The Marine room of the Peabody Museum of Salem . evenbrigs and ships — Mr. Lindsey says that nine ships were built atMarblehead between the years 1849 and 1855 — has becomemore famous, however, for the yachts and sea-planes of recent fame does not rest with ships and ship-building butwith the ship-masters and sailors whose skill and daring have beenrecorded in every American history. [See Benjamin J. LindseysOld Marblehead Sea Captains.] Medford, Chelsea and Boston From the ship-yards of Medford, Mass., have come many Salemships. Thatcher Magoun (1775 - 1856), who built the H
The Marine room of the Peabody Museum of Salem . evenbrigs and ships — Mr. Lindsey says that nine ships were built atMarblehead between the years 1849 and 1855 — has becomemore famous, however, for the yachts and sea-planes of recent fame does not rest with ships and ship-building butwith the ship-masters and sailors whose skill and daring have beenrecorded in every American history. [See Benjamin J. LindseysOld Marblehead Sea Captains.] Medford, Chelsea and Boston From the ship-yards of Medford, Mass., have come many Salemships. Thatcher Magoun (1775 - 1856), who built the Henry Tuke,Brookline and other Salem vessels, was born in Pembroke, Mass., fromwhence so many ship-builders have come. After serving five yearswith Enos Briggs in Salem, he started business for himself in Medfordwhere he built in all eighty vessels. At Medford, too, Sprague and James built the ship London, 368tons, in 1827; the ship Paris, 360 tons, in 1828, and the steamer EastBoston, 269 tons, in 1841, for David Augustus Neal of Salem. 144. I DESK USED BY DR. NATHANIEL BOWDITCHAt which he translated La Place= Mechanique Celeste. The Ocean Express was the largest ship built at Medford, 2000tons, in 1854, and John Foster built the last ship in Medford in 1873.[See Brooks, History of Medford, p. 357; also, Ship-building atMedford in the Medford Historical Register, vol. I, p. 66.] By far the greatest number of large Salem-owned ships in thelast half of the nineteenth century were built by John Taylor and hisson Justin Taylor. John Taylor was born in Scituate, Mass., Oc-tober 13,1807, and died in Chelsea, September 20, 1877. He was theyoungest of six children all of whom lived to an old age. In the cus-tom of the times as he approached manhood he was apprenticed andserved his time with Galen James, ship-builder at Medford and, in1831, married Mr. James sister, Eliza James, and to them were bornthree sons and three daughters. John Taylor became a prominentship-builder of Medfor
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