I normally don’t do history pages as this is a surname site however from time to time I like to add a history page. This information will be on the Howitzer cannon . There are people that are interested in this gun. I think this page may be of some help.
In 1776, Congress ordered 40 howitzers, but those in the know were undecided on what size would be needed and how many they would need. They ordered 5 and 6 inch shots to drop on soldiers and 8 and 10 inch for firing point blank at ships, but were undecided on the distance they would have to be, to put a shell through the side of a ship. It was decided to make the howitzers as the same as those commonly used in England. The ideal howitzer was made out of brass as iron was to heavy. But brass was in short supply a lot of the times and when it could be found the cost was high.
Part of a letter written to the President of Congress by J. Laurens.
Paris, April 24, 1781.
I found great difficulties and delays likely to attend the plan of casting howitzers of English calibre in France. The scarcity of materials, the great danger of a want of precision in the proportions, and the facility with which we cast shells in America, induced me to substitute six-inch howitzers of French calibre to those demanded by the board of war. This size, in the opinion of the most experienced artillerists, is preferable to the larger, their effects being the same, and their inferior size rendering them much more manageable as well as less expensive of ammunition. A certain number of shells will accompany the howitzers, but it will be necessary that the board of war should give immediate orders for making a larger provision of them. Their dimensions may be taken from those with the French artillery under General Rochambeau.
The same reasons as those above mentioned determined me to substitute the French twelve-inch mortar to the thirteen-inch of English calibre, as there was no other way of procuring them but the having them cast, and the same observation is to be made with respect to their shells as with respect to those of the howitzers. A store-ship, freighted by government, is to proceed under convoy of the frigate on board which I sail, and will be charged with such supplies as can be collected in time at Brest.
1864.
Taken at battle of Chickamauga, Ga.
1. 12-pounder bronze howitzer, with carriage and limber, made at Alleghany Arsenal
1858.
2. 12-pounder howitzer, with carriage and limber, Saint Louis, Mo., Marshall & Co., 1862.
3. 12-pounder bronze howitzer and carriage, Numbers 92, Greenwood, Cincinnati, Ohio
4. 12-pounder bronze howitzer, with carriage, damaged, A. B. R. & Bro.,
Vicksburg, Miss.
5. 12-pounder bronze mountain howitzer, with carriage and limber, Numbers 197, C. A. & Co.
6. 12-pounder bronze mountain howitzer, with carriage and limber, J. R. A. & Co., 1862.
7. 24-pounder bronze howitzer, with carriage and limber, Numbers 44, 674 pounds, 1859.
8. 24-pounder howitzer, with carriage and limber, Numbers 11, 660 pounds, 1857.
9. 12-pounder iron howitzer, with carriage and limber, J. R. & Co., 1861.
10. 12-pounder bronze howitzer and carriage, J. Clark, New Orleans.
11. 12-pounder bronze howitzer and carriage, Numbers 186, C. A. & Co., Boston
12. 12-pounder bronze howitzer and carriage, Numbers 16, Marshall & Co., Saint Louis.
13. 12-pounder bronze mountain howitzer, with carriage, C. A. & Co., Numbers 201, 1862.
14. 12-pounder mountain howitzer, with carriage and limber, Numbers 204 C. A. & Co., 1862.
15. 12-pounder mountain howitzer, with carriage and limber, Numbers 63, C. A. & Co., 1850.
16. 12-pounder iron howitzer, with carriage, J. R. & Co., 1861.
17. 12-pounder iron howitzer, with carriage, J. R. & Co., 1862.
18. 6-pounder bronze howitzer, with carriage, Numbers 195, C. A. & Co., Boston.
19. 12-pounder bronze howitzer, with carriage, Numbers 86, M. P. Ames.
20. 12-pounder mountain howitzer, with carriage and limber, Numbers 1555,222 pounds, J. R. A. & Co., 1862.
21. 12-pounder mountain howitzer, with carriage and limber, Numbers 29, C. A. & Co., Boston, 1846.
A BILL.
DECEMBER l, 1872.
For payment to the heirs of William M. Ellis for the use and purchase by the Government of his invention in lathe for boring and planning howitzers.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of twenty thousand dollars be, and hereby is appropriated, from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, as payment in full to the heirs of William M. Ellis for the past and future use: forever, by the Government, of his invention in a lathe for boring and planning howitzers.
Confederate States, 1862 or 63?
1. Battery Lawton, Savannah River, one 12-pounder mountain howitzer, bronze.
2. Fort Jackson, Savannah River, one 12-pounder mountain howitzer, bronze.
3. Fort Bartow, Carston's Bluff, one 24-pounder howitzer; field, iron; two 6-pounder howitzers, field, iron.
4. Genesis Point, Fort McAllister, one 12-pounder mountain howitzer, bronze.
5. City Lines, Lunette Numbers 1., one 24-pounder flank casemate howitzer.
6. Lunette, Numbers 2., One 18-pounder siege howitzer (removed for siege train).
7. Lunette, Numbers 4.- One 8-inch howitzer siege (removed for siege train).
8. Lunette, Numbers 5.- One 8-inch howitzer, siege (removed); one 24-pounder howitzer, flank casemate.
9. Lunette, Numbers 15.- One 24-pounder sea-coast howitzer, siege.
10. Lunette, Numbers 16.- One 24-pounder howitzer, flank casemate, carriage.
11. Fort Mercer, one 24-pounder sea-coast howitzer; one 12-pounder howitzer, iron, field; two 24-pounder mortar howitzers, field, iron.
Cremaillere line.
1. Salient Numbers 3.- One 24-pounder howitzer flank, casemate.
2. Fort Brown, two 12-pounder howitzers, iron, field.
3. Fort Boggs, one 24-pounder howitzer, field, iron; two 12-pounder howitzers, field, iron.
First Lieutenant Artillery and Ordnance Officer.
SAVANNAH DEPOT, March 19, 1863.
The foregoing is a list of all the ordnance in position in this military district, but does not include the seven light batteries nor the guns in store.
1. One 24-pounder iron howitzer, from Richmond.
2. Two 24-pounder iron howitzers, from Charleston.
3. One 8-inch siege howitzer, from Richmond.
4. Two 8-inch siege howitzers, from Macon.
The above is a list of the guns received here since the 1st June, 1862.
The defenses of the coast of Maine, 1861, these howitzers have been in placed since 1858.
1. Portsmouth Harbor. - Fort McClary, Kittery, Maine, four 12-pounder block-house howitzers.
2. Portland Harbor. Fort Preble, two 12-pounder howitzers, field,
3. Fort Scammel, fourteen 8-inch sea-coast howitzers, 12-pounder block-house howitzers, one 12-pounder howitzer, field.
4. Narrows of the Penobscot. - Fort Knox, two 8-inch sea-coast howitzers.
Report of 1864.
Note. I will only give the numbers of the howitzers.
1. Fort C. F. Smith, Major W. A. McKay commanding-Garrison, four companies Second New York Heavy Artillery, 1 major, 15 commissioned officers, 1 ordnance-sergeant, 548 men. Armament, three 12-pounder field howitzers, one 8-inch sea-coast howitzer. Ammunition, full supplied and well packed. Drill in artillery, very ordinary; wants more improvement.
2. Fort Strong, Major Maguire commanding.- Garrison, three companies Second New York Heavy Artillery-1 major, 10 commissioned officers, 1 ordnance-sergeant, 410 men. Armament, one 24-pounder field howitzer, two 24-pounder howitzers, Drill in artillery indifferent; requires improving.
3. Fort Bennett, Major Maguire commanding.- Garrison, one company Second New York Heavy Artillery-2 commissioned officers, 1 ordnance-sergeant, 117 men. Armament, two 8-inch sea-coast howitzers. Drill in artillery, fair.
4. Fort Corcoran, Lieutenant Colonel J. Palmer commanding.-Garrison, three companies Second New York Heavy Artillery-1 lieutenant-colonel, 8 commissioned officers, 396 men, 1 ordnance-sergeant. Armament, two 8-inch sea-coast howitzers Drill in artillery, very ordinary; wants more improvement.
5. Fort Woodbury, Major N. Shatswell commanding.- Garrison, two companies First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery-1 major, 10 commissioned officers, 1 ordnance-sergeant, 256 men. Armament, one 24-pounder F. D. howitzer (smooth), Drill in artillery fair, approaching good.
6. Fort Cass, Major N. Shatswell commanding.-Garrison, two companies, First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery-8 commissioned officers, 1 ordnance-sergeant, 220 men. Armament, one 24-pounder F. D. howitzer (smooth), Drill in artillery fair.
7. Fort Whipple, Major Rolfe commanding.-Garrison, three companies First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery-1 major, 13 commissioned officers, 1 ordnance-sergeant, 414 men. Armament, four 12-pounder field howitzers, (smooth) Drill in artillery, fair.
8. Fort Tillinghast, Major Rolfe commanding.-Garrison, two companies First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery-7 commissioned officers, 1 ordnance-sergeant, 220 men. Armament, one 24-pounder field howitzer (smooth), one 24-pounder F. D. howitzer, Drill in artillery, fair.
9. Fort Craig, Major Holt commanding.-Garrison two companies First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery-15 commissioned officers, 1 ordnance-sergeant, 280 men. Armament, one 24-pounder field howitzer, Drill in artillery, fair.
10. Fort Albany, Captain Rhodes commanding.- Garrison, one company First Massachusetts Volunteers-5 commissioned officers, 1 ordnance-sergeant, 145 men. Armament, two 24-pounder field howitzers Drill in artillery, fair.
11. Fort Scott, Major Trumbull commanding.- Garrison, one company First Connecticut Heavy Artillery-4 commissioned officers, 1 ordnance-sergeant, 137 men. Armament, two 12-pounder mountain howitzers, Drill in artillery, fair. Drill in infantry, fair.
12. Fort Richardson, Major Trumbull commanding. - Garrison, three companies First Connecticut Heavy Artillery - 1 major, 12 commissioned officers, 1 ordnance-sergeant, 412 men. Armament, two 24-pounder field howitzers, Drill in artillery, fair.
13. Fort Weed, Major Campbell commanding.- Garrison, one company Tenth New York Heavy Artillery-5 commissioned officers, 1 ordnance-sergeant, 122 men. Armament, two 12-pounder field howitzers (smooth), Drill in artillery, ordinary; wants more improvement.
14. Fort Farnsworth, Major Campbell commanding. - Garrison, one company Tenth New York Heavy Artillery-3 commissioned officers, 1 ordnance-sergeant 128 men. Armament, two 12-pounder field howitzers (smooth), Drill in artillery ordinary; needs improving.
15. Fort O' Rorke, Captain Armstrong commanding. - Garrison, two companies Tenth New York Heavy Artillery- 6 commissioned officers, 1 ordnance-sergeant, 242 men. Armament, two 12-pounder field howitzers (smooth), two 8-inch sea-coast howitzers, Drill in artillery, ordinary.
16. Fort Willard, Major Abell commanding. - Garrison, three companies Tenth New York Heavy Artillery - 11 commissioned officers, 1 ordnance-sergeant, 358 men. Armament, two 12-pounder field howitzers, Drill in artillery, ordinary; needs improving.
17. Fort Ellsworth, Major Rice commanding.- Garrison four companies Second Connecticut Heavy Artillery- 1 major, 18 commissioned officers, 1 ordnance-sergeant, 522 men. Armament, nine 8-inch sea-coast howitzers (smooth), Drill in artillery, fair.
18. Fort Williams, Major Ells commanding. - Garrison, two companies Second Connecticut Heavy Artillery- 1 major, 18 commissioned officers, 1 ordnance-sergeant, 562 men. Armament, two 24-pounder field howitzers (smooth), one 8-inch sea-coast howitzer, Drill in artillery, fair. Drill in infantry, fair.
19. Fort Garesche, Lieutenant Logan commanding. - Garrison, one company First Connecticut Heavy Artillery - 4 commissioned officers, 1 ordnance-sergeant, 144 men. Armament, two 32-pounder field howitzers (smooth), two 8-inch sea-coast howitzers, Drill in artillery, fair.
20. Fort Reyonolds, Major Hemingway commanding. - Garrison one company First Connecticut Heavy Artillery - 3 commissioned officers, 1 ordnance-sergeant, 147 men. Armament, four 12-pounder field howitzers, Drill in artillery, fair.
21. Fort Barnard, Major Cook commanding. - Garrison, two companies First Connecticut Heavy Artillery-1 major, 1 ordnance-sergeant, 8-inch howitzers. Drill in artillery, fair.
22. Fort Ethan Allen, Colonel A. A. Gibson commanding. - Garrison, nine companies Second Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery- 1 colonel, 29 commissioned officers, 1,346 men, and 1 ordnance-sergeant. Armament, three 32-pounder bronze howitzers, two 8-inch sea-coast howitzers, Drill in artillery, ordinary; needs improving.
23. Fort Marcy, Major J. L. Anderson commanding. - Garrison three companies Second Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery-1 major, 8 commissioned officers, 1 ordnance-sergeant, 430 men. Armament, two 12-pounder mountain howitzers, Drill in artillery, ordinary; needs improving.
24. Fort Sumner Colonel Daniel Chaplin commanding. - Garrison, six companies First Maine Heavy Artillery- 1 colonel, 30 commissioned officers, 1 ordnance-sergeant, 868 men. Armament, three 8-inch siege howitzers, Drill in artillery, fair.
25. Fort Mansfield, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas H. Talbot commanding-Garrison, two companies (Third Battalion) First Maine Heavy Artillery-9 commissioned officers, 1 ordnance-sergeant, 281 men. Armament two 12-pounder howitzers, one 8-inch siege howitzer, Drill in artillery, fair.
26. Fort Simmons, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas H. Talbot commanding.-Garrison, two companies (Third Battalion) First Maine Heavy Artillery-1 lieutenant-colonel, 9 commissioned officers, 1 ordnance sergeant, 289 men. Armament, two 12-pounder field howitzers, one 8-inch siege howitzer, Drill in artillery, ordinary; needs improving.
Note. There is a lot of information out there and I will have to stop at some point and this is it, I hope this little bet of information will help those looking for information on these gun.
Monday, April 06, 2009
Friday, April 03, 2009
The Many Hilton Families Of History.
I had just finished a page on one Hilton family and it’s Indian blood line, then I got to thinking that there must be a lot of Hilton’s looking for their family line. So I decided to do a page on the Hilton’s. I will not follow any time line I will add the information as I find it, I hope you will find a family member here.
Note. A lot of this information will come from the many departments of the Library of Congress.
A BILL.
MARCH 25. 1872.
Granting a pension to Josiah Hilton, of Steuben County, New York.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to place the name of Josiah Hilton, of Steuben County, New York, upon the pension-rolls, and to pay him a pension subject to the provisions and restrictions of the laws allowing pensions to the soldiers of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve.
A BILL
DECEMBER 22, 1837.
For the relief of Isaac Hilton.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be authorized and required to place the name of Isaac Hilton, of Portland, in the State of Maine, on pension roll of the United States, and pay him the sum of sixty dollars per annum, from and after the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, during his natural life.
A BILL.
APRIL 17, 1858.
For the relief of J. W. Hilton.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster General be authorized and directed to pay to J. W. Hilton, of the county of Monroe, and State of Illinois, the sum of four hundred and eighty-three dollars and forty cents, for extra mail service performed by him on route number thirteen thousand three hundred and twenty-three, from September twenty-second, anno domini eighteen hundred and fifty-six, to July first, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven.
Certificates.
1. William Hilton, Lieutenant, North Carolina line, certificate date May 16, 1792, No. 2412, interest started July 15, 1786, amount $668.07.
2. William Hilton, private, 5th, regiment South Carolina, Certificate date January 27, 1794, No. 4877, interest started August 1, 1780, amount $180.03.
Note. For those of you looking into the Helton & Hilton family should Check out the Helton & Hilton Family Genealogy forums for a lot of the military records and Cherokee Applications.
1. Hilton Family Genealogy Forum.
http://genforum.genealogy.com/hilton/
2. Helton Family Genealogy Forum.
http://genforum.genealogy.com/helton/
Location of Wabash and Erie Canal Lands.
Ohio.
1. On February 26, 1822, Jesse Hilton bought 229.5, acres in Ohio on the S. E. fraction of the N. half and S. E. quarter of section 27, township 4N. and range 4E., at $1.25 per acre, the amount $286.94.
2. On March 3, 1823, Joshua Hilton bought 140.75 acres in Ohio on the N. W. Fraction quarter S. of Maumee River, in section 27, township 4N. and range 4E., at $1.25 per acre, the amount $175.94.
3. On December 10, 1823, Theophilus Hilton bought 80, acres in the W. half of the S. W. quarter of section 27, township 4N. and range 4E., at $1.25 per acre, the amount $100.
Note. This information comes from The United States pension rolls which is housed at the Library of Congress. I will give the name and county and page number. If you see a name and would like his information you can find my address in my profile, please state name, county, and page no., when requesting any information.
Revolutionary War, and War of 1812.
Maine.
1. Ebenezer Hilton, Somerset, p. 67.
2. Isaac Hilton, Cumberland, p. 92.
3. William Hilton 1st., Somerset, p. 138.
4. Dudley Hilton, York, p.151.
New Hampshire.
1. Joseph Hilton, Rockingham, p. 12.
New York.
1. John Hilton, Invalid, p. 91.
2. James Hilton, Albany, p.262.
3. Jaocb W. Hilton, Greens, p.318.
Tennesee.
1. Edward Hilton, White, p.109.
Civil War.
There were at lest if not more then 929, Hilton’s in the Civil War, I could not put all their names here, but if you would like for me to look up a ancestor give his full name and state and regiment if you can and I will take a look, you can find my address in my profile, and as always my search's are ( Free. ), below you will find two examples on the kind of information you may receive.
Example. 1.
HILTON, ALONZO C., Rank Private, Company B. Unit 123 IL., U. S. INF, Residence MAJORITY POINT, CUMBERLAND CO, IL., Age 24, Height 6', Hair BLACK, Eyes BLACK, Complexion DARK, Marital Status MARRIED, Occupation FARMER. Joined When AUG 10, 1862, Joined Where GREENUP, IL., Period 3 YRS., Muster In SEP 6, 1862 Muster In Where MATTOON, IL. PROMOTED CORPORAL KILLED IN ACTION OCT 8, 1862 AT CHAPLAIN HILLS KY.
Example 2.
HILTON, J. W., private, 74th., regiment E. M. M., Co. C., Age 44, Enrolled August 5, 1862, Enlisted at Springfield Mo., ordered into service August 6, 1862, at Springfield Mo., Relieved of duty December 20, 1862, Days of duty 136, discharged over age.
Note. A lot of this information will come from the many departments of the Library of Congress.
A BILL.
MARCH 25. 1872.
Granting a pension to Josiah Hilton, of Steuben County, New York.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to place the name of Josiah Hilton, of Steuben County, New York, upon the pension-rolls, and to pay him a pension subject to the provisions and restrictions of the laws allowing pensions to the soldiers of the war of eighteen hundred and twelve.
A BILL
DECEMBER 22, 1837.
For the relief of Isaac Hilton.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War be authorized and required to place the name of Isaac Hilton, of Portland, in the State of Maine, on pension roll of the United States, and pay him the sum of sixty dollars per annum, from and after the fourth day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, during his natural life.
A BILL.
APRIL 17, 1858.
For the relief of J. W. Hilton.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Postmaster General be authorized and directed to pay to J. W. Hilton, of the county of Monroe, and State of Illinois, the sum of four hundred and eighty-three dollars and forty cents, for extra mail service performed by him on route number thirteen thousand three hundred and twenty-three, from September twenty-second, anno domini eighteen hundred and fifty-six, to July first, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven.
Certificates.
1. William Hilton, Lieutenant, North Carolina line, certificate date May 16, 1792, No. 2412, interest started July 15, 1786, amount $668.07.
2. William Hilton, private, 5th, regiment South Carolina, Certificate date January 27, 1794, No. 4877, interest started August 1, 1780, amount $180.03.
Note. For those of you looking into the Helton & Hilton family should Check out the Helton & Hilton Family Genealogy forums for a lot of the military records and Cherokee Applications.
