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THE TEA SHIP" " BEAVER."
hours they broke up 342 chests, valued at £18,000, which was the whole number in those vessels, and discharged their contents into the dock. When the tide rose, it floated the broken chests, and the tea, insomuch that the surface of the water was filled therewith a considerable way from the south part of the town to Dorchester Neck, and lodged on the shores. There was the greatest care taken to prevent the tea from being purloined by the populace. One or two being detected in endeavoring to pocket a small quantity, were stripped of their acquisitions, and very roughly handled. The town was very quiet during the whole evening and the night following. Those who were from the country went home, and the next day joy appeared in almost every countenance, - some on occasion of the destruction of the tea, others on account of the quietness with which it was effected. One of the Monday's papers says that the masters and owners. are well pleased that the ships are thus cleared."
Some of the men were belated, and, not having time to get up a costume equal to their brethren, hurried to the nearest blacksmith's shop, smooched their faces, borrowed a blanket from some neighbor, thus concealing their clothing and iden- tity, and proceeded to the ships, to join the rest of the tribe, shouting, as they went, " Hurrah for Griffin's Wharf !" " Bos- ton Harbor a tea-pot this night !" etc. There were about one hundred to one hundred and fifty tea-throwers, and, before leaving the wharf, all were searched, and pockets and shoes emptied of the tea, that none of it should be landed. One of the tea-party, Archibald MacNeil, died in Scituate, Mass., Feb. 1, 1840, aged ninety years. The "Beaver" was built about the same time as the " Bedford." F. C. Sanford has an account of her voyage to London with a load of sperm oil, Dec., 1772, consigned to a man who did an immense business with Nan- tucket, Samuel Enderby, grandfather to Pacha Baker, who was murdered in Egypt a few years ago. The "Beaver " followed whaling from New Bedford for years. After the tea was thrown out of her, both she and the "Bedford," Capt. Robt. Meader, went upon the Brazil Banks, and filled with oil. While on the coast of Brazil, Capt. Hezekiah Coffin, of the "Beaver," al- lowed an exchange of Alex. Hay, one of his men, to come to Nantucket, and one of Capt. Meader's, from the ship " Bed- ford," by the name of Seymour, to go in the "Beaver," to Lon- don. Seymour wanted more of the ship's voyage than the agreement upon the Banks, so they had to send to Nantucket for Capt. Meader's affidavit, for Capt. Coffin having died, they could not settle his estate. F. C. Sanford has Capt. Meader's affidavit, dated Jan. 27, 1783, also the entry of the " Bedford," Nantucket, May 31, 1783, in the book kept by Geo. Gardiner, Esq., first U. S. Custom House officer appointed to Nantucket.
THROWING THE TEA FROM THE TEA SHIPS INTO BOSTON HARBOR.
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In the spring of 1774, the " Bedford" returned to Nantucket, and the " Beaver" to England, where Capt. Hezekiah Coffin, of the "Beaver," died, and the ship was sold. The " Bedford " lay at Nantucket seven years, then loaded with four hundred and eighty-eight butts of oil, sailed for England, and hoisted the U. S. flag. Another " BEAVER" was built on North River in 1791. She went to the Pacific, and was afterwards sold in Now York. The "Dartmouth," built at Dartmouth about 1767, was also a tea-ship ; and after the tea was thrown into Boston Har- bor, she came down to Nantucket, and in the following April, 1774, loaded oil and sailed for London. On her way back, she foundered, in November, and her crew were picked up by Shu- bael Coffin, Nantucket.
