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Thomas Freeman McKinney was a trader, merchant and a co-founder of Galveston, Texas, and was one of the "Old 300" original settlers of Texas. McKinney Falls State Park is named in his honor
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DAR Ancestor #: A132551 Patriotic service
Biography
John Macpherson was born 1726 at Skinner's Close, Edinburgh, the nephew of the 11th Chief of Clan Macpherson. He went to sea at an early age ...
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Jeuriaen "Juriaen" Andrieszen aka Andriessen
Born about 1607 in Netherlands
Died before 27 Nov 1654 in New Amsterdam, New Netherland
Son of Andries Andrieszen [uncertain]
Family
Juriaen An...
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Not a known child of Walter Basse of Wicomico Parish
Edmond and John were attorneys and overseers of roads in two Virginia counties. Elizamond, the third brother, returned to England and joined...
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Capt. Thomas Pound was an English Royal Navy officer who turned pirate and was briefly active in the coastal waters of New England during 1689. Caught and convicted of piracy, his crimes were forgiven ...
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A Patriot of the American Revolution for MASSACHUSETTS with the rank of Private. DAR Ancestor # A203216
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Lafitte (1770–1821) was a pirate in the Gulf of Mexico and smuggler in the early 19th century. He also ran a blacksmith shop in New Orleans, his legitimate business. Pierre was the historically less-we...
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Jens Pedersen Skanke född cirka 1430 i Norge. Död 1470 i Stockholm, Sverige.Jöns och Nils tillfångatogs av kung Karl Knutssons folk år 1470 och avrättades i Stockholm för sjöröveri. Bosatt på Andvigsga...
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Bartholomew Gosnold
Find A Grave Memorial ID # 41616436
Gosnold (1571 – 22 August 1607) was an English barrister, explorer, and privateer, who was instrumental in founding the Virginia Company of ...
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Burns, Jr., privateer, ship builder, and legislator, was born on Queen's Creek, Onslow County, about two miles from the present town of Swansboro. Of Scottish descent, he was the son of Otway Burns, Sr...
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STANLEY, JOHN WRIGHT Ancestor #: A108502
Service: NORTH CAROLINA Rank(s): CIVIL SERVICE, PATRIOTIC SERVICE, SAILOR
Birth: 4-9-1742 CHARLES CITY CO VIRGINIA
Death: 6-4-1789 NEW BERN CRAVEN CO NORTH C...
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, a Gothic-style castle and National Historic Place originally built in 1741 (although the current house dates largely from 1848). The estate is one of the oldest privately owned estates in Newport, Rh...
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Burial= Find A Grave Memorial# 54859613 Photo and info ref.: , Richard "Pirate Dick" Grinnell, Old Commons Burial Grounds, Little Compton, Newport Co. Rhode Island.Richard Grinnell was a sea captain an...
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Biography From William Addams Reitwiesner:>In 1354, Francesco Gattilusio , a Genoese freebooter5, landed, with his band, on the island of Tenedos, and there discovered John V Palaiologos, the Emperor o...
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Reis (c. 1451 – 1511) was an Ottoman privateer and admiral. He was also the paternal uncle of the famous Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis, who accompanied him in most of his important naval e...
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The following information comes from an introduction in the front of, The naval tracts of Sir William Monson in six books - Page xxxvi, by Sir William Monson, Michael Oppenheim -1902 (the same basic i...
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Wanton Jr. (1730–1780) was a Loyalist, merchant, Deputy Governor of Rhode Island in 1764 and 1767 and owner of Hunter House in Newport, Rhode Island. WANTON, b. February 08, 1729/30, Newport, RI, USA; ...
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Thomas Baxter* born about 1626* Death Date & location unknown*Not the same as Thomas Baxter was he the son of Ens. George Baxter & Mary Baxter ?Divorced: 15 MAY 1662 in recorded at White Plains in 1686 1
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From Babcock Genealogy, Stephen Babcock 1903, p 67: Adam Babcock seems to have settled 1st in New Haven where he was merchant & extensive ship owner, & during Rev War owned & fitted out 1 or more priva...
