Category Archives: Continental Navy Enlisted Men

Aaron Goodwin, Seaman

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Joe

Aaron Goodwin. Born on 18 August 1754, Aaron Goodwin was the son of Aaron Goodwin and Sarah Thompson of South Berwick in York County, Maine (then Massachusetts). According to “Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution,” Aaron … Continue reading →

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Joseph Ferdinand, Seaman

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Joe

Joseph Ferdinand. According to his pension application #S-34843, Mariner Joseph Ferdinand of Boston was sixty years old in June 1820 suggesting 1760 as the year of his birth. His mortuary notice suggests 1755, stating his age as eighty-six years old … Continue reading →

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Robert Bell, aka Robert Leathhead, Marine

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Joe

Robert Bell. Robert Bell was the alias of Robert Leathhead whose intriguing story is fleshed out in pension application # S-37609. Born in Scotland in about 1756, Robert Leathhead “deserted from the British Service and fearing detection…took in the American … Continue reading →

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Jacob Gibson Bowen, Seaman

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Joe

James Gibson Bowen. According to his pension application # S-34,061, James Gibson Bowen of Boston was born about 1740. His parentage and place of birth is not known. An interesting note in the Genealogies of Barbados Families (1983) by James … Continue reading →

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Nathaniel Service, Seaman, Sailmaker

Posted on February 6, 2011 by Joe

Nathaniel Service. Born in 1746 or 1747, nothing is known of the parentage or place of birth of Nathaniel Service of Boston. According to the payroll records of the Alliance in the Barry-Hayes Collection at Independence Seaport Museum Library, Nathaniel … Continue reading →

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