The next ship of Ichabod Thomas', of which there is any account, is the ship " HARMONY," built on North River pre- vious to 1769, at which date F. C. Sanford has a voyage made by her. She belonged to Wm. Rotch. In company with the " Falkland," in 1790, she went from Dunkirk, France, to the Pacific Ocean, both sailing in November. They were the first that went into the Pacific, after the " Amelia." They filled with sperm oil, and both arrived in Dunkirk in Feb., 1792. They were at Callao, Pern, when the ship "Columbia," Capt. Gray, was there, on his way to the Northwest Coast. Mr. Rotch was induced to send these vessels to the Pacific, from information given him by Archelus Hammond, who arrived in London, September, 1790, in the ship " Amelia," (Capt Shield. ) full of sperm oil. She belonged to Samuel Enderby, who did much business with Nantucket people. Hammond was a great whale- man, and struck the first whale struck in the Pacific Ocean. He died in 1830, aged seventy-one years. . F. C. Sanford writes, "I knew Hammond well. Sam Enderby was grand- father to the late Gen. Gordon, of Egyptian memory." The "LEO" was built on North River in 1774, went whaling, and was broken up in 1823, at Nantucket. The " Harmony " was in company with the ship "Leo" in 1796. On the Brazil Banks in 1796 a whale leaped out of the sea across the "Har- mony's" deck and sunk her, the crew jumping from their berths, having barely time to get into their boats and escape aboard the "Leo." Abel Rawson was Captain of the " Har- mony." This is the only case of the kind on record. The "FALKLAND," spoken of above, was built on North River in 1785, by Ichabod Thomas, and owned by Wm. Rotch. She
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was finally sold to France, and, as a French privateer, did noble work in the English Channel, taking English ships. The next vessel was the ship "TAMA," built before the " Bed- ford " She was a London packet from Nantucket. Five Nan- tucket men were carried to Portsmouth in the sloop-of-war " Rattlesnake." with the news of Cornwallis' surrender, Octo- ber, 1781. On arriving there, they were pressed into "Rod- ney's" ship, were taken to the West Indies, and fought in the great battle of the 12th of April, 1782, saving the West Indies from DeGrass .* They returned to England, were paid off, and went round to London in a lugger, and there met the " Tama," Capt. Shubacl Coffin. They took passage, and arrived at Nantuc- ket safe. The " Tama " went ashore on Long Island, coming from New York, in 1807, and went to pieces. The " SOMERSET," a North River ship, built at the Brick-Kilns, was under Alex- ander Coffin, and on her passage from London to Nantucket, during the Revolution, as a London packet, she was taken by Com. John Paul Jones, and badly handled. Capt. Coffin had despatches from Dr. Franklin to the Continental Congress, an- nouncing the Treaty with France of that glorious alliance. t The papers were afterwards restored, by Com. Jones, to the Congress. Nantucket had fifteen London packets at that time. Alexander Coffin was a strong, splendid man. He moved to Hudson in 1784, and was a prominent man in that city, being Mayor twenty years. He died in 1839, aged ninety-seven years, eight months.
At no yard on North River were such a number of famous ships built. The name of Ichabod Thomas should certainly be perpetuated in the memorials of his town, for he, more than any other man, spread the renown of North River in foreign ports, and there appears no excuse for not having recorded, years ago, the history of the ship-building here, and the ships that became so famous, which were sent out from the then little town of Pembroke. Between 1775 and 1783 the fisheries produced but little. Nantucket was the only port which attempted to carry it on, and at the close of the war 134 vessels had fallen into the hands of the English and 15 had been lost at sca. This discouraged the merchants, and comparatively few vessels were built during these years. But before the dull season Ichabod
* See London Illustrated News, 1859.
+ See Genealogical Journal.
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SHIP " BEDFORD," FIRST VESSEL TO CARRY THE-
Thomas built one more vessel, which became famous, and was the first vessel that carried the American Stars and Stripes into a British port. She caused such consternation on her arrival as probably no other vessel ever did before or has since.
This was the "BEDFORD." She was first rigged as a schooner, afterward changed to a brig, and finally rebuilt, raised upon, furnished with an additional deck, and rigged as a ship. After all these alterations, she measured only 170 or 180 tons. No portrait of her has been preserved. The orig- inal receipt of the last payment made by her owner, Wm. Roteh, to her builder, Ichabod Thomas, is in the possession of F. C. Sanford, Esq. The following is a copy :-
Nantucket, 11 mo. 13th. 1772.
Received of William Rotch Ninety Pounds, twelve shillings, 4 d., L. M. (lawful money), supposed to be in full for his building me a Brigantine, " Bedford," including Elisha Tolman's joining said vessel.
Signed " Ichabod Thomas."
