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ASKINS, CAPTAIN JOHN. Of Boothbay, he was drowned late in 1786, in the same storm in which Henry Reed was lost.
AULD, JACOB (1781-1835). In 1804 he had sloop Fox; operated bankers Resolution and Wave; and in 1832 was state commissioner of wrecks. Boothbay news in 1823: 'Arrived, sch. Resolution, skipper Tool, from Cape Negro with a fare of fish to Auld & McCobb.' A son, Joseph C. Auld (1812-1869), kept the harbor light and operated fishing craft, one the Sea Foam.
BEATH, JOHN (1710-1798), followed the sea from Townsend long before it was named Boothbay. In the summer of 1749 he was loading hay near Canso, eastern headland of Nova Scotia, on his sloop of sixty tons. A war party of Indians suddenly appeared, captured vessel and crew and took them to Louisbourg, lately restored to France by the British Crown, for imprison- ment. French officials falsely promised to free them when the savages de- parted and to return the vessel, Beath having made overtures to ransom it; but other Indians sold the sloop to Frenchmen at Saint Peter. Not until late in the year were the seamen liberated.
Captain Beath, chairman of the Boothbay Committee of Safety, firmly refused to return munitions of war and October 24 1775 wrote in part:
This committee, having the greatest respect for the Authority by which Capt. Johnson has been ordered to remove the said war like Stores, .. . are persuaded that the preservation of the lives of the inhabitants on the coast .. . might be greatly affected, should this County open to the enemy the free trade of three hundred miles of the best coast for navigation in New England, ... so, as the same danger continues to stare us in the face, we think it our duty as plainly to declare that no part of said Stores shall be delivered until the Pleasure of the General Court is known, or a force shall appear to demand it, greater than we can raise to defend it.
BORLAND, JOHN (1752-1814), commanded slp. Sally, owned by himself and Joseph Campbell in 1790. In January of that year the Rev. Jonathan Gould, of B'bay, wrote: 'Gave my watch to Capt. Borland to take to Boston to regulate,' and 'Feb. ist. My watch, I believe, is most certainly lost, 3 pounds, 12 shillings. Gone worse than anything. It would be well if that were all.' Bad weather delayed sailing; the watch was returned safely.
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John engaged in shipbuilding at the headwaters of the Dama. River and doubtless built slp. Sally, since he owned half the vessel, launched there in 1794 for command of Michael Campbell. Borlands became prominent in shipping; in 1844 J. G. Borland built brig Wasega at Dama. bridge; com- manded by Joseph or James Borland, in 1849 the latter was master of ship Sandusky of New York. Ships Telumah, lost 1845; and Tanniscot, lost 1857 on Bahamas, were commanded by Borlands.
In the fall of 1806 sch. Sally, Borland, master, arrived in the Dama. River. He reported that two days out of a West Indian port his vessel was boarded by a British naval officer, who examined the ship's papers and im- pressed the mate, Nathan Wright. Captain Borland demanded his officer, but the English commander haughtily refused.
CAMPBELL, THOMAS (1759-a. 1840), native of Sheepscot, was impressed three years in a British man-of-war. He had brothers Joseph, Michael and Daniel; the first two lived at B'bay. Daniel lived at Newcastle, master of slps. Cato and Townsend. He d. there in 1826, aged sixty.
Joseph (1762-1822) settled at 'the harbor' and sailed for his father-in- law, Capt. Paul Reed; later for himself and Timothy Brooks of Salem. Commands: In the 1790's, ship Mary, top. schs. William, Dolphin and the Hazard; others were B'bay slps. Lydia and Townsend.
Michael (1765-1844), elsewhere mentioned, lived at Pleasant Cove. 'Jan. 18, 1791,' wrote the Rev. Gould, 'Capt. Campbell arrived in ye after- noon.' He then voyaged to Matinico, and arrived at Wiscasset with 1300 bushels of corn bought 'on speculation at 2 shillings lawful money.' His command in 1794 was the new slp. Sally.
