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In 1817 the sch. "FAME," 47 tons, was built by Barker Turner for Isaiah Alden, Jr., H. Damon, Cummins Jenkins and James Turner Ford, Scituate. About this time Caleb Turner built here in company with his brother Barker. Wil- liam Copeland appears not to have built many vessels prior to 1819 when he built in company with Thomas Waterman and Joseph S. Bates. Caleb Turner was grandson of Capt. Benja- min of Pembroke and son of Nathaniel of Scituate, and brother of Barker Turner, Sen. He lived in the Uncle Roger Stetson House and left a family who moved to South Bridgewater.
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built in 1818 the sch. " ROXANNA," 73 tons, for John Beal, Snell Wade, Simeon Litchfield and William Vinal, Scituate, afterward sold to Boston.
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She was commenced in Nov, 1817, and launched, in May, 1818, Also in 1818 they built the sch. " MARY JONES," 56 tons, of Scituate, owned by Cushing Otis, James and Asa Litchfield. Caleb Baily, 3rd, and Haywood Vinal of Scituate : used in fish- ing and coasting, and in April, 1819, sch. "CYRENE," 58 tons, of Boston, which they began in Nov., 1818. Owners, Howard Vinal, Silas Prouty and Cushing Otis of Scituate, & O)., Caleb and Barker Turner, M. C. In 1820 the sch. "GEORGE WASHINGTON," 67 tons, was built by Barker Turner for Isaiah Alden, Jr., Ichabod Alden, Colman Jenkins, Cushing Otis, and Elisha Foster, Jr., Scituate. This vessel was after- ward lost at sea. Also the same year, 1820, sch. "LARK," pink stern, 40 tons, built by Barker Turner and sold to Kings- ton. Not long after this Barker Turner removed to the Brick- kiln Yard.
In 1819 William Copeland, Michael Ford and Elias W. Pratt formed a partnership under the firm name of Copeland, Ford & Pratt. Joseph S. Bates and Thos. Waterman also built in company with Wm. Copeland. Gad Leavitt lived on the yard about this time. William Copeland was the master carpenter of this and the succeeding firm. Major Elias W. Pratt came from some other town into Scituate. He mar. three times and had children by his first two wives : Elias E., (mar. and living in New Haven, Conn., ) William B., (now dead, ) Charles C., (mar. Hannah Hart and has one child,) Elizabeth B., (who mar. George W. Stetson and now lives in Medford, ) Abby and Ruth (both dead. ) and Emeline A., b. Jan. 9, 1831, mar. Nov. 1, 1850, Seth E. Bartlett of Duxbury, who died March 18, 1852. They had one child, born 1851, who mar. Annie Eatough, of Taunton, May 6, 1876. Their children are 1. John E., born JJan. 25., 1878 ; 2. Sadie E. b. Aug. 24, 1880. They now live in Montreal, Canada. Emeline A. mar. secondly Loami B. Sylvester of Hanover, June 16, 1858, he d. in the war, Sept. 6, 1862. They had one child, born May 27, 1859. (See Bridge Yards, Hanover). Emeline A. mar. for her third husband Henry S. Bates, Jan. 22, 1888. In 1819 Copeland, Ford & Pratt built a Schooner for Capt. David Whiting & O., Hingham.