1. Hilton Family Genealogy Forum.
http://genforum.genealogy.com/hilton/
2. Helton Family Genealogy Forum.
http://genforum.genealogy.com/helton/
Location of Wabash and Erie Canal Lands.
Ohio.
1. On February 26, 1822, Jesse Hilton bought 229.5, acres in Ohio on the S. E. fraction of the N. half and S. E. quarter of section 27, township 4N. and range 4E., at $1.25 per acre, the amount $286.94.
2. On March 3, 1823, Joshua Hilton bought 140.75 acres in Ohio on the N. W. Fraction quarter S. of Maumee River, in section 27, township 4N. and range 4E., at $1.25 per acre, the amount $175.94.
3. On December 10, 1823, Theophilus Hilton bought 80, acres in the W. half of the S. W. quarter of section 27, township 4N. and range 4E., at $1.25 per acre, the amount $100.
Note. This information comes from The United States pension rolls which is housed at the Library of Congress. I will give the name and county and page number. If you see a name and would like his information you can find my address in my profile, please state name, county, and page no., when requesting any information.
Revolutionary War, and War of 1812.
Maine.
1. Ebenezer Hilton, Somerset, p. 67.
2. Isaac Hilton, Cumberland, p. 92.
3. William Hilton 1st., Somerset, p. 138.
4. Dudley Hilton, York, p.151.
New Hampshire.
1. Joseph Hilton, Rockingham, p. 12.
New York.
1. John Hilton, Invalid, p. 91.
2. James Hilton, Albany, p.262.
3. Jaocb W. Hilton, Greens, p.318.
Tennesee.
1. Edward Hilton, White, p.109.
Civil War.
There were at lest if not more then 929, Hilton’s in the Civil War, I could not put all their names here, but if you would like for me to look up a ancestor give his full name and state and regiment if you can and I will take a look, you can find my address in my profile, and as always my search's are ( Free. ), below you will find two examples on the kind of information you may receive.
Example. 1.
HILTON, ALONZO C., Rank Private, Company B. Unit 123 IL., U. S. INF, Residence MAJORITY POINT, CUMBERLAND CO, IL., Age 24, Height 6', Hair BLACK, Eyes BLACK, Complexion DARK, Marital Status MARRIED, Occupation FARMER. Joined When AUG 10, 1862, Joined Where GREENUP, IL., Period 3 YRS., Muster In SEP 6, 1862 Muster In Where MATTOON, IL. PROMOTED CORPORAL KILLED IN ACTION OCT 8, 1862 AT CHAPLAIN HILLS KY.
Example 2.
HILTON, J. W., private, 74th., regiment E. M. M., Co. C., Age 44, Enrolled August 5, 1862, Enlisted at Springfield Mo., ordered into service August 6, 1862, at Springfield Mo., Relieved of duty December 20, 1862, Days of duty 136, discharged over age.
The Hilton Family Needs Your Help.
I was asked the other day to give some help on the ( Hilton ) family and their Indian Blood line, But I was unable to help much. I asked the gentleman who’s name is ( Mike ), if he would allow me to put up his information in the hope that he may get some answers to his questions, and told him his information may be a help to others who are looking into some of these names, he was more then happy to help.
Note. Those of you who would like to give some answers or have a question can reach Mike at the following address, just say Dennis sent you.
rchoutmin@aol.com
Tom Hilton b. abt. 1720, found first in the 1740's in Terrible Creek VA. according to family tradition he married a Hilton and took her name. (got kicked out of church) father in Law should be Beecham Halton who is recorded in the Moravian Documents in NC. They mention Beecham Haltom and his mulatto wife, a go between the Cherokee and Moravians. The only reasoning for this is the oral tradition and the fact that many of the first generations of Hiltons of our line were Beecham thus named after their ancestors.
Tom Hilton and Bettie Hilton are mentioned on the Mabe Cherokee applications. He was said to be a full blood and she a squaw. They give birth to at least four sons who fought in the Rev. War.
Jacob we cannot find.
Peter Hilton who married Jenny ????
Abraham Hilton who married Katie Owl from Murphy NC, (hanging dog creek back then)
Beecham who married into the German Winklers and Moorefields
Bethena Hilton married into the Shoats or choate (Jason SHoats Cherokee apps)
Lucinda married Long John Mabe in Stokes NC.....
Ruth Hilton married Matoy (cant find much on this) Famous Indian Name.
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The only one we can find on any Roll was Daniel Hilton b. 1788 NC. Cherokee apps say he was born in Cherokee NC. He married one time Martha Walker daughter of William Walker and Katie.
His father and mother were Peter Hilton and Jenny.
I am sure Jenny was in the Cherokee Nation but that is hard to place because of so many of them. Cherokees didnt keep good marriage records.
Line of Travel: Tom in the edge of VA, some say Patrick CO. Land on terrible creek was in Lunenburg VA. He moved to Stokes area in NC along the Dan River. We believe he may have been Saura Indian, mentioned by Mooney in his travels. Abraham HIlton married Charity or Katie Owl starts in Henrico Co. VA in the Rev. War. goes through NC and into GA. Peter starts in joining Rev. war in Surry, NC, goes into Burke county with many other Heltons/ Hiltons comes to live with Cherokee in McMinn Co. TN in the 1830 census.
His son Daniel Hilton b. 1788 signs Emigration Roll with Major John Walker and Thomas Petite. Found him on the 1828 Arkansas deal and know he left TN the Spring of 1828 on one of the first boats. Found him as late as 1831 on the Letters to Office of Indian affairs. This is the latest so far from Arkansas. We suspect there are more. He is mentioned as stealing a horse and leaving the nation in 1830. This is not true because we found him in 1831 document. The horse part might be right but the time is not. First time apart from Cherokee paperwork we find Daniel is 1850 Federal Census in Blount CO. TN with two kids with Indian names.
Why is this important? Later many of the family files Cherokee applications in GA and TN. They go back to several Helton / Hilton. some of them we have linked together and DNA tested. Two of them we have not. They never mention Daniel on a Cherokee Roll. (mystery)
Abraham Helton and Katie Owls, group DNA matched
Joseph Helton back to Beecham Hilton in NC DNA matched
Peter Hilton back to INdian TOm DNA matched
Jahial Helton around 1800 in Murray GA, no DNA test or much research from this family. They had about 8 Cherokee Applications.
William Joseph Helton in Burnt Corn Al. b.1799 in Sumter SC but the test are coming back Gillispie. Probably a Helton girl that names the kids the same. (Matrial line, Cherokeee style, We have found about 4 or 5 of these so far.) This family filled out about 8 Cherokee apps.
This is a thumbnail sketch of the Indian DNA set of Hiltons. We didnt know any of this four years ago. Just that our family always said we had Cherokee Blood in us.
Note. Here is a thank you note I received from Mike with some added information.
Dennis,
What drew me to you was that you had a lot of the names I had read on the M 234 series in Fort Worth. They were located in Arkansas, Cherokee West. When I read your list I kept saying where is Danie? This is the same people I just read this week. George Guess, rainstopper, Spring Frog, Walter Webber etc. By all means put them up. By the way, Footnote.com is just loading all the Guion Miller applications and we are having a blast. ANy Helton mentioned by any other name is showing up. We are really starting to put the g-grandkids of Tom together now. Especially all of the girls that married out into other surnames. Thank you for your support.
Mike
Note. Those of you who would like to give some answers or have a question can reach Mike at the following address, just say Dennis sent you.
rchoutmin@aol.com
Tom Hilton b. abt. 1720, found first in the 1740's in Terrible Creek VA. according to family tradition he married a Hilton and took her name. (got kicked out of church) father in Law should be Beecham Halton who is recorded in the Moravian Documents in NC. They mention Beecham Haltom and his mulatto wife, a go between the Cherokee and Moravians. The only reasoning for this is the oral tradition and the fact that many of the first generations of Hiltons of our line were Beecham thus named after their ancestors.
Tom Hilton and Bettie Hilton are mentioned on the Mabe Cherokee applications. He was said to be a full blood and she a squaw. They give birth to at least four sons who fought in the Rev. War.
Jacob we cannot find.
Peter Hilton who married Jenny ????
Abraham Hilton who married Katie Owl from Murphy NC, (hanging dog creek back then)
Beecham who married into the German Winklers and Moorefields
Bethena Hilton married into the Shoats or choate (Jason SHoats Cherokee apps)
Lucinda married Long John Mabe in Stokes NC.....
Ruth Hilton married Matoy (cant find much on this) Famous Indian Name.
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The only one we can find on any Roll was Daniel Hilton b. 1788 NC. Cherokee apps say he was born in Cherokee NC. He married one time Martha Walker daughter of William Walker and Katie.
His father and mother were Peter Hilton and Jenny.
I am sure Jenny was in the Cherokee Nation but that is hard to place because of so many of them. Cherokees didnt keep good marriage records.
Line of Travel: Tom in the edge of VA, some say Patrick CO. Land on terrible creek was in Lunenburg VA. He moved to Stokes area in NC along the Dan River. We believe he may have been Saura Indian, mentioned by Mooney in his travels. Abraham HIlton married Charity or Katie Owl starts in Henrico Co. VA in the Rev. War. goes through NC and into GA. Peter starts in joining Rev. war in Surry, NC, goes into Burke county with many other Heltons/ Hiltons comes to live with Cherokee in McMinn Co. TN in the 1830 census.
His son Daniel Hilton b. 1788 signs Emigration Roll with Major John Walker and Thomas Petite. Found him on the 1828 Arkansas deal and know he left TN the Spring of 1828 on one of the first boats. Found him as late as 1831 on the Letters to Office of Indian affairs. This is the latest so far from Arkansas. We suspect there are more. He is mentioned as stealing a horse and leaving the nation in 1830. This is not true because we found him in 1831 document. The horse part might be right but the time is not. First time apart from Cherokee paperwork we find Daniel is 1850 Federal Census in Blount CO. TN with two kids with Indian names.
Why is this important? Later many of the family files Cherokee applications in GA and TN. They go back to several Helton / Hilton. some of them we have linked together and DNA tested. Two of them we have not. They never mention Daniel on a Cherokee Roll. (mystery)
Abraham Helton and Katie Owls, group DNA matched
Joseph Helton back to Beecham Hilton in NC DNA matched
Peter Hilton back to INdian TOm DNA matched
Jahial Helton around 1800 in Murray GA, no DNA test or much research from this family. They had about 8 Cherokee Applications.
William Joseph Helton in Burnt Corn Al. b.1799 in Sumter SC but the test are coming back Gillispie. Probably a Helton girl that names the kids the same. (Matrial line, Cherokeee style, We have found about 4 or 5 of these so far.) This family filled out about 8 Cherokee apps.
This is a thumbnail sketch of the Indian DNA set of Hiltons. We didnt know any of this four years ago. Just that our family always said we had Cherokee Blood in us.
Note. Here is a thank you note I received from Mike with some added information.
Dennis,
What drew me to you was that you had a lot of the names I had read on the M 234 series in Fort Worth. They were located in Arkansas, Cherokee West. When I read your list I kept saying where is Danie? This is the same people I just read this week. George Guess, rainstopper, Spring Frog, Walter Webber etc. By all means put them up. By the way, Footnote.com is just loading all the Guion Miller applications and we are having a blast. ANy Helton mentioned by any other name is showing up. We are really starting to put the g-grandkids of Tom together now. Especially all of the girls that married out into other surnames. Thank you for your support.
Mike
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
The United States & Miexico. 1837-1839.
I have yet done a page on Mexico, this page will deal with claim of citizens of the United States against Mexico. There were many reasons for these claims, the likes which were the taking of ships and more. I hope by putting this information here you will learn more about your ancestor that you never know.
This information comes from a report called ( United States and Mexico ), No. 332, 25th. Congress, 1837-1839.
1. Thomas Powell, Claims nine thousand five hundred and seven dollars and ninety cents of the Mexican Government, on account of an alleged wrongful seizure of his property by officers of Mexico, in the neighborhood of De Wit’s colony in Texas, in the autumn of 1826. He also claims of the Mexican Government thirteen thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars and fifty cents, on account of the capture of the schooner Louisiana and her cargo (owned entirely by him) by the Mexican brig of war General Tenan.
2. Rufus Furnage, This individual was a passenger on board the schooner Martha, captured by the Mexican public armed schooner Moutezuma,, in Galveston bay, in May, 1835. He represents that he was harshly treated while a prisoner in the hands of the Mexican authorities, and claims therefore of the Mexican Government a pecuniary recompense of six thousand five hundred dollars. The only paper in his ease is his memorial to the Secretary of State of the United States, sworn to on the 3d of October, 1837, before James Ross, notary public, Shelby county, Tennessee.
3. This information was put together from the Boston Commercial Gazette.
It seem a party of fur trappers which included, James 0. Patty, Richard Lochlin, and Nathaniel Prior, of Kentucky; Isaac Strover, of Santa Fe; William Pope, of Indiana; Jesse Ferguson, of Missouri: and Edmund Russell, of Pennsylvania, there were twenty in all. This party started from Santa Fe, in New Mexico, on the 18th of August, 1827, with the intention of trapping beaver. This party, it is stated, was headed by Sylvester Patty, of Lexington, Kentucky, who, after experiencing much severe and cruel treatment, died in prison at San Diego, on the 24th May, 1828.
It appears that the patty separated soon after starting; and that the above individuals, after taking a quantity of furs, were made prisoners on the 13th of March, 1828, at St. Catalina, in Lower California. From this place they were carried on to other settlements, and at length found themselves in the prison in San Diego, among all sorts of criminals, and subjected to every insult and privation, and denied the privilege of seeing their own country men.
4. The following names were American merchants at Chihuahua.
Augustus Storrs, John Willis, John Atkinson, J. Konings, A. C. Thomas, Henry Conolly, John Ward, G. Floyd, Young E. Hicks, James Quesenberry, J. E. Morehouse, Henry Foley, S. W. Howland, John Morrison, Horatio Keckothe, James Douglass, Joseph Paine,
Jesse Suppan, Palencio Syder, David Waldo and Reuben M. Potter.
5. The goods and effects of James W. Walker, of Kentucky, were seized and confiscated at San Buena Ventura in this State. The live of this excellent young men was taken by the Indians, and his property by these people, under the eye of our consul. It was refused to his demand, in a manner highly insulting to the dignity of our Government. If recovered, we recommend that it be placed in deposit for their representatives.
6. The goods and effects of John C. Finley, of North Carolina, were seized and confiscated at San Buena Ventura in this State. The live of this excellent young men was taken by the Indians, and his property by these people, under the eye of our consul. It was refused to his demand, in a manner highly insulting to the dignity of our Government. If recovered, we recommend that it be placed in deposit for their representatives.
7. James Collins was placed in prison at Chihuahua on November, 1830.
8. John Prewitt was placed in prison at Chihuahua on November, 1830.
9. Declaration of Rufus D. Kilgore.
I, Rufus Dean Kilgore, resident of the city of New York, do hereby certifv that I was chief mate on board the American schooner Consolation, during her voyage from New York to Tabasco, in the month of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and that I continued to act as such until on or about the first day of July, when had arrived, in the Tabasco river the Mexican armed schooner called the Vera Cruzana, for the purpose of attacking the partisans of General Santa Anna, then in possession of the city of Tabasco ; that I then left the aforesaid schooner Consolation, in consequence of the captain, Philo Johnson, with the advice and consent of his agent, Mr. Dennis Gahagan, having voluntarily chartered her to the commander of the aforesaid armed schooner, for the purpose of transporting troops up the river, not considering it my duty to be employed in assisting in the civil wars of the country. And I do further declare that the amount agreed upon for the charter was forty dollars per day, having been informed of the same by consignee ; and I do also further declare that Captain Johnson ordered me to get the vessel under way while he went on shore to receive his charter money, which he said was to be paid daily; and I also do further declare that he, the said Captain Johnson. used every endeavor to persuade me to continue in the vessel, as well as the seamen, some of whom were by him forcibly compelled to continue on board.
Rufus Dean Kilgore.
10. City, County, and State of New York.
Dennis Gahagan, of the city of New York, being duly sworn, does depose and say: That he was at Tabasco from the time of the arrival at that place of the American steamboat Bellona, B. A. Bukup, master, until the month of July last; and that, to his certain knowledge, the steamboat Bellona, up to the time of her loss, never was sold or transferred at Tabasco, and that she never was Mexican property; and, also, that Daniel N. Pope, United States consul, had no authority to consider that she was Mexican property.
And deponent further says: ‘Chat he was in prison at Tabasco, during the revolution, with Captain P. B. Johnson, of the American schooner Consolation, and Captain George Hughes, of the American brig John, and was there confined over a month, during which time Daniel N. Pope, United States consul, never called to see him, nor had any cornmuitication with him, until Lieutenant Boerum, of the United States schooner Shark, arrived, about the 22d of August, at whose instance they were all released, under certain restrictions, never having had a trial or any legal process whatsoever against them.
Dennis Gahagan
11. CONSULATE OF THE U. S. A., Matamoras, Mexico.
29th day of December, 1835.
Joseph C. Beckford, William Reed, and Isaac F. Sheles, American seamen belonging to the schooner Hannah Elizabeth, of New Orleans, being duly sworn upon the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, do severally depose and say: That on the 13th day of November last they set sail on board the said schooner from the port of New Orleans, bound for the port of Matagorda, Texas; that on the 18th day of the same month, the said vessel stranded on the bar, in attempting to enter Matagorda bay, in which helpless situation she was fired into by the Mexican armed schooner General Bravo, and boarded by about twenty armed soldiers, under the command of two officers, who forcibly took them, (these deponents,) with others belonging to the wreck, on hoard the Bravo, where they were chained down in the hold of that vessel until she arrived off this port, on the 2d instant, when they were landed at the Brazos de Santiago, and placed under a guard of soldiers until they were liberated on the 24th instant, by order of the military commandant of this place, after having been subjected to a rigid confinement of thirty-six days. And these deponents further say, that the schooner Hannah Elizabeth cleared at the port of New Orleans, as aforesaid, with three guns and eight men. And further these deponents say not.
JOSEPH C. BECKFORD, WILLIAM REED, his x mark, ISAAC SHELES, his x mark.
Note. The following names were also on the Schooner Hannah Elizabeth, and give about the same statement.
Thomas Pugh, Edward Scrugham, and Alonzo Marsh. citizens of the United States of America, and William S. Brown, a British subject, Jimmerson Strother, a citizen of the United States.
12. CONSULATE OF TEE U. S. A.
Matamoras, February 20, 1836.
William Hallett and Zalmon Hall the step-son of Daniel W. Smith Citizens of the United States, were arrested in the street, near the habitation D. W. Smith, by a party of armed soldiers, who brutally struck Hall in the face with a sword, and forcibly took them to the principal barrack in this city, where they are confined as prisoners. They were arrested upon suspicion of being about to leave for Texas.
A short time after this occurrence, sentinels were placed at the doors of Smith’s residence, under false pretences, and all communication therewith prohibited. Armed soldiers broke open his gate during his absence, and forcibly took out of his yard a mare and two mules, being his private property; and afterwards entered his house with drawn swords, and searched every room in the building, contrary to law or justice, for the avowed object of finding the father of Mr. Hall.
13. List of American vessels detained by a embargo.
Brig Jane, of Saybrook, Henry Williams master, Brig Henry, of New Orleans, A. C. Bredall master, Schooner Compeer, of Eastport, Welcome Lincoln master, Schooner Nile, of Baltimore, William P. Rogers master and Sloop Supply, of New Bedford, Jonathan Walker master. * All bound to the port of New Orleans.
14. American Merchants of Vera Cruz, Mexico.
E. FOMLELELLM & Co., MAROTTE, TETE, HARGOUS, & Co., JOHN SAULNIER & SON., BOLLES & TREAT., FERNANDY & ROBERTS., JOHN PARKER, LAGUERENNE, BOURDEL & Co., BEHRMANN & MULLER, SICARD & TRIGUERAS and PATRICIO GALLIGHER & Co.
15. The consul of the United States at Vera Crus, Mexico, to obtain the discharge of James Lloyd Hughes, an American citizen, who is forcibly detained as a soldier in the corps of artillery stationed at Vera Cruz.
16. Citizens of the United States, born in Spain.
Ignacio Alsola, July 6th, 1826, Spanish native.
