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Meantime a variation of the spiral wheel invented in 1838 by Ericsson of Monitor fame came into use on several Government vessels and others. It infringed on. the patent of Captain Emerson, who is best remembered because of his successful controversy over patent rights. The shipbuilding firm had been dissolved in 1842; early in 1844 Emerson left New Orleans for New York, to wage a long fight for his invention-a thorn in the flesh of Ericsson for many years. In Washington, Emerson swore to and filed two drawings of his invention, described it in detail, a part of which reads: 'When used for steamboats, I employ an improved spiral paddle wheel,
. . . It must be entirely under water, and operate in the direction of the boat's way.' It resembled the rotary part of a lawnmower, its axis or rota- tion parallel to the ship's keel. A notice of his claim appeard in the New York Herald, warning against use or manufacture of his patent without permission; and he visited the Great Lakes and elsewhere to ascertain ves- sels using spiral wheels.
Later a suit against a manufacturer came to trial in which Emerson was entirely successful; won the verdict of two successive juries in the U. S. Circuit Court in New York; the written opinion of both judges who tried the case; and upon appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States, the legality of his patent was sustained as follows:
In the case of Hogg & Delamater vs. Emerson (6 Howard's R., 437), the Supreme Court of the United States held that Ericsson's patent was an infringement upon the patent of Emerson, and that the Emerson patent covered the new movement intended to be given to the steam-engine, by substituting a continued rotary motion for a crank motion, and the new form of the spiral wheel, when the engine is used in vessels, by changing the form of the paddles and placing them near the ends of the arms; and the new connection of the power with the capstan of such vessels by in- serting the upper end of the shaft into the capstan.
In the controversy, because the Government had been using Ericsson propellers, it was inclined to side with him. In 1849 the Commissioner of Patents wrote in effect: that Emerson was the inventor of the leading features of the special propeller, but had neglected to introduce it into use; that Ericsson had made some improvements upon the machine and had introduced it into public use. To neither belongs credit for the type of screw propeller now used, but to John Stevens, whose invention pre- ceeded both.
Although Emerson sought compensation for his loss, he did not live to reap anything of importance except the moral victory; in fact, after years
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of expensive litigation, he assigned his claim to attorneys. Finally, Congress voted $25,610 'for the relief of John B. Emerson,' then dead and buried. It was a royalty of ten dollars per ton, previously set by him, on the total tonnage (2561) of five vessels proved to have used Ericsson propellers; namely, sloop of war Princeton (the first screw man-of-war, 1843), revenue cutters Jefferson and Legare and two Mexican War transports, bark Edith and ship Massachusetts. The Senate report added, 'Your committee be- lieve that the infringement of his patent by the United States gave en- couragement to other ship-builders to do the same thing, and that Mr. Emerson, in consequence, suffered damages greatly in excess of the sum above stated.'
Captain Emerson married Nancy Robinson of Louisiana, and in the 1860's there, on account of Union loyalty, suffered imprisonment that im- paired his health. His wife died in 1867, and broken in spirit he returned to Maine, and is recalled in his last years as a tall, gaunt man, leaning heavily on crutches. And so he passed at Newcastle, one of the old-time shipmasters who had contributed his mite to that revolution in motive power from wind to steam.
EMERSON, JOSEPH (1801-1860). In 1826 he married Rebecca Robinson, of Thomaston, and settled there. That year Edward O'Brien, noted Thomas- ton shipbuilder, constructed brig Asia, which Joseph commanded. In- bound under another master in 1839, she was wrecked on Monhegan. From 1830 to 1834 Joseph was part owner and master of the Thomaston brig Elizabeth (Pittston 1823), next had the new brig Olive Branch, and in 1842 took the bark Bostonian (Thomaston 1839), which he commanded until late in August 1845, when she arrived at Thomaston from Antwerp.
His wife, Rebecca (1806-1838), died; in 1844 Joseph married Mary Bright of Maine. They lived first in Galveston, and about 1856 moved to San Francisco. He died in the adjacent town of San Mateo. By his first wife Joseph had six children; one, Wm. James (1829-1894), went to sea at twelve with his uncle William and died in Sebastopol. Joseph's daughter Elizabeth married William Keith, a San Francisco artist of note.