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DAR Ancestor #: A122694 DENISON GENEALOGY, ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS OF CAPTAIN GEORGE DENISON, Of Stonington Connecticut, by John Denison Baldwin and William Clift, Worcester, MA, 1881, p 61 From his ...
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A Patriot of the American Revolution for NORTH CAROLINA with the rank of CAPTAIN. DAR Ancestor # A088397 Massachusetts Privateer Schooner Success (1)
Privateers in the American Revolution (2)
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A Patriot of the American Revolution for RHODE ISLAND with the rank of CAPTAIN. DAR Ancestor # A000258 Daniel Aborn, son of Captain Joseph and Elizabeth (Scranton) Aborn, was born in Newport, R. I., Ju...
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from the website 26 July 2005MANCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETYSchool CurriculumUnit Two:Privateering: Profits on the High Seas"A great many sea captains and fishermen from Manchester were actively engaged ...
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From: Pirates on the Chesapeake, Donald G. Shomette, Tidewater Publishers, 1985: pg. 167: >“The leader of the band was a notorious desperado named Richard Clark from the South River region of Anne Arun...
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DAR Ancestor A067869 The son of Richard & Martha (Woodbury) Leach, he married Deborah Waite on May 21, 1769.Military Service: SEP 1776 Captain Nathaniel Leach was commander of schooner 'Polly', a priva...
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From page 2 of Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Volume 1 By American Antiquarian Society>Mr. Hale asked if there was any evidence that any buccaneer ever lived in "comfort and credit" i...
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Newland Maffitt (February 22, 1819 – May 15, 1886) was an officer in the Confederate States Navy who was nicknamed the "Prince of Privateers" due to his remarkable success as a blockade runner and comm...
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James Anderson was born about 1748. He was a sea captain who resided in Fells Point, Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland. In 1772 he leased lot #22 on Thames Street, in the Fell’s Point section of Ba...
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Descendant of Mayflower passengers Stephen Hopkins and Constance Snow (Hopkins) Kendrick (born John Kenrick, c. 1740–1794) was an American sea captain, both during the American Revolutionary War and th...
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Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Gray (May 10, 1755 – circa July, 1806) was an American merchant sea captain who is known for his achievements in connection with two trading voyages to the north...
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Mathurin Desmarestz (1653-1700, last name also Demarais) was a French pirate and buccaneer active in the Caribbean, the Pacific, and the Indian Ocean.Born Isaac Veyret (or Vereil) in 1653, Mathurin Des...
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A French pirate active in the Caribbean and off the coast of Africa. He is best known for having his ship stolen by William Kidd and Robert Culliford.
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Jean Bart MP
(1650 - 1702)
"Jan Bart", "Jan Baert"
Jean Bart (21 October 1650 – 27 April 1702) was a French naval commander and privateer.
Jean Bart , en flamand Jan Bart ou Jan Baert , né le 21 octobre 1650 et mort le 27 avril 1702 à Dunkerque, es...
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1. John Darby , fisherman, resided at Marblehead, Mass. His parentage, place and date of birth, place and date of marriage, and of death are unknown. The earliest known mention of him occurs in Coffin'...
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baptism:===1659 Jul 16; Isaac Grevenraet, Lysbeth Jeuriaens; Andries ; Hermanus Blom, Margarietje Steenwyck
===sold father's property (Castello Plan notes)=== NO·9
This house, which stood on the exact...
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See Wikipedia... * See The History of Parliament...
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Captain Charles Ridgely (1733-1790) supplied iron implements, arms, and ammunition from his Northampton Iron Works as well as privateers to the Patriot cause during the Revolutionary War. His merchant ...
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John Baxter Carr was born in Arundel, York County, ME on 6 May 1760 to Mary Baxter and Benjamin M. Carr, John Baxter Carr was named after his maternal grandfather. Mary Baxter’s mother Mary had been th...
