Category Archives: Continental Navy Officers

Ebenezer Winter Calef, Midshipman

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Joe

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

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Joe

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 →

Rev. Mr. Robert Keith, Chaplain

Posted on June 21, 2010 by Joe

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

Posted on May 16, 2010 by Joe

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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Simon Gross, 1st Lieutenant

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Joe

Simon Gross. Simon Gross was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Continental Navy on 12 October 1776. Gross is noted as Lieutenant on the list of officers and men belonging to the ship Boston under Captain Hector McNeill in 1777. … Continue reading →

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