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Owned by Silsbee, Pickman & Allen. From the painting by a Chinese artist at Hongkong, showing the ship off the Lema Islands on June 24, 1872. In possession of Capt. Charles H. Allen, Jr.
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Dec. 5, 1863. Josiah L. Foster, Beverly, Anna F. Lovett, Beverly, Charles H. Odell, Beverly, William R. McLarren, Beverly, Sylvanus Goodwin, Beverly, owners ; Sylvanus Goodwin, master.
FEDERAL GEORGE, brig, 178 tons, Weymouth, 1807. Reg. May 21, 1823. John Winn, jr., owner ; Charles Davis, master. [Lost at Scituate, Jan. 19, 1824.]
FELICITY, sch., 76 tons, Baltimore, Md., 1826. Reg. July 16, 1830. Robert Brookhouse, Nathan Robinson, owners ; Robert Hussey, master. [Sold on the coast of Africa in 1830.]
FENELON, Beverly, brig, 115 tons, Rochester, 1815. Reg. Nov. 21, 1822. Larkin T. Lee, Beverly, owner ; Larkin T. Lee, master. Reg. Jan. 13, 1825. John Dike, Andrew Thorndike 2d, Boston, Larkin T. Lee, Beverly, George West, owners ; Larkin T. Lee, master. Reg. Mar. 22, 1826. Samuel Chamberlain, Joseph Felt 3d, George West, John Hayman, owners ; John Hayman, master. [Sold to Salem owners in Jan., 1825. Condemned at St. Thomas, W. I. I., Dec. 1831.]
FIDES, brig, 135 tons, Duxbury, 1819. Reg. Feb. 26, 1828. Samuel Chamberlain, Joseph Felt 3d, owners ; John Hayman, master. Reg. Sept. 30, 1835. Samuel Chamberlain, George West, Benjamin Cox, John Madison, owners ; John Madison, master. [Sold at Santiago de Cuba in 1837.]
FIRE FLY, bark, 401 tons, Boston, 1853. Reg. Dec. 15, 1857. Edward D. Kimball, Thomas P. Pingree, Charlee H. Miller, Nathaniel A. Kimball, owners ; William McCann, mas- ter.
FIRST ATTEMPT, sch., 52 tons, Waldoborough, Me., 1822. Reg. Jan'y 10, 1825. Richard Savory, Joseph Howard, John Howard, James Perkins, Thomas Farless, William Treadwell, Samuel Holman 3d, owners ; John Miller, master. Reg. Mar. 9, 1830. Cutler Weston, Henry Towne, owners ; Henry Towne, master. {Sold to Thomaston, Me., owners, Mar., 1832.]
FISHER, sch., 66 tons, Salisbury, 1784. Reg. Dec. 19, 1789. Joshua Ward, John Buffington, Peter Lander, Samuel Robin- son, owners ; John Buffington, master. Reg. Aug. 20, 1790. Stephen Webb, jr., Joshua Ward, Jonathan Neal, owners ; Stephen Webb, jr., master. [Sold to Charleston, S. C. own- ers, Oct., 1791.]
FISHHAWKE, sch., 69 tons, Newburyport, 1786. Tonnage altered to 101 tons, Oct. 6, 1802. Reg. Aug. 16, 1794. Jon- athan Gardner, owner; John Fairchild, master. Reg. July 15, 1799. Joseph Peabody, Thomas Perkins, owners ; William Cook, master. Reg. July 25, 1800. Joseph Peabody, Gideon
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Tucker, owners ; William Cook, master. Reg. July 29, 1815. Stevenson Richards, owner ; Stevenson Richards, master. [Jacob Lee was also master.]
FIVE SISTERS, Danvers, sch., 80 tons, Danvers, 1798. Reg. Dec. 17, 1800. Samuel Page, Danvers, owner ; Christopher Babbidge, master. Reg. May 13, 1806. William Pender, Danvers, owner; Timothy Stanley, master. [Solomon Giddings was also master. Sold to Marblehead owners, Mar., 1807.]
Flora, ship, 95 tons, Norwich, Conn., 1788. Reg. Nov. 15, 1792. John Sinclair, Joseph White, Nathaniel Richardson, owners ; Thomas Bowditch, master.
