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In 1940, the grounds of the chapel were landscaped, the Luther Avenue front of the site walled, and a life-sized statue of St. Thomas More erected at the head of the slope leading from the chapel to County Street.
The communicants of St. Patrick's number 1500 and the attendance at the church and its chapel is about 1000 weekly.
FEDERATED CHURCH
ON MARCH 4, 1912, the Baptist, Methodist and Congregational churches of the Village held conference to consider amalgamation into a Federated Church.
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The committees appointed to represent the churches at the meeting which formulated the federation were:
Baptist Church: Deacons Frank A. Shurtleff and Thomas A. Francis, and Mrs. Alfred H. Hood; Baptist So- ciety : Alfred H. Hood and Alfred Tallman.
Methodist Episcopal Church : Samuel F. Staples, Calvin Dunham and Elizabeth Harding; Methodist Society : Mrs. Irene Peirce and Mrs. Walter Simmons.
Congregational Church: Deacons Frank A. Morrill and William Babbitt, and Mrs. Mary Bartlett; Congrega- tional Society : Simon Moulton and Captain Cornelius A. Davis.
Baptist and Congregational churches merged at once. The Methodist Church continued independently until 1922 when with membership reduced to fifteen it finally joined the other two.
For its meetinghouse the Federated church chose the Baptist building on High Street, a commodious structure to which a spire and a clock of four faces had been added in 1872. This steeple and clock were blown off the building in the hurricane of September 21, 1938.
The Congregational Church building was retained as a part of the new church plant and was the following year remodeled as the Joseph F. Davis Parish House with funds provided for the purpose by Mrs. Davis in memory of her husband.
Under the agreement of federation, the societies of the original churches were left free to participate indivi- dually in the conferences and missionary activities of their respective denominations and to administer their funds and legacies according to their own judgment provided that the income therefrom be used for the support of the Feder- ated Church.
This permitted the Methodist Episcopal building to be retained by that society, when it finally merged in 1922, and it was not disposed of until 1927, when it was sold to Somerset purchasers who adapted it as an amusement hall. The proceeds of the sale were turned in to the Federated treasury. The building was used by its purchasers for about
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two years, served for a period as a temporary school building, and was finally, after years of vacancy, torn down in 1939.
Before the sale of the building, the church organ, a fine instrument, had been sold to the Seventh Day Ad- ventist Church of Providence; the communion set presented to the Pinehurst, Massachusetts, Community Church, and the hymn books to the South Dighton Methodist Episcopal Church.
The Baptist Church, oldest of the component congre- gations of the Federated Church, was the first church in the Village. It began as a congregation in 1796, when Nathaniel Lyons, a mechanic with the trade of cardmaking, came to reside in Somerset. At evening gatherings in his home he taught religious principles and occasionally invited a minister to lead the meetings. In 1803, when those regu- larly attending this meeting had come to number twenty, they organized as a Baptist church and erected a building begun and finished in 1804.
Similar circumstances marked the beginning of the Methodist church, which originated in meetings held in 1841 by Byron Morse, afterwards ordained, in a sail loft at the head of Elisha Burgess' wharf. Out of these meetings grew the "Somerset Religious and Humane Society :" the name the church first adopted.
Following its organization, the Society in accordance with the law of the time sent to Wheaton Luther, justice of the peace, a request to the effect that :
"We, the undersigned subscribers to the stock for the purchase of a lot of land and the building of a meeting house thereon for the use of the Methodist Episcopal Church request that you issue a warrant directed to some one of the said subscribers authorizing him to call a meeting of said subscribers to choose a moderator, clerk, treasurer, trustees, board of assessors ; to adopt a constitution and by- laws and transact other business concerning purchase of lot and the building of a house thereon."
The petition was signed by Edward Slade, William B. Pettis, John Carmichael, Baylies Davis, Darling Marble, George Marble and Elisha Burgess. The meeting was held in
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the Burgess sail loft on April 22, 1842, with Wheaton Luther presiding. In addition to the petitioners, other subscribers to the stock were Daniel Simmons, Thomas Evans, Brad- ford Marble, David Davis, Enoch T. Bowers, Daniel Bray- ton Eddy, John A. Burgess, John G. Wright, Jared Shurtleff, Horatio N. Eddy, Francis E. Cushing, William Baxter and Eleazer Simmons. The new building was dedicated in November of the same year.