Jose de la Lastra, August 6th, 1826, unknown.
Antonio Fernandez, August 9th, Spanish native.
Joaquin X. Haunouy, November 6th, 1826, not naturalized. Passport from Mr. Adams declaring him.
Juan Guadiz, 15th November, 1826.
Ramon R. Gonzales, Bénito de Magua, Prudencio Ayorla, Francis Armas, J. B. Cabonna, Florentio de Ia Kauty, Vicente Lora and Felipe Guardarrama.
17. A list of persons, natives of Spain, that are known to be naturalized citizens of the United States.
In Mexico.
Florencio de Ia Hauty, J. B. Cavanne, Ramon R. Gonzalez and Vicente Asenas.
In Vera Cruz.
Ildefonso Aizola, Ignacio Aizola, Felipe de Guadanama, Francisco Asenas.
In Tampico.
Joaquin Harmony, Francisco Maezas, Francisco Martinez, Benito Fernandez and Francisco Canales.
18. List of citizens of the United States who are now a resident of Parral.
February 5, 1831.
Mr. Joseph Payne, Oliver Rice, Vincent Moore, John Ward, James Douglass, Joseph E. Morehouse, Thomas E. Hicks, Patrick Rider, John Reynolds, James Calaham, John Atkinson, William Thomas and John H. Cozine.
19. The case of James Johnson.
In consequence of a servant or coachman of the said James having been grievously ill, he received medical attendance to the period of his death. A few moments before that event, he declared that his master was indebted to him fifteen dollars; to which sum was added seven dollars, for medicine and burial fees. The money was demanded from the said Johnson, by the proper officer of Chiapa, in civil language, without imagining he offered the slight t affront. The officer went to him and made the demand of payment, on foot, without any other arms titan a stick, with a single attendant. The reply of Johnson was to distribute fire-arms to his companions, and offer menaces to the officer, declaring that he would not pay, nor would he appear before the court, where he had been summoned for the purpose of satisfying the above-mentioned debt ; and, in refusing to do so, violating the order which the alcalde of Nopalucan had issued for his appearance before that tribunal. Whence it came. seeing justice thus outraged, a mittimus was issued for his imprisonment, for want of respect for want of respect to the authorities. Johnson, counsellor gave his opinion, that inasmuch as there was no evidence that the said James had promised to pay for his deceased servant, and as he considered the fault which he had committed towards the alcaldes of Nopalucan and Chiapa as not being of so grave a nature, he decided that he should be set at liberty, leaving to him the unimpaired right of seeking damages at his option. He was accordingly set at liberty immediately.
20. Minotitlan, January 31, 1832.
The foreigner, Dr. John Baldwin, now in prison states he holds the title of a doctor of medicine ; but he has not shown his diploma as such, when it has been required of him; and yet he practices that profession, by sacrificing his patients and making them pay large sums of money.
21. Mexico, July 11, 1833.
Hail J. Kelly, arrived, at the port of Vera Cruz, on his way to the Columbia river, where certain citizens of the United States of America are establishing themselves as residents.
22. OAJACA, June 19, 1838.
Benanclo Benito, a citizen of the United States of North America, states; That although, in fact, I am a Spaniard by birth, I am not subject to the Government of Spain, nor am I her subject, because I belong to the United States of the North, according to my letters of naturalization, which have been presented to the central Government; and being admitted in that character, I have paid, and I now pay, the contribution established for foreigners coming from that nation.
My said letters of naturalization are strictly legal, and contain nothing suspicious. Although I was born in the territory of Spain, since my infancy I have been engaged in the commerce of New York, where I was brought up and educated, and continued there until the year 1829, when I came to this place (in virtue of the treaty between the two nations, solemnly concluded the 12th January, 1828.)
23. Mexico, May 24, 1834.
A note of the 22d of this month, relative to the robbery of the Mechanics and Merchants’ Bank of New Orleans, in the State of Louisiana by Simeon Martin, a citizen of the United Stares of America, in which crime it appears that a person designated Doctor Shaw is implicated, it has been ordered that the judge, Don Jose Maria Puchet, is to proceed immediately to arrest those two individuals.
24. Mexico, June 2, 1834.
Mr. George Abby, a citizen of the United States, is now a prisoner to the Pawnee tribe of Indians, residing within the limits of the Mexican territory.
25. On December 29, 1835, the United States was informed of the execution of 28 persons of the United States and other countries, on December 14, who were abandoned by General Mexia on his departure from Tampico Viejo, which place he attacked in the early part of December. The following names are those who were executed.
1. Arthur H. Clement, of Pennsylvania, aged 40; no parents.
2. Thomas Whitaker, of Pennsylvania, aged 30; father iii Pennsylvania.
3. William C. Barclay. of New York, aged 20; parents in New York.
4. Jacob Morison, of New York, aged 21; parents in Kentucky.
5. Edward Mount, of New York, aged 23; mother in State of New York.
6. Charles Cross, of Pennsylvania, aged 23; mother in Pennsylvania.
7. Isaac F. Leeds, of New Jersey, aged. 30; no parents.
8. Mordecai Gist, of Maryland, aged 53; father in Maryland—his own last residence, Indiana.
9. David Long, of Ohio, aged 25; mother in Ohio.
10. William H. Mackay, of Virginia, aged 20; mother in Virginia.
11. Jonas R. Stuart, of Vermont, aged 23; mother in Vermont.
12. Daniel Holt, of Canada, aged 18; parents in Canada.
13. James Cramp, of England, aged 22; parents in Oswego county, N. York.
14. Levi Jacobs, of England, aged 21; parents in Lower Canada.
15. Thomas H. Rogers, of Ireland, aged 23; parents in Ireland.
16. Daniel Donnelly, of Ireland, aged 20 ; St. John’s, New Brunswick.
17. James Farrall, of Ireland, aged 23 ; father in Green county, New York.
18. John Martin Ives, of England, aged 35; no parents.
19. Auguste Saussier, of France, aged 22; parents in France.
20. ----Demoussent, of France, aged 25 ; parents in France.
21. Fred, Dubois, of Dantzic, aged 24; parents in Dantzic.
22. Fred. William Maier or Maiier, of Germany, aged 22; parents in Saxony.
23. Henry Wagner, of Germany, aged 24 ; no parents.
24. John Ewig, of Germany, aged 24; no parents.
25. Andrew Helm, of Germany, aged 50; no parents.
26. George Iselle, of Germany, aged 27; Germany.
27. William H. Morris, of New Providence, aged 28 ; no parents.
28.L. M. Bellefont, of Hanover, aged 26; no parents.
Three prisoners died in the hospital.
1. ---Flemming, aged about 25; born in Pittsburg.
2. Harris Blood, aged about 40 ; born in England.
3. James McCormick, aged about 30; born in Kentucky.
This information comes from a report called ( United States and Mexico ), No. 332, 25th. Congress, 1837-1839.
1. Thomas Powell, Claims nine thousand five hundred and seven dollars and ninety cents of the Mexican Government, on account of an alleged wrongful seizure of his property by officers of Mexico, in the neighborhood of De Wit’s colony in Texas, in the autumn of 1826. He also claims of the Mexican Government thirteen thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars and fifty cents, on account of the capture of the schooner Louisiana and her cargo (owned entirely by him) by the Mexican brig of war General Tenan.
2. Rufus Furnage, This individual was a passenger on board the schooner Martha, captured by the Mexican public armed schooner Moutezuma,, in Galveston bay, in May, 1835. He represents that he was harshly treated while a prisoner in the hands of the Mexican authorities, and claims therefore of the Mexican Government a pecuniary recompense of six thousand five hundred dollars. The only paper in his ease is his memorial to the Secretary of State of the United States, sworn to on the 3d of October, 1837, before James Ross, notary public, Shelby county, Tennessee.
3. This information was put together from the Boston Commercial Gazette.
It seem a party of fur trappers which included, James 0. Patty, Richard Lochlin, and Nathaniel Prior, of Kentucky; Isaac Strover, of Santa Fe; William Pope, of Indiana; Jesse Ferguson, of Missouri: and Edmund Russell, of Pennsylvania, there were twenty in all. This party started from Santa Fe, in New Mexico, on the 18th of August, 1827, with the intention of trapping beaver. This party, it is stated, was headed by Sylvester Patty, of Lexington, Kentucky, who, after experiencing much severe and cruel treatment, died in prison at San Diego, on the 24th May, 1828.
It appears that the patty separated soon after starting; and that the above individuals, after taking a quantity of furs, were made prisoners on the 13th of March, 1828, at St. Catalina, in Lower California. From this place they were carried on to other settlements, and at length found themselves in the prison in San Diego, among all sorts of criminals, and subjected to every insult and privation, and denied the privilege of seeing their own country men.
4. The following names were American merchants at Chihuahua.
Augustus Storrs, John Willis, John Atkinson, J. Konings, A. C. Thomas, Henry Conolly, John Ward, G. Floyd, Young E. Hicks, James Quesenberry, J. E. Morehouse, Henry Foley, S. W. Howland, John Morrison, Horatio Keckothe, James Douglass, Joseph Paine,
Jesse Suppan, Palencio Syder, David Waldo and Reuben M. Potter.
5. The goods and effects of James W. Walker, of Kentucky, were seized and confiscated at San Buena Ventura in this State. The live of this excellent young men was taken by the Indians, and his property by these people, under the eye of our consul. It was refused to his demand, in a manner highly insulting to the dignity of our Government. If recovered, we recommend that it be placed in deposit for their representatives.
6. The goods and effects of John C. Finley, of North Carolina, were seized and confiscated at San Buena Ventura in this State. The live of this excellent young men was taken by the Indians, and his property by these people, under the eye of our consul. It was refused to his demand, in a manner highly insulting to the dignity of our Government. If recovered, we recommend that it be placed in deposit for their representatives.
7. James Collins was placed in prison at Chihuahua on November, 1830.
8. John Prewitt was placed in prison at Chihuahua on November, 1830.
9. Declaration of Rufus D. Kilgore.
I, Rufus Dean Kilgore, resident of the city of New York, do hereby certifv that I was chief mate on board the American schooner Consolation, during her voyage from New York to Tabasco, in the month of May, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and that I continued to act as such until on or about the first day of July, when had arrived, in the Tabasco river the Mexican armed schooner called the Vera Cruzana, for the purpose of attacking the partisans of General Santa Anna, then in possession of the city of Tabasco ; that I then left the aforesaid schooner Consolation, in consequence of the captain, Philo Johnson, with the advice and consent of his agent, Mr. Dennis Gahagan, having voluntarily chartered her to the commander of the aforesaid armed schooner, for the purpose of transporting troops up the river, not considering it my duty to be employed in assisting in the civil wars of the country. And I do further declare that the amount agreed upon for the charter was forty dollars per day, having been informed of the same by consignee ; and I do also further declare that Captain Johnson ordered me to get the vessel under way while he went on shore to receive his charter money, which he said was to be paid daily; and I also do further declare that he, the said Captain Johnson. used every endeavor to persuade me to continue in the vessel, as well as the seamen, some of whom were by him forcibly compelled to continue on board.
Rufus Dean Kilgore.
10. City, County, and State of New York.
Dennis Gahagan, of the city of New York, being duly sworn, does depose and say: That he was at Tabasco from the time of the arrival at that place of the American steamboat Bellona, B. A. Bukup, master, until the month of July last; and that, to his certain knowledge, the steamboat Bellona, up to the time of her loss, never was sold or transferred at Tabasco, and that she never was Mexican property; and, also, that Daniel N. Pope, United States consul, had no authority to consider that she was Mexican property.
And deponent further says: ‘Chat he was in prison at Tabasco, during the revolution, with Captain P. B. Johnson, of the American schooner Consolation, and Captain George Hughes, of the American brig John, and was there confined over a month, during which time Daniel N. Pope, United States consul, never called to see him, nor had any cornmuitication with him, until Lieutenant Boerum, of the United States schooner Shark, arrived, about the 22d of August, at whose instance they were all released, under certain restrictions, never having had a trial or any legal process whatsoever against them.
Dennis Gahagan
11. CONSULATE OF THE U. S. A., Matamoras, Mexico.
29th day of December, 1835.
Joseph C. Beckford, William Reed, and Isaac F. Sheles, American seamen belonging to the schooner Hannah Elizabeth, of New Orleans, being duly sworn upon the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, do severally depose and say: That on the 13th day of November last they set sail on board the said schooner from the port of New Orleans, bound for the port of Matagorda, Texas; that on the 18th day of the same month, the said vessel stranded on the bar, in attempting to enter Matagorda bay, in which helpless situation she was fired into by the Mexican armed schooner General Bravo, and boarded by about twenty armed soldiers, under the command of two officers, who forcibly took them, (these deponents,) with others belonging to the wreck, on hoard the Bravo, where they were chained down in the hold of that vessel until she arrived off this port, on the 2d instant, when they were landed at the Brazos de Santiago, and placed under a guard of soldiers until they were liberated on the 24th instant, by order of the military commandant of this place, after having been subjected to a rigid confinement of thirty-six days. And these deponents further say, that the schooner Hannah Elizabeth cleared at the port of New Orleans, as aforesaid, with three guns and eight men. And further these deponents say not.
JOSEPH C. BECKFORD, WILLIAM REED, his x mark, ISAAC SHELES, his x mark.
Note. The following names were also on the Schooner Hannah Elizabeth, and give about the same statement.
Thomas Pugh, Edward Scrugham, and Alonzo Marsh. citizens of the United States of America, and William S. Brown, a British subject, Jimmerson Strother, a citizen of the United States.
12. CONSULATE OF TEE U. S. A.
Matamoras, February 20, 1836.
William Hallett and Zalmon Hall the step-son of Daniel W. Smith Citizens of the United States, were arrested in the street, near the habitation D. W. Smith, by a party of armed soldiers, who brutally struck Hall in the face with a sword, and forcibly took them to the principal barrack in this city, where they are confined as prisoners. They were arrested upon suspicion of being about to leave for Texas.
A short time after this occurrence, sentinels were placed at the doors of Smith’s residence, under false pretences, and all communication therewith prohibited. Armed soldiers broke open his gate during his absence, and forcibly took out of his yard a mare and two mules, being his private property; and afterwards entered his house with drawn swords, and searched every room in the building, contrary to law or justice, for the avowed object of finding the father of Mr. Hall.
13. List of American vessels detained by a embargo.
Brig Jane, of Saybrook, Henry Williams master, Brig Henry, of New Orleans, A. C. Bredall master, Schooner Compeer, of Eastport, Welcome Lincoln master, Schooner Nile, of Baltimore, William P. Rogers master and Sloop Supply, of New Bedford, Jonathan Walker master. * All bound to the port of New Orleans.
14. American Merchants of Vera Cruz, Mexico.
E. FOMLELELLM & Co., MAROTTE, TETE, HARGOUS, & Co., JOHN SAULNIER & SON., BOLLES & TREAT., FERNANDY & ROBERTS., JOHN PARKER, LAGUERENNE, BOURDEL & Co., BEHRMANN & MULLER, SICARD & TRIGUERAS and PATRICIO GALLIGHER & Co.
15. The consul of the United States at Vera Crus, Mexico, to obtain the discharge of James Lloyd Hughes, an American citizen, who is forcibly detained as a soldier in the corps of artillery stationed at Vera Cruz.
16. Citizens of the United States, born in Spain.
Ignacio Alsola, July 6th, 1826, Spanish native.
Jose de la Lastra, August 6th, 1826, unknown.
Antonio Fernandez, August 9th, Spanish native.
Joaquin X. Haunouy, November 6th, 1826, not naturalized. Passport from Mr. Adams declaring him.
Juan Guadiz, 15th November, 1826.
Ramon R. Gonzales, Bénito de Magua, Prudencio Ayorla, Francis Armas, J. B. Cabonna, Florentio de Ia Kauty, Vicente Lora and Felipe Guardarrama.
17. A list of persons, natives of Spain, that are known to be naturalized citizens of the United States.
In Mexico.
Florencio de Ia Hauty, J. B. Cavanne, Ramon R. Gonzalez and Vicente Asenas.
In Vera Cruz.
Ildefonso Aizola, Ignacio Aizola, Felipe de Guadanama, Francisco Asenas.
In Tampico.
Joaquin Harmony, Francisco Maezas, Francisco Martinez, Benito Fernandez and Francisco Canales.
18. List of citizens of the United States who are now a resident of Parral.
February 5, 1831.
Mr. Joseph Payne, Oliver Rice, Vincent Moore, John Ward, James Douglass, Joseph E. Morehouse, Thomas E. Hicks, Patrick Rider, John Reynolds, James Calaham, John Atkinson, William Thomas and John H. Cozine.
19. The case of James Johnson.
In consequence of a servant or coachman of the said James having been grievously ill, he received medical attendance to the period of his death. A few moments before that event, he declared that his master was indebted to him fifteen dollars; to which sum was added seven dollars, for medicine and burial fees. The money was demanded from the said Johnson, by the proper officer of Chiapa, in civil language, without imagining he offered the slight t affront. The officer went to him and made the demand of payment, on foot, without any other arms titan a stick, with a single attendant. The reply of Johnson was to distribute fire-arms to his companions, and offer menaces to the officer, declaring that he would not pay, nor would he appear before the court, where he had been summoned for the purpose of satisfying the above-mentioned debt ; and, in refusing to do so, violating the order which the alcalde of Nopalucan had issued for his appearance before that tribunal. Whence it came. seeing justice thus outraged, a mittimus was issued for his imprisonment, for want of respect for want of respect to the authorities. Johnson, counsellor gave his opinion, that inasmuch as there was no evidence that the said James had promised to pay for his deceased servant, and as he considered the fault which he had committed towards the alcaldes of Nopalucan and Chiapa as not being of so grave a nature, he decided that he should be set at liberty, leaving to him the unimpaired right of seeking damages at his option. He was accordingly set at liberty immediately.
20. Minotitlan, January 31, 1832.
The foreigner, Dr. John Baldwin, now in prison states he holds the title of a doctor of medicine ; but he has not shown his diploma as such, when it has been required of him; and yet he practices that profession, by sacrificing his patients and making them pay large sums of money.
21. Mexico, July 11, 1833.
Hail J. Kelly, arrived, at the port of Vera Cruz, on his way to the Columbia river, where certain citizens of the United States of America are establishing themselves as residents.
22. OAJACA, June 19, 1838.
Benanclo Benito, a citizen of the United States of North America, states; That although, in fact, I am a Spaniard by birth, I am not subject to the Government of Spain, nor am I her subject, because I belong to the United States of the North, according to my letters of naturalization, which have been presented to the central Government; and being admitted in that character, I have paid, and I now pay, the contribution established for foreigners coming from that nation.
My said letters of naturalization are strictly legal, and contain nothing suspicious. Although I was born in the territory of Spain, since my infancy I have been engaged in the commerce of New York, where I was brought up and educated, and continued there until the year 1829, when I came to this place (in virtue of the treaty between the two nations, solemnly concluded the 12th January, 1828.)
23. Mexico, May 24, 1834.
A note of the 22d of this month, relative to the robbery of the Mechanics and Merchants’ Bank of New Orleans, in the State of Louisiana by Simeon Martin, a citizen of the United Stares of America, in which crime it appears that a person designated Doctor Shaw is implicated, it has been ordered that the judge, Don Jose Maria Puchet, is to proceed immediately to arrest those two individuals.
24. Mexico, June 2, 1834.
Mr. George Abby, a citizen of the United States, is now a prisoner to the Pawnee tribe of Indians, residing within the limits of the Mexican territory.
25. On December 29, 1835, the United States was informed of the execution of 28 persons of the United States and other countries, on December 14, who were abandoned by General Mexia on his departure from Tampico Viejo, which place he attacked in the early part of December. The following names are those who were executed.
