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" I imagine you have by this time heard of the very remarkable Resolves of the town of Marshfield respecting the destruction of teas, &c . which was effected principally by the insinuating act of a certain man, who hav- ing lately rendered himself odious to the Province by his conduct in a pub- lic station, is endeavoring to wipe off' the infamy on the people of that town. His insinuations are (as I am informed by people of veracity) that the tea must be paid for ; that any town remonstrating against the destruc- tion of it, will effectually secure them against paying any part of the expenses and if it is paid for that his particular share will be £40 who commonly pays scarce £3 per annum of the Province tax. However the sentiments of the Old Colony are not to be collected from those of Marsh- field."
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Two days later appeared, in the same paper, the following :
" We are informed that the Resolves of the town of Marshfield were carried by a majority of only one vote, and we soon expect a more intelli- gible account of the meeting than has yet been given in a public paper."
In the Massachusetts Spy, of Feb. 23, 1774, appears :
" A protest signed by a large number of the prominent inhabitants of the town of Marshfield against the proceedings of said town on the 31st of January last," as follows : "We the subscribers think ourselves obliged in faithfulness to the community, ourselves and posterity, on every proper occasion to bear our public testimony against every measure, calculated to destroy that harmony and unanimity which subsists through the colonies and so eventually to the destruction of those liberties wherewith the Author of Nature and our happy constitution has made us free. Were they not already notorious, it would give us uneasiness to mention the Resolves which were voted in this town the 31st of January last. To the first of these Resolves we do not object; but do heartily join in recognizing our loyalty and subjection to the King of Great Britain and our readiness to be ever subject to the laws of our legislature. In their second Resolve, they say that the 'measures and proceedings in the town of Boston in the detention and destruction of the teas, belonging to the East India Com- pany, are illegal, unjust and of a dangerous tendency,' against which we take the liberty to protest. We have long groaned under the weight of an American Revenue Act and when by the virtue of the people in not purchasing any goods loaded with a duty, the malignity of the act was in some measure evaded, a scheme was devised and prosecuted by the min- istry, to enforce said act by permitting the East India Company to force their infectious teas upon us, whether we would or not. At this, not only the inhabitants of Boston, but of the whole province were very much and very justly alarmed and while they were prosecuting every method that human wisdom would devise that the tea should be sent back undamaged, it was destroyed, but whether by the people of that town, or any other town of this province does not appear. 3dly. They resolved to instruct their Representative 1st, to endeavor that the perpetrators of these mis- chiefs be brought to justice. This appears to us to be the business of another department. We have executive courts and officers, whose busi- ness it is to punish offenders and we trust they are faithful. 2dly. They instruct him to endeavour that his town be excused from paying for said teas, which we think might have been omitted, at least, till there was a probability of a requisition from proper authority for payment. They conclude with a denunciation 'of all methods of imposition, violence and persecution, such as has been most shamefully exercised upon a number of inhabitants of Plymouth by obliging them to sign a recantation' &c : Such bitter, virulent and injurious reflections on our brethren at Plymouth, ought not to have taken place until some shadow of proof had been adduced to the town, that any such violence &c. was ever practiced by them on a single person. The occasion of this our protest has given us great uneasi- ness and we were confident those extraordinary resolves would not have taken place but by the insinuations of a certain gentleman who seems will- ing his constituents should share in the resentment of the whole country, which he has incurred by his conduct in a public character. We mean not to countenance riotous and disorderly conduct but, being convinced that liberty is the life and happiness of a community, are determined to con-
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tribute to our last mite in its defence, against the machinations of assuming, arbitrary men, who, stimulated with a lust of dominion and unrighteous gain are ever studying to subjugate this free people." Marshfield, Feb. 14, 1774. (signed) :
Anthony Thomas,
Nehemiah Thomas,
Paul Sampson,
John Brown,
Benjamin White, Jr.,
John Oakman,
William Thomas,
Lemuel Delano,
Joseph Oakman,
Thomas Foord,
Jabez Dingley,
King Lapham,
Thomas Waterman,
Isaac Carver,
Barnard Tnels,
Isaac Phillips,
Thomas Dingley,
Peleg Kent,
Samuel Tilden,
Samuel Smith,
Zenas Thomas,
John Dingley,
Thomas Waterman, Jr.,
Joshna Carver,
Joseph Kent,
Peleg Foord,
Lot Howes Silvester,
Benjamin White,
Asa Waterman,
David Carver,
Joseph Hewit,
John Waterman,
Nathaniel Thomas,
Thomas Fish,
Jobn Shurman,
William Thomas, Jr.
