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II. Stephen, b. June 14, 1706. III. Benjamin. IV. Mehet- abel, b. Aug. 26, 1711, mar. Jotham Tuttle. V. Samuel, b. July 18, 1714, mar., Nov. 27, 1740, Rebecca Adams. VI. Jonathan, b. Mar. 29, 1717, afterward of Boston, gentleman. VII. David, b. June 1, 1719. VIII. John, b. Sept. 24, 1722. IX. Rebecca, b. May 6, 1725, mar. Eben Rockwell.
BENJAMIN KENT, of Boston, gentleman, who was attorney for David in 1749, and probably his brother and son of Joseph VI., mar. Elizabeth, dau. of Jacob Hassey, and had children : 1. Elizabeth who mar. Butman. 2. Sarah, mar.
Blowers. 3. Benjamin who appears to have gone away and all trace of him was lost, possibly forever. Benjamin, Sr., and wife Elizabeth removed to Halifax, N. S., soon after or about the time of the Revolution. On April 15, 1785, he being about to visit Boston, leaving his wife and children in Halifax, deeded a certain messuage or dwelling-house in Boston in trust to Sanmel Danforth, M.D., of Boston, to make use of for the support, etc., of his wife and children. This dwelling-house was formerly the residence of Benjamin, and was situated "at the north side of King street by the north end of the Town or Court House." Benjamin d. prior to 1794. His wife was residing in Halifax in 1808.
David 7, son of Joseph 6, mar., in 1744, Abigail Damon, who survived him, and who notwithstanding the restrictions in her husband's will,* mar., 2ndly, a Mr. King. David probably
him ye said Benjamin the sole executor of this my last will & testament In witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand & seal this twenty-ninth day of April Anno Domini seventeen hundred & forty-six
sig. seal'd published & declared
JOSEPH KENT (seal.) in presence of
Henry Venner, Eben'r Rockwell, Thos. Goldthwaitt j
Probated Jany. 6, 1758.
Letters granted to Benj. Kent Jany. 6, 1758.
See Probate Records, Suffolk Co., Vol. 53, page 54 & 55.
* WILL OF DAVID KENT.
In ye name of God Amen, I, David Kent of Boston in ye County of Suffolk in New England Cooper do hereby make this my last will & testament hereby revoking all other & former Will or Wills and testaments heretofore by me made & being of sound mind & memory do dispose of all my estate both real & personal in ye following manner and effect. But Imprimis I restore my soul to my Almighty God & Father who has blessed me with ye same and depend on his infinite goodness & mercy for my present and eter- nal future felicity and my body I resign to ye grave to be decently inter' by my exec- utrix hereinafter named. Item, the use & improvement of all my real & personal estate I give and bequeath to my loving wife so long as she shall continne my widow. Item I give and bequeath severally to my sons David & Joseph Kent, Fifty pounds to be paid to each of them by my Executrix hereinafter to be mentioned as they shall sev-
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left Charlestown early and followed his trade of cooper in Bos- ton as in the Boston Town Records, 1742-1757, we find that
" At a Town Meeting held in Boston, Mar. 16, 1742, Mr. David Kent and six others were chosen cullers of staves for the year ensuing," and " At a Town Meeting, held Mar. 22, 1743, Mr. David Kent and eight others were chosen cullers of staves and hoops for the year ensuing."
He had by his wife Abigail two sons: I. David. II. Joseph, both minors at the time of the death of their father in 1760. Their mother Abigail was appointed their guardian in 1762, David then being "above 14 years of age." David, Sr., and wife Abigail resided at the north end of Boston, corner of Ship (afterward called Fore) street and Battery Alley (so called) in a two-story house " all wooden except a brick back," which he bought May 10, 1743, paying therefor £93, 15s. Wyman, in his Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, K to Z, page 573, states that David, Sr., removed to Philadelphia, but from what source he received this information the author has been unable to ascertain. Certainly at the time of his death, David owned the property on Ship street and his widow resided there for many years. We will give Joseph's family first, then David's.
