Mattapoisett and Old Rochester, Massachusetts : being a history of these towns and also in part of Marion and a portion of Wareham., Part 20

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Publication date: 1932
Publisher: [Mattapoisett, Mass.] : Mattapoisett Improvement Association
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1854. Matthew Luce, bark, 410 tons, Holmes; Onward, ship, 461 tons, Holmes.


1855. Plover, ship, 330 tons, Holmes.


1856. Contest, ship, 441 tons, W. Barstow; Eliza, bark, 360 tons, Meigs; Huntress, bark, 383 tons, Holmes; Merlin, bark, 348 tons, Holmes; Brewster, ship, 225 tons, Holmes; Sunbeam, bark, 360 tons, Holmes; Thomas Pope, ship, 327 tons, W. Barstow; South Seaman, ship, 497 tons, Meigs; Sea Ranger, bark, 370 tons, Holmes.


1858. Two Brothers, bark, 288 tons, N. H. & H. Barstow.


1859. Ocean Rover, of Nantucket, ship, 314 tons, Holmes.


1860. Ocean Rover, of Mattapoisett, bark, 417 tons, Holmes.


1865. Active, tugboat, Holmes.


1867. Alaska, bark, 346 tons, Holmes. -


1868. Concordia, bark, Holmes.


1869. Laura Robinson, schooner, Holmes.


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1877. Gay Head, bark, Holmes.


1878. Wanderer, bark, Holmes.


Other vessels known to have been built in Mattapoisett, but in what year is not known, are:


George C. Gibbs, W. Barstow; Brutus, brig, 200 tons, built on Herring River; George Lee, ship, 650 tons, W. Barstow; Watkins, bark, W. Barstow; Lamartine, schooner, W. Barstow; Ormus, brig, B. Barstow; Sarah, schooner, B. Barstow; Laura Jane, schooner, Holmes; John Milton, ship, W. Barstow; Lydia, ship, Meigs; Eliza, schooner, N. H. Barstow; Elizabeth, bark, 219 tons, Cannon; Polly Hall, Cannon; Almira.


Mattapoisett built whalers for other ports, but she also built for herself and carried on a considerable whaling business for nearly a century. As early as 1771 we find that the sloop Defiance, hailing from Rochester, sailed on a whaling voyage, and between that date and 1865, when the Willis, the last whaler, was sold, some fifty different ves- sels sailed from the port. It does not seem to have been a prosperous business for the village, nor for Marion, which had about half as many whalers. The voyages were gen- erally short, and three hundred or four hundred barrels were thought to be good catches. Perhaps they were out- fitted too well; the supplies may have cost more because they were to be eaten by the men and boys of the village, of whom the crews were largely composed, and who would have to be faced by the owners when the voyage was ended. The voyages were alluded to by the New Bed- ford and Nantucket people as "Plum Pudding Voyages;" whether this was because of their lavish food supplies or for some other reason is uncertain.


The list of these whaling vessels is likewise imperfect.


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The year when each vessel first appears is given, together with her name and who were first her agents, the agents afterwards changed in most instances.


1771. Sloop Defiance.


1816. Sally, a schooner.


1820. Orion, a brig.


1822. Pocohontas, a brig.


1826. Magnolia, schooner, 90 tons.


1827. Sophronia, schooner.


1830. Franklin, bark, 250 tons, G. Barstow & Son, Agents; Lexington, schooner.


1831. Dryade, bark, 263 tons, G. Barstow & Son, Agents; Laurel, schooner, G. Barstow & Son, Agents.


1832. Gideon Barstow, ship, 379 tons, G. Barstow & Son, Agents.


1833. Shylock, ship, 277 tons.


1836. Annawan, brig, 148 tons, G. Barstow & Son, Agents; Caduceus, brig, 109 tons, Joseph Meigs, Agent; Mattapoisett, brig, 150 tons, G. Barstow & Son, Agents; Sarah, brig, 171 tons, G. Barstow & Son, Agents; Orion, brig, 99 tons, Elijah Willis, Agent.


