Plymouth memories of an octogenarianDavis, William T. (William Thomas)
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Plymouth memories of an octogenarian
Davis, William T. (William Thomas)
Plymouth (Mass.) -- History
The bark Yeoman of Plymouth, James S. Clark of Rochester, master,
sailed from Plymouth, March 18, 1849, with Geo. Collingwood of
Plymouth, mate, and the following members of the Pilgrim Mining
Company: Nathaniel C. Covington, president; Francis H. Robbins,
secretary; and Robert Swinburne, Nathan G. Cushing, John E.
Churchill, Henry Chase, Wm. Collingwood, Wm. M. Gifford, A. O.
Nelson, Franklin B. Holmes, Nathan Churchill, James T. Collins,
Nathaniel S. Barrows, Jr., Henry M. Hubbard, Henry B. Holmes, Alfred
R. Doten, Ellis Rogers, Ellis B. Barnes, George P. Fowler, Wm.
Saunders, Richard B. Dunham, Henry M. Morton, Caleb C. Bradford,
Silas M. Churchill, Elisha W. Kingman, Ozen Bates, Chandler Dunham,
James T. Wadsworth, Winslow B. Barnes, Thomas Rogers, Edward Morton,
Wm. J. Dunham, Augustus Robbins, Sylvanus Everson, George A.
Bradford, Seth Blankenship, John Clark, Thomas Brown and John Ward.
The Yeoman was built as a brig in Plymouth, in 1833, and afterwards
changed to a bark.
The Attila, Wm. W. Baker of Plymouth, master, sailed from Boston in
March, 1849, with the following passengers: Timothy Allen, Charles
H. Weston, Calvin Ripley, Samuel Lanman, Ellis H. Morton, William
Randall, Manter, Allen Holmes, Joseph L. Weston, Ephraim Finney,
Abner Sylvester, Samuel Doten, Thomas C. Smith, Winslow Bradford, Job
Churchill, Samuel C. Chamberlain, Lewis Finney, George W. Virgin,
Jr., Abram C. Small, Frederick Salter, Alfred N. Primes, Isaac R.
Atwood, W. Bradford, Josiah Nichols, Charles W. Swift, John Leighton,
Wm. Smith, Rufus Holmes, James Joyce, Lucien Winsor, Henry Holmes,
Henry Lee, Samuel Alden, Benjamin F. Winslow, Frederick Bush, James
Carey, John L. Nash and Ambrose Harmon. The Attila was one hundred
and seventy days on her passage to San Francisco.
The ship Mallory sailed from New York, February 28, 1849, with the
following passengers, Thomas Rider, Richard T. Pope and Frederick W.
Lucas.
The ship Frances Ann sailed from Boston in April, 1849, having as a
passenger, John Haggerty.
The ship York sailed from Boston April 1, 1849, having as a
passenger, John A. Spooner.
The ship New Jersey sailed from Boston in May, 1849, having Josiah
Williams as a passenger.
The ship Iconium of Plymouth, Eleazer Stephens Turner, master, sailed
from Boston, June 1, 1849, with Horace Jackson as a passenger.
The bark Helen Augusta sailed from Boston, August 15th, with James
Gorham Hedge as a passenger.
The steamship Chesapeake sailed from New York, August 9th, 1849, for
the Isthmus with Gideon Holbrook.
The ship Harriet Rockwell sailed from Boston, September 18, 1849,
with Stephen P. Sears.
The ship Cordova sailed from Boston, September 26, 1849, having as
passengers, Seth Morton, Jr., and wife; Mrs. Anna Bartlett and child,
John B. Simmons, Daniel Williams, Wm. R. Lanman, Ichabod Harlow and
George White. The ship Persian of Plymouth, Robbins, master, sailed
from Baltimore in May, 1849, with Charles Jackson as passenger.
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