erally attain to the age of twenty-one years notwithstanding ye use and improvement aforesaid. Item, in case my said wife Abigail Kent should intermarry with any man after my decease my will is and I do thereupon give bequeath and derise to my son David one third part of my real and personal estate to him and his heirs to have and to hold to him and them inimediately upon and forever after his attaining to ye age of twenty- one years. Item one other third part of my real and personal estate (on such intermarriage as aforesaid) I hereby give bequeath and devise to my son Joseph Kent to him and to his heirs to have and to hold to him and them immediately upon and forever after his attain- ing to ye age of twenty-one years. Item the other third part of my real & personal estate after my said wife's decease I do hereby give bequeath and devise to my said sons, the one moiety to my son Darid and his heirs and ye other moiety of said third to my son Joseph and his heirs forever. Item, my loving wife Abigail Kent I appoint ye sole executrix to this my last will and testament. In Testimony of all which I have here- unto set my hand and seal this nineteenth day of April A.D. 1759
DAVID KENT, (seal)
sign'd seal'd, publish'd prononne'd and declar'd to be my last will & testament
in presence of ye subscribers
William Thomas, Rebecca Rockwell, Jonathan Kent.
Suffolk S.S. By ye Hon'ble Thomas Hutchinson, Esq. Judge of Probate &c. The within written will being presented for probate by ye executrix therein named, William Thomas & Rebecca Rockwell made oath that they saw David Kent, the subscriber to this instru- ment sign the same and also heard him publish & declare it to be his last will & testa- ment & that when he so did he was of sound disposing mind and memory according to these deponents' best diseerning and that they together with Jonathan Kent (since deceased) set to their hands as witnesses thereof in the said Testators presence.
THOMAS HUTCHINSON. Boston March 7, 1760,
Probate office. See Bk 56 p. 279 (1760)
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JOSEPH II, son of David 7 was mar. to Mary, or Polly Clark, Oct. 24, 1768, by Rev. John Lathrop. Joseph d. prior to 1789. The Massachusetts Magazine records the death of a Mary Kent, Ang. 1, 1789. They had children : 1. Joseph. 2. John who succeeded to their father's interest in the estate, cor- ner of Ship street and Battery (or Daggett's) Alley, which they still held in 1806, and also property on Prince street. Joseph, who was a cooper, was mar. to Hannah Trask, Oct. 18, 1795, by Rev. Jeremy Belknap ; John, also a cooper, was mar. to Eunice Trask, Oct. 27, 1799, by Rev. Thomas Baldwin ; both Joseph and John were residents of Boston in 1813.
David I., son of David 7, mar. Lydia Damon in 1773. He was a shipwright by trade, and probably built at Scituate Harbor, and possibly in Boston as he and his wife are spoken of in a deed dated 1797 as "of Boston." In 1789 he owned one undivided half of a dwelling house, located at the North end of Boston between Clark's and Hartt's building yards, near the North Battery, and on the corner of Ship street and Dag- gett's alley. This location suggests that he might have been a shipwright on one of the above yards. He d. in 1825. Lydia, his wife, died in Scituate, Dec. 12, 1831, aged 82. They had children : 1. Samuel the shipbuilder. 2. SALLY, mar. Thomas Lapham ; she d. Mar. 11, 1821, aged 46 years. 3. RACHEL, mar. Perkins Clapp.