1837. Lagrange, brig, 170 tons, Elijah Willis, Agent; LeBaron, brig, 170 tons, G. Barstow & Son, Agents.


1839. Chase, brig, 153 tons, G. Barstow & Son, Agents; Richard Henry, bark, 173 tons, G. Barstow & Son, Agents; Willis, brig, 164 tons, R. L. Barstow, Agent. 1841. Edward, brig, 133 tons, Wilson Barstow, Agent; Elizabeth, bark, 219 tons, R. L. Barstow, Agent.


1842. Joseph Meigs, ship, 338 tons, Joseph Meigs, Agent. 1845. Cachelot, ship, 230 tons, Wilson Barstow, Agent.


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1846. Dunbarton, bark, 169 tons, Wilson Barstow,


Agent. Sarah, ship, 370 tons, Joseph Meigs, Agent.


1847. Helen, brig, 120 tons, R. L. Barstow, Agent.


1850. Samuel & Thomas, bark, 191 tons, R. L. Barstow, Agent; America, brig, 148 tons, R. L. Barstow, Agent.


1851. R. L. Barstow, bark, 208 tons, R. L. Barstow, Agent; Massasoit, bark, 206 tons, Caleb King, Jr., Agent; Oscar, bark, 369 tons, S. K. Eaton, Agent; Sun, bark, 183 tons, R. L. Barstow, Agent.


1852. Clara Bell, bark, 295 tons, R. L. Barstow, Agent; Excellent, brig, 70 tons, John T. Atsatt, Agent.


1853. March, brig, 89 tons, R. L. Barstow, Agent.


1856. Amelia, brig, 127 tons, L. Meigs & Co., Agents; Elvira, brig, 131 tons, L. Meigs & Co., Agents; Palmyra, schooner, 100 tons, L. Meigs & Co., Agents.


1857. Brewster, ship, 225 tons, J. Holmes, Jr. & Bro., Agents; Union, bark, 124 tons, R. L. Barstow, Agent.


1859. Ocean Rover, ship, 314 tons, J. Holmes, Jr. & Bro., Agents.


Agents of Whaling Vessels.


Gideon Barstow, probably before 1800, and down to 1830; Gideon Barstow & Son (Wilson Barstow), 1830-1844; Wilson Barstow, 1841-1850; Elijah Willis, 1836-1847; Rogers L. Barstow, 1839-1860; Seth Freeman, 1841- 1854; Leonard Hammond, 1841-1844; Samuel Sturtevant, Jr., 1847-1849; Loring Meigs, 1851-1860; John T. Atsatt, 1852-1854; Atsatt & Sturtevant, 1854-1858; Josiah Holmes, Jr., 1854 -; Josiah Holmes, Jr. & Brother, 1854- 1862; Solomon K. Eaton, 1851-1854; Caleb King, Jr.,


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BARK SUNBEAM Built in Mattapoisett in 1856



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1852-1854; N. H. Barstow, 1861-1863; J. R. & W. L. Taber, 1861-1864.


But if the owners of Mattapoisett whalers did not prosper, the master, officers, and crew did; many acquired a com- petency in the business, and Mattapoisett whalemen were quite famous. To Archelus Hammond, born 1759, died 1830, a noted whaleman, belongs the credit of striking the first whale ever struck in the Pacific, and of intro- ducing whaling into that ocean.1 Mattapoisett whaling masters were recognized as good business managers of voyages, as navigators, and skilful whalemen.


An excellent account of the life on one of these ves- sels has been written in "On Board a Whaler," by Thomas West Hammond, M.D., a native of Matta- poisett, now a member of the bar in Tacoma, Wash- ington.


The following extracts show what Dr. Robbins noted in his diary in regard to shipping while he was in Mattapoisett:


1831


Oct. 22. A large fine ship was launched here this morning. 360 ton. It did not go off well.


1832


June 28. Toward evening two fine ships were launched here, and a third was attempted and failed.


June 29. At evening the other large ship was launched.


Aug. 11. Went on board the new ship Gideon Barstow, which is to sail soon.


Sept. 23. A ship was launched here in the evening, unnecessarily I think, and a good deal of work done during the day.


Oct. 15. Looked at a fine new ship of live-oak, built in four months.


Oct. 22. The schooner Laurel, anxiously expected came in with 230 barrels of sperm oil.


Ship-building on North River, Briggs, page 167.


