340,341 42, 264, 278, 297 261 35 • 313,341 80, 81, 82, 83, 128 82,191 191, 223, 265, 313, 332, William F., . & Bnggs, & Palmer, . Turner, Otis & Cole, Turner, Otis &Co., 266 56, 388, 389, 390 . . 183 390 391 Turner, Palmer & Magoun, 71, 74, 189, 190 Turner's Yard, . . . 64, 80 Tuttle, Jotham, . . . 372 Nathaniel, . . . 377 Two Mile Brook, . . 34 " Two Oaks," ... 66, 84 Underwood, James A. R., . 237 257. 208, 192, 384, 139. Union Bridge, Upper Ferry, Usher, J. P., Van Loon & Son, Vannuy-, Hervey L., Vassall, John, Stephen, William, 38, 40, Vaughan, Jnhn, . Venner, Henry, . Vickars, Joseph, . Vinal, Abel, Asa, Charles, Dexter, . Eaton, . Ephraim, Ezra, Gideon, . Haywood, Henry, 317, 3 Henry A., Henry F., Howard, Ignatius, Israel, Joshua, . Lemuel, 138, 24c 3613, 380 Levi, Lott, Otis, Stephen, . . 222, 368, William, 134, 222, 249, 250, 271, 309, 310, 320, 368, 369, 38t, 385, 388 Vose, Bill, . Vose, Livingston & Co., . 141 36 36 155 ■ 38S: 250, 380 270 135 387 3«5 368 351 368, 369 309 381 . 369 263, 380, 391 Wade, Nathaniel, Snell, . Wadsworth, Joseph, Wair. Daniel, Wakefield, Cyrus, Walcot, Calvin, Walter, . AValden, Jacob, . Wales, Atherton, Eben , Ebenezer, George W., . Nathaniel, Thomas B., 139, i8 I5< I 420 INDEX. Whitman, Seth B., Thomas, Thomas T., . William T., . Whitmore, Edward, Whitney, Theodore, Whittaker, John L. Whittier, David, Wildcat Brook, . Wilde. Adia P., . Will James Dock, Will's Island, William Taylor Yard, Williams, Henry, Hezekiah, John, . Pelham, . & Haven, Williamson, Nathan, Samuel, Timothy, Willis, N. P., Wilson, John, William, Windsor, Peter, . Wing, Bachelor, . Page 82 153 81 153 334 87 386 86 31 204 361 4« 272 "3 2=8 288 313 103, 106 204 277 57. 277 42 47 363 7' 129 Page Wing, Benjamin, . . • '29 Ebenezer, ... "9 Elijah '29 Isaiah .... 129,270 John, . . . 284 Robert 217 Sylvanus, . • • 129 William, ... 129 Wing Yard "7 Winslow, Edward, . 148, 162, 163 Isaac, .... 208 John 154.293 Josiah, . . .85, 164, 379 Nathaniel, 32, 68, 159, 176, 379 Pelham, ... 207 Samuel, . . 287, 288, 292 William, . . • 136 William P '3 W^inslow's Bridge, . . 32 Winsor, Francis H., . . 382 Joseph, .... 382 Joshua, .... 159 Winthrop, Adam, . . 218 John, .... 7 Witherell, Augustine, . . 191 Eben, .... 191 Witherell, EbenH., Jabez, William, Wood, E. W., . Woodworth, Samuel, Walter, . Worth, G.B., . Thomas, Worthington, Erastus, Wright, Thomas, . Warren, . William, Wyer, Christopher, Wyman, Elbridge, James, . Yarrington, R. H., Yates, Potterfield & Co Young, Edwin, Edwin A. Ephraim L. , . Job, Perez I^., Walter L., . Zachary, Daniel, Page 191 91,92 98 257 , 43, 44. 313 44 105 231 180 273 258 50 234 386 391 119 M3 390 390 252 S4 390 390 . 218,337 EXPLANATION OF THE MAP OF MARSHFIEI.D, A. D. 1 794- Bounds of Marshfield : Beginning on the South-east in the middle of Green Harbor River about 60 rods from the mouth thereof. Thence by a Northern line of Duxbury, S. 6° 7 : 0' W. 580 rods, thence by Duxbury N. 48 : W. 953 rods to an Easterly corner of Pembroke, thence by Pembroke, North about 5° : 0' West 243 rods and thence by Pembroke in the nine following lines, viz : N. 25 : E. 142 rods, N. 80 : W. 105 rods due North 92 rods, S. 87 : W. 154 rods, N. 08 : W. 13 rods, N. 86 : W. 18 rods, N. 61 ; E. 37 rods, N. 37 : DOE. 18 rods and N. 51 : 0, W. 49% rods to Scituate Line in the middle of North River : thence by Scituaie Northerly and East- erly in said River down stream, to the mouth thereof, thence S. Easterly about 5 miles as the shore goes, by Massachusetts Bay to the mouth of Green Harbor River, thence about 60 rods up said River to the first mentioned bound. The reason why no Road is delineated is because by reason of the locality of the Town there is no Highway in it that can with propriety deserve the appellation of a County Road. There is a quantity of salt marsh contiguous to the Rivers but the largest quantity is up Green Harbor River. The colored part of the plan is the Rivers and along the sea shore bv the back of the Beach. The width of the Beach is various but may hold ont about 30 rods. The reputed distance of the centre of the Town from Plymouth Court House in the road commonly travelled is 15 miles and from Boston 36 miles. The actual survey of the Town was made between the 30th day of December, 1794, and the middle of June, 1795. Falls of Water, Mountains, Manufactories, Mines and Minerals, none. Ponds, none except Mill Pond, that all artificial. There are seven Corn Mills and one Cloth Mill in Marshfield ; but two Corn Mills with a good supply of water would do the work they all seven do. 1* The middle line at the mouth of the River is the boundary line between Scituate and Marshfield until it comes to Pembroke. 2* South River is 12 and 14 rods wide near the North River Branch at low water and may hold out, the whole taken together, about half that width. 3* It is full sea here two hours later than at the sea shore. KEY TO THE PLAN OF SCITUATE HARBOR. 1 Light House. 2 Cedar Point. 3 P. Murphy's. 4 Old Bates House. 5 Old Porter House. 6 Willow Street. 7 Drew House. 8 Old Dr. Jeffer's House. 9 Gun House. 10 John Bate. U Prouty House. 12 Old Morton House. 13 Old Dunbar House. 14 Wm. P. Allen's. 15 E. Perkins. 16 Wm. Turner. 17 N. Pool, store & house. 18 Allen's Store. 19 G. M. Allen's. 20 H. Vinal. 21 Jones' Houses. 22 Dr.'s Office. 23 John Beal. 24 A. Chubbuck. 25 Upper Road. 26 Road to 1st & 2nd Cliffs. 27 Work Shop. 28 Stable. 29 Work Shop. 30 Tin Shop. 31 Library Building. 32 Post Office. 33 Drug Store & Telegraph Office. 34 Barber Shop. 35 J. H. Smith. 36 E. P. Welch's buildings & wharf. 37 Store. 38 Stebles. 39 Shop. 40 Store-houses. 41 House. 42 Salt Marshes. 43 Cliff. 44 North Houses. 45 Crow Point. 46 Water. 47 Stage House. 48 Beach. 49 S. Benson Pt. 50 Beach Road. 51 C. Doritie's House. 52 Cliff. 53 Camp House, Flag >^taff. 54 C. H. Bonney's Wharf. 55 Buildings. 56 Blacksmith Shop. 57 Bridge. 58 Satuit Brook Bridge.