Abraham, Woodward. Also spelled “Abrahams” and pronounced “Abram(s)”. Born c. 1727; descended from William Abrahams of Buckinghamshire, England. Married Tabitha Smithers at Salem, 28 November 1751. Deputy Post-Master at Marblehead for several years from 1758. In 1764 was a Marblehead Tidewaiter for the Custom House, Port of Salem and Marblehead, at £30 per annum. In 1768 deputed a Customs Land-Waiter, Weigher, and Gauger. Clerk of St. Michael’s Church before the Revolution; Loyalist sympathizer returned inimical to the American States in June 1777. Served as lay reader and de facto rector of St. Michael’s from February 1780 to June 1786. Marblehead Town Clerk from 1792–96 and 1798–1803. Post-Master from 1797 to his death on 17 November 1813. His daughter Mary (Polly) was the third wife of Nathan Bowen (4). Daughter Tabitha married John Dixey, 1773; son Woodward, Jr. married Eunice Gallison (daughter of John Gallison) in 1788. Son Woodward served in the Revolution, and one of the name was from Charlestown, Mass., in 1791.

Adams, John. (Several) Commanded sloop Royal Ann (1752) and schooners Halifax (1756–57, 59), Betty (1758), and John (1773). Buried 14 May 1774. One of the name was a private in Captain William Hooper’s Sea Coast company, was a seaman aboard the privateer brig Fancy (1777), and was captured and confined at Mill Prison.

Adams, Winborn. Born in New Hampshire, c. 1730. Commissioned captain of the first company raised in Durham, N. H., at the beginning of the Revolution. Captain of Washington’s armed schooner Warren in 1775 and served in her until succeeded by William Burke later that year. He subsequently rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel and was killed at Bemis Heights, 1777.

Allen, John. (Several) One was a Marblehead barber in 1772. One commanded the schooners Swallow (1755–57), Success (1758), and Horton (1774). One was a sergeant, then ensign, in the Marblehead Regiment, 1775–76; one was appointed 2nd Lieutenant of the schooner Hawke (1777).

Andrews, William. (Several) One, a Marblehead barber, died 24 October 1779. A man of the name was a hogreeve, 1767, and saw service during the Revolution. Commanded schooners Ranger (1768), Hawk (1772–73) and Stork (1774–75). Owned schooner Betsey (1791).

Ashton, Benjamin. Fisherman. Constable, 1772–75; tythingman, 1776. An officer in Captain Francis Felton’s and Captain Edward Fettyplace’s companies; commander of the privateer schooner Montgomery (1782).

Ashton, Samuel. Schoolmaster; kept one of the Marblehead Town Schools from at least 1768. One of the name served during the Revolution.

Ayres, John. Boston shipmaster. One of the name commanded the schooner Welcome (1756). Captain of Washington’s armed schooner Lynch from January 1776. He was later listed among the captains of the Continental Navy but never commanded a Continental warship. He supposedly died at Bordeaux, France, in 1778.

Bacon, William. Blacksmith. In 1770 his apprentice was sentenced to the Salem House of Correction for being “not only negligent but stubbern and [a] Disorderly servent.” Captain of the 4th company, Marblehead Regiment, 1775; Colonel of the 5th Essex County Regiment, 1779. In 1778 he was a fireward and a member of the Marblehead Committee of Correspondence, Safety, and Inspection. He was a Representative of the town to the General Court, 1779.

Bailey, Rev. Jacob. (1731–1818) Born at Rowley, Mass., graduated from Harvard College in 1755, died at Annapolis, Nova Scotia. After teaching schools in Kingston and Hampton, N. H., and Gloucester, Mass., Bailey went to England where he was ordained a priest of the Church of England in 1760. The Society for Promoting the Gospel in Foreign Parts then appointed him Itinerant Missionary on the Eastern Frontier of Massachusetts. A Loyalist, he removed to Nova Scotia during the Revolution and ultimately became rector at Annapolis.

Bailey, John. Shipmaster, born 1761. His father (?), John, a Marblehead Representative to the General Court from 1749–51. Bailey was commander of the Marblehead Light Infantry, 1813, in charge of Fort Sewall, a post assumed by his wife after his death in 1828 until a successor was appointed. Selectman, 1817–18. Representative to the General Court, 1806–13, 1818. Commanded schooner Industry (1790) and bark Washington (1795).

Baker, John. In the employ of Colonel Jeremiah Lee and captain of the schooner Gerrish (1768–69). He married Mary Bennett, 5 July 1757.

Ball, J. Captain of the gerry-owned schooner Charlotte (1767).

Ballister, Jeremiah. Shipmaster. The name an Anglicization of “LeBallister”. Spelled various ways by Bowen; generally “Banster,” as it was probably pronounced in Marblehead. Commanded schooners Polly (1763–64) and Patty (c. 1766–68) and brig Patty (1769–73).

Barker, John. Shipmaster. Commanded schooners Eleanor (1751), Snapper (1751), Barker (1758), Newbury (1761), Two Sisters (1774–75), and sloop Victory (1753–54).

Barker, Thomas. (Several) In 1772, one was a Marblehead watchmaker; another a fisherman. The latter, probably, born 1750, died 1834. Men of the name served during the Revolution on land and at sea. One was captured on board the privateer brig Fancy, 1777, and was confined in Mill Prison. One, in January 1795, had his schooner attacked by pirates off Bilbao. When his shot had been expended he loaded with knives, forks, spoons, and nails and so eluded capture. Commanded the schooners Betsey (1791), Jeremiah (1795), and owned the above Betsey in 1791.

Barnard, Rev. John. (1681–1770) Born at Boston; graduated from Harvard College in 1700. In 1707 appointed a chaplain to the army sent to reduce Port Royal, Nova Scotia. He and Edward Holyoke, later President of Harvard, were together nominated in 1715 to assist the Rev. Samuel Cheever of Marblehead. The congregation could not decide which to have ordained, resulting in a split in the parish. Barnard thus was ordained colleague to the Rev. Cheever of tie Old Meeting House on 18 July 1716, and upon the latter’s death presided over the congregation until his own death on 24 January 1770. Two years before his death he went blind. Barnard is generally credited with inspiring a stagnant Marblehead to undertake extensive overseas trade and materially assisted the town to become one of the leading ports in the Colonies by mid-eighteenth century.

Barnard, John. Commanded the ship Joseph (1752) and the schooners Samuel (1774) and Dolphin (1774). One of the name commanded the privateer schooner Lizard (1778).

Barter, James and John. Shipwrights. Seemingly the only persons in Marblehead during the 1760s and 1770s capable of building medium-sized vessels, having launched at least one of about 52 tons. James appears to have been a difficult character who was taken to task in 1770 for calling a Boston lawyer “a Drunken Rascal and have been drunk three days,” and who, two years previously, had been called by another shipwright “a Lazy, Idle, drunken fellow, & not worthy to be employed in the King’s Service” and that he “Went down the River a frolicking three weeks together, & others were obliged to do his work the while—that he . . . spent all his money and had not a Cop[p]er to bring home to his Wife.”

Bartlett, John. (Several) One, a victualler. One served during the Revolution. One commanded the brig Sally (1767), schooner Nancy (1768–73), brig Salisbury (1774–75), and privateer brig Hampden (1777).

Bartlett, Nicholas. (Several) Nicholas, Sr. in 1772 was called a shoreman and owned a negro servant, Caesar. Commanded the brig Aurora (1751) and the schooners Revenge (1761–62) and Dove (1764–66); owned the schooner Dove (1773). Nicholas, Jr. born c. 1749. Called a fisherman in 1771. Commanded schooners Dove (1774) and Hawk (1774). In 1776 he was 1st Lieutenant of Washington’s armed schooner Hancock under Samuel Tucker. Afterwards, engaged with the Board of War in Boston as captain of the brig Penet to go to France to obtain military and naval stores. He, or others of the name, commanded the privateer brigs Favorite, America, and General Glover and privateer schooner Hero. He was captured and confined in an English prison for five months before escaping. Entered as 1st Lieutenant of the frigate South Carolina and served for a year. Afterwards commanded the privateer schooner Adventurous Fisherman (1782) and brig Hannah (1789). He died “of a Paralitick Shock” on 20 April 1819.

Bartlett, Thomas. Painter. A warden in 1775 and a clerk of the market in the Town House, 1775–76. He bought the house built by Nathan Bowen (i) where Ashley Bowen was born. A bill of 1773–74 from him exists for “Setting 2 Binical Glasses” and for “painting a schooner Green.” He died in 1781.

Bartol, John. (Several) One born 1712; died 8 October 1771. Another died 26 September 1773. One and/or the other a Selectman and Overseer of the Poor and the Workhouse, 1755–58, 1764, 1768; culler of fish, 1764–65, 1769–71; warden, 1767.

Bass, Rev. Edward, (1726–1803) Born Dorchester, Mass., gained admission to Harvard College at age 13, graduated in 1744 and received his M.A. in 1747. In 1752 he was ordained a priest of the Church of England by the Bishop of London and subsequently took charge of St. Paul’s Church, Newbury (Newburyport). On 7 May 1797 he was consecrated the first Anglican Bishop of Massachusetts, the churches of Connecticut and New Hampshire also putting themselves under his care.

Batchelder, Benjamin. Shipmaster. Captain of the schooner Ranger (1767–69), searched outside Marblehead Harbor on 9 May 1769 by H.M. Schooner Hope. One of the name served during the Revolution.

Bishop, Palmer. On 2 February 1768 he rang a bell and shouted for the fishermen to assemble at noon near the Town House on some now-unidentified business of importance. Several hundred fishermen gathered in the streets and in a riotous manner broke windows in the market and threatened to pull down the Public Workhouse. Bishop’s wife, Elizabeth, in 1769 was accused of receiving stolen clothing. Bishop was buried 17 May 1772.

Blackler, William. Born c. 1740. Mate aboard the Marblehead schooner William and Mary (1762) when taken and ransomed by two French vessels. His sloop Neptune, carrying cordwood from Maine to Marblehead, was wrecked near the Cape Neddick River in April 1775. He was a fireward, 1774–75; on the committee to prevent importation of British goods, 1774; a captain in the Marblehead Regiment and in command of the boat that rowed Washington across the Delaware; wounded in the Saratoga campaign and as a result of his injuries resigned his commission; Selectman 1783–85. He married (1) Mary Ingalls and (2) Rebecca Chipman. He died 15 June 1818. Commanded the schooners Charming Sally (1764–65), Charming Betsey (or John and Betsey) (1765), Charming Polly (or John and Polly) (1767–68), and Neptune (1773). He owned the sloops Polly (1776) and Lucy (1789) and schooners Dolphin (1789–94) and John (1794). William, Jr. owned and commanded the schooners Hawk (1793) and John (1794).

Blaney, Stephen. A Loyalist; left Marblehead during the Revolution. He was considered one of the most objectionable of the Loyalists and caused a committee of 21 persons to be formed to warn him out of town when he attempted to return in April 1783. Commanded the schooners Charming Molly (1765–68), Dreadnought (1768), Charming Molly (1769), Polly (later a brig) (1771–74)

Blaney, William. Captain of the schooner Sarah (1773–75). One of the name was a corporal in 1776.

Boden, Abijah. (Pronounced “Bough-den”) Captain of the schooner Barberry Bush (1769). In February 1776, the Marblehead brig Polly, of which he was master, was at Corunna, Spain, where Boden refused to submit his passport or to an inspection by H.M. Consul there. He later put to sea, and on pretext of bad weather returned to Santander, at length departing from thence for Salem with a large quantity of gunpowder on board. He commanded the privateer sloop Rover later that year.

Boden, Benjamin. (Pronounced “Bough-den”) (Several) The elder was born in 1699; died 9 June 1777. Selectman, 1729, 1739–41, 1748, 1751–52, 1754–56, 1759–60, 1762–70. Town Clerk, 1729–30, 1734, 1736–37, 1742–48, 1751–77. Held numerous other, lesser town posts. Younger generation Benjamins commanded the schooners Betsey (1767–73), Nancy (1773–74), Britannia (1774–75), and the letter-of-marque Freemason (1779). “Benjamin Boden, Jr.” was a clerk of the town market, 1774–75, and a sealer of leather, 1774. Other(s) saw land and sea service during the Revolution.

Boden, Mary. (Pronounced “Bough-den”) Widow of Ambrose Boden, she married Nathan Bowen (i) on 27 May 1764 and died in 1838. Ashley Bowen boarded at her house in 1757 and described her as a “tailoress”.

Boden, Simpson. (Pronounced “Bough-den”) Called a fisherman in 1770. Ashley Bowen boarded with him in 1757. In 1776 he was called a shoreman and was so reduced as to be among those Marbleheaders who received the Quaker dole at that time. He died of smallpox 26 May 1777.

Boden, William. (Pronounced “Bough-den”) A culler of fish, 1764–67, 1769–73; warden, 1765, 1775; Town Clerk, 1797. Owner of schooners Dolphin (1759, 1761, 1772–75), Barberry Bush (1762–63), Good Intent (1763–64), Polly (1771–75), Neptune (1772–75), and Dolphin (1794).

Bond, Dr. Nathaniel. Physician. Deer-reeve, 1775. Surgeon of the 21st (Marblehead) Regiment, 1775, and in command of a company in the 14th (or, reorganized Marblehead) Regiment, 1776.

Bourn, Col. William. Merchant. Born 27 February 1723/4 at Barnstable, Mass., son of the Hon. Sylvanus Bourn. Graduated from Harvard College in 1743. Served in Goreham’s Rangers. In 1753 appointed a justice of the Court of Common Pleas for Halifax (Nova Scotia) County. Settled in Marblehead where in 1756 he married the widow of Captain David Legallais. Became a Justice of the Peace and eventually was promoted to the local Court of Common Pleas. He was a Selectman in 1758 and 1761, and a Representative to the General Court in 1750 and 1764–68. In 1768, five years after his first wife’s death, he married Deborah, daughter of Judge John Tasker, and the widow of James Freeman. One of his daughters married Joshua Orne. He died 12 August 1770 of a pimple on the inside of his nose which became infected and spread the mortification to the brain. He owned the schooner Charming Sally (1757–65) and the sloop Bellona (1759).

Bowen, Ashley. (Pronounced “Bo-wen”) Born in Marblehead 8 January 1728 (O.S.); 19 January 1728 (N.S.). Fifth child and third son of Nathan Bowen (1) and Sarah Ashley, daughter of Edward Ashley and granddaughter of Benjamin Hallowell of Boston. Married (1) Dorothy Chadwick (1738–1771) on 7 May 1758, (2) Mrs. Mary Shaw (?–1781) on 8 December 1771, and (3) Mrs. Hannah Graves (c. 1754–1825) on 6 February 1782. For his children by these marriages, see Appendix 2. His journals are the subject of these volumes. He died at Marblehead 2 February 1813.

Bowen, Dorothy. (Pronounced “Bo-wen”) (1738–1771) First wife of Ashley Bowen, daughter of Edmund Chadwick (1695–1748) and Mary Kimball of the Boxford-Andover-Haverhill region of Massachusetts. She married Bowen on 7 May 1758 and died on 17 August 1771 as a result of childbirth. Bowen, Edward. (Pronounced “Bo-wen”) (1720–1796) Eldest son of Nathan Bowen (i); brother of Ashley Bowen. Married five times: (1) Elizabeth Boden (1750), (2) Mary Burnham (1762), (3) Mrs. Lydia Main (1768), (4) Mrs. Deborah Hawkes (1774), and (5) Mrs. Mercy Cross (1795). By three (Boden, Burnham, and Hawkes) he had eleven children, four of whom died in childhood. He commanded the snow Jersey (1752–55) and the schooners Nightingale (1750–51), Makepeace (1751), Elizabeth (1757–58), Dolphin (1759–61), and Good Intent (1761–67). In 1770 either he or his son Edward was serving as chief mate aboard the brig Africa. Until 1774 he styled himself “mariner”; thereafter, “scrivener” or “Gentleman.” A Loyalist, he was returned as a person inimical to the American States in June 1777. He was the principal barrier to his brothers and sisters to the quick settlement of his father’s estate. He died by falling from the hayloft in his barn, 5 October 1796.

Bowen, Hannah Harris. (Pronounced “Bo-wen”) Second wife of Nathan Bowen (i), whom she married on 18 November 1741. She died in 1764.

Bowen, Lydia. (Pronounced “Bo-wen”) Third wife of Edward Bowen, whom she married on 27 March 1768. She died 26 May 1774.