CURTIS, NATHANIEL, was master of the slp. Nancy (c. 1763). In 1822 Alex- ander Reed deposed that he had known Nathaniel Curtis for thirty years, that he believed Curtis owned part of the cargo of B'bay sch. Favorite, captured in 1798; and 'At that time said Curtis resided in said Boothbay, since which he removed from that town & now lives in Boston.' In 1818 a Nathaniel Curtis was president of the Boston Marine Society. Nathaniel and Nathaniel Curtis jr. owned the brig Cora.
FULLERTON, JAMES (1791-1831), was a native of B'bay and followed the sea. Commands: New sch. Diamond, the larger Hannah and Jane and the Enterprise. After she was lost James continued with sch. Angelia, which arrived in Boston in mid-September, the master ill with yellow fever. At B'bay his sister Margaret took passage on a packet to attend him, but de-
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spite her loving ministrations James died within a week and was interred in the old Granary burial ground.
John (1793-1827), brother of James, owned shares in vessels and fol- lowed fishing. In the War of 1812 both served in the local coast guard; years later Lieutenant John was presented with a handsome stand of colors by village belles which, in behalf of his company, he accepted in a flowery speech. On a summer night, his vessel at anchor in B'bay, John Fullerton drowned alongside.
HARRIS, SAMUEL (d.1836), followed fishing from a cove bordering Ebene- cook harbor. After 1800 he had the Polly, the old sch. Speedwell and the new Traveler, the last captained by his son Samuel jr. In a wooded spot on the old homestead a moss-grown tombstone records another seafaring son, Paul, 'who departed this life Nov. 20, 1813, in the 29th year of his age.' Paul's younger brother, Benjamin, began his fishing from Ebenecook be- fore 1811, for he then had the new pinky Intention; but later operated a larger fishery at B'bay with the Wasp, Concord, the new Emily (his wife's nanie) and the Washington, lost in 1833. About that time his fishing ac- tivities ceased there.
HOLTON, JOHN (1747-1822), commanded the B'bay-built slp. Sally and slp. Townsend. Later he had McCobb's sch. Betsey and in 1807 partly owned and commanded slp. Patty, built 1797. Two sons were masters as follows: Israel (1781-1857) commanded top. sch. Patty, owned by Wm. Emerson et alii; slp. Industry and the new sch. Alert, which he nearly lost in Boston Bay, during a winter storm in 1817. In 1820 he had sch. Dia- mond. His sons John and William were shipwrights. Israel's brother, Jeremiah (1784-1860), had slp. Industry and sch. America. After years of service, he lost the latter in the fall of 1825.
KENT. The family vessels included two slps., each named Friendship, the smaller previously owned by Wni. M. Reed. Benjamin was master of that one; Samuel had the larger Friendship; Joseph had sch. Jack and slp. Ruby; and Jonathan had schs. Lydia and Ranger. John H. (b. 1810) com- manded schs. Sanop, Gleaner, Champion, Melville and brig J. H. Kent. In 1857 he lived on Sawyer's Island. In the previous decade William was master of coasters.
A letter from the U. S. marshal for the District of Maine to James Mon- roe, Secretary of State, dated Wiscasset, March 1813, referred to John Kent, in custody, 'that he is a native of and lived in Boothbay from which
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he had been a sailor from his youth until about twelve years ago, since which time he had lived on the island of Grand Manan near Campo-Bello; that he had a family of nine in number-himself about fifty-had four brothers in Boothbay and a son resident in Eastport.' The article added: 'He had been arrested by one Captain Reed and evidently was suspected of being a spy, but the marshal did not think he could be used as such by the British.'
KNIGHT, NATHANIEL (b.1776), had pinky Republic at Pleasant Cove and largely owned pinkies Dolphin and Jane. He and his sch. Harriet have been noticed with impressment of Joseph Emerson. John B. Knight, a son b. 1804, had brig Damariscove.
Of other Knights, in the 1840's Abiel W., of Newcastle, commanded schs. Betsey and Only Son; James captained brig Jasper in 1825; and Wil- lian M., of B'bay, had the Bonaventure.
