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Sailors and seamen

Robert Maynard Peck, Midshipman & John Peck, Boy

Robert Maynard Peck. Son of Hester Plaisted and Boston glazier John Peck (1721-1761), Robert Maynard Peck was born on 1 October 1747, a little over ten months after his parents were married on 15 December 1746. Peck’s grandparents were John … Continue reading

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James W. Head, Seaman

James W. Head. Middle child of Jane McKenzie (1731-1818) and John Head (1731-1779), James Waller Head was baptized at Trinity Church in Boston on 5 July 1766. An Episcopal parish, Trinity Church was founded in 1733 and at the time … Continue reading

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John Baxter Carr, Seaman

John Baxter Carr. Born in Arundel, York County, ME on 6 May 1760 to Mary Baxter and Benjamin M. Carr, John Baxter Carr was named after his maternal grandfather. Mary Baxter’s mother Mary had been the second wife to John … Continue reading

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Aaron Goodwin, Seaman

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

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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