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David Rice, Acting Midshipman

David Rice. According to his pension application # S-37340, David Rice of Portland, ME was born about 1760. No details of his parentage or place of birth are known. According to the pension documents, David Rice entered on board the … Continue reading

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Ebenezer Winter Calef, Midshipman

Ebenezer Winter Calef. Ebenezer Winter Calef, the third of nine children born to Joseph Calef, Jr. (1724-1776) of Milton, MA and his wife Mehitable Miller (1735-1790). His father was the son of Joseph Calef and Hannah Jordan and his mother … Continue reading

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Peter Masuere, Quartermaster

Peter Masuere (Massuere, Massure or Meserve) was born on 13 June 1742 in Kittery, York County, ME to Peter Massure and Sarah Loud who were married five years earlier on 3 March 1737. He married Hannah Card prior to the … Continue reading

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Rev. Mr. Robert Keith, Chaplain

Robert Keith. The Mr. Keith who is named by James L. Howard as the frigate Confederacy’s chaplain on page 210 of Seth Harding: Mariner is Robert Keith. The fifth of nine or ten children of Captain William Keith (1714-1781) and … Continue reading

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William Nourse, Midshipman

William Nourse. According to the Nourse Family Bible which can be viewed online at http://www.noursefamily.net/docs/Nourse-Bible-Entries.pdf , William Nourse was born on 30 October 1763 in London. He was named after an older brother who died in infancy.

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