Chapter 14 - Portsmouth (Continued - Stamp Act, Association Test, Revolutionary War, Military) from History of Rockingham County, NH From: Susan Sauve - ssauve@ecentral.com Source: History of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and Representative Citizens by Charles A. Hazlett, Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill., 1915 Page 171 CHAPTER XIV PORTSMOUTH-(Continued) Stamp Act and a Tea Party--Association Test--The War of the Revolution --Military Record--War of 1812-14--Military Record, 1861-5--Ship Building--Commerce--Privateering Stamp Act and Tea Party.--George Meserve, when in England in 1765, at the time of the passage of the Stamp Act, was appointed agent for the distribution of stamps in New Hampshire. Nowhere in the Colonies was a more determined spirit of resistance to the oppression of the mother coun- try manifested than in Portsmouth. The stamp master's commission arrived, in January, 1766. Meserve gave up the commission to the "Sons of Liberty," who took it and destroyed it at the swing bridge, where they erected a liberty standard and the bridge has been called from that day "Liberty Bridge" and a pole maintained with an appropriate inscription. Previous to the attack on Fort William and Mary in December, 1774, a Tea Party was held in the North Meeting House on December 16, 1773. At that meeting of the inhabitants it was Resolved: That whoever directly or indirectly promote or in any way assist in the importation of East India Company's tea, or any tea subject to payment of any duty here by an act of the British Parliament, shall be deemed an enemy to America. On June 25, 1774, twenty-seven chests of tea were consigned to Edward Parry which caused almost as much excitement as did the tea-ship in Boston. But he promptly reshipped them, untouched to Halifax. Another shipment of thirty chests arrived in September. The populace broke in the windows of the consignee and Parry applied to Governor Wentworth for protection, which was given. The town assembled the next day and Parry publicly declared he would not accept the consignment and it was also reshipped to Halifax. Association Test of 1776.--In the history of New Castle is detailed the active part taken by citizens of Portsmouth, in the attacks on Fort William and Mary in December, 1774. The Declaration of the Independence of the United States was well ascertained to be the voice of the people, before it was signed in the Congress at Philadelphia on the 4th of July, 1776. On the recommendation made by Congress, March 14, 1776, the signatures of the people were obtained to an obligation to oppose the hostile proceedings of the British fleets and armies. Page 172 The fullness of the returns gave the signers of the Declaration assurance that their acts would be sanctioned and sustained by the country. A docu- ment in the Secretary of State's office shows all the names of the citizens of Portsmouth in 1776, and the position in which they stood in regard to the Revolution. Four hundred and ninety-seven signed the Association Test, thirty-one were either absent or refused to sign. Of the latter, fifteen were reported as "being notoriously disaffected to the common cause." The Test list is headed by the name of Meshech Weare, and it reads as follows: "We the Subscribers, do hereby solemnly engage, and promise, that we will to the utmost of our Power, at the Risque of our Lives and Fortunes, with Armes, oppose the Hostile Proceedings of the British Fleets and Armies, against the United American Colonies." WAR OF THE REVOLUTION, MILITARY RECORD In place of the long lists of Portsmouth men serving on the land and sea we insert the following as indicative of the large number of men the town furnished: The Continental Congress had discovered in 1776 the error of short enlistments and temporary levies, and in the latter part of that year resolved upon a permanent military establishment, to consist of 88 battalions, which were subsequently augmented to 104. Each battalion of infantry to consist of 688 