Bowen, Nathan. (Several) (Pronounced “Bo-wen”)

(1) Father of Ashley Bowen. Born at Rehoboth, Mass., 4 April 1698 (O.S.). He may have been a clerk to James Bowdoin of Boston before removing to Marblehead in 1718. On 16 April 1719, he married Sarah Ashley (c. 1698–1740), daughter of Edward Ashley and granddaughter of Benjamin Hallowell of Boston. Shortly after coming to Marblehead, or just before, he commenced authorship of The New-England Diary, Or, Almanack, published for a number of years thereafter at Boston. At Marblehead, he shortly established himself as one of the most influential members of the community, becoming involved in Church affairs, about 1724 being granted permission to open a public school, becoming a Notary Public, Justice of the Peace, a Selectman, Moderator of numerous Town Meetings, a member of innumerable committees, a surveyor and fence viewer, assessor, lawyer, and scrivener. See the remarks about him in the Editor’s Foreword and Introduction to Chapter I. When his first wife died on 18 September 1740, he married Mrs. Hannah (Goodwin) Harris (?–1764) on 18 November 1741. When she died he remarried to Mrs. Mary (Russell) Boden (?–1838), 27 May 1764. By Sarah he had eleven children, three of which died at birth; by Hannah, one more. A Loyalist, he left Marblehead at the beginning of the Revolution but was never far removed from it. His house in Marblehead, still standing at “Bowen’s Corner,” was and is located on the northerly corner of Washington and Mugford Streets, opposite the Old Town House. He died 23 December 1776 leaving property soon after valued at £2220.11.2¾, although it was many years before the estate was finally settled.

(2) Nathan Bowen of Cohansey. Details of his relationship, if any, unknown.

(3) Nathan Bowen, son of Nathan Bowen (i). Born 17 December 1726.

Married Martha Trevett, 11 October 1753. Captain of the brig Hannah (17 5 8), of a schooner owned by Thomas Martin in 1759, and of the schooner Prince of Orange (1760–61), in which he was captured by the brig Gentil, John Jacques Carouge de Nantell, on his passage to Oporto, was robbed of his possessions and imprisoned in Bayonne Castle. He died in 1761.

(4) Nathan Bowen, 2nd son of Edward Bowen and Elizabeth Boden. He was born in 1752. At age 15 he was apprenticed to cabinetmaker Thomas Sherburne of Boston to serve for a term of 6 years and 2 months. At the beginning of the Revolution he was working with an “uncle,” William Boden of Malagash and Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, from which place he and a number of men from Cape Ann who had been captured, taken to Halifax, and had escaped, made their way to Marblehead in an open shallop, arriving 13 November 1776 after a passage of several weeks and much fatigue. He then went to board with his father and worked as a cabinetmaker with Ebenezer Martin for a month, when he enlisted in the Continental Army, in which he remained off and on into the latter part of the year 1778. He then served in the following privateers: schooners Montgomery and Adventure, sloop Bowdoin, brig Montgomery, and ship Terrible. Bowen married four times: (1) Elizabeth Martin, (2) Mrs. Hannah Martin, (3) Polly Abrahams, daughter of Woodward Abraham(s), and (4) Mrs. Mary Melzard. Elizabeth Martin was his first cousin, the daughter of Knott Martin and Elizabeth (Bowen), she being Ashley Bowen’s sister. His second wife was the widow of Josiah Martin and the daughter of Ashley Bowen’s sister, Sarah Bowen Johnson Stiles, thereby making her another first cousin. After the Revolution, this Nathan Bowen stepped into the boots of his grandfather, Nathan Bowen (1), and was described as follows by his grandson, Isaac Story: “He always wore the dress of the olden time—and I now see him in memory with his broad brim black hat—his queue carefully braided—short breeches—knee buckles & shoe buckles as with stout cane in his hands—he walked out with us pointing out the spots of interest in that ancient town—so delapidated and almost ruined by its devotion to the cause of our Country . . . He was known among the people of Town as ‘Squire Bowen’ and family were accustomed to address him by the title of ‘Sir’.” He died 9 August 1837.

(5) Nathan Bowen, 3rd son of Ashley Bowen. Born 30 September 1767. Married Lydia Pritchard on 20 January 1793, and died at Dominica 27 March 1794 while mate of a vessel under Captain Ebenezer Graves.

Bradstreet, Rev. Simon. Great-grandson of Governor Simon Bradstreet, and son of the Rev. Simon Bradstreet of Charlestown, Mass. Graduated from Harvard College in 1728. Began preaching about two years after graduation and later became chaplain of the garrison at Castle William, Boston. In September 1737 he began to preach at Marblehead at the New Meeting House on probation, and when the Rev. Edward Holyoke was called to the Harvard Presidency he was ordained in his place on 4 January 1738. His daughters married Thomas Robie, Richard Harris, Isaac Story (Bradstreet’s own successor), and Colonel Gabriel Johonnot. He died, age 63, on 5 October 1771.

Brimblecome, Nathaniel. Captain of the schooner Good Intent (1775).

Brimblecome, Samuel. Culler of fish, 1764, 1767–70, 1772–74; surveyor of lumber, 1771. Drafted into the army 23 July 1776. He died of smallpox inoculation, 26 May 1777.

Broughton, Nicholson. Born 1724, a twin son. Commanded the schooner Two Sisters (1764–66). Aligned with the Girdlers in trade prior to the Revolution. Constable, 1768, 1771; a clerk of the town market, 1773; Selectman and Overseer of the Poor, 1775; a member of the Committee of Correspondence of Marblehead, 1776–77. Broughton was a captain in the Marblehead Regiment, 1775, and commanded the first of Washington’s armed schooners, Hannah, in September 1775. From October to December 1775 he commanded Washington’s armed schooner Hancock. Sent into the Gulf of St. Lawrence with John Selman in the armed schooner Franklin to capture two extremely important ordnance brigs, he and Selman instead raided the island of St. John (Prince Edward Island), ransacked Charlotte-town and kidnapped the acting Governor, Philip Callbeck, who was released upon his arrival at Washington’s headquarters in Cambridge. Broughton was not encouraged to continue in command of a vessel in Washington’s fleet. In 1776 was 2nd Major of the 5th Essex County Regiment of Militia and at the end of that year was Major of the regiment commanded by Colonel Pickering. His son Nicholson married Susannah, daughter of General John Glover, in 1788. He died 3 August 1798. One of the name commanded the schooner Betsey (1794).

Bubier, John. (Pronounced “Boob-ee-er”) (Several) One died in early 1770 at Martha’s Vineyard while in command of a Marblehead sloop bound inward from St. Lucia. Another died of a consumption, 26 May 1777. Commanded schooners Dreadnought (1767–68) and William (1772) and sloop Prince William (1768–69).

Bubier, Joseph. (Pronounced “Boob-ee-er”) One of the Marbleheaders who addressed a complimentary letter to Governor Hutchinson in 1773 and who was later obliged to retract his statements in public. Died 20 December 1783 within two weeks of his 46th birthday. Commanded the schooners Turtle (1760), John and Sarah (1761, 1763–64), Cottle (1762), William (176473), Success (1774), and sloop Charlotte (1775). One of the name was master of the schooner Unity (1779), a transport on the Penobscot Expedition.

Bubier, Peter. (Pronounced “Boob-ee-er”) Held numerous minor town posts during the latter half of the 1760s and early 1770s. An ensign of the 5th company of the Marblehead Regiment, January 1775. Served in the ships Hannibal and Jason during the Revolution. Owned the schooner William (1763–64).

Burke, William. Frequently referred to by Ashley Bowen as “O’Burke.” During 1775 was either sailing master or 1st Lieutenant of Washington’s armed schooner Warren; in January 1776 became her captain, succeeding Winborn Adams. Captured in her by H.M.S. Liverpool, 26 August 1776. Sent to New York and imprisoned in a guard ship. Toward the end of February 1778, he presented himself before the Marine Committee of Congress, and on 1 May 1778 was commissioned a captain in the Continental Navy. Given command of the brigantine Resistance, he was captured in late August, paroled in October, and in February 1779 was acquitted of Resistance’s loss by a board of inquiry, but he never commanded another Continental ship. He was at the ill-fated Penobscot Expedition of 1779. Commanded privateer ships Henry (1779) and Sky Rocket (1779).

Burnham, John. Born c. 1735; died 25 August 1798. Commanded the schooners Hitty (1766, 1768), Lydia (1767), Hitty (1768–69), Charming Molly (1772), and Eleanor (1773–75).

Cahill, Dr. Daniel. Physician. Died 12 January 1770.

Calley, Benjamin. Buried 5 February 1776. Commanded the schooner Molly (1767–75).

Carder, John. Constable, 1766; surveyor of lumber, 1772–73. Buried 3 November 1776.

Carleton, Aaron. Married Mehitable Chadwick, elder sister of Dorothy Chadwick, in 1769. In 1775 he lived outside Haverhill and was one of the local men who marched to Cambridge on the alarm of 19 April 1775, service 2½ days.

Chadwick, Dorothy. See Bowen, Dorothy.

Clark, John. (Several) One a blockmaker in Marblehead, who was a hogreeve, 1765; wharfinger to the Town Wharf, 1764; a clerk of the town market, 1766, 1768–71, 1776; warden, 1777; and sealer of cordwood, 1771–78. Another was a laborer and was one of the men who stole contaminated clothing from the smallpox hospital on Cat Island in January 1774 and was tarred and feathered. The same man again stole clothing from Cat Island several months later and was whipped by the fishermen at the Town Whipping Post. One John Ckrk in 1775 was exercising in the Gun House when his cartridge box took fire and caused a substantial conflagration.

Clark, William. Blockmaker. Between 1768 and 1772 he was a defendant in petty civil complaints at least nine times and was a plaintiff once. He died 9 December 1775 of smallpox. His wife appears to have carried on the management of his business after his death.

Coles, William. (Several) The elder, a native of Topsham, Devonshire. In 1750 he was captain of the snow Swift, wrecked on the Spanish Coast (see Bowen journals); his son William was First Mate. In 1758 he was captured by the French off Nova Scotia but succeeded in ransoming his vessel. He died prior to May 1774. Commanded the schooners Lucretia (1754–55), Prince George (1758–59), William and Mary (1759–62), Charming Molly (176364), Samuel (1764–66), Absalom (1772), the snow Susannah (1755–57), and the brigs Africa (1766–71) and Young Africa (1773–74). He owned the schooners Prince George (1759) and William and Mary (1761–62). William, Jr. commanded the Marblehead privateer schooner True Blue (1776), the privateer brig Oliver Cromwell (1777), and possibly also the privateer ship Brutus (1781) and privateer schooner Conclusion (1783). He died in March 1789. Another of the name commanded the Marblehead brig George (1790).

Collyer, Isaac. Fisherman and mariner. Culler of fish, 1769–75. First Lieutenant of Washington’s armed schooner Franklin under John Selman, 1775. Commanded privateer sloop Polly (1776). In 1777, during the smallpox epidemic at Marblehead, he refused to divulge whether or not his wife had been inoculated illegally. A Town Meeting made the whole Town “a committee” to wait upon him to ascertain the truth. Mrs. Collyer was subject to fits and was eventually allowed special treatment. Probably the same who died of dropsy 4 June 1814, age 69. Owned schooners Nancy (1789) and Industry (1791).

Collyer, John. Mariner. Commanded the schooners Union (1762), Hope (1774), and Industry (1791), and brig Resolution (1763–71), and sloop Collector (1772).

Collyer, Samuel. (Several) Commanded the schooner Dove (1765–67). Owned the sloop Dolphin (1759), schooners Dove (1755, 1761–65), Elizabeth & Hannah (1758), Resolution (later brig) (1756–68), Union (1759–62), and brig Sally (1761–65).

Collyer, Thomas. Commanded the brig Elizabeth (Betsey) (1767–69) and brig Lydia (1770–75). One of the name commanded the privateer ship Monmouth (1779) and the privateer ship Aurora (1780).

Colman, Peter. One of the name commanded the brig Hannah (1742). In 1773 he was called a mariner and was hauled before Justice of the Peace Nathan Bowen (i) for uttering profane oaths and saying of John Dixey: “God Damn you Bugar”. Employed for a short time by Ashley Bowen at his rigging loft in 1774.

Conway, Neal. In August 1764, Conway delivered to James Cockle, Collector of H.M. Customs for the Port of Salem, information from the officers of the Customs at Anguilla that many of the clearances from that island were counterfeit. Thus began the attempts to eradicate the previous lucrative practice of loading rum and molasses of foreign production in the West Indies and enter them in British ports duty-free by means of a bogus “Anguilla Clearance.” Conway died out of the schooner Dolly prior to 24 February 1770, when she arrived at Marblehead. Also commanded the schooners Abigail (1757–59), Seaflower (1761), Cottle (1760–61), Charming Sally (1761–67), and Raven (1767–68).

Coombs, Michael. Shipmaster. Died prior to April 1782. In June 1777 he was returned as a person inimical to the American States. During the Revolution, he fled from New England. Part of his estate was confiscated but in 1782 was assigned to his wife by the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He had a dwelling house on Training Field Hill in Marblehead. Commanded the schooners Charming Sally (1757–61), Cottle (1761), and Salisbury (later brig) (1763–70).

Corbett, Michael. Mariner. Born in Ireland. In 1769 he was the ringleader of the four seamen, aboard Robert Hooper’s brig Pitt Packet, who barricaded themselves in the forepeak to resist an impressment attempt by officers of H.M.S. Rose. Corbett killed the lieutenant leading the press and was ultimately tried with his accomplices in Boston, defended by John Adams and James Otis. All were acquitted on the grounds of justifiable homicide. Adams thought enough of Corbett to suggest his name in 1775 as a candidate for a captaincy in the Continental Navy, although he never received it; and Hooper continued him in his employ. From 1772–74 he commanded the schooner Collector. In midsummer 1775, he commanded the brig Unity and was sent to the West Indies on mysterious Colony business under the direction of Tristram Dalton of Newburyport. He died of a delirium, probably at St. Thomas, during the late autumn of 1775 or early winter of 1776.

Courtis, Thomas. Sailmaker at Marblehead. Measurer and corder of wood, 1765, 1767–68. Sometime sexton charged with ringing the 9 o’clock bell and the bell to call public meetings. He died of smallpox 12 February 1774.

Courtis, William. (Several, probably father and son) Sailmakers. The senior owned a warehouse, was described as a “Gentleman” in 1770, and died 20 November 1779, age 59. He commanded a company of militia during the Seven Years’ War. Warden, 1764; fireward, 1770–73; a member of the committee to prevent the use or sale of India tea, 1770. William, Jr. was also a sailmaker and married Sarah Pedrick, 1772. He served as a captain of a company during the Revolution and was probably the same who served as Captain of Marines on board the privateer ship Pilgrim (1780) and was described as 30 years of age, 5′ 10″, dark complexion. One, described as William, 3rd, was a captain in John Glover’s 21st Regiment in 1775 and was captain of the 1st company of Glover’s reorganized 14th Regiment in 1776. Owned schooner Rebecca (1789).

Cowell, Richard. (Several) One of the name commanded the schooner Swallow (1750), sloop Charming Molly (1751), schooner Hannah (1753), and snow Devonshire (1754). The one probably born in 1752 commanded the privateer ship Thorn (ex H.M. sloop-of-war Thorn captured by Samuel Tucker of the Continental frigate Boston in 1779) (1780), the privateer ship Marquis (1781), ship Fame (1794), and schooners Swan (1790), Lydia (1791), and Fanny (1791). He owned the ship Fame in 1794.

Crute, Thomas. An occasional employee in Ashley Bowen’s rigging loft during 1773–74.

Dalton, Tristram. Born at Newburyport in 1738. Graduated from Harvard College in 1755. Dalton then joined his father’s business in Newburyport and subsequently married Ruth, the daughter of Robert “King” Hooper of Marblehead. He was an ardent patriot, unlike his father-in-law, during the Revolution and afterwards served as Speaker of the House and a delegate to the convention to ratify the Federal Constitution. Dalton was one of the first United States senators from Massachusetts. He died in Boston in 1817.

Delap, James. Fisherman. One of the men who stole contaminated clothing from the smallpox inoculation hospital on Cat Island in January 1774 and was tarred and feathered. He enlisted as a private in May 1775 in John Glover’s 21st Regiment; by October he was a 2nd Corporal. Dennin, Nathaniel. One of the name commanded the sloop Fortune in 1759. A frequent employee in Ashley Bowen’s rigging loft during 1770–73 and 1789. His wife was buried 17 December 1773.

Dennis, James. One of the name was captured in Washington’s armed schooner Warren by H.M.S. Liverpool. Commanded the schooners Seaflower (1762–64) and Hannah (1766–67), and the privateer schooners Harlequin (1777) and Spring Bird (1778).

Dennis, John Devereux. Baptised 2 December 1739. Commanded the schooners John and Mary (1763–64), Sweet (1765–67), Annis (1772–75), Charlotte (1791), and Edward (1795). Owned and commanded the schooner Rebecca (1793). He died “of a Paralitick Complaint” 15 September 1816.

Dennis, William. Served during the Revolution in the 5th Essex County Regiment of Militia. Commanded the schooners Charming Molly (1774), Spring Bird (1778), Polly (1785), Sally (1792), and brigs Free Mason (1778–79) and Recovery (1782).