1. Arthur H. Clement, of Pennsylvania, aged 40; no parents.
2. Thomas Whitaker, of Pennsylvania, aged 30; father iii Pennsylvania.
3. William C. Barclay. of New York, aged 20; parents in New York.
4. Jacob Morison, of New York, aged 21; parents in Kentucky.
5. Edward Mount, of New York, aged 23; mother in State of New York.
6. Charles Cross, of Pennsylvania, aged 23; mother in Pennsylvania.
7. Isaac F. Leeds, of New Jersey, aged. 30; no parents.
8. Mordecai Gist, of Maryland, aged 53; father in Maryland—his own last residence, Indiana.
9. David Long, of Ohio, aged 25; mother in Ohio.
10. William H. Mackay, of Virginia, aged 20; mother in Virginia.
11. Jonas R. Stuart, of Vermont, aged 23; mother in Vermont.
12. Daniel Holt, of Canada, aged 18; parents in Canada.
13. James Cramp, of England, aged 22; parents in Oswego county, N. York.
14. Levi Jacobs, of England, aged 21; parents in Lower Canada.
15. Thomas H. Rogers, of Ireland, aged 23; parents in Ireland.
16. Daniel Donnelly, of Ireland, aged 20 ; St. John’s, New Brunswick.
17. James Farrall, of Ireland, aged 23 ; father in Green county, New York.
18. John Martin Ives, of England, aged 35; no parents.
19. Auguste Saussier, of France, aged 22; parents in France.
20. ----Demoussent, of France, aged 25 ; parents in France.
21. Fred, Dubois, of Dantzic, aged 24; parents in Dantzic.
22. Fred. William Maier or Maiier, of Germany, aged 22; parents in Saxony.
23. Henry Wagner, of Germany, aged 24 ; no parents.
24. John Ewig, of Germany, aged 24; no parents.
25. Andrew Helm, of Germany, aged 50; no parents.
26. George Iselle, of Germany, aged 27; Germany.
27. William H. Morris, of New Providence, aged 28 ; no parents.
28.L. M. Bellefont, of Hanover, aged 26; no parents.
Three prisoners died in the hospital.
1. ---Flemming, aged about 25; born in Pittsburg.
2. Harris Blood, aged about 40 ; born in England.
3. James McCormick, aged about 30; born in Kentucky.
Monday, March 30, 2009
New Found Letter By Robert E. Lee.
The other day I had a gentleman by the name of Mr. Dan Taylor, write me asking for some help on a Civil War letter, that has been in is family since the start of the war. He told me he was trying to figure out a name in the letter so he may research it more. Well I said I would try, well when part of the letter came I almost fell out of my chair it was a unpublished letter by Robert E. Lee, I couldn't believe it. Mr. Taylor could only send parts of the letter at a time as his scanner wasn’t working all that well. In the end I got the whole letter, and with the help of my daughter we finely figured out the name it was Captain Philip H. Tro
ut.
ut. I asked Mr. Taylor how he came by the letter and this is what he said; “ The letter has been in my family since the war and I really don't think the letter was ever sent because Lee was a personal friend of my ancestors. There would be no reason that we would have had the letter unless Lee had left it at our home or my great grandmother lifted it from his coat while sitting on his lap. It has been said for many years that she sat on his lap as a child when he would come to visit.” 
After we figured out it was Philip H. Trout he did a search on the net and found out what his company was, which was Company A. He then did a search for that company and found a document stating the names of the people in that company and low and behold He found the name of his Great -G-grandfather who was Richard Mauzy. He says that must be where the letter came from and how it got into our family.
As for me I like the story where his great grandmother took the letter from his coat pocket, which could be possible, I know when I was a child and sat on my grandfathers lap I would love to take things out of his shirt pocket, most children do. If this was the case then the letter that is known ( Which I have not seen,) and talks about
that company maybe the second letter, for when Lee went to send the first order he found it missing and had to rewrite the order, or Lee may have went to send it and found it missing thinking he miss laid it or just lost it and rewrote the order. If this is true then this letter may be more important then the first.
After we figured out it was Philip H. Trout he did a search on the net and found out what his company was, which was Company A. He then did a search for that company and found a document stating the names of the people in that company and low and behold He found the name of his Great -G-grandfather who was Richard Mauzy. He says that must be where the letter came from and how it got into our family.
As for me I like the story where his great grandmother took the letter from his coat pocket, which could be possible, I know when I was a child and sat on my grandfathers lap I would love to take things out of his shirt pocket, most children do. If this was the case then the letter that is known ( Which I have not seen,) and talks about
that company maybe the second letter, for when Lee went to send the first order he found it missing and had to rewrite the order, or Lee may have went to send it and found it missing thinking he miss laid it or just lost it and rewrote the order. If this is true then this letter may be more important then the first. Note. These photo's can be enlarged by pushing on them.
Mr. Taylor is kind enough to allow me to put those parts of the letter here. If you have any questions he can be reached at the following address.
taylor777@verizon.net
Mr. Taylor is kind enough to allow me to put those parts of the letter here. If you have any questions he can be reached at the following address.
taylor777@verizon.net
Friday, March 27, 2009
The Sick And The Destitute Seaman.
I have read a lot of reports on ships being captured and their ship taken to a foreign, ports where some of the crew would be set free and have to defend for themselves, with nothing but the clothes on their backs. I know a lot of seamen from the American made it back, but how? Many would catch another ship and work for they fair back home. But I wondered about those that were to sick or couldn’t find a ship, so how did they make it back home.
I found that there was a law passed on July 16, 1798, that made it possible for any merchant seamen to go before the United States consul in any foreign country and ask for help to get back home. At first this law was for the merchant seaman, who would have to show they were Americans and to sick, or destitute to find work on a ship as to work they way home. Then on March 2, 1799, this law was extended to all navy and marine seamen. Now I won’t into all the ins out outs of the law, but for those of you who want to know how this was paid for, it was paid for by a tax on all seamen when they entered the port of New York, this I understand was the port of entry into the United States, all merchant seaman were taxed 25, cents per man, per month, and all navy men and marines were taxes 10, cents per man, per month. This tax was put into a government fund.
However this page is not about the seaman but the ships that took them home. I know there are a lot of families looking for ancestor that was a masters of a ( merchant ) ship or the name of it, or they may know both but don’t what part of the sea or what year, for this reason this page may be a great help to them. The years cover here will be 1818-1820.
Note. This information comes from the Department of Commerce and Navigation, 1815-1823, Volume 2, p. 620.
1818.
1. Randall McDonald, master of the brig Sally, two seamen from Amsterdam-$20.
2. James Birkett, master of the ship Liverpool Packet, two seamen from Liverpool to Philadelphia-$20.
3. James & Thomas H. Perkins, owners of the brig Adriana, one seaman from Gibraltar to Boston-$10.
4. William Prior, master of the ship Francis, one seaman from Amsterdam to Philadelphia-$10.
Note. The United States would not pay no more the ten dollars per man.
5. John B. Murray & son, owners of the brig Alfred, two seamen, from Leghorn to New York-$20.
6. Jacob Shuster, master of the ship Oliver Ellsworth, from London to Petersburg-$10.
7. Aaron Foyles, master of the brig James Monroe, one seaman from Cadiz to Georgetown-$10.
8. Samuel Emery, master of the brig Rebecca, two seamen from St. Pierre to Boston-$20.
9. John A. Parker, owner of the ship Mercator, three seamen from Bristol to Boston-$30.
10. Richard Soule, master of the brig Adriana, one seamen from Antwerp to Boston-$10.
11. Taylor & Talbott, owners of brig Dlophin, one seaman from Gottenberg to Providence-$10.
12. Tobias Lord, owner of the brig Confidence, eight seamen from Martinique to Boston-$80.
13. Wilson Sawyer, owner of the Schooner Providence, fourteen seamen from St. Jago de Cuba to Charleston-$140.
14. William Goodwin, master of the brig Julia & Mary, six seamen from Cadiz to Elizabeth City-$60.
15. B. W. Rogers, owners of the ship Chauncey, nine seamen from Bristol to New York-$90.
16. Abraham Bunkear, master of the ship Richard & Margaret, five seamen Bristol to New York-$50.
17. John Davenport, owner of brig Ruby, three seamen from Martinique to Boston-$30.
18. John Graves, master of the brig Swanwick, four seamen from Antwerp and Cork to Philadelphia-$30.
19. William Markley, master of the brig Cumberland, one seaman from St. Thomas to Alexandria-$10.
20. George Rollins, master of the Schooner Revenge, two seamen from St. Thomas to Norfolk-$20.
21. John Hilliard, master of the ship Iris, four seamen from Gottenberg to Boston-$40.
22. L. D. Morant, master & owner of the Schooner Fish, Twelve seamen from Campeachy to New Orleans including stores-$304.63
23. William C. Nye, master of the brig Indian Chief, two seamen from Lisbon to New Bedford-$20.
24. George Copeland, master of the Schooner Country’s Wonder; Zephaniah Butler, master of the Sloop Morning Star; and William Day, master of the ship Coromandel, three seamen from St. Thomas and Liverpool to Philadelphia-$30.
25. Loring Cunningham, & Co., owners of the brig Buelah, one seamen from Leghorn to Boston-$10.
26. Alexander Rutherford, master of the Schooner Emeline, two seamen from St. Thomas to Georgetown D. C.-$20.
27. Captains, Cromwell, Murphy, Watson, Chandler, Hart, Storer and Burroughs
Masters of unknown Ships seventeen seamen from Sunday places to Balitmore-$170.
28. Joseph Seward, master of the ship Constitution one seamen from London to Norfolk-$10.
29. Stephen Singleton, for the board medical aid &c. of a seamen at the Island of Teneriffe-$20. Also master of the brig Edward three seamen from Liverpool to Philadelphia-$30.
30. Thomas Ryan, master of the Schooner Mermaid two seamen from St. Thomas to Boston-$20.
31. William Fales, six seamen from Martinique, Bristol to Bristol Rhode Island and New York-$60.
32. Ripley Center and Co., owners of the ship Athens four seamen from Nantes and New York-$40.
33. Samuel Train, owner of the brig Hazard one seamen from Cape de Verd Islands to Boston-$10.
34. Charles Hall, master of the ship Importer One seamen from Liverpool to Boston-$10.
35. Captains, Pitt, Gibbs, Mortimer, Hancock, Harding, Harris and Briscoe masters of unknown vessels nineteen seamen from Sunday places to Baltimore-$190.
36. Joseph Marquand, four seamen from Gibraltar and Cadiz to Newburyport-$40.
37. George W. Karthus & Co. owners of the ship Philip seven seamen from Hamburgh to Baltimore-$70.
38. P. A. Guestier, owner of the ship Ea. Six seamen from Bordeaux to Baltimore-$60.
39. J. Jordan, master of the Schooner Two Sisters one seamen from Martinique to Boston-$10.
40. Thomas B. Wales, owner of the brig Boston two seamen from Cadiz to Boston-$20.
41. William R. Russell, master of the Schooner Ann two seamen from Martinique to Boston-$20.
42. John H. Callaghan, master of the brig Elizabeth one seaman from Rotterdam to Norfolk-$10.
43. George W. Steinhaure, master of the ship Brandt one seamen from Rochelle To Philadelphia-$10.
44. John Holland, owner of the brig Ant two seamen from Cork to Boston-$20.
45. Charles Winslow, master of the brig Alexander one seaman from Cork to Norfolk-$10.
46. N. Bristol, master of the ship Niagara three seamen from Lisbon to Tappahannock-$30.
47. James Dixon, master of the ship Suspense and Benjamin Bartholomew’s master of the brig Ocean two seamen from Cork and Leghorn to Philadelphia-$20.
48. Edward Rumney, master of the Schooner Adeline one seamen from Gibraltar To Alexandria-$10.
49. Aaron C. White, master of the brig General Gates twelve seamen from Bonavista to New Bedford-$120.
50. Morris Adams, master of the ship Elizabeth one seamen form Havre to Philadelphia-$10.
51. James Spalding, master of the ship Bristol Trader two seamen from Bristol to Boston-$20.
52. Elijah Beall, master of the brig Calypso for passage, clothing and provisions of three seamen from St Croix to Boston-$60.
53. Henry H. Kennedy, master of the brig Wilmot one seamen from Rotterdam to Philadelphia-$10.
54. William Furlong, master of the brig Mary ten seamen from St. Bartholomew’s to Baltimore-$100.
55. William Haille, master of the Sloop First Attempt four seamen from Aux Cayes to Baltimore-$40.
56. John Campbell, master of the brig Mary two seamen from Bristol to Philadelphia-$20.
57. Eleazer Gay, master of the Catharine two seamen from Bristol to Boston-$20.
58. John Ward, master of the brig Commerce two seamen from Liverpool and Cadiz To Newburyport-$20.
59. Ingersoll & Dodd. Owners of the brig Golden Grove one seaman from Lisbon to Boston.
60. John Baxter, master of the ship William one seaman from Lisbon to Alexandria-$10.
61. Samuel Perry, master of the brig John Burgoyne one seaman from leghorn to Philadelphia-$10.
62. James Pitts, master of the Schooner Freetown one seaman from Lisbon to Boston-$10.
63. Oliver Hilliard, master of the Schooner Alert one seamen from St. Thomas to New York-$10.
64. Samuel Eames, master of the brig Sally one seamen from Lisbon to Boston-$10.
65. Abraham Pastorious, master of the brig Rising Sun one seamen from Gibraltar to Philadelphia-$10.
66. Nathaniel Corey, master of the brig Frederick two seamen from Gibraltar to Philadelphia-$10.
67. Thomas Kittson, master of the brig Florenzo one seamen from Cadiz to Philadelphia-$10.
68. Lewis Haven & Co. owners of the Schooner Dover one seamen from Rotterdam to Philadelphia-$10.
1819.
69. Seth Allen, master of the brig Leader one seaman from Antwerp to New York-$10.
70. Lawrence Crawford, master of the ship Bristol Trader one seaman from Bristol to Boston-$10.
71. John Odam, master of the ship Cumberland two seamen from Liverpool to Norfolk and the other from Lisbon to Philadelphia-$20.
72. John Stinman, master of the Schooner Mars one seaman from Port au Prince to New York-$10.
73. Robert B. Edes, master of the ship Sally Ann one seaman from Smyrna To Boston-$10.
74. Beverly Chew, collector of the customs at New Orleans eleven seamen from Cadiz, Lisbon, Gibraltar, Bristol and New Orleans.
75. Bendedict Dayton, master of the Schooner Tassell one seaman from Lisbon to Newport.
76. Elijah Bangs, master of the Schooner Sail or Boy one seaman from Rotterdam to Philadelphia-$10.
77. Charles & Peter Wirgmsn, owners of the ship Leda two seamen from St. Ubes to Baltimore-$20.
78. Ammi R. Smith, master of the brig Plant two seamen from Hamburgh to New York-$20.
79. William Blackmar, master of the brig Hazard two seamen from Cape de Verd Islands to Boston-$20.
80. Stephen Singleton, master of the ship Ruth one seaman from Portugal to Philadelphia-$10.
81. Alexander Semmes, master of the Schooner James Madison eight seamen from Bermuda to Norfolk-$80.
82. George Campbell, master of the brig Packet one seaman from Portugal to Newburyport-$10.
83. Ezekiel Carmen, master of the Big Olive three seamen from Antwerp to New York-$30.
84. William Kempton, master of the brig Wanderer one seaman from Malaga to Boston-$10.
85. Clement Martin, master of the brig Transit three seamen from Hamburgh to New York-$30.
86. William Warner, master of the brig Despatch two seamen from Lisbon to Boston-$20.
87. George Banks, collector of the port of Tappahannock three seamen from Lisbon to Tappahannock-$30.
88. Lewis Hinchman, master of the brig Sally two seamen from Hamburgh to New Orleans-$20.
89. David Low Jr., master of the brig Garland three seamen from St. Petersburg to Boston-$30.
90. Luther Lincoln, master of the Schooner America two seamen from Martinique and Gibraltar to Boston-$20.
91. Joseph Marquand, collector of the customs at Newburyport two seamen from Cronstadt to Newburyport-$20.
92. Jonas Jones, master of the brig Indian Chief two seamen from Santa Cruz to New York-$20.
93. Richard Gorward, master of the ship Magnet one seaman from Marseilles to Philadelphia-$10.
94. Henry Fuller master of the brig Juno two seamen from Pernambuco to Philadelphia-$20.
95. Joshua Orme, master of the brig Swift one seaman from Rio de Janeiro to New York-$10.
96. Joseph Warner, master of the brig Manufactor one seaman from Hamburgh to Philadelphia-$10.
97. Thomas Buckley, master of the Schooner Wasp four seamen from Porto Rico to Baltimore-$40.
98. Nathaniel Winson Jr., master of the Schooner Elizabeth and Mary one seaman from Rotterdam to Boston-$10.
99. Robert Hamilton, master of the Schooner Independence four seamen from St. Thomas to Baltimore-$40.
100. J. Covington, master of the brig Minerva one seaman from Marseilles to Baltimore-$10.
101. Adam Baush, master of the brig Free Ocean two seamen from Leghorn to Philadelphia-$20
102. A Atwood, master of the ship Sarah one seaman from Copenhagen to Boston-$10.
103. John Hamilton, master of the brig Fame one seaman from Malaga to New York-$10.
1820.
104. Thomas Boyle, master of the brig Eros six seaman from St. Bartholomew’s to Baltimore-$60.
105. James Phillips, master of the brig Amazon two seamen from St. Bartholomew’s to Baltimore-$20.
106. Richard Motley, master of the Schooner Washington three seamen from St. Croix to Boston-$30.
107. Andrew Southworth, master of the brig William Howland three seamen from Gibraltar to New York-$30.
108. James Spillman, master of the Schooner Emily two seamen from St. Jago de Cuba to Alexandria-$20.
109. John Collyer, master of the brig Horace two seamen from Antwerp to New Orleans-$20.
110. John Forrester, owner of the ship Ten Brothers two seamen from Antwerp to salem-$20.
111. G. R. Dowdall, mater of brig James one seaman from Bristol to New York-$10.
112. Joseph Howe, master of the brig Two Brothers two seamen from Nantes and Rotterdam to Boston-$20.
113. Adams & Amory, owners of the brig Syren eight seamen from Mocha to Boston-$80.
114. John Franciscus, owner of the brig Francis & Johnson two seamen from St. Eustatia to Baltimore-$20.
115. John Dodge, owner of the brig Becket one seamen from Buenus Ayres to Salem-$10.
116. Asahel Arnold, master of the ship Lucy Ann one seaman from Bordeaux to Charleston-$10.
117. James B. Lincoln, master of the ship Ann one seaman from Petersburg-$10.
118. Winthrop Luce, master of the brig Henrico one seaman from Netherlands to Boston-$10.
119. Elias Elwell Jr., master of the brig Fanny one seaman from Bergen to Gloucester-$10.
120. John Burgess Jr., master of the Schooner Dolphin two seamen from Bonavista to Plymouth Massachusetts-$20.
121. John Willett, owner of the Schooner Wasp four seamen from Proto Rico to Baltimore-$40.
122. Charles W. Karthus & Co., owners of the brig Temperance one from Lisbon to Baltimore-$10.
123. Henry Curtis, master of the ship Columbia three seamen from Bristol to New Haven-$30.
125. William Davis Jr., owner of the Schooner Grampus one seamen from Lisbon to Plymouth-$10.
126. Thomas Lunt, master of the ship Martha one seaman from St. Ubes to Portsmouth-$10.
127. William Williams, master of the brig Elizabeth three seamen from Leghorn to Petersburg-$30.
128. Nathaniel Mayhew, master of the brig Quill one seaman from Palermo to Boston-$10.
129. John Wootten, master of the Schooner Major Croghan one seaman from Rotterdam to Norfolk-$10.
130. Isaac Isaacs, master of the brig Farmer’s Fancy two seamen from Leghorn to Philadelphia-$20.
131. Stephen Smith, master of the ship William Penn one seaman from Amsterdam to Baltimore-$10.
132. E. Harris, master of the brig Harriet one seamen from St. Ubes to New York-$10.
133. Philip Besson, master of the brig Dido three seamen from Cadiz to Salem-$30.
134. William Gray, masters of the brigs Hope, Bee and Traveller four seamen from Cronstadt Lisbon and Amsterdam to Boston, New York and Baltimore-$40.