men, exclusive of the commissioned officers, divided into 8 companies. of 92 officers and enlisted men each, the enlistments in the new army to be for a period of not less than three years or during the continuance of the war with Great Britain. These battalions or regiments were to be raised directly by the different states in proportion to their population, and desig- nated in the army by the number and the name of the state in which they were recruited. One brigade of three battalions of infantry was directed by Congress to be raised in New Hampshire, and the state authorities immediately adopted active measures to fill up these battalions by offer of bounties, etc., to secure enlistments, and apportioned the number of men to be raised equitably among all the towns in the state. The number assigned to the Town of Portsmouth was 109, to which, in a public meeting held March 25, 1777, a remonstrance was unanimously voted in the following terms;-- State of New Hampshire; To the Honorable Council and House of Representatives for the State afore- said, now in General Assembly convened at Exeter: The Memorial and Remonstrance of the Freeholders and other Inhab- itants of the Town of Portsmouth in the State aforesaid into your Honors humbly shows; That your Memorialists have been called upon in their corporate capacity as a town by Joshua Wentworth, Esq., lieutenant colonel of the First Regiment (militia) to furnish 109 men for the Continental (regular) army, which demand, he informs us, is made by virtue of authority from your Honors, against which demand we beg leave to remonstrate to your Honors for the following interesting and weighty reasons; Page 173 In the orders from Major-General Folsom to Colonel Wentworth, the proportion of this town of males from 16 to 50 is said to be 873, but by accurate returns of all the militia companies, including the Alarm List and the companies commanded by Colonels Langdon and Sherburne, there are but 590 males in the whole and of these more than two hundred are enlisted and gone away into the Continental and State service and other ways by permission of your honors, viz.: in Colonel Long's regiment at Ticonderoga, on board the Raleigh ship of war, in Captains Salter and Daniels companies and on board the twenty-gun privateer (Portsmouth), Captain Parker, which was permitted to sail by your Honors, and all the ships employed by the Continent, which reduces the number remaining to be only about three hundred and fifty, of which 109 is now demanded, which was from the presumption that there were 873 in the town; this we conceive to be some error, and we doubt not your Honors, in justice to the town, will inquire into and relieve under this grievance. We beg leave to assure your Honors we ever were and ever will be ready to furnish our full proportion to the support of the public cause, nor do we make our present applications from any other views, but that we conceive some manifest error is made in the proportion demanded, as we are called upon to furnish considerable more than one-quarter part of the (arms-bearing) inhabitants in the town, includ- ing the Alarm List and independent companies. The memorial was not granted and the number was secured by the town paying £9 bounty and later £27 to all soldiers enlisting for three years. The distribution of troops for the defense of the Piscataqua Harbor in November, 1775, was: Great Island, 269 men; at Fort Washington, 74 men; on Peirce's Island, 366 men; on Seavey's Island, 235 men; at Kittery Point, 208 men; at Fort Sullivan, 20 men; in Portsmouth, 29 men; on the Parade, 1 Battery of Light Artillery of three brass pieces, 37 men; one com- pany of carpenters, 12 men; total, 1,250 men. WAR OF 1812-14 At the commencement of the War of 1812, and for twenty years subse- quently, the militia of New Hampshire was thoroughly organized and in a most efficient condition for service. In the year 1813 it consisted of thirty- seven regiments, of two battalions each, and numbered about 35,000 men. The Town of Portsmouth