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DAR Ancestor #: A200818Richard O'Brien was a privateer during the American Revolution and was later appointed US Consul-General to the Barbary state of Algiers. He had previously spent 10 years as a sl...
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The Pirates Laffite, William C. Davis. Sephardic pirate played a pivotal role in American history. In the book "Jews on the Frontier" (Rachelle Simon, 1991), Rabbi I. Harold Sharfman recounts the tale ...
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Capt. George Hanford Burr of Bayshore, L.I. m. Apr. 1, 1844, Deidamia R. Thurber, of Bayshore, by whom he had: 1622. Aranzas R., R b. Feb. 15, 1845 ; 1623. Hanford Wait," b. Sept. 28, 1847; 1624. Desir...
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Collections of the New York Historical Society ABSTRACTS OF WILLS ON FILE IN THE SURROGATE'S OEFICE, CITY OF NEW YORK , VOL. IV. 1744-1753. WITH LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION GRANTED 1745—1753.Captain Jeck...
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Hildreth (1750–1823) was a surgeon in the Massachusetts militia and aboard Massachusetts naval privateers during the American Revolutionary War, and was subsequently a prisoner-of-war.After the war, he...
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Thomas Tew, also known as the Rhode Island Pirate, was a 17th-century English privateer-turned-pirate. Wikipedia: Thomas Tew
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He is known as the "Liberty Boy" of the Revolutionary period. He is also referred to as "King Sears", and his daughters are described as "beautiful and accomplished, dispensing the hospitalities of the...
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Thomas Cavendish , Cavendish also spelled Candish (baptized September 19, 1560, Trimley St. Martin, Suffolk, England—died c. May 1592, in the North Atlantic), English navigator and freebooter, leader...
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Biography== Captain Pierre Bouet Lafitte was born in 1770 in Port au Prince, Haiti. He was a privateer, smuggler, blacksmith, spy. Pierre married Françoise Sel l'Etang . Together they had the following...
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April 18, 1861, the Botts Greys became Company G of the 2nd Virginia Infantry, one of the five regiments that soon comprised Confederate general Thomas J. Jackson's famed Stonewall Brigade. On October ...
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Fletcher Christian.....
Fletcher Christian (25 September 1764 – 20 September 1793) was a master's mate on board the Bounty during William Bligh's fateful voyage to Tahiti for breadfruit plants (see ...
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Bradish was a young man when he worked as a boatswain’s mate aboard Adventure, a British 400-ton “interloper”—a ship interfering in trade monopolies—from London bound for the island of Borneo. During t...
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Thomas Shirley== Sir Thomas Shirley (1564 – c. 1634) was an English soldier, adventurer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1584 and 1622. His financial difficulties...
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Palsgrave Williams was born in 1676.1 He was the son of John Williams and Anna Alcock.1 He married Elizabeth (?).1
Children of Palsgrave Williams and Elizabeth (?)
Abigail Williams+1 b. 1700
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"Daniel Lane entered the Naval Service from Gloucester, Mass, as a privateer in the war of the Revolution and was taken captive to England. When sick on board the ship Buford of 70 guns, he was ordered...
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Philippus Defos (ca 1570 - ca 1605) fransk kaperkaptein. 1602 herjet han i Vardø men kom seg vekk derfra. Defos ser ut til å bli tatt i 1605.
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Jan Mandaus kaperkaptein ble fanget 1615 i området mellom Barentshavet og Kvitsjøen ved Vardø av danske marineskip ledet av Jens Eriksen Munk Jens Eriksen Munk (1579 - 1628) og Jørgen Daa (ca 1570 - 16...
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Several Jewish corsairs operated against Spanish ships off the coast of Chile. There are reports that their galleys were kosher and they abstained from raids on the Sabbath. A maritime museum in Chile ...
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Under sommaren 1712 förlorar Lasse i Gatan fartyget "Vinthunden" som togs av en kraftigt bestyckad dansk kapare från Norge. Vinthundens kapten Johan Lewerentz dödas i striden.
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Thago, dp.13/1 1677 i Lund, d.3/6 1731 i Lund. Sjökapten och artillerikapten.