built the same year, 1819, William Copeland 20. the brig "CASHIER,"73 Thomas Waterman. tons, of Boston. Owned by William Copeland, Jr., Thomas Waterman,
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Scituate ; Ebenezer Chadwick and Joseph S. Bates, of Hanover & O. This vessel may have been built in Hanover as her register states but as two or three vessels were sometimes on the ways at the Fox Hill Yard at the same time, she may have been built here. Sometime between 1819 and 1824, there entered into this firm Elisha Tolman, Elisha Merritt* and one other, and the firm name was changed about 1824 to William Cope- land & Co. Elisha Tolman was a direct descendant of Capt. Benjamin, who came to Scituate from Dorchester in 1709. Elisha had children, Samuel, Charles and others. Samuel had children : Samuel and Joseph, who were ship joiners, and Rebecca. Samuel was Captain of a militia company of foot in 1815. He was interested in many of the Yards, being one of the firm during the building of many vessels at the Fox Hill and Wanton yards, and worked joinering on most all the yards. Ile had sons : Samuel and James T., who worked on the yards up river, and two children who died. Samuel mar. 1. Sarah, dau. of William Winslow. 2. Abigail, dau. of Elijah Ames, and widow of Israel Hatch. There was one child by the first marriage : Samuel Jr., who mar. Eveleen Leland, and they have one child, Gladys. James T., son of Samuel, Sr. mar. Mary T., daughter of C. O. Briggs, and lives corner of Oakland Avenue and Broadway, in the house formerly occupied by Doctors Fobes, Garratt, and Downs successively. They have two children, M. Annat and Herbert C., a graduate of Yale. Elisha Tolman fell down the hold of the Brig Moscow ( ?) on her way down river and broke his neck. The new firm built in 1824 the brig " BYRON," 193 tons, for William Lovering of Boston, afterward sold to New Bedford. William Copeland, Jr., M. C. 1825, brig " LEXINGTON," 197 tons, of Boston. William Copeland, Jr., M. C., condemned at Mauritius, 1856. In 1826 brig " MOSCOW," 277 tons, of Boston. Lost off California before it was annexed to the United States. William Copeland, Jr., M. C. 1827 brig " SAMOS," 243 tons, of Boston, owned by Windsor Fay & O. Owned in 1844 by Vernon Brown, of Boston. William Copeland, Jr., M. C. Capt. C. B. Graves went in the brig " Samos," in 1838, from Stockholm to New York. She used to sail between the West Indies and the Baltic, regularly. Page Brewer was master of her, after him the late William Reed of Chelsea. Capt. Graves
* See Chapter Miscellaneous Yards, Scituate.
: Sce Chap. Briggs Yards.
Michael Ford
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thinks she was put under the Spanish flag later. In 1828, was built the brig " LEDA," 258 tons, for David Eells, or Ellis, of Boston, William Copeland, M. C. 1829, sch. "ORION," 60 tons, of Cohasset. Owned by Howard Vinal, William Cope- land, Jr., William Haskins, Elias W. Pratt and Michael Ford, of Scituate. William Copeland, Jr., M. C. The next year they built two vessels. 1830 brig " ODESSA," 180 tons, built at Hanover ( ?), and owned by Isaac Hall and Thomas Curtis, of Boston. William Copeland, Jr., M. C. 1830, sch. " LYCEUM," 65 tons, owned at Scituate by John Beal, Peleg Jenkins, Melzar Litchfield, Edw. J. Porter, Michael Ford, Elias W. Pratt and William Copeland, Jr., M. C. In 1832 the firm built their last vessel, though Michael Ford had an interest in other vessels subsequently built at this yard. This vessel was the bark " MARY BALLARD," 260 tons, of Boston, built in 1832. Copeland & Pratt, M. C. She was built for William Fay, of Boston, was used in the liquor trade and lost while in said trade. Mr. Fay sent down a quantity of liquor when she was launched, and the Rev. David Barnes Ford, remembers dealing it out. He was probably obliged to do this, for we cannot imagine his doing such a thing at the present day. Some verses were written concerning this vessel of which only the following lines have been preserved :-
One day it chanced to cross my roving thought That James and I would take a walk, Down to the ship yard we would go, There was a lady for a show.
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Mary Ballard was her name.
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If to the ship yard you would go, Take care and not be climbing so.
Joseph C. and Samuel Tolman, Jr., did the joiner work on the " Mary Ballard." George B. Tolman, son of Elisha, who was a descendant of Charles, fell from a staging on board the " Mary Ballard" and was injured. When lost the "Mary Ballard " was owned by John H. Pierson ; she was cast away on the Bahamas in the spring of 1843, loaded with ice for the Gulf of Mexico. In 1832 this firm sold out to Thomas Waterman and Joseph S. Bates. Waterman & Bates began to dig for a yard a little way up river, by the swimming place above
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the southwesterly slope of Fox Hill. While engaged pre- paring to locate here, Copeland & Ford decided to go out of business, and sold their yard to Waterman & Bates, who built in company three years, or until 1836, when Mr. Bates retired from the firm.