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Oct. 24. In the morning attended the launch of a fine live-oak ship, over 400 tons. It did not go clear.


1833


Feb. 11. We have a painful account that the captain and a boat's crew of a whaleship belong here is lost.


Mar. 26. Two promising young men of this place have been lost at sea from a whaleship. Visited one of the families.


May 2. Looked at a new ship, which was well launched toward evening.


May 23. Attended the launching of the finest ship, probably, that ever was built here. It did not float actively.


June 18. Another ship was launched here successfully. All whalers.


Nov. 13. A schooner belonging here came in from whaling, having made a very profitable voyage.


1834


May 20. Saw the launch of a fine ship - the first from Mr. Cannon's new yard. It went very well.


May 21. Saw another ship launched in fine state from Mr. Cannon's yard.


June 30. Rode to Bedford and procured some tracts to give to the ship Dryad.


1835


Sept. 22. Attended the launching of a good ship.


Sept. 25. Yesterday saw a fine ship launched here.


Oct. 23. A ship launched in the morning.


Dec. 9. The ship G. Barstow, mostly owned here, came into the harbor, after a voyage to the Pacific of more than three years, with a moderate cargo of 2100 bbls. They had hoped for 3000. The first Cape Horn ship loaded that has entered this harbor.


1836


Apr. 4. A new brig owned here was launched Saturday evening. May 30. Attended the launching of a ship.


1837


Apr. 21. At evening saw the launching of a ship.


May 22. A good ship was launched here Saturday evening.


Sept. 24. Afternoon preached the sermon on Ps. XCVII: 1, 2, on the loss of the brig Cadmeus (Caduceus?) which sailed from


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here Apr. 28, 1836, and was spoken at sea, bound home, Nov. 28, and had not been heard of since. Their crew were fifteen; eleven from this town.


1838


Mar. 26. A fine ship was launched here this morning.


July 10. A ship was launched here this morning.


1839


Apr. 4. News came that the brig Annawan of this place, coming home with a valuable cargo, was wrecked near Bermuda, and the men are reported missing. Several families are much dis- tressed.


Apr. 15. Painful news received here this morning from the brig Anna- wan, wrecked. Of 21 of the crew, 14, including the cap- tain and mates, are lost; 7 are saved, 7 from this place; 4 lost. The cargo worth about $20,000.


Apr. 26. Saw a seaman Chase, who was wrecked in the Annawan. His story is very affecting. Four promising youths of this place were lost.


May 10. A whale brig came in here that has done well.


May 17. Yesterday a whale brig came in with 600 barrels of sperm oil.


June 12. Wrote a letter to Capt. Samuel Mitchell of Bangor, who took our seamen from the late wreck.


Aug. 9. A ship from this place with 2000 barrels of oil has been lost in the Indian Ocean; men saved. A severe loss.


Aug. 21. A whale brig sailed from here.


Aug. 27. A fine ship was launched here this morning.


Oct. 7. It is supposed we have lost a schooner from this place; a good vessel with its crew, on their passage from Philadelphia to Boston, in the disastrous storm of Aug. 30.


Nov. 7. A whale brig came in here last night after a very prosperous voyage.


1840


July 27. We had a very fine launch of a good ship.


Sept. 15. A bark whaler sailed from here. Gave bibles and tracts.


Oct. 2. Whale brig sailed.


Oct. 12. In the morning a fine new ship went off with fine launch.


Oct. 13. Whale brig sailed.


Oct. 23. Whale brig came in from a good voyage.


1841


Apr. 6. A whale brig sailed this morning. One went last week.


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Apr. 11. A whale brig sailed yesterday.


May 31. Five ships and a brig on the stocks.


June 11. There are six ships and one brig on the stocks in our ship yards.


June 15. Mr. Crosby and his company launched a fine brig.


June 19. Last evening a fine ship was launched here. Another large whale ship was launched this evening.


July 8. A new whale brig sailed from here this morning.


Aug. 16. Two fine ships were launched within a few minutes of each other.


Sept. 16. Two fine ships were launched here this morning.


Dec. 22. A whale brig sailed from here this morning.


1842


Apr. 17. A whale brig came in this morning with a good cargo, but oil is very low and has a dull sale.


Aug. 6. Saw the launch of a ship.