Samuel I., the shipbuilder, son of David I., mar. Hannah, dau. of Capt. Noah Brooks (who was b. in 1744, and d. at sea). She also had a bro., Capt. Noah of South Boston, and two sisters : one mar. William Bradford of Kingston; the other mar. the Hon. John Holmes of Maine. Samuel Kent resided at Seituate Harbor for many years, where he built ves- sels. An account of his business here is given in this chapter. Later he and his family removed to South Boston, but he after- ward returned to Scituate, where he d. Aug. 5, 1829, aged 56 years. Samuel and Hannah Kent had children :
1. CHARLOTTE APPLETON, b. Jan. 12, 1800, d. Jan. 3, 1885. She mar., June 12, 1820, Ivory Hall of Alfred, Me. He d. April, 1873. Children : 1. Ivory Bradford, b. March 7, 1821, mar. Phebe L. Nason, Dec. 5, 1847. He d. April 16, 1856, leaving children : 1. William Bradford, b. April 11, 1849, who mar. Lizzie Newhall, and resides in Portland, Oregon, where they have four children : Bradford, Ada, Hubert and Chester,
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and, 2, Noah Brooks, b. July 31, 1853, who is mar., and also resides in Portland, Oregon, where he has two children, Flor- ence and Ernest. 2. Hannah Francis, b. June 4, 1825, d. Aug. 22, 1826. 3. Charlotte Appleton, b. Mar. 5, 1829, mar. James L. Emerson, July :365, and resides in Alfred, Me., where they have two child .: Mary Lottie, b. Jan. 12, 1867, and Fannie Hall, b, May 29, 1870. 4. Charles Henry, b. May 7, 1831, mar. Lizzie M. Marston, Feb. 7, 1866. They reside in South Boston, and have had six children : L. Gertrude, b. Fcb. 19, 1867 ; Charles Bradford, b. Mar. 16, 1869 ; Lillian May, b. Aug. 22, 1871; Frank Ivory, b. Oct. 1, 1873; Nettie Estelle, b. Dec. 1, 1875 ; Florence Appleton, b. May 15, 1879, d. July 19, 1880. 5. Rachel Francis, b. Sept. 15, 1835, mar. Benjamin Parker, Aug. 29, 1877, and resides in Somerville, Mass. 6. Hannah Brooks, b. July 21, 1838, d. June 5, 1839. 7. Edward Kent, b. Mar. 28, 1840; d. Aug. 15, 1884.
2. HANNAII WILLIAMS, b. Oct. 14, 1801, mar. Alphens Stetson, Dec. 4, 1819. They had eight children : 1st. Alpheus M., b. Sept. 21, 1820, mar. Sophia B. Osborn of So. Boston, Oct. 7, 1842, and had three children : 1. John Alpheus, b. July 28, 1844, mar. Julia Van Veighton of Rome, N. Y., June 20, 1866, children : John Alpheus, Jr., b. Feb. 2, 1868; Archie, b. June, 1869, d. July, 1869 ; Herbert Osborn, b. JJune 3, 1871 ; Sophia Lawson, b. Aug., 1876, d. April, 1877 ; Wil- liam Graydon, b. Feb. 18, 1878 ; 2. Frances Sophia, b. Dec. 11, 1847, d. Sept. 8, 1848; 3. Herbert Osborn, b. Sept. 7, 1850, d. March 28, 1872. 2d. Daniel F. W., b. Sept. 15, 1823, d. May 16, 1825. 3d. Edward F., b. June 18, 1826, d. Nov. 15, 1829. 4th. Hannah Elizabeth, * b. Nov. 7, 1828, mar. Harrison O. Briggs. 5th. Edward F., 2nd, b. March 23, 1830, d. Oet. 27, 1830. 6th. Sarah W., b. Aug. 15, 1833, mar. Joseph F. Baker of Boston, Oct. 11, 1854, children : 1. FRANCES JOSEPHINE, b. Oct. 2, 1855, mar. Henry Ifunt Arnold of Boston, Sept. 19, 1877 ; 2. ANNAH WILLIAMS, b. Jan. 9, 1858, mar. Charles Everett of Boston, June 15, 1882. She has one child : Charles, b. Oct. 11, 1883. 3. ALPIIEUS STET- SON, b. Feb. 6, 1860, mar. Martha E. Alden of Newton, Sept. 29, 1887. He has one child : Frances Josephine, b. Oct. 13, 1888. 4. GRACE SEARS, b. May 15, 1867. 7th. Franklin J., b. Apri 15, 1839, d. March 28, 1841. 8th. Mary Adelaide, b. June
* For Genealogy of her family see Chapter on Briggs Yard.