Gift
I med Sara von Egmond (f.1679), som övergav honom, och
II med Anna Katrina Larff (d.1738).
(I Hjalmar Börjesons...
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William Babson==* Birth: Oct 25 1745 - Gloucester, Mass* Parents: William Babson, Mary Williams* Married: Betty Wallis5 children ==notes==From . William6 Babson (27) (William5, John4, Richard3, James2,...
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Capt. James Brooks commanded the privateer Yankee during the War of 1812, and was lost at sea near the end of 1814. Born in England.Died when the privateer Yankee which he commanded in the War of 1812 ...
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Francis Drake, son of Edmund Drake and one of twelve brothers, was brought up at the expense of and support of his relative, Sir Admiral John Hawkins. Francis Drake made his early voyages with Sir John...
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Photo: Joshua Huddy on the Way to Prison ' "Jack" Huddy (November 8, 1735 – April 12, 1782), the commander of a New Jersey Patriot militia unit and a privateer ship during the American Revolutionary Wa...
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Thorndike (1755–1832) was a sailor and merchant, born in Beverly, Massachusetts. He went to sea at an early age, commanded a privateer during the American Revolution, and became active in the early Chi...
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Family and Education b. c.1550, 6th s. of Sir Francis Knollys, and bro. of Edward, Richard, Robert, William, and Henry Knollys II. educ. ?Eton 1561; Magdalen Coll. Oxf. c.1564; G. Inn 1565. m. 26 Dec. ...
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Blackburne (sometimes Blackburn or Blackborne or Blackbourn[e]), (10 December 1658 – 23 March 1743) was an English clergyman, who became Archbishop of York, and – in popular belief – a pirate.He was de...
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Martin Pring (1580–1626) was an English explorer from Bristol, England who in 1603 at the age of 23 was captain of an expedition to North America to assess commercial potential; he explored areas of pr...
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1. Andrew, b ca 1780 (Chase Charts, 1858), m Phebe Roach, 3 ch. Lost on board Privateer "Portsmouth", 1813 (Chase Charts, 1858).Links*
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From Journeys Hike Scripts - William Furness, 1800 In the mid-1700s, this street was called Furness Road, after the seagoing Furness family, who owned a wharf on the riverbank. Blacksmith Robert Furne...
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en av de mest fruktade kaparkaptener under det Nordiska kriget
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Kaparekapten på skeppet La Revange, endast 18 år
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Lars Gathenhielm's brother in law.Anders Thorsson (-1711) var gift med Anna Thalena Gathe, därmed svåger till Lars Gathenhielm. Han var sannolikt identisk med brodern till Cornelius Thorsson. Anders Th...
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Christen Gathenhielm Född:1682-10-06 – Onsala församling, Hallands länDöd:1722-03-05 – Kristine församling, Västra Götalands län Begravd: 1722-03-09 – Göteborgs Kristine församling* Tryckt litteratur (...
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During the Great Northern War (" ") 1700-1721 between Sweden and Russsia/Danmark/Saxony Marten Persson who used to be a skipper and a boat owner became a privateer captain. (se Lars Gathenhielm)
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HANS BÖRJESSON bodde en tid på Ögården , Mickel Mårtensgård, som han övertagit i samband med sitt giftermål med Anna Mickelsdotter (16[68] – 1754), dotter till skeppare och fyrinspektoren Mickel Mårten...
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Kaparkapten under det Nordiska kriget; senare kofferdikapten och 1723 borgare i Göteborg.During the Great Northern War (" ") 1700-1721 between Sweden and Russsia/Danmark/Saxony Börje who later became a...
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CHRISTIAN PERSSON, Per Börjessons son, på ön var skeppare på Engeln Jacob 1705-1708 och medredare i Profeten Elias 1707 – 09. Då kaparkriget började fick han befälet på kaparfregatten Nordstiernan. Den...