FLY, sch., Beverly, 58 tons, Ipswich, 1788. Tonnage al- tered to 51 tons, April 7, 1809. Reg. Feb. 27, 1800. Nehe- miah Adams, Beverly, Samuel Lamson, Beverly, Samuel Cox, Beverly, owners ; Samuel Lamson, master. Reg. April 7, 1809. John Green, John Hutson, owners ; John Green, master.
FLYING EAGLE, sch., 102 tons, Essex, 1853. Reg. Dec. 31, 1856. John Bertram, owner ; William Clarson, master.
FOLLANSBEE, ship, 269 tons, Salisbury, 1797. Reg. Dec. 14, 1797. Jonathan Mason, John Collins, Joshua Ward, Jesse Richardson, Joshua Follansbee, Salisbury, owners ; Jon- athan Mason, master. [Sold to Newport, R. I. owners; April, 1800.
FORMOSA, ship, 1252 tons, Chelsea, 1868. Temp. Reg. Bos- ton, Dec. 26, 1868. William D. Pickman, Benjamin H. Sils- bee, John H. Silsbee, George Z. Silsbee, George H. Allen, owners ; Ambrose D. Cobb, master. [Charles H. Allen, jr., and Benjamin O. Reynolds also masters. Lost in the Allas Straits near Java in 1880; original painting by a Chinese artist, in the possession of Capt. Charles H. Allen, jr.
FORRESTER, brig., 242 tons, Rochester, 1825. Reg. Dec. 26, 1826. Gideon Barstow, Nathan Robinson, Richard G. Wheat- land, Gideon Barstow, jr., Rochester, Wilson Barstow, Roches- ter, Zacheus M. Barstow, Rochester, owners; Richard G. Wheatland, master. [Sold in New York in 1829 for $8000.]
FORRESTER, ship, 427 tons, Newbury, 1839. Reg. Dec. 15, 1842. William B. Baker, jr., Isaac Cushing, John F. Andrew, owners ; John Burnell, master.
FOUR BROTHERS, sch., 76 tons, Amesbury, 1800. Tonnage changed to 107 tons, Sept., 1809. Reg. May 7, 1804. Clifford Crowninshield, owner ; John Millet, master. Reg. Sept. 26, 1809. James Devereux, William Mollay, owners ; William Mollay, master.
SHIP FRANCIS, JOSEPH PEABODY, OWNER. From the painting by Anton Roux, 1816, in the possession of the Essex Institute.
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FOUR SISTERS, sch., 79 tons, Salisbury, 1795. Reg. Feb. 5, 1796. Timothy Wellman, William Wyatt, owners ; Timothy Wellman, master. Reg. Apr. 20, 1798. Timothy Wellman,owner; Timothy Wellman, master. Reg. Apr. 16, 1799. Timothy Well- man, Robert Stone, Jonathan Hodges, John Ropes, owners ; Benjamin Shillabar, master. Reg. Apr. 20, 1802. Samuel Peters, owner ; William Fairfield, master. Reg. June 26, 1805. James Dowling, Beverly, owner ; James Dowling, master. Reg. Apr. 9, 1810. William Ray, William B. Swett, Nicholas Thorndike, jr., Beverly, owners ; Nicholas Thorndike, jr., master. Reg. Feb. 1, 1811. William Orne, William P. Orne, Charles H. Orne, owners; Joseph Ervin, master. Reg. June 8, 1815. William Orne, Charles H. Orne, owners; Eben. G. Evans, master. [Captured by the French in the West Indies in 1799. The claim was awarded in 1902. Sold to Beverly owners in June, 1805, and sold back to Salem owners in April, 1810.]
FOUR SISTERS, Beverly, ship, 177 tons, Newburyport, 1791. Reg. Dec. 3, 1796. Israel Thorndike, Beverly, Edward H. Robbins, Milton, owners ; Isaac Rea, master. [Sold to Boston owners, Dec. 1798.]
FOUR SISTERS, Beverly, sch., 127 tons, Freeport, 1806. Reg. Dec. 26, 1810. Robert Haskell, Beverly, Robert Haskell, jr., Beverly, Ephraim Haynes, Trenton, owners; Zachariah Morgan, master. Reg. Aug. 14, 1823. Nathaniel Safford, owner ; Free- born Woodbury, master. [Sold to Salem owners, Aug., 1823.]