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25, 1843, mar. George F. Neale ; Oct. 3, 1865, children : Geo. S., b. Oct., d. in Sept., 1866 ; Mary H., b. Sept., 1869 ; Alice K. and Forence, b. Jan., 1875, (Florence deceased) ; Lawrence I., b. July 1885.
b.Sept. 12,
3. Samuel Kent Br 1803*mar. 1st, Ann Henry, of
Boston, 2nd, Elizabeth Tripp Baker of Dorchester, Nov. 24, 1831. By his second wife he had children : 1. Samuel Henry, b. Sept. 14, 1832, mar. Maggie McCrea, Dec. 25, 1859, mar. 2nd, Mary J. Biggs, widow of Lee, and resides in San Fran- cisco, Cal., no children. 2. John Hawes Bird, b. Oct. 1, 1835, mar. Sarah E. Shaw of Boston, April 5, 1877, and they have one child, John Henry, b. Dec. 14, 1878. 3. Edward Francis, b. June 20, 1842, d. Jan. 4, 1823.
4. RACHEL CLAPP, b. Oct. 21, 1805, d. April 1, 1858. She mar. Ubert L. Pettingill, and they had children : 1. Charlotte Kent, b. March 6, 1838, mar. Edward L. Goodwin ; 2. Susan Jane Adams, b. Sept. 24, 1840, mar. 1st, Truman Flint ; 2nd Curtis C. Goss ; 3. Hannah Brooks, h. Aug. 7, 1842, mar. Edward R. Taylor ; 4. Frances, b. Nov. 29, 1844, mar. James Mackey ; 5. Ubert Kalloch, b. June 2, 1848. All the above have descendants excepting Ubert K.
5. NOANI BROOKS, b. in 1806, a shipwright, d. Jan. 19, 1861, in Augusta, Me., aged 55 years. He mar. Elizabeth Ellms, dau. of . Josiah Dunham. ; She was b. 1815, and d. in 1838,
* His correct name was Sam'l King Kent, but he dropped the King, he said to show his aversion to a king. He was a shipwright, and built in 1825, at Boston, the sch. "Newcomb," 46 tons, for Lot Wheelwright, Loring Newcomb, Joseph Cotton, Jr., and Chas. Appleton.
+ Simons, in his History of South Boston, p. 271, says: "Prominent among those who have been for a long time identified with the interests and history of South Boston, stands the well known name of Josiah Dunham. He was born in New Bedford, March 11, 1775. He was son of Jesse and Susan Dunham. His father was a sea captain. The family were among the earlier settlers of Plymouth, the first record of which goes back as far as the year 1635. The branch from which he descended subsequently moved to Martha's Vineyard. When a youth he came to Boston and served an apprenticeship at the rope making business with a Mr. Richardson, the father of the lIon. Jeffrey Richard- son, of Boston, whose ropewalks extended from Purchase street to Milk street, near to the present location of Pearl street. He first commenced the manufacture of cordage on his own account in a ropewalk which stood on or near Boylston street in Boston. In the year 1807, he became the purchaser of several acres of land at South Boston in the vicinity of B street and built a residence for himself and a ropewalk, where he continued to carry on the cordage manufacture until the close of the year 1853. During all the years of his residence in South Boston he was engaged in the building of dwellings and
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aged 23 years. They had children : 1. Mary Ann, b. April, 1832, in So. Boston, d. in 1847, aged 15 years; 2. Sarah Elizabeth Ellms, b, Sept. 22, 1834, near Bryant's corner, Scit- uate, where Noah B. Kent and family resided for one year, when they returned to So. Boston. She mar. Nov. 15, 1858, Lloyd Briggs. (For Genealogy of this family see chapter XVII.)
6. BARKER B., b. in 1811, a ship-joiner, mar. Sarah H., dau. of Josiah Dunham and sister of Elizabeth, wife of his brother Noah Brooks Kent. Barker d. June 27, 1876. Sarah, his wife, d. Nov. 7, 1838. They had children : 1. by adoption, Barker B. (formerly Nathaniel Tuttle) a physician, b. Aug. 26, 1841, d. Feb. 2, 1872. He mar. Helena M., dau. of Capt. Ezra H. Baker of So. Boston, and they had one child, Sarah Helena, b. Aug. 1, 1871, d. Feb. 2, 1872.
