. Barnstable and Yarmouth, sea captains and ship owners . Barnstable, commanded some of these or two of the barques were in Galveston, loading cotton,when the war broke out, and were burned and scuttled by theconfederates, and one vessel was taken by the Alabama. Theship Samuel C. Grant was lost about 1866. After 1866, Mr. George Bacon* removed his business to NewYork. He lived in Brookline, Mass., as early as 1852, and forsome years afterward. Captain Edward Bacon, of Barnstable, was Master of the firstship Hoogly, owned by his brother. Captain Daniel CarpenterBacon, and made voya
. Barnstable and Yarmouth, sea captains and ship owners . Barnstable, commanded some of these or two of the barques were in Galveston, loading cotton,when the war broke out, and were burned and scuttled by theconfederates, and one vessel was taken by the Alabama. Theship Samuel C. Grant was lost about 1866. After 1866, Mr. George Bacon* removed his business to NewYork. He lived in Brookline, Mass., as early as 1852, and forsome years afterward. Captain Edward Bacon, of Barnstable, was Master of the firstship Hoogly, owned by his brother. Captain Daniel CarpenterBacon, and made voyages in her to Calcutta and Bombay. The second ship Hoogly owned by Daniel Gorham Bacon, wasat one time commanded by William Wallace Frost, of also commanded the ship St. David. Captains Crocker Nye, James Baxter, Joshua Chamberlain,Job Handy, and Myron R. Peak, were Barnstable men. The lat-ter commanded the brig Aristos. ? I am indebted to his sons, Horace Bacon, of New York, and Vaughan , of Barnstable, for some of these notes. XI o. l» ,?- SEA CAPTAINS AND SHIP OWNERS 2$ Captain Benjamin Weeks, was of West Barnstable, and Cap-tain Joseph Parker, lived in Hyannis. Captains Owen and Sylvester Bearse, of Hyannis, commandedcoasting vessels, and owned some vessels. They were afterwardsin the lumber business, on Federal Street, Boston. Captains Higgins Crowell, Christopher Lewis, Edward Lewis,Zenas Crowell, Sturgis Crowell, and Elkanah Crowell, were allof West Yarmouth, Mass. Captain Elkanah Crowell, now of Hyannis, is one of the oldestship masters now living. The following is an extract from oneof his recent letters : In 1853, Captain John Baker of J. Baker & Co., ship chand-lers on Commercial St., Boston, sent for me. When I went intohis office he said to me * The new clipper ship Spit-fire is loadingtor San Francisco, and Captain John Arey is a driver. Hewants a mate that can jump over the fore yard every morningbefore*,breakfast. I said I was the man fo
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