FOUR SISTERS, brig, 114 tons, Newburyport, 1816. Reg. Nov. 6, 1824. Franklin H. Story, Stephen White, owners ; Frederick Boles, master.
FOUR SONS, sch., 125 tons, Salem, 1806. Reg. July 5, 1806. Jonathan Neal, Edward Smith, owners; Penn Townsend, master. Condemned at Halifax.
Fox, Ipswich, sloop, 73 tons, Ipswich, 1786. Reg. Mar. 23, 1792. Nathaniel Dennis, Ipswich, Jeremiah Staniford, Ipswich, Francis Cogswell, Ipswich, Edward Stacey, Ipswich, owners ; Nathaniel Dennis, master. Reg. May 24, 1793. John Heard, Ipswich, Jonathan Ingersoll, Ipswich, owners ; Jonathan Ingersoll, master. Reg. Sept. 18, 1794. John Heard, Ipswich, Jonathan Ingersoll, owners; Thomas Kim- ball, master.
Fox, sch., 76 tons, Newbury, 1787. Reg. Mar. 15, 1793. Jacob Ashton, Jonathan Lambert, owners ; James Very, mas- ter.
Fox, sch., Beverly, 15 tons. Built in the United States before May 16, 1789. Reg. July 5, 1796. Joseph Knowlton, Bev- erly, owner; Joseph Knowlton, master.
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Fox, sloop, 52 tons, Westport, 1797. Reg. Mar. 24, 1800. William Gray, owner ; Caleb Cook, master.
Fox, sloop, 29 tons, Kennebunk, 1795. Reg. June 29, 1800. Thomas Briggs, owner ; Geo. Southword, master.
Fox, Beverly, bgtne., 116 tons, Bath, 1800. Reg. Aug. 20, 1802. Hugh Hill, Beverly, Robert Porter, Beverly, John Gardner, Beverly, owners ; John Gardner, Beverly, master.
Fox, bgtne., 116 tons, Salisbury, 1795. Reg. May 11, 1804. William Gray, jr., owner; Freeborn Thorndike, master.
Fox, sch., 40 tons, Deer Isle, 1805. Reg. July 2, 1807. Joseph Franks, owner ; Joseph Franks, master.
FRANCIS, bgtne., 174 tons, Newbury, 1791. Reg. June 18, 1794. William Gray, owner ; John Wallace, master. [Daniel Hathorne was also master.]
FRANCIS, bgtne., 102 tons, Newbury, 1799. Reg. Apr. 3, 1802. Daniel Rust, Henry Rust, jr., Joseph Austin, Boston, owners ; Daniel Rust, master. Reg. Sept. 23, 1803. Daniel Rust, Isaac N. Chapman, Joseph Austin, Boston, owners ; Isaac Chapman, master. [Lost in 1804.]
FRANCIS, ship, 297 tons, Salem, 1807. Reg. Dec. 6, 1809. Joseph Peabody, Gideon Tucker, owners; William Haskell, master. Reg. Oct. 25, 1824. Joseph Peabody, owner ; Stephen Wilkins, master. [Water color by Anton Roux, at the Essex Institute. ]
FRANCIS, sch., 58 tons, Mathew Co., Va., 1824. Reg. Aug. 24, 1827. Putnam I. Farnham, John Bertram, Jed. Frye, Peter E. Webster, owners ; Joseph F. Carlton, master. [Dam- aged on the Rio Plata and condemned at Montevideo in 1828.]
FRANK, sch., 187 tons, Madison, Me., 1842. Reg. May 12, 1858. Wiggin & Clark, Charles B. Elwell, owners ; John Cann, master. Reg. Sept. 18, 1858 ; Wiggin & Clark, owners ; John C. Very, master.