7. SARAII ANN, b., Feb., 1812, mar. in So. Boston, Benja- min, son of Elisha James, M.D., of Scituate. Children : 1. George Barker, b. JJuly, 1837, mar. Adelaide G. Washburne and has four children : George B., William G., Robert K. and Addie. 2. Elisha Francis, b. Jan. 3, 1841, mar. Elizabeth Sears, and has four children, Edward S., Elisha F., Sarah A.
stores, and, without erecting a large number in any one year, in the aggregate he was the moving spirit in the erection of more buildings in the place thian any other man. Though he did not have the advantage of early education, yet for foresight, energy, per- severanee and power of memory, he had few superiors. He was impulsive, easily excited, and an injury, real or supposed, was not soon forgotten. On the other hand his friend- ships were strong, his benefactions generous and long continned, and he would often do favors to others even to his own injury. He was an active participator in the efforts for building the North Free Bridge, and was untiring in his zeal for whatever promised to be of advantage to the place of his chosen residence. He served the Twelfth ward in the Common Council in the year 1833, and for three succeeding years was an efficient mem- ber of the Board of Aldermen. While a member of the latter Board he felt a deep interest in the grading of the streets of South Boston, but few of which previous to that time had been put in a respectable condition. Finding his associates in the Board rather slow in their movements in this work he followed the example of one of whom he was an ardent supporter and in his capacity as one of the Surveyors of the Highways 'took the responsibility.' He set men to work in ploughing down and levelling up Fourth street and Broadway. Wlien completed he carried the bills for the same, amonnting to some $2500, before the Aldermen, who with some shrugs of their shoulders and a few smiles at the boldness of the act of their associate, approved the bills and ordered their payment by the city. In the year 1823, when the Congregational Church was formed which is now known as the Phillips Church, he generously erected a hall on Fourth street for their place of worship and gave them the rent and other substantial aid till they erected their chnreh building. He had a wonderfully strong and vigorons con- stitution and died April 28, 1857 being 83 years of age." Josiah Dunham mar. Mary Ann, dan. of William and Mary Elms ol Middleborough, Mass. She d. Feb. 16, 1958, aged 60 years 8 months. Josiah and Mary.were both interred in No. 11 St. Matthews Church, South Boston but in May, 1861, were removed to Forest Hills, their last resting place. "In 1853 Josiah Dunham, Jr., was chairman of a committee appointed for the purpose of organizing a Shade Tree Society." (History of South Boston, p. 220.) "It is to be hoped that the day is not far distant when every street as soon as graded will be graeed with flourishing and beautiful shade trees."
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and Charles D. 3. Edward Brooks, b. Sept. 14, 1843, mar. Smith and has had five children : Benjamin K., (deceased) Edward B., (deceased) Williams B., Reginald S., Catherine H. 4. Charles Little, b. Jan. 14, 1846, mar. Clith- eroe Dean, and has three children : Dean K., Benjamin, 3rd, and Clitheroe. 5. Benjamin, b. Dec. 26, 1851, mar. Kittie Greely, no children. 6. Williams Kent, b. Dec. 25, 1852, mar. - - Johnson, and has one child, Herbert .J. Benjamin James, Sr., mar. for his second wife Susan Hall, who was b. in 1823, and by her had one child. 7. Frank Irvin, h. in 1862, d. young. The following are some of the Marshfield branches of the Kent family .*
ELISHA KENT, mar. Susanna Ford June, 1741. They had children : 1. William, b. Oct. 1, 1742, mar. Mary Samson, 1773. 2. Smith, b. Oct. 22, 1744. 3. Elisha, b. Sept. 13, 1746, lost at sea. 4. Peleg, b. Oct. 4, 1748, mar. Elizabeth Ford. 5. Lucy, b. Oct. 5, 1750. 6. Phebe, b. July 5, 1752, died early. 7. Charles, b. Jan. 7, 1754, mar. Ruth Baker. 8. Sarah, b. Feb. 19, 1756, mar. Melzar Samson, 1780. 9. Nathaniel, b. Dec. 25, 1760. 10. Warren, b. Dec. 20, 1764. 11. Alice, b. April 22, 1766. 12. Susanna, baptized May 11, 1766.