In the fall of 1848 brig Sarah Elizabeth of Thomaston, Emerson, master, touched at B'bay; sailed southward and early the following year put in at Nassau, the mate and the cook having died on board. In 1850 she sailed from Tampa Bay and was lost on the Florida coast. Captains named Emerson also commanded topsail schooner Robert and Rowland, em- ployed in freighting lime in the 1830's; and brig Emeline (Warren 1848;
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lost 1856). Edward O'Brien built the schooner and both hailed from Thomaston.
GOVE. Their commands: Abie, t. sch. Mystic. Alpheus, Sea Flower (Mon- hegan 1826). Ebenezer, in 1790's sloop Ranger, ship Townsend. Enos, in 1790's t. sch. Hero. (One Capt. E. Gove d. 1800.) John, Edge. schs. Polly and Dolphin. John, vide S. Dodge. Joseph, brig Hector, wrecked W. I. island; crew saved, but he d. on the island. Samuel, ship Ceylon (Bath 1833), later bark Peru. Solomon, in 1833 new sch. Mary. Thomas, t. sch. Dolphin (a Thomas Gove d. in Boston in 1800, buried at Edge).
GOVE, A. B. He sailed as mate with Capt. Enoch Chase of brig Logan, lost in 1849, and continued with him in brig G. W. Kendall (q.v.). In California, Captain Gove sailed for Samuel Merritt in barks Warren and Samuel Merritt and in the latter made three round voyages to China. Gove's next venture was steamer Constitution, which he purchased and ran between San Francisco and Puget Sound for three years, then sold her. He returned to sail in the bark Glimpse, which stranded near Victoria. After that mishap Gove operated tug Cyrus Walker in Puget Sound. Later, while a San Francisco bar pilot, Captain Gove had a stroke of paralysis and retired; in 1895 he was living in Oakland.
MERRILL, STEPHEN and WILLIAM. In the 1830's Stephen commanded top- sail schooner Louisa and brigs Emerald and George. William (vide F. Trask).
MERRY, JOHN FAIRFIELD. In youth he entered the navy, and with merit and ability worked his way upward to rank of rear admiral. John was not a graduate of Annapolis. During the Civil War he was an ensign under Admirals Lee and Porter, and in the engagement at Fort Fisher was wounded severely. Admiral Merry spent his declining years on a farm in his native Edgecomb. While in command of the Tallapoosa, a paddle- wheel steamer constructed at the Charlestown navy yard in 1862, an un- fortunate incident occurred when she collided with the James S. Lowell (q.v.). Raised and repaired, in 1892 the naval ship was condemned and sold in Montevideo.
Bradford and Norman Merry hailed from the vicinity of Back Narrows, B'bay. Bradford captained schooners Coquette and Fannie Hodgkins. After sailing from Wiscasset for years, in 1883 he was lost over- board from coaster Niger. In 1915 Norman commanded the new four-
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masted Carl F. Cressy. Under another master during the late war she was torpedoed by a German ship.
"PARSONS, JOTHAM. He captained two small schooners, both named Friend- ship; one built at Freeport, 1791, the other in Edgecomb, 1812. The loss of one and his escape appear elsewhere. In the 1820's Jotham commanded sch. Sophia (97 tons), brig Olive and the new brig Ajax. An active sea- farer for many years, in 1832, then of Wiscasset, he half owned the new ship Emporium.
Of other Parsons, Stephen (1807-1840) owned pinky Joanna (Edge. 1819), and had brig Emeline and new sch. Ursula. He was lost at sea. Thomas (a.1804-1862) was a sea-captain; Westbrook captained William (G'town 1825), and in 1827 Lucy K. Parsons married Capt. Samuel Hol- brook of Edge. Ozias Parsons commanded the B'bay schooners Humboldt, the new Sammie S. Mckown and the George Washington. In the summer of 1880 the last named was overhauled by a Spanish vessel of four guns, but was released.