In 1860, twenty-one members of the Methodist church withdrew to form the Congregational Church, forming in 1861, a congregation which met in Central Hall until 1865, when it built its own church building on School Street. The secession was one of those disagreements with regard to church policies which accounted for division of many original churches in the early and middle part of the Nine- teenth century. The hope appears to have been that a new Methodist church could be formed. In this the higher church authorities would not agree and finally at a conference of Congregational pastors from Taunton, Berkley, Dighton, Assonet, Raynham, Rehoboth and Fall River the formation of the First Congregational Church of Somerset was ap- proved. This meeting took place in Central Hall on July 3, 1861 and marks the official date of the church's establish- ment.
The ministers serving the Baptist Church from the time of its organization until it united in the Federated Church began with William Barton, an original member of the church, who preached as deacon and elder for six months and was regularly ordained its minister in 1806. He was followed in 1809 by Bela Jacobs, another original member of the church, who remained for two years. A period of struggle for existence now followed, until at the end of five years seemingly unsurmountable difficulties were solved by the return of the original pastor William Barton, who gave two years to restoring its prosperity.
Five years without a regular minister followed and then Elisha Slade came to its rescue, to begin a service to the church which lasted twenty years, and left its imprint equally upon the church and the town. He was appointed
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preacher in 1823, two years after he had married and bought the homestead of the Village Slade's on Main Street. He was teaching in the town's schools, farming his land on what. is now the Village School playground, and plying the trade of cobbler between times. He now took on the task of re- viving the Baptist Church, of which he was a member, as its first two preachers had been.
For seven years he preached without pay, and because the thirty women and four men of the church were hard put to it to keep the church going, served also as janitor and fireman. In 1830, he was ordained and was now teacher, preacher, cobbler and farmer as well as the father of a growing family. The next move of this indomitable man was to provide a site near his home for the building of a small chapel, to save heating costs in winter, which he helped to build. This was dedicated on June 30, 1830, and remained in use for several years and was then converted into a dwelling, now gone.
He preached for thirteen years more, converting many and building up his church's membership and prosperity without relaxing any of his other vocations to which he added in his later years the position of Somerset postmaster. He died in 1860 leaving three daughters and three sons: Malcolm, who enlisted the next year in the Union Army ; Albion K., who became principal of the Fall River High School; and Elisha, Jr., who was town clerk from 1888 to 1899.
All trees on the Village Grammar School lot, except one, are trees raised by Elisha Slade, Jr., from seeds of a maple planted by his father near the homestead. The ex- ception is a tree planted by request of Mrs. Albert Padel- ford in memory of her husband. The trees were moved from their original position near the homestead to their present location by the town. The tree on the corner of School and High Street was planted by Deacon Nathan Davis when he was the town's tree warden.
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The list of Baptist Church ministers since his time, many of them worthy more mention than this volume can find space for, is:
Benjamin C. Grafton, 1843; E. K. Fuller, 1846; Charles Randall, 1849; J. C. Merrill, 1852; Samuel J. Carr, 1856; George Daland, 1861; T. C. Tingley, 1863; L. L. Fitts, 1869; T. M. Butler, 1874; Gideon Cole, 1876; William Pease, 1885; Daniel L. Crofts, 1886; Albert D. Spaulding, 1889; J. R. Verry, 1893; Schyler Foster; 1903-1907; Edward A. Krumreig, 1907-1912.