JOSEPH KENT, mar. Lydia Thomas, Feb. 28, 1743. They - had children : 1. Ann, b. Oct. 28, 1744, died carly. 2. Thomas, b. Oct. 13, 1746, lost at sea, 1771. 3. Lydia, b. 1751, mar. Dr. Burnham of Norwich, Conn. 4. John, b. 1756, mar. B. Walker. 5. Nathaniel, b. 1760, mar. 6. Abigail, b. Dec. 22, 1763, mar. Asa Weston. 7. Elizabeth, b. May, 1767, died June, 1856.
BENJAMIN KENT, mar. Persis Doggett, 1723. Benjamin Kent died at Kingston, Jamaica. They had children. 1. Penelope, baptized Nov. 8, 1724 or 1726, died early. 2. Joseph. 3. John, minors, at their grandfather's death removed to Maine. 4. Persis, b. July 9, 1724, mar. Robert Jenkins of Boston. 5. Betsey or Elizabeth, (mar. a Bois [?] of Milton). 6. Nathaniel. 7. Mary, died young. The will of Benjamin Kent of Boston, mariner proved June 27, 1748, in Suffolk County, Mass., gives a remainder of his estate to eight
* Nat. Kent, Nat. Thomas and Nat. Ford all of Marshfield, who used to be called the "three Nats," settled at Readfield, Maine, and Kent's Hill at that place took its name from Nat. Kent.
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children, viz. : Benjamin, Nathaniel, Joseph, John, Persis, Elizabeth, Bathsheba and Mary, and appoints his wife Persis executrix. A clause from Benjamin Kent's will reads, " My will is that my said wife shall have the use and improvement of the rest of my real and personal estate to enable her to 1 * og up my children until the youngest of them arrive to the , of
twenty-one years, and if there should be occasion to sel and dispose of any or all of my real estate for that end I hereby give her power to do so and to execute proper deeds of the same."
EZEKIEL KENT, mar. Susanna Winslow, Dec. 22, 1740, who was probably widow of Nath'l Winslow. They had children : 1. Penelope, b. JJune 26, 1743, mar. Josiah Winslow. 2. Susanna, b. June 17, 1745. 3. Deborah, b. Oct. 18, 1748, mar. Stephen Carver. 4. Ezekiel, b. March 1, 1747, drowned. 5. Marcy, b. Oct. 2, 1754, mar. a Beveridge. 6. Ann, b. Jan. 12, 1758. 7. Benjamin, b. Nov. 6, 1760, mar. a Beveridge. This family removed to Fox Island, Maine.
WILLIAM KENT, mar. Mary Sampson. They had children : 1. William, b. Sept. 5, 1773. 2. Polly, b. Dec. 28, 1775, mar. Asa Sherman, Dec. 27, 1798. 3. Susanna, b. Nov. 15, 1778. 4. Smith, b. Nov. 28, 1783. 5. Sylvia Church, b. July, 1788. 6. Elisha, b. Oct. 17, 1789, mar. B. Sprague. 7. Alice Warren, b. April 8, 1793.
SAMUEL KENT, mar. Desire Barker, June 25, 1732. Desire died June 14, 1744. Samuel Kent mar. secondly, Mrs. Phoebe Cook, of Kingston, Dec. 8, 1748. Children all by the first wife. 1. Samuel, deceased carly. 2. Nathaniel, b. Feb. 25, 1735, died at Portsmouth. 3. Hannah, b. Aug. 4, 1737, mar. Nathan Brewster. 4. John, b. Oct. 13, 1739, settled at Portsmouth. 5. Sarah, b. Aug. 6, 1741, mar. John Friend of Newburyport. 6. Huldah, b. Dec. 2, 1743, died unmarried. 7. Ichabod, b. Dec. 13, 1747, settled at Duxbury. 8. Desire, mar. A. Hunt.