constituted the territorial limits of the First Regi- ment, the field officers of which in 1813 were: Gideon Walker, colonel com- mandant; Samuel Larkin, major first battalion; and Joseph Drown, major second battalion. The regiment consisted of 754 officers and men and was composed of the following companies, viz. : Portsmouth Artillery, organized June 17, 1775, designation changed in 1845 to Portsmouth Greys, commanded in 1813 by Capt. Robert F. Phipps; Sea Fencibles, organized 1812 and drilled both as infantry and artillery, commanded by Capt. John S. Davis; First Light Infantry Company, organized October I, 1794, designation changed July 4, 1823, to Rockingham Guards, commanded by Capt. Samuel Shackford; Second Light Infantry Company (Gilman Blues), organized October 30, 1799, commanded by Capt. Joshua Page 174 W. Pierce and six line companies commanded by Captains Benjamin Floyd, Thomas S. Bowles, Nathaniel Adams, Jr., Isaac Waldron, Joseph Sherburne and William Miller. The Artillery, Sea Fencibles, First Light Infantry and Gilman Blues were uniformed volunteer organizations, armed and equipped by the State. The line companies included all others not serving in the above, not by law exempt from military service, between the ages of eighteen and forty- five years, residing within the six militia districts into which the Town of Portsmouth was then divided. In addition to ths armed and organized force there were in Portsmouth 554 men of military age exempted from service, and 117 belonging to the several fire companies who were also released by law from military duty. During the 1812-14 war, Portsmouth sent to the army and navy its quota of men. In 1814 the reception of the news of the destruction of the Capitol of the Nation caused the greatest excitement in the town. On Sep- tember 3d, at a town meeting, a new committee of defence was appointed. Among the twelve were Daniel Webster and Jeremiah Mason. In answer to their application five regiments and a battalion of artillery and militia, num- bering 4,581 men, assembled at Portsmouth. This force could be reinforced by the Portsmouth Regiment of 800, and the Thirty-fifth Regiment of 600, and if necessary the Newburyport Regiment, which, with the regulars and state troops, there could be put in line of battle at least 7,000 men at the alarm signal. That the British had made arrangements to destroy the navy yard and town in 1814 there can be no doubt. A well appointed fleet lay off the Piscataqua for several weeks. MILITARY RECORD, 1861-65 The following roll of citizens comprise, so far as is known, all the per- sons who have been in the service of the United States, either in the army or navy, also all persons who enlisted as a part of the quota of this city and received the bounty, whether such persons were residents or not. Company K, Second Regiment.--William 0. Sides, captain; John S. Sides, second lieutenant; Andrew J. Sides, George E. Sides, Charles W. Patch, Oliver F. Maxwell, sergeants; George R. Roitt, Beckford L. Rand, Christopher J. Marshall, William W. Shaw, James Ricker, Daniel D. Wendell, Rufus L. Beem, Charles E. Gleason, corporals; James W. Taylor, musician; Benjamin J. Lake, wagoner. Privates: George A. Allon, Samuel Adams, Charles N. Allen, John Avery, Oliver N. Allen, John W. Bell, Allen P. Bell, Vanburen S. Bly, John R. Brockway, Hugh Boyle, Lewis E. Blaesdell, James N. Chase, Nathaniel M. Danielson, Joseph A. Doe, John F. Dear- born, Charles W. Downs, Horace L. Dearborn, Joseph Dame, Francis A. Fifield William H. Goodwin, Joseph E. Gordon, Clarence S. Gray, James T. Gammon, Thomas Gannin, Charles E. Hantress, Jacob W. Hill, George E. Hill, Harlen P. Hodgdon, John Harvey, John Haynes, Charles W. Hol- brook, George E. Johnson, Joseph E. Janverin, William H. Kenniston, Wil- liam S. King, Nathaniel M. Lear, Robert Lever, Edwin H. Leslie, Michael E. Long, James I. Locke, William Locke, William F. Lawson, Sedley A. Pages 175 and 176 contained photos Page 177 Lowd, Alvah Manson, William H. Mix, Jeremiah Murphy, William