PATTERSON. In the 1790 decade William and Samuel Patterson were active in foreign trade. William captained topsail schooners Nabby (new, 1792), Friendship, Industry, Stock and the Jenny Miller. Samuel commanded slp. Sally, owned by William; Polly (Edge. sch.) and ship Townsend. In June 1798 he had brigantine Jane (N'boro 1797), owned by William Foster; and during the year she was seized by the French, sent in and detained at Santander, Spain. The Captain died that September. Years later Alfred Patterson was master of topsail sch. Morning Star, and in 1840 of brig Emerald.
POOL, ISAAC (1788-1875). He was a prominent citizen and shipmaster of his native Edgecomb; son of John Pool (1766-18.40) of Sandy Bay, Cape Ann, who in 1787 maried Ruth Gamage (1770-1847), of Bristol, and set- tled on the Damariscotta River shore in Edge. There, in 1809, Isaac mar- ried Rosanna Burnham (1791-1889). In later life the Captain was in- terested in shipbuilding and civic duties and, unlike many seafarers, died at home.
In the days of West Indian piracy Captain Pool and his schooner Ever- green were captured by picaroons. A favorable opportunity offering, Isaac cleverly contrived to overpower the small prize-crew, regained possession, and in September of 1821 arrived safely in Boston. The sword he used to subdue the pirates, and his Masonic apron of elaborate design, are cher- ished family heirlooms.
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On the shore at Pool's landing may still be seen the ruins of an old ship- yard, established probably by John Pool and continued by his son. In 1820 pinky Two Friends, brig Mary and Susan, and in 1829, the large top- sail sch. Rose were constructed at Edgecomb, perhaps at the Pool yard; for in 1824 Joshua Pool was skipper of the pinky and Isaac Pool com- manded the brig and schooner. The Rose hailed from Damariscotta. A letter written in September 1855, says: 'Mr. Pool launched his brig last Wednesday,' corroborated eighty years later by Sarah J. Merry who wrote:
I remember of going to a launching at Pool's landing, Edgecomb, Maine, when I was a child between six and seven years old .. The Salt Marsh Cove school was closed that the pupils might attend. As I was born in 1849 this event must have occurred about 1855 or 1856. I have no recol- lection of the kind of vessel or the name. I do not remember any other launching at Pool's, and I lived in Edgecomb until I was eighteen.
John C. Pool (1810-1858), son of Captain Isaac, followed the sea with his father and became a master-mariner. Later he engaged in lumber trade at Calais and Portland, where he died.
RYAN. Albert Ryan (vide John Chase); David T. Ryan, of Newcastle, com- manded clipper ship White Falcon (Pittston 1853); In 1837 Washington Ryan partly owned and captained topsail sch. Caspian; and William C. Ryan, twenty-seven in 1846, was mate with Capt. Enoch Chase of brig Damascus.
TILTON. In 1814 a Captain Tilton, on leaving the Damariscotta in his sloop Mary, was chased and brought to by man-of-war Bulwark. The Eng- lish commander was not vindictive, but permitted him to proceed and even granted a pass to return in safety. Andrew Tilton, noticed elsewhere, owned and captained the small Edge. sch. Betsey (Ipswich 1789); and John Tilton (a.1784-1857) commanded topsail schooners Alexander and Betsey. For a time he lived at Bristol, but died in South Boston.
On a wooded knoll in Edgecomb, overlooking the Damariscotta not far south of 'The Ledges,' at a place called Ring's Point in old records, lies an old burial ground. Among its two-score graves are those of Captains Benjamin Tilton (a.1770-1821), Daniel Tilton (1772-1823), master of slp. Hannah (Plymouth 1782); and Samuel Tilton's wife Nancy. In 1794 he was skipper of sch. Humbird (Falmouth 1780). Under fifty tons, they were probably fishing craft.