Devereux, Humphrey. (Several) One was a Marblehead physician born 11 December 1730 and died as a result of inoculation for smallpox at the hospital on Cat Island, 3 December 1773. His daughter Abigail married Chief Justice Samuel Sewall. The other, his father, was a captain; born 1702, died 1777

Devereux, Joseph. Joiner. Held various minor town posts in Marblehead during the 1760s and 1770s, including constable, 1766, and warden, 1778. He died 20 February 1796, age 70.

Dixey, John. (Several) One married Tabitha Abraham(s), daughter of Woodward Abraham(s). He was a captain, shipowner, and merchant; benefactor of the Marblehead Academy in 1789. Selectman 1793–96. Men of the name were a private in the 1776 Sea Coast companies of Captains William Hooper and Edward Fettyplace, in 1779 sailed aboard the privateer brig General Glover and was captured and imprisoned in England for 33 months; subsequendy sailed in the ship Lively. Commanded schooner Swallow (1752–53) and brig Elizabeth (Betsey) (1771–75). Owned the schooner Nancy (1789), brig Ceres (1793), brig Diana (1794), ship Eagle (1795), and brigantine Mercury (1792). One died 16 May 1794. One of the name commanded the privateer ship Queen (1781) and schooners John (1789) and Success (1789).

Dixey, Richard. 1st Lieutenant of the privateer schooner Spring Bird (1778) and commander of the schooner Success (1789).

Dixey, Thomas. (Father and son) One died prior to the latter part of December 1773. Between them, they commanded the brigs Pitt Packet (1763–64), Amherst (1765–67), Chance (1764), ship Joseph (1754–62), snows Joseph (1752–60) and Bilbao (1750–55); and schooners Dolphin (1759), Salisbury (1761–67), Charming Betsey (1765); and sloop Industry (1758).

Dolliber, Richard. Captain of the schooners Francis (1762–64) and Molly (1766–74) and brig Guardoqui (1769). News of his death in the West Indies reached Marblehead 2 November 1774.

Dupee, Michael. Commanded schooners Yarmouth (1772) and Absalom (1774–75) and privateer schooner Lively (1777).

Eaton, Israel. Tinman. A clerk of the town market, 1778. Matross in Edward Fettyplace’s Marblehead company, 1776, and company of coastal guards, 1777. He died 26 July 1807, age 62.

Fayerweather, Rev. Samuel. Born Boston 1724/5. Graduated from Harvard College in 1743. Chaplain of the Province ship Massachusetts at the first siege of Louisbourg in 1745. A wanderer and procrastinator, he missed out on several calls to the pulpit but was ordained a priest of the Church of England in 1756. He then took parishes in South Carolina for several years and then accepted the rectorship at St. Paul’s, Newport, Rhode Island, in 1760 where he continued until 1774. A biographer said of him: “His character was saintly but his manner was unfortunate. He punned in the pulpit and never made a simple statement when he had time to work up a flowery circumlocution.” When he took the patriotic oath at the beginning of the Revolution he was dropped by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in England. He died at South Kingston, R. I., on 23 August 1781.

Felton, Francis. Warden, 1765, 1770, 1777; assessor, 1766–78; constable, 1774; Marblehead Town Clerk, 1778–90; member of the Committee of Correspondence, 1775–78; a clerk of the town market, 1777. He was a captain of the Marblehead company in 1775 and captain of the 1st company of sea-coast officers at Marblehead in 1776.

Fettyplace, Edward. On numerous Marblehead committees; warden, 1771, 1778; fireward, 1778; Selectman and Overseer of the Poor, 1775–77, 1779–1781; a member of the Committee of Correspondence, 1775–78. 1st Lieutenant of Washington’s armed schooner Franklin under Samuel Tucker, 1776. Captain of the Marblehead company, 1776, and captain of a company of coastal guards at Marblehead, 1777. Edward, Jr. commanded the privateer schooner Dolphin (1777) and privateer ship Antelope (1782). Between them, also commanded the schooners Elizabeth (Molly) (1762–74) and Edward (1793). One of the name died in 1805, age 84; another died in 1827, age 78.

Florence, Henry. Shipmaster. Warden, 1767, and a member of various other town committees. Commanded the sloop Dolphin (1759) and schooners Cromwell (1753–54), Dove (1755), Good Intent (1756–57, 1765–66), Resolution (1758), Mary (1761–64), and Weymouth (1759). Owned schooners Good Intent (1756–57, 1765), Molly (1762), and Mary (1763). Died 3 April 1776. Henry, Jr. died aboard the fishing schooner Philip in 1771 as a result of a dare to see who could consume the most New England rum.

Foster, Ebenezer. Blacksmith. Resided in Marblehead until the beginning of the Revolution; then removed to Beverly and did much of the iron-work for Washington’s armed schooners.

Foster, Israel. Also, often spelled “Forster.” Warden, 1764; fireward, 1769–74; tax collector, 1765, constable, 1765; a member of the Committee of Correspondence, 1775; on numerous town committees; Selectmen, 1791–94. One of the Marbleheaders who refused initially to agree to non-importation, 1769. Commanded ships Guardoqui (1754–56) and Stork (1756, 1758–59, 1761, 1763), sloop Stork (1763–65), and schooner Boston (1753). Owned sloops Stork (1763–65) and Isra Mason (1789), brigantine Hannah (1789), and schooners Betsey (1764–65, 1771–74), Dreadnought (1770), Britannia (1771), Storm (1789), Hannah (1790), and Swan (1790). He died 2 May 1818, age 87. The Peabody Museum owns one of his salt barrows.

Foster, Samuel. Shipmaster. Commanded schooners Jolly Robin (1753–54), Lark (1754, 1756–60), Dolphin (1762–63), and Betsey (1764–66). One of the name (although variously called of Salem or Beverly) commanded the privateer sloop Fish Hawk (1779) and privateer schooners Penguin (1782), Revenge (1781), and Surprize (1781).

Fowle, Jacob. (Several) Merchants. The elder in 1741 called a “house carpenter” by Ashley Bowen. He held numerous posts in Marblehead, including warden, 1764; fireward, 1765; Selectman, 1744–46, 1758; Representative to the General Court, 1748, 1757–58, 1760–63, 1765–66, 1768. He was Colonel of the 5th Regiment of Essex County in 1758. He and his son refused to agree to non-importation in 1769. He died at his home in Lynn, to which place he had retired shortly before his death, on 8 December 1771. Jacob, Jr. was also a prominent merchant. He was one of the addressers to Governor Hutchinson who ultimately retracted his stand. Between father and son, they owned the following vessels: brig Wolfe (1764–75); snow Rebecca (1756–61); schooners Industry (1754), Mary (1754–75), Prince of Orange (1757–61), Sally (1764–75), Sarah (1753–56, 1762), Susannah (1758, 1764–75), Welcome (1753–55), William (1761–75), Marblehead (1771–75), Humbird (1771–75), Deborah (1771), Fanny (1771–75), and Joseph (1773–75); and sloops Dolphin and Phoebe (1774).

Fowler, John. Fisherman. Bought a house from Nathan Bowen (i) in 1765. Died at “Ferry” of smallpox, 16 December 1773.

Freeman, James. Born in Fairfield, Connecticut, where, in 1758, he married Deborah, daughter of John Tasker, of Marblehead. He then came to Marblehead, where he owned a distill house, several negro servants, a warehouse, and was part owner of several vessels when he died, age 34, on 27 May 1763. Owned brig Edmond (1758), schooners Betsey (1759), Nancy (1762–63), Salisbury (1763), and sloops Fortune (1762) and Hooper (1757).

Gale, John. Shipmaster. Commanded schooners Molly (1766–67) and Hannah (1769–75) and was sailing master of Washington’s armed schooner Hannah, September 1775. During the Revolution he removed to Beverly.

Gale, Samuel. Shipmaster. Commanded the schooners Charming Polly (176971), Polly (1771–75), Phoenix (1795), and Richard and Edward (1795). Part owner of the privateer schooner Raven (1778).

Gallison, John. On numerous Marblehead committees; assessor, 1765; fireward, 1769–70; Selectmen, 1762; Representative to the General Court, 1769–70, 1774. Commissioned Colonel of the 5th Regiment of Essex County Militia in 1772. Owned a distill house in Marblehead. One of the Marbleheaders who was forced to retract his complimentary address to Governor Hutchinson, 1773–74. Owned the schooners Abigail (1756–59), Industry (1758), Cottle (1761–62) and Nancy (1771).

Gatchell, Samuel. (Several) One was on numerous Marblehead committees; deer-reeve, 1766–70, 1776–77; surveyor and fence viewer, 1764–66; Selectman and Overseer of the Poor, 1768, 1783–84; assessor, 1764–66, 1774; a member of the Committee of Correspondence, 1775–78; warden, 1774, 1778; a Representative to the General Court, 1779, 1781; Captain of the 5th company, Marblehead Regiment, 1775. Others held various posts in the army during the Revolution; one entered as a volunteer on board the Continental frigate Boston, 1779.

Gerry, Elbridge. (Gerry pronounced with a hard “G”) Born 17 July 1744, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Gerry. Graduated from Harvard College in 1762. In Marblehead he joined his father and brothers in their shipping and fishing interests. He served on numerous town committees; tythingman, 1768; fireward, 1775; a trustee of the town’s schools, 1771–73, 1775; a proprietor of the smallpox inoculation hospital built on Cat Island, 1773–74; Representative to the General Court, 1772–73, 1775–76, 1780, 1786; a member of the provincial congresses and of the Continental Congress; a delegate to the Federal Constitutional Convention; a member of the first two United States Congresses; a member of the mission to France (XYZ Affair), Governor of Massachusetts, 1810–11; Vice President of the United States under James Madison, he died in office at Washington on 23 November 1814. The word “Gerrymander” derives from his name and, like it, should properly be pronounced with a hard “G”.

Gerry, John. (Pronounced with a hard “G”) Born 8 October 1741, the son of Thomas Gerry. Styled, according to the time, either Major or Colonel Gerry. Warden, 1768; a member of the Committee of Correspondence, 1776–78; Selectman and Overseer of the Poor, 1775, 1778–80; assessor, 1777–78; fireward, 1775–76, 1778; Naval Officer of the Port of Marblehead, 1778–80.

Gerry, Samuel Russell. (Pronounced with a hard “G”) Born 27 July 1750, son of Thomas Gerry. Called a merchant in 1770. Married Hannah, a daughter of Jonathan Glover, 20 June 1773; she died 27 March 1780, age either 25 or 30. Warden, 1777; a member of the Committee of Correspondence, 1775, 1777. He was commissary for the troops stationed at Marblehead and at the same time 2nd Lieutenant of Edward Fettyplace’s companies, 1776–77. Between 1790 and 1802 he was the Naval Officer for the Port of Marblehead. He was full or part-owner of the schooner Charlotte (taken by H.M.S. Schooner Hope, September 1775), the privateer schooners True Blue (1776) and Dolphin (1777), and the schooner Tabitha (178284) and brig Dinah (1782–84). He died 1 February 1807.

Gerry, Thomas. (Several) (Pronounced with a hard “G”) The elder, father of Thomas, John, Elbridge, and Samuel Russell Gerry, was born at Newton Abbot, Devonshire, in March 1702. He became a prominent Marblehead merchant with wharf, warehouse, and extensive business centered around Codner’s Cove. He was commanding officer of the Marblehead fort (modern Fort Sewall) after 1742; a Justice of the Peace; he held numerous town posts, including warden, 1769; constable, 1765; assessor, 1773; fireward, 1771–73; Selectman and Overseer of the Poor, 1743, 1747, 1758, 1771–73. Among the vessels he owned were the brig Union (1765–68); and schooners Makefeace (1753–57), Swallow (1758, 1764), Industry (1761), Pretty Betsey (1756–58), and Success (1761–63). He died 13 July 1774. Thomas, Jr. was born 19 September 1735. He served on many Marblehead committees and was a Selectman in 1775, 1781–82. He was a Representative to the General Court, 1776, 1787; and a delegate to the convention to frame a State Constitution. He was captain of the schooner Swallow (1765); Lieutenant Colonel of the 5th Essex County Regiment of Militia from 1776, but resigned due to ill health in 1779. He was part-owner of the privateer schooner True Blue (1776) and Terrible (1777).

Glover, Daniel. Shipmaster and Blockmaker. Brother of John and Jonathan Glover. Commanded the brigantines Ranger (1763) and Benjamin (1763–66) and schooner Three Brothers (1767–71). He moved to Beverly during the Revolution.

Glover, John. Shipowner, merchant, Revolutionary General. Born at Salem, 5 November 1732, Glover came to Marblehead at an early age. Unlike his two brothers Jonathan and Daniel Glover, he does not appear to have personally commanded vessels at sea, but owned several, including the schooners William (1763–64), Sweet (1765–67), Hannah (1769–75), and Fanny (1791). In Marblehead he was a fireward, 1770–75, warden, 1767; sealer of leather, 1764–73, 1775; culler of fish, 1767–70, 1772–73; surveyor of lumber, 1771; a member of the Committee of Correspondence, 1778; Selectman, 1787–92; Representative to the General Court, 1788–89. He was one of the proprietors of the smallpox inoculation hospital built on Cat Island in 1773, and was one of the Marbleheaders who signed a complimentary address to Governor Hutchinson and was forced to retract it. In early 1775, he was 2nd Lieutenant Colonel of the Marblehead Regiment, at the beginning of the war became Colonel, and came out of it as a Brigadier-General. He participated in many of the more important military events of the war; it was he and the Marbleheaders who were in charge of ferrying Washington and his troops across the Delaware River in 1776. He died 30 January 1797.

Glover, Jonathan. Of the Glover brothers, Jonathan was the most active as shipmaster and merchant. Born in Salem, he removed to Marblehead with his family at an early age. There he became warden, 1766, 1769; fireward, 1769–73, 1775–76; assessor, 1767–73, 1775–76; one of the Committee on non-importation, 1770; surveyor and fence viewer, 1768–72; Town Treasurer, 1776–78; a member of the Committee of Correspondence, 1776–78; Selectman and Overseer of the Poor, 1771–73, 1781–82, 1787–90; delegate to the County Convention at Ipswich, 1776; Representative to the General Court, 1776–77, 1780, 1785–89. He was one of the proprietors of the smallpox inoculation hospital on Cat Island, 1773–74, and was one of the Marbleheaders who signed a complimentary address to Governor Hutchinson and was forced to retract it. At the beginning of the Revolution he acted as prize agent at Marblehead for Washington’s armed schooners and continued privately in the same capacity for many seafaring Marblehead men throughout the war. In February 1776 he was commissioned Colonel of the 5th Essex County Regiment of Militia, from which he resigned in February 1779 owing to lameness and the pressures of business. One of his daughters married Richard James; another, Samuel Russell Gerry; another, the Rev. Ebenezer Hubbard. He commanded the snows Port Packet (1753–57) and Champion (1758) and schooners Elizabeth (1750–52) and Molly (1752–53). He owned the brigs Benjamin (1761–65) and Dolphin (1765–68); snows Port Packet (1753–59) and Champion (1763–76), schooners Abigail (1764–c. 1774), Hannah (1771–74), Tabby or Tabitha (1774–75), Hannah (1789) and Nancy (1790), sloops Polly (1761), Eleanor (1789), Polly (1789–90), and Tabby (1791); part-owner of privateer schooners True Blue (1776) and Tiger (1779); also possibly of the schooners Woodbridge (1777), Salisbury (1777), and Three Brothers (1773–74). He died at Boston in December 1804, age 78.

Gordon, George. Shipmaster. Commanded the ship Guardoqui (1770–72), was in command of a ship belonging to Jeremiah Lee which was cast away on the Capes of Virginia on 1 May 1773, and snow Guardoqui (1773–75).

Gordon, Nicholas. Shipmaster. Commanded the ship Guardoqui (1763–69), snow Rebecca (1754–61), brig St. Paul (1771–75), and schooners Charming Hannah (1759), Merrill (1762), and Pembroke (1752–54). One of the name died 20 May 1807.

Granday, Amos. Shipmaster. Commanded the schooners Sally (1765–71) and Susanna (1775), and brig Wolfe (1771–74). While commander of Sally, he was returning from Lisbon when he put into Halifax for water where he was searched and maltreated by officers of the Customs, as recorded in the Essex Gazette in November 1768. He also appears to have been captured with or was a prisoner with Nathan Bowen (3) at Bayonne Castle, 1761. One of the name served aboard the privateer ship Thorn (1780) and was described as 5′ 7″, dark complexion. Another served aboard the privateer brig Union (1780), age 20, 5′ 3″, light complexion.

Granday, John. Commanded the schooner Kingfisher (1753). One of the name stole clothing from the smallpox inoculation hospital on Cat Island in January 1774 and was subsequently tarred and feathered at Marblehead.