C. Mc- Intire, Jeremiah Mahoney, John S. McDonald, Morris F. McGraw, Joseph Moulton, John Marr, Daniel Neligan, Henry C. Norton, W. F. Oxford, John Pollock, Charles E. Plaisted, Nathaniel F. Palmer, Joseph W. Rogers, Samuel E. Reynolds, James Rutledge, John Riley, Charles R. Roberts, Charles Ridge, George Sawyer, Jr., Daniel F. Smith, James E. Seavey, Horace M. Smith, William T. Spinney, Robert C. Sides, Jr., Thomas B. Seaver, Alex- ander Steward, Joseph P. Sheppard, Freeman B. Teague, William H. Twi- light, Samuel Taylor, William H. Tenney, George W. Trickey, Henry Walker, Charles H. Warren, Joseph D. West, Andrew Willard. "I certify that the rules and articles of war were read to the company on the 8th day of June, 1861. "WILLIAM 0. SIDES" "I certify on honor that I have carefully examined the men whose names are borne on this roll, and have accepted them into the service of the United States for the term of three years from this 8th day of June, 1861. (Signed) "SETH EASTMAN, "Major Third U. S. Infantry, Mustering Officer." John S. Sides, promoted to first lieutenant August 15, 1861. Lieut. Charles W. Patch, killed at Gettysburg. Christopber J. Marshall, taken prisoner first Bull Run. Samuel Adams, deserted July 21, 1861. Oliver N. Allen, prisoner first Bull Run. William H. Kenniston, died August 3, 1861, in hospital. William F. Oxford, wounded and taken prisoner first Bull Run. Charles Ridge, taken prisoner first Bull Run. George Sawyer, taken prisoner first Bull Run. James E. Seavey, drowned at Aquia Creek, August 23, 1862. Henry Walker, killed in battle August 29, 1862. Third Regiment.--John H. Jackson, lieutenant-colonel; Alfred J. Hill, adjutant; William H. Cornelius, lieutenant; Thomas M. Jackson, second lieutenant. Company B: William J. Morrison. Company D: James Burk. Thomas Entwestle, Warren G. Gates, George C. Harris, William Horrocks. Charles E. Johnson, Harrison E. Johnson, Daniel Kimball, Joseph T. Moore, James Neal, George W, Odiorne, William B. Parks, James W. Plaisted, Ezekiel C. Rand, Thos. E. Stoodley, John H. Tredick, Leonard G. Wiggin. Company B: W.J. Morrison. Company K: Charles W. Moulton, Richard Thomas. Marched from Concord September 3, 1861. Fourth Regiment N. H. V.--Company A: Harrison Hartford. Com- pany B: George F. Towle, captain; Jacob Ambuster, Albert C. Berry, John W. Brewster, Stephen Conner, Luther Harmon, John Henderson, Seth W. Huntress, George H. Perkins. Company G: James Donavan. Fourth Regiment marched from Manchester September 27, 1861. Fifth Regiment, N. H. V.--Company B: John H. Locke, Frank C. Sweetser. Company D: Michael Brooks. Company K: Peter Brennan, Charles W. Burleigh, Michael Harr, Walter M. Hatch, James Stearns, Robert S. Dame. Fifth Regiment marched from Concord October 29, 1861. Sixth Regiment N. H. V.--Company H: Andrew J. Sides, second lieu- tenant; James Berry, Havillah F. Downing, Pierpont Hammond, Dennis Page 178 Kane, Bickford L. Rand, Irving W. Rand, William H. Redden, Samuel S. Sides, William G. Tripp, William Wilson, Edward McDonald, James Daley, John S. Dore, Hiram Hayes, William A. Horton, William Kemp, Franklin Jones, Edward Martin, Hiram Morrow, Richard Norton, John O'Brine, Daniel Quinn, Charles H. Thompson, Reuben H. Ricker, Washington Sweet. Sixth Regiment N. H. V. marched from Keen December 25, 1861. Lieut. A. J. Sides was first sergeant of Company K when it left the city, but was subsequently discharged and recruited the men of Company H. Seventh Regiment.--Company D: George B. Parker. Company G: John White. Seventh Regiment marched from Manchester January 14, 1862. Ninth Regiment.--Company C: David Binch. Company E: Edward F. Goodwin. Ninth Regiment marched from Concord August 25, 1862. Tenth Regiment.