KNIGHT, NICHOLAS T. (1771-1848), had a long seafaring career. Com- mands: Schs. Ann, Alert, Saucy Jack, Mechanic and the Bris .- built slp. Patty. Shortly before war was declared in 1812 the brig Mary, N. T. Knight, of and for Wiscasset, arrived in Hog Island Roads, fifty days from Cadiz. The following September he had ship Leander (G'town 1810), and in 1824 owned a master's interest in brig Hector. In 1809, bound to West Indies, his sch. Trial was boarded by British sloop of war Brazen. After examining the ship's papers the officer, respecting rights of an American vessel, neither questioned the crew nor attempted to impress anyone. In fact the English obligingly refilled the water cask, unusual treatment at that period, and Nicholas joyously filled away southward. He arrived home in July, '17 days from Domenico.'
Of his sons, Daniel commanded the Columbian privateer Liona on which, in West Indian waters, he died in the spring of 1823, aged thirty; John A. had the Leo, pinky Dolphin, and in 1818 succeeded his father as master of top. sch. Mechanic, but death at sea in his mid-twenties cut short a promising career; William died in Boston in November 1820, nearly twenty-two; and Charles captained the Jane.
KNOWLTON, JEREMIAH, had the coasters Speedwell and Seaflower in trade with early settlements on Dama. River. A native of Ipswich, he later lived at Dama. Ship news of 1805 stated: 'Schooner Seaflower of Damariscotta has arrived at New York, 171 days from Bordeaux. The crew subsisted on sweet oil for upwards of twenty days.'
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MCCOBB, WILLIAM (1740-1815), in 1794 owned and commanded sch. In- dustry. That year he and Timothy Brooks, of Salem, had top. sch. Rachel constructed at Bristol; a smaller sch., the Betsey, McCobb owned out- right. The vessels had the names of his wife and daughter. In old age he was accorded a signal honor. In 1808 seventeen guns boomed forth an- nouncement of Fourth of July. Citizens of B'bay and Edge. assembled at the home of David Kenniston and chose William McCobb, Esq., president of the celebration. After prayer and music at 'the Meeting house' a patri- otic oration was delivered by the Rev. Jabez Pond Fisher, followed by a col- lation on Mount North (doubtless Kenniston's hill). Sixteen toasts were offered and drunk amid wild acclaim. The last three follow:
The Harbour of Booth Bay; eminently good. Neither soldiers nor Forti- fications, nor gun boats to make the people submit to the iron rod and gall- ing chains of tyranny.
Present distressing times and Measures [the Embargo], Avaunt! and never more return.
Existing differences with Foreign powers; May they be happily ad- justed, and the present impediments of our national commerce be speedily removed.
MCFARLAND, ANDREW (1757-1832), was the first master of slp. Nancy and topsail sch. America. 'Oct. 24, 1790,' reads the Rev. Gould's diary, 'This morning Mrs. [Betsey] McFarland, wife of Captain McFarland, departed this life. He sailed a few hours before, leaving her comfortable.' Later he had top. sch. Betsey.
MCFARLAND, EPHRAIM (1765-1849), owned and commanded slp. Peggy and likewise, with his brother Andrew, top. sch. Betsey. He settled in Belfast, and in 1799 served as selectman and held a master's interest in two ves- sels built there a few years before 1800, sch. Two Brothers and slp. Ranger of 104 tons.
At that period transportation to Boston was by sail packets which, wind and weather permitting, ran regularly conveying freight and passengers. Fare amounted to 'four dollars and found.' In this service Ephraim engaged in sch. Venus; it became his life work, and in 1816 he had a fine packet of ninety-five tons constructed, named Superb. Bound to Boston in the fall of 1820, the schooner was blown off her course, but weathered the severe gale and finally made Provincetown, short of provisions, eighteen passen- gers and three of crew in straits from anxiety and privation. Such were the days of sailing packets, the small ship tossed about on an angry sea, canvas
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straining and snapping as wintry blasts howled and shrieked through taut rigging as the gale increased, or sighed mournfully as it moderated. In summer time it was another story.