Annual transfer of pastors according to the strict practice of the early Methodist church policy constituted a large part of the grievance of the members who seceded from that church in 1861. Until 1904, few pastors served for more than a year. Beginning in 1842, therefore, the ministers of the Methodist Episcopal church came and went in annual succession, with the exceptions noted :
Byron Morse, Levi Daggett, E. W. Stickney, Israel Washburn, John W. Chace, Nathan Paine, 1847-1848; Charles Hammond, Father Filmore, O. Huse ; E. H. Hatfield, 1852-1853; W. H. Richards, John Livesey; Franklin Gavin, 1856-1857; James MacReading and C. H. Payne six months each, E. A. Lyon; C. M. Alvord, 1860; William T. Worth, 1862-1863 ; C. S. Sanford, R. K. Bosworth, George L. West- gate, Samuel J. Carroll, Micah J. Talbot, H. H. Smith; James H. Nutting, 1870-1871; O. H. Fernald, 1872-1874; Samuel M. Beale, E. M. Dunham, 1876-1877; Charles E. Walker, 1878-1879; George H. Bates, 1880-1881; J. D. King, 1882-1883; James Tregakis, 1884-1886; J. N. Pat- terson, 1887-1888 ; Frederick Corson, Albert Cameron, L. H. Massey, R. J. Floody; W. F. Taylor, 1892-1896; Foster C. Anderson; John W. H. Miller, 1888-1899; F. A. McCarty, Everett T. Whitefield; Charles M. Hartshorn, 1902-1903; E. W. Goodier; John Pearce, 1906-1910; L. Spangy, W. E. Handy, J. Caleb Justice, Norman McCay, 1915; H. L. Patten, 1918; Edward F. Rees, 1919 ; E. McP. Adams, 1821.
Circumstances attendant upon changes of church and affiliation led the Congregational Church to follow for a considerable time the practice of having weekend preachers
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rather than resident pastors for their leadership, so that complete list of its ministers is impracticable. They began with Charles Lothrop for a year and a half, followed by Nathaniel Richardson for two years, and he by William H. Bessom. In 1865, Nelson W. Clark came to the church as a resident, remaining for six years. He was followed by Leander S. Coan, E. J. Giddings, W. N. T. Dean, John Dodge and others. In 1877, Joseph C. Halliday became resident minister and remained for many years.
Following this extended pastorship the final succession of ministers was: Richard Wickett, Robert M. Peacock, William E. Morse, Thomas F. Norris, James Anderson, Ina Partington, and finally James G. Merrill, who assented to the Federation.
Pastors of the Federated Church have been: George Kierstead, 1912; Charles H. Wheeler, 1912-1914; Benjamin D. Scott, 1914-1916; Benjamin Riner, 1917-1918; Arthur Eastman, 1919-1920; Edward Mason, 1921-1923; Arthur H. Wilde, 1924-1928; Anderson Brown, 1928-1929; Albert V. House, 1930-1937; William E. Austill, 1937 -.
Reverend Edward A. Krumreig, pastor of the Baptist Church from 1907 to 1912, prompted his church to extend the hand of fellowship to the town's Portuguese of Pro- testant faith, and they joined in sufficient numbers to form, . in a few years, the Portuguese Baptist Church which built its own building on Elm Street under the leadership of the Simon family. The congregation of this church is now dispersed and the building is no longer in use.
The building of the Federated Church, progressively renovated and enlarged through the years, notably by the addition of the spire and the raising of the original floor to permit a lower series of rooms, has stood for 136 years. In any community it would be notable for the fact that in 1822 the great New England divine Adoniram Judson, powerful theologian, Christian philosopher and missionary, twice preached there. Here also the once notable "Brother Jackson," freed slave of President Jefferson Davis of the Confederacy, once preached.
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From it Miss Carrie A. Shurtleff, daughter of Dr. Frank A. Shurtleff went to become a medical missionary in China and for three years superintendent of the Briton Corliss Memorial Hospital at Yachau in the Chinese province of Czechuan near the Thibetan border. Forced to leave that country under orders in 1927, she later returned and re- mained for a further period which conditions in China finally terminated.
Identification of all the town's good and great allied with any of its churches must be left to historians of each church by itself. The life of everyone in a community somewhere touches some church. Their ministers, devoted and quiet men who live not to receive but to give, make a town much of what it is.
LOCAL NAMES IN SOMERSET
BLACK BLOCK-Name given in its last days to the weathered and neglected house built on Cherry Lane by Jonathan Bowers for his son David.
Boston Neck-Name given by Pilgrims to Brayton's Point and used in their records.
Bowers Shore-The shore along the Taunton river from South Street to Somerset railroad station.
Buffinton's Corner -- Neighborhood of the intersection of Buffinton Street with Riverside Avenue; southern limit of Egypt.
Buffington's Corner-Neighborhood of the intersection of Pleasant and North Streets; first settled by family of Thomas Buffington.
Buffinton Green-Name of late applied to walled and sodded triangle, formed by the forking of County Street at its junction with Buffinton Street.
