Comm. Edward Tyng

ii. Comm. Edward Tyng; b. 1683 at Boston, MA; d. 8 Sep 1755 at Boston, MA; apoplexy.

He and Anna Waldo resided at Boston, MA. He was a merchant. He was a naval Commodore.

Married

1. Elizabeth Southack, daughter of Cyprian Southack;
2. Anna Waldo, daughter of Jonathan Waldo and Hanna Mason, 27 Jan 1731 at Boston, MA;

biography

From Robert L. Wagner, “TYNG, EDWARD (1683-1755),” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 3, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed April 13, 2015, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/tyng_edward_1683_1755_3E.html.

TYNG (Ting), EDWARD, merchant and naval officer; b. 1683 in Falmouth (now Portland, Maine), eldest son of Colonel Edward Tyng* and Elizabeth Clarke; married Elizabeth Parnel, a widow (daughter of Cyprian Southack), on 8 Jan. 1725 (o.s.); his second wife, Ann Waldo (sister of Samuel Waldo), whom he married on 27 Jan. 1731, bore him six children, only three of whom lived to maturity; d. 7 Sept. 1755 in Boston, Massachusetts.

Edward Tyng went to sea at an early age. He sailed as a merchant seaman and engaged in mercantile pursuits in Boston. In 1736 the General Court of Massachusetts granted him a tract of land on the Merrimack River, in consideration of his father’s services and tragic demise in a French prison.

On 16 April 1740 Governor Jonathan Belcher appointed Tyng captain of the batteries and fortifications of Boston, and on 26 August Tyng assumed command of the province’s new snow, Prince of Orange. For the next two years he cruised the New England coast in search of Spanish and French privateers. In the spring of 1744 Captain Tyng was sent to Annapolis Royal with news of the outbreak of war with France. He returned to Boston on 27 May, carrying 26 women and children refugees, as the Annapolis garrison feared an attack by the French and their Indian allies. In June Tyng set out in search of French privateers off the New England coast. While cruising off Cape Cod he met a French sloop, commanded by Captain Joannis-Galand d’Olobaratz*, and after a 12-hour engagement disabled the smaller vessel and brought it into Boston as a prize. In July he carried reinforcements to Annapolis Royal, breaking the siege of that fortress by Micmac and Malecite Indians. The rest of the year he spent in convoy duty between Boston and the Grand Banks of Newfoundland.

On 27 Jan. 1744/45, Captain Tyng was elevated to the command of a new, larger vessel, the Massachusetts. He sailed from Boston on 16 March 1745 as commodore of the colonial flotilla of 13 armed and about 90 transport vessels engaged in the expedition against Louisbourg, Île Royale (Cape Breton Island). During this campaign he performed blockade duty and was involved, along with ships commanded by Peter Warren, in the early stages of the chase that led to the capture of the French man-of-war Vigilant, commanded by Alexandre de La Maisonfort Du Boisdecourt. He participated in the destruction of Port-Dauphin (Englishtown, N.S.) and in June went to relieve Annapolis Royal which had been briefly besieged by the French and Indians in May. Tyng was still commanding the Massachusetts in April 1747.

One of the leading American naval officers of the colonial period, Tyng died in Boston on 7 Sept. 1755, after suffering for six years the effects of a paralytic stroke.

notes

From Publication, Issue 5 By Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Page 102

Edward Tyng, b. 19 Feb., 1681/2 son of Edward and Elizabeth (Clarke) Tyng, of Boston. He married (1) Elizabeth, dau. of Capt. Cyprian Southack, and widow of Francis Parnel, and (2) Ann, dau. of Jonathan Waldo.
Edward the father was appointed by Sir Wm. Phips governor of Acadia. On returning from Port Royal in Oct., 1691, in a vessel commanded by Capt. John Alden, Tyng and John Nelson and Alden's son were taken prisoners by M. de Bonaventure, sent to Quebec, and thence to France in Sept., 1692, where Tyng died in prison. Edward the son became prominent in military and naval affairs. 26 June, 1744, in the Boston Town meeting "It was Unanimously Voted, That the Thanks of the Town be given to Capt. Edward Tyng Commander of the Province Snow for the great Service he has done in taking and bringing in to this Harbour a French Privateer Sloop belonging to Cape Briton Mounting Sixteen Guns and Mann'd with Ninety four Men Commanded by Capt Delabroitz, which has been Cruising in our Bay for several days past; and that the Selectmen desired to present the same to him accordingly." Boston merchants at the same time presented a silver cup of one hundred ounces.
At the Siege of Louisburg in 1745 he commanded the Massachusetts Frigate. He died in Boston in 1755. His only surviving child was Col . William Tyng, who was a proscribed loyalist, and went to St. John, New Brunswick, six lots in that place being granted him. He resided there till 1784, at Georgetown, 1785, and settled at Gotham, Me., in 1793, where he died 10 Dec., 1807. He was commissioned a colonel by Gage in 1774, and was chief justice of the Court of Judicature in New Brunswick.

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