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 brig Sarah Abigail of Plymouth sailed from Plymouth, November 13,
1849, with the following passengers, Capt. Josiah Bartlett and wife,
William Bartlett, Andrew Blanchard, Josiah Drew, Josiah C. Fuller,
Ephraim Holmes, John B. Collingwood, Daniel F. Goodard, Charles T.
Goodard, Isaac N. Harlow, Calvin Raymond, Eleazer H. Barnes, Joseph
B. Hobart, Caleb Battles, Nathaniel Bradford, Thomas Diman, Wm.
Bowen, Melzar Pierce, Clark Ellis, George Benson, Curtis Davie, Hira
Bates, John P. Perry and Elisha Holbrook.
Steamer Ohio sailed from New York for the Isthmus, November 17, 1849,
with George O. Barnes.
Steamer name unknown, sailed from New York for the Isthmus in
December, 1849, with Joseph Cushman.
The ship Samuel Appleton sailed from New York at an unknown date in
1849, with the following passengers, Richard Pope, Wm. W. Pope, and
John Lawrence.
The ship Regulus sailed from Boston in 1849, with Daniel Bradford,
Thomas B. Bradford and Charles E. Bryant, and one hundred and twenty
others.
The ship Cheshire sailed from Boston in 1849, with Joseph I. Holmes
and Adoniram Bates.
The ship Sweden sailed from Boston in 1849, with Elisha Whiting as
passenger.
The brig Reindeer of Plymouth sailed from New York in 1849, with Dr.
Samuel Merritt, James M. Bradford, Wm. C. Bradford, Charles Randall,
Henry Raymond, Mr. Warren and Laurence Cleales.
Steamer name unknown, sailed from New York for the Isthmus in 1849,
with A. O. Whitmore, Samuel O. Whitmore, Cyrus Bartlett, Freeman
Bartlett and Lewis Bartlett. By a route unknown, Frank Sherman sailed.
Of the above named persons, one hundred and seventy-seven in all,
the following thirty-five were from other towns. Abington, James
A. Young; South Abington, John L. Nash; Boston, Abram C. Small,
Frederick Salter, Alfred N. Primes, Joseph Nichols, Charles W.
Smith and John Leighton; Bridgewater, Benjamin F. Winslow; East
Bridgewater, Josiah Byram, Frederick Bush, David Gurney, John T.
Pratt, James Carey, James M. Thomas, Daniel Beckford, George E.
Lugender, Adam E. Stetson, George E. Burns and Tolman French;
Brooklyn, N. Y., John Ward; Duxbury, Daniel Bradford, Rufus Holmes,
Samuel Joyce, Lucien Winsor, Henry Lee and Samuel Alden; Kingston,
Thomas B. Bradford, Sylvanus Everson and George A. Bradford;
Plympton, Charles E. Bryant; Pulaski, N. Y., Ambrose Harmon;
Rochester, Mass., Seth Blankenship, John Clark and Thomas Brown.
Thus the number going from Plymouth was one hundred and forty-two,
which number would doubtless be increased by those of whom I have no
record. How many of those in the list of Plymouth men are now living
I have no means of ascertaining, but of those who sailed in the
Yeoman only two, George Collingwood and Wm. J. Dunham now survive.
The last of the Yeoman’s passengers to die was Alfred R. Doten, a
brother of our townsmen, the late Major Samuel H. and Captain Charles
C. Doten, who married in Nevada, and never returned to his native
town.
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