Grant, Thomas. (Several) One of the name from Marblehead leased his schooner Speedwell (renamed Hancock) to Washington’s “Navy” in 177576. Other(s) served in the Marblehead Regiment in various capacities from fifer to 2nd lieutenant and company captain; a clerk of the town market, 1766–75; a culler of fish, 1766–73; collector of taxes, 1767; warden, 1777; and Selectman, 1779–80.

Graves, Ebenezer. A benefactor of the Marblehead Academy, 1789; Selectman, 1797, 1799, 1800, 1804–10; Representative to the General Court, 1804–05. Owned the schooner Sea Flower (1790). Ebenezer, Jr. commanded the schooner Betty (1794).

Graves, Mrs. Hannah. Widow of Jacob Graves of Lynn who became Ashley Bowen’s third wife in February 1782.

Green, Peter. Shipmaster. Baptised 2 July 1721. A clerk of the town market, 1777; surveyor and fence viewer, 1777–78; warden, 1776; hogreeve, 1778. In 1760 he was captured in the sloop Prosperity and was imprisoned at Martinique. He commanded the ship Guardoqui (1761–63), the snow Champion (1754–57, 1763–67, 1772–74); the schooners Rose (1754), Lucretia (1755–57), Lisbon (1757), Seaflower (1760–61), and Betsey (1771), and sloops Seaflower (1751–52, 1755) and Prosperity (1760). Peter, Jr. commanded the schooner John (1791).

Green, Samuel. Son of Peter Green. Commanded the schooners Samuel (1768), Lydia (1771), and Hitty (1772–74). In June 1776 he was in charge of the prize ship Ann at Marblehead. He was sailing master of the privateer sloop Polly under Nathaniel Leech (1776) and commanded the privateer ship Pliarne (1777) in which he was captured 17 September of that year.

Griste, John. (Several) The elder was born about 1727, was a shipmaster and store merchant. A daughter married James Mugford, Jr. On 26 February 1794 “Capt John Griste Died taken very Suddantly him and his wife taken on Sunday Morning neither of them Spook Sense She now in a Dying Posture.” John, Jr. was born about 1752 and died 22 August 1804. Between them they served as culler of fish, 1765, 1773; warden, 1766; constable, 1772, 1774, 1776–78; tythingman, 1773, a clerk of the town market, 1775, and commanded the snows Champion (1754–57), Prince George (1758–59), and William and Sarah (1759–61); brig Hannah (1794); and schooners Seaflower (1761), Joshua (1762–71), Industry (1757–58), and Hannah (1790), part-owner of the fishing schooner Trial (1788).

Grush, John. Selectman and Overseer of the Poor, 1778–80; a member of the Committee of Correspondence, 1778. Commanded the brig Sally (1767–73); schooners Union (1760–61) and Dove (1761–64); and sloop Szoallow (1765). He was part-owner of the brig Sally (1768) and the privateer brigantines Bellona (1778) and General Gates (1779). He died 9 January 1787, age 54.

Guillard, John. Involved in the burning of the smallpox inoculation hospital on Cat Island in February 1774. He was also a member of Nicholson Broughton’s company of the Marblehead Regiment in 1775 and was one of the men aboard Washington’s armed schooner Hannah who mutinied in September 1775. He was subsequently dismissed the service.

Hales, Edward. Shipmaster. Commanded the schooners Molly (1760–66) and Eliza (1750–52) and brig Union (1766–73), out of which he died prior to 5 December 1774 when the brig returned to Marblehead with the news. Custom House letters of the period suggest that he was in frequent difficulties with that branch of government.

Harris, Richard. In 1772, called a merchant. He married Ann, the daughter of the Rev. Simon Bradstreet, in 1764. Warden, 1767, 1771; hogreeve, 1768; fireward, 1775, 1777; a member of the Committee of Correspondence, 1777–78; Selectman and Overseer of the Poor, 1778–82, 1786–90; Representative to the General Court, 1786; Collector of the Port of Marblehead, 1789–90. He died 14 July 1790, age 52.

Harris, Rev. William. Born at Springfield, Mass., 29 April 1765. Graduated from Harvard College in 1786. He was licensed to preach as a congregationalist, but ill-health led him to study medicine with a Salem physician. In 1789 he was employed as a preceptor at the new Marblehead Academy, and following the removal of Thomas Fitch Oliver from St. Michael’s Church he officiated as “lay” reader. In 1791 he was ordained, at the request of the wardens and vestry, in New York City and so remained at St. Michael’s until 1802 when he became rector of St. Mark’s in the Bowery, New York City. In 1811, he was elected President of Columbia University. He died at New York, 18 October 1829. Another William Harris of Marblehead was a soldier in Samuel Russell Trevett’s artillery company at Bunker Hill and served aboard privateers during the war.

Hibbert, Joseph. Shipmaster. Commanded the brigs Hannah (1752–56), Dolphin (1765–68), and Betsey (1761); snow Aurora (1757–59); schooners William (1762–64), Abigail (1764–65), Lisbon (1750–52), and Merrill (1760); and sloop (possibly schooner) Yarmouth (1770–73). His wife died 20 August 1779.

Hickman, Wilson. Commanded the schooner Polly (1768). Drowned 3 April 1774

Hill, Hugh. Born at Carrickfergus, Ireland, in 1740. Believed to have seen service in the Royal Navy, but wound up at Marblehead by the mid 1760s, where he was employed from then until the beginning of the Revolution by Robert “King” Hooper. He was mate of Hooper’s brig Pitt Packet in April 1769 at the time of the impressment episode by H.M.S. Rose (see Corbett, Michael) and commanded Hooper’s brig General Wolfe (1770–75) until she was seized by H.M. Schooner Hope off Marblehead in July 1775. In the autumn of 1775 he was instrumental in capturing a small enemy schooner at Marblehead, and during the war commanded the privateer schooner Dove (1776) and privateer ships Pilgrim (1778) and Cicero (1781). He removed during the war from Marblehead to Beverly, where he died 17 February 1829.

Hinds, Benjamin. (Several) Also spelled “Hines”. One called a shoreman in 1768; constable, 1764. One married Mary, daughter of Samuel Tucker, in 1789. He died abroad 12 April 1799 as a result of exposure from 27 days in an open boat following the loss of his vessel, the letter-of-marque Hercules. Those of the name commanded the brigs Dolphin (1759) and Two Brothers (1759); schooners Sarah (1754–55), Success (1756), Dreadnought (1760, 1762), Betsey (1758), John (1758); sloop Salisbury (1757), and unidentified rigs Joseph (1752) and Thomas and Eliza (1760). He owned the brig Dolphin (1759).

Hinkley, Joseph. Commanded the privateer brig Hope (1781) which was captured, but he managed to return to Marblehead notwithstanding. Owned brigs Diana (1794) and Mercury (1794–95); schooners James (1790) and Prudentia (1793); and sloop Dispatch (1793). He died in March 1832, age 78 or 79.

Hinkley, Richard. Commanded the schooners Hawk (1772), Woodbridge (1774), Robert and Joan (1775), and Reward (1788). Owned privateer snow Free Mason (1779).

Holder, Nathaniel. Brickmaker. Hogreeve, 1772; warden, 1776. He died 24 May 1777.

Homan, John. Blockmaker as of 1767.

Homan, Joseph. Culler of fish, 1765, 1767–70, 1772–75; a member of the Committee of Correspondence, 1776–78; surveyor and fence viewer, 1776; surveyor of lumber, 1771.

Homan, Nathaniel. Cooper. Culler of fish, 1764–73; viewer and culler of staves and hoops, 1764–72; constable, 1774. Buried 8 May 1777. One of the name served in the Continental Army during the war and in the Marblehead fort company.

Hooper, John. (Several)

(1) John Hooper, born 30 April 1719, son of Greenfield Hooper (c. 1686–c. 1747) and brother of Robert “King” Hooper (2). Married Mary Ellis of Beverly in 1745. Became a tallow chandler.

(2) John Hooper, baptised 4 October 1741, son of Joseph (1701–1743). A soldier in William Hooper’s company, 1776; a crewman aboard the privateer ship Jack in 1780, described at that time as age 40, 5′ 9″, light complexion. This is possibly the same as the one of the name who served aboard the privateers Massachusetts (1776) and Tyrannicide (1777); was 2nd Lieutenant of the privateer schooner True Blue (1776), same rank aboard the privateer brig Freedom (1777), captured while prizemaster of the William and Ann and imprisoned at Halifax; 1st Lieutenant of the privateer ship Pilgrim (1778)

(3) John Hooper, baptised 4 October 1719, son of John (1690—before 1731). Married Susannah (1720–1799), daughter of John and Ann Dixey, in 1741/2. A shoreman in the fish business. Died 1753.

(4) John Hooper. No specific information available.

(5) John Hooper. Baptised 9 August 1752, son of Moses Hooper (1716/17-before 1807). Fisherman and shipmaster.

(6) John Hooper. Baptised 1776, son of Robert Hooper (4). Married, Eunice, daughter of Samuel Hooper. Known at the beginning of the century as John Hooper 4th. Died 1854.

(7) John Hooper. Baptised 1742, son of John Hooper (3). Married Grace, daughter of John Griste, in 1765. Fisherman and shipmaster. Died in June 1814.

(8) John Hooper. Baptised in 1744, son of John Hooper (4). Married Hannah Signcross in 1766. Fisherman. Died before June 1772.

One or more of the above commanded the schooners Wilis (1768), Lynn (1771–75), and Lydia (1794). One John Hooper, yeoman, apprenticed himself to John Griste, Jr. shoreman, in 1785, to learn “the Art, Trade or Mystery of a Fisherman.”

Hooper, Joseph. Born 29 May 1743, the son of Robert “King” Hooper (2). Ropemaker. Hogreeve, 1764; warden, 1769–72, 1774; trustee of the town schools, 1771–74. Graduated from Harvard College in 1763 and married Mary Harris of Newburyport in 1766. He operated the ropewalk in Marblehead. He was one of the Marbleheaders who was forced to retract a complimentary address to Governor Hutchinson in 1773–74. A Loyalist, attempts were made three times to burn his house and he killed one man in the attempt. He made his escape from Marblehead in his father’s brig Nancy, 3 May 1775, where he “lay 42 nights on some dried fish.” Arriving in Spain, he made his way to London. In 1781, he was indicted for treason and his property in Massachusetts was confiscated. In England he remarried, although his American wife was still alive and living in Newburyport. His son Benjamin committed suicide in Salem in January 1788 by an overdraught of liquid laudanum. Hooper became a paper manufacturer at Bungay, England, where he died in August 1812.

Hooper, Robert. (Several)

(1) Robert Hooper, baptised 24 November 1706, son of Henry Hooper (c. 1665–1726). He married (1) Bethiah Bartlett (?–1742) in 1725, (2) Sarah Brimblecome (c. 1727–1754) in 1742, and (3) Abigail Blaney (1726–1792) in 1755. He was a deacon of the church and a prominent citizen of Marblehead, engaged in the fishing business and called shoreman. He was one of the founders of New Marblehead (Windham, Maine). He died at Lynn 25 March 1763.

(2) Robert “King” Hooper, born 26 June 1709, son of Greenfield Hooper (c. 1686–c. 1747), sometimes called Robert Hooper Jr. as he was the second of the name in age in Marblehead when his father died about 1747. He married (1) Ruth Burrill (1711/12–1732) of Lynn, (2) Ruth Swett (1718/19–1763) in 1735, (3) Mrs. Hannah Cowell (?–1776) in 1764; and (4) Mrs. Elizabeth Pousland in 1777. Probably most of Ashley Bowen’s references to Robert Hooper refer to this man, but not all. He was a prominent citizen in town with large commercial interests, and a Loyalist during the war who retreated to his country seat in Danvers. He was a Representative to the General Court in 1755 and for many years was on intimate terms with the various members of the British government and military. He declined a seat in the Council in 1759 due to deafness. When he died on 20 May 1790, he left numerous pieces of property, including the ropewalk in Marblehead, his mansion house, a warehouse and wharf at Codner’s Cove. His estate, appraised at £5486.6.4, was declared insolvent, due principally to an enormous pre-war debt to the mercantile house of Champion & Dickason in England of £39,650.6.2. Creditors were finally allowed just over 7¢ on the dollar.

(3) Robert Hooper, baptised 27 April 1757, son of Robert Hooper (1). He married (1) Elizabeth (d. 1783, age 27), daughter of the Rev. Nathaniel Whittaker of Salem, in 1777, and (2) Vashti Mann in 1786. He removed to Falmouth (Pordand), Maine, where he was a merchant in 1783. Afterwards he removed to Windham and then to Limington, Maine, where he died 11 May 1836.

(4) Robert Hooper, baptised 12 July 1741, son of Nathaniel Hooper (1710/ il-c. 1760). He married (1) Mary (Polly) Ingalls (1740–1807) in 1761, and (2) Polly Williams, of Roxbury, in 1809. He was a prominent merchant in Marblehead and died of dropsy in the chest, 30 January 1814.

(5) Robert Hooper, baptised 6 April 1755, son of Moses Hooper (1716/17–before 1807). He enlisted for naval service during the Revolution, was taken prisoner, and died in prison in Nova Scotia.

(6) Robert Hooper, baptised 9 February 1746, son of Robert “King” Hooper (2). He married Anna (Nancy) Cowell (1750–1828), daughter of Richard Cowell, in 1769. He died c. 1781.

(7) Robert Hooper, baptised 5 November 1780, son of Robert Hooper (3). He married Bridget Earle.

(8) Robert Hooper, born 3 February 1766, son of Robert Hooper (4). He married Mary Glover (1769–1850), daughter of General John Glover, in 1788. He resided in Marblehead and was a merchant and shipowner. He died of dropsy on 2 June 1843.

Due to the number of men with the same name, it is virtually impossible for the present undertaking to sort out which man owned what vessels or which held various town offices due to the shifting usage of Jr., 3rd, Captain, Esquire, and so on. They can be segregated to the extent following:

Town Positions: (A) “Doctor Robert Hooper” was a Selectman, 1744–46, 1740–51, 1757, 1760–61. (B) The “Hon. Robert Hooper Esq.” was a Selectman in 1760. (C) “Robert Hooper” [probably the same as “Jr.” following] was a Selectman in 1774, 1776–77, 1792, 1797. (D) “Captain Robert Hooper” was a fireward, 1777–78; warden, 1773–74; a member of the Committee of Correspondence, 1776, 1778; a clerk of the town market, 1774. (E) “Robert Hooper Jr.” was a tax collector, 1765, constable, 1765; culler of fish, 1764–73; one of the Marbleheaders who retracted his complimentary address to Governor Hutchinson, 1773–74. (F) “Robert Hooper 3rd” was a clerk of the town market, 1773; tythingman, 1771; a trustee of the town schools, 1771; and one of the men who retracted his complimentary address to Governor Hutchinson, 1773–74.

Vessels Owned: (1) Pre-Revolution. (A) “Robert Hooper”: ships Bilbao (1753–56, 1758), Hooper (1753–58), Joseph (1754–59), and Prince William (1753–56, 1758); brigs Amherst (1765, 1768), Pitt Packet (1764 following), Woodbridge (1768), General Wolfe (1770–75), and Nancy (1770s); snows Haley (1755–57, 1759), Hooper (1761, 1768), Industry (1757–58), Joseph (1752–53), and St. George (1757); schooners Dove (1762), Francis (1762), Seaflower (1758); and Swallow (1752–56); and sloops Falmouth (1764) and Swallow (1763, 1765). (B) “Robert Hooper Jr.”: ships Bilbao (1759–63, 1765), Hooper (1759, 1763), Joseph (1759, 1761–62), and Prince William (1759, 1761), brig Pitt Packet (1763); snows Bilbao (1764), Haley (1759), Hooper (1763, 1765); schooners dove (1762, 1765), Francis (1761, 1764), Lydia (1761, 1763), Success (1762–63), Swallow (1762), and Union (1764); and sloop Swallow (1763, 1765). (2) Post-Revolution. (A) “Robert Hooper”: Schooners Eagle (1792), Hannah(1795), Molly (1796), Polly (1790), and William (1795). (B) “Robert Hooper Jr.”: Schooner Union (1790). (C) “Robert Hooper 3rd” commanded the schooner Polly (1790).

Hooper, Samuel. Baptised 1733/4, son of Samuel Hooper (1706–?). Shipmaster and merchant. Assessor, 1772–74; Selectman and Overseer of the Poor, 1774, 1789–94; fireward, 1771–74; benefactor of the Marblehead Academy, 1789. His son, Samuel, served in the State Legislature and in the House of Representatives in Congress. Commanded the brigs Hannah (1759–62), Phoenix (1762–65, 1768–69), and Hooper (1764), schooner Susannah (1757); and sloop Industry (1758). Owned the brig George (1790–91); schooners Eagle (1792), Philanthrofist (1795), Success (1796), Swan (1790), and Betsey (1792); and sloops Industry (1758) and Polly (1789). He was buried on 30 September 1803.