135. John Dillaway, late master of the brig Traveller one seaman from St. Thomas to Petersburg-$10.
136. Charles Wirgman, owner of the ship Dumfries two seamen from St. Ubes to Baltimore-$20.
137. Daniel Kurtz, master of the ship Columbia two seamen from Leghorn to Philadelphia-$20.
138. John Powell, master of the Schooner Sampson Two seamen from Aux Cayes to Baltimore-$20.
I found that there was a law passed on July 16, 1798, that made it possible for any merchant seamen to go before the United States consul in any foreign country and ask for help to get back home. At first this law was for the merchant seaman, who would have to show they were Americans and to sick, or destitute to find work on a ship as to work they way home. Then on March 2, 1799, this law was extended to all navy and marine seamen. Now I won’t into all the ins out outs of the law, but for those of you who want to know how this was paid for, it was paid for by a tax on all seamen when they entered the port of New York, this I understand was the port of entry into the United States, all merchant seaman were taxed 25, cents per man, per month, and all navy men and marines were taxes 10, cents per man, per month. This tax was put into a government fund.
However this page is not about the seaman but the ships that took them home. I know there are a lot of families looking for ancestor that was a masters of a ( merchant ) ship or the name of it, or they may know both but don’t what part of the sea or what year, for this reason this page may be a great help to them. The years cover here will be 1818-1820.
Note. This information comes from the Department of Commerce and Navigation, 1815-1823, Volume 2, p. 620.
1818.
1. Randall McDonald, master of the brig Sally, two seamen from Amsterdam-$20.
2. James Birkett, master of the ship Liverpool Packet, two seamen from Liverpool to Philadelphia-$20.
3. James & Thomas H. Perkins, owners of the brig Adriana, one seaman from Gibraltar to Boston-$10.
4. William Prior, master of the ship Francis, one seaman from Amsterdam to Philadelphia-$10.
Note. The United States would not pay no more the ten dollars per man.
5. John B. Murray & son, owners of the brig Alfred, two seamen, from Leghorn to New York-$20.
6. Jacob Shuster, master of the ship Oliver Ellsworth, from London to Petersburg-$10.
7. Aaron Foyles, master of the brig James Monroe, one seaman from Cadiz to Georgetown-$10.
8. Samuel Emery, master of the brig Rebecca, two seamen from St. Pierre to Boston-$20.
9. John A. Parker, owner of the ship Mercator, three seamen from Bristol to Boston-$30.
10. Richard Soule, master of the brig Adriana, one seamen from Antwerp to Boston-$10.
11. Taylor & Talbott, owners of brig Dlophin, one seaman from Gottenberg to Providence-$10.
12. Tobias Lord, owner of the brig Confidence, eight seamen from Martinique to Boston-$80.
13. Wilson Sawyer, owner of the Schooner Providence, fourteen seamen from St. Jago de Cuba to Charleston-$140.
14. William Goodwin, master of the brig Julia & Mary, six seamen from Cadiz to Elizabeth City-$60.
15. B. W. Rogers, owners of the ship Chauncey, nine seamen from Bristol to New York-$90.
16. Abraham Bunkear, master of the ship Richard & Margaret, five seamen Bristol to New York-$50.
17. John Davenport, owner of brig Ruby, three seamen from Martinique to Boston-$30.
18. John Graves, master of the brig Swanwick, four seamen from Antwerp and Cork to Philadelphia-$30.
19. William Markley, master of the brig Cumberland, one seaman from St. Thomas to Alexandria-$10.
20. George Rollins, master of the Schooner Revenge, two seamen from St. Thomas to Norfolk-$20.
21. John Hilliard, master of the ship Iris, four seamen from Gottenberg to Boston-$40.
22. L. D. Morant, master & owner of the Schooner Fish, Twelve seamen from Campeachy to New Orleans including stores-$304.63
23. William C. Nye, master of the brig Indian Chief, two seamen from Lisbon to New Bedford-$20.
24. George Copeland, master of the Schooner Country’s Wonder; Zephaniah Butler, master of the Sloop Morning Star; and William Day, master of the ship Coromandel, three seamen from St. Thomas and Liverpool to Philadelphia-$30.
25. Loring Cunningham, & Co., owners of the brig Buelah, one seamen from Leghorn to Boston-$10.
26. Alexander Rutherford, master of the Schooner Emeline, two seamen from St. Thomas to Georgetown D. C.-$20.
27. Captains, Cromwell, Murphy, Watson, Chandler, Hart, Storer and Burroughs
Masters of unknown Ships seventeen seamen from Sunday places to Balitmore-$170.
28. Joseph Seward, master of the ship Constitution one seamen from London to Norfolk-$10.
29. Stephen Singleton, for the board medical aid &c. of a seamen at the Island of Teneriffe-$20. Also master of the brig Edward three seamen from Liverpool to Philadelphia-$30.
30. Thomas Ryan, master of the Schooner Mermaid two seamen from St. Thomas to Boston-$20.
31. William Fales, six seamen from Martinique, Bristol to Bristol Rhode Island and New York-$60.
32. Ripley Center and Co., owners of the ship Athens four seamen from Nantes and New York-$40.
33. Samuel Train, owner of the brig Hazard one seamen from Cape de Verd Islands to Boston-$10.
34. Charles Hall, master of the ship Importer One seamen from Liverpool to Boston-$10.
35. Captains, Pitt, Gibbs, Mortimer, Hancock, Harding, Harris and Briscoe masters of unknown vessels nineteen seamen from Sunday places to Baltimore-$190.
36. Joseph Marquand, four seamen from Gibraltar and Cadiz to Newburyport-$40.
37. George W. Karthus & Co. owners of the ship Philip seven seamen from Hamburgh to Baltimore-$70.
38. P. A. Guestier, owner of the ship Ea. Six seamen from Bordeaux to Baltimore-$60.
39. J. Jordan, master of the Schooner Two Sisters one seamen from Martinique to Boston-$10.
40. Thomas B. Wales, owner of the brig Boston two seamen from Cadiz to Boston-$20.
41. William R. Russell, master of the Schooner Ann two seamen from Martinique to Boston-$20.
42. John H. Callaghan, master of the brig Elizabeth one seaman from Rotterdam to Norfolk-$10.
43. George W. Steinhaure, master of the ship Brandt one seamen from Rochelle To Philadelphia-$10.
44. John Holland, owner of the brig Ant two seamen from Cork to Boston-$20.
45. Charles Winslow, master of the brig Alexander one seaman from Cork to Norfolk-$10.
46. N. Bristol, master of the ship Niagara three seamen from Lisbon to Tappahannock-$30.
47. James Dixon, master of the ship Suspense and Benjamin Bartholomew’s master of the brig Ocean two seamen from Cork and Leghorn to Philadelphia-$20.
48. Edward Rumney, master of the Schooner Adeline one seamen from Gibraltar To Alexandria-$10.
49. Aaron C. White, master of the brig General Gates twelve seamen from Bonavista to New Bedford-$120.
50. Morris Adams, master of the ship Elizabeth one seamen form Havre to Philadelphia-$10.
51. James Spalding, master of the ship Bristol Trader two seamen from Bristol to Boston-$20.
52. Elijah Beall, master of the brig Calypso for passage, clothing and provisions of three seamen from St Croix to Boston-$60.
53. Henry H. Kennedy, master of the brig Wilmot one seamen from Rotterdam to Philadelphia-$10.
54. William Furlong, master of the brig Mary ten seamen from St. Bartholomew’s to Baltimore-$100.
55. William Haille, master of the Sloop First Attempt four seamen from Aux Cayes to Baltimore-$40.
56. John Campbell, master of the brig Mary two seamen from Bristol to Philadelphia-$20.
57. Eleazer Gay, master of the Catharine two seamen from Bristol to Boston-$20.
58. John Ward, master of the brig Commerce two seamen from Liverpool and Cadiz To Newburyport-$20.
59. Ingersoll & Dodd. Owners of the brig Golden Grove one seaman from Lisbon to Boston.
60. John Baxter, master of the ship William one seaman from Lisbon to Alexandria-$10.
61. Samuel Perry, master of the brig John Burgoyne one seaman from leghorn to Philadelphia-$10.
62. James Pitts, master of the Schooner Freetown one seaman from Lisbon to Boston-$10.
63. Oliver Hilliard, master of the Schooner Alert one seamen from St. Thomas to New York-$10.
64. Samuel Eames, master of the brig Sally one seamen from Lisbon to Boston-$10.
65. Abraham Pastorious, master of the brig Rising Sun one seamen from Gibraltar to Philadelphia-$10.
66. Nathaniel Corey, master of the brig Frederick two seamen from Gibraltar to Philadelphia-$10.
67. Thomas Kittson, master of the brig Florenzo one seamen from Cadiz to Philadelphia-$10.
68. Lewis Haven & Co. owners of the Schooner Dover one seamen from Rotterdam to Philadelphia-$10.
1819.
69. Seth Allen, master of the brig Leader one seaman from Antwerp to New York-$10.
70. Lawrence Crawford, master of the ship Bristol Trader one seaman from Bristol to Boston-$10.
71. John Odam, master of the ship Cumberland two seamen from Liverpool to Norfolk and the other from Lisbon to Philadelphia-$20.
72. John Stinman, master of the Schooner Mars one seaman from Port au Prince to New York-$10.
73. Robert B. Edes, master of the ship Sally Ann one seaman from Smyrna To Boston-$10.
74. Beverly Chew, collector of the customs at New Orleans eleven seamen from Cadiz, Lisbon, Gibraltar, Bristol and New Orleans.
75. Bendedict Dayton, master of the Schooner Tassell one seaman from Lisbon to Newport.
76. Elijah Bangs, master of the Schooner Sail or Boy one seaman from Rotterdam to Philadelphia-$10.
77. Charles & Peter Wirgmsn, owners of the ship Leda two seamen from St. Ubes to Baltimore-$20.
78. Ammi R. Smith, master of the brig Plant two seamen from Hamburgh to New York-$20.
79. William Blackmar, master of the brig Hazard two seamen from Cape de Verd Islands to Boston-$20.
80. Stephen Singleton, master of the ship Ruth one seaman from Portugal to Philadelphia-$10.
81. Alexander Semmes, master of the Schooner James Madison eight seamen from Bermuda to Norfolk-$80.
82. George Campbell, master of the brig Packet one seaman from Portugal to Newburyport-$10.
83. Ezekiel Carmen, master of the Big Olive three seamen from Antwerp to New York-$30.
84. William Kempton, master of the brig Wanderer one seaman from Malaga to Boston-$10.
85. Clement Martin, master of the brig Transit three seamen from Hamburgh to New York-$30.
86. William Warner, master of the brig Despatch two seamen from Lisbon to Boston-$20.
87. George Banks, collector of the port of Tappahannock three seamen from Lisbon to Tappahannock-$30.
88. Lewis Hinchman, master of the brig Sally two seamen from Hamburgh to New Orleans-$20.
89. David Low Jr., master of the brig Garland three seamen from St. Petersburg to Boston-$30.
90. Luther Lincoln, master of the Schooner America two seamen from Martinique and Gibraltar to Boston-$20.
91. Joseph Marquand, collector of the customs at Newburyport two seamen from Cronstadt to Newburyport-$20.
92. Jonas Jones, master of the brig Indian Chief two seamen from Santa Cruz to New York-$20.
93. Richard Gorward, master of the ship Magnet one seaman from Marseilles to Philadelphia-$10.
94. Henry Fuller master of the brig Juno two seamen from Pernambuco to Philadelphia-$20.
95. Joshua Orme, master of the brig Swift one seaman from Rio de Janeiro to New York-$10.
96. Joseph Warner, master of the brig Manufactor one seaman from Hamburgh to Philadelphia-$10.
97. Thomas Buckley, master of the Schooner Wasp four seamen from Porto Rico to Baltimore-$40.
98. Nathaniel Winson Jr., master of the Schooner Elizabeth and Mary one seaman from Rotterdam to Boston-$10.
99. Robert Hamilton, master of the Schooner Independence four seamen from St. Thomas to Baltimore-$40.
100. J. Covington, master of the brig Minerva one seaman from Marseilles to Baltimore-$10.
101. Adam Baush, master of the brig Free Ocean two seamen from Leghorn to Philadelphia-$20
102. A Atwood, master of the ship Sarah one seaman from Copenhagen to Boston-$10.
103. John Hamilton, master of the brig Fame one seaman from Malaga to New York-$10.
1820.
104. Thomas Boyle, master of the brig Eros six seaman from St. Bartholomew’s to Baltimore-$60.
105. James Phillips, master of the brig Amazon two seamen from St. Bartholomew’s to Baltimore-$20.
106. Richard Motley, master of the Schooner Washington three seamen from St. Croix to Boston-$30.
107. Andrew Southworth, master of the brig William Howland three seamen from Gibraltar to New York-$30.
108. James Spillman, master of the Schooner Emily two seamen from St. Jago de Cuba to Alexandria-$20.
109. John Collyer, master of the brig Horace two seamen from Antwerp to New Orleans-$20.
110. John Forrester, owner of the ship Ten Brothers two seamen from Antwerp to salem-$20.
111. G. R. Dowdall, mater of brig James one seaman from Bristol to New York-$10.
112. Joseph Howe, master of the brig Two Brothers two seamen from Nantes and Rotterdam to Boston-$20.
113. Adams & Amory, owners of the brig Syren eight seamen from Mocha to Boston-$80.
114. John Franciscus, owner of the brig Francis & Johnson two seamen from St. Eustatia to Baltimore-$20.
115. John Dodge, owner of the brig Becket one seamen from Buenus Ayres to Salem-$10.
116. Asahel Arnold, master of the ship Lucy Ann one seaman from Bordeaux to Charleston-$10.
117. James B. Lincoln, master of the ship Ann one seaman from Petersburg-$10.
118. Winthrop Luce, master of the brig Henrico one seaman from Netherlands to Boston-$10.
119. Elias Elwell Jr., master of the brig Fanny one seaman from Bergen to Gloucester-$10.
120. John Burgess Jr., master of the Schooner Dolphin two seamen from Bonavista to Plymouth Massachusetts-$20.
121. John Willett, owner of the Schooner Wasp four seamen from Proto Rico to Baltimore-$40.
122. Charles W. Karthus & Co., owners of the brig Temperance one from Lisbon to Baltimore-$10.
123. Henry Curtis, master of the ship Columbia three seamen from Bristol to New Haven-$30.
125. William Davis Jr., owner of the Schooner Grampus one seamen from Lisbon to Plymouth-$10.
126. Thomas Lunt, master of the ship Martha one seaman from St. Ubes to Portsmouth-$10.
127. William Williams, master of the brig Elizabeth three seamen from Leghorn to Petersburg-$30.
128. Nathaniel Mayhew, master of the brig Quill one seaman from Palermo to Boston-$10.
129. John Wootten, master of the Schooner Major Croghan one seaman from Rotterdam to Norfolk-$10.
130. Isaac Isaacs, master of the brig Farmer’s Fancy two seamen from Leghorn to Philadelphia-$20.
131. Stephen Smith, master of the ship William Penn one seaman from Amsterdam to Baltimore-$10.
132. E. Harris, master of the brig Harriet one seamen from St. Ubes to New York-$10.
133. Philip Besson, master of the brig Dido three seamen from Cadiz to Salem-$30.
134. William Gray, masters of the brigs Hope, Bee and Traveller four seamen from Cronstadt Lisbon and Amsterdam to Boston, New York and Baltimore-$40.
135. John Dillaway, late master of the brig Traveller one seaman from St. Thomas to Petersburg-$10.
136. Charles Wirgman, owner of the ship Dumfries two seamen from St. Ubes to Baltimore-$20.
137. Daniel Kurtz, master of the ship Columbia two seamen from Leghorn to Philadelphia-$20.
138. John Powell, master of the Schooner Sampson Two seamen from Aux Cayes to Baltimore-$20.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Navy Men Of The 1700's.
I have done a lot pages on navy men of the 1800’s but have done very few on the navy men of the 1700’s, one reason is that before 1812, the navy records are hard to find and when you do fine them you can not follow his service very far. The navy did not record on their rosters the lower ranks as seamen and so on, until the mid 1900’s, that’s why it’s so hard to find any information on them.
This will be a short list, but the information will be important to those families looking for these ancestors.
Note. This information will come from Naval affairs which is housed at the Library of Congress.
1. Joseph Roberts, was a Carpenter, on the ship of war Hampden, which was under the command of Titus Salter, he was a resident of Berwick, Maine, he was wound on August 15, 1779, lost his left arm at the siege of Penobscot. His pension was $5., dollars per month, had arrearages of $263, dollars.
2. Ambrose Smith, Mariner, under Captain Mc Cleave’s galley, he was a resident of East Haven, Connecticut, was wounded in August 1776, at Toppon bay. He was wounded in his right hand by a nine pound shot, which fractured the bone of his middle finger and prevents him from having a full use of that hand. His pension was to be one-half.
3. James Cole, Sailor, Sloop Mechias Liberty, he was a resident of Westfield, New York, was wounded in June of 1775, was wounded in the leg in an action with a British tender. His pension was unknown, in the remarks it’s stated that this Person of this description never had a pension stipulated.
4. John Browne, 1st, Lieutenant, Marines, he was a resident of the county of Philadelphia, was wounded on May 27, 1777, on the Frigate Boston, was wounded in his hip and the small of his back by a large chest giving way out of the wardroom. His pension was half. In the remarks it’s stated, Evidence complete except as to disability from known wounds and time when he left the service.
5. William Dunton, Sailingmaster, Marines, he was a resident of the county of Philadelphia, was wounded on April 8, 1782, on board the Hyder Ally. Was wounded in the left arm in action between Hyder Ally and the British ship of war Monk. His pension was Half, in the remarks it was stated, Evidence is incomplete, no proof when he left the service.
6. Andrew Allen, Private, Marines, he was a resident of the County of Berks, in Pennsylvania, was wounded in November of 1775, on the ship Columbus. Afflicted with a rupture which he received at the fort of New Providence, and while in the actual line of his duty in the service of the United States, in dragging of a large cannon on the ground through the sallyport; said cannon, by a short turn, rolled over, and the drag-rope, taking him by the belly, so much hurt him that it has occasioned the said rupture. His pension was Half, In the remarks it was stated, Evidence incomplete as to witnesses to prove the continuance of his disability, and his place of residence since he left the service.
7. John Kesler, Midshipman, Marines, he was a resident of the county of Philadelphia, was wounded in 1781, on the frigate Alliance. His wound, Deprived of the use of the middle finger of the left hand, in the actual line of his duty in the service of the United States. His pension was One-third. In the remarks it states, Evidence incomplete as to his place of residence, as required by law, by means of his following the sea for several years after he left the service.
8. Joachim J. Brandt, Marine, Ship Columbus, he was a resident of the county of Philadelphia, was wounded in March of 1776, New Providence. His wound, At the taking of New Providence, in moving a cannon, was struck by an iron bar and wounded in the lower part of the belly, which brought on a rupture, of which he has become an invalid. His pension is Full. In the remarks it’s stated, Evidence incomplete as to his place of residence, as required by law, by means of his following the sea for several years after he left the service.
9. Samuel Makins, Mate, on the ship Queen of France, he was a resident of the county of Philadelphia, was wounded on October 9, 1779, at Boston, Was wounded when taking an anchor from the wharf to carry on board said ship, by means of his leg being caught between the anchor and wharf which fractured the bone, and was very near depriving him of the use of that leg.
10. John ManIey, Captain marines, resident of Massachusetts, was wounded on June, 1777, place not stated, wound, received several wounds and blows in his left leg and shoulder, by which he was lamed, and his toes contracted. His pension is $30, dollars per month and has a arrearages of $500, dollars.
11. Robert Mercer, Midshipman, 14 November, 1799, was on the Frigate Delaware in 1792, was issued a certificate on April 25, 1792, with interest starting December 5, 1778, the amount of the certificate was $49.83, He resigned 30 December, 1800.
12. Richard Dale, Lieutenant, August 1779, Continental Navy, was issued a certificate on April 26, 1792, with interest starting November 6, 1781, the amount of the certificate was $506.40.
13. Samuel York, Lieutenant of the Continental Navy, was issued a certificate on June 9, 1792, with interest staring on July 8, 1792, amount of certificate was $150.94.
14. John Schoolfield was a Midshipman of the Frigate Virginia, was issued a certificate on August 2, 1793, with interest staring October 18, 1781, amount of certificate was $644.16.