Jeremiah Low,
Samuel Tilden, Jr.,
Luther Peterson,
Benjamin Tolman,
Samuel Oakman,
Briggs Thomas,
Jetheo Taylor,
Gershom Ewell,
Elisha Kent,
Samuel Williamson,
William Clift,
Timothy Williamson,
Nathan Thomas,
Joseph Bryant,
Joseph Clift.
In September of the same year, "patience ceased to be a virtue," and the inhabitants of the surrounding towns decided they could not permit Mr. Thomas to longer remain among them ; accordingly they marehed to his house, but their bird had flown. The Boston Evening Post, of Sept. 12, 1774, says :
" We hear from the County of Plymouth that, on Wednesday last, up- wards of 2000 of the substantial yeomanry collected from the several towns of Plymouth, Hanover, and Pembroke, repaired to the house of Nathaniel Ray Thomas, of Marshfield, one of the new Council; but, having had some previous intimation of the intended visit of the people, he thought it unsafe to remain, even in Marshfield, and accordingly fled, the night be- fore, with all speed, to the City of Refnge."
At the request of Nathaniel Ray Thomas, and three hundred other Loyalists of Marshfield, a company of the Queen's Guard, under Capt. Balfour, was sent down and quartered in Mr. Thomas' house. The wine closets constructed in the cellar by Capt. Balfour, for the use of himself and officers, were in ex- istenee until the house was burned. ( See foot note. ) The
FOOT NOTE. Isaac Thomas who d. in Marshfield, March 6, 1859, remembered Capt. Balfour's visit plainly. Isaac Thomas descended from the youngest son of John and Sarah Thomas (see Thomas Genealogy, Brick-kiln Yard). Isaac, the only son of Zenas and wife Abigail, was b. Nov. 11, 1765, and d. Mar. 6, 1859. He was in his tenth year at the commencement of the American Revolution, and the strange acts of both Whig and Tory citizens of the place were indelibly impressed on his mind. On Dec. 20, 1774 he beheld and followed with boyish curiosity the Queen's Guards commanded by Capt. Balfour as they marched by the common, where his school room was situated, on their way from North River to their destined quarters at the mansion house of Nathaniel Ray Thomas. He often spoke of the brightness of their bayonets as they glittered in that midday sun of one of the mildest days that the annals ot past Decembers have recorded. He also, on the morning succeeding the battle of Lexington, witnessed Capt. William
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presence of troops greatly annoyed the inhabitants, and, after vainly applying to Gen. Gage to withdraw them, (see Chapter on Pembroke Yards, ) the militia of the surrounding towns marched to Marshfield for the purpose of routing them ; but Capt. Balfour embarked on board some British vessels lying off Brant Rock, a few hours before the arrival of the militia, part of it under Col. Bailey of Hanover. Had the militia arrived three hours earlier, the second battle of the Revolution would, without doubt, have been fought in Marshfield. Another ac- count of how the British troops annoyed the inhabitants of these towns appeared in the Boston Gazette and Country Jour- nal, under date of Jan. 30, 1775 :
" Card players are said to be no ŒEconomists. If the troops at Marsh- field do not pay Barrack money for the houses they occupy there, yet where they fright a wife and children from home into a neighbour's house, pence may be saved, and thus Simple Saplin may be called ŒEconomist."