Hooper, Swett. Merchant. Born 5 May 1750, the son of Robert “King” Hooper. He was a clerk of the town market, 1774, and one of the Marbleheaders who was forced to retract his complimentary address to Governor Hutchinson, 1773–74. He left Marblehead for Spain with his brother, Joseph Hooper, aboard his father’s brig Nancy, 3 May 1775, but returned from Spain a year later. In 1779 he married Mary, daughter of Hector McNeill, onetime captain of the Continental frigate Boston. He was buried 22 October 1781.

Horton, Samuel. Men of the name commanded the schooner Polly (175860) and the privateer brig General Glover (1779), was 2nd Lieutenant of the privateer brig Fancy (1777), and was sailing master aboard the privateer schooner Spring Bird (1778). Others served both as soldiers and as sailors during the war.

Howard, Joseph. Shipmaster, and engaged with his father in trade. Culler of fish, 1768–70; warden, 1768. Commanded the ship William (1755–56); and schooners Britannia (1752–54), Charming Molly (1752), Francis (1760–61), and Polly (1762). He was owner of the schooner Britannia. In 1744 he was a prisoner of the French for six months at Dunkirk, having been captured through the carelessness of the pilot conducting him into Rotterdam. He served as a Customs officer for the Northern District of the American Colonies, and was described as “a man of character and judgement, learning and wealth, and a linguist familiar with seven languages.” The Marblehead merchants were accustomed to go to him for translations of their foreign bills and letters. According to Ashley Bowen, he died 15 March 1772.

Hubbard, Rev. Ebenezer. Born at Concord, Massachusetts, he graduated from Harvard College in 1777 and was ordained minister of the First Congregational Society, Marblehead, on 1 January 1783. He married Abigail, daughter of Jonathan Glover, in 1783. He died in the ministry, 15 October 1800, at Marblehead, age 43.

Humphreys, Samuel. One of the name was a fisherman in 1769 and probably was the same as the soldier in William Hooper’s and Francis Felton’s companies of matrosses and coastal guards, 1775, 1776.

Ingalls, John. Sailmaker. Until Ingalls’s death on 8 May 1772 he worked with sailmaker Henry Lane. He was a hogreeve in 1765 and deer-reeve the same year.

Jackson, Dr. Hall. Born at Hampton, New Hampshire, 11 November 1739. He studied medicine with his father, Dr. Clement Jackson, and in 1757 went to London to attend lectures at the Middlesex hospital, where he specialized in the treatment of smallpox by inoculation. Returning to Portsmouth, N. H., he opened an apothecary shop and in 1764 went to Boston to superintend inoculation against smallpox, then epidemical there. In 1773 he had charge of the Essex Hospital on Cat Island, off Marblehead Harbor. During the Revolution he organized a company of artillery and ultimately became a colonel. He was also chief surgeon of the New Hampshire troops; after the war prominent in medical circles and in local Masonry. In 1777 he again was summoned to Marblehead to deal with another outbreak of smallpox, but seems not to have been paid completely for his services despite numerous later entreaties. He died in Portsmouth, N. H., on 28 September 1797.

James, Ambrose. Shipmaster. Brother of Richard James. Commanded the schooners John (1767–75) and Polly (1791), and the privateer brig Eagle (1780). In 1783, while en route from St. Martins to Marblehead, he was captured by a British cruiser but ransomed himself and his vessel.

James, Richard. The elder, called by Ashley Bowen “Bloody Dick”, was a shipmaster at mid-eighteenth century. The younger Richard was born 3 August 1742. He was a shipmaster and merchant; Selectman, 1781–82, 1804–08; Representative to the General Court, 1802–03. He married Mary, daughter of Jonathan Glover, in 1770. He commanded the schooner Hannah (1771–74), snow Champion (1775–76), brig Count d’Estaing (1777), and the ship Union (1778) in which he was captured but eventually obtained his liberty and returned home via Paris after an absence of nine months. He owned the schooners Tabby (1791), Polly (1791), and Nancy (1790). He died 29 December 1832.

Jayne, Peter. One of Marblehead’s schoolmasters from as early as 1767, still teaching in 1781. The Committee of Safety held its meetings in his house. Warden, 1767; tythingman, 1769–70. He died 16 November 1784, age 59. His widow remarried Joshua Prentiss.

Johnson, Holton. Shipmaster. Commanded the schooners Lydia (1789) and Charlotte (1791).

Johnson, Sarah. Born in 1730, a younger sister of Ashley Bowen who married (1) Ebenezer Johnson and (2) Ezra Stiles. She had seven children; a daughter by Ebenezer married Dr. Josiah Lord; another daughter was the second wife of Nathan Bowen (4). She is usually referred to in Bowen’s Journals as “Sister Johnson” or “Sister Stiles”. She lived in Andover until she returned to Marblehead in 1776 to keep a school. She died in 1796.

Johnson, Thomas and Charity. Thomas was a fisherman, often employed in Ashley Bowen’s rigging loft prior to the Revolution. Bowen acted as godfather for two of his children. One of the name was 1st Lieutenant aboard the privateer schooner Hero (1779) and commanded the privateer schooner Rattlesnake (1779).

Johonnot, Gabriel. Of French Huguenot descent, he married Sarah, daughter of the Rev. Simon Bradstreet, in 1774. In 1775 he was a fireward at Marblehead. He was a Lieutenant Colonel in John Glover’s 21st Regiment.

Jones, Peter Faneuil. Commanded the schooner Sally (1773–75). Sailing master and 1st Lieutenant of the privateer schooner True Blue (1776–77) and sailing master of the privateer brigantine Massachusetts (1777).

Kimball, Joseph. Captain of the ship Prince William (1757) and sloop Yarmouth (1769).

Kittredge, Dr. Thomas. (1746–1818) Of Andover, Massachusetts. He was surgeon of Colonel James Frye’s Regiment, 1775; one of a committee from Andover to the convention called by the Massachusetts Legislature to consider adoption of a constitution, 1787; he received an honorary degree from Harvard in 1811; was a member of the Massachusetts Legislature; and was a councillor of the Massachusetts Medical Society. “His fame in successful chirurgical operations and treatment of cases of insanity was extensive and well founded.”

Knight, William. Master of the coasting schooner Miriam and a fisherman in 1779. Culler of fish, 1769–76; tythingman, 1767, 1775; constable, 1766; a member of the Marblehead Committee of Correspondence, 1775–76. He died 27 August 1799, age 77.

Lane, Henry. Sailmaker. He worked with John Ingalls until Ingalls’s death in 1770; then operated independently.

Laws, Archibald. Commanded the brig Duke of Cumberland (1751–52) and the schooners Duke of Cumberland (1749), Night Hawk (1761), and Hillsborough (1767). He owned the Duke of Cumberland (1753–54). Laws went bankrupt in 1758. He married Sarah Proctor in 1743.

Lecraw, Philip. Fisherman. One of the name served in William Hooper’s company in defense of the seacoast, 1775–76.

Lecraw, William. Commanded the schooner Success (1772–75), privateer brig Black Snake (1777), and privateer schooner Necessity (1776). One of the name was sailing master of the sloop Morning Star (1780) and was described as age 35, 5′ 10″, dark complexion. One died 20 September 1802, age 66.

Lee, David. Shipmaster of Manchester, Massachusetts, son of Colonel John Lee. He was mate of the brig Patty (1769); commanded the schooner Broad Bay (1771) and brig Young Phoenix (1771–74). He died at Manchester, 21 October 1774, age 27. Another of the name commanded the schooner Polly in 1794.

Lee, Jeremiah. Shipowner and Merchant. Born at Manchester, Massachusetts, 16 April 1721, the son of Justice Samuel Lee. Went to Marblehead before 1745, where he entered into mercantile pursuits and became one of the most affluent and prominent men of the region. In 1745 he married Martha Swett, and through the intricacies of his family relationships was related to many of the other men of prominence of the town, including Robert “King” Hooper, and Benjamin Marston. About 1751 he was commissioned Colonel of the Marblehead Regiment. He served on most of the pre-war town committees of importance and held other regular town posts. In 1774 he was elected to represent the town at the Continental Congress, an honor he declined, but later that year he was Chairman of the County Convention held in Ipswich. In October 1774 he was a delegate from Marblehead to the Provincial Congress and was Chairman of the Committee appointed to address grievances to Governor Gage, as well as serving on the Committee of Safety and Supplies. In February 1775 he served as a delegate to the Second Provincial Congress and on the night of 19 April 1775 he, Azor Orne, and Elbridge Gerry, who had met on committee business, passed the night at Wetherby’s Black Horse Tavern on the road to Concord. During the night British troops entered the tavern to make a search, and the Marbleheaders were forced to flee in their nightshirts for sanctuary in an adjacent cornfield. As a result of his exposure, Lee contracted a fever and died three weeks later on 10 May 1775 at Newbury, “universally lamented.” Lee’s mansion, built in 1768, is now the home of the Marblehead Historical Society. His commercial contacts were extensive and he left an estate of £24,583.18.10¼, which, nevertheless, due to unrealized ventures, was declared insolvent and paid just over eighteen shillings on the Pound. He owned the following vessels, those marked with an asterisk (*) appearing in the inventory of his estate: Ships Guardoqui, Stork, and Vulture; brigs Africa, Hannah, Phoenix, Patty, St. Paul*, and Young Phoenix; snows Eunice and Susanna; schooners Abigail*, Absalom*, Barker, Barter*, Betsey*, Biddeford, Broad Bay*, Charming Hannah, Charming Molly, Darby*, Eagle*, Gerrish, Hannah*, Hawke*, Horton*, John and Benjamin, John and Meriam, Joseph*, Leviathan*, Lucretia, Merrill, Newbury, Patty, Pelican*, Polly*, Rockingham*, Seaflower, Swallow*, Stork*, Success*, Tryal*, and Vulcan*; and the sloop Ashley.

Lee, John. (Several)

(1) Colonel John Lee, son of Justice Samuel Lee (1693/4–1753), born at Manchester, Mass., 12 February 1715/6. He was a prominent merchant at Manchester and occupied many town positions, including Town Clerk and Selectman. His brother was Jeremiah Lee of Marblehead. He was a Justice of the Peace, a Representative to the General Court, a delegate to the County Congress at Ipswich in 1774, and was a member of the Manchester Committee of Correspondence. He had been a Lieutenant in 1741, Captain in 1745, Major in 1749, and in January 1775 was elected Colonel of the 6th Essex Regiment. Washington’s armed schooner Lynch was hired from him in January 1776. He died at Marblehead, 24 August 1789.

(2) Captain John Lee, son of Colonel John (1), born at Manchester, 16 May 1738. He was a shipmaster and a noted privateersman during the Revolution. He was captured in the brig Fancy by H.M.S. Foudroyant and imprisoned at Mill Prison until he managed to escape “incognito” on 14 October 1778. He later became excessively afflicted by rheumatism and was unable to walk during the last twenty years of his life. He died at Andover, Mass., in May 1812. Commanded the brigs St. Paul (1766–69) and Phoenix (1770), snow Champion (1771), and schooners Dreadnought (1771) and Broad Bay (1772–75); also the privateers Hawke (1776), Fancy (1777), Tom (1779), Cato (1781), Grand Monarch (1781), and Minerva (1781).

(3) Captain John Lee, son of Downing Lee, born at Manchester 12 April 1761 and died there 29 December 1796. He was a master mariner and probably saw service in privateers during the Revolution.

(4) Captain John Lee, son of Captain Isaac Lee (1738–1806), born at Manchester on 20 July 1773 and died there 16 July 1833.

The Salem pre-Revolutionary Naval Office lists provide the following information concerning vessels commanded and owned by these men: “John Lee” Commanded the ship St. George (1760), snow St. George (1754–61), and schooners Victory (1764) and Freemason (1765, 1768). Owned the schooners Britannia (1758), Dolphin (1753), Lisbon (1753, 1757), Prosperity (1753–54), Ranger (1754), William (1755, 1758), and Two Friends (1758). “John Lee Jr.” Owned the schooners Britannia (1761–63, 1765), Dolphin (1764), Fanny (1763), Patty (1763–64), and William (1761). “John Lee 3rd” Commanded the following vessels owned by him plus the schooners Two Friends (1760) and Britannia (1764). Owned the schooners Prince William (1761) and Prosperity (1761–62).

Lee, Joseph. Born 23 November 1748, eldest son of Colonel Jeremiah Lee. Commanded the brigantine Louisa (1765–68). Merchant; warden, 1774; a clerk of the town market, 1774–75; one of the Marbleheaders who signed a complimentary address to Governor Hutchinson in 1773; Captain of the 7th company of the Marblehead Regiment, January 1775. The same, or others of the name (variously referred to as of Newburyport or of Beverly) were part-owners of the following privateers: sloop Revenge (1776), schooner Hawke (1 776), brig Spitfire (1780), and ship Essex (1781). Lee was buried on 31 August 1785.

Lee, William Raymond. Son of Colonel John Lee, he was born at Manchester 30 July 1745. Prior to the Revolution he worked for his uncle, Colonel Jeremiah Lee, and managed much of his commercial business. He was the senior captain of the Marblehead Regiment and was commissioned Major in July 1775. Later, in 1777, he was promoted to Colonel. He was in charge of Burgoyne’s troops while they were being held prisoner at Cambridge, but resigned his commission for reasons of business on 24 June 1778. Thereafter, he owned various privateers and after the war became extensively involved with Marblehead’s foreign commerce as William R. Lee & Co. In 1770 he married Mary, daughter of Dr. Joseph Lemmon. He was on several pre-war Marblehead committees; warden, 1773; a clerk of the town market, 1773–74; Selectman, 1791–97; Representative to the General Court, 1780, 1785, 1792; benefactor of the Marblehead Academy, 1789. On 31 July 1802, he received the appointment of Collector of the Port of the District of Salem and Beverly, an office he held until his death. He died at Salem, 26 October 1824. He owned the brigs Hannah (1794), George (1790–91), and Fairy (1797); the schooners William (1790), Polly (1794), Joanna (1793), Hawk (1791–92), Harmony (1790), Eagle (1792), and Betsey (1794), and sloops Abigail (1789) and Polly (1789).

Leech, Nathaniel. Shipmaster. Commanded the brig Pitt Packet (1769–75) and privateer sloop Polly from 6 September 1776. He was lost at sea on or about 29 September 1776.

Legallais, David. Probably born on the island of Jersey about 1697. Settled in Marblehead, where he became a prominent merchant and shipowner. He was a Selectman in 1748, and in 1745 presented a silver communion service to St. Michael’s Church. He died suddenly on 1 March 1755 in his 59th year. “In him the Gentleman and Man of Business were happily blended, not to add, that if Humanity, Honesty, Integrity and Benevolance can render a Character amiable, his was truly so.” His widow subsequently married William Bourn in 1756. The inventory of Legallais’s estate included his shop goods, two negro servants, the “service” of a Jersey girl and two Jersey boys. He willed sums to St. Michael’s and to the poor of the town and other possessions to cousins and a sister in Jersey. Among those vessels owned in part or in full by him were the brig Duke of Cumberland (1749), snow Jersey (1755), schooners Elizabeth (1755) and Charming Sally (1755), and sloop Seaflower (1755).

Lemmon, Dr. Joseph. Born in Charlestown, Mass., 5 February 1715/6. Graduated from Harvard College in 1735. He married (1) Hannah Swett in 1742, (2) Jane Goodwin in 1750, and (3) Elizabeth (Howard) Skinner, widow of James Skinner, in 1765. A daughter married William Raymond Lee. He died 15 September 1772.

Lewis, Edmund. Commanded the schooners Samuel (1771–72), Benjamin (1773–74), William (1774–75), Catherine (1790), and John (1793). Owned the schooner John (1793). Men of the name were part-owners of the privateer brigantine Free Mason (1778) and the commander of the privateer ship Washington (1781). Lewis died 8 June 1805, age 57.

Lewis, Thomas. (Several) Tythingman, 1768; a member of the Committee of Inspection, 1770; assessor, 1771–73; Representative to the General Court, 1789; Postmaster of Marblehead, 1793–97. In 1770 he was called “Gendeman”; had married Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. Joseph Lemmon, in 1767. Others of the name served in various capacities on land and at sea during the Revolution, including a lieutenant aboard Washington’s armed schooner Warren (1776) under William Burke. One owned the schooner William (1769), one was described as a merchant in 1783; one commanded the schooner Hawk (1792).

Lord, Dr. Josiah. One of the name, from Ipswich, Mass., did military service as a surgeon’s mate and surgeon in 1775. Lord’s son married a daughter of Sarah Johnson. He died 12 May 1794.