15. John Young, Midshipman of the Frigate Confederacy, was issued a certificate on August 1, 1793, with interest staring April 4, 1781, amount of certificate $48.52.
16. Joseph Ravenscroft, of the Brig Cobat, was issued a certificate on December 5, 1793, with interest staring August 6, 1776, amount of certificate $20.74.
17. John P. Rathbon or Rathbun, was commission Captain of the Navy, 15 February 1777, was issued a certificate on April 1, 1794, interest to start on May 5, 1779, amount of the certificate $1331.80.
18. Israel Barney, Drummer on the Frigate Boston, was issued a certificate on April 4, 1794, interest to start on July 16, 1780, amount of the certificate $56.49.
19. John Cowen, Seaman, Frigate Boston, was issued a certificate on January 2, 1795, interest to start on July 16, 1780, amount of the certificate $67.68.
20. James Irons, Marine, was issued a certificate on January 2, 1795, interest to start on January 11, 1780, amount of the certificate $50.95.
This will be a short list, but the information will be important to those families looking for these ancestors.
Note. This information will come from Naval affairs which is housed at the Library of Congress.
1. Joseph Roberts, was a Carpenter, on the ship of war Hampden, which was under the command of Titus Salter, he was a resident of Berwick, Maine, he was wound on August 15, 1779, lost his left arm at the siege of Penobscot. His pension was $5., dollars per month, had arrearages of $263, dollars.
2. Ambrose Smith, Mariner, under Captain Mc Cleave’s galley, he was a resident of East Haven, Connecticut, was wounded in August 1776, at Toppon bay. He was wounded in his right hand by a nine pound shot, which fractured the bone of his middle finger and prevents him from having a full use of that hand. His pension was to be one-half.
3. James Cole, Sailor, Sloop Mechias Liberty, he was a resident of Westfield, New York, was wounded in June of 1775, was wounded in the leg in an action with a British tender. His pension was unknown, in the remarks it’s stated that this Person of this description never had a pension stipulated.
4. John Browne, 1st, Lieutenant, Marines, he was a resident of the county of Philadelphia, was wounded on May 27, 1777, on the Frigate Boston, was wounded in his hip and the small of his back by a large chest giving way out of the wardroom. His pension was half. In the remarks it’s stated, Evidence complete except as to disability from known wounds and time when he left the service.
5. William Dunton, Sailingmaster, Marines, he was a resident of the county of Philadelphia, was wounded on April 8, 1782, on board the Hyder Ally. Was wounded in the left arm in action between Hyder Ally and the British ship of war Monk. His pension was Half, in the remarks it was stated, Evidence is incomplete, no proof when he left the service.
6. Andrew Allen, Private, Marines, he was a resident of the County of Berks, in Pennsylvania, was wounded in November of 1775, on the ship Columbus. Afflicted with a rupture which he received at the fort of New Providence, and while in the actual line of his duty in the service of the United States, in dragging of a large cannon on the ground through the sallyport; said cannon, by a short turn, rolled over, and the drag-rope, taking him by the belly, so much hurt him that it has occasioned the said rupture. His pension was Half, In the remarks it was stated, Evidence incomplete as to witnesses to prove the continuance of his disability, and his place of residence since he left the service.
7. John Kesler, Midshipman, Marines, he was a resident of the county of Philadelphia, was wounded in 1781, on the frigate Alliance. His wound, Deprived of the use of the middle finger of the left hand, in the actual line of his duty in the service of the United States. His pension was One-third. In the remarks it states, Evidence incomplete as to his place of residence, as required by law, by means of his following the sea for several years after he left the service.
8. Joachim J. Brandt, Marine, Ship Columbus, he was a resident of the county of Philadelphia, was wounded in March of 1776, New Providence. His wound, At the taking of New Providence, in moving a cannon, was struck by an iron bar and wounded in the lower part of the belly, which brought on a rupture, of which he has become an invalid. His pension is Full. In the remarks it’s stated, Evidence incomplete as to his place of residence, as required by law, by means of his following the sea for several years after he left the service.
9. Samuel Makins, Mate, on the ship Queen of France, he was a resident of the county of Philadelphia, was wounded on October 9, 1779, at Boston, Was wounded when taking an anchor from the wharf to carry on board said ship, by means of his leg being caught between the anchor and wharf which fractured the bone, and was very near depriving him of the use of that leg.
10. John ManIey, Captain marines, resident of Massachusetts, was wounded on June, 1777, place not stated, wound, received several wounds and blows in his left leg and shoulder, by which he was lamed, and his toes contracted. His pension is $30, dollars per month and has a arrearages of $500, dollars.
11. Robert Mercer, Midshipman, 14 November, 1799, was on the Frigate Delaware in 1792, was issued a certificate on April 25, 1792, with interest starting December 5, 1778, the amount of the certificate was $49.83, He resigned 30 December, 1800.
12. Richard Dale, Lieutenant, August 1779, Continental Navy, was issued a certificate on April 26, 1792, with interest starting November 6, 1781, the amount of the certificate was $506.40.
13. Samuel York, Lieutenant of the Continental Navy, was issued a certificate on June 9, 1792, with interest staring on July 8, 1792, amount of certificate was $150.94.
14. John Schoolfield was a Midshipman of the Frigate Virginia, was issued a certificate on August 2, 1793, with interest staring October 18, 1781, amount of certificate was $644.16.
15. John Young, Midshipman of the Frigate Confederacy, was issued a certificate on August 1, 1793, with interest staring April 4, 1781, amount of certificate $48.52.
16. Joseph Ravenscroft, of the Brig Cobat, was issued a certificate on December 5, 1793, with interest staring August 6, 1776, amount of certificate $20.74.
17. John P. Rathbon or Rathbun, was commission Captain of the Navy, 15 February 1777, was issued a certificate on April 1, 1794, interest to start on May 5, 1779, amount of the certificate $1331.80.
18. Israel Barney, Drummer on the Frigate Boston, was issued a certificate on April 4, 1794, interest to start on July 16, 1780, amount of the certificate $56.49.
19. John Cowen, Seaman, Frigate Boston, was issued a certificate on January 2, 1795, interest to start on July 16, 1780, amount of the certificate $67.68.
20. James Irons, Marine, was issued a certificate on January 2, 1795, interest to start on January 11, 1780, amount of the certificate $50.95.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Full Rosters Of The Alabama & Shenandoah
This information is on the Alabama and the Shenandoah, however I will not give you a history lesson, on them as these can be found on many web sites. This is about the men of these ships, I know your going to say “But I can find them on the web too,” true but only here and there. This is about the rosters of these ships, and you say “But I can them on the web too.” True but a full list?, yes one can find rosters for these ships but only in parts, I don’t believe you will not find a full list any were on the web? No one will ever have a full list on any ships as the men were coming and going all the time for one reason or another. One can however put together a full list for a certain date and year and that’s what you will find here.
Now we all play favorites The Americans will only list the Americans and The British Only the English man, did you know that more then half of the rosters for both ships were English man? But I don’t play favorites these are full rosters and will list all, no matter what countries their from. I will not give and personal information on these man only what’s put here, there are many web sites that have personal information on some of these men, but my job as a surname researcher is to help you find your ancestor. The first thing you went to know, was he on one of these ships? Once you find out he was then you can go about the web looking for more information on him. One way to do this is to put in the ships name here is a example, ( Alabama + Crew ) this will get you a lot of hits.
Note. This information comes from a report called Rebel Cruisers, No. 1396, vol. 3, which is housed at the Library of Congress.
Here is the full roster of the Alabama also known as boat 290 and the Eureka, as it stood on March of 1862.
Officers and crew of the steamer Alabama.
1.Raphael Semmes, commander.
2. J. M. Kell, first lieutenant.
3. Richard F. Armstrong, second lieutenant.
4. Joseph Wilson, third lieutenant.
5. John Low, fourth lieutenant, Englishman. Sisters living in Liverpool Made his allotments payable to brother-un-law, Charles Green, jr. Fraser, Trenholin & Co. pay the men all the allotments; that is, the half monthly pay. Every month they draw this allotment.
6. Arthur Sinclair, master; that is, sailing master.
7 Francis L. Galt, surgeon, from Virginia; now acting as paymaster.
8. Miles J. Freeman, first assistant engineer, ranks as chief; born in Wales Does not know whether naturalized.
9. David Herbert Llewellyn, assistant surgeon, Englishman.
10. B. K. Howell, brother-in-law of Jeff: Davis, lieutenant of marines. No marines on board.
11. William U. Sinclair, midshipman.
12. Irvine S. Bullock, midshipman; Captain Bullock’s brother.
13. Eugene Maffit, midshipman; Captain Maffit’s son.
14. Edward Maffit Anderson, midshipman; son of Colonel Anderson.
15. William P. Brooks, second assistant engineer.
16. S. W. Cummings, third assistant engineer.
17. Matthew O’Brien, third assistant engineer.
18. John H. Pundt, third assistant engineer.
19. George T. Fullam, first master’s mate, Englishman. Father teaches navigation school in Hull.
20. James Evans, second master’s mate, Charleston pilot.
21. William B. Smith, captain’s clerk.
22. Benjamin L. McClaskey, Boatswain.
23. T. C. Cuddy, gunner.
24. William Robinson, carpenter.
25. Henry Allcott, sailmaker, Englishman.
Petty officers and seamen.
26. James King, master-at-arms, Savannah pilot.
27. Adolphus Marmelstein, signal quartermaster, Savannah pilot.
28. William A. King, quartermaster, Savannah pilot.
29. James G. Dent, quartermaster,. Savannah pilot.
30. William Forestall, quartermaster.
31. Ralph Masters, quarter gunner.
32. William Crawford, quarter gunner; royal naval reserve of England.
33. George Addison, Armorer.
34. Edward Rawes, ship’s carpenter, Englishman.
35. George Harwood, chief boatswain’s mate; English reserve. English government pay him a pension. Time up February 24, 1863, (as he states.)
36. Michael Genshled, fireman. Has a pension in England, (has been discharged November 25, 1862;) Irishman.
37. Brent Johnson, second boatswain’s mate; English reserve.
38. William Purdy, sailmaker’s mate, Englishman.
39. John Latham, fireman, Englishman.
40. David Roach, fireman, Englishman.
41. Thomas Murphy, fireman, Englishman.
42. John McAlee, ordinary seaman, Englishman.
43. Thomas Welch, ordinary seaman, Englishman.
44. James Smith, captain forecastle, Englishman.
45. Edward Fitz-Morris, ordinary seaman, Englishman.
46. George Edgarton, fireman, Englishman; lives at Liverpool.
47. James McFaden, fireman, Englishman; time up February 24, 1863.
48. William Robinson, able seaman, Englishman.
49. Martin Malk, able seaman, Englishman.
50. George Yoman, ordinary seaman, Englishman.
51. William McGinley, able seaman, Englishman.
52. George Freemantle, able seaman, Englishman.
53. Frederick Johns, purser’s steward, Englishman; father lives at Ostend.
54. John Grady, boy, Englishman; uncle lives at 36 Regent street, Liverpool, bootmaker.
55. Thomas Wier, gunner’s mate, Englishman.
56. James Brosner, able seaman, Englishman.
57. Edgar Tripp, seaman, Englishman.
58. John Neil, seaman, Englishman.
59. Joseph Neil, seaman, Englishman.
60. Samuel Henry, seaman, Englishman.
61. John Roberts, seaman, Englishman.
62. John Duggan, seaman, Englishman.
63. Martin King, seaman, Englishman.
64. F. Williams, seaman, Englishman.
65. R. Williams, seaman, Englishman.
66. Joseph Pearson, seaman, Englishman.
67. Joseph Connor, seaman, Englishman.
68. Thomas McMillan, seaman, Englishman.
69. Michael Mars, seaman, Englishman.
70. Robert Egan, boy, Englishman.
71. Malcolm McFarlan, seaman, Englishman.
72. Peter Henry, seaman, Englishman.
73. Charles Godwin, seaman, American.
74. James Higgs, captain of hold, Englishman.
75. Peter Duncan, fireman, Englishman.
76. Richard Parkinson, ward-room steward, Englishman.
77. George Appleby, yeoman, Englishman.
78. John Emory, seaman, Englishman.
79. William Hearn, seaman, Englishman.
80. Thomas L. Parker, boy, Englishman.
81. A. G. Bartelli, captain’s steward, American.
82. Peter Hughes, seaman, American.
83. Henry Fisher, seaman, Englishman; belonging to reserve.
84. Frank Townsend, seaman, Englishman.
85. Frank Cunen, fireman, Irishman.
86. William Levins, coal-trimmer.
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Officers and crew of the steamer Alabama.
I believe this roster is for around January 1864. There are a lot of names on this roster that can be found on the first but with a few more added and a little more information added to some of the names.
1. Raphael Semmes, commander.
2. J. N. Kell, first lieutenant.
3. Richard F. Armstrong, second lieutenant.
4. Joseph Wilson, third lieutenant.
5. John Low, fourth lieutenant.
6. Arthur Sinclair, master, (that is, sailing master.)
7. Francis L. Galt, surgeon, from Virginia; now acting as paymaster.
8. Miles J. Freeman, first assistant engineer, ranks as chief; born in Wales; does not know whether naturalized.
9. David Herbert Llewellyn, assistant surgeon, Englishman.
10. B. H. Howell, brother-in-law of Jeff. Davis, lieutenant of marines.
(No marines on board.)
11. W. H. Sinclair, midshipman.
12. Irving S. Bullock, midshipman; Captain Bullock’s brother.
13. Eugene Maffitt, midshipman; Captain Maffitt’s son.
14. Edward Maffitt Anderson, midshipman; son of Colonel Anderson.
15. W. P. Brooks, second assistant engineer.
16. S. N. Gumming, third assistant engineer.
17. Matthew O’Brien, third assistant engineer.
18. John M. Pundt, third assistant engineer.
19. George P. Fulham, first master’s mate, Englishman.
20. James Evans, second master’s mate, Charleston pilot.
21. W. D. Smith, captain’s clerk.
22. Benjamin L McCosky, boatswain.
23. F. 0. Caddy, gunner.
24. William Robinson, carpenter.
25. Henry Allcott, sailmaker, Englishman.
26. Clarence R. Yonge, paymaster.
Petty officers and seamen.
27. James King, master-at-arms, Savannah pilot.
28. Adolphus Warmley, Portuguese.
29. W. A. King, quartermaster.
30. James G. Dent, quartermaster.
31. William Forestall, quartermaster, Englishman.
32. Ralph Masters, quartermaster gunner, Irishman.
33. William Crawford, Englishman; lives in Liverpool; belongs to royal naval reserve.
34. George Addison, Englishman; lives in Liverpool.
35. William Brinton, Englishman; royal navy reserve.
36. ------ Robinson, head carpenter.
37. George Harwood, boatswain’s mate; English pensioner; from English navy ; joined her at Liverpool Home; now is a southerner, as boatswain; lives in Liverpool.
38. Michael Kinshler, Irishman, fireman; has a pension in England.
39. Brent Johnson, second boatswain’s mate, Englishman; naval reserve man; joined vessel at Liverpool.
40. William Purdy, sailmaker, Irishman by birth; lives in Liverpool; belongs to naval reserve; joined her in Liverpool.
42. John Latham, fireman, an Englishman; belongs to coast volunteers; enlisted on Alabama at Terceira.
43. Daniel Roach, fireman, Englishman; resides at Liverpool; belongs to royal navy reserve; enlisted in Liverpool; left her 22d November.
44. Thomas Murphy, fireman, Englishman; left her at Western Islands.
45. Thomas Welch, Englishman; left the ship; enlisted in Alabama in Liverpool.
46. James Smith, captain of forecastle, Englishman; residing in Liverpool; belongs to naval reserve; enlisted on board of Alabama in Liverpool.
47. Edward Fitzmorris, Englishman; enlisted in Alabama in Liverpool; is at home now; his wife lives at Aigburth.
48. George Addison, fireman; lives at Liverpool, Copperal Hill; enlisted at
Terceira.
49. James McFudgeon, fireman., Englishman; lives at No. 6 West Derby street; enlisted at Terceira; now at home.
50. Thomas Potter, Englishman, enlisted in Alabama at Liverpool; lives in Arch street, Liverpool; deserted at Jamaica; they arrested him at Jamaica and carried him on board; his wife lives in Liverpool now.
51. Samuel Williams, fireman, lives in Liverpool; born in Wales; enlisted in Alabama at Liverpool.
52. Patrick Bradley, fireman, Englishman; resides in Liverpool; enlisted there.
53. John Origen, fireman, Irishman; resides in School street, Liverpool; enlisted there.
54. Oran Duffy, fireman, Irishman.
55. Peter Duncan, fireman, Englishman; resides in Liverpool; enlisted in Liverpool.
56. William Nevins, coal-passer, Englishman; belongs to naval reserve; enlisted at Liverpool.
57. Andrew Shilling, Scotchman; resides at Athel street, Liverpool; has a wife; enlisted at Liverpool; is a fireman.
58. Charles Puist, coal-passer, is a German.
59. George Yeoman, ordinary seaman, Englishman; enlisted at Terceira.
60. George Fremantle, seaman, Englishman; enlisted at Terceira.
61. Frederick Johns, pursers steward, Englishman; resides in Liverpool; his father keeps a coal-yard in Howard street; enlisted at Terceira.
62. John Grandy, boy, English; lives in Liverpool.
63. Thomas Weir, gunner’s mate, Englishman; enlisted at Liverpool.
64. James Busman, seaman, Englishman.
65. Edgar Tripp, seaman, Englishman; lives in London; enlisted at Liverpool.
66. John Neil, seaman, Englishman; lives with his sister in Manchester street, Liverpool; belongs to naval reserve; enlisted at Terceira.
67. Thomas Winter, fireman, Englishman; lives in Liverpool; his father is ticket collector at the Adelphi theater; enlisted in Liverpool.
68. Samuel Henry, seaman, Englishman; resides in Liverpool; naval reserve man; enlisted in Liverpool.
69. John Roberts, seaman, Welchman; think he resides at Liverpool; enlisted at Terceira.
70. John Duggan, seaman, Englishman; resides in Liverpool; belongs to naval reserve; enlisted at Terceira.
71. Martin Ring, seaman.
72. Thomas Williams, seaman, Englishman; resides in Liverpool; belongs to naval reserve; enlisted at Terceira.
73. Robert Williams, seaman, Englishman; resides in Liverpool; belongs to naval reserve; enlisted at Terceira.
74. Joseph Pearson, seaman, Englishman; belongs to Chester; enlisted at Liverpool.
75. Joseph Conner, seaman, Englishman; resides in Walnut street; his wife lives there and keeps a buteher’ shop; belongs to naval reserve; enlisted at Terceira.
76. Thomas McMullen, seaman, Englishman; resides in Liverpool; joined at Terceira.
77. Michael May, seaman, Englishman; belongs to Bristol; naval reserve; joined at Terceira.
78. Robert Egan, boy, English; belongs to Chuley.
79. Malcolm McFarland, seaman, Scotehman; resides in Liverpool; belongs to naval reserve; enlisted at Terceira.
80. Peter Henry, seaman, Irishman; lives in Liverpool; enlisted at Terceira.
81. Charles Goodwin, seaman, Englishman; resides in Liverpool; enlisted at Terceira
82. James Hicks, captain of the hold, Englishman; resides in Liverpool; enlisted in Liverpool.
83. George Appleby, yeoman, Englishman; resides in Liverpool; married man; enlisted in Liverpool.
84. John Emory, seaman, Englishman; resides in Liverpool; belongs to naval reserve; enlisted at Terceira.
85. William Mearn, seaman, Englishman; resides in Liverpool; belongs to naval reserve; enlisted at Terceira.
86. Thomas L. Parker, boy, English; stops with Brent Johnson.
87. A. G. Bartelle, seaman, Portuguese.
88. Peter Hughes, captain of top, Englishman; resides ill Liverpool; be. longs to naval reserve; enlisted at Liverpool.
89. Henry Fisher, seaman; enlisted at Liverpool.
90. Frank Townsend, seaman, Englishman; enlisted in Liverpool.
91. George Forrest, seaman, Irishman; taken off the ship Manchester be. cause be had deserted from the Sumter, and tried by a court-martial for causing mutiny, and sent on shore, in irons, to island Blanco and left there. Previous to his being tried for mutiny he was tied up twenty times in the rigging with his arms spread, for four hours at a time, day
and night.