@Thomas Waterman
was born in 1791, and died in 1861, aged seventy years. grandson of His Capt.
father, Thomas, born 1765, was Thomas of Marshfield, and son of 1819 An- thony, who came from Marshfield in 1760. Capt. Thomas Waterman resided east of the brook, at the ancient Copeland place. He had two children : Thomas B., who mar. Clara Crooker of Norwell, and succeeded his father at the yard, and Sylvia, who d. in August, 1844. Thomas B. has had two children : 1. Thomas W., born May 4, 1868, a noble fellow, who was taken from them by typhoid fever in the fall of 1888, just as he was attaining manhood; 2. George, born Oct. 30, 1870, now in a bank in Boston. Joseph S. Bates was a descend- ant of Caleb, of Hingham, through Comfort of Pembroke, in which town he was born. He served his time with Col. J. B. Barstow and mar. his dau., Sarah, Oct. 2, 1820. They lived on Broadway, northeast of Hanover Four Corners, and had three children : 1. Henry S., b. Nov., 1821, mar. 1st, - Gardner, 2nd, in 1888, Mrs. Emeline Sylvester. 2. Sarah Ann, b. Nov., 1823. 3. John Burden, b. Feb. 17, 1826, who mar. Lydia Waterman, and lives corner of Rockland street, next to the Episcopal Church at the Four Corners.
The first year Waterman & Bates built two vessels, as follows, viz : 1833, ship " HILO," 390 tons, of New York, the largest vessel ever built at this yard, and which is said to have cost $1000 to get out of the river. She was used as a whaler. 1833, ship " ONTARIO," 367 tons, of Sag Harbor. Her length was 108 feet, breadth 27 feet, depth 13 feet. She after- ward hailed from New Bedford. They built in 1835 the brig " ALMINA," 175 tons, of Boston, a fruiter, used in the Medi- terranean trade, and in 1836 the sch. "RIENZI," 108 tons, of Boston. The "Rienzi," was captured and burned at sea by a rebel privateer in 1863. This was the last vessel built by Waterman & Bates.
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Capt. Waterman carried on the business alone until 1846. The first vessel he built after Mr. Bates retired was the next year, 1837, the brig "VINTAGE," 199 tons, of Boston, a fruiter used in the Mediterranean trade, Thomas Waterman, M. C., and in 1838 the brig " OTHO," 132 tons, of Boston, Thomas Waterman, M. C., and in 1840, sch. "LAKE," 99 tons, owners : George M. Allen, Eaton Vinal, Thomas L. Manson, John Manson and Thomas Waterman, of Scituate, who built her. The "Lake," was commanded by Capt. Vinal in the West India logwood trade, etc., and during her second or third voyage she ran off Maguena Reef, near Crooked Passage, and was totally wrecked. He built in 1841 bark " WAVE," 197 tons, owned by Nathaniel H. Emmons, George W. Wales, Thomas B. Wales, Sr., and Jr., and Samuel Quincy of Boston. Thomas B. Wales had a son, Thomas B., whom he wished to send to sea, probably thinking this to be the most advantageous way of starting him in a mercantile life. To induce him to go he had this bark built and fitted up with fancy cabins, and expense was not spared to make it an attractive and comfortable vessel. As a further inducement he put his son in as captain, but as he had never been to sea before it was necessary to have for the first mate an experienced "old salt ; " so Capt. Winsor went as first mate on her first voyage, which was to be around Cape Horn to the Northwest coast, trading. It was the custom in those days for the Captain to stay below, leaving his mate in charge of the ship, and it is fair to presume that Capt. Wales let the mate run the ship most of the time. The " Wave " probably did not go to the Northwest coast, and young Wales may have disappointed his father and never have gone in her, but the above is the story as told the author. The bark " Wave " in 1841 made a voyage from Boston to Rochelle ; in 1842, Rochelle to Boston with brandy, fruit, etc. , and Norfolk, Va., to Rochelle with staves, &c. In 1843 from Rio de Janeiro with coffee, and from New Bedford to Cowerand with 288 casks, 447 gross gallons of oil and 10 tons of logwood. In 1843-4, Norfolk to Rochelle and back again with potash, rice, staves, &c. In 1884 she was owned in New Bedford, then 42 years old. At this yard was built in 1842 the sch. "MANSON," 93 tons, owners George M. Allen, Moses R. Colman, John, Thomas L. and Joel L. Manson, Eaton Vinal, the builder Thomas Waterman, and Michael Ford, Scituate. The "Manson" was commanded by Capt. Moses Coleman and ran between Boston and Venezuela, taking out mixed cargoes and bringing back goat skins. The last
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vessel built by Capt. Waterman alone at this yard was in 1845, the sch. "ST. PAUL," 94 tons, of Boston. Owned by Capt. John Cushing of Hanover and William H. Talbot, of Scituate. The "St. Paul," was commanded by " Capt. Bill Talbot " and used in the coasting trade in the Gulf of Mexico. William Clark of Hanover was one of the crew of three that went before the mast on the first voyage of the "St. Paul." They went to Matanzas and New Orleans with general cargo and brought back molasses, sugar, etc. She was finally lost.