FRANKLIN, ship, 296 tons, Salisbury, 1800. Reg. Nov. 3, 1801. Joseph Peabody, Joseph White, Robert Stone, James Devereux, owners ; Moses Townsend, master. Reg. Dec. 12, 1800. Joseph Peabody, Joseph White, Robert Stone, James Devereux, Thomas Lander, Wenham, owners; James Deve- reux, master. Reg. Apr. 23, 1804. Joseph Peabody, Joseph White, Robert Stone, James Devereux, owners ; James Dev- ereux, master. Reg. June 12, 1809. Joseph Peabody, Sam- uel Tucker, owners; Samuel Tucker, master. [Water-color copy of an original water-color, at the Peabody Academy of Science. This ship should not be confused with the earlier ship " Franklin " of Boston, which under the same James Devereux,
SHIP FRANKLIN, MOSES TOWNSEND, MASTER. From the original painting in possession of William C. Waters.
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of Salem, who was also master of this ship, made the first voyage to Japan in an American ship in 1799. See Essex Inst. Hist. Colls. II, 287.]
FRANKLIN, brig, 251 tons, Hanover, 1817. Reg. Oct. 22, 1817. Stephen White, Franklin H. Story, William Fettyplace, John W. Treadwell, owners ; Samuel Kennedy, master. Reg. Nov. 11, 1820. Stephen White, William Fettyplace, John W. Tread well, Franklin H. Story, Charles C. Bissell, owners ; Sam- uel Kennedy, master. Reg. Feb. 22, 1823. William Fetty- place, Stephen White, John W. Treadwell, Franklin H. Story, owners ; William Story, master. Reg. Feb. 10, 1824. William Fettyplace, Stephen White, Franklin H. Story, Charles Tread- well, owners ; Charles Treadwell, master. [Sold in New York, June, 1830 for $2,300.]
FRANKLIN, sch., 89 tons, Bucksport, 1823. Reg. Apr. 6, 1836. James King and sundry other persons, owners ; Alex- ander Newcomb, master. [Used as whaler. Sold to Prospect, Me., owners, July, 1840.]
FREDERIC, brig, 141 tons, Essex, 1847. Reg. Sept. 16, 1856. Daniel P. Fitz, Simon O. Dalrymple, Urban R. Wil- liams, Nathaniel Holden, William H. Nichols, John Nichols, Peter Lassen, owners ; Charles E. Brown, master. Reg. Sept. 13, 1858. Daniel P. Fitz, Simon O. Dalrymple, Urban R. Williams, owners ; William T. Julio, master.
FREDONIA, sch., 89 tons, Eden, Me., 1827. Reg. Oct. 10, 1828. Daniel Abbot, Daniel Abbot, jr., Charles Hoffman, owners ; Charles Hoffman, master. Reg. June 19, 1832. Daniel Abbot, Daniel Abbot, jr., owners ; Joseph Rider, master. Reg. Dec. 11, 1833. Daniel Abbot, Daniel Abbot, jr., Cutler Weston, jr., owners ; Cutler Weston, master. Reg. Nov. 28, 1834. Samuel Quarles, Cutler Weston, Francis Quarles, Al- bany, N. Y., owners ; Stephen C. Roundy, master.
FREDONIA, brig, 101 tons, Somerset, 1830. Reg. Apr. 2, 1832. Benjamin Creamer, owner ; Thomas Dean, master. Reg. Dec. 2, 1834. Gilbert G. Newhall, Benjamin Creamer, Caleb Smith, owners ; Edward Sprague, master.
FREEDOM, sch., 91 tons, Kennebunk, 1784. Reg. Dec. 17, 1789. William Gray, jr., owners ; John T. Ropes, master. Reg. Mar. 28, 1791. Samuel Blanchard, owner ; Samuel Blanchard, master.
FREEDOM, sch., 71 tons, Haverhill, 1793. Reg. Jan'y, 1794. Samuel Derby, Samuel Barton, Boston, owners ; Samuel Derby, master. Reg. Sept. 30, 1796. Samuel Derby, owner ; John Barton, master. Reg. May 4, 1798, James Mansfield, Stephen
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Field, George Osborne, Samuel Pierce, owners ; James Mans- field, master. Reg. Sept. 26, 1798. Hardy Ropes, owner ; Timothy Ropes, master.
FREEDOM, ship, 213 tons, Duxbury, 1810. Reg. Feb. 27, 1805. Willard Peele, Jonathan Peele, owners ; John Birth, master. Reg. Feb. 1, 1810. Willard Peele, Pickering Dodge, owners ; Edward Ford, master. Reg. Dec. 28, 1811; Willard Peele, Nathaniel Appleton, owners; Edward Ford, master.