The " Bedford " was first sent to Philadelphia, and arrived in Nantucket from Philadelphia, with a cargo of flour, under Capt. Thomas Bunker, when she registered at Nantucket. She sailed in 1776 for Brazil Banks and arrived home March 13, 1777, full of oil. The " Bedford " lay at Nantucket several years and in Sept., 1782, the " Maria " came new from Ichabod Thomas. She was not completed, and the old Quaker merchants had private imformation that a peace was coming, and as the " Maria " could not be despatched in time they hanled down the Bedford and sent her to London. She arrived Feb. 6, off Trinity, with the Stars and Stripes flying. Custom House officers had to apply to lower solicitors to know what to do with her. She entered, and that was the first U. S. flag ever displayed in Europe. Her appearance was thus chronicled by an English magazine of that day.
" The " Bedford," Capt. Mooers, belonging to Mass., arrived in the D wns on the 3rd of February, passed the Gravesend the 4th, and was reporte at the Custom House, the 6th. inst. She was not allowed regular entry until some consultation had taken place between the Commissioners of the Cus- toms and the Lords of the Council, on account of the many Acts of Parlia- ment yet in force against the rebels in America. She is loaded with 488 butts of whale-oil, is American built, manned wholly by American sea-men, wears the rebel colors, and belongs to the Island of Nantucket in Massa- chusetts. This is the first vessel which has displayed the 13 rebellious stripes in any British Port. The vessel lies at Horsely Down, a little below theTower and is intended immediately to return to New England."
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It is related that one of the crew of the ship " Bedford," while she was lying in the Thames, was humpbacked. One day a British sailor met him, clapped his hand on the American's shoulder, and said "Hilloa, Jack, what have you got here ?" " Bunker Hill, and be damned to you," replied the Yankee. " Will you mount?" The British sailor, calling to mind the experience of his next of kin, the British soldier, in mounting Bunker Hill in America, decided not to attempt it on the British Isle. Capt. Win. Mooers, the master of the " Bedford," and afterwards master of the "Maria," is traditionally reported as one of "nature's noblemen," and his prowess as a whaleman is familiar to all who have made themselves acquainted with that hazardous branch of our national enterprise. Erect and commanding in appearance, standing over six feet, and weigh- ing more than two hundred pounds, he would have been a marked man in a thousand. He died in 1819, in France, where he was then doing business as agent of Wm. Rotch & Co. The first publication of the terms of the treaty was Jan. 28, 1783, in a postscript of the London papers, about a week before the arrival of the "Bedford." The King's proclamation was not published until the 15th of Febuary, twelve days after her arrival. The news was first received in Boston, April 23rd, but the treaty was not signed until September. It is, therefore, no wonder that when the master of the "Bedford " appeared and demanded to enter his vessel at the Custom House, with her cargo of oil, coming from a country and people who were still considered rebels, his appearance created astonishment. In general, the proof in full of vessels having been built at the different yards on North River has not been given, as it would take too much space, but where it is stated that vessels were built at certain yards, proof positive has been found of the fact, as in the case of the " Bedford." Besides the receipt from Ichabod Thomas, now in existence, there is additional proof in the form of a letter, of which the following is a copy, written by Wm. Rotch, Jr., one of her owners, and dated at New Bedford, 8th mo., 3rd, 1842 :
" DEAR FRIEND :
In my reply to thy letter of the 21st ult., received last evening, according to the best of my recollection, my father had a vessel built by Ichabod Thomas, at North River, just before the Revolution, for himself and Champion & Dickason, of London, for the London trade. After the war commenced, she laid at Nantucket several years, until a license was procured for her to go to London with a
SHIP " MARIA."
Built by Ichabod Thomas at the Brick-kilns, in 1782.
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THE FIRST U. S. FLAG EXHIBITED IN QUEBEC.
cargo of oil, Timothy Folger, commander. Several gentlemen from Boston took passage in her, among whom were the late Governor Winthrop, Thomas K. Jones, - Hutchinson, and some others. whose names I do not recollect.
