The magazine of American history with notes and queries . oud, and our prayer be for many more. Matthew Calbraith Perry was born at Newport, April 10, 1794. In thematter of his birthday, the encyclopaedias are as divergent as seven Dutchweathercocks, four pointing to Newport and three to Kingston ; but thefamily Bible, now in possession of Mrs. August Belmont, has given us ourdata. He .was named after Matthew Calbraith, his mothers little about ten years old, the future commodore was visited by his name- COMMODORE MATTHEW CALBRAITH PERRY 423 sake, who, being delighted with the boy,
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . oud, and our prayer be for many more. Matthew Calbraith Perry was born at Newport, April 10, 1794. In thematter of his birthday, the encyclopaedias are as divergent as seven Dutchweathercocks, four pointing to Newport and three to Kingston ; but thefamily Bible, now in possession of Mrs. August Belmont, has given us ourdata. He .was named after Matthew Calbraith, his mothers little about ten years old, the future commodore was visited by his name- COMMODORE MATTHEW CALBRAITH PERRY 423 sake, who, being delighted with the boy, prophesied some of the greatnessactually attained. Calbraith was the familiar home-name for the eagerchild who loved so much to look upon the sea, and whose especial delightwas to gaze at the gayly-decked packet boat which once a year set outfrom Newport to Providence, carrying the governor from one capital tothe other. There was much in the social atmosphere and historical associationsof Newport, at the opening of this century, to nourish the ambition. THE UNITED STATES STEAM FRIGATE MISSISSIPPI. [Flagship of the Expedition to Japan.] and fire the imagination of an impressible lad. Out in the bay lay thehulk of the famous ship Endeavor, in which Captain Cook had circumnavi-gated the globe and observed the transit of Venus. Hither had tarriedDean, afterward Bishop, Berkeley, whose prophecy, Westward the courseof empire takes its way, was fulfilled by Perry, even across the Pacific toJapan. Here, too, had come the first American bishop, Seabury, visitingthe Perry home, seeing Matthew Calbraith, and giving Episcopal con-firmation to Oliver Hazard. Besides living at Newport, several of hisboyhoods years were spent in such places as Westerly, Warren, and thethen courtly town of Tower Hill, from which the blue sea, dotted withwhite-winged ships, and full of mystery and fascination, was ever incidents of Matthews boyhood are preserved, for nearly all of those 4-4 COMMODO
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