Capt. Elijah Barstow
who was at this time building in the old
Barstow Yard back of Edmund Q. Sylvester's in Hanover was approached in 1846 by George M. Allen of Scituate Harbor with a proposition to build for him a vessel of 250 tons, but on account of the great expense necessary to get the vessels over the shoals below his yard, which would consume the small profits of those days, Capt. Barstow decided it would not pay to build the vessel at his yard, and therefore invited Capt. Waterman to build her in company at his, Capt. Waterman's, yard. He accepted and they began their partnership, which lasted until 1859, when Thomas B. Waterman succeeded his father, and in company with Capt. Barstow, built until 1869, when was built the last vessel at this yard. Capt. Barstow now became the master carpenter. The first vessel built by the new firm was the bark "TOM CORWIN," 250 tons, launched in 1847, and owned by Joel L., John and Thomas L. Manson, George M. and William P. Allen, of Scituate Harbor, and commanded by Capt. John Manson. Charles Le Roy, of So. Scit- uate, went in her on her first voyage to St. Petersburg, Russia, in the spring of 1847. In 1859 she was owned by Elisha Atkins, at Boston, and was lost when an old vessel.
Capt. John Manson, her commander, was born in 1805 at Scituate Harbor, where he deceased July 14, 1889. In 1815 he went with his father mackerel fishing in the "Rosebud." In 1812-13 the British frigate "Nymph," and the British 74 "La Hogue," sent their boats into Scituate Harbor from time to time and burned or carried off the vessels there. Capt. Manson remembers once when a fleet of these boats were com- ing in, that the women began to carry off their beds and furni- ture, but an officer in one of the British boats cried out, " Good
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women don't carry your beds off, we ain't going to hurt you." At this time the " Rosebud," which belonged to the elder Manson, the "Orient," and the "Sophronia" were car- ried off, and five or six other vessels were burned in the Harbor. The British returned the " Rosebud," which was finally sold to Maine. The "Orient" they kept, and the master of the "Sophronia," which was loaded with hay, went on board the man of war and induced them to give her up and let him take her back to the Harbor. Capt. Manson commanded first the sch. "James Otis," built in Pembroke, and about 1830-1 the "Mary," built in Kennebunk; later the sch. " Abigail," built by Magoun & Turner in Brooklyn about 1834, afterward the Her. Brig " Allen," the bark "Tom Corwin," and the ship " William Sturgis," built in Med- ford, all used in the New Orleans and European trade, and in 1851-4 the ship "Meridian," built by Jackson & Ewell, East Boston, 1740 tons, new measurement. This was the largest vessel then afloat. He commanded the ship "George Peabody " to Europe from Mobile and New Orleans and back from Liverpool with emigrants. He brought the Hum- boldts from Norfolk to Baltimore in 1857 and from 1858 to the end of his sea life in 1861 he made three voyages in the ship "Golden Fleece," (built by Paul Curtis at East Bos- ton,) to San Francisco. He retired from the sea in 1861 on account of the war. It is remarkable that Capt. Manson never met with any accident except to carry away some small spar or lose a man overboard. During the later part of his sea going he sailed for Wm. F. Weld & Co. He superintended the laying of the keel for the first vessel they ever built. Before sailing for them he always sailed for himself. In one voyage to New Orleans and back he cleared for the Welds $60,000, and while in the Meridian she paid for herself and $27,000 surplus in three voyages.