--Company G: George W. Towle, captain; George E. Hodgdon, first lieutenant; Lemon R. Marston, second lieutenant; Horace H. Adams, Henry L. Adlington, Thomas Archibald, James S. Ayers, John 0. Ayers, Meschack Bell, Jr., Henry T. Brill, George Brown, Abram D. Burn- ham, Joseph B. Burnham, John H. Custton, Hesam Cowen, Thomas Day, William E. Dearborn, Benjamin F. Evans, John E. Fields, Richard Fitz- gerald, John H. Flint, Franklin E. Gardner, Lucius Gilmore, Michael Guli- gan, Thomas Haley, Michael Haire, Pierpont Hammond, Owen Henwood, John Higgins, William Hill, George A. Hodgdon, John Hodgdon, Harlan P. Hodgdon, Charles L. Hoitt, James Howes, John E. Hoyt, Edward Jarvis, Joseph F. Keen, George M. Kimball, George King, B. Stow Laskey, Charles W. Lolley, John N. Marden, Michael Mason, Charles Mayes, Robert Miles, John.H. Moore, John H. Morrison, George 0. Murray, Charles H. Much- more, John S. Patterson, Edward B. Prime, Charles W. Pickering. Edward 0. Randall, John H. Ramsdell, Eugene Reistle, Thomas Rutter, J. Albert Sanborn, Freeman F. Sanborn, Joseph. S. Seavey, Michael Sheridan, Jr., Alfred S, Sweetser, Oliver F. Taylor, John Thompson, Andrew D. Walden, Richard Walsh, Andrew W. Whidden, Sylvester Y. White, Henry J. Willey, Thomas Williams, William H. Williams, William Wingate, Aaron Sias, Peter Sullivan; John H. Stringer, John S. Sheridan, Horace J. Willey. Tenth Regiment marched from Manchester September 22, 1862. Eleventh Regiment.--Company A: Francis F. Butchelder. Eleventh Regiment marched from Concord September 11, 1862. Thirteenth Regiment.--Jacob Storer, major; William J. Ladd, sergeant- major. Company E: Charles F. Adams, Henry Nutter. Company F: Edwin H. Leslie. Company K : Matthew T. Betton, captain; Enoch W. Goss, first lieutenant; Nathaniel J. Coffee, second lieutenant; Samuel P. Abbott, Henry Bean, Charles Braydon, John W. Brown, Ferdinand Barr, D. Webster Barnabee, Joseph B. Brown, Thomas Critchley, Jr., Joseph H. Coche. Joseph N. Davidson, George Davids, James Danielson, Thomas Fair- service, Nathaniel Gunnison, James Gilchrist, John V. A. Hanson, John Harmon, Henry C. Hodgdon, Henry A. Haneyfield, Michael Roy, Abel Jack- son, Ephraim Jackson, Daniel M. Jellison, William H. Jellison, Francis R. Johnson, Martin Johnson, William H. Lean, James R. Morrison, John H. Mawbey, John Moore, Martin Moore, John Mottrane, John May, John Mc- Millan, William Mitchell, Jr., Jeremiah L. Mclntire, Peter Mitchell, George Page 179 Manning, Daniel H. Plaisted, William Peirce, Jr., Thomas B. Parks, Henry S. Paul, Charles Powell, Isaac N. M. Pry, John L. Randall, Owen H. Roche, Ezekiel C. Rand, Robert Rand, Charles W. Randall, Reuben S. Randall, Moses Rowe, John C. Stevens, Storer E. Stiles, Daniel J. Spinney, George Scott, Enoch F. Smith, Robert M. Spinney, Charles G. Smith, George L. Sides, Edward W. Sides, Horace S. Spinney, Patrick Sullivan, Edwin A. Tilton, Henry S. Thompson, Samuel Taylor, Benjamin F. Winn, Robert B. Welch, William Warburton (2d), John F. Welch, Daniel H. McIntire. Thirteenth Regiment marched from Concord October 6, 1862. Sixteenth Regiment.--Company K: Joseph H. Thacher, captain; George T. Wilde, first lieutenant; William A. Haven, second lieutenant; Henry B. Adams, George E. Allen, James Anderson, Thomas Brackett, Jr., Samuel Blatchforce; Henry M. Caster, James Cunningham, Daniel Danielson, Frank- lin Dow, William Dutton, Charles E. Edny, Henry 0. Ellinwood, James H. Emery, Hollis W. Fairbanks, Israel G. Fletcher, John Flynn, Otto Franck, Frederick Franz, Charles F. Goodwin, Thomas J. Goodwin, Charles E. Gray, Jacob Haddock, Otis F. Haley, John Higgins, George W. Hill, Joseph E. Holmes, Christopher J. Kellenbeck, Jacob F. Knight, Philip Krunz, John Leary, Charles W. Levitt, Patrick Mahoney, William Mason, Angus Mc- Cormick, John McIntosh, James Mitchell, William J. Mills, John H. Mor- rill, Joseph E. Nash, Franklin W. Neal, Timothy O'Leary, Albert A. Payne, Charles A. Payson, John H. Pearson. William A. Rand, Samuel Ruvill, Oren Seavey, James Shaw, Jr., John Shaw, Robert Smart, James L. Smith, Nathaniel Spinney, Charles Stewart, John Sullivan, John Taylor, Isaac Thomas, Mark W. Tucker, Charles Wagner, Samuel W. Walden, James A. Waterhouse, James E. Walker, Benjamin F. Watkins, Daniel Watkins, James Webster, George A. Woodsun, John F. Woodsun. Sixteenth Regiment marched from Concord August 14, 1863. Seventeenth Regiment.