Creek Bridge-Bridge across Labor in Vain Brook where Riverside Avenue curves past South Street into Dublin Road.
Dublin Bridge-Same as Creek Bridge.
Dublin-Cluster of homes both sides of Dublin Street, extending from Creek Bridge to High Street, originally occupied by settlers from Ireland. Houses once lined both sides of street; those on north side removed by fire.
Egypt-Stretch of shore and built-up area between Buffinton Street and Center Street. The name arose because customers from surrounding region used to go there to buy grain of Joseph Brown, as the brothers went down to Joseph in Egypt.
The Great Neck-The portion of the Shawomet Pur- chase between the present Read and South Streets.
Labor In Vain Brook-Takes its name from the swamp area it drains, which because of its useless character was
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named Labor in Vain by the early settlers. Reference to the area by the name is found before 1700.
The Little Neck-Name given by the Shawomet Pur- chasers to land south of the present line of Read Street, including Brayton's Point.
Oakum Bay-The cove created by the Somerset abut- ment of the railroad bridge and the northward extension of the filled-in location of the Nail Works. Its sloping shore was used to careen vessels for caulking with oakum.
Out Lot Lands-That portion of Shawomet Purchase north of Read Street.
Read's Corner-Junction of Read Street and County Street; westerly limit of Read's Woods Farm and homestead of Captain Preserved Read.
Rosemere Point-The point formerly occupied by Somerset Inn, later Adam W. Gifford residence. Named from a small pink-flowered plant which has blossomed there for generations.
Storehouse Point-Location of early Plymouth Colony trading station, on shore just north of Somerset Railroad station, Taunton River end of former John A. Burgess farm.
Town Landing-A way early reserved by the town as a public approach to the Taunton River shore, running from corner of Pleasant and North Streets easterly.
Whetstone Hill-Generally explained as coming from the grinding character of an early resident at the top of the hill.
Wickapimpset-Indian name for central section of Somerset north of Read Street and west of County Street.
TANKER PHOENIX-Driven Ashore by the Hurricane of Sept. 21, 1938
SOMERSET VESSELS
Licensed for Domestic Commerce
1790-1815
THE date following a vessel's name is its date of registry.
Where a vessel's name is repeated it will be found re-reg- istered under new owners. Owner's names follow the vessel's tonnage; and all of them are from Somerset unless other- wise indicated. Only those owned in Somerset are listed. Where a vessel was built in Somerset this is indicated.
Sloop Hibernia, 1790; John Shaw, William Wilbur; John Shaw, Master.
Sloop Swallow, 1790; Samuel Read, Antipas Chace, Francis Boar, Jr., Peleg Mason, Swansea; Samuel Read, Master.
Schooner Harmony, 1791; 24 tons; Preserved Peirce, sole owner and Master.
Sloop Parthenia, 1791; 29 tons; John Gardner, Joseph Gardner of Swansea; Edward Mason, Master.
Sloop Somerset, 1791; 20 tons; built Somerset; Job Chase, Jared Chase of Dartmouth ; Job Chase, Master.
Sloop Hannah, 1792; 27 tons; built Somerset; Lloyd Bowers; William Lawton; William Lawton, Master.
Sloop Swallow, 1792; Henry Gibbs sole owner and Master.
Sloop Union, 1793; 62 tons; built Somerset; Obadiah Peirce, Ebenezer Peirce, David Peirce, Samuel Gibbs ; Shef- fel Weaver Master, later Nathan Weaver.
Sloop Dolphin, 1793; 23 tons ; built Somerset ; Abiathar Austin sole owner and Master.
Schooner Ranger, 1794; 100 tons ; built Somerset ; Jesse Chace, Isaac Chace, Collins Chace, Isaiah Chace, Philip Chace; Isaac Chace Master, later Stephen Chace.
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Schooner Adventure; 1794; 60 tons; built Somerset; Joseph Northam Master.
Sloop Sally, 1794 ; 56 tons ; built Somerset ; James Chace, Barzillai Walker, Daniel Eddy, Francis Brown; Francis Brown Master.
Schooner Blackney, 1794; 43 tons; built Somerset; owned in Swansea by Philip Luther, Benjamin Trott; Simeon West Master.