FRIENDSHIP, sch., 91 tons, Kennebunk, 1785. Reg. Dec. 3, 1789 ; Miles Ward, owner; William Ward, master. Reg. Apr. 1, 1790. Joshua Smith, Ipswich, Asa Smith, Ipswich, own- ers ; John Andrews, master. [Sold to Ipswich owners, Apr. 1790. Cast away on Cape Cod, Jan., 1792.]
FRIENDSHIP, bgtne., 128 tons, Salem, 1794. Reg. Dec. 24, 1794. Benjamin Hodges, Ichabod Nichols, owners ; George Hodges, master.
FRIENDSHIP, Beverly, sch., 111 tons, Salem, 1795. Reg. Sept. 15, 1795. Herbert Woodbury, Beverly, Robert Haskell, owners ; Herbert Woodbury, master. Reg. Oct. 17, 1796. Herbert Woodbury, Beverly, owner ; Herbert Woodbury, mas- ter. Reg. May 23, 1797; Herbert Woodbury, Beverly, Na- thaniel Leach, Hale Hilton, owners ; Herbert Woodbury, master. Reg. Sept. 26, 1798. Benjamin Lovett, Beverly, Nathaniel Leach, owners ; Herbert Woodbury, master.
FRIENDSHIP, bgtne., 164 tons, Salem, 1794. Reg. May 6, 1796. Benjamin Hodges, Ichabod Nichols, owners; George Hodges, master.
FRIENDSHIP, ship, 342 tons, Salem, 1797. Reg. Aug. 18, 1797. Jerathmiel Peirce, Aaron Waitt, owners ; Israel Wil- liams, master. [Full-rigged model and water-color painting at Peabody Academy of Science. Water-color copy at Essex Institute; captured by the British, Sept. 5, 1812.]
FRIENDSHIP, bgtne., Beverly, 157 tons, Salem, 1795. Reg. June 25, 1799. Benjamin Lovett, Beverly, Nathan Leach, Bev- erly, Abraham Kilham, Beverly, owners; Nathan Leach, master. Reg. July 13, 1801. Samuel Masury, Timothy Wellman. owners; Samuel Masury, master. Reg. Feb. 1, 1802. Timo- thy Wellman, jr., owner ; Timothy Wellman, jr., master. Reg. Apr. 20, 1805. Timothy Wellman, jr., James Buffing- ton, John Saunders, owners ; James Buffington, master. Reg. July 31, 1806. Timothy Wellman, jr., Benjamin Ropes, John Saunders, Danvers, owners ; John Fillebrown, master. Reg. Dec. 26, 1806. Timothy Wellman, Benjamin Ropes, owners ; John Fillebrown, master.
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SHIP FRIENDSHIP.
From the original water-color painting now in possession of the Peabody Academy of Science.
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FRIENDSHIP, sch., 61 tons, Scarborough, 1789. Reg. Oct. 31, 1801. Joseph Hathorn, James Pope, owners; William Dennis, master. Reg. Mar. 27, 1802. William Dennis, Ed- ward Johnson, George Martin, Jonathan Marston, Samuel Barnard, owners; William Dennis, master.
FRIENDSHIP, bgtne., 155 tons, Frankfort, 1802. Reg. Mar. 11, 1802. William Gray, jr., owner ; Ebenezer Giles, master. [Sold at a foreign port in 1804.]
FRIENDSHIP, Beverly, sloop, 82 tons, Thomaston, 1792. Reg. Jan. 14, 1808. Robert Porter, Beverly, Ephraim Mar- shall, Beverly, owners; Francis Marshall, master. [Sold to Deer Isle owners, Sept., 1810.]
FRIENDSHIP, sch., 47 tons, captured in War of 1812. Reg. Aug. 4, 1815. Edward Richardson, owner; Edward Richard- son, master.
