Ships of Kingston. : "Good-bye, fare ye well", Part 4

Author: Jones, Henry M
Publication date: 1926
Publisher: [Plymouth, Mass.] : Memorial Press of Plymouth, Massachusetts
Number of Pages: 144


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Oct. 6th, 1834 Took her down the river on the same tide. Stopped at the turn of the channel.


Oct. 7th, 1834


Took her to Rocky Nook wharf. Worked on the ship all this month.


Nov. Ist, 1834 The ship left the wharf and came to off the Rope Walk when I left her. (They evidently had a great deal of trouble in moving this ship in the river so much so that Mr. Bartlett wrote a more complete account of what he was engaged in doing than usual. It was an unfortunate begin- ning for a new ship and we can but wonder if she continued to be un- fortunate after getting to sea and if any sailors, knowing of her early mis- haps, were superstitious about going in her.)


Jan. 27th, 1835 Loading the schooner December, Ed- ward Holmes, master; with fish at Mr. Holmes' fish yard.


Jan. 3Ist, 1835 Went to Boston discharged cargo and came home the 6th of Feb. There was ice in the bay but noth- ing to hinder us coming up the river. Loaded again with fish and left for Boston, Feb. 22nd. Sold the fish and came home the 28th of February.


March


1835 First part of month cold, vessel frozen in at Rocky Nook wharf. The 22nd we left for Boston the wind being unfavorable we anchored in the bay. The wind increasing to a gale, east, surging in a sea the chain parted and lost our anchor. Came up to the Duck Trap. Let go our best lower anchor and came home. The gale was heavy.


Mar. 25th, 1835 Went to Boston, discharged and came home.


(The Duck Trap he speaks of is a small channel that leads to Island Creek, Duxbury, from the Kingston channel near the mouth of Jones River.)


Apr. 9th, 1835 The Jones River Packet, my father, master, commenced running.


Apr. 28th, 1835 The Jones River Packet was lost on the Toddy Rocks in Boston Harbor, Hull. My father, master. No lives lost, but vessel a total loss. They came in by the light (Boston Light)


the evening before. It was very dark and could not see the way. It was ebb tide and they expected she would come off all right the next tide, but the wind came out east and blew a gale making it very rough. They saved most of their traps and brought them up to town (Boston). We were there in the December and they put on board our vessel and came home with us the 2nd of May. Bad affair!


May 2nd, 1835 Left (Kingston) for Boston in the December, my father, master. Cap- tain Edward Holmes, left. Took in salt from the ship and came home.


May 16th, 1835 Schooner Eveline sailed for the Grand Bank.


Aug. 10th, 1835


Came home from Boston loaded with salt took from the ship Rialto.


Aug. 30th, 1835 Came from Boston. Head winds and foggy. The schooner Cordova, Benja- min Delano came in with us from the Grand Bank with a cargo of 42,000 fish.


(He was making trips to Boston and back in the December, schooner, un- til Oct. 13th, when he left and joined the sloop Algerine, Solomon Davie, master. He remained on her until she was hauled up at Rocky Nook wharf for the winter, Dec. 12th.)


Feb.


1836 Very cold. No communication with Boston by water for six weeks.


Mar. 5th, 1836 At this time painting on a new schooner in Deacon Bartlett's yard. She belongs to Col. John Sever, (name) Exchange.


Apr. 2nd, 1836 Launched the schooner.


Apr. 13th, 1836 She is rigged and we took her to Plymouth. Sold there to Richard Holmes.


Apr. 24th, 1836 Worked on schooner (Hope) belong- ing to Rufus B. Bradford.


May 12th, 1836 Sloop Algerine sunk off Hyannis, Bacon, master. Crew saved. She had been out south.


June 16th, 1836 Sailed from Rocky Nook wharf in the good sloop Atlanta. William D. Winsor, master. Bound for Boston. (At this time he was twenty-three years old and had tired of coasting and went to learn the carpenter's trade with his brother, David, who was at work in Newton. In May, 1837, the diary shows that Alexander Holmes was keeping store opposite the Green in Kingston.)


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April 1840 Worked on a ship in Deacon Bart- lett's yard, Col. Sever's, until May 14th.


Mar. 3rd, 1841 Worked on a ship in Deacon Bart- lett's yard for Col. Sever.


June until Aug., 1841 Worked for Mr. Holmes on schooner June.


Feb. 1842 Working for my brother David on a little brigantine in Deacon Bartlett's yard. Built by the Deacon, his sons, and Spencer Drew, named the Rod- ney. She was sold in July at Boston with very little profit.