--Company B: Isaac F. Jenness, captain; Frank D. Webster, first lieutenant; Joseph W. Ackerman, George Anderson, Wil- liam J. Andrews, Charles H. Alvarez, John Barry, Thomas Brown, J. C. Canney, William Carter, Daniel M. Clark, Warner Coggswell, Thomas Cook, John Fernald, Thomas H. Fisher, Joseph Fuller, Charles Davis, John F. Gallagher, Hiram A. Grant, Clarence S. Gray, James Haley, Joseph A. Hane, Christopher W. Harrold, Henry Harris, Charles H. Kimball, John H. Lam- bert, Joseph Midgley, Thomas Mitchell, Charles E. Morse, John S. Perkins, Ammi C. Rand, Louis H. Rand, James H. Roberts, Henry V. Rogers, Ed- ward D. Stoodley, Robert W. Stoll, James Tangney, Richard Turner, John W. Walker, John A. Walch, Henry A. Whitton, Thomas H. Wilson, Henry Wingate. Berdan's Regiment (Sharpshooters).--Company F: Henry L. Richards, James H. Frost, Alvah H. Woodward; Paymaster Albert H. Hoyt. First Regiment New England Cavalry.--Robert E. Shillaber. Fifth Maine Regiment:--John E. Moran Fifteenth Maine Regiment.--Samuel Blackford, Addison H. Beach. First Massachusetts Regiment.--William H. Davidson, William H. Hunters. Page 180 Second Massachusetts Regiment.--William Tate, wounded before Rich- mond, and died August 2, 1862. Tenth Massachusetts Regiment.--Wilber F. Lamb. Eleventh Massachusetts Regiment.--Andrew H. Moran. Twelfth Massachusetts Regiment.--Wallace W. Gore, Joseph J. Locke. Thirteenth Massachusetts Regiment.--Robert B. Henderson, John B. Coswell. Fourteenth Massachusetts Regiment.--William H. Smith. Sixteenth Massachusetts Regiment.--James W. Leverton. Seventeenth Massachusetts Regiment.--Ezekiel Mann, Samuel A. Badger. Nineteenth Massachusetts Regiment.--George W. Moran, Samuel A. Bridge. Twenty-second Massachusetts Regiment.--Charles Drew, Joseph Drew, Samuel A. Wiggin. Twenty-third Massachusetts Regiment.--Robert F. Foster, Simeon S. Sweet. Twenty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment.--Henry W. Paul. Twenty-fifth Massachusetts Regiment.--Samuel B. Shapleigh, Charles W. Shannon. Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regiment.--Ezekiel Fitzgerald, Benjamin Chandler, Albert L. Dodge, Frederick L. Dodge. Forty-seventh Massachusetts Regiment.--Charles C. Haley. Forty-eighth Massachusetts Regiment.--Charles L. Tidd. Fifth New York Artillery.--John Swindells. Fifty-seventh New York Regiment.--Daniel J. Vaughan. Eighty-ninth New York Regiment.--George A. Edny. Third Wisconsin Cavalry.--George W. Carr. First Minnesota.--Oliver M. Knight. First Regiment Massachusetts Cavalry.--Daniel B. Sawyer. Second Regiment Massachusetts Cavalry.--Albert S. Leighton. Heavy Artillery at Fort Constitution.--Stephen S. Blaisdell, Henry M. Davis, Andrew Goldthwait, Joseph H. Graves, Clarence S. Gray, John Haley, Samuel P. Halt, Charles E. Moore, Alanson Ordway, George B. Roofe, Amos B. Smith, Stark Spinney, Jesse A. Tobey, Charles E. Young. United States Navy.--George C. Abbott, John Q. Adams, Charles W. Adams, Woodbury Adams, George E. Anderson, Joseph Barry, Joshua Bas- tille, Andrew Bayne, Freeman Beale, Daniel F. Bean, Joel Bean, Charles E. Beck, Charles E. Berry, William Black, William W. Black, George C. Board- man, Elijah Brown, George W. Brown, Joseph Brown, William Brown, William Brown, William Brown, Michael Buckley, James Burke, George Butler, William Card, Joseph W. Carlton, Henry A. Carter, Josiah P. Car- ter, Henry H. Cate, Joseph G. Cate, Albert Chamberlain, Horace A. Chase, Walter Chesley, Charles W. Clark, Edmund Clark, Wallace W. Clark, Thomas Collins, Kiesan Copley, James Courtney, George Cox, Michael Crow- ley, William Currier, Charles Cummings, Frederick Danielson, Joseph David- son, Francis Dema, James M. Devine, Michael Devine, John M. De Roch- ment, Castine B. DeWitt, Arthur Dorrity, John H. Downs, Frank M. Drake, Nelson N. Downing, Franklin N. Ellison, Horace Ellison, William Ellison, Page 181 William H. Emery, William Y. Evans, David Faulkner, William H. Fields, Albert Fisher, Joseph Fitzgerald, Joseph