Sloop Betsy, 1794; 26 tons ; bought and sailed by Henry Gibbs, Master.
Sloop Industry, 1795; 31 tons; Barzillai Walker, James Chace, Daniel Eddy ; Oliver Simmons Master.
Schooner Good Interest; 72 tons; Collins Chace, Jesse Chace, Isaiah Chace; Collins Chace Master.
Schooner Regulator, 1796; 104 tons; built Somerset, Stephen Chace, James Chace, Barzillai Walker, Daniel Eddy ; Stephen Chace Master.
Sloop Nancy, 1797; built Somerset by Joseph Robinson ; sold to William Lawton and Nathan Bowen of Freetown.
Brig Two Brothers, 1797; 88 tons; built Somerset; Stephen Anthony, Samuel Anthony; Stephen Anthony Master.
Brig Polly and Nancy, 1798; 105 tons; Henry Pettis, James Chace, Barzillai Walker, Daniel Eddy, Benjamin Davis, Jr., John Pettis, 2nd; Henry Pettis Master. Joseph Robinson was Master the next year.
Schooner Fish Hawk, 1798; 55 tons; built Somerset; Joseph Morse, David Anthony; and David Mason, Job Mason, Jr., and James Trott of Swansea.
Sloop Betsy, 1798; 43 tons; Philip Slade, John Eddy ; John Eddy Master.
Sloop Friendship, 1798; 58 tons; Henry Gibbs owner and Master.
Sloop Polly, 1799; 34 tons; Henry Gibbs; and Philip Hathaway; Lot Hathaway and Joseph Hathaway of Free- town; Philip Hathaway Master.
Sloop Republican, 1799; 30 tons; William Lawton owner and Master.
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Sloop Flora, 1799; 24 tons; built Somerset; Preserved Sherman, James Sherman, Joseph Sherman; Preserved Sherman Master.
Sloop Dolphin, 1800; sold to Collins Chace and Benjamin Davis, Jr .; Collins Chace Master.
Schooner Mary, 1800 ; 130 tons ; John Bowers; Benjamin Davis, Jr. Master.
Schooner Hiram, 1800; 87 tons ; built Somerset; Collins Chace, Daniel Eddy, Preserved Eddy ; Collins Chace, Master.
Sloop Industry, 1801; bought by William Lawton.
Sloop Friendship, 1800; bought by James Morrison and Nathan Weaver ; Nathan Weaver Master.
Sloop Harriet, 1801; 81 tons; built Somerset; Joseph Brown, Samuel Brown ; Samuel Brown Master.
Sloop Lucy, 1801 ; John Bowers; David Davis Master.
Sloop Friendship, 1801; sold to Philip Gibbs, 3rd.
Schooner Bonetta, 1801; 89 tons; built Somerset, Ben- jamin Slade, Ebenezer Peirce, Obadiah Peirce, David Peirce, Francis Peirce; Joseph Northam Master; later Nathan Weaver Master.
Sloop Swift, 1801; 50 tons; Samuel Brown, William Winslow, Philip Winslow, John Winslow, 3rd; Samuel Brown Master. This sloop, though only 50 tons, was 54 feet long.
Schooner Polly, 1802; 88 tons; John Bowers; Francis Brown Master.
Schooner Paragon, 1802; 145 tons; Samuel Brown, Joseph Brown, Henry Gibbs; Samuel Brown Master. The biggest vessel built to that date in Somerset.
Schooner Joseph, 1802 ; 104 tons ; built Somerset ; Joseph Gray, John Trott; John Trott Master.
Schooner Diana, 1803; 88 tons; John Bowers; Henry Pettis Master. James Morrison, later Master.
Schooner George, 1803; built and owned by John Bowers.
Schooner General Johnson, 1803; 99 tons ; John Bowers; Reuben Burgess Master.
Brig Sally, 1803; sold by John Bowers to Benjamin Davis; Henry Pettis Master.
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Schooner Franklin, 1803; 84 tons; Robert Gibbs, 3rd, Samuel Weaver; Robert Gibbs, 3rd., Master.
Schooner Venus, 1803 ; built Somerset ; Gideon Robinson, John Stacey, James Salisbury, Sylvester Robinson; Gideon Robinson Master.