Aug. 13. A barque ship sailed from here for whaling.


Sept. 6. Two good ships were launched here this morning near to- gether. A whale brig came in.


Oct. 8. The fine new ship Jos. Meigs sailed from here this morning.


Oct. 12. A whale brig came in.


Nov. 25. A whale brig came in.


1843


Apr. 28. Two whale brigs sailed from here this morning.


June 10. A ship of 400 tons was launched here.


Oct. 19. A whale brig sailed from here.


1844


Apr. 4. A whale brig came in.


May 30. A whale brig came in.


May 31. Two large ships were launched at our yards within a few minutes of each other.


June 17. A whale brig sailed from here.


Aug. 24. A fine live oak ship was launched here yesterday, built it twelve weeks.


Sept. 3. A whale brig, gone three months and twenty-three days, came in with 450 barrels, sperm oil. A great voyage.


Early in the nineteenth century, salt-making became an important industry in the shore villages of Rochester.


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It attained a higher development at Sippican than Matta- poisett; yet the industry was largely developed in the latter village also, and is a part of the history of Rochester town. Abraham Holmes writing in 1821, says:


"The principal manufacture of this town is salt. This business is carried on on an extensive scale and it is be- lieved that more salt is manufactured in this town than in any other town in the Commonwealth, and it is the most productive of any business here practised."


During the Revolution salt had been in great demand, and some was obtained along the Buzzards Bay shores by the process of boiling sea-water. In 1806 a more import- ant salt industry was established in Rochester as well as in neighboring towns. The direct occasion of this was the Embargo Act, shutting out the salt from the West Indies, which had been the chief source of supply.


The process used was one of simple evaporation, but required considerable machinery and equipment. The water was pumped from the sea by windmills, and carried through pipes (or tunneled logs) to shallow vats twelve or fifteen feet square, from which the water was evapo- rated by sun exposure, being carried from vat to vat at different stages of the process. There was a salt-house to receive the completed product, and at night and in rainy weather, great covers (or roofs), moved by heavy "crane-beams," were placed over the vats to protect the drying salt. One "crane" of salt-works usually included four of these evaporating vats.


People used to come in their wagons to the salt-works to purchase their home supply of salt, and much was also exported. It is said that in the days of the early boiling process, one enterprising salt-maker, made each year an


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ox-wagon-load of salt which he carried to Vermont. There he sold his oxen, returning with a fresh yoke of animals and a return freight of butter and cheese for the home market.


In the days of the sun-evaporating process, much larger quantities were obtained. At the height of this industry twenty thousand bushels of salt were sometimes produced in the town during a single year.


The largest salt-works of Sippican were those of Eben- ezer Holmes in the lower village near Nye's wharf, below the Sippican House. He lived to be a very old man, and continued to look after his salt-making through his closing years. There were many other salt-works, at Great Neck, Little Neck, along the shore of the upper village, and between the two villages. It is said that salt-works were "all over Sippican " and the windmills of these salt-works were a distinctive feature of the village landscape. The works of Captain Hammett were at the upper village; the Delano salt-works were at several localities, at one of which medicinal salts were manufactured.


In Mattapoisett also, salt-works were carried on, at Aucoot Cove, at Goodspeed's Island, in a large field in the rear of the Baptist Church, and in other places. The last salt-maker was Isaac Hiller, who continued in this industry at Aucoot Cove until about the time of the Civil War.


About 1812 the First Parish of Rochester, having at- tempted, without great success, to raise the minister's salary by voluntary subscription instead of by taxation, a movement was started to obtain a fund for church support by carrying on some parish salt-works. In 1815 six cranes of salt-works were built at Briggs's Neck, and


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others were added afterwards at different points on Sippi- can harbor. They did not prove financially profitable, however, and about 1838 these parish salt-works were sold.


The September gale of 1815 was very damaging to the salt industry, not only spoiling the salt already made, but sweeping away the works themselves, which however, were afterwards rebuilt.


CHAPTER XII


MATTAPOISETT IN THE CIVIL WAR


W HEN the news arrived of the firing on Fort Sumter, April 13, 1861, the same patriotic feeling that surged up and down through all the Northern States filled the breasts of our people, and the records of the town for the years 1861-65 show that Mattapoisett was not behind in its realization of the duty it owed to our common country.