FRIENDSHIP, ship, 366 tons, Portland, 1815. Reg. Jan. 6, 1816. Jerathmiel Peirce, Aaron Waitt, owners ; Philip P. Pinel, master. . Reg. Jan. 11, 1819. George Nichols, Ichabod Nichols, Jerathmiel Peirce, Benjamin Peirce, Henry Peirce, Charles Saunders, owners ; Richard Meek, master. Reg. Aug. 22, 1827. Dudley L. Pickman, Nathaniel Silsbee, William Silsbee, Zachariah F. Silsbee, Robert Stone, owners ; John H. Davis, master. [Feb. 7, 1831, the Friendship was attacked by Malays at Quallah Battoo on the Coast of Sumatra. The ship was captured and five men killed. Several days later with the help of other vessels the ship was retaken. See Es- sex Inst. Hist. Colls. I, 15; letter in the Salem Observer of July 20, 1831 ; and Hist. Sketch of Salem, p. 155. To avenge this outrage the United States sent the Frigate " Potomac " to attack Quallah Battoo, which was done in Feb., 1832. For an account of this expedition with extended mention of Salem voyages to Sumatra, see Reynolds, Journal of a Voyage around the World. The Friendship was sold to Fairhaven owners in Sept., 1831.]
FRIENDSHIP, sch., 46 tons, sold by the U. S. Marshal, 1831. Reg. Aug. 25, 1831. Robert Brookhouse, owner, Nathan Frye, master. [Sold in Africa in 1831.]
GALEN, bark, 141 tons, Salisbury, 1789. Reg. Jan. 8, 1798. Jonathan Gardner, John Fairfield, owners; John Mack, mas- ter. Reg. Apr. 18, 1800. Clifford Crowninshield, Joseph Waters, Thomas Ashby, owners ; Thomas Ashby, master.
GAMBIA, brig, 154 tons, Duxbury, 1832. Reg. Aug. 4, 1838. Samuel Chamberlain, George West, Benjamin Cox, George West, jr., James Chamberlain, owners ; Benjamin
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Shillaber, master. Reg. Oct. 3, 1846. Benjamin A. West, John A. West, George E. Bailey, Samuel Chamberlain & Co., George West, jr., Benjamin Cox, owners; George E. Bailey, master. Reg. Apr. 1, 1851. Benjamin A. West, George West, John A. West, owners; L. F. Miller, master. Reg. Apr. 2, 1852. Edward D. Kimball, owner ; Joseph R. Francks, master. [Lost at sea.]
GANGES, brig, 265 tons, Haverhill, 1809. Reg. Aug. 30, 1809. Pickering Dodge, owner ; Nathaniel Ingersoll, master.
GANGES, brig, 171 tons, Duxbury, 1826. Reg. Nov. 8, 1832. David Pingree, Thomas Perkins, John Francis, owners ; John Francis, master. Reg. Aug. 29, 1834. David Pingree, Thom- as Perkins, Putnam Florence, owners ; Putnam Florence, mas- ter. Reg. Oct. 5, 1839. Benjamin Upton, Henry P. Upton, Frederick G. Ward, owners; Frederick G. Ward, master. Reg. June 8, 1842. Benjamin Upton, Benjamin Upton, jr., Henry P. Upton, owners ; Henry Towne, master. Reg. Oct. 12, 1843. Benjamin Webb, Caleb M. Ames, John Hodges, owners ; Wil- liam H. Dean, master. [Wrecked on Cape Cod in a snow storm in 1842. The vessel was afterwards gotten off and repaired and sent to Rio Grande and sold in 1844.]
GARLAND, brig, 148 tons, Baltimore, Md., 1847. Reg. Aug. 5, 1847. Thomas P. Pingree, owner; William Hadley, mas- ter. [Water-color copy of painting of brig and copy in oils of painting showing brig in a storm, at the Peabody Academy of Science. Lost at sea in the early fifties. A very unseaworthy craft. Lines being much to sharp to withstand a storm. ]
GAZELLE, sch., 142 tons, Duxbury, 1821. Altered to a brig in Sept., 1831. Reg. June 10, 1829. James Brown, Danvers, Caleb Smith, Danvers, Benjamin Creamer, owners ; Warren Strickland, master. Reg. Sept. 26, 1831. James Brown, Danvers, Caleb Smith, Danvers, Benjamin Creamer, Joshua Kinsman, owners ; Joshua Kinsman, master. Reg. Oct. 24, 1832. Benjamin Creamer, owner; William Summers, master. Reg. Mar. 25, 1833. Joseph Shatswell, Josiah Dewing, John W. Clarke, owners; Josiah Dewing, master. Reg. June 10, 1834. John W. Clarke, Josiah Dewing, owners ; Josiah Dewing, master. Reg. Sept. 28, 1837. Joseph Shatswell, Josiah Dewing, owners ; Josiah Dewing, master. Reg. Feb. 29,1844. Thomas P. Pingree, Josiah Dewing, owners ; Josiah Dewing, master.