Lovis, Aaron. (Pronounced “Low-vis”) Blockmaker. He served in Edward Fettyplace’s company of coastal guards, 1777.

Lovis, Ambrose. (Pronounced “Low-vis”) In 1767 he commanded a vessel owned by Thomas Gerry. Men of the name served in William Hooper’s and Edward Fettyplace’s companies, 1775, 1776; one was a seaman on board the brigantine Massachusetts (1776) and ship Union (1777)

Main, William. Captain of the schooner Polly (1794), inspector of the Port of Marblehead. Died of a fever, 13 December 1812, age 68. One of the name served in William Hooper’s and Edward Fettyplace’s companies in 1776 and aboard privateers during the war.

Manley, John. Said to have been born in 1733 at Tor Bay, Devonshire, England. A biographer asserts he married Martha Hickman at Marblehead in 1764 under the name of John Russell, but the reasons for or the truth of the matter have not been positively established. Manley, at any rate, was a shipmaster before the war, and in 1775 took command of Washington’s armed schooner Lee. With the resignations at the end of the year of Nicholson Broughton and John Selman, Manley became commodore of the fleet and hoisted his pennant aboard Washington’s armed schooner Hancock. Up to that time he alone was proving the utility of Washington’s fleet, having taken several important prizes. During the spring of 1776 he resigned from Washington’s fleet, having heard he was to be given command of the Continental frigate Hancock, then under construction at Newburyport. In mid-summer 1777, unsupported by Hector McNeill, then cruising with him in the Continental frigate Boston, Manley and Hancock were captured. Hancock was taken into the Royal Navy as H.M.S. Iris. Manley was imprisoned at Halifax, but by the end of December 1778 assumed command of the privateer ship Cumberland. A month later, he was again captured and carried to Barbados, from which place he managed to escape and so returned to Boston. He then took command of the privateer ship Jason; was captured a third time and was ordered to be confined at Mill Prison at Plymouth, England, from which in January 1782 he was finally exchanged. The following September, Manley was appointed to the command of one of the last remaining vessels of the Continental Navy, the frigate Hague (formerly Deane). He died at Boston, 12 February 1793, the epitome of a “hard-luck captain.”

Mansfield, Isaac. Born 6 March 1719/20. Graduated from Harvard College in 1742. In 1744, he married Ruth, daughter of the Rev. Ames Cheever. In Marblehead, he was a Justice of the Peace; a trustee of the town’s schools, 1772–75; on numerous town committees; Selectman and Overseer of the Poor, 1743, 1762, 1765–67, 1769–70, 1787–91; Town Treasurer, 176473; a delegate to the Massachusetts Convention to consider ratification of the Federal Constitution; and a Representative to the General Court in 1789. During the Revolution he withdrew from Marblehead to Topsfield and in 1782 moved to Danvers as Clerk of the Maritime Court for the Middle District of Essex County. In 1785 he returned to Marblehead. His wife, an invalid of many years, died in 1784; in 1790 he remarried to Mrs. Hannah Tewksbury of Marblehead. He died 12 April 1792 and was survived by a son Isaac.

Marston, Benjamin. Born at Salem on 22 September 1730. Graduated from Harvard College in 1749. He married Sarah Swett in 1755 and went into partnership with his brothers-in-law, Jeremiah Lee and Robert “King” Hooper. He served as a surveyor and fence viewer, 1770–73; fireward, 1764–69, 1771–74; a member of the committee of inspection, 1770; Selectman and Overseer of the Poor, 1759, 1763, 1765–67, 1769–70, 1772–73; Justice of the Peace. He was a Loyalist; at the beginning of the Revolution his house was entered and ransacked; on the night of 24 November 1775 he set out in an open boat with a Customs tidewaiter named Chadwell for Boston, where he received sanctuary. From thence he went to Nova Scotia and then to Dominica in a schooner of which he was part-owner but was captured while returning by the privateer Eagle and was taken to Plymouth, Mass. After spending some time in jails, he was granted permission to leave the State. In 1778, he was again captured, allowed for a time to live in Marblehead, but in September again left the State. Marston’s property at Marblehead was confiscated but was ultimately salvaged by his nephew Marston Watson. Throughout the war and afterwards, Marston suffered numerous reverses, existing in various parts of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. He subsequently went to England and then to the island of Bulama off the coast of Sierra Leone with other colonists, but died soon after his arrival, on 10 August 1792.

Martin, Arnold. Coaster. He was owner and captain of the sloop Ashley from about 1773 onwards. He was quarter gunner in Edward Fettyplace’s Sea Coast company, 1776. He died of “a Billious Fever”, n November 1824, age 75.

Martin, Elizabeth. (1734/5–1809) A younger sister of Ashley Bowen, who married Knott Martin in 1756 and had 10 children. One of them, Elizabeth (1761–1797), married Nathan Bowen (4). Ashley Bowen generally refers to her in his journals as “Sister Martin”.

Martin, Isaac. Constable, 1776; fireward, 1776; sealer of leather, 1773–76. Commanded the schooner Speedwell (1753). He died of smallpox, 30 April 1777.

Martin, John. Coaster. One of the name commanded the privateer schooner Congress (1777); numerous of the name served on land and at sea. Owner and captain of the sloop Isra Mason (1789). John, Jr. was master of the schooner Martha (1779).

Martin, Knott. (Several) In Marblehead, almost every generation of Martins had at least one person named Knott. Between them all during the second half of the eighteenth century they served as: sealer of leather, 1764–65, 1767, 1769, 1772, 1774–75, 1777; a clerk of the town market, 1769, 1772–77; culler of fish, 1764–73; on the committee to prevent ballast from being dumped into Marblehead Harbor, 1769–75; 1777–78; constable, 1774; hogreeve, 1765, 1772–78. Captain of the sloop Lizard (1771); owner of the sloop Sally (1789). “Old Mr. Knott Martin” died 22 April 1796, age 88. “Captain Knott” Martin died 7 July 1822, in his 88th year.

Martin, Peter. Laborer in 1771. One of the name was in Glover’s Regiment, 1775. He was buried 12 November 1776.

Martin, Thomas. (Several) Between them served as hogreeve, 1768; culler of fish, 1764–75; constable, 1766; a member of the Committee of Correspondence, 1775. Commanded the schooners Blakeney (1757–58) and Merrill (1759) and sloop Arnold (1769, 1789). Owned schooner Samuel (176365) and sloop Arnold (1789). One served aboard the privateer brig Freedom and one died in prison during the Revolution. One died of old age on 16 December 1828, age 97.

Merrick, Michael. Shipmaster. Commanded the schooners Eagle (1768) and Betsey (1774–75).

Merrit, John. Shipwright in 1769. Tythingman, 1778; hogreeve, 1776; sealer of cordwood, 1776. He was assaulted by a British soldier on 26 September 1774 (see Bowen journals). Refuting his commission in the militia issued by Governor Hutchinson, he became a lieutenant in the early Marblehead Regiment; then company captain. He died “of a paralitick Shock,” 28 June 1818, age 78.

Morse, John. Captain of the schooner Frances (1769).

Mugford, James (Several, father and son). The senior James, born either in 1721 or 1725, served on numerous Marblehead committees; surveyor and fence viewer, 1774–75, assessor, 1775, a member of the Committee of Correspondence, 1775; warden, 1773; fireward, 1774–76; Selectman and Overseer of the Poor, 1774–75. He commanded the ship (sometimes called snow) Hooper (1751–57); snow Champion (1758–60); and schooners Industry (1757), Union (1761–62), and Elizabeth (1763). He owned the schooner Dreadnought (1761–67), the brig Baloney (1777); was part-owner of the privateer sloop Polly (1776) and privateer brig Velona (1777). He died 12 January 1778, aged either 57 or 53. James, Jr. was born 19 March 1749. He married Sarah, daughter of John Griste, on 25 August 1771. He commanded the schooner Hope from 1772. On 20 April 1775, he was pressed aboard H.M.S. Lively, then moored in Marblehead Harbor, and was rated in the ship’s muster book as “AB”, but escaped on 4 May. Mugford was Second Lieutenant of Washington’s armed schooner Franklin under Samuel Tucker during the early months of 1776. When Tucker transferred to Hancock, Mugford took command of Franklin under authority of a master’s warrant. On 17 May 1776, while cruising east of Boston Light, he captured the ordnance ship Hope, a windfall for the Continental Army, and conducted her into Boston. Two days later, 19 May, while sailing from Boston, Franklin accidentally grounded and was attacked by British boats from warships lying windbound nearby. Mugford put up a terrific fight but was killed during the engagement. The next morning Franklin floated clear and escaped.

Mugford, William. Shipmaster, probably from Salem. Commanded the brigs Nancy (1758) and Molly, or Mary (1762–63); and the schooners Ann (1761–62), Elizabeth (1763–64), and Samuel (1768–70).

Newmarch, George. Occasionally also spelled “Newmarsh”. Born 19 July 1709, he became an important figure in Marblehead although he seems to have left few traces behind. He was a surveyor of boards, 1764–75, 1777; culler of fish, 1764–75; sealer of cordwood, 1773–75; surveyor and fence viewer, 1774–75; warden, 1764; assessor, 1766; a clerk of the town market, 1764, 1766–67, 1769–71, 1773–75, 1777; the managing clerk of the town market, 1770–75, 1777; and Selectman and Overseer of the Poor, 1756–57, 1763–64. He was buried on 16 October 1779. Newmarsh’s Head, a promontory northeast of Codner’s Cove, takes its name from him.

Nicholson, Thomas. Shipmaster. Commanded the snow Bilbao (1765–66); and schooners Lydia (1763) and Dove (1767–69). He died prior to March 1774. Another of the name commanded the schooner Molly (1796).

Northey, J., Joseph, and Josh. J. Northey commanded the schooner Charming Sally (1773). Joseph commanded the brig Adventure (1764), schooners John & Miriam (1763), William (1770–72), Francis (1773), Rockingham (1774), Charlotte (1774); and the privateer schooner Spring Bird (1779). Charlotte was owned by Samuel Russell Gerry and was seized by H.M. Schooner Hope in September 1775. “Josh” was captain of the schooner Elizabeth (1774).

Oakes, George. Commanded the sloop Don Carlos (1766–68). “George, Jr.” commanded the sloop Ranger (1762–64).

Obear, Israel. (Several) Probably of Beverly. He commanded the sloops Charming Polly (1762), Three Friends (1762–63), and Fame (1766); the brigs Salisbury (1764), Benjamin (1765), and Pitt Packet (1766–68), and schooner Alice (1765). Owned the sloops Charming Polly (1762) and Three Friends (1762–63). He died during the summer of 1773, aged 38. Another of the name commanded the privateer sloop Fish Hawk (1780).

O’Burke—See Burke, William.

Oliver, Dr. Nathaniel. One of the name was a surgeon’s mate in the 27th Regiment, 1776, and came from Danvers. Oliver held a mortgage on Ashley Bowen’s house, causing considerable difficulties between them (see Bowen journals).

Oliver, Rev. Thomas Fitch. Born at Salem, 14 May 1757, son of Judge Andrew Oliver. He graduated from Harvard College in 1775; then studied law but entered the ministry in 1785 after serving as a lay reader at St. John’s Church, Providence, Rhode Island, and as a warden at St. Peter’s, Salem, Mass. He was rector of St. Michael’s at Marblehead from the time of its formal reopening after the Revolution in 1786 until the year 1791. He is then thought to have served churches in Johnstown and Fort Hunter, New York; then St. Thomas’s at Garrison Forest, Maryland, where he died in 1797.

Orne, Azor. Merchant. Born on 22 July 1731, the son of Joshua Orne. He was on the committee of inspection, 1770; assessor, 1769–71; warden, 1766, 1769; a member of numerous Marblehead committees; fireward, 1765–78; Selectman and Overseer of the Poor, 1760–61, 1765–67, 1771–73, 1781–82, 1787–88, 1793; surveyor of highways and fence viewer, 1768; a member of the Committee of Correspondence, 1776–78; a trustee of the town schools, 1775. He was one of the proprietors of the smallpox inoculation hospital on Cat Island, 1773–74; First Lieutenant-Colonel of the Marblehead Regiment in early 1775; a delegate to the 1st Provincial Congress and to the 1st Continental Congress; Representative to the General Court, 1773, 1775–77, 1785, 1787; a delegate to the convention to frame a State Constitution; a delegate to the convention for adopting a Federal Constitution; in 1792 an elector for President and Vice-President of the United States. As a result of the Revolution, he suffered grievous financial losses and was nearly bankrupt by 1790. He owned the bark Washington (1795); brig Mary (1792); schooners Industry (1758, 1762–65), Success (1761, 1765), Molly (1770–71), Industry (1790), and Success (1789); and was part-owner of the privateer schooner True Blue (1777). He died at Boston, 6 June 1796.

Orne, Joshua. (Several) One was born in Salem in 1677 and died at Marblehead 15 July 1768. He was a Justice of the Peace and Selectman. His son, Deacon Joshua, was baptised 8 February 1707; married (1) Sarah Gale in 1728, (2) Mrs. Agnes (Stacey) Gallison in 1743/4, (3) Mrs. Mary Stacey in 1771; he died after a lingering illness on 22 November 1772. He was a merchant, Justice of the Peace, Representative to the General Court in 1769, and Selectman for several years. His son, Major Joshua, was baptised 16 August 1747; married (1) Susannah Trevett in 1767, (2) Mary Lee, a sister of William Raymond Lee, in 1777. He graduated from Harvard in 1764; Representative to the General Court in 1776–77, 1780–81; was chairman of the Committee of Correspondence; trustee of the town schools, 1773–75; assessor, 1776, 1778; fireward, 1776–78; Selectman, 1776–79; a delegate to the County Convention at Ipswich in 1776; delegate to the convention to frame the State Constitution; in February 1776 he became 1st Major of the 5th Essex County Regiment of Militia, from which he resigned in December 1778. His nephew, Colonel Joshua, son of Azor Orne, was born 18 November 1757; married Lucretia, daughter of William Bourn, in 1783; and died at Bordeaux, France, in 1805. He left Harvard College to join the Continental Army and was a Representative to the General Court in 1790 and 1797. These Joshua Ornes commanded the schooner Benjamin (1753–54) and sloop Humbird (1763) and owned the brig Mary (1792); schooners Benjamin (1753–54), Betsey (or) Sally (1758), Joshua (1762–65), Industry (1790), and part-owners of the privateer schooners Necessity (1776) and True Blue (1776).

Palfrey, Richard. An occasional hired-hand in Ashley Bowen’s rigging loft during the early 1770s. Bowen was godfather of his daughter, Abigail.

Patten, John. Commanded the privateer schooner Spring Bird (1779), privateer brigs Spitfire (1780) and Active (1781), and schooners St. Peter (1789) and Lark (1792). Probably the same who died on 29 July 1798, age 45. One of the name was a private in Glover’s Regiment in 1775.

Pearce, John. Shipmaster. Commanded the brigs Susanna (1752, 1754) and Wolfe (1764–71); and schooners Hannah (1750–52), Tammy (1753–54, 1757–58), John &f Miriam (1762), and Dreadnought (1762–64). One of the name commanded the privateer Greyhound (1778) and one was a Master’s Mate aboard the Continental frigate Boston in 1778.

Pedrick, John. (Pronounced “Pehd-rik”) (1733–1780) On numerous Marblehead committees; fireward, 1769–74; assessor, 1765, 1768; Selectman and Overseer of the Poor, 1769–71, 1774; a clerk of the town market, 1764; a member of the committee of inspection, 1770. A building of his in the Second Division Pasture was frequently used by the town as a Pest House. In 1772 he was commissioned Major of the 5th Regiment of Essex County Militia. It was he who gave the alarm to Salem in February 1775 of the approach of the British regulars under Leslie. He owned various vessels, including the schooner Hitty, during the 1760s and 1770s, two of which, a brigantine and a schooner, were seized by the British in 1775. He married Mehitable, daughter of Ebenezer Stacey on 25 March 1756. Their first child, Sally, was born 31 October the same year, “birth premature, so small at birth that her grandmama Pedrick put her into a small silver tankard and shut the cover down, and so very feeble that it was many weeks before she put on swadling clothes.”

Pedrick, Knott. (Pronounced “Pehd-rik”) In 1770 called a shoreman. Hogreeve, 1770; fireward, 1777; a clerk of the town market, 1777; Selectman, 1791–96; 4th Lieutenant of the Marblehead Regiment in early 1775. Owned the schooner Polly (1792).

Pedrick, Thomas. (Pronounced “Pehd-rik”) Fireward, 1774–76; refuted his commission issued by Governor Hutchinson; owner of the schooners Molly (1763–65), Emma (1792), and Fox (1790–95), and part owner of the privateer schooner Spring Bird (1778). He died 23 September 1802, age 66.