Schooner Antelope, 1803; 86 tons; Sheffel Weaver, Jonathan Read, Jonathan Read, Jr .; Sheffel Weaver Master.
Schooner Prudence, 1804; 46 tons; William Read, Jr., Thomas Davis; William Read, Jr. Master.
Sloop Revenue, 1804; 33 tons ; David Cleaveland, Robert Miller, Isaac Winslow, Elisha Davis; David Cleaveland Master.
Schooner Mary, 1804; 86 tons; built Somerset, James Morrison ; Preserved Sherman Master.
Sloop Argus, 1804; 44 tons; Robert Slade, David Slade; Henry Slade Master.
Brig Love and Unity, 1804; 100 tons; built Somerset; Simeon Jones, James Trott ; Simeon Jones Master.
Sloop Julia and Ann, 1805; 75 tons; Israel Sherman, Preserved Sherman, Israel Sherman Master.
Schooner Rose in Bloom; 1805; 99 tons; built Somer- set, John Peirce, Samuel Brown, Eber Slade, Clark Chase; John Peirce Master.
Brig Betsy, 1805; 101 tons; Henry Gibbs, Benjamin Purinton, Wanton Chase; Henry Gibbs Master.
Sloop Prudence, 1806; 39 tons; bought by Nathan Simmons who sailed it as Master.
Sloop Lively, 1806; 41 tons; built Somerset by Joseph Brown for himself and sailed by him as Master.
Sloop Christopher, 1806; 22 tons; William Lawton owner and Master.
Sloop Defiance, 1806; 25 tons; built Somerset, Samuel Bourn ; Nathan Simmons Master.
Sloop Lydia, 1808; 42 tons; built Somerset, Joseph Marbel, John Cartwright, David Cummings, David An- thony ; Stephen Chace master.
Schooner Richmond, 1806; 118 tons; James Morrison; John Brown Master.
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Sloop Argus, 1807; Samuel Weaver, Henry Gibbs, Sheffel Weaver; and Nathan Read of Troy; John Weaver Master.
Sloop Lydia, 1808; 42 tons; built Somerst, Joseph Marble owner and Master.
Sloop Lively, 1808; William Lawton on affirmation owns the Lively.
Sloop Traveler, 1808; 53 tons; built Somerset; Joseph Brown, John Brown, Richard Chase, James Luther, Edward Chase; John Chase Master.
Schooner Ann Maria, 1808; 57 tons; built Somerset; John Chase, Stephen Slade; John Chase, Master.
Sloop Three Sisters, 1808; 68 tons; built Somerset; Collins Chase sole owner and Master.
Schooner Good Interest, 1810; 74 tons ; built Somerset ; sold to Preserved Eddy, Samuel Brown ; John Peirce, Master.
Schooner Fame, 1810; 77 tons; Joseph Robinson, Ben- jamin Chace; Joseph Robinson Master.
Sloop Union, 1810; 62 tons ; bought by William Lawton.
Schooner Richmond, 1810; still owned by James Mor- rison ; Henry Slade Master.
Sloop Joseph, 1810; 44 tons; built Somerset; Joseph Brown, James Luther, Benjamin Purinton; Joseph Brown Master.
Sloop Flora, 1810; built Somerset; sold to Joseph Robinson; Holder Chace, Master.
Schooner James and Eliza, 1810; 117 tons; built Somerset ; Robert Gibbs, Samuel Weaver, John Cartwright; Robert Gibbs Master.
The James and Eliza, according to sworn statement of Capt. Robert Gibbs at the Customs House, was taken and burned by the British Frigate Loire, James Townshend commanding, January 27, 1812.
Schooner Hiram, "laid up at Georgetown, S. C., on account of the enemy's cruisers" sold January 7, 1812, by Collins Chace.
Rising Sun, Samuel Shove Master, was sold February 5, 1812 by its owner Joseph Marble.
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Sloop Flora, sold July 7, 1813.
Sloop Industry, William Lawton, destroyed by the British April 7, 1813.
Sloop Fox, 1814; 40 tons ; Gideon Robinson, Benjamin Brightman, Joseph Tompkins; sold at Passamquoddy in 1815.
Sloop Abigail, 47 tons; Elisha Burgess, Gideon Robin- son ; Gideon Robinson Master, sold in December 1814.
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