We sent the sloop "SPEEDWELL " (also built by Ichabod Thomas) to Aux Cayes, St. Domingo. She was taken and carried into Jamaica, but her Captain was released one day after. By the treaty, the war ceased in that latitude, and she was released when she showed the first United States flag there. On her return home, everything was very low by the return of peace. We put on board two hundred boxes of candles, and with William Johnson (whose widow, I learned, lives at Quassi,) as supercarpo, sent her to Que- bec, where her's was the first United States flag exhibited.
Should thee wish any further information within my recollection, I will freely communicate it.
I am, with love to thy wife, Thy affectionate friend, WM. ROTCHI, JR."
What finally became of the "Bedford " I have been unable to ascertain. To Ichabod Thomas, also, must be given the credit of building the vessel which, as far as any record is preserved, was in the service longer than any other vessel built on North River.
This was the "MARIA," built in 1782, and broken up in 1872, at Vancouver's Island, after sailing for ninety years, during which time she touched at nearly every seaport of the globe. She was at Falkland Islands in 1785 ; Greenland, 1788, as high as 79º N. in the ice on June 22nd. Her career would make a romantic book. She was built at Pembroke for a pri- vateer, but never used as such. When finished, she was pur- chased by Mr. Rotch, for a merchant vessel, and brought by Capt. Wm. Mooers to Nantucket, previous to his sailing thence in the "Bedford." On his return from that voyage, he took the " Maria " to London with a cargo of oil; and on a subse- quent passage, he made in her the voyage from Nantucket to Dover in twenty-one days. She sailed from Nantucket for London, July 4, 1785. Her owners, William and Benjamin Rotch, the father and brother of Win. Rotch, Jr., were on board as passengers, going to establish the whale fishery from an English port. It is narrated that, on the passage, Mr. Rotch, during a storm, became alarmed, and, venturing part way out of the cabin gangway, said, "Capt. Mooers, it would be more conducive to our safety for thee to take in some sail ; thee had better do so." To which Capt. Mooers replied, " Mr. Rotch,
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I have the deck, you have the cabin." He could not brook dictation, even from his owner. The "Maria " was lying at Nantucket when the " Bedford " was at anchor in the Downs. Mary Thomas, afterward Mrs. Joshua Perry, granddaughter of Ichabod Thomas, wrote, many years ago, the following : "My grandfather, Ichabod Thomas, built the ship 'Maria' during the Revolution. After many years being out of repair, Mr. William Roteh who bought her, told his son-in-law, Samuel Rodman, he would give it to him. He said he would not ac- cept it. Mr. Rotch said it was built by his old friend, Ichabod Thomas, and must be repaired. He repaired it, and then asked his son-in-law to accept it ; and he did." After her voyage to London, the " Maria " was employed in the whale fishery, and for fifty or sixty years was owned by Samuel Rodman of New Bedford, and his descendants. It is said there stood to her credit, in 1859, $250,000 ; and she had been of expense to her underwriters but once, and then only for a trifling amount. She made five voyages to the Pacific within the short space of six years, returning each time with a full cargo of oil, 1215 barrels. She concluded her first whaling voyage on the 26th of September, 1795. In her seventy-seventh year, she arrived at New Bedford from a three years' cruise in the Indian Ocean. " She was," says the Standard of that date, "built at the town of Pembroke, for a privateer, during the Revolutionary War. Her flag is now in existence, though in shreds. Her model is of old French construction, tumbling home, or rounding very much, in her top sides, and she is consequently