This being a seaport town, and the whaling industry being at its height, it was natural that the Navy should claim a large number of enlistments among the seafaring men, as was evidenced by the fact that out of one hun- dred and fifty men apportioned as our quota, sixty-five entered the Navy.


During the year 1861 the town in its corporate capac- ity took no action in relation to the war, but during the year thirty-nine men entered the Army and Navy. On July 18, 1862, however, the town voted to pay a bounty of one hundred dollars to each volunteer, to the number of twenty, "who shall enlist within the next sixty days for three years or the war." The treasurer, with the consent of the selectmen, was authorized to borrow money to pay the same; the interest and ten per cent of the capital to be paid annually until the debt should be discharged.


August 7, 1862: Voted to increase the bounty for three


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years' volunteers, fifty dollars, and fifty dollars additional to those who would enlist before the 15th of the month. August 30, 1862, voted to pay a bounty of one hundred and twenty-five dollars to each volunteer for nine months' service, to fill the quota of the town. December 15, 1862: Voted to pay a bounty of one hundred and fifty dollars to volunteers who enlist for three years and are credited to the quota of the town.


In that year Thomas Nelson was appointed special recruiting agent for the town, and one of his grandsons has in his possession a poster which he, as agent, then put out, calling for volunteers.


During 1863-64 the authorities continued to recruit men and pay bounties, but no special action appears to have been taken by the town in its corporate capacity except to appropriate money when necessary.


In 1865, in the warrant for the annual town meeting in April, was an article "to see if the town will authorize the selectmen to borrow money to pay bounties to keep the quota of the town filled." During the proceedings of the meeting information was received from the South, and the clerk noted the fact on the town record in these words, written in large letters: "NEWS of THE CAP- TURE OF RICHMOND RECEIVED." In consequence of which no appropriation was made to pay bounties to volunteers, for the war was practically ended.


Schouler, in his " Massachusetts in the Rebellion," says that "Mattapoisett furnished one hundred and fifty men for the military service, which was a surplus of eight over and above all demands." A careful count on the records shows that this town furnished one hundred and eighty men for the Army and Navy. The whole amount of money


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appropriated and expended by the town on account of the war was $7110.


The following are the names of the men from Matta- poisett who gave up their lives in the great struggle:


EDWARD F. BARLOW, Co. E., 18th Mass. Reg., died September 3, 1864, while a prisoner at Andersonville prison, Georgia.


JOHN T. BARSTOW, Co. K., 1st Mass. Reg., died at Ascension Hospital, Washington, D. C., December 20, 1862.


JOHN BATES, U.S.N., was killed March 22, 1862, at Mosquito Inlet, Fla., while on a boat expedition.


Acting Master JOHN S. DENNIS, U.S.N., died February 27, 1865, at New Madrid, Mo., while in command of U.S.S. Huntress.


WILLIAM C. DEXTER, Co. E., 58th Mass. Reg., died in hospital at Fortress Monroe, August 4, 1864.


FRANKLIN A. LOBRE, Co. I., 3d Mass. Reg., was taken prisoner December 10, 1862, at Plymouth, N. C., and died at Petersburg, Va., January 19, 1863.


ELIJAH W. RANDALL, U.S.N., died on board U.S.S. Housatonic, April 19, 1863.


EDWARD F. SNOW, Co. D., 18th Mass. Reg., died at home, September 6, 1864, only four days after his dis- charge from the service.


GEORGE D. SNOW, Co. D., 18th Mass. Reg., was killed in action at Fredericksburg, Va., December 13, 1862.


WILLIAM HENRY TABER, Co. C., 17th Penn. Cav- alry, died March 18, 1862, in hospital at Mumfords- ville, Ky.


CHARLES H. TINKHAM, Co. D., 3d Mass. Reg., died at Newbern, N. C., November 30, 1862.


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EBENEZER TRIPP, Co. G., 20th Mass. Reg., was killed in action at Ball's Bluff, Va., October 24, 1861.


GEORGE W. WILCOX, Co. D., 18th Mass. Reg., died August 23, 1862, in hospital at Philadelphia.


WILLIAM S. WILCOX, 5th Batt. Lt. Art., died November 28, 1862, in hospital at Falmouth, Va.