We will now return to the history of the ship-building at the Brooks & Tilden Yard. Elijah Brooks and George Tilden built here for about ten years. In 1838, William H. Tilden was interested with them. Elijah Brooks, b. Feb. 25, 1793, was the son of William. He mar. Maria Tilden, dau. of Jo- tham Tilden. They had children: 1. Elijah, (who mar. Liz- zie Turner, dau. of Samuel A. Turner, Esq. ; they had one child, now deceased. ) 2. Franklin. 3. Maria, (who. mar. Benjamin A. Hathaway of Plymouth; she d. leaving two daughters, Emma and Helen. ) 4. Elizabeth. Elijah Brooks d. July 1, 1854, aged 61. William, his father, d. April, 1794, aged 80. Both are buried in the First Parish Cemetery, Nor- well. George Tilden d. about 1868. He married three times. By his first wife, Mercy Little Clift of Marshfield, he had one child, George Wales, b. 1833, who mar. Alice Tilden, and they have one child by adoption. Mr. Tilden's second wife was
Thomas and his young kinsman as they ascended to the summit of the hill, and saw him discharge the three alarm guns while his attendant beat the drum, which was the concerted signal to acquaint the surrounding inhabitants of the commencement of hos- tilities. He saw the burning of the obnoxious tea on the height which yet bears its name, and saw the torch touched to the fire fated pile by that devoted Whig, Jeremiah Low. He was fond of relating descriptions of the olden school-room.
"Surely 'twas a rustic school-room All unplastered there it stood, Broad and deep its ancient hearthstone Where they rolled the logs of wood ; Coarse the furniture within it, Diamond lattices for light, Cross-legged table for the master Where he did the copies write."
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Sybil Stetson of Scituate, and by her he had two daughters, Sybil, now dead, and Georgiana, who mar. Henry T. Jenkins. He had no children by his third wife, Catharine Bailey of Scit- uate. In 1837, Brooks & Tilden built the sch. " HURON," 106 tons ; owned by James Damon, Elijah Jenkins, Jr., Henry Bowers, Seth Webb, and Francis Thomas of Scituate. James Damon was captain, and Mr. Anderson mate, to North Caro- lina. From North Carolina she went to Barbadoes, loaded with staves and naval stores, with orders to sell at a limited price. They went to seven islands, including Guadaloupe, Martinique, Dominique, and finally sold the cargo at St. John, Antiqua ; then went to St. Thomas for provisions, and back to Little Washington, N. C. The " Huron " was lost two or three years afterward, bound from Boston to Nassau, in the same hurricane that Capt. Coleman (formerly of Scituate) was lost in, in the brig " Anawan," which left New York on the same day in Sep- tember, for Cuba, on which the " Iluron " left Boston for Nas- sau. The same year, 1837, they built the sch., afterward Her. brig, "LEWIS BRUCE," 113 tons, of Provincetown. This vessel was owned by Heman Smith of Boston, and was under Capt. Cook. She was condemned at the Cape de Verde Islands many years ago. The next year, 1838, they built the sch. "ERIE," 113 tons, of Scituate ; owners, Lemuel and Seth Webb of Scituate, and Elijah Brooks, William H. and George Tilden of Marshfield. They also built here the brig " MICHIGAN " and the sch. "ROANOKE." In 1840 they built the brig " JO- SEPII BALCH," 153 tons of Boston. Elijah Brooks built, in 1843, the brig "ALLEN KING," 206 tons ; owners, John Manson and George M. Allen of Scituate, and Elijah Brooks, master carpenter, of Marshfield. This was probably the last vessel built at this yard, and was not a successful one for her builders. She lay in Boston Harbor all one winter, and, while at anchor there, was damaged by a gale, and sold for a very low figure to George N. Allen and Mr. King of Scituate Har- bor, and for these two gentlemen she was named. Being a very fast vessel, she was used as a fruiter, and coined money for her new owners, under Capt. John Manson. He took her to the West Indies, and to Brazil, once or twice, but most of the time to Malaga, in the Mediterranean. He left Malaga with a full cargo of fruit for New York, and arrived back in Malaga, with a full cargo of staves, in sixty-two days, carrying back to Mal- aga the report of his own arrival in New York, being the quick- est passage ever made. He was fifty-eight days from Gibraltar
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to New York and back. It will perhaps not be too much out of place to insert, between the history of these two yards, the record of a severe shock felt in Marshfield over one hundred years ago, a notice of which appeared in the Boston Evening Post, Monday, March 15, 1773 :
" We hear from Marshfield that, on the 21st ult., in the night, the inhab- itants there were wak'd with a very loud noise, and considerable jar of the houses, which they took to be an earthquake; but it is since conjectured that it was occasioned by the severe frost, as it was heard several times, sometimes louder than at others, by many, who rose immediately. The ground is eraeked in many places several yards in length, so wide that a man may put his whole arm into the chasms."