Jan. 22nd, 1844 Commenced working in the ship- yard for N. D. Drew, 75 cts. per day.


May


1844 Working on a schooner for Mr. Joseph Holmes.


July


1844 Joinering a brigantine for Mr. Benjamin Delano in Deacon Bart- lett's yard (named) Reindeer. (Wm. T. Davis of Plymouth in his book entitled "Plymouth Memories of an Octogenarian" mentions the brig Reindeer as one of the vessels that carried Plymouth passengers to California for the gold fields in 1849, having been purchased by Dr. Samuel Merritt of Plymouth of her owners in Kingston. She sailed from New York in the summer of 1849 with Dr. Merritt, as many passen- gers as could be accommodated, and a cargo of general merchandise, arriving in San Francisco that autumn, when she was sold.)


Jan.


1845 Joinering a schooner for Mr. Benja- min Delano in Deacon Bartlett's yard and one for Mr. Alexander Holmes in his yard above at the same time. Both finished May 10th.


Nov. 8th, 1845 The cars commenced running from Boston to Plymouth.


Jan. Ist, 1846 Commenced joinering a bark, Tru- man, for Mr. Alexander Holmes in his yard.


Feb. and March May 1846 Working on bark. 1846 Finished the bark. She is at the lower wharf. In coming through the Rail Road bridge with the bark got in contact with the draw. Detained the train, but finally came to the wharf. This was June Ist.


Jan. and Feb.


1848 I am working in the upper shipyard for N. D. Drew on bark, Stafford, 75 cts. per day. Alexander Holmes, owner.


Dec. 1848 Launched the bark Stafford. Dec. 15th, 1848 Went down the river with her.


Dec. 21st, 1848 Went to the Cow Yard with her.


Dec. 22nd, 1848 A strong N. W. gale. The steamboat that took her to Boston, R. B. Forbes, lie alongside all day.


Dec. 23rd, 1848 Moderated and steamer took her to Boston. I stopped on board of her fishing some jobs until she sailed. Captain Searles, master; bound for Smyrna. Came home the 3Ist of December.


July 7th, 1849 Working on a brig for Joseph Holmes.


Feb. 21st, 1850 Commenced ship carpentering for Deacon Lysander Bartlett in his yard. $1.00 per day. A pleasant, mild month, no ice or snow.


May 26th, 1850 Mr. Alexander Holmes is building a bark in his yard. N. D. Drew, naval constructor.


Oct. 1850 Framed a workshop for N. D. Drew 'and Uncle John (Drew) in their ship- yard at $1.25 per day. (This is the building lately used as a boatshop for many years by Captain Edward A. Ransom. He moving it from where it was built near the Alms House to its present location.)


July


1851 At work on a ship, the Joseph Holmes.


Sept. 24th, 1851 Launched the ship. It belongs to Mr. Joseph Holmes and built in his yard, which was just north of the O. C. R. R. track on Jones River.


Oct. 23rd, 1851 Went down the river with the ship yesterday. Took her to the Fish Wharf the first tide after she started. Stopped on the Point of the Nook next tide. That night took her to Rocky Nook wharf. (This ship was 611 tons and the largest one ever built in Kingston.)


Feb. 23rd, 1852 Commenced joinering on bark, Mes- senger Bird, belonging to Mr. Alexan- der Holmes. Henry Simmons, boss joiner.


April


1852 Launched the bark. She is a long- legged craft, very cranky. After she left the ways she fell over on her side. Her masts were in. She re- mained in this condition till the next day when she was righted and taken to the wharf below the Rail Road bridge. They had considerable trouble getting her down the river to Rocky Nook wharf and down the bay. It required a good deal of ballast to keep her up. (This was the bark that the Captain ran away with after the Holmes' had sold her.)


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May 15th, 1852 Commenced joinering a bark for Mr. Apr. 16th, 1855 At work on schooner, Lysander B. Lysander Bartlett, Jr., in his yard. Delano and Son, at Rocky Nook wharf. Put in a new gang way. She belongs to Benjamin Delano and Sons.


Aug. 19th, 1853 Joinering a little brig for Alexander Holmes in his yard. N. D. Drew, builder. (This was the brig or schooner, Frank Henry).


Jan. 16th, 1854 Commenced joinering on schooner, Cordova. She is being new topped. She lies on the marsh at Deacon Bartlett's yard. Benjamin Delano and Sons, owners.