In the end steamboat competition prevailed and the town history re- corded: 'Up to 1840 steamers called at Belfast only on signal and, if one wished to secure passage, one had to notify Capt. Ephraim McFarland who had charge of the flagstaff, and the signal had to be set at an early hour in the morning unless it was too foggy.' Thus the former B'bay mariner spent his declining years until shortly before his death, which occurred at Levant.
MCFARLAND, JOHN MURRAY (1767-1831), owned several vessels engaged in West Indian trade, shipping dry fish and handling products of the islands in turn. After 1800 he employed pinky Trial, boat Active, slp. Patty, Alba- tross and top. schs. Alert and John Adams. Two sons assisted their father and continued the fishing business; Nathaniel was skipper of Independ- ence and managing owner of Morning Star, Collector, Eureka, Mary Jane, Tamerlane and the Mary F. Andrew had the Albatross and the Julia and Martha. His son, John M., was a deep-water sailor, later master of the Frank Barker.
NORWOOD. In 1792 John, Stephen and Francis, G'ter mariners, purchased a plot of land 'at the head of Townsend eastern harbour.' In 1805 John owned and operated the new pinky Trial, subsequently owned by J. M. McFarland, Amasa Piper and N. T. Knight. William jr. was master of pinky Olive Branch and the larger Meridian.
PATTEN, NATHANIEL, sailed sloop Industry for Samuel Howard. In early days the Patten family lived on Ship Island, but in 1760 a Nathaniel Pat- ten was 'Master' (president) of the Boston Marine Society.
PINKHAM. About 1800 Benjamin (1769-1834) commanded slp. Abigail, mostly owned by his father, Capt. Ichabod, and Samuel Woodward, who built her at Bris. Later Benjamin had the new B'bay-built slp. Abigail (his wife's name). In 1819 he partly owned sch. Shipwright, commanded first by his son, Benjamin jr. (1797-1821), who died on a foreign voyage. The latter's brothers were masters, too; John 2d (1793-1866) had schs. Julia and the new Julia and Martha; Paul G. (1805-1870) was the first master of top. sch. Mary Adams, lost at Cape Porpoise in 1856, also of brig Tecumseh.
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PINKHAM, DAVID (1779-1839). When sch. Minerva, from Wiscasset, was captured in 1814 the master's name was David Pinkham. Presumably he was of B'bay, the one who later commanded slp. Hero, sch. Dart and the coaster Prospect. David partly owned the coaster, which in 1837 was com- manded by his son George, of B'bay, but his father then lived at New- castle, where George died a decade later. He also had the brig Emerald. A brother, Warren (1807-1851), shipped from Edgecomb in the B'bay fishing craft Princeton, lost with all hands at Prince Edward Island in the October gale of 1851. Another brother, Edwin (b.1813), was probably the Edwin Pinkham, of Newcastle, who in the 1840's commanded top. sch. Commerce, brigs D. Henshaw, Helen and the ship Uncle Joe.
PINKHAM, NATHANIEL (1774-1857), commanded slp. Patty, owned by him- self, his father, Capt. Ichabod, and the builder, Samuel Woodward of Bris. Capt. Nathaniel G. jr., a son (b.1806), had schs. Mary Adams, Julia and Martha, Texas, brig G. W. Kendall, bark Thales and the Brunette, a Waldoboro bark. His younger brother, Benjamin F., was mate of deep- water ships; one was bark Archer.
REED, ALEXANDER (1778-1850). A son of Capt. Joseph, Alexander has been mentioned elsewhere. He commanded his Uncle David's sch. Wash- ington, and late in 1813 evaded the enemy's coast blockade in taking her from the Penobscot to Wisc. Later he volunteered for seacoast defense. Capt. Reed partly owned the rebuilt and enlarged sch. Alert, commanded by William Bryer. Alexander married Catharine Boyd, whose stilted love letter, with two 'United' hearts intertwined amid scrollwork, follows:
Dear Sir With a heart overflowing with gratitude and free from decep- tion, I withdraw for a moment from the busy cares of Life where I en- deavor to exercise my mind on more important objects; intending first to answer the receipt of your kind letter, the contents of which I perused with inexpressible joy and satisfaction. I shall always feel myself indebted to you for your friendship towards me. Time will never wear you from my memory, but time will not permit me to be lengthy, and must conclude.