The same year there occurred here a sad accident, which is re- corded in the Boston Evening Post, Monday, July 19, 1773, as follows :
" Last week, two boys went bathing into the water at Marshfield, when one of them, venturing beyond his depth, was unfortunately drowned."
Two years before the above, a death occurred, the cause of which was probably, like most sudden deaths in those days, unknown, but would be recognized to-day as apoplexy or heart disease. This was on May 20, 1771, an account of which is found in the Boston Evening Post, of June 10, 1771, as fol- lows :
" We hear from Marshfield that, on the 20th of May, Mr. Kenelm Bake., aged about 76 years, being at his mill, grinding a grist of eorn, complain- ing of a pain in his stomach, when the corn was out went and stopt the mill, and, turning himself, fell against another man, and died in a minute or two."
The William Taylor Yard, referred to earlier in this chapter, was occupied in later years by William Taylor and Israel Car- ver. William Taylor now lives (September, 1889), on Tele- graph Hill, Marshfield, and is, without doubt, the oldest living ship-builder of the North River. Mr. Taylor was the son of Richard and Lydia (Perry ) Taylor, and was born in Scituate, Feb. 14, 1796. He learned his trade of a Mr. Thomas of Dux- bury, a somewhat noted ship-builder of his day, and imme- diately went to work on the River. On Dec. 6, 1825, he mar. Miss Eliza Kent, dan. of Capt. William Kent of Marshfield, who d. in 1875 ; and in 1881, in his eighty-fifth year, he mar. Miss Lydia Allen, who lived but a few years. Mr. Taylor had the reputation of being one of the best workmen that wielded a broad axe in these parts, and his services were eagerly sought by all the master builders on the river. Soon after his first
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marriage, he rented half of the house now owned by Mr. Bacon, near the North River Bridge, Pembroke, and com- menced to build vessels on his own account at the Brick-kiln. He built three or more vessels besides those at this yard, and took the position of foreman in different yards, which he held to the end of his labors. He retired from work a few years since, and lives on his farm, surrounded by his sons, who have all been ship-masters in their younger days. Mr. Taylor has two daughters ; one is the wife of a sea captain on the Cape, and the other the wife of Ed. Arnold of Rockland. Mr. Tay- lor is a very humorous man, and loves to tell of his boyish pranks. For some fancied or real slight by a bevy of girls, in his younger days, he induced them to ride in a tip-cart, which he was driving, and, coming to quite a deep and swift running brook, he withdrew the fastenings, and dumped them all into the water, from which they emerged more wet than hurt. On some gentlemen observing to him, not long since, that he nmust have been strictly temperate to have arrived at his great age, he very humorously remarked that he had drank rum enough to float the largest ship that ever swam, and chewed tobacco enough to load her. Mr. Taylor has the appearance of a per- fectly well man of sixty. There was built at the Taylor & Carver Yard, in 1848, the sch. "LAKE," 74 tons, oak, copper and iron fastened, 67 feet long, break deck ; owned in 1863 by E. Barnard & Co., Bucksport, Me., Capt. Hopkins, and in 1869 at Orland. In 1850 was built the sch. "HORN," Laban Smith, owner ; Capt. Robert Hall. Afterward, James Marble com- manded her. The " SOUTHER" was built here by Israel Car- ver. About 1860, William Taylor and Israel Carver built a schooner of about 70 tons, probably the "EDIE LITTLE," named after Edw. P. Little's wife. Among the ship-builders who left the North River were Henry and John Taylor, who went to Medford ; afterward, John Taylor went to Chelsea, and was the first to build there. Joshua T. Foster went to Medford from So. Scituate. Paul Curtis, William Cudworth (born in Sea View), and Elisha Hayden (of So. Scituate ), went to Med- ford. Many of Scituate's first settlers came from Kent. Ed- ward Goodwin, of Boston, Mass., a shipwright, was of Chat- ham, in Kent, Eng., and without doubt the art of ship-building, so early established at North River and Boston, can be traced to the dock-yards of Chatham, on the Medway.
CHAPTER XVII.
BRIGGS YARD. ( HOBART'S LANDING.)
1645-1842.