Barstow & Waterman built in 1848 the bark " ZION," 199 tons, of Boston, owned in 1859 by Pierson and under Capt. Reynold, a part owner. They had on the stocks at the same time, in 1848, the brig " ABRAM," 158 tons, owned by Moses R. Coleman, George M. Allen, Michael Ford and Thomas Water- man, of Scituate. She took the place of the " Manson " in the Venezuela trade and was built of oak, copper and iron fastened and owned in 1861 by Vose, Livingston & Co., New York. In 1849 they built two vessels. 1849 bark " ADELIA ROGERS," 199 tons, of Boston, owned in 1861 by Taylor &
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others ; Capt. Snow. This vessel was, in her registers, sometimes called the " Adelaide Rogers." She was com- manded by Capt. George Taylor, of Chatham, and was after- wards lost on the Southern Coast. They built the sch. "ROBERT RAIKES," in 1849, 81 tons, oak, iron and copper fastened, single bottom, owned in 1874 by E. & E. K. Cook, of Provincetown, and used as a fishing vessel. Capt. T. J. Coorigan. Capt. Swift, the largest owner, had this vessel named the "Robert Raikes" because of his strong sympathy
with this great Methodist. In 1850 they built the brig "SARAH," 165 tons, for Capt. Moses Coleman, of Scituate, who used her in the West India trade. The sch. " ANTARTIC," was built here in 1851, 101 tons, of oak, iron and copper fastened, single bottom, whaler. In 1872 she was owned by J. E. & G. Bowley, of Provincetown, Capt. Hill. In 1884 she was at Provincetown and still whaling. She was on her way down North River when Minot's light was blown over. The same year they built the sch. "JOSHUA E. BOWLEY," 95 tons, owned in 1884 at Provincetown, Mass. In 1852 they built, on owner's account, the Her. Brig "KERNISAN," 127 tons, and sold to William F. Weld. Owned in Boston by N. J. Weld, in 1859, deck cabin. It is reported that she was lost with all on board on a voyage to the West Indies. Also the sch. "SEA DRIFT," 99 tons, oak, iron and copper fastened, built by them in 1852, owned in 1865 in Scituate. They built the sch. "WILLIAM MARTIN," in 1854, which is registered at some ports as having been built in Hanover, but this mistake is easily explained. The builder's address was Hanover, and the owners in registering naturally thought the vessels were built in Hanover, but this mistake in registry has been corrected wherever found. The sch. "William Martin," built by them in 1854, was 130 tons, flush deck, was owned in 1859 by William Martin, of Orleans, Mass. Built of oak and hackmatack. Iron and copper fastened. Sheathed with zinc in Oct., 1867. In 1862 she was transferred from Orleans to Boston and sent whaling in the Atlantic. On July 6, 1889, the " William Martin," under Capt. Howard, arrived in Boston from a 25 months' whaling voyage in the Atlantic with sperm oil to Heman Smith. She landed 100 bbls. at Fayal, during the voyage, and since Jan. 20, 1889, at which time she sailed from Dominia, she has got 60 bbls. of sperm oil. In 1855 the firm built the sch. "N. & H. GOULD," for Capt. Gould, who was drowned off Philadelphia while trying to save a man who had
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SCH. "WILLIAM MARTIN."
Built by Barstow & Waterman.
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fallen overboard. Just as he was going down he held up his pocket book, then sank. Capt Gould used this vessel as a freighter. In 1863 she was owned by Yates, Potterfield & Co. of Orleans, Mass., and in 1865 by Eben Sears of Dennis, and sailing under Capt Crowell. The sch. "N. & H. Gould," was 142 tons, 91 feet long, 25 feet broad. Draft 10 feet. Built of oak, iron and copper fastened, single bottom. Owned in 1876 by Eben Sears, Boston, Capt. Baker, master. The last vessel built by Capt. Waterman and Capt. Barstow in company was in 1856, the brig " SPRIGHT," (or " Sprite,") 200 tons, used in So. American trade by Lifkin & Ironside, N. Y. She was owned in 1865 by C. W. Swift, New York.