Believe me, Sir, to be with every true sentiment of respect and esteem your sincere friend. I am confined in the opinion I formed of you at first, and shall with pleasure subscribe myself your most affectionate and un- feigned friend.
They lived in a two-story square house, off the old West Harbor-N. Boothbay road, where a granddaughter called about 1849 and in old age said:
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Captain Reed stood with his back to the fireplace with his hands be- hind him. He was of good height, well-rounded out and of medium com- plexion. He had a round kindly face, pleasant and smiling, a genial man. His wife was of medium height, genial temperament and fond of her grandchildren. Their daughter, Sarah Ann, resembled her mother in ap- pearance but was far more serious. Her sister Charity closely resembled her father.
Catharine survived Alexander briefly. Their slate gravestones came from Wales in brig Rainbow, commanded by their son-in-law, William S. Emerson.
All five sons followed the sea; Joseph died at twenty-four in Liverpool, 1827; Silas Lee (1808-1836) seaman sch. Envoy, was drowned at Philadel- phia; and Samuel M. and Alexander Wylie, mentioned elsewhere, were lost at sea. Caleb S. (1805-1876) was a bank fisherman in the Wave. In youth a fall deformed his back, and the following occurrence was related by Capt. Charles Adams. While Caleb's vessel lay at anchor near an English man-of-war in Halifax harbor an officer callously called: 'What's that you got on your back, Yank?' Quick as a shot came the retort: 'Bunker Hill monument, G- damn you.'
REED, ANDREW JR. (1755-1842). Born in Boston where his father, Col. Andrew, married Mary Sloss in 1754, he later lived at B'bay. When twenty he commanded a schooner (chap. i); served on the expeditions to the Penob- scot and commanded the armed slp. Speedwell, captured by the British. However, in 1781 she was retaken and libeled at Falmouth in behalf of the captors, Philip Crandall et alii. The next year an Andrew Reed had priva- teer Salamander, owned largely by Moses Little, of Newburyport, an asso- ciate of Capt. Paul Reed, which indicates probability of the commander being a B'bay Reed. After the war Andrew jr. commanded slps. Fox, Sukey and perhaps the Frederick.
He lived at the Knickerbocker, and several sons followed the sea. John (1794-1873) had sch. Friendship (N'boro 1816) and owned a master's in- terest in the Frederick Reed, built by his brother Benjamin. Frederick C. (1797-1825) died in Haiti about May ist, possibly on the Alert, which sailed for the West Indies in March. Either a son or grandson of Andrew jr., Joshua, commanded sch. Frederick, which early in 1850 caught fire off Isle au Haut and burned with great rapidity in the cargo of hay. A vessel rescued Capt. Joshua, Gustavus and Joseph Reed and a passenger, but Joseph died in April. Joshua had sch. Adeline, and brig Only Son. Benja- min (1798-1875) was a shipbuilder at H. Mills; his first vessel was probably
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the Isabella (his wife's name). His son, Bradford D. (1842-1868), entered the navy in 1861, served on ship Wyandotte, was promoted acting ensign and honorably discharged in 1865. A bit later his father constructed a large handsome schooner with elliptic stern, the Benjamin Reed, for Bradford's command. About a year later he contracted yellow fever and died on arrival in New York. William E. Reed, previously skipper of pinky L. W. Gibbs, succeeded to the command.
REED, JOSEPH. He was a brother of Paul and also came from County Antrim, Ireland. His activities during the Revolution appear in the first chapter. At the close of the war Joseph resumed his seafaring, and in 1790 was the sole owner and master of a sloop built at Woolwich in 1784. He was associated with Thomas Moore, of Boston, in shipping and for the times was well-to-do. The sunset of the Captain's life was spent in his large white house of twelve rooms, situated northward from Mill Cove, where in Jenk's Portland Gazette he followed the shipping news of his vessels and seafaring sons, David, Joseph, Alexander and Paul. In 1798 Joseph jr. died at twenty-two, and lies buried near his father, whose epitaph reads:
In Memory of Capt. Joseph Reed who died March 6, 1809 AE-71 Farewell my Children near and dear, May Jesus for your help appear, And be your Father Kind and Just, When I am Rotten in the Dust.