Jan. 2Ist, 1854 Brigantine Frank Henry went out of the river. Launched the 19th, bound for Boston. (This vessel was lost on her second voyage, never heard from.)


Aug. 7th, 1855 At work for Mr. Joseph Holmes on a bark in his shipyard, 9 shillings per day.


Nov. 8th, 1855 N. D. Drew went to Buffalo, New York, to work, shipbuilding, 1856. Went to work for Mr. Edward Holmes on a bark in his father's yard, joinering. $1.50 per day.


Oct. 15th Launched the bark, Neapolitan.


Sept. 17th, 1858 Deacon Lysander Bartlett died, 81 years.


Aug. 14th, 1860 Working for Benjamin Delano and Son on brigantine Monte Christo. She is being repaired.


This diary is now in the Kingston Public Library and the extracts that have been given show how these men employed themselves in the different building yards here at the time of their greatest activity and what one of them did on the vessels when not engaged in working at his trade.


His trade was that of a ship joiner, which is a carpenter who does the finishing off on a vessel after she is timbered and planked and nearing completion. These men worked in the yards as their services were required on the vessels under construction. All these old ship carpenters and riggers were men used to manning vessels if crews were needed to take them to Boston or bring them home from there.


When Alexander Holmes was president of the Old Colony Rail Road Company a loco- motive went through the drawbridge into Fort Point Channel which separates South Boston from Boston. The railroad wrecking crew being unable to handle the situation as their equipment in those days was limited, President Holmes at once sent for Ichabod Peterson of Kingston, master rigger in his father's building yard, who came to Boston with a gang of riggers and ship carpenters and by the use of the heavy blocks and falls used in masting vessels soon had the locomotive raised from the bottom of the channel and traffic restored. This is an example of what might be demanded of the men working in these yards if an emergency should arise, and it was always stand by for a call with them.


The condition of the river and bay in winter as to ice and storms is mentioned several times in the diary showing how the packets were often delayed in their trips to Boston, which must have been of great inconvenience to those living here and depending on water transportation for the movement of merchandise.


The first running of a train as told is interesting, as a letter of Joseph Holmes to his son, Captain Paraclete Holmes, master of the ship Herculean at New Orleans, dated May 26, 1844, concludes, by saying, "We are going to have a railroad from Plymouth to Boston." The railroad crossed the river over a drawbridge, thus separating the upper and lower building yards, increasing the labor of moving vessels between the yards by having to pass through the draw with them, and it would be natural that the coming of the first train would be an event to be noticed by the men working in these yards beside the tracks, as was done by Mr. Bartlett and recorded in his diary. No doubt, the event was noted by others and also recorded, as keeping a diary was a common thing to do in those days, but it is unfortunate so few have been preserved. The drawbridge continued to be used by the railroad company for several years after work in the upper yards had been given up and when in need of repairs it was replaced by a permanent bridge, the company con- sidering it cheaper to take out and reset the masts of any vessel that might wish to pass through than to maintain a draw. It was because of this old drawbridge and a question of the right of the railroad company in discontinuing a bridge of this type over tide-water


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that was navigable for vessels that saved Mr. Lewis H. Keith of Kingston, owner of sloop yacht, Siren, quite a sum of money. Captain N. B. Watson, who commanded the Siren, was accustomed to haul her out in the winter on his land to the north of his boat- house above the bridge, first taking out her mast below the bridge. Needing a new mast one season, one was bought in Boston and sent by railroad freight. On arrival it was found the freight charges were very high and Captain Watson at once said if the railroad com- pany did not make these charges more reasonable he would mast the sloop when she lay above the bridge and demand the right to go to sea. Under these circumstances the com- pany might have had to take out the mast and reset it below the bridge, so they decided it would be less expensive to abate the freight bill than to do the work or bring the case before the courts.


A number of the Kingston vessels are spoken of in the diary and I used what was told about them in giving their story. I have repeated this in the extracts in order that they might read more connectedly.