very narrow on deck in proportion to her size, 202 tons." She sailed from New Bedford on her twenty-seventh and last whaling voyage under our flag, on the 29th of September, 1859. On these voyages, she is credited with having taken 24,419 barrels of sperm, and 134 barrels of whale oil. In 1856, Mr. Harditch, of Fairhaven, who, sixty-four years before, had assisted in making her a suit of sails, was again employed in the same service for her. Feb. 24, 1863, she was repaired and sold at Taleahuana, Chili, under the name of " Maria Pachaco," and, under the Chilian flag, probably to avoid the risk of her capture by rebel cruisers, continued sailing in the Pacific until 1870. Her purchasers, Messrs. Burton & Trumbull, of Talcahuana, employed her in the coal trade. July 1, 1866, she was fitted out for Talcahuana, on a whaling voyage, under command of David Briggs, of Dartmouth, Mass. At the time of her loss she was in such good condition that she bade fair to outlast her
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century. The flag she first wore is said to be in existence in New Bedford. The "Maria," then owned in Chili, was con- demned at Vancouver's Island in 1872. Francis Roteh died in New Bedford, 1822. He was brother of Win. Rotch. " Wm. Rotch was born in 1734, and was the greatest merchant that ever lived." (Sanford. )
I have been unable to obtain definite information as to any of the other vessels built by Ichabod Thomas, Sr., between 1782 and 1788 ; but the following were built in Pembroke, and probably at the Brick Kiln Yard :
1782. Sloop "SALEM PACKET," 42 tons, of Ipswich. 1783. Sch. "DOLPHUS," 32 tons, of Boston. 1783. Sloop " DIANA," 51 tons, owned by Samuel and Amos Jones, and Ruth Eales, of Scituate. 1784. Brig't'n "CADET," 100 tons, of Boston. 1784. Sch. "HOPE," 55 tons, of Boston. 1786. Sloop "MARY," 22 tons. 1786. Sch. "JOHN," 60 tons, of Boston. 1786. Sch. " MARS," 53 tons, of Wellfleet. 1786. Sch. "NAUTILUS," 60 tons, of Boston. 1787. Sch. "PEG- GY," 37 tons; owner, John Soule, Marshfield. 1787. Sch. "AARON," 43 tons, owned by John Soule and John White, of Marshfield. 1787. Sloop " NANCY," 41 tons. This sloop was in existence in 1842, then fifty-five years old, and was owned by John Reed, of Boothbay, Me. Mr. Thomas died in 1788, comparatively young, and was buried in the Thomas burial-lot in Pembroke, opposite Dr. Francis Collamore's. The follow- ing is copied from the headstone :
" Erected in memory of CAPT. ICHABOD THOMAS, Who was removed by death, March 2, 1788, In the 55th year of his age.
' The sweet remembrance of the just, Shall flourish while he sleeps in death.'"
Another stone has -
" Wm. Thomas died in 1802, age 27 years."
Capt. Ichabod Thomas, son of Capt. Ichabod, lived in the same house that his father occupied, and worked in the ship-yard until he had passed three-score years. In July, 1820, his wife Polly Thomas, wrote to her daughter in Maine, Mrs. Joshua Perry : " Your pa is at work at the Yard every day, and en- joys his health." The record of his decease appears on a stone
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in the Pembroke Cemetery, where he lies buried in the same lot as his father :
" Capt. Ichabod Thomas, Died Nov. 11, 1859, in the 99th year of his age."
The first vessel of which there is positive proof of having been built by Ichabod, Jr., was the Sch. "DOLPHIN," 49 tons, built in 1799, at Pembroke. She was commanded by Capt. Prince Howes, and was engaged in trading. About 1812, she brought corn from Virginia in the winter, and in the summer went fishing. During the war with England, and while under the command of Capt. Elisha Howes, she was captured by the British fleet off Penobscot River, Me. They took her crew out, and towed her off awhile ; but, being in ballast, and of not much value, they gave her up. Capt. Prince Howes' son made one voyage in her to the Straits of Belle Isle.