Pedrick, William. (Pronounced “Pehd-rik”) Captain of the schooner Molly (1765) and brig Lydia (1765–69). Called shoreman in 1774. Owner of the schooner Lyon (1794). Probably the same as the one who died 24 October 1803, aged 65. One of the name served in Glover’s Regiment in 1775; one was a seaman aboard the Tyrannicide (1778); one, age 34, was Quartermaster aboard the brig Resistance under William Burke.

Picket, Joseph. Selectman and Overseer of the Poor, 1764, 1768; fireward, 1764–68; a clerk of the town market, 1764–65; culler of fish, 1764–73; constable, 1774; on the committee to examine the state of the cod-fisheries in 1767. Owned the snow Champion (1755) and schooner Pelican (1763–64).

Picket, William. One was a fisherman who participated in the whipping of John Clark for stealing clothing from the site of the smallpox inoculation hospital on Cat Island, March 1774. One of the name was a drummer in William Hooper’s company, 1775.

Porter, Moses. (?–1811) Son of Benjamin Porter of Boxford and husband of Mary Chadwick, an elder sister of Ashley Bowen’s first wife Dorothy. Bowen generally refers to him in his journals as “Brother Porter”.

Porter, Thomas. Sailmaker. In 1766 and for a time thereafter he was in charge of keeping the church clock in repair and in running order; he was Clerk of St. Michael’s, and in 1788 had possession of the loft Ashley Bowen formerly hired of Robert Hooper. He died of consumption on 3 June 1826.

Pote, Jeremiah. Shipmaster. Commanded the sloop Ranger (1761), sloop or schooner Free Mason (1762), sloop or schooner Swallow (1762–64), and brig Hero (1767). A man of the name was a merchant at Falmouth, Maine, in 1775.

Pote, Samuel. A member of the Marblehead Committee of Correspondence, 1777; fireward, 1777; tythingman, 1777; Selectman and Overseer of the Poor, 1777; He married Mrs. Ann Freeman, 1770. Commanded the sloop Ranger (1761), the schooner Nancy (1766–67), and the brigs Woodbridge (1767–68, 1769–74) and Hero (1769). He was part owner of the privateer brigantine Terrible (1779). He died on 12 September 1789, age 58.

Pousland, William. A mate on one of Robert Hooper’s vessels in 1759; captain of the sloop Swallow (1765–68) and schooner Hannah (1768–69).

Power, Thomas. In Marblehead, frequently pronounced “Poor”. Captain of the brigs Pitt Packet (1767–69) and Bilbao (1769–71), schooner Dove (1762–65), and schooner (later brig) Nancy (1772–75). He died of palsy on 23 May 1814, age 83.

Prentiss, Joshua. Merchant. Fireward, 1778; Selectman, 1779–80, 1795–98, 1809–10, 1813–15, 1820; Representative to the General Court, 1779, 1799–1803, Town Clerk, 1804–33. In 1768 he was allowed to keep a school in Marblehead. He was one of the men, who in late 1774, refuted their commissions issued by Royal authority, and became a lieutenant in the Marblehead Regiment. He married the widow of Peter Jayne. His house was from 1791–92 used for Methodist church services. He died on 24 June 1837? age 93.

Prince, John. (c. 1736–1787) Married Ashley Bowen’s younger sister Anna (1737–1830) in 1758. They had nine children. The “Prince Farm” referred to by Bowen was located around Legg’s Hill. He commanded the schooner Humbird (1757–58). Warden, 1767; on various Marblehead committees; a member of the Committee of Correspondence, 1776; fireward, 1776; Selectman, 1776; one of the men who addressed a complimentary address to Governor Hutchinson, 1773. He refuted the commission granted him by Hutchinson. John, Jr. was born 4 January 1762 and commanded the schooners Hope (1790) and Betsey (1792) and owned the schooner Philanthrofist (1795). He became a Notary Public; Selectman, 1803–08, 181617, 1819–27; Representative to the General Court, 1803–09, 1816, 1822. He died on 29 January 1848, age 86.

Prince, Joseph. (Several) One commanded the snow Endeavour (1755). The one who was baptised on 28 June 1772, son of John and Anna, became a pupil at the Marblehead Academy, graduated from Harvard College, and then went to New Hampshire where he became preceptor of an academy. His career was cut short by his premature death in Marblehead on 27 December 1795, age 23.

Proctor, Jeremiah. Born 23 April 1728. Fireward, 1776–77; a member of the Committee of Correspondence, 1775–78; Selectman and Overseer of the Poor, 1776–77; captain of the schooner Defiance (1762). He died on 1 November 1798.

Proctor, John. Commanded the schooners Cicero (1762–63), Mary (1763–64), Barberry Bush (1765–66), Eagle (1768–69), and Abigail (1769). “John, Jr.” was captain of the schooner Joseph (1775).

Proctor, Joseph. (Several) One of the name was a Custom House tidesman about 1773. Men of the name were: culler of fish, 1764–72; warden, 1776; hogreeve, 1765, 1773. In 1770, one was described as a “Gentleman”; in 1774, another as “shoreman”. Between them they commanded the schooners Hawk (1769), Dolphin (1774–75), and Success (1794); and brigantine Fox (1795).

Proctor, Thomas. (Several) The senior Thomas was a warden, 1764, 1773; culler of fish, 1764, 1766–70, 1772–74; surveyor of lumber, 1771; and retracted his complimentary address to Governor Hutchinson, 1773–74. He died 8 August 1795. He, or Thomas, Jr., owned the sloop Nancy (1789) and the schooner Eagle (1789).

Pulling, John. Commanded the brig Pitt Packet (1765–67). “John, Jr.” commanded the sloop Swallow (1764).

Pynchon, William. Born in Springfield, Mass., on 12 December 1723. He graduated from Harvard College in 1743. Two years later he removed to Salem where he studied law and ultimately practiced it. One of his daughters married the Rev. Thomas Fitch Oliver. He died at Salem on 14 March 1789.

Rapell, George. Shipmaster. Commanded the schooners Dreadnought (1765–66, 1769) and Britannia (1772–75) and privateers ships William (1779), Minerva (1781), and Port Packet (1781). In 1777 he contracted smallpox at Marblehead and was removed till well to Major John Pedrick’s Pest House. During the Revolution he removed to Newburyport where he joined the Newburyport Marine Society. He died at sea in December 1783.

Reed, Andrew. Hogreeve, 1769; commanded the schooner St. Nicholas (1769). He was buried on 3 February 1776.

Reed, David. Probably a coaster and possibly resident of the Boothbay Harbor region. Among the vessels he commanded was the sloop Rosanna.

Reed, Hannah. Born 8 July 1743, she was Ashley Bowen’s step-sister and married Richard Reed on 1 July 1762. She was the daughter of Nathan Bowen (i) and of Mrs. Hannah (Goodwin) Harris Bowen. She died 3 February 1764.

Reed, John. (Several) One was Chief Mate aboard a ship commanded by Richard James and owned by Thomas Gunter in 1747. One of the name was a Selectman, 1742; Town Clerk, 1731, 1738–41, 1749–50. Also, one was warden, 1777; a member of the Committee of Correspondence, 1775–76. Commanded the brig Sally (1767–69); schooners Rose (1751), Sally (1758), Raven (1758–59), Mary (1759), Nancy (1765–66), Charming Sally (1767), and Betsey (1771); and sloops Abigail (1764) and Charlotte (1764). “John, Jr.” commanded the schooners Charming Sally (1751–52) and Barberry Bush (1762–64) and the sloop Fortune (1760–62). One of the name was 1st Lieutenant of Edward Fettyplace’s Sea Coast company, 1776–77.

Reed, Richard. Innholder. Reed was commissioned Muster Master in 1755 of the men enlisted in Essex County for the expedition against Crown Point; in 1758 he was commissioned Major in the 15th Regiment of Essex County and Captain of the 3rd Military Foot Company in the town of Marblehead. He was proprietor of the Bunch of Grapes Tavern in Marblehead. In 1762, he married Hannah, daughter of Nathan Bowen (i). Between him and his father, Richard, the two served as Selectmen, 1743–47, 1753–54, 1759, 1761–63, 1765–67, 1769, 1770. Reed was surveyor and fence viewer, 1764–73; the managing clerk of the town market, 1764–69; assessor, 1765; fireward, 1764–69; Representative to the General Court, 1756, 1770–72. He was one of the Marbleheaders who was forced to retract his complimentary address to Governor Hutchinson, 1773–74. He, or his father, owned the schooner Charming Betsey (1765). He commanded the schooners Little Polly (1760) and Samuel (1763–64). He died on 10 January 1782, age approximately 46, by falling from a horse while returning to Marblehead from Salem.

Renew, Thomas. Fisherman and shipmaster. Commanded the brig Hannah (1762); schooners Seaflower (1761–63) and Good Intent (1766–67); and sloop Newbury Packet (1763). He was among the men raised in 1777 to serve in Colonel Jonathan Glover’s 5th Essex County Regiment of Militia.

Roads, John. Numerous of the name served in various capacities in town affairs. One commanded the schooner Nancy (1789).

Robie, Thomas. Merchant and shopkeeper. He married Mary, daughter of the Rev. Simon Bradstreet, in 1759. He was one of the Marbleheaders who refused to agree to non-importation in 1769; Town Treasurer, 1774; he became increasingly unpopular especially when he charged the town an exorbitant price for twenty barrels of gunpowder; he was one of the men who signed a complimentary address to Governor Hutchinson in 1773 and was one of the last to retract it. In 1771 his shop was at the bottom of Training Field Hill, where he sold powder, shot, bar lead, colors, cheese, nails, window glass, pewter, braziery, and ironmongery. Toward the end of 1772 he moved to the brick building next to the Post Office further along at the bottom of the hill. The Robies became hated in Marblehead, and in early May 1775 were forced to leave. Mrs. Robie, with un-Christian sentiments unbecoming the daughter of a man of the cloth, screeched at the townspeople as she left: “I hope that I shall live to return, find this wicked rebellion crushed, and see the streets of Marblehead so deep with rebel blood that a long boat might be rowed through them!” Robie attempted to return with his family about 1783 but was warned out of town. After the war he lived in Salem.

Robinson, David. Commanded the brig Salisbury (1772–73) and the schooner Charlotte (1774).

Ross, Alexander. Shipmaster. “Alexander, Jr.” was mate of the snow Hooper (1763). Commanded the schooners Betsey (1767–73), Sally (1773), and Tabby, or Tabitha (1774); the privateer ship Monmouth (1779) at the Penobscot Expedition; schooner Fox (1780), schooner Tabby (1789), and the ship Hope (1795). One of the name died on 2 April 1800.

Ross, David. Commanded the schooner Sally (1772) and the brig Union (1774–75); then saw service in the Continental Army.

Russell, Benjamin. Boarded at Mrs. Mary Boden’s in 1757 with Ashley Bowen and had previously courted Dorothy Chadwick Bowen. In 1771 he was a housewright. Constable, 1768; surveyor of boards, 1767–77; hogreeve, 1767, 1773, 1775, 1778; tythingman, 1772. Sergeant in Captain William Hooper’s Sea Coast company, 1775–76, and a matross in Edward Fettyplace’s company, 1776–77.

Russell, John. Commanded the ship or snow Bilbao (1761–64) and snows Industry (1753–54) and Haley (1754–60). He was a constable, 1765, a tax collector, 1765; and fireward, 1774. Numerous individuals of the name served during the Revolution. One owned the schooners Samuel (1790) and John & Miriam (1792).

Russell, William. (Several) One died 7 July 1771 aboard the fishing schooner Philip after accepting a dare to see how much New England rum he could drink. One was a hogreeve, 1774. Various served on land and at sea during the Revolution. One commanded the schooner John & Miriam (1792).

Ryan, Dr. Daniel. A member of the Marblehead Committee of Correspondence, 1775. In 1779 he was called an apothecary of Tewksbury.

St. Barbe, George. Shipmaster, “a noted sea commander in the Bilbao trade” who died in 1773. Commanded the ships St. Thomas (1751–54, 1756) and St. George (1754); and snows St. Thomas (1753, 1756–61, 1763–64) and St. Peter (1765). He owned the snow St. Thomas (same dates as captaincy) and ship St. George (1754). George, Jr. was a mariner in 1771 and was in Glover’s Regiment, 1775.

St. Barbe, William. Shipmaster. Commanded the snow St. Peter (1765–68), and schooners Thomas (1763) and Sally (1764).

St. Barbe, Wyatt. Shipmaster. Commanded the snow St. Thomas (1764–69), the schooner (later brig) Sally (1772–74); also possibly the brig Nancy (1772). He commanded the privateer schooner Success (1782). He owned the snow St. Thomas (1764–65). He married Lydia Clough of Boston, 1768; two children were born in Marblehead. Toward the end of the Revolution he removed to Newburyport where he joined the Marine Society and ultimately became its Deputy-Master. His first wife died in 1801; in 1802 he remarried to Mrs. Mary Chandler. These St. Barbes were probably the same who were descended from the prominent shipbuilders named Wyatt in Hampshire, England, at the end of the seventeenth-century. At that time the families invested heavily in the South Sea Bubble and were ruined financially when it burst, perhaps thus causing the younger generation to seek their fortunes in the Colonies. Wyatt St. Barbe died at Newburyport, 14 November 1811, aged 73.

Sanders, Henry. Innholder at Marblehead. He was a clerk of the market, 1765–66, 1769–71, 1774; a sealer of cordwood, 1776–77. He was one of the persons from Marblehead who retracted his complimentary address to Governor Hutchinson, 1773–74. He died in April 1778.

Sawin, John. Commanded the ship Vulture (1772–75).

Selman, Archibald. Warden, 1772. He leased his schooner Eliza (renamed Franklin) for use in Washington’s armed fleet of schooners, 1775–76. One of the name died 17 March 1778. Another commanded the schooner Deborah (1795).

Selman, John. Baptised 6 May 1744, son of Archibald Selman. He married Deborah Girdler in 1765. Selman was an ensign, then captain, of the Marblehead Regiment in 1775. In October 1775 he took command of Washington’s (and his father’s) armed schooner Franklin. After a disastrous cruise in company with Nicholson Broughton to the Island of St. John and the kidnapping of the Acting-Governor of the island during the autumn of 1775, he was not continued as an officer in Washington’s fleet. Thereafter, he was a captain of the 5th Regiment of Essex County Militia, 1776, and became Major of it in 1779. During the war he was part-owner of the privateer schooners Necessity (1776) and True Blue (1776). He was a Marblehead Selectmen, 1778, 1781, 1804–10; assessor, 1777; a clerk of the town market, 1774–75; warden, 1775; a member of the Committee of Correspondence, 1777–78; a Representative to the General Court, 1800, 1804–05. He owned the schooner Deborah (1791, 1795). He died of a paralitic shock on 30 May 1817.

Selman, Samuel. Owner of the schooner Mary (1763). Culler of fish, 176770, 1772–73; hogreeve, 1765; fireward, 1776; surveyor of lumber, 1771; a member of the Committee of Correspondence, 1775–76; a sealer of cordwood, 1773; and warden, 1775–77. One of the name was a private in William Hooper’s Sea Coast company, 1775. He died 30 May 1777.

Sewall, Joseph. One of the name owned and commanded the sloop Elizabeth (1765). A benefactor of the Marblehead Academy, 1789; owned the ships Eagle (1795) and Fame (1794); the brigs Ceres (1793) and Hannah (1794); and the schooners Catherine (1792), Industry (1794), Lydia (1794), and Sea Flower (1790).

Sinclair, William. (Pronounced “Sink-ler”) Shipmaster. Captain of the schooner Betsey (1773–75).

Skillings, Joseph. Probably born in 1737, he married Mrs. Elizabeth Foster in June 1767. He commanded the schooner Polly (1761) and the ship Vulture (1762–72). When he died on 21 September 1773 he was owner of a new fishing schooner of seventy tons that had only been fishing three fares.

Skimmer, John. One of the name commanded the vessel Polly (1774). A former Boston shipmaster, Skimmer took command of Washington’s armed schooner Franklin following James Mugford’s death in 1776 under a brevet commission issued by Major-General Artemus Ward. Later, he shifted to the armed schooner Lee. He was killed in action aboard the Continental vessel General Gates in August 1778.

Skinner, Richard. He married Eleanor, daughter of Colonel Jonathan Glover, in 1790. He commanded the schooners Nancy (1790) and Tabby (1791).

Smethurst, Gamaliel. Born 9 April 1738, he was descended from a merchant from Manchester, England. He was a tythingman in 1775 and had been described as a coaster in 1771. He was a lieutenant in the Marblehead Regiment in early 1775. He commanded the schooner Mary (1762) and owned the schooners Turtle (1760) and Rambler (1762).

Smethurst, Joseph. Born 16 April 1732. He was allowed by the Selectmen to keep a school in Marblehead from 2 November 1767. He died on 12 October 1769.