TRASK. In 1744 Samuel Trask was one of the pioneers of Edgecomb. In
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1803 Ebenezer captained topsail sch. Stock of Wisc. He d. 1808. In the 1830's Frederick commanded Commerce and Palestine, topsail schooners - hailing from Wiscasset, where he lived. Also in that decade Amaziah had topsail sch. Bolivar, and Freeman the large pinky Angler. In December 1849 the Edge. sch. Nancy, Capt. Freeman Trask and crew, Anson and Joseph D. Clifford, William Merrill and a Wisc. boy, were shipwrecked on Plum Island, off Newburyport. All were lost; the bodies, except those of Anson and the boy, washed ashore.
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BROOKS, CHARLES (1793-1851). A farmer and sea-captain, in 1822 he mar- ried Margaret Reed and lived on the southeastern part of the island. Fred Brooks followed the sea in G'ter fishermen until he suffered the loss of an arm; Masonic brethren aided him to enter Sailors' Snug Harbor.
DUNTON. Stephen (a. 1797-1882) sailed pinky Martha Jane for James Mc- Carty, and the Sarah for the Shattuck Mills. George W., of Bath in 1864, had sch. Minnehaha. In 1876 Chester Dunton was lost on the Grand Banks from a dory; also Charles Fisher of W'port. James F. Dunton (1856-1925), native of W'port, was nine years in ship Benjamin Sewall, part of the time as first officer. Afterward he sailed for James B. Drake as master of the Bath schooners Florence J. Allen, Ella F. Davenport and others.
GREENLEAF. Before 1840 Greenleafs owned and operated fishing pinks; the Martha by Ebenezer, Shylock by Nathan, Betsey (Ipswich 1816) by Wil- liam and Banner by Zebulon. In 1841 Daniel was master of topsail sch. Globe. Freeman, born on the island, lived at Edge. and captained Exchange. David D. commanded the B'bay vessels Exchange and Mary Edward; in 1872 the latter sailed for Demerara under a Greenleaf and disappeared. Westbrook (1778-1865), born at Edge, which then included the island, partly owned and captained pinky Martha and was sole owner of pinky Shylock (Newcastle 1815). His sons Silas and Nelson Greenleaf were ship- masters.
GREENLEAF, SILAS HOLT (1831-1902). A native of W'port, he began his career at thirteen in fishing vessels and captained one when twenty-one. With ap- titude for command, he engaged in coasting and deep-water voyages; the latter included seventeen to S. A., numerous trips to the W. I., the Mediter-
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ranean and a voyage during the Zulu War to Natal, South Africa. Among his commands were brig Rio Grande, bark Gan-Eden and barkentine Mathew Baird (Kennebunk 1873), constructed for shipping Baldwin loco- motives. Eight were carried in the barkentine to Nicoliev, near Odessa in Russia. His successful sea life of thirty-nine years ended in the M. Baird.
Thereafter Captain Greenleaf retired to his home on Phip's Point, near W'port. He had married Arabella A. Farnham in 1868, and since a son, David W. Greenleaf, lived in Nebraska, the couple moved thither. She survived until 1920.
GREENLEAF, S. NELSON. Born at W'port in 1837, he went to sea when four- teen, voyaged to the Pacific in 1858, and commanded vessels there and on the Atlantic until 1889. His commands were brigs W. D. Rice, George Washington, bark Orb, ships Helios, Union and the Fanny Tucker. Nelson later lived and died in Seattle.
A new schooner named Henrietta Greenleaf, captained by William H. Greenleaf, was lost on her first trip. She sailed from G'ter in April 1876 and the first night out, before sail could be taken in, went on her beam ends in a terrific squall. Including the master's brother Franklin, four were drowned below; after futile attempts to save the vessel the others got into two dories which tried to keep together, but in sleet, snow and a rough sea parted company. In a day or so Freeman Crawford, of W'port, died from exposure shortly before the dory was picked up by a fishing vessel which landed the survivors in Halifax. The other dory was lost; it contained five, including Bernard Jewett and Charles Pattie, both of W'port.
