. Barnstable and Yarmouth, sea captains and ship owners . GOLD MEDAL Presented to Captain Thomas Harris by theLords of the Admiralty, 1846 SEA CAPTAINS AND SHIP OWNERS 29 tions in saving the officers and crew of the British ship Brit-annia. Captain Harris made a voyage in the brig Pico, about 1850,to San Francisco. He and his son Thomas left the brig andwent to the gold mines. The brig was used as a restaurant, andwas finally buried as the city grew at the water front. After he left the sea, he became Sheriff of Barnstable lived to be an old man, but was always young in spirit. Itwas
. Barnstable and Yarmouth, sea captains and ship owners . GOLD MEDAL Presented to Captain Thomas Harris by theLords of the Admiralty, 1846 SEA CAPTAINS AND SHIP OWNERS 29 tions in saving the officers and crew of the British ship Brit-annia. Captain Harris made a voyage in the brig Pico, about 1850,to San Francisco. He and his son Thomas left the brig andwent to the gold mines. The brig was used as a restaurant, andwas finally buried as the city grew at the water front. After he left the sea, he became Sheriff of Barnstable lived to be an old man, but was always young in spirit. Itwas a pleasure to see him dance, for he showed us more fancysteps and more of the old-fashioned ways of dancing than wehad ever seen. Most of the notes about Captain Harris, were given me byHenry M. Hutchings, Esq., of Boston and Barnstable. I amalso indebted to him for notes about his uncle. Captain FrancisM. Hinckley, of Barnstable, and for some photographs of shipsin which the latter sailed. Captain John Turner Hall, of Barnstable, was Master of theship
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