Foster, Charles E. Freeman, Wil- liam D. Freeman, Thomas B. Gammon, Thomas S. Gay, J. Nelson Good- rich, Benjamin Gray, Charles A. C. Gray, Henry Gray, Samuel Gray, Frank W. Hackett, William H. Haddock, Allison W. Hadley, Mark S. Ham, Ben- jamin Harris, Thomas A. Harris, Lyman H. Hertford, John Hartnett, Frank F. Hastings, Charles E. Hawkins, Henry Hayes, William C. Hazlett, Fred- erick Henderson, George Herbert, Daniel Hennessey, J ames Hennessey, John A. Holbrook, Charles W. Holmes, Alfred H. Hook, Andrew J. Hough, William H. Howell, Hugh Hunter, James Hurley, Michael Hurley, Patrick Hurley, William S. Jarvis, Henry Jenkins, John Jenkins, Abraham A. John- son, Augustus Johnson, George N. Johnson, George W. Johnson, Charles C. Jones, John Jones, Michael Jones, Charles K. Knox, John H. Knox, Thomas Kehoe, Irving W. Laighton, William F. Laighton, William M. Laighton, Henry S. Lambert, John L. Lambert, Edward D. Lane, Harvey V. Lang, Thomas W. Lang, John T. Larrabee, Samuel Lear, Lafayette Leary, John C. Lewis, Edwin W. Locke, Jeremiah S. Locke, Oliver H. Locke, William W. Locke, James Lynch, John F. Lyons, William H. Manson, Rob- ert B. Marden, Albert S. Marston, George E. Martin, Gustavus W. Mason, John McAwley, David McCliskey, Michael McCliskey, Daniel McDonald, Robert McFadden, John McGraw, John McKenly, Alexander McLead, Cor- nelius Mead, Henry Melvin, Oliver Messer, Thomas J. Mitchell, Thomas Moore, Edward Moses, John F. Muchmore, Isaac C. Murch, James Mur- wick, William Newick, Jeremiah Newman, Leverett W. Noyes, William Nuckett, John E. Odwone, Andrew B. Paine, William Paine, John F. Parks, William Parks, Enoch G. Parrott, John A. Payne, George F. Pearson, Albert G. Pembell, Edward Pendexter, George W. Perry; William Pettigrew, Sam- uel Phelbrech, Charles W. Pickering, Simeon S. Pickering, William P. Pender, Alonzo K. Place, Charles L. Place, Leonard Place, Frank Plaisted, James E. Plaisted, Patrick Quenland, Cornelius Quinn, John Quinn, Thomas Quinn, Charles Ricker, Thomas W. Ridge, John M. Roberts, Joseph Rey- nolds, Alexander Robinson, Richard Robinson, Charles H. Ross, Charles H. Rowe, Jabez Rowe, John Rutlidge, Lewis Rutlidge, William Rutlidge, Frank C. Sawyer, William 0. Seawards, George E. Smart, Ivory Smart, Charles J. Smith, James Smith, James H. Smith, John H. Smith, Stephen Smith, William Smith; James A. Snow, Lyman G. Spalding, Chesley Spinney, William T. Spinney, George E. Stackpole, William Stanley, George W. Storer, William P. Storer, John W. Stott, Joseph W. Stringer, Dennis 0. Sullivan, Warren L. Sweet, Charles Tate, Andrew Tetterly, Samuel Thomas, Henry Tucker, Thomas L. Tullock, Jr., Edwin Underhill, Joseph B. Upham, Jr., Charles L. Varney, Frank A. Varney, John L. Venare, James Walch, Daniel Walker, William Walker, Joseph Wallace, Edward L. Warburton, Benjamin F. Watkins, Frank Watkins, Thomas Watkins, Richard Watkins, William Watkins, Henry C. Webster, William Webster, Edward H. Weeks, George W. Weeks, John Welch, Joshua Wetherell, Thomas Wetherell, Andrew White, Joshua W. White, George F. Whitehouse, Samuel A. Whitehouse, William H. Whitehouse, John W. Young. Page 182 The Winfield Scott Schley Camp No.4, United Spanish War Veterans, located at Portsmouth, has a membership of eighty-nine comrades. SHIP BUILDING AND PRIVATEERING The principal industry of Portsmouth for half a century was ship build- ing. From 1801 to 1850 an average of nine vessels per year were built on the Piscataqua River, and every decade the vessels were made larger and more costly. Starting with an average of 200 tons in 1801, there was hardly any increase until 1827, when thousands assembled to see the launching of a full rigged ship, the Sarah Parker, of about 400 tons, that was built for Captain Ichabod Goodwin. In the '30s and '40s the average rose to 450 tons and in the '50s the eighty-four vessels launched averaged 90O tons, one, The Sierra Nevada, being of 1,952 tons. The famous Typhoon that made the record trip across the Atlantic in thirteen days, was built here in 1851. In the