The pictures of the spar, sail and sheer plans of the Kingston vessels were taken from the original plans, which were made by Nathaniel D. Drew of Kingston. The first record in the Plymouth Custom House showing him as a builder and master carpenter is in 1839 when he is recorded as the master carpenter in the building of the schooner Cohannet for Alexander Holmes, owner. These plans were of some of the vessels designed by him from the date of 1839 to 1865 when he was employed by Alexander, Joseph and Edward Holmes. Although incomplete as to detail in sails and rigging, it is easy to see the decided improve- ment in the design of a vessel between these years. They were found in the boat-shop of the late Captain John N. Drew, a younger brother of Nathaniel D. Drew, and were given me by a Miss Olmstead, who had purchased the homestead after the death of the Captain. I had seen them many times while the boat-shop was used by Captain Drew, but with no thought that they would ever be of value to any one. I had always been interested in vessels, especially those built in Kingston, and saved the plans. It was not until the photographs of the pictures of the Kingston vessels were taken for this story that the Drew spar plans were remembered. I found, on examination, that with the exception of the Sicilian and Fruiterer, no pictures were known to be in existence. The plans of these two, however, appear in this record. There are three half hulled or working models, made by N. D. Drew, from which the Trueman, Stafford and Frank Henry were built. That of the Trueman is now in the marine room of the Peabody Museum of Salem and the Stafford and Frank Henry are owned by Alexander Holmes of Kingston.


The sheer plans show the vessels as they were modeled, so the other plans where no model or picture exists are correct as to the general appearance of the hull and spars. Some show the masts and standing rigging, one a sail-plan and a few the masts with yards crossed, with lifts, but no braces. Mr. Drew, in his designs, gave his vessels the same style of figure or billet board, with the exception of the bark Abby and bark Sicilian. The bark Abby had a figurehead of a young girl with long, flowing hair, and he evidently did not feel that he was artist enough to draw the female form on his plan, so left the bark with only a bracket for ornament on the stem where a figure would stand when in place. The sheer and spar plan of the Sicilian show for a figurehead a crude drawing of what was intended to be a Sicily man, which is also shown in the painting. As there is a picture of this bark and also of the Fruiterer under sail no attempt was made to photograph their plans.


In most cases the plans were drawn in pencil on sheets of ordinary brown paper about three feet square and a vessel's plan was drawn on each side to save paper, their names being given on the plan. All but three of the plans had to be traced on tracing paper as the originals were soiled with age and the pencil lines were often too faint for the taking of a satisfactory photograph. On this account, the figures giving length of spars and standing rigging, were omitted for even if shown they would have been very small and not easily read.


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Mr. Drew was evidently a designer of superior skill. While in the employ of Alexander Holmes he was called on to design vessels that were built in the Joseph Holmes and Lysan- der Bartlett (senior and junior) shipyards as shown by their names on the plans and custom records.


Today, few, if any families in the country can show so many pictures, spar and sail plans and models of vessels built and owned by their people so many years ago as the Holmes family of Kingston. When we consider that at this time the greater part of these were made seventy-five years ago and only recently was any thought given for their preservation, it is remarkable that after the lapse of so many years such a number of plans and pictures of the Kingston vessels were found. Unlike other shipbuilders or owners, they owned and sailed their vessels after they were built, or as Joseph Holmes writes, "fitted for sea and sent to sea on my own account and risk."


The sail plans of the vessels, with the exception of the bark Neapolitan, are taken from the designers' sheer and spar plans and show how they looked under sail.


In old records and reports the captains of vessels were spoken of as Master Mariners which distinguished them from captains in the Army or Naval service.


These old shipmasters were very particular as to how they were addressed and anyone who had been master of a vessel was always given the title of Captain, although the cap- tain of a fishing vessel was often called skipper.


As far as is known today, the following list of names are those of the Master Mariners who resided in Kingston and commanded Kingston vessels.


The three Dawes brothers lived in Duxbury near the line between Kingston and Dux- bury, and as their associations were more with Kingston than Duxbury I have included them in the list of Kingston's Master Mariners.