92. .
Robert Parkinson, wardroom steward, Englishman; resides in Liver. pool; enlisted in Liverpool.
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List of officers and men belonging to the Alabama who were picked up by the British yacht Deerhound and landed at Southampton.
Note. This was just after the battle between the Alabama and the Kearsarge.
Captain, Semmes; lieutenants, Kell and Sinclair; lieutenant, Howell, (marines;) sailing-master, Bullock; midshipmen, Maffit and Anderson; master’s assistants, G. T. Fullam, J. Evans, M. Meulvier, and Schrader; engineer, O’Brien; gunner, Cuddy; captain’s clerk, Smith; petty officers, J. Broesman, W. Crawford, W. Purdy, J. Dent, B. Johnson, C. Seymour, C. Sleeson, J. Connor; firemen, 0. Duffy, J. Foxton, W. hevins, M. Macfarland, J. Mason; seamen, T. McMillan, F. Townshend, R. Masters, G. Redman, W; Angel, W. McClellan, W. Hearn, L. Depoys, A. Pfiffer, F. Lennan, J. Mahan, P. Wharton, T. Kehoe, R. Longshaw.
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Shenandoah.
This list is of November 8, 1865, and contains the names of all the officers, petty officers. and men of the Shenandoah after they left Melbourne up to the time they arrived in Liverpool. There were some men who left the ship at Melbourne, whose names are unknown. With two or three exceptions, the men and officers on the list are those that were landed at Liverpool. The list gives the nationality of each person, when he enlisted and when he left the vessel.
Note. Just before signing off a marine went about the ship and crew saying they were southerners. As they went before the Captain to have their names put down, he would ask; “What county are you.” And the answer was Southerner. Many of names that state Americans are in fact English, or some other country. Also many of the names on the roster may not be their real name, as the case of W. J. Jones, ( William John Jones ), seaman, who’s real name was William Temple.
List of the officers and men of the Shenandoah.
OFFICERS.
1. James J. Waddell, commander; an American; came out in the steamer Laurel front Liverpool.
2. William C. Whittle, first lieutenant; an American; joined the Sea King at London.
3. John Grimball, second lieutenant; an American; came out in steamer Laurel from Liverpool.
4. Sydney Smith Lee, third lieutenant; an American; came out in steamer Laurel from Liverpool.
5. Frederick Chen, fourth lieutenant; an American; came out in steamer Laurel from Liverpool.
6. Dabney N. Scales, fifth lieutenant; an American; came out in steamer Laurel from Liverpool.
7. Charles Edward Lining, first surgeon; an American; came out in steamer Laurel from Liverpool.
8. Frederick McUlty, second surgeon; an American; came out in steamer Laurel from Liverpool.
9. Matthew O’Brien, first or chief engineer; an American; came out in. steamer Laurel from Liverpool; was in the Alabama.
10. Charles Codd, first assistant engineer; an American; came out in the steamer Laurel from Liverpool; was in the Rappahannock.
11. John Hutchinson, second assistant engineer; a Seotchman; came out in and joined from the Sea King.
12. Francis McGuffney, third assistant engineer; an Irishman; came out in steamer Laurel from Liverpool; was in the Sumter and Alabama under the name of Curren.
13. Irvine S. Bullock, sailing master; came out in steamer Laurel from Liverpool; was in the Alabama. Is brother to J. D. Bullock.
14. John Blackar, an Irishman; captain in the English merchant service; joined at Melbourne as captain’s clerk.
15. Orris A. Browne, a passed midshipman; an American; came out in the steamer Laurel from Liverpool.
16. John J. Mason, a passed midshipman; an American; came out in steamer Laurel from Liverpool.
17. Cornelius Hunt, master’s mate; an American; came out in the steamer Laurel from Liverpool; was on the Georgia and Rappahannock.
18. F. C. Minor, master’s mate; an American; came out in the steamer Laurel from Liverpool; was in the Alabama and Sumter.
19. Lodge Colton, master’s mate; an American; came out in the steamer Laurel from Liverpool; was in the Rappahannock.
20. H. Manning, master’s mate; an American; joined us from the bark Abigail; was second mate on her.
21. W. B. Smith, purser; an American; came out in the steamer Laurel from Liverpool; was captain’s clerk on Alabama.
22. George Howard, boatswain; an Englishman; belongs to the royal navy of England, or had served in it; came out in steamer Laurel from Liverpool; has been in the Alabama.
23. Peter Guy, gunner; an Englishman; has been in the royal navy of England; came out in the steamer Laurel from Liverpool.
24. John Lynch carpenter; an American, from New York, but married to an English woman residing in Liverpool; came out in the steamer Laurel from Liverpool.
25. John O’Shey, carpenter, but resigned at Melbourne; came out in Laurel from Liverpool; was an Irishman by birth.
26. A. Alcott, sail-maker; an Englishman; came out in steamer Laurel front Liverpool; was on the Alabama.
PETTY OFFICERS.
27. Michael Moran, an Irishman; first captain of forecastle; came out in the steamer Laurel, from Liverpool.
28. William Warren, an Englishman; second captain of forecastle; came out in the steamer Laurel, from Liverpool.
29. Louis Rowe, a Frenchman; captain of main-top; joined us from bark Alma.
30. Robert Dunning, an Englishman; captain of fore-top; joined us at Melbourne.
31. Thomas Strong, an American; captain of mizzen-top; joined us at Melbourne.
32. Charles Cobbey, an Englishman; gunner’s mat&; joined us at Melbourne.
33. James Bronnan, an Englishman; chief mate; came out in steamer Laurel, from Liverpool; was on the Alabama.
34. Thomas Hall, an Englishman; quartermaster; came out in steamer Laurel, from Liverpool.
35. John James, an Englishman; carpenters mate; joined us at Melbourne.
36. John Spring, an Englishman; captain of the hold; joined us at Melbourne.
37. William Crawford, an Englishman; gunner’s mate; came out in the steamer Laurel, from Liverpool; was on the Alabama.
38. Lewis Wiggins, a Russian; signal quartermaster; came out in the steamer Laurel, from Liverpool.
39. Ernest W. Burt, an Englishman; doctor’s steward; joined us at Melbourne.
40. James A. Exshaw, an Irishman; purser’s steward; joined us at Melbourne.
41. Peter Ramond, a Frenchman; captain of fore-top; joined us from bark Alina.
42. William West, an Englishman; captain of main-top; belongs to royal naval reserve; joined us from bark D. Godfrey.
43. John Griffiths, an Englishman; captain mizzen-top; came out in the steamer Laurel, from Liverpool.
44. Henry Fox, or Henry Yates, an Englishman; gunner’s mate; came out in the steamer Laurel, from Liverpool; was on the Alabama.
45. John Davy, an Englishman; boatswain’s mate; joined us from bark D. Godfrey.
46. John W. Jones, a Welchman; quartermaster; came out in the steamer Laurel, from Liverpool.
47. Jacob Hanson, a Dane; quartermaster; joined us from the bark L. M. Stacy.
48. Francis Tuft, an Englishman; cooper; joined us from the Edward.
49. Franklin Gloon, (his right name is--- - --- ,) sail-maker’s mate; an American; joined us at Melbourne.
50. Charles McLaren, a Scotchman; master-at-arms; joined us at Melbourne.
51. James Marlow, an Englishman; wardroom cook; came out in the Laurel, from Liverpool.
52. Charles Hopkins, a negro, Baltimore; wardroom cook; joined us from schooner L. M. Stacy.
53. William Smith, an Englishman; ship’s cook; joined us at Melbourne.
54. John Williams, a negro; ship’s cook; joined us from bark D. Godfrey; left us at Melbourne.
55. William Bruce, a Malay; wardroom steward; joined us from bark Alma; left us at Melbourne.
56. David Alexander, a Scotchman; corporal of marines; joined us at Melbourne.
57. William Park, an American; corporal of marines; joined us from ship Hector.
58. William Fenner, an English boy; captain’s steward;’ came out in the Laurel, from Liverpool.
59. H. C. Canning, an Englishman; joined us at Melbourne; died October 29, 1865.
Seamen.
60. John Collins, an American; joined us at Melbourne.
61. Thomas Foran, an Irishman; joined us at Melbourne.
62. Lawrence Kerney, an Irishman; joined us at Melbourne.
63. John McDonal, Scotchman; joined us at Melbourne.
64. John Ramsdale, an Englishman; joined us at Melbourne.
65. John Kilgower, a Scotchman; joined us at Melbourne.
66. Thomas Swanton, an Englishman; joined us at Melbourne.
67. James Welch, an American; joined us from bark Pearl.
68. John Morris, a Portuguese; joined us from ship Hector.
69. George Adeias, a Portuguese; joined us from ship Hector.
70. Walter Way, an Englishman; joined us from the Susan.
71. John Hawthorn, an Irishman; joined us from ship General Williams.
72. Alfred Seaman, a Prussian joined us from ship S. Abigail.
73. Charles Graft, a German; joined us from ship S. Abigail.
74. Antonio Delombas, a Portuguese; joined us from ship Hector.
75. John Blacking, a Dane; joined us. from bark D. Godfrey.
76. John Moss, an Irishman; joined us at Melbourne.
77. William Simpson, an Englishman; came out in the Laurel, from Liverpool; was on the Alabama.
78. Joachim Roderichs, a Portuguese; joined us from ship Hector.
79. George Flood, an American; joined us from bark .D. Godfrey.
80. James Fegan, an Irishman; joined us at Melbourne.
81. Samuel Crooks, all Englishman; joined us at Melbourne.
82. John Simmes, an Englishman; joined us at Melbourne.
83. John Hill, au Irishman; joined us at Melbourne.
84. William Hutchinson, an Englishman; joined us at Melbourne.
85. Thomas Evans, Welchman; joined us at Melbourne.
86. Charles H. Morton, an American; joined us at Melbourne.
87. George H. Gifford, an American ; joined us at Melbourne.
88. John Kelly, an Irishman; joined us from brigantine Susan Abigail.
89. John Dowden, an American; was mate on the Abigail, and joined us as seaman.
90. Julius Colar, an American; joined us from the ship General Williams.
91. Alexander Pattison, a Scotchman; joined us from the Susan Abigail.
92. John Hilcox, all Englishman; joined us from the General Williams.
93. Henry Canning, an Englishman; joined us at Melbourne.
94. Joseph Steveson, a negro; joined us from the Pearl.
95. John Vanarery, a Canadian; joined us from the Gypsey.
96. Michael Rose, called Reed; an Englishman; came out in the Laurel, from Liverpool; was in the Alabama.
97. William Bill,, from Sandwich Islands; joined us from Abigail; died October 26, 1865.
98. Henry Givens, from Sandwich Islands; joined us from Abigail.
99. John Mahoe, from Sandwich Islands; joined us from Abigail.
100. Joseph Long, from Sandwich Islands; joined us from Abigail.
101. James California, from Sandwich Islands; joined us from Abigail.
102. James French, from Sandwich Islands; joined us from Abigail.
103. John Sailer, from Sandwich Islands; joined us from Abigail.
104. William Brown, from Sandwich Islands; joined us from Abigail.
105. Joseph Kanaca, from Sandwich Islands; joined us from Abigail.
106. John Boy, from Sandwich Islands; joined us from Abigail.
107. Edward Wicks, a negro; joined us from the Waverley.
108. W. J. Jones, an Englishman; came out in Sea King.
109. James Ross, a Canadian; joined us at Melbourne..
110. John Williams, an English boy; joined us at Melbourne.
111. James Oar, au English boy; came out in Laurel, from Liverpool.
112. Robert Rosell, a Spanish boy; joined us from the Hector.
113. Duke Simmons, a Malay; joined us at Melbourne.
Firemen.
114. John Martin, an Englishman; engine storekeeper; came out in the Sea King.
115. David Marshall, an Englishman; first-class fireman; came out in the Laurel.
116. Thomas McLean, a Scotchman; first-class fireman; joined us at Melbourne.
117. William Brice, a Scotchman; joined us at Melbourne.
118. William Green, an Englishman; joined us at Melbourne.
119. William Rawlinson, an Englishman; Came out in the Laurel, from Liverpool.
120. William Clark, an Englishman; Came out in the Sea King, from London.
121. William Burgess, an Englishman; joined us at Melbourne.
122. Joseph Mullineux, an Englishman; joined us at Melbourne.
123. Henry Sutherland, a Scotchman; joined us at Melbourne.
124. James Carr, an Englishman; joined us from the ship J. C. Nye.
125. James Stranth, a Scotchman; joined us at Melbourne.
MARINES.
126. Henry Reiley, a Canadian; joined us at Melbourne.
127. William Kenyon, an Irishman; joined us at Melbourne.
128. Robert. Brown, an Englishman; joined us at Melbourne.
129. John Murray, an Irishman; joined us from the hark Abigail.
130. Emanuel Silver, Portuguese; joined us from the bark Abigail.
131. William Burnet, a Prussian ; joined us from the bark Abigail.
132. Thomas Barry, an Englishman; joined us from the brigantine Susan Abigail.
133. Thomas Floyd, an Irishman; joined us from baik Favorite.
134. John Ivors, an Irishman; joined us from bark Favorite.
135. Thomas Poulson, an Englishman; joined us from bark Favorite.
136. James Clury, an Englishman; joined us from bark Favorite.
137. John Grimes. an Irishman; joined us from bark Favorite.
Now we all play favorites The Americans will only list the Americans and The British Only the English man, did you know that more then half of the rosters for both ships were English man? But I don’t play favorites these are full rosters and will list all, no matter what countries their from. I will not give and personal information on these man only what’s put here, there are many web sites that have personal information on some of these men, but my job as a surname researcher is to help you find your ancestor. The first thing you went to know, was he on one of these ships? Once you find out he was then you can go about the web looking for more information on him. One way to do this is to put in the ships name here is a example, ( Alabama + Crew ) this will get you a lot of hits.
Note. This information comes from a report called Rebel Cruisers, No. 1396, vol. 3, which is housed at the Library of Congress.
Here is the full roster of the Alabama also known as boat 290 and the Eureka, as it stood on March of 1862.
Officers and crew of the steamer Alabama.
1.Raphael Semmes, commander.
2. J. M. Kell, first lieutenant.
3. Richard F. Armstrong, second lieutenant.
4. Joseph Wilson, third lieutenant.
5. John Low, fourth lieutenant, Englishman. Sisters living in Liverpool Made his allotments payable to brother-un-law, Charles Green, jr. Fraser, Trenholin & Co. pay the men all the allotments; that is, the half monthly pay. Every month they draw this allotment.
6. Arthur Sinclair, master; that is, sailing master.
7 Francis L. Galt, surgeon, from Virginia; now acting as paymaster.
8. Miles J. Freeman, first assistant engineer, ranks as chief; born in Wales Does not know whether naturalized.
9. David Herbert Llewellyn, assistant surgeon, Englishman.
10. B. K. Howell, brother-in-law of Jeff: Davis, lieutenant of marines. No marines on board.
11. William U. Sinclair, midshipman.
12. Irvine S. Bullock, midshipman; Captain Bullock’s brother.
13. Eugene Maffit, midshipman; Captain Maffit’s son.
14. Edward Maffit Anderson, midshipman; son of Colonel Anderson.
15. William P. Brooks, second assistant engineer.
16. S. W. Cummings, third assistant engineer.
17. Matthew O’Brien, third assistant engineer.
18. John H. Pundt, third assistant engineer.
19. George T. Fullam, first master’s mate, Englishman. Father teaches navigation school in Hull.
20. James Evans, second master’s mate, Charleston pilot.
21. William B. Smith, captain’s clerk.
22. Benjamin L. McClaskey, Boatswain.
23. T. C. Cuddy, gunner.
24. William Robinson, carpenter.
25. Henry Allcott, sailmaker, Englishman.
Petty officers and seamen.
26. James King, master-at-arms, Savannah pilot.
27. Adolphus Marmelstein, signal quartermaster, Savannah pilot.
28. William A. King, quartermaster, Savannah pilot.
29. James G. Dent, quartermaster,. Savannah pilot.
30. William Forestall, quartermaster.
31. Ralph Masters, quarter gunner.
32. William Crawford, quarter gunner; royal naval reserve of England.
33. George Addison, Armorer.
34. Edward Rawes, ship’s carpenter, Englishman.
35. George Harwood, chief boatswain’s mate; English reserve. English government pay him a pension. Time up February 24, 1863, (as he states.)
36. Michael Genshled, fireman. Has a pension in England, (has been discharged November 25, 1862;) Irishman.
37. Brent Johnson, second boatswain’s mate; English reserve.
38. William Purdy, sailmaker’s mate, Englishman.
39. John Latham, fireman, Englishman.
40. David Roach, fireman, Englishman.
41. Thomas Murphy, fireman, Englishman.
42. John McAlee, ordinary seaman, Englishman.
43. Thomas Welch, ordinary seaman, Englishman.
44. James Smith, captain forecastle, Englishman.
45. Edward Fitz-Morris, ordinary seaman, Englishman.
46. George Edgarton, fireman, Englishman; lives at Liverpool.
47. James McFaden, fireman, Englishman; time up February 24, 1863.
48. William Robinson, able seaman, Englishman.
49. Martin Malk, able seaman, Englishman.
50. George Yoman, ordinary seaman, Englishman.
51. William McGinley, able seaman, Englishman.
52. George Freemantle, able seaman, Englishman.
53. Frederick Johns, purser’s steward, Englishman; father lives at Ostend.
54. John Grady, boy, Englishman; uncle lives at 36 Regent street, Liverpool, bootmaker.
55. Thomas Wier, gunner’s mate, Englishman.
56. James Brosner, able seaman, Englishman.
57. Edgar Tripp, seaman, Englishman.
58. John Neil, seaman, Englishman.
59. Joseph Neil, seaman, Englishman.
60. Samuel Henry, seaman, Englishman.
61. John Roberts, seaman, Englishman.
62. John Duggan, seaman, Englishman.
63. Martin King, seaman, Englishman.
64. F. Williams, seaman, Englishman.
65. R. Williams, seaman, Englishman.
66. Joseph Pearson, seaman, Englishman.
67. Joseph Connor, seaman, Englishman.
68. Thomas McMillan, seaman, Englishman.
69. Michael Mars, seaman, Englishman.
70. Robert Egan, boy, Englishman.
71. Malcolm McFarlan, seaman, Englishman.
72. Peter Henry, seaman, Englishman.
73. Charles Godwin, seaman, American.
74. James Higgs, captain of hold, Englishman.
75. Peter Duncan, fireman, Englishman.
76. Richard Parkinson, ward-room steward, Englishman.
77. George Appleby, yeoman, Englishman.
78. John Emory, seaman, Englishman.
79. William Hearn, seaman, Englishman.
80. Thomas L. Parker, boy, Englishman.
81. A. G. Bartelli, captain’s steward, American.
82. Peter Hughes, seaman, American.
83. Henry Fisher, seaman, Englishman; belonging to reserve.
84. Frank Townsend, seaman, Englishman.
85. Frank Cunen, fireman, Irishman.
86. William Levins, coal-trimmer.
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Officers and crew of the steamer Alabama.
I believe this roster is for around January 1864. There are a lot of names on this roster that can be found on the first but with a few more added and a little more information added to some of the names.
1. Raphael Semmes, commander.
2. J. N. Kell, first lieutenant.
3. Richard F. Armstrong, second lieutenant.
4. Joseph Wilson, third lieutenant.
5. John Low, fourth lieutenant.
6. Arthur Sinclair, master, (that is, sailing master.)
7. Francis L. Galt, surgeon, from Virginia; now acting as paymaster.
8. Miles J. Freeman, first assistant engineer, ranks as chief; born in Wales; does not know whether naturalized.
9. David Herbert Llewellyn, assistant surgeon, Englishman.
10. B. H. Howell, brother-in-law of Jeff. Davis, lieutenant of marines.
(No marines on board.)