No more vessels were built here until 1859. This year Capt. Waterman's son succeeded to his share of the business, and the same year, 1859, the new firm of Capt. Elijah Barstow and Thomas B. Waterman launched the Sch. "MARY GREEN- ISH," 140 tons ; oak, copper and iron fastened ; rider keelsons ; owned in 1865 by Fairbanks & Adams, Boston ; Capt. J. Greenish. This vessel was named after the Captain's wife. The next vessel they built was the Sch. "ABBIE BRAD- FORD," built in September, 1860. She was 114 tons, 87 feet long, 23 feet broad ; built of oak, iron and copper fastened, and was yellow metalled in September, 1866. In 1872 she was owned by Macey & Co., Nantucket ; Capt. A. Baker. She was originally commanded by Capt. Ezra Freeman, of Sand- wich. She was named after the Captain's daughter, Abbie Brad- ford Freeman, and had for a figure-head the full statue of a little girl. She was one of the first vessels captured by the Confederate privateer " Alabama," Capt. Semmes, while on her way to the West Indies. He bonded her and let her go. In 1872, Jonathan Bourne, of New Bedford, bought the "Abbie Bradford," and sent her eight voyages to Hudson's Bay, whaling. On her last voyage, in 1887, she came out of the Bay in Sep- tember, went South, and was badly wrecked in a gale in De- cember, obliging her to put into the port of Santos, Brazil, where she was condemned and sold in January, 1888. Mr. Bourne owned her sixteen years. The next vessel was the Her. Brig " FALCON," 128 tons, built 1862, of oak ; iron and copper fastened ; yellow metalled in 1870; owned in 1874 by N. P. Mann & Co., Boston, and used whaling. J. C. Osgood, of Salem, for whom the "Falcon " was built, sold her in 1871 to N. P. Mann & Co., and she was sold by them to Capt. C. B.
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Graves and Fowle & Carroll, Boston, for the West India trade in 1874. Capt. Graves commanded her for four voyages, then left her on account of sickness, and Capt. Jordan Cody took her to San Domingo. On her homeward passage she was struck by a hurricane between Hayti and Cuba. They had to cut away the masts, and, after the storm, they put up jury-masts and reached Port Jago, Cuba, where she was condemned and sold for a coal hulk. In 1863, Barstow & Waterman built the Her. Brig "SALINAS," 150 tons ; oak, iron and copper fastened ; yellow metalled in November, 1870. She was owned in 1872 by Cart- wright & Harrison, Bermuda, and was sailing under the British flag. About 1875 her name was changed to "Warren," and she was owned by Cartwright, Harrison & Co., Barbadoes. The next year they built a vessel which cleared for her owners, at the end of a ten months' whaling voyage, $14,000. This was the Sch. " SUSAN N. SMITH," built in 1864 for Heman Smith. The "Susan N. Smith " was of 150 tons. While on a whaling voyage in the Atlantic she was reported lost Aug. 28, 1869, with the Captain's wife, Mrs. Rounseville, two children, the first and second mate, boat-steerers, and thirteen of the crew. She had one hundred and eighty barrels of sperm oil. In the fall of the same year they launched a sister vessel to the " Susan N. Smith," though she was a little smaller. This was the Sch. "LOUISA A.," 122 tons, built for a whaler, owned by Heman Smith, Boston, in 1875, commanded by Capt. Kelly. She was lost on a reef near Florida about 1883. The next. year they built a coaler for Capt. Edwin Barstow. This was the Sch. "PINTA," built in 1865, 207 tons, drawing 12 feet ; oak, iron and copper fastened ; yellow metalled January, 1868; owned in 1872 by E. W. Barstow ; Capt. J. H. Smith, master. In 1875 she was owned by Capt. Small and others, at Pem- broke, Me., and used as a fisherman. They next built for Heman Smith a vessel, the Hermaphrodite Brig "HEMAN SMITH," 123 tons, built in April, 1866; oak, iron and copper fastened ; yellow metalled in 1869. She was a whaler, and owned in 1872 by Heman Smith and others, Boston ; Capt. W. Martin. In 1877 she was still whaling in the Atlantic, and in 1884 owned in Boston. She was condemned in 1886, at St. Michael's, though then a good vessel. In 1866 a whaling brig was built on the owners' account, and sold in 1868 to Province- town parties, which year she first got her register. This was the Her. Brig " LIZZIE J. BIGELOW," 150 tons, draft 12 feet ; oak, iron and copper fastened ; yellow metalled in October,
HER. BRIG " LIZZIE J. BIGELOW," 150 TONS.
Built in 1868, by Barstow & Waterman, at Fox (or Sunset) Hill Yard.
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