Fourth of July procession in 1853, George Raynes had an ox team decorated with fifty-three models of vessels that he had built. That number was excelled by Master William Badger, for on his monument on Badger's Island is the inscription that he built nearly one hundred vessels, but the fact that he never saw one of them launched has not been published. In 1800, 108 vessels were owned in this port besides those engaged in fish- ing. In 1824, 182 vessels, including 38 ships, were owned here, employing 1,453 seamen. In 1834, 196 vessels, of which 40 were engaged in foreign trade, 4 in whaling, 85 in fishing, 56 in coasting. In 1840, 201 vessels were similarly employed. For years the wharves were lined with vessels export- ing lumber, fish, beef, pork and live stock, and importing wines, molasses, sugar, coffee, spices, iron and salt. The odd hours of Portsmouth youths were spent in the numerous shipyards and on the wharves, and it is no won- der so many went down to the sea in ships with the hopes of a captain's berth, or learned one of the trades connected with ship building or commerce. In 1844 Rev. Andrew P. Peabody stated to a lyceum audience in a lec- ture on the industries of Portsmouth, that the yearly earnings from agri- culture was $30,000, manufacturing--principally stocking factories--$100,- 000, and from commerce $500,000. In 1846 when the Portsmouth Steam Factory and Sagamore Company started with about 500 employees, the main producing population were engaged in commerce, fishing and ship building. The prosperous years of Portsmouth ship building and commerce departed during the Civil war. The high rates of insurance premiums for war risks, on account of the confederate privateers and the chance to sell American built ships for English gold at a high premium, left our ship yards and wharves nearly vacant. Of late years Portsmouth has been and is the coal port of the State of New Hampshire and a good part of Maine and Vermont. More than half a miilion tons are annually shipped by rail to the great mills of Manchester and other inland places. The Piscataqua Navigation Cpmpany with its steam-boats and barges carries the bricks from the yards on the upper Piscataqua to Massa- chusetts. The Morley Button Company is the largest concern of its kind in the world. Giving constant employment to 250 employees. The Gale Shoe Company and the Widder Bros. Shoe Company employ hundreds of workmen. Page 183 PRIVATEERING In the latter part of the War of 1812-14 ten brigs and schooners were built as armed privateers, and they captured as prizes British vessels and cargoes amounting to millions of dollars. Only a partial account of the sixteen Ports- mouth privateers has been written, for most of the records have been pur- posely destroyed, but enough manuscripts and books have come into the possession of the editor to indicate the large fortunes the owners made, from which were erected our largest and finest houses of that and the following decade. Four hundred and nineteen vessels were taken by sixteen Portsmouth privateers. Four captured prizes which, with their contents, were valued at two and one-half millions of dollars. Few people are acquainted with the influence of privateering upon the seaport towns, and the successful issues of the two wars with England. In the Revolutionary war the prizes captured by the privateers amounted to $18,000,000. In the 1812-14 war alone the value of British prizes taken by 517 privateers amounted to $39,000,000, and by the twenty-three U. S. war vessels to $6,000,000. The numbers of prisoners taken on the high seas, principally by privateers, amounted to 30,000, while the army captured only 6,000. The Portsmouth schooner "Fox" in 1814 received from the U. S. Government $3,650, as bounty for the prisoners captured from British vessels. **************************************************************************** * * * * Notice: Printing the files within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. 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