Joseph's son, David (1772-1825), commanded slp. Susannah (his wife's name) and topsail sch. Washington, owned by himself et alii. Of David's sons, George is noticed elsewhere; Washington (1811-1897) and Nathaniel Curtis (1815-1904) were shipwrights at Oven's Mouth, and later operated a marine railway at West Harbor. The latter was master builder of the Cynosure. David A. (1821-1843) died in the Seaman's Retreat, New York; and Thomas M. was lost at sea in 1842, aged nineteen.
REED, PAUL. Born 1735 in North Ireland, he came to America in boyhood and is said to have lived at Yarmouth, District of Maine, before coming to B'bay. He had a clear, high tenor voice which attracted the attention of the Rev. George Whitefield, probably at Yarmouth, who invited Paul to ac-
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company him and lead in singing. However, he followed the sea, and in 1762 was master of slp. Speedwell of Townsend, in Boston-Nova Scotia . trade; and the following decade commanded brig Rosanna. Came the Revolution, and his activities during hostilities appear in the first chapter and the Appendix.
After the war Paul continued mercantile trade, and in 1794 commanded the new topsail sch. Rachel; other commands were top. sch. Nabby, brig- antine Betsey, the local-built slp. Sally and the Dolphin. In 1797 a sch. came out at Bristol, owned by the master, Paul Reed, Andrew Reed of G'town, and Timothy Brooks of Salem, where Capt. Paul died in 1799. The vessels hailed from B'bay and perhaps his eldest son, Paul jr., com- manded some of them.
REED, PAUL MAXWELL (1796-1829). He was a son of William M. and like- wise a master mariner; shortly before his death in New Orleans a Capt. Reed arrived there in command of ship Massasoit. In 1819 Paul married Mary Sparr in Boston; at his death there were two minor children, Paul Maxwell (b.1827) and Mary Ann Reed. It is said the boy became a Boston pilot. Of the Captain's brothers, Charles (b. 1800) died at sea; Rufus K. (1805-1860) engaged in fishing, owned pinky Leader and in 1839 was skipper of pinky Albatross; and Isaac, like his father, was a revenue officer for B'bay.
REED, ROBERT (b. 1757), was port inspector and custom-house measurer of vessels at Wisc. He largely owned the Betsey, Driver, Polly, small craft at- tached to Pig Cove, and was master of the Nancy. His son William (b.1786) had the Driver, also the Polly, which was run down in Casco Bay by a slp. which offered no assistance. The sinking schooner was run ashore and repaired (1810). Later he fished in boat Active for J. M. McFarland. Another son, John, lived on Indiantown Island in 1856, previously master of sch. Sylph (Bath 1815), of G'town.
REED, WM. MAXWELL (1767-1850). As a boy he served as powder monkey on a privateer commanded by his father, Capt. Paul, and later became prominent as a sailor, soldier and shipmaster. When the Embargo Act put a quietus on foreign trade, William employed slps. Industry and Betsey in coasting. He and other masters doubtless did not view the declaration of war in 1812 with enthusiasm, nevertheless William served loyally and commanded a company of local militia; his exploit in recapturing a prize is related elsewhere. Commands: Dr. Creamore's ship Townsend, slp.
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Friendship and the Favorite (chap. iii). In 1801 he was half owner and master of the Betsey, lately his father's vessel; and later sailed for Timothy Brooks in his Salem schooner Washington.
WATTS, WILLIAM McNEIL (1762-1820), was born in Massachusetts of Scotch-Irish ancestry. In babyhood his parents settled at Warren, District of Maine, in which vicinity descendants became very prominent in ship- ping. He was master of the B'bay ship Commerce, and on a later voyage died at Darien, Georgia.
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