Smith, Robert. Called a shipwright in 1772, he had a pugnacious disposition and was one of the men implicated in the whipping of John Clark in March 1774 for stealing clothing from the site of the smallpox inoculation hospital on Cat Island.

Sparhawk, John. (Pronounced “Spare-hawk”) Merchant. In 1772–73 he operated a shop near the town market in the Town House. He was one of the men in Marblehead who refused to agree to non-importation in 1769 but evidently changed his mind as he became Town Treasurer in 1775 and was a member of the Committee of Correspondence in 1777. He was part-owner of the privateer schooner True Blue (1776). One of the name owned the sloop Abigail (1798) and was a Selectman for many years between 1780 and 1847.

Sparhawk, Nathaniel. (Pronounced “Spare-hawk”) In 1772–73 he advertised that he had opened a store at Marblehead, formerly occupied by Thomas Robie, under the care of Samuel Sparhawk, where he sold English, India, and West India goods and groceries.

Stacey, Ebenezer. Merchant. Owned a negro, Keet, who drowned on 10 November 1766. His last son, Edward, died 21 June 1768. His daughter, Mehitable, married John Pedrick in 1756. A story survives that a Mrs. Ramsdell entered his counting room one day and told him of a dream she had just had—that he would have twelve children and that he would outlive all but one. His grandchildren used to relate the anecdote, pointing out that when he died on 2 December 1771, of his children, only Mehitable Pedrick was living at the time. He was a constable, 1765; Selectman, 1738–42, 1744–47, 1749–50, 1753–54, 1756–57, 1759–60. He owned the brigs Lydia (1768) and Betsey (1768), the snows St. George (1753–61) and Bilbao (1757), and the schooner Seaflower (1757–58).

Stacey, John. (Several). One married Hannah Skinner in 1717 and died 25 December 1749, age 53. He was a Selectman in 1721 and Town Clerk from 1725–28, and had been engaged in the fishing business with Robert Hooper. Another commanded the schooners Three Friends (1758), Neptune (1759–61) and Industry (1761). One was a 1st Lieutenant of the Marblehead Regiment in early 1775.

Stacey, Richard. Baptised 20 February 1732. He was a member of several Marblehead committees, a member of the Committee of Correspondence, 1777; fireward, 1777; Representative to the General Court, 1777; Selectman, 1783–84; one of the persons forced to retract his complimentary address to Governor Hutchinson, 1773–74. He commanded the ship Bilbao (1774), brigs Benjamin (1761–63) and Salisbury (1768–69); snow Port Packet (1758–60); and schooners Pembroke (1756), Rambler (1756), Benjamin (1757), Newbury (1763–64), Dreadnought (1765), Neptune (1770), and Rockingham (1772–74). He owned the brig Salisbury (1768). He died 5 April 1792, age 58.

Staples, Abraham. Employed by Ashley Bowen in his rigging loft from time to time during the late 1760s and the early 1770s. Staples, his wife, and three children were recipients of the Quaker dole in 1776, when he was called a fisherman. Bowen became godfather of Staples’s son, Francis Cawen Staples, in 1772. He may have been the same as the seaman aboard the sloop Liberty of Machias, under Captain Jeremiah O’Brien, in 1776. One of the name was taken prisoner in the snow Lord Stanley, a prize to the Marblehead privateer schooner True Blue (1777) and was sent to Halifax.

Stephens, John. (Several) Numerous persons of the name served during the Revolution. Commanded the schooners Mary (1759), Two Brothers (1759), John and Sarah (1763–64), Polly (1767–75), and Charlotte (1775). Owned the schooner Royal George (1754). Men of the name commanded the privateers Satisfaction (1776), Bredenot (1778), Rambler (1779); and the schooner Abigail (1790, 1795).

Stephens, Thomas. One leased his schooner Two Brothers (renamed Lee) for use in Washington’s fleet of armed schooners from 12 October 1775. Culler of fish, 1766–75; hogreeve, 1767; called fisherman in 1769. Commanded the schooners Cicero (1760–62), William (1762–64), Susannah (1765), Dove (1766–67), Susannah and Hannah (1766), Francis (1774–75), and Collector (1775); and sloop Sally (1763). “Thomas, Jr.” commanded the schooners Cicero (1760) and Defiance (1765). A man or men of the name was 1st Lieutenant aboard the privateer brigantine Retaliation (1776) and commander of the privateers Bellona (1777) and Bowdoin (1778). News of the death of a Thomas Stephens reached Marblehead on 15 November 1779. One commanded the schooner Jeremiah (1795).

Stiles, Ezra. Husband of Ashley Bowen’s sister Sarah Johnson. He died at Andover on 12 November 1768.

Stiles, Richard. Mate of the schooner Hannah owned by Jonathan Glover (1773) and her captain until her loss in the West Indies in December 1774. He was 1st Lieutenant and sailing master of Washington’s armed schooner Hancock in early 1776, but resigned when John Manley relinquished command. He commanded the privateer schooner True Blue (1777).

Stiles, Sarah—see Johnson, Sarah.

Story, Rev. Isaac. Born at Boston, 9 September 1749, the son of William, he graduated from Princeton in 1768. In 1771 he was called to Marblehead to act as colleague to the Rev. Simon Bradstreet at the New Meeting House. Bradstreet died within months of Story’s arrival and Story married his daughter Rebecca. He continued in the ministry until 1802 when he was dismissed by the parish; thereafter until his death on 23 October 1816 he aligned himself with the Episcopalians. The Isaac Story who married into the Bowen family and gave the description of his grandfather Nathan Bowen (4) was the Rev. Isaac’s nephew.

Striker, Joseph. Constable, 1765–66; hogreeve, 1767. In 1770 he was variously described as a cordwainer and as a sailmaker. His funeral took place on 10 February 1771.

Tarday, John. Captain of the brig Hooper (1767–68) and schooner Lydia (1773–75).

Tasker, John. Merchant and shipowner. Born at Pembroke, Wales, on 2 September 1707. He was a Representative to the General Court from Marblehead in 1747, 1753–54, 1756, 1761, and was one of the Justices of the Inferior Court for the County of Essex. His daughter Deborah married (1) James Freeman, and (2) William Bourn. Among the vessels owned bv him was the brig Sally (1761); the schooners Burrish (1745), Pembroke (1753–56), Aurora (1755–56), and Broome (1758); and the sloops Dolly (1745) and Catherine (1759–61). He died on 8 November 1761. Richard Stacey ultimately purchased his mansion house.

Tedder, Valentine. Constable, 1777–78; a clerk of the town market, 1776; one of the persons who retracted his complimentary address to Governor Hutchinson. He apparently operated part of the ropewalk at Marblehead set up by Robert “King” Hooper and principally managed by Joseph Hooper. Tedder was Quarter Gunner in Edward Fettyplace’s Sea Coast company, 1776–77. He died on 8 October 1804, age 68.

Tittle, John. Commanded the schooner Tryal (1764–71) and Adventure (1773–76). He commanded the privateer brig Saratoga (1778), privateer ship Marquis de Lafayette (i 779), privateer brig Swift (1781), and privateer ship Cato (1781–82). During the late spring of 1782, Cato was engaged by three enemy vessels simultaneously. The Salem Gazette said of Tittle: “Among the many gallant actions which have distinguished the Commanders of American ships, during the present war, that lately fought by Captain Tittle, in the ship Cato, was one of the most brilliant.”

Trevett, Samuel Russell. Shipmaster and merchant. Born on 17 November 1751. In 1773–74 he renounced his complimentary address to Governor Hutchinson. In 1772 he married Sarah Wormstead. He was a lieutenant of the Marblehead Regiment in early 1775 and commanded a company of artillery in Gridley’s Regiment at Bunker Hill. He was a benefactor of the Marblehead Academy, 1789, and part-owner of the privateer brigantine Free Mason (1779). He commanded the ship Argo (1782) which was wrecked off York, Maine, on 21 November 1782 (see accompanying color plate and Plate XXXI) and the bark Ulysses (1794). He died on 12 January 1832.

Tuck, William. Possibly of Beverly. Commanded the sloop Joanna (1766–68); the schooners Dove (1773) and Manchester (1774–75), the privateer brig Bennington (1779); and privateer ship Lyon (1782).

Tucker, Andrew. (Several) The elder was a shipowner, shipmaster, and innholder. In the late 1760s he was proprietor of the King George Tavern on Rowland Hill. He married Mary Bartlett (not Mary Belcher as sometimes reported), widow of Thomas Ewell of Ramsgate, England, in 1737. One of his sons was Samuel Tucker. The exact date of his death is unknown, but his estate was advertised to be sold during the spring of 1772 and consisted of his dwelling house, eighteen acres of land and seven fish fence rooms at the seaside, a shipyard, and “a very extraordinary Wind-Mill.” He owned the ship Dolphin (1754, 1757); the snows Aurora (1757–59), Pegasus (1755, 1757), and Prince George (1757–58); and the schooner Sarah (1755, 1758). He and his son Andrew, Jr. between them commanded the ship Dolphin (1754–59)! brigs Aurora (1751–52) and Sea Nymph (1751), schooners Sarah (1755), Success (1761), Union (1758–59), William (1757–58, 1762–63), Endeavor (1750–54), Swallow (1752), Polly (1761–63), and Samuel (1767), and sloop Stork (1763–66).

Tucker, Samuel. Born 1 November 1747, he was the son of Andrew Tucker. He married Mary, daughter of Samuel Gatchell on 21 December 1769. He was commissioned captain of Washington’s armed schooner Franklin in January 1776 and remained in command of her until John Manley resigned from the fleet, when Tucker became unofficial commodore and hoisted his flag aboard the armed schooner Hancock. He continued in Hancock until the end of the year when she was laid up. Commissioned a captain in the Continental Navy on 15 March 1777, he assumed command of the Continental frigate Boston the following December and early the following year was ordered to convey John Adams to France. He continued in Boston until she was surrendered to the British with the fall of Charleston, S. C., in May 1780. In 1781 he commanded the privateer ship Thorn (formerly an English sloop-of-war which he himself had captured in 1779) but was captured off the Gulf of St. Lawrence in July 1781 yet subsequently escaped back to New England. He moved from Marblehead to a house on Fleet Street in Boston in 1779; returned to Marblehead in 1786 where he operated the grist mills at Forest River; and in 1792 removed to Bristol, Maine. In 1813 he commanded the sloop Increase and captured an English vessel that had been harassing the local coast. He represented Bristol at the Massachusetts Legislature in 1798–1800, 1814–18, and when Maine became a State, served in the Maine Legislature, 1820–21. He carried Maine’s Electoral Votes to Washington in 1820. He died at Bremen, Maine, on 10 March 1833. He commanded the brig Young Phoenix (1774–75) and the ships Sanana (1783) and Cato (1784–85).

Tucker, Will. Commanded the schooners Charming Hitty (1750–51), Abigail (1752), William (1766), and Pelican (1774); and sloop Don Carlos (1772–73).

Twisden, Christopher. Commanded the snow St. George (1750–51).

Twisden, John. Commanded the schooner Merrill (1760–61). He leased his schooner Hawk (renamed Warren) for use in Washington’s fleet of armed schooners from 12 October 1775.

Vickery, Eli. A boatman for the smallpox inoculation hospital on Cat Island, 1773–74; a Custom House tidesman from at least mid-June 1774; mate of the ship Argo (1782) commanded by Samuel Russell Trevett. Men of the name served on land and at sea during the Revolution; one, aboard the privateer ship Thorn in 1780, was described as 5′ 5″, light complexion.

Wait, William. A victualler from Malden, Massachusetts.

Waters, Daniel. From Malden, Mass., he was appointed to the command of Washington’s armed schooner Lee in January 1776. He was commissioned a captain in the Continental Navy on 15 March 1777; then served as sailing master aboard the frigate Hancock under John Manley and was captured with Manley. He returned to Massachusetts in the spring of 1778, when he declined command of the Continental brig Resistance, but after the death of John Skimmer he accepted command of General Gates and performed a cruise in the West Indies. Upon returning to Boston in the spring of 1779 the vessel was condemned. Waters then turned to privateering and commanded the ship Thorn (1779), ship General Putnam (1779) during the Penobscot Expedition, and the ship Friendship (1781).

Watson, Marston. Born at Plymouth, Mass., on 25 May 1756, he was apprenticed to Jeremiah Lee of Marblehead at age fourteen. Upon Lee’s death in 1775, he resumed his “classick studies” and was about to enter Harvard College when war broke out and he joined the Marblehead Regiment. He was, sometime later, General Charles Lee’s acting aide-de-camp. In 1779 he married and established himself at Marblehead. In 1790 he was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the Marblehead Regiment and three years later became Lieutenant Colonel Commandant. In May 1797 he removed to Boston where his commercial interests could be better served. He was the nephew of Marston Watson, a Selectman of Marblehead from 1793–96, a Representative to the General Court in 1792, and a benefactor of the Marblehead Academy in 1789. He died at Boston on 7 August 1800. He owned the bark Ulysses (1794); brigs Sally (1795), West Point (1791), Columbus (1790), Fairy (1794), and Hope (1794); schooners St. Peter (1789), Richard and Edward (1795), Harmony (1790), Hope (1788), Industry (1789, 1792), and Phoenix (1795); and sloop Amelia (1789).

Watts, Alexander. He owned and commanded the schooner Phoenix (1758); owned the sloop Bonita (1753) and Duke of Cumberland (1749), and in November 1767 was captain of the ship Thames which brought from London to Massachusetts the new Commissioner of Customs Henry Hulton, his subordinates, and retinue. He died on 6 or 7 June 1772.

Watts, John. One of the men taken up on suspicion of burning the smallpox inoculation hospital on Cat Island in February 1774. One of the name commanded the brig Duke of Cumberland (1751).

Webber, John. In 1768 he was described as a fisherman; in 1774, a laborer and carter. Captain John was godfather of Ashley Bowen’s son Ambrose and was the one who “abused” Bowen on Edward Bowen’s account (see journals) on 8 December 1792.

Weeks, Rev. Joshua Wingate. Born on 12 February 1738 at Hampton, New Hampshire, he graduated from Harvard College in 1758. He married Sarah Treadwell at Portsmouth, N. H., on 8 November 1762. He studied divinity and was ordained in London, the vestry of St. Michael’s at Marblehead defraying his expenses. He returned to Marblehead in July 1763, from which he was driven at the outbreak of the Revolution for his Loyalist sympathies and with his family sought sanctuary with his brother-in-law, the Rev. Jacob Bailey, in Pownalborough, Maine, but within a year they returned to Marblehead. In June 1777 he was declared a person inimical to the American States. In May 1778 he applied to the Court in Boston for permission to leave the country but was refused. The following June he fled to Rhode Island and finally made his way to England where he obtained an appointment to the mission at Annapolis, Nova Scotia. He died at Halifax in 1806.

White, Samuel. Merchant. Warden, 1769–71; on various Marblehead committees; a trustee of the town schools, 1774; surveyor and fence viewer, 1774; Selectman and Overseer of the Poor, 1774; one of the persons who was forced to retract a complimentary address to Governor Hutchinson, 1773–74. He married Hannah, daughter of Robert “King” Hooper on 27 October 1768. He was captain and owner of the schooners First Attempt, Second Attempt, and Woodbridge during the first half of the 1770s.

Whittrong, Michael. Commanded the sloop Abigail (1763), the snow Champion (1763), and the schooner Nancy (1772–74). News of his death at St. Eustatius reached Marblehead on 22 October 1774.

Whitwell, Rev. William. Born at Boston, he was graduated from Princeton in 1758. He was ordained at Marblehead a colleague to the Rev. John Barnard and upon Barnard’s death assumed pastoral charge of the Old Meeting House until his own death on 8 November 1781, age 44.

Wiggin, Joseph. Blockmaker. His wife died 10 April 1773.

Wight, Abigail. Born 12 February 1732/3, she was a younger sister of Ashley Bowen. She married John Wight on 6 January 1756 and had nine children. John Wight, housewright, died on 11 August 1772. His new house on King (State) Street in Marblehead had been raised only fourteen months previously. Abigail is generally referred to in Ashley Bowen’s journals as “Sister Wight.” She died on 19 August 1819.

Williams, James. Captain of the schooner Sally (1774–75).

Williamson, John. Captain of the ship Two Brothers (1751), the schooner Woodbridge (1774–75) which was taken off Cape Ann by H.M. Sloop Merlin on 31 July 1775, and of the ship Argo (1781). He was sailing master of the Argo under Samuel Russell Trevett when the ship was wrecked off York, Maine, in November 1782.

Woodberry, Azariah. Possibly of Beverly. Commanded the schooners Quero (1766–68) and Two Brothers (1774–75).

Wormstead, Michael. Commanded the schooners Two Brothers (1752), Swallow (1754–55), Industry (1755–58), John (1758), Ranger (1769–71), vessel Hooper (1759–69), and the brig Hope (1771). He died on 7 November 1772, age 45.