Between 1788 and 1805, Calvin Turner, uncle of Ichabod Thomas, Jr., built next to him, in the same yard, the follow- ing, among other vessels: 1802. Sch. "TWO FRIENDS," 89 tons, of Portland, Calvin Turner, master carpenter; built at Pembroke. 1803. Sloop " FAIR PLAY," 50 tons, of Dux- bury, afterwards of Saulisbury, Calvin Turner, Jr., master carpenter ; built at Pembroke. 1805. Brig " ALMIRA," 178 tons, of Boston, Calvin Turner, master carpenter ; Pembroke. 1807. Sch. "FAME," 83 tons, of Boston. This vessel was built by Calvin Turner, at Pembroke, and was captured and burnt by the French, in 1811. The following vessels, built in Pembroke between 1788 and 1805, were probably built by them and Alden Briggs : 1788. Sch. "HANNAH," 45 tons, of Ply- mouth. 1789. Brig't'n "MARY ANN," 78 tons, of Boston. 1790. Sloop " SALLY," owned by Seth Hatch, Pembroke. 1791. Brig "POLLY," 131 tons, of Boston. 1792. Sch. "UNION," 42 tons, of Boston. 1793. Sloop "LYDIA," 100 tons, of Boothbay, Me. 1794. Sloop " DOLPHIN," 78 tons, of Boston ; built at Pembroke ; owned by Robert Barker and Alden Briggs of Pembroke, Lemuel Church and Stephen Stock- bridge of Scituate, and others. 1795. Ship "SARAH," 310 tons, of New Bedford, afterwards of Boston. 1796. Brig, afterwards Ship, "ALEXANDER," 133 tons, of Boston. 1797. Sch. "OLIVE, 70 tons, of Duxbury. 1800. Sch. "WASH- INGTON," 107 tons, of Boston. 1800. Brig't'n "TRITON,"
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170 tons, of Boston. 1803. Sch. "LAUREL," 69 tons, of Duxbury. 1804. Ship " ARCTURUS," 300 tons, of Duxbury. 1805. Sch. "HANNAH," 50 tons, of Plymouth. Calvin Tur- ner was brother of Joshua and son of Capt. Benjamin. Calvin had a son,
a ship- builder, who went to Med- ford ; also a son David, a ship-builder, who lived on the Briggs farm, on the Neck, in Pembroke, and who afterwards moved to Duxbury, where he died, leaving a family. Previous to 1805, Calvin Turner formed a partnership with his nephew, Ichabod Thomas, and built one vessel at the Brick Kiln during the lat- ter year. 1805. Brig "ONLY SON," 170 tons, Ebenezer Nickerson, of Provincetown ; owner, Calvin Turner; Ichabod Thomas, master carpenters ; built at Pembroke. They gave up building here about this time, and built in Hanover together, and also with Wm. Cushing .* The history of the successors of the Thomases, at the Brick Kiln Yard is given in the fol- lowing chapter.
* See Chapter Miscellaneous Yards, under Hanover.
DUM SPIRO SPERR
THOMAS COAT OF ARMS.
CHAPTER XI.
BRICK-KILN YARD, (Continued). 1796-1848.
WILLIAM LEWIS, ALDEN BRIGGS, ELISHA BRIGGS, JONATHAN SAMSON, SAMUEL ROGERS, ISAAC HATCH, LUTHIER BRIGGS, AARON S. MAGOUN, JR., ENOCH MAGOUN, JOSHUA MAGOUN, JEDUTHAN PALMER, BARKER TURNER, CALEB TURNER, CUSH- ING O. BRIGGS, SILVANUS SMITH, MELZAR S. TURNER.
W TM. LEWIS, Alden and Elisha Briggs, Jonathan Sampson, Sam'l Rogers and Isaac Hatch built in Pembroke about 1796 and later. There were two yards at the Brick-kils, and three or four vessels side by side on the stocks at the same time was not an unusual sight. Little can be found relative to Wm. Lewis. He probably came from the Marshfield family, as his name does not appear on the church or town records in Pem- broke. There is little doubt that he was the Wm. Lewis of Marshfield belonging to the following family :
William Lewis, mar. Christiana White, had children : 1. Christiana, b. April 11, 1774; 2. William, b. Feb. 29, 1777, mar. Welthy Sampson; 3. Catharine, b. March 9, 1779, d. Sept. 30, 1850; 4. Sarah, b. June 11, 1781, mar. Randall ; 5. Daniel, b. May 5, 1784; 6. James Hawkes, b. May 1, 1786 ; 7. Samuel, b. May 4, 1788 ; 8. Jesse, b. Aug. 14, 1790; 9. Elizabeth, b. June 24, 1795, d. May, 1874. Daniel Lewis, mar. Mercy Winslow, Jan. 21, 1768, no family ; he died Feb. 20, 1829, aged 87 years ; his wife d. Dec. 15, 1822, in her 82nd year. Taken from a family Bible supposed to have once been the property of Joseph Lewis, of Hingham, a graduate of Harvard College, 1705, and probably disposed of by his descendants, to Nath. Winslow of Marshfield.
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