MCCARTY. The family was of Scotch-Irish descent from the north of Ire- land; the old homestead on the Sheepscot with priceless relics of the sea was burned years ago. Florence McCarty married Martha Cothran. They were born in 1746 and 1768, respectively. Their son James (1788-1868), was an early master and became prominent in shipping. In 1819 he had pinky Flying Fish, later pinky Martha Jane, pinky Nightingale (Edge. 1821) and larger vessels; owned largely in schs. Harriet, C. D. Oliver, brigs Cyclone, George Washington, Wanderer and the fine ship James McCarty, all com- manded by his seafaring sons. An excellent oil painting of the ship is prized by a grandson. Thrice married, his first wife was Polly Hodgdon (1793-1821); children, Dennis, Ozias and Martha Jane.
Dennis (b.1816) followed the sea with his father, was master of pinky Challenge and topsail sch. Mechanic, rounded Cape Horn and engaged in foreign trade from the Pacific coast.
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Ozias (1817-1886) early captained Harriet (Alna 1838). Other commands: Metlalack (Dresden 1846), a small cream-colored brig eventually aban- doned off Cape Henry. He was the first master of brig Geo. Washington (Woolwich 1848), owned wholly at W'port; likewise of brig Tornado and for years had the well-named Daisy (N. Y. 1872), a large fine hermaphrodite brig. Eventually he suffered a slight paralytic stroke, which later ended a successful seafaring career.
About 1845 Ozias was in a sailing ship bound to New York from the Mediterranean; on board was a young Italian widow named Aurelia, from Genoa. On arrival they married, lived at W'port, then Bath, and for about thirty years in Brooklyn. In New York Mr. John Swan was managing owner of a number of vessels, including brig Johanna and the ship James McCarty. About 1868, it is said, Ozias commanded the brig in Mediter- ranean trade and carried out a piano for the Sultan of Turkey. Ozias was also master of the James McCarty. He was well versed in seamanship, and is said not to have lost a vessel and but one man overboard. On one occasion his brig went ashore in a gale because a lightship, on which he depended, was blown off her station in the same storm. Captain Ozias died in Brooklyn and was buried in Greenwood cemetery. His son, Edward L. McCarty, commanded brig Daisy, died on board off Brazil and was buried at sea.
James McCarty's second wife was Mary Greenleaf; children: James jr. (1826-1894) and Benjamin Franklin, two years younger and called Frank McCarty. James jr. captained Harriet, C. D. Oliver and brig Cyclone of W'port. Frank commanded brigs, bark Charles R. Lewis and ship James McCarty.
James McCarty's third wife was Abigail Dunton (1802-1883); they had seven children (b.1832-1847), of whom four followed the sea. The eldest son, Florence, was lost overboard from one of his father's vessels by a swinging boom on a wild night off Seguin; of Henry D. and Turner (1835- 1895), no information is available; and Elijah S. McCarty (1836-1862) was master at nineteen, had brig Wanderer, and his last command was the famous fast-sailing bark Grapeshot (Maine 1853), which had a cannon for a figurehead. Late in February he sailed from New York with horses and mules intended for Barbados; heavy disastrous gales prevailed up to March 1 1862; the bark was never reported, and it was assumed she foundered a few days out in the latitude of Cape Hatteras.
SHATTUCK, LEVI (1742-1823). He was the first of that name to settle on
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'Squam Island (now W'port), where he died. A native of Pepperell, in 1766 he came to the District of Maine, worked at his trade of carpenter and millwright and in 1784, in association with his younger brother Jonas (vide App. VI), purchased land and water rights on the island at what is now Heal's Cove. In this place they established tide grist- and sawmills, constructed wharves and carried on an extensive business in manufactur- ing and shipping lumber from the 'Shattuck Mills.' The berth for large vessels, a channel with good depth at high tide, was between the Islet called Shattuck's and the W'port shore.
Levi had two children, David and Sarah, born in 1774 and 1777, respec- tively. When seventeen she married George Reed of Woolwich. David managed and inherited his father's interest in the mills. One of the lumber carriers was the Sarah, owned by David, his son Levi and Tyler Hodgdon, later of B'bay. Levi (b. 1798) and his brother David (b. 1806) were ship- wrights; it is probable that they constructed the Sarah on the island, then a part of Edge. Levi settled at Wiscasset, David at Newcastle. Thomas (b.1813), the youngest of David's ten children, was one of the later owners of the mills.