11. W. H. Sinclair, midshipman.
12. Irving S. Bullock, midshipman; Captain Bullock’s brother.
13. Eugene Maffitt, midshipman; Captain Maffitt’s son.
14. Edward Maffitt Anderson, midshipman; son of Colonel Anderson.
15. W. P. Brooks, second assistant engineer.
16. S. N. Gumming, third assistant engineer.
17. Matthew O’Brien, third assistant engineer.
18. John M. Pundt, third assistant engineer.
19. George P. Fulham, first master’s mate, Englishman.
20. James Evans, second master’s mate, Charleston pilot.
21. W. D. Smith, captain’s clerk.
22. Benjamin L McCosky, boatswain.
23. F. 0. Caddy, gunner.
24. William Robinson, carpenter.
25. Henry Allcott, sailmaker, Englishman.
26. Clarence R. Yonge, paymaster.
Petty officers and seamen.
27. James King, master-at-arms, Savannah pilot.
28. Adolphus Warmley, Portuguese.
29. W. A. King, quartermaster.
30. James G. Dent, quartermaster.
31. William Forestall, quartermaster, Englishman.
32. Ralph Masters, quartermaster gunner, Irishman.
33. William Crawford, Englishman; lives in Liverpool; belongs to royal naval reserve.
34. George Addison, Englishman; lives in Liverpool.
35. William Brinton, Englishman; royal navy reserve.
36. ------ Robinson, head carpenter.
37. George Harwood, boatswain’s mate; English pensioner; from English navy ; joined her at Liverpool Home; now is a southerner, as boatswain; lives in Liverpool.
38. Michael Kinshler, Irishman, fireman; has a pension in England.
39. Brent Johnson, second boatswain’s mate, Englishman; naval reserve man; joined vessel at Liverpool.
40. William Purdy, sailmaker, Irishman by birth; lives in Liverpool; belongs to naval reserve; joined her in Liverpool.
42. John Latham, fireman, an Englishman; belongs to coast volunteers; enlisted on Alabama at Terceira.
43. Daniel Roach, fireman, Englishman; resides at Liverpool; belongs to royal navy reserve; enlisted in Liverpool; left her 22d November.
44. Thomas Murphy, fireman, Englishman; left her at Western Islands.
45. Thomas Welch, Englishman; left the ship; enlisted in Alabama in Liverpool.
46. James Smith, captain of forecastle, Englishman; residing in Liverpool; belongs to naval reserve; enlisted on board of Alabama in Liverpool.
47. Edward Fitzmorris, Englishman; enlisted in Alabama in Liverpool; is at home now; his wife lives at Aigburth.
48. George Addison, fireman; lives at Liverpool, Copperal Hill; enlisted at
Terceira.
49. James McFudgeon, fireman., Englishman; lives at No. 6 West Derby street; enlisted at Terceira; now at home.
50. Thomas Potter, Englishman, enlisted in Alabama at Liverpool; lives in Arch street, Liverpool; deserted at Jamaica; they arrested him at Jamaica and carried him on board; his wife lives in Liverpool now.
51. Samuel Williams, fireman, lives in Liverpool; born in Wales; enlisted in Alabama at Liverpool.
52. Patrick Bradley, fireman, Englishman; resides in Liverpool; enlisted there.
53. John Origen, fireman, Irishman; resides in School street, Liverpool; enlisted there.
54. Oran Duffy, fireman, Irishman.
55. Peter Duncan, fireman, Englishman; resides in Liverpool; enlisted in Liverpool.
56. William Nevins, coal-passer, Englishman; belongs to naval reserve; enlisted at Liverpool.
57. Andrew Shilling, Scotchman; resides at Athel street, Liverpool; has a wife; enlisted at Liverpool; is a fireman.
58. Charles Puist, coal-passer, is a German.
59. George Yeoman, ordinary seaman, Englishman; enlisted at Terceira.
60. George Fremantle, seaman, Englishman; enlisted at Terceira.
61. Frederick Johns, pursers steward, Englishman; resides in Liverpool; his father keeps a coal-yard in Howard street; enlisted at Terceira.
62. John Grandy, boy, English; lives in Liverpool.
63. Thomas Weir, gunner’s mate, Englishman; enlisted at Liverpool.
64. James Busman, seaman, Englishman.
65. Edgar Tripp, seaman, Englishman; lives in London; enlisted at Liverpool.
66. John Neil, seaman, Englishman; lives with his sister in Manchester street, Liverpool; belongs to naval reserve; enlisted at Terceira.
67. Thomas Winter, fireman, Englishman; lives in Liverpool; his father is ticket collector at the Adelphi theater; enlisted in Liverpool.
68. Samuel Henry, seaman, Englishman; resides in Liverpool; naval reserve man; enlisted in Liverpool.
69. John Roberts, seaman, Welchman; think he resides at Liverpool; enlisted at Terceira.
70. John Duggan, seaman, Englishman; resides in Liverpool; belongs to naval reserve; enlisted at Terceira.
71. Martin Ring, seaman.
72. Thomas Williams, seaman, Englishman; resides in Liverpool; belongs to naval reserve; enlisted at Terceira.
73. Robert Williams, seaman, Englishman; resides in Liverpool; belongs to naval reserve; enlisted at Terceira.
74. Joseph Pearson, seaman, Englishman; belongs to Chester; enlisted at Liverpool.
75. Joseph Conner, seaman, Englishman; resides in Walnut street; his wife lives there and keeps a buteher’ shop; belongs to naval reserve; enlisted at Terceira.
76. Thomas McMullen, seaman, Englishman; resides in Liverpool; joined at Terceira.
77. Michael May, seaman, Englishman; belongs to Bristol; naval reserve; joined at Terceira.
78. Robert Egan, boy, English; belongs to Chuley.
79. Malcolm McFarland, seaman, Scotehman; resides in Liverpool; belongs to naval reserve; enlisted at Terceira.
80. Peter Henry, seaman, Irishman; lives in Liverpool; enlisted at Terceira.
81. Charles Goodwin, seaman, Englishman; resides in Liverpool; enlisted at Terceira
82. James Hicks, captain of the hold, Englishman; resides in Liverpool; enlisted in Liverpool.
83. George Appleby, yeoman, Englishman; resides in Liverpool; married man; enlisted in Liverpool.
84. John Emory, seaman, Englishman; resides in Liverpool; belongs to naval reserve; enlisted at Terceira.
85. William Mearn, seaman, Englishman; resides in Liverpool; belongs to naval reserve; enlisted at Terceira.
86. Thomas L. Parker, boy, English; stops with Brent Johnson.
87. A. G. Bartelle, seaman, Portuguese.
88. Peter Hughes, captain of top, Englishman; resides ill Liverpool; be. longs to naval reserve; enlisted at Liverpool.
89. Henry Fisher, seaman; enlisted at Liverpool.
90. Frank Townsend, seaman, Englishman; enlisted in Liverpool.
91. George Forrest, seaman, Irishman; taken off the ship Manchester be. cause be had deserted from the Sumter, and tried by a court-martial for causing mutiny, and sent on shore, in irons, to island Blanco and left there. Previous to his being tried for mutiny he was tied up twenty times in the rigging with his arms spread, for four hours at a time, day
and night.
92. .
Robert Parkinson, wardroom steward, Englishman; resides in Liver. pool; enlisted in Liverpool.
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List of officers and men belonging to the Alabama who were picked up by the British yacht Deerhound and landed at Southampton.
Note. This was just after the battle between the Alabama and the Kearsarge.
Captain, Semmes; lieutenants, Kell and Sinclair; lieutenant, Howell, (marines;) sailing-master, Bullock; midshipmen, Maffit and Anderson; master’s assistants, G. T. Fullam, J. Evans, M. Meulvier, and Schrader; engineer, O’Brien; gunner, Cuddy; captain’s clerk, Smith; petty officers, J. Broesman, W. Crawford, W. Purdy, J. Dent, B. Johnson, C. Seymour, C. Sleeson, J. Connor; firemen, 0. Duffy, J. Foxton, W. hevins, M. Macfarland, J. Mason; seamen, T. McMillan, F. Townshend, R. Masters, G. Redman, W; Angel, W. McClellan, W. Hearn, L. Depoys, A. Pfiffer, F. Lennan, J. Mahan, P. Wharton, T. Kehoe, R. Longshaw.
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Shenandoah.
This list is of November 8, 1865, and contains the names of all the officers, petty officers. and men of the Shenandoah after they left Melbourne up to the time they arrived in Liverpool. There were some men who left the ship at Melbourne, whose names are unknown. With two or three exceptions, the men and officers on the list are those that were landed at Liverpool. The list gives the nationality of each person, when he enlisted and when he left the vessel.
Note. Just before signing off a marine went about the ship and crew saying they were southerners. As they went before the Captain to have their names put down, he would ask; “What county are you.” And the answer was Southerner. Many of names that state Americans are in fact English, or some other country. Also many of the names on the roster may not be their real name, as the case of W. J. Jones, ( William John Jones ), seaman, who’s real name was William Temple.
List of the officers and men of the Shenandoah.
OFFICERS.
1. James J. Waddell, commander; an American; came out in the steamer Laurel front Liverpool.
2. William C. Whittle, first lieutenant; an American; joined the Sea King at London.
3. John Grimball, second lieutenant; an American; came out in steamer Laurel from Liverpool.
4. Sydney Smith Lee, third lieutenant; an American; came out in steamer Laurel from Liverpool.
5. Frederick Chen, fourth lieutenant; an American; came out in steamer Laurel from Liverpool.
6. Dabney N. Scales, fifth lieutenant; an American; came out in steamer Laurel from Liverpool.
7. Charles Edward Lining, first surgeon; an American; came out in steamer Laurel from Liverpool.
8. Frederick McUlty, second surgeon; an American; came out in steamer Laurel from Liverpool.
9. Matthew O’Brien, first or chief engineer; an American; came out in. steamer Laurel from Liverpool; was in the Alabama.
10. Charles Codd, first assistant engineer; an American; came out in the steamer Laurel from Liverpool; was in the Rappahannock.
11. John Hutchinson, second assistant engineer; a Seotchman; came out in and joined from the Sea King.
12. Francis McGuffney, third assistant engineer; an Irishman; came out in steamer Laurel from Liverpool; was in the Sumter and Alabama under the name of Curren.
13. Irvine S. Bullock, sailing master; came out in steamer Laurel from Liverpool; was in the Alabama. Is brother to J. D. Bullock.
14. John Blackar, an Irishman; captain in the English merchant service; joined at Melbourne as captain’s clerk.
15. Orris A. Browne, a passed midshipman; an American; came out in the steamer Laurel from Liverpool.
16. John J. Mason, a passed midshipman; an American; came out in steamer Laurel from Liverpool.
17. Cornelius Hunt, master’s mate; an American; came out in the steamer Laurel from Liverpool; was on the Georgia and Rappahannock.
18. F. C. Minor, master’s mate; an American; came out in the steamer Laurel from Liverpool; was in the Alabama and Sumter.
19. Lodge Colton, master’s mate; an American; came out in the steamer Laurel from Liverpool; was in the Rappahannock.
20. H. Manning, master’s mate; an American; joined us from the bark Abigail; was second mate on her.
21. W. B. Smith, purser; an American; came out in the steamer Laurel from Liverpool; was captain’s clerk on Alabama.
22. George Howard, boatswain; an Englishman; belongs to the royal navy of England, or had served in it; came out in steamer Laurel from Liverpool; has been in the Alabama.
23. Peter Guy, gunner; an Englishman; has been in the royal navy of England; came out in the steamer Laurel from Liverpool.
24. John Lynch carpenter; an American, from New York, but married to an English woman residing in Liverpool; came out in the steamer Laurel from Liverpool.
25. John O’Shey, carpenter, but resigned at Melbourne; came out in Laurel from Liverpool; was an Irishman by birth.
26. A. Alcott, sail-maker; an Englishman; came out in steamer Laurel front Liverpool; was on the Alabama.
PETTY OFFICERS.
27. Michael Moran, an Irishman; first captain of forecastle; came out in the steamer Laurel, from Liverpool.
28. William Warren, an Englishman; second captain of forecastle; came out in the steamer Laurel, from Liverpool.
29. Louis Rowe, a Frenchman; captain of main-top; joined us from bark Alma.
30. Robert Dunning, an Englishman; captain of fore-top; joined us at Melbourne.
31. Thomas Strong, an American; captain of mizzen-top; joined us at Melbourne.
32. Charles Cobbey, an Englishman; gunner’s mat&; joined us at Melbourne.
33. James Bronnan, an Englishman; chief mate; came out in steamer Laurel, from Liverpool; was on the Alabama.
34. Thomas Hall, an Englishman; quartermaster; came out in steamer Laurel, from Liverpool.
35. John James, an Englishman; carpenters mate; joined us at Melbourne.
36. John Spring, an Englishman; captain of the hold; joined us at Melbourne.
37. William Crawford, an Englishman; gunner’s mate; came out in the steamer Laurel, from Liverpool; was on the Alabama.
38. Lewis Wiggins, a Russian; signal quartermaster; came out in the steamer Laurel, from Liverpool.
39. Ernest W. Burt, an Englishman; doctor’s steward; joined us at Melbourne.
40. James A. Exshaw, an Irishman; purser’s steward; joined us at Melbourne.
41. Peter Ramond, a Frenchman; captain of fore-top; joined us from bark Alina.
42. William West, an Englishman; captain of main-top; belongs to royal naval reserve; joined us from bark D. Godfrey.
43. John Griffiths, an Englishman; captain mizzen-top; came out in the steamer Laurel, from Liverpool.
44. Henry Fox, or Henry Yates, an Englishman; gunner’s mate; came out in the steamer Laurel, from Liverpool; was on the Alabama.
45. John Davy, an Englishman; boatswain’s mate; joined us from bark D. Godfrey.
46. John W. Jones, a Welchman; quartermaster; came out in the steamer Laurel, from Liverpool.
47. Jacob Hanson, a Dane; quartermaster; joined us from the bark L. M. Stacy.
48. Francis Tuft, an Englishman; cooper; joined us from the Edward.
49. Franklin Gloon, (his right name is--- - --- ,) sail-maker’s mate; an American; joined us at Melbourne.
50. Charles McLaren, a Scotchman; master-at-arms; joined us at Melbourne.
51. James Marlow, an Englishman; wardroom cook; came out in the Laurel, from Liverpool.
52. Charles Hopkins, a negro, Baltimore; wardroom cook; joined us from schooner L. M. Stacy.
53. William Smith, an Englishman; ship’s cook; joined us at Melbourne.
54. John Williams, a negro; ship’s cook; joined us from bark D. Godfrey; left us at Melbourne.
55. William Bruce, a Malay; wardroom steward; joined us from bark Alma; left us at Melbourne.
56. David Alexander, a Scotchman; corporal of marines; joined us at Melbourne.
57. William Park, an American; corporal of marines; joined us from ship Hector.
58. William Fenner, an English boy; captain’s steward;’ came out in the Laurel, from Liverpool.
59. H. C. Canning, an Englishman; joined us at Melbourne; died October 29, 1865.
Seamen.
60. John Collins, an American; joined us at Melbourne.
61. Thomas Foran, an Irishman; joined us at Melbourne.
62. Lawrence Kerney, an Irishman; joined us at Melbourne.
63. John McDonal, Scotchman; joined us at Melbourne.
64. John Ramsdale, an Englishman; joined us at Melbourne.
65. John Kilgower, a Scotchman; joined us at Melbourne.
66. Thomas Swanton, an Englishman; joined us at Melbourne.
67. James Welch, an American; joined us from bark Pearl.
68. John Morris, a Portuguese; joined us from ship Hector.
69. George Adeias, a Portuguese; joined us from ship Hector.
70. Walter Way, an Englishman; joined us from the Susan.
71. John Hawthorn, an Irishman; joined us from ship General Williams.
72. Alfred Seaman, a Prussian joined us from ship S. Abigail.
73. Charles Graft, a German; joined us from ship S. Abigail.
74. Antonio Delombas, a Portuguese; joined us from ship Hector.
75. John Blacking, a Dane; joined us. from bark D. Godfrey.
76. John Moss, an Irishman; joined us at Melbourne.
77. William Simpson, an Englishman; came out in the Laurel, from Liverpool; was on the Alabama.
78. Joachim Roderichs, a Portuguese; joined us from ship Hector.
79. George Flood, an American; joined us from bark .D. Godfrey.
80. James Fegan, an Irishman; joined us at Melbourne.
81. Samuel Crooks, all Englishman; joined us at Melbourne.
82. John Simmes, an Englishman; joined us at Melbourne.
83. John Hill, au Irishman; joined us at Melbourne.
84. William Hutchinson, an Englishman; joined us at Melbourne.
85. Thomas Evans, Welchman; joined us at Melbourne.
86. Charles H. Morton, an American; joined us at Melbourne.
87. George H. Gifford, an American ; joined us at Melbourne.
88. John Kelly, an Irishman; joined us from brigantine Susan Abigail.
89. John Dowden, an American; was mate on the Abigail, and joined us as seaman.
90. Julius Colar, an American; joined us from the ship General Williams.
91. Alexander Pattison, a Scotchman; joined us from the Susan Abigail.
92. John Hilcox, all Englishman; joined us from the General Williams.
93. Henry Canning, an Englishman; joined us at Melbourne.
94. Joseph Steveson, a negro; joined us from the Pearl.
95. John Vanarery, a Canadian; joined us from the Gypsey.
96. Michael Rose, called Reed; an Englishman; came out in the Laurel, from Liverpool; was in the Alabama.
97. William Bill,, from Sandwich Islands; joined us from Abigail; died October 26, 1865.
98. Henry Givens, from Sandwich Islands; joined us from Abigail.
99. John Mahoe, from Sandwich Islands; joined us from Abigail.
100. Joseph Long, from Sandwich Islands; joined us from Abigail.
101. James California, from Sandwich Islands; joined us from Abigail.
102. James French, from Sandwich Islands; joined us from Abigail.
103. John Sailer, from Sandwich Islands; joined us from Abigail.
104. William Brown, from Sandwich Islands; joined us from Abigail.
105. Joseph Kanaca, from Sandwich Islands; joined us from Abigail.
106. John Boy, from Sandwich Islands; joined us from Abigail.
107. Edward Wicks, a negro; joined us from the Waverley.
108. W. J. Jones, an Englishman; came out in Sea King.
109. James Ross, a Canadian; joined us at Melbourne..
110. John Williams, an English boy; joined us at Melbourne.
111. James Oar, au English boy; came out in Laurel, from Liverpool.
112. Robert Rosell, a Spanish boy; joined us from the Hector.
113. Duke Simmons, a Malay; joined us at Melbourne.
Firemen.
114. John Martin, an Englishman; engine storekeeper; came out in the Sea King.
115. David Marshall, an Englishman; first-class fireman; came out in the Laurel.
116. Thomas McLean, a Scotchman; first-class fireman; joined us at Melbourne.
117. William Brice, a Scotchman; joined us at Melbourne.
118. William Green, an Englishman; joined us at Melbourne.
119. William Rawlinson, an Englishman; Came out in the Laurel, from Liverpool.
120. William Clark, an Englishman; Came out in the Sea King, from London.
121. William Burgess, an Englishman; joined us at Melbourne.
122. Joseph Mullineux, an Englishman; joined us at Melbourne.
123. Henry Sutherland, a Scotchman; joined us at Melbourne.
124. James Carr, an Englishman; joined us from the ship J. C. Nye.
125. James Stranth, a Scotchman; joined us at Melbourne.
MARINES.
126. Henry Reiley, a Canadian; joined us at Melbourne.
127. William Kenyon, an Irishman; joined us at Melbourne.
128. Robert. Brown, an Englishman; joined us at Melbourne.
129. John Murray, an Irishman; joined us from the hark Abigail.
130. Emanuel Silver, Portuguese; joined us from the bark Abigail.
131. William Burnet, a Prussian ; joined us from the bark Abigail.
132. Thomas Barry, an Englishman; joined us from the brigantine Susan Abigail.
133. Thomas Floyd, an Irishman; joined us from baik Favorite.
134. John Ivors, an Irishman; joined us from bark Favorite.
135. Thomas Poulson, an Englishman; joined us from bark Favorite.
136. James Clury, an Englishman; joined us from bark Favorite.
137. John Grimes. an Irishman; joined us from bark Favorite.
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