KINGSTON'S MASTER MARINERS


EBENEZER ADAMS


ALLEN DAWES JOSEPHUS DAWES JAMES H. DAWES


EDWIN POWERS


CHARLES ADAMS


WILLIAM S. ADAMS


HENRY L. ADAMS


EDWARD A. RANSOM


JOSEPH BARTLETT


JOHN FAERO EZRA FULLER


PEREZ H. SAMPSON


JOSEPH H. BARTLETT


JAMES FULLER


SETH BARTLETT


EPHRAIM FULLER


NATHANIEL SOULE SAMUEL SOULE


GEORGE BREWSTER


ALEXANDER FULLER


WILLIAM SIMMONS


MARTIN BREWSTER


ALBERT FULLER


AARON BREWSTER


ROBERT THOMPSON


CONSIDER BRADFORD ELLIS BRADFORD


ELISHA T. HOLMES


BARTLETT HOLMES


THADDEUS R. WASHBURN


THOMAS BATES


ROBERT HOLMES


PHILIP WASHBURN


WILLIAM BISBY


PARACLETE HOLMES


HARVEY WASHBURN


ALEXANDER BACON N. BACON


EDWARD HOLMES


ALBERT WASHBURN


CEPHAS WASHBURN SAMUEL N. WASHBURN


WILLIAM H. BACON


FRANCIS JOHNSON


WILLIAM H. BEATON


WINSLOW JOHNSON


MELZAR WHITTEN


CALVIN BRYANT


PETER WINSOR


ELBRIDGE G. WINSOR


CLARK WINSOR


BENJAMIN COOK DAVID CHURCHILL


ELISHA McLAUTHLIN


NATHAN B. WATSON


Many Kingston men sailed on Kingston vessels as officers and crew but as masters commanded vessels that hailed from other ports, and so their names do not appear in this list of Kingston's Master Mariners.


CHARLES ROBBINS


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The following is a record of the vessels built at the Jones River Landing and owned in Kingston, Massachusetts, from 1776-1898.


NAME OF VESSEL TYPE


PLACE AND YEAR BUILT


BUILDER


OWNER


Independence Brig


Kingston, 1776


William Drew


Provincial Govt. of Mass. or the State of Mass. Bay.


Mars


Ship


Kingston, 1778


William Drew


Hannah*


Sloop


52 Kingston, 1782


Success


Schooner 52


Kingston, 1784


Defiance Sloop 55 Kingston, 1784


Dura Wadsworth, Duxbury


Sally Schooner 60 Kingston, 1786 Drews


Sea Flower


Schooner 54


Kingston


In Plymouth


Amelia


Schooner 36 1787


William Drew, et al.


Delphine


Schooner 22 Kingston, 1787


Nicholas Davis, et al., Plymouth


Charlotta


Schooner 45 Kingston, 1788


Nathaniel Thomas, David Beal William Drew Seth Drew, Cornelius Drew


Harmony


Sloop 36


Kingston, 1789


Lucille


Schooner 46 Kingston, 1789


Drake


Schooner 43 Kingston, 1791


Eagle


Schooner 30 Kingston, 1792


Christiana


Sloop 41


Kingston, 1792


Sally


Schooner 32 Kingston, 1793


Nymph


Schooner


41 Kingston, 1794


Sea Flower


Schooner


Scituate, 1794


Betsey


Sloop


60 Kingston, 1795


Fortune


Sloop


44 Kingston, 1795


Nancy


Sloop


57 Duxbury, 1795


Sally


Sloop


39


Kingston, 1796


James


Schooner 78 Kingston, 1796


Saba


Schooner 92 Kingston, 1796


Sally Schooner 24 North River


Federalist Schooner 100


Kingston, 1799


Sarah Schooner 100


Kingston, 1799


William Drew


John Sever


Eliza


Brig I34 Kingston, 1800


Charity


Schooner


Kingston, 1801


Two Pollys


Brig 250


Bridgewater, 1801 Joseph Holmes


Joseph Holmes


Charles


Schooner 70


Kingston, 1802 Seth Drew


Lucy


Sloop 74 Kingston, 1802


Algol


Brig 220 Bridgewater, 1802 Joseph Holmes


Rover Schooner 76 Kingston, 1803


William Davis, Plymouth


Two Sisters Sloop 44 Kingston, 1803 Seth Drew


Five Sisters Schooner 89 Kingston, 1803


Peter Winsor, Benjamin Delano Stephen Drew


Minerva


Schooner 74 Kingston, 1804


Stephen Drew


Harmony


Sloop 49 Kingston, 1804


Lysander Bartlett


In Plymouth Seth Luce, et al., Plymouth Jabez Churchill, Plymouth Cornelius Drew, Seth Drew In Plymouth William Drew, Jr. Ebenezer Lobdell, Plympton Samuel Robbins


Seth Drew, Cornelius Drew


John Sever, Merchant


David Beal, Joseph Bartlett,


Stephen Drew, Sylvanus Thomas, Charles Holmes, Lysander Bartlett, (Jedediah Holmes, Jr.


David Beal, John Thomas, Nathaniel Thomas, Peleg Tupper Clement Drew, James Drew, Zenas Drew


Simeon Washburn Jesse Harlow, Plymouth


Robert Hobart, Plymouth


Peleg Tupper, William Drew


[ Seth Drew, David Beal, Sylvanus Thomas, Cornelius Drew, Ebenezer Adams (Stephen Drew, Josiah Bartlett, Lysander Bartlett Joseph Holmes


( David Beal, Pelham Brewster, Spencer Brewster, John Gray, Jr. (Seth Bartlett, Lysander Bartlett, Seth Drew


*This is the first vessel built in Kingston of which there is any record in the Plymouth Custom House.