The names of Amittai B. Hammond, Joseph E. Smith, Jarvis Ellis, Nathan H. Barstow, Thomas P. Hammond, Josiah Holmes, Jr., Wilson Barstow, and Franklin Cross should ever be held in grateful remembrance by the people of Mattapoisett, for it was these men who, as selectmen during the years 1861-65, piloted the town through the serious turmoil of war.


The name of Thomas Nelson should also be gratefully remembered, for it was he, as Town Clerk, through the same years, who kept a most careful record of the service of every man who enlisted from the town, and as recruiting agent, and in service to the families of men at the front, he in many ways endeared himself to the people.


Too much credit also cannot be awarded to the women of the town for their zeal in working faithfully for the soldiers and sailors, while in the field, in the hospital, or on board the ships of the Navy. There are no records to show how much was thus done, but if there were, Matta- poisett, we are sure, would be proud of their service there shown.


During the Civil War a number of vessels from these ports were taken by Confederate cruisers. One of these was the bark Ocean Rover, the last whaler built and fitted in Mattapoisett before the war. She carried four Matta- poisett men, James M. Clark, Captain; William Harlow, second mate; Marshall Keith, fourth mate; and Charles B.


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Hammond, boat steerer; of whom Mr. Hammond is the only survivor. On the 8th of September, 1862, while lying in almost a dead calm about fifteen miles off the island of Flores, the Ocean Rover was overtaken by the Con- federate cruiser Alabama. Seeing that capture was in- evitable, Captain Clark ordered the stars and stripes set and helpless in the calm summer evening the whaler awaited her fate. The officers and crew received very courteous treatment from the Confederates. Having signed the parole of honor, they were sent with their personal effects to Ponta Delgada, Flores, and on the following day the Ocean Rover was burned. Another was the Altamaha, from Marion, commanded by Captain Gray, with Capt. Judah Hathaway, of Rochester, as mate and part owner, and James R. Blankinship, of Matta- poisett, second mate. The Altamaha was captured by the Alabama and burned, and the officers and men sent to Fayal. In later years the owners and crews of these vessels gained some restitution in the form of " Alabama Claims."


It took Mattapoisett a number of years to recover from the financial drain of this four years' war, chiefly on ac- count of the decline of the ship-building and whaling industries, the proceeds of which had been its mainstay. Conditions to-day are very different than they were in 1861-65, but if called upon again, as in those years, we feel sure that this town would respond as generously as before.


October 22, 1904, a fine monument, as a memorial to the men of Mattapoisett who gave their lives in the ser- vice of their country, was appropriately dedicated by visit- ing posts of the G.A.R., Naval Veterans, Sons of Veterans,


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BARSTOW STREET, MATTAPOISETT Showing Monument and Library Building


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and the school children. This monument was the gift of George Purrington, Jr., and stands on a lot on Barstow Street purchased with a special fund which had been held by the town for several years.


There is in town an organization known as the Army and Navy Memorial Association, composed of veterans and their wives, and several others, formed for the pur- pose of perpetuating the proper observance of Memorial Day.


List of men who served in the Civil War from Matta- poisett :


Ames, Loring T.


Bannon, Alexander, Co. K., 58th Mass. Reg.


Barlow, Edward F., Co. E., 18th Mass. Reg.


Barlow, Gideon B., Co. B., 3d Reg. H.A.


Barrows, Alpheus, Co. I., 3d Mass. Reg., also Co. F., 53d Mass. H.A.


Barrows, Andrew J., Co. F., 3d Mass. H.A.


Barrows, George, Co. L., 3d Mass. Reg.


Barstow, Elijah W., Ist Lieut., Co. - , 3d Mass. H.A., also 1st Lieut., Co. H., 5th U.S. Art.


Barstow, John T., Co. K., 1st Mass. Reg.


Barstow, Josiah M., U.S.N.


Barstow, Solomon, Master's Mate, U.S.N.


Barstow, Wilson, Jr., 37th Reg. New York Vols., Ensign Capt., Lt. Col., Col., and Brevet Brig. Gen.


Barstow, Zaccheus M., Co. D., 23d Mass. Reg. Bates, John, U.S.N.




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