TARBOX. Among early members of this family in the eastern District of Maine were three brothers, Andrew, Samuel and Cornelius Tarbox. Re- lated to them was Andrew Tarbox, of W'wich and Bath, a sea-captain. He had sons Andrew jr. and Henry C. Tarbox, likewise shipmasters. One Andrew Tarbox captained brig Rio Grande of Bath; the first master of ship Victoria Reed (Bath 1854) was a Tarbox; and Henry C. Tarbox com- manded bark Samuel Tarbox (Bath 1860). In the fall of 1866 she found- ered; five were lost, but Henry and nine others were picked up and landed on Block Island. Afterward he had ship Itaska.
Cornelius (a.1751-1813) was born at Saco and had a son, Cornelius (a.1786-1858), who owned and operated fishing craft; sailed by his son, James L. (1823-1907). James H. (1856-1931), son of James L. Tarbox, sailed in Houghton Brothers' ships as chief officer for David Gilmore of W'wich, master for many years of the Bath ship Servia. Although offered command of a schooner, James, a sailorly man, preferred deep-water life and a square-rigger; no ship was available, consequently he left the sea in his thirties and lived on W'port Island.
On the island lived and died Capt. Joshua Tarbox (a.1768-1856). Of others, Samuel commanded the Majestic; Jordan, a fiddler at dances, was skipper of fishing sch. Peggy and Polly (Vinalhaven 1824) and Ezekiel
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captained sch. Sophronia. Later he lived and kept a store on the eastern side of the island. Incidentally an Ez. Tarbox had the transport Nancy . when she sailed from B'bay on the Penobscot expedition of 1779.
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Moons waxed and waned, the lilacs bloomed and died, In the broad river ebbed and flowed the tide; Ships went to sea, and ships came home from sea, And the slow years sailed by and ceased to be. -LONGFELLOW
ALBEE. The seafaring brothers Sewall, Stephen, Isaac and Eben Albee lived in the northern part of town, near the Alna line. Captain Eben fol- lowed fishing; Isaac, called Captain Clifford Albee, spent his last days in Sailors' Snug Harbor.
In his twenties Sewall captained brig Ajax during the winter of 1827- 1828, on a voyage to Bristol, England. In the brig and in the new ship Emporium, he sailed for Benjamin Sewall of Boston. In the 1850's Sewall Albee commanded barks Arion and Rodmond. Earlier commands were the Tiberius, brig Olive and ship Tamerlane. Built in 1824, the latter was a bark-rigged whaler in 1891. Bullen's Cruise of the Cachalot says: 'Two whale-ships lay here [Port William], the Tamerlane of New Bedford, ... She was neat, smart and seaworthy, looking as if just launched.' Pre- served by oil penetrating the timbers, she was reported lost at the Ha- waiian Islands, a very old ship.
In 1844 Stephen commanded topsail sch. Byron of Boston, and his last ship was the M. de Embril (Bath 1852). With wife and child aboard, he sailed from New York for Santander, Spain. Never reported, it was as- sumed the ship foundered during a storm which occurred soon after sail- ing in December 1856.
A grandson of Sewall Albee, Ebenezer Albee (1834-1853), was lost from the Rainbow. It occurred about four days out of B'bay, the brig running under bare poles in an unusual storm. Two men were at the wheel, Ebe- nezer on the leeward side, unlashed; a heavy sea suddenly swept over the stern, carrying him and one other overboard. Another Sewall Albee, seven- teen in 1853, was a dark-complexioned sailor lad.
Of other Albees, in the 1790 decade Obadiah was master of schooners
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Hannah and Sally (Newcastle 1781); in 1802 Mary Albee married Stephen Perkins (vide Index); in 1815 William, skipper of Two Friends for Joseph Kent, shipped on privateer Fly; in 1837 Parsons Albee had the large pinky Angler, and a bit earlier the new brig Plutas.
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