TONS


Provincial Govt. of Mass. B. Hedge, Plymouth Joseph Prior, Duxbury


Isaac Barnes, Plymouth


William


Sloop 44 Kingston, 1789


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NAME OF VESSEL


TYPE


TONS


PLACE AND YEAR BUILT


BUILDER


OWNER


Mary


Schooner


82


Scituate, 1804


Hero


Schooner


100


Kingston, 1804


Zenas Drew


Benjamin Barnes, Plymouth George Russell, 1804


Hannah


Sloop


34


Scituate, 1789


Columbus


Sloop


75


Kingston, 1804


Stephen Drew


Ezra Weston, Duxbury Peter Winsor, 1805


Industry


Schooner


96 Duxbury, 1800


Enterprise


Sloop


47


Kingston, 1805


Three Thomases Brig


175


Kingston, 1805


Morning Star


Schooner


77


Duxbury, 1802


Byron


Schooner


38


Duxbury, 1795


Resolution


Schooner


III


Kingston, 1805


Lydia


Sloop


58


Kingston, 1806


Stephen Drew David Beal, Jr.


Alexander


Schooner


II2


Bridgew't'r, 1 806 Joseph Holmes


-


Bartlett Holmes, Kingston Seth Johnson, Boston Solomon Keith, Bridgewater David Beal, Peleg Bartlett


Prudence


Sloop


53


Duxbury


Solon


Sloop


55


Kingston, 1806 LysanderBartlett{ Peleg Tupper, Jedediah Holmes, Jr.


Hiram


Schooner


IO7


Kingston, 1806


Lucy


Ship


208


Kingston, 1806 Joseph Holmes


Joseph Holmes


Trident


Brig


130


Bridgew't'r,1 805 Joseph Holmes


Joseph Holmes


Brunette


Brig


180


Kingston, 1806


Joseph Holmes


Joseph Holmes


Apollo


Sloop


54


Kingston, 1807 Lysander Bartlett Ezra Weston, Duxbury


Juno


Schooner


62 Kingston, 1807


Isaac Drew


Zebulon Bisbee


Dolly


Schooner


105


Kingston, 1807


William Drew


Ellis Bradford, Joseph Holmes, Lewis Holmes, William Drew Peter Winsor


Charlotte


Brig


190


Kingston, 1807


Thomas


Brig


I37


Kingston, 1807


William Davis, Plymouth, 181I


Betsey


Schooner


92


Brunswick, Me., 1808


Bartlett Holmes, Jos. Holmes, Jr.


Roxana


Sloop


66


Kingston, 1809


William Drew Abijah Drew


Bartlett Holmes, Joseph Holmes Peter Winsor


Betsey


Sloop


48


Kingston, 1810


Lysander Bartlett Jedediah Holmes, Jr., David Beal


George


Brig


145


Kingston, 1810


William Drew


Ellis Bradford, David Beal, Jr.


Belus


Sloop


48


Kingston, 1810


Joseph Holmes


Joseph Holmes, et al.


Admittance


Ship


238


Kingston, 18II


Timothy Drew


In Duxbury In Plymouth


Dolphin


Schooner


61


Kingston, 18II


Lysander Bartlett Benjamin Delano, et al.


Byron


Schooner


38


Duxbury, 1795


Martin Howard, 181I


Red Bird


Schooner


55


Kingston, 18II


William Drew


Benjamin Delano


Alexander


Schooner


95


Kingston, 1812


Peter Winsor


Constellation


Pink Stern Schn'er 30


Gloucester, 181I


William Winsor, 1812


Miranda


Schooner


95


Kingston, 1812


William Drew


Peter Winsor


Elizabeth


Schooner


300


Kingston, 1812


Joseph Holmes


Joseph Holmes


Minos


Sloop


56


Kingston, 1812


Lysander Bartlett William Stephens, 1824


Water Snake


Schooner


20


Kingston, 1813 Drews


Fin Back


Schooner


22


Kingston, 1813 Stephen Gloucester, 1801


Eliza


Pink Stern Schn'er 23


James Sever, Cephas Washburn, William Drew, Joseph Foster, Martin Stetson, Spencer Chandler, Abijah Drew Peleg Bartlett, Jos. Holmes, et al. Thomas Bates, 1814




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