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Stefan Sasse d.ä.== BiografiSläkten Sasse förde tre röde rosor som vapen, en ovan och två nedre och deremellan en grön rutencrantz i blått felt, på hjelmen två blå horn och på vardera hornet tre röde r...
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From History of the Town of Gloucester, Cape Ann, Including the Town of Rockport By John James BabsonJAMES, the second son of Capt. James Pearson, was bred to a maritime life; and during the Revolutio...
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Epes Sargent (1748-1822) was a merchant and first collector of the port of Gloucester, Mass., appointed by George Washington in 1789. He moved to New Hampshire in 1794 to pursue his interests in botany...
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John Somes was born in Gloucester in 1745, a son of Abraham and Martha (Emerson) Somes. He served as commander of the privateer Swallow during the Revolutionary War, was the first president of the Glou...
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Profile photo: Sam Lord's Castle seen from the oceanHall Lord, also called "Sam Lord" (1778 – 5 November 1844) was one of the most famous buccaneers on the island of Barbados. Sam Lord as he was usuall...
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Strangways (died 1562), also sometimes known as Strangwish, was an English "Gentleman Pirate" who attacked Spanish and other shipping. He was repeatedly imprisoned, and pardoned by highly-placed friend...
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First of all, the Harpes might not have really been brothers, but first cousins instead who emigrated (or whose parents did) from Scotland. One account says the Harpes were sons of a Revolutionary War ...
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First of all, the Harpes might not have really been brothers, but first cousins instead who emigrated (or whose parents did) from Scotland. One account says the Harpes were sons of a Revolutionary War ...
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DAR# A004309 Capt. William Babson* Birth: 5 Sep 1749 at Gloucester* Parents: Capt. William Babson, Martha Haraden* Married: Anna Rogers, daughter of Rev. John Rogers and Mary Ellery, 17 Apr 1777 at Glo...
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History===It is from Cornelius that the legendary New Bedford Grinnells originated. Cornelius, born 11 Feb 1758 at Little Compton, RI, was the son of Daniel4 Grinnell (continuing back to Richard3, Dani...
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Kenelm Digby (July 11, 1603 – June 11, 1665) was an English courtier and diplomat. He was also a highly reputed natural philosopher, and known as a leading Roman Catholic intellectual and Blackloist. F...
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From her English Wikipedia page:Elizabeth Trewinnard*Born Before 1525 - St Erth, Cornwall (most likely before 1514 - her son Henry was born circa 1528)*Died After 1582 - St Budock, Cornwall*Nationality...
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See Wikipedia... Pieter Pietersen Heyn (Hein) (25 November 1577 – 18 June 1629) was a Dutch naval officer and folk hero during the Eighty Years' War between the United Provinces and Spain.Early lifeHei...
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another possible birth year is 1287possible burial 15 December 1330=================================================================================="Hugh Despenser, 1st Lord Despenser (c. 1286– 24 Nov...
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Nelson (1654 to 1734) was an English colonial merchant, trader, and statesman, active in New England. ===family===John Nelson was born near London, England in 1654 to Robert and Mary Nelson. He was a n...
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A Patriot of the American Revolution for RHODE ISLAND with the rank of COMMODORE. DAR Ancestor # A124140 Whipple (September 26, 1733 – May 27, 1819) was an American revolutionary naval commander in the...
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McDougall (about 1731–1786) was an American seaman, merchant, a Sons of Liberty leader from New York City before and during the American Revolution, and a military leader during the Revolutionary War. ...
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DAR Ancestor #: A103589 John Silkman left Rotterdam on the ship 'Harle,' which reached Philadelphia on 1 September 1736. He is listed on the ship's manifest as John Jacob Seidemann (seide means 'silk' ...
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DAR Ancestor #: A038487Fanning (31 May 1755 – 30 September 1805) was an officer in the Continental Navy and later the United States Navy, who served on board Bonhomme Richard during its 1779 battle wit...
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Dampier (5 September 1651 - 8 March 1715) was the first man of English descent to explore sections of New Holland (Australia) and also the first person to circumnavigate the world three times. Dampier ...
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