The above Samuel Kent was probably not a shipbuilder. There is a tradition that the Kents originally emigrated from the continent of Europe to England. Judge Hoar, a descend- ant of the Kents, has looked up some valuable facts, the author understands, relative to this family, but the information came too late to investigate for this book.
The first vessel built by Samuel Kent, of which we have found any record was in 1798, the sch. " ELIZA," 70 tons, owned by
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Jesse Dunbar and Samuel Kent, of Scituate. The next year, 1799, he built the sch. "SALLY," 83 tons, of Charlestown ; owned at one time by Jesse Dunbar, Eli Curtis, Samuel Kent and Asa Vinal. After they sold her, she was sold by the U. S. Marshal while she was owned by Charlestown parties, for a breach of the laws of the United States. Later she was owned in Sweden and called the sch. " Nysted." Samuel Kent built in 1800 the ship " CHARLOTTE," 154 tons, of Boston. Also in 1800, the sch. "LIBERTY," 88 tons ; owned by Wil- liam and Lemuel Vinal, Charles Ellmes, who was master, and David Otis, of Scituate. He built three vessels the next year, 1801, viz : ship "MARTHA," 192 tons, of Boston ; sch. " EAGLE," 107 tons, of Boston, and the sch. " WASHING- TON," 87 tons ; Barnabas Hedge, owner, at Plymouth. In 1827 she was whaling and sealing in the South seas. In 1802, Samuel Kent built the sch. "HANNAH," 138 tons; two decks and two masts, of Scituate, Ira Bryant, master ; Lemuel Vinal, Samuel Kent, and Ira Bryant, Scituate, owners. He built in 1803 the sch. "INDUSTRY," 68 tons, of Scituate ; Lemuel Vinal and Nehemiah Manson, owners ; also in 1803, the sch. "NANCY," 94 tons ; owned by Abner Bailey, Elijah Cur- tis, David Otis and Davis Jenkins, of Scituate. The "Nancy " was afterward used as a North River packet, and commanded by Capt. Asa Sherman, Sr. In 1804, the sch. "MARY," 82 tons, of Kingston, was built by Samuel Kent, master carpen- ter, and in 1805, the sch. " WASHINGTON," 108 tons ; owned by Ezra and Lemuel Vinal, Abraham Harris and Perez Pynchon, of Scituate ; also in 1805 the sch. " JAMES," 100 tons ; owned by Israel Merritt, Ensign Otis, Jr., Lydia Little, and Gridley Cole, of Scituate. In 1807, the sch. "FRIENDSHIP," 79 tons, owned by Samuel Kent, shipwright, Lemuel Vinal, Nehemiah Manson, David Otis, Jr., and Perez Pynchon, of Scituate. He also built the brig " OREGON."
Kent's yard was used by Anthony Waterman in 1813, which year he built the sch. "OLD CARPENTER," 22 tons; Lem- uel Vinal, owner, Scituate. He also built the sch. "JOLLY TAR" at this yard. Anthony was son of Capt. Anthony, the tanner, who came into Scituate from Marshfield in 1760. Anthony, Jr., b. 1763, resided at Buck's corner, near the Harbor. His son James had a tannery on the old Turner and Copeland place, So. Scituate. Anthony Waterman has a grandson, Andrew, now living at the Harbor, where he keeps a tinshop op- posite the South Shore House. The British man of War, " Bul-
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wark," lay off Scituate Harbor during the war of 1812. Deane writes : "The militia of Scituate were called out certainly on one occasion, viz., July 7, 1814. The British 74, called the " Bulwark," had lain near Scituate Harbor several weeks, and had sent a demand on shore for fresh beef and vegetables, which the citizens of course did not furnish. Early in the morning of June 11, 1814, two tenders manned with marines came into the Harbor and set fire to the shipping, and returned to their vessel. Ten vessels, fishing and coasting craft were lost. A regiment of militia, under Col. John Barstow, repaired to the neighborhood of the Harbor; but their services were not needed, and they returned to their homes."
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