GAZELLE, brig, 197 tons, Charlestown, 1826. Reg. Sept. 5, 1838. Charles Hoffman, William Potter, owners ; William Potter, master. Reg. Aug. 26, 1840. Charles Hoffman, Os-
SHIP GEORGE, THOMAS WEST, MASTER.
Joseph Peabody, owner. From the painting by Edmund Stone of Beverly, now owned by George H. Allen, showing the ship off Cape Ann on the voyage from Calcutta in 1820.
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born Dunlap, owners ; Osborn Dunlap, master. [Grounded and condemned in Africa about 1844.]
GEM, sch., 80 tons, Bluehill, Me., 1832. Reg. Dec. 11, 1834. William S. Rose, owner ; William S. Rose, master. Reg. Aug. 25, 1836. Joseph Ingalls, owner; Joseph Ingalls, master.
GEM, Beverly, brig, 161 tons, Marshfield, 1830. Reg. Apr. 6, 1849. Frederick W. Choate, Beverly, Seth Clark, jr., Sal- isbury, Joseph N. Clark, Salisbury, Thomas J. Clark, Salis- bury, Leonard Small, Boston, owners; Leonard Small, master. Reg. Dec. 21, 1850. Frederick W. Choate, Beverly, Seth Clark, Salisbury, owners ; Joseph S. Dyer, master. Reg. June 28, 1854. A. A. Caulfield, Charles Endicott, owners ; A. A. Caulfield, master.
GEM, bark, 199 tons, Charlestown, 1849. Reg. Jan. 31, 1859. Albert G. Browne, owner; Nicholas Johnson, master. Reg. Feb. 21, 1860. Charles Hoffman, owner; Charles E. Brown, master. Reg. Mar. 21, 1865. Charles Hoffman, own- er ; William H. Tufts, master.
GENERAL BREWER, sch., 115 tons, Robbinstown, Me., 1817. Reg. Aug. 27, 1825. Stephen White, Franklin H. Story, owners ; Edward Gale, master. [Sold in 1826 at Pernambuco.]
GENERAL BROOKS, sch.,104 tons, Amesbury, 1816. Tonnage altered to 117 tons, June, 1831. Altered to a brig, Nov., 1832. Reg: Apr. 20, 1821. Nathan W. Neal, Joseph S. Cabot, own- ers ; David Preston, master. Reg. May 1, 1823. Samuel Chamberlain, Joseph Felt, owners ; Samuel Dowst, master. Reg. Nov. 20, 1832. Samuel Chamberlain, Joseph Felt, Ben- jamin Cox, owners ; Samuel Dowst, master. Reg. Sept. 23, 1835. Samuel Chamberlain, Benjamin Cox, George West, John D. Symonds, owners ; John D. Symonds, master. [Ben- jamin W. Brookhouse was also master. Sold in 1846.]
GENERAL JACKSON, brig, 178 tons, Bath, 1812. Reg. Dec. 8, 1818. Joseph J. Knapp, owner ; John Phippen, master.
GENERAL JACKSON, sch., 68 tons, captured in war of 1812. Reg. June 25, 1821. John Kehew, owner; John Kehew, master. [Sold in 1821.]
GENERAL JACKSON, brig, 92 tons, Kittery, Me., 1818. July 27, 1825. Putnam I. Farnham, Joseph Shatswell, owners ; William D. Shatswell, master. Reg. June 3, 1826. David Pingree, William D. Shatswell, owners; William D. Shatswell, master. Reg. Oct. 6, 1828. Joseph Shatswell, Josiah Dew- ing, owners ; Josiah Dewing, master.