THOMAS NICHOLS, SAMUEL HOUSE, JR., JEREMIAHI HATCH, WAL- TER IIATCH, JEREMIAH HATCH, JR., ISRAEL HOBART, JAMES BRIGGS, SETHI BRIGGS, JOHN BRIGGS, THOMAS BARKER BRIGGS, CUSHING OTIS BRIGGS, HENRY BRIGGS, CHARLES C. BRIGGS, WILLIAM T. BRIGGS.
THIS yard was located in Scituate, a short distance up the river from Little's Bridge. It joined " Belle House Neck," which leads down to Little's Bridge. The old workhouse is still standing, and it is the only one now left on the river. On the side of the workhouse is the outline of a ship, cut nearly fifty years ago by H. O. Briggs, a descendant of the family who built vessels here for nearly a century. The old spring down by the stone landing is still running freely. The stone landing marks the spot about where the vessels stood. Vessels launched on this yard would shoot across the river into the opposite bank, and it would sometimes take two or three days to dig them out. Rufus Clapp claims the distinction of being the first to stop this, by putting planks across the stern, leav- ing the ends far out on each side, thus retarding the headway of the vessels in the water.
Thomas Nichols, a shipwright, had lands, in 1645, near and southwest of the spot since known as Hobart's Landing, at which latter place he carried on the art of ship-building. We have been unable to learn of any living descendants of Thomas
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Nichols, unless there be some in Cohasset. Thomas, Jr., suc- ceeded to his father's lands in Scituate, and his son Joseph, b. 1673, lived near George Moore's Bridge. Joseph lost three sons in the French War, viz. : Joseph, Jr., Thomas, 3rd, and Noah. Israel, son of Joseph, resided at the old homestead, near the landing. He lost three sons in the Revolutionary War, viz. : Israel, Jr., Samnel, and Thomas, 4th. Caleb, grandson of Israel, Sr., son of Caleb, lost three sons by ship- wreck - Caleb, Henry, and Reuben-at Cape Cod, in the " Cyrus," under Capt. Seth Gardner, in August, 1830 .* Noah, who d. in the Revolution, left a family, viz. : 1. Nabby. 2. Betsey, who mar. Charles Jones. 3. Cynthia. 4. Lucy, who mar., in 1818, Christopher Cushing, Esq., and, in 1827, Judge Wood of Middleboro'.
Rebecca Nichols, dau. of Thomas, the ship-builder, mar., in 1664, Samuel House, Jr., who succeeded his father-in-law at the yard, and continued the building of ships. Samuel resided a short distance northeast, and near the ship-yard. He was son of Samuel, who resided southeast of Coleman's Hills in 1636. Descendants of Samuel, the ship-builder, settled in Hanover, west of the Third Herring Brook, and in Pembroke, near the ponds.
geremia hats and Walter Hatch built at the landing at a later period. They were brothers, and sons of Elder William Hatch, who settled on Kent street, at the Harbor, in 1634. Jeremiah and Walter resided near each other, southeast of the Second Society's Meeting-house. They have numerous descendants in Plymouth County, and Vermont. Jeremiah mar. Mary, dau. of John Hewes, " the Welshman," and had fourteen children. Jeremiah, the oldest, succeeded to the ship-building at the landing.
Israel Hobart, a shipwright, came into Scituate in 1676 from Hingham, where his house had been burned by the Indians in the spring of that year. Hle settled on North River at Hobart's Landing where he carried on the art of shipbuilding for many years. His house stood near the ship-yard and it was a spacious mansion adorned with two carved cherubs over the door. He was son of the Rev. Peter Hobart of Hingham, and was b. 1642, and d. 1731, aged 89. He probably occupied the ship-yard
See Block-house Yard.