GENERAL KNOX, ship, 266 tons, Thomaston, 1810. Reg. Aug. 15, 1818. William Fettyplace, Joseph White, Stephen
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White, John Dodge, Gideon Barstow, John W. Treadwell, William B. Orne, Marblehead, owners ; William B. Orne, mas- ter.
GENERAL SHERMAN, Beverly, sch., 68 tons, Essex, 1865. Reg. Nov. 12, 1868. Josiah L. Foster, Beverly, Anna F. Lovett, Beverly, Sylvanus Goodwin, Beverly, William R. McLean, Beverly, owners ; Charles A. Clark, master.
GENERAL STARK, brig, 230 tons, Newbury, 1811. Altered to a bark, May, 1825. Reg. Dec. 7,1818. Joseph Ropes, Thomas Whitteridge, Samuel Cook, owners; Richard Downing, mas- ter. Reg. Nov. 7, 1821 .. James Cook, James Devereux, Humphery Devereux, Henry Pickering, owners ; A. D. Caul- field, master. Reg. May 11, 1825, Joseph White, Stephen White, owners ; A. D. Caulfield, master.
GENERAL WARREN. sch., 84 tons, Newbury, 1803. Tonnage altered to 108 tons, Nov., 1827. Reg. Mar. 5, 1822. Joseph Perkins, owner ; Benjamin Russell, master. Reg. Nov. 17, 1827. John D. Symonds, Ebenezer Symonds, owners ; John D. Symonds, master.
GENEROUS, sch., 96 tons, Sussex Co., Del., 1830. Rig al- tered to a brig, Aug., 1835. Reg. Apr. 27, 1831. Michael Shepard, owner ; Joseph H. Millett, master. [Eben R. Hooper was also master. Sold in Mosambique in 1836.]
GENTLEMAN, brig, 162 tons, Boston, 1833. Rig altered to a bark, Mar., 1836. Reg. Apr. 8, 1835. Edward Allen, John F. Allen, owners ; Chaplin Conway, master. [Nehemiah Haskell was also master. Sold at Boston for a whaler in 1838.]
GENTOO, ship, 474 tons, Amesbury, 1813. Reg. Dec. 30, 1815. Pickering Dodge, owner ; Abijah Northey, jr., master.
GEORGE, bgtne., 118 tons, New Haven, Conn., 1786. Reg. Dec. 7, 1792. Thomas Saunders, Joseph White, owners ; Benjamin Orne, master.
GEORGE, bgtne., 128 tons, Haverhill, 1794. Reg. Oct. 3, 1794. Nathan Peirce, Nathan Peirce, jr., owners; Jonathan Holt, master.
GEORGE, brig, 211 tons, Bradford, 1809. Reg. Apr. 16, 1810. Joseph Peabody, Gideon Tucker, owners; Andrew Harraden, master. [Captured by the British, July, 1812.]
GEORGE, ship, 328 tons, Salem, 1814. Reg. May 22, 1815. Joseph Peabody, Gideon Tucker, owners ; William Haskell, master. Reg. June 30, 1820. Joseph Peabody, owner ; Sam- uel Eudicott, master. Reg. Sept. 21, 1837. Caleb Smith, Jefferson Adams, John B. Peirce, Danvers, owners ; Jefferson Adams, master. [The " George" was built by an association
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SHIP GLIDE, NATHAN ENDICOTT, MASTER.
Joseph Peabody, owner. From the painting by "Anton Roux fils aine a Marseille, 1823," now in possession of George A. Peabody.
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OF SALEM AND BEVERLY, 1789-1900.
of Salem ship carpenters for a privateer, but the war ending, she was altered into a merchant ship. Made twenty voyages between Salem and Calcutta paying in duties on her cargoes, $651,744. In Sept., 1837, sailed for Rio Janeiro where she was later condemned. Water-color paintings are owned by George H. Allen, the Essex Institute, and the Peabody Academy of Science. The original paintings are by Edmund Stone, of Beverly. They show the very great height of her masts. From her long career and the regularity of her voy- ages as well as the value of her cargoes, the " George " became one of most famous and best remembered of all Salem vessels. See Leavitt, " Materials for a History of Salem Shipbuilding," E. I. Hist. Colls. VI, p. 226; Hist. Sketch of Salem, p. 146; and Hist. of Essex Co. I, p. 73.]
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