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until it was used by the Briggses. Previous to the time the Briggses occupied this yard, the following vessels were built in Scituate and probably many of them were built at Hobart's Landing by the above builders. In 1678 the brig't'n "SWALLOW," 35 tons, Capt. Ebenezer Dennis; owners, Penn Townsend, James Barton, Samuel Lillie, Boston ; owners in 1698, Penn Townsend, Samuel Lillie, Boston, Capt. John Ober. 1678, slp. " DESIRE," 16 tons. A round sterned open vessel ; owners in 1698, John Wing, mariner, Boston, and Mary Ellery, widow, of Gloucester. 1682, slp. "INDUSTRY," 20 tons; owners, Capt. Jonas Clarke, Jonas Clarke, Jr., Cambridge. 1683, slp. "JOHN & ABIGAIL," 25 tons. Captain in 1698, Joseph Flood, owner, James Flood,
Boston. 1684, "JOSEPH & BENJAMIN," 30 tons. owners, 1698, Capt. James Flood, of Boston, and Peter Coffin of Exeter, N. H. 1692, brig't'n "HOPE," 40 tons. Capt. Abraham Hill ; owner, Samuel Lillie, Boston. 1692, slp. "THREE FRIENDS," 16 tons, square sterned open vessel. Daniel Ware, master; owners, Samuel Lillie, Boston, and William Peperel, Kittery. 1693, slp. "WILLIAM & MARY," 40 tons, John Tulley, master; owners, Jonathan Evans, Bronsden & William Hobby, merchants, John Gerrish, gun- smith, Samuel Greenwood, shipwright, and James Berry, mariner, Boston. 1693, bark "MARY," 60 tons; owners, Capt. John Foster, Samuel Legg, Edward Martyn, Benjamin Alford, Edward Thomas and Thomas Walker, of Boston. 1693, ship "NINETY," 90 tons; James Barnes, Jeremiah Allen, merchants, Bartholomew Green, William Dewsbury, Jeremy Dumer, Robert Calep, John Marshal and Capt. Nathaniel Green, who was master, were the owners. 1694, ketch "GOOD- HOPE," 25 tons, Capt. John Peabody ; owner, John Coleman, Boston. 1694, ship " MARY," 80 tons; owners, Capt. Benjamin Thaxter, Benjamin Alford, Samuel Legg, Thomas Walker and Edward Martin of Boston. 1694, slp. "BLACK- THORNE," 30 tons, of Gloucester; owner, Capt. John Ilarradine. 1697, ship " SARAH," 90 tons, a square sterned vessel ; owners, Robert Howard, merchant, John Hobby and Robert Crosby of Boston. 1698, brig't'n "SWALLOW," 20 tons, lately called "Blessing"; owners, Thomas Miers and Samuel Lillie of Boston. 1698, brig't'n "SPEEDWELL," 40 tons ; owner, John Frizel of Boston. 1699, ship " PROVI- DENCE," 80 tons, Capt. Joseph Royal, Jr., John Coleman, Andrew Belcher and Samuel Legg of Boston, owners. 1699, ship
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"PRUDENCE & DOROTHY," 60 tons, of Island of Barbadoes ; owners, Capt. JJohn Frizell of Boston, JJohn Phillips and John Trent of Barbadoes. These were all built as is seen prior to 1700. Commencing with the next century there was built in the year 1700 the brig't'n " DOROTHY," 30 tons, Capt. Thomas Clutty ; owners, John Frizell, John Hobby and Thomas Hutchinson of Boston. 1702, ship "LEOPOLD GALLY," or " Leopold," a galley ship, 70 tons, Capt. John Pitts ; owners, Stephen Vassal, of the Island of Jamaica, merchant, and William Clarke of Boston. 1703, slp. "ANNE," 35 tons ; owners, Ebenezer, James and Daniel Coffin of Nantucket, and Andrew Belcher of Boston. 1704, slp. "LYON." 30 tons; owner, Andrew Belcher of Boston. 1704, brig "TRYALL," 60 tons ; owners, John Colman of Boston, and Richard Eaton of London, merchants. 1705, ship "VICTORY," 90 tons; owners, 1705, Samuel Lilly, merchant, and Lewis Hunt, of Boston. ship "REBECCA," 90 tons, lately called the " Victory." owners, Thomas Clark, David Jeffries, Francis Burroughs, Samuel Phillips, William Clark and Eliah Adams of Boston. 1706, brig't'n "UNITY," 65 tons ; owners, Daniel Oliver, Joseph Wadsworth and Nathaniel Oliver, of Boston. 1706, slp. "MAYFLOWER," 25 tons; owners, Joseph and Isaac Ryal of the Island of Antigua. 1711, ship " FRIENDSHIP," 60 tons. Jon'a Belcher, merchant, and Andrew Belcher of Boston, owners.
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