Individual Notes

Note for: Clifford Pierce Jr, 5 JUL 1925 - 9 JUN 1999 Index

Residence:
     Date:   1930
     Place:   Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts

Individual Notes

Note for: Lewis Dexter Bates, 25 OCT 1836 - 18 APR 1887 Index

Occupation:
     Date:   1891
     Place:   shoemaker

Residence:
     Date:   1880
     Place:   South Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States

Individual Notes

Note for: John Harlow, JUN 1793 - 19 MAR 1881 Index

Alias:   /Harlowe/

Occupation:
     Date:   1860
     Place:   Farm laborer

Residence:
     Date:   1860
     Place:   Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts

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Note for: Hannah Ellsworth, 1793 - 1 JUL 1890 Index

Alias:   susanna /susan/

Residence:
     Date:   1860
     Place:   Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts

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Note for: Elisabeth Marden Harlow, 25 AUG 1824 - Index

Occupation:
     Date:   1860
     Place:   shoemaker

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Note for: Cassie Brown, JAN 1901 - Index

Alias: /Carrie/

Individual Notes

Note for: Jonathan Wallis, 17 JUN 1711 - BET 22 AUG 1796 AND 8 MAY 1798 Index

Individual Note:
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Yeoman

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Note for: Caleb Tarr, 10 SEP 1728 - BET 18 AUG 1764 AND 5 DEC 1787 Index

Individual Note:
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Fisherman

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Note for: William Parkhurst, 8 MAY 1774 - 18 JAN 1853 Index

Alias: /Parkhust/

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Note for: Sarah Parsons, BEF 5 MAR 1775 - Index

Baptism:
     Date:   5 MAR 1775
     Place:   Gloucester Mass

Alias:   /sally/

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Note for: Hugh Parkhurst, 1750 - 6 JUN 1776 Index

Individual Note:
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The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1847-1998
Revolutionary War Soldier at Bunker Hill,killed aboard the Yankee Hero off Gloucester Harbor .

AMERICANREVOLUTION.ORG
A NAVAL HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
CHAPTER III
WASHINGTON'S FLEET, 1775 AND 1776
Meanwhile, during the occupation of Boston by the British, other vessels than those of Washington's fleet were cruising in Massachusetts Bay and to the eastward. In December the Rhode Island sloop Katy, Captain Whipple, captured one of the enemy's ships. The privateer Yankee Hero of Newburyport cruised in February and March with success. Among the prizes taken was "a large Ship from and own'd in London, laden with Coal, Cheese and Porter, bound for the Ministerial Assassins at Boston." February 26, 1776, fifteen prizes were advertised to be tried at Ipswich, and March 25, twelve others at Plymouth (Boston Gazette, December 11, 1775, January 22, February 19, 26, March 4, 18, 25, 1776; Mass. Spy, January 26, 1776.)

AMERICANREVOLUTION.ORG
A NAVAL HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
CHAPTER V
OTHER EVENTS ON THE SEA IN 1776
(This appears to be an account of the battle in which Hugh died:)
Captain James Tracy was unfortunate enough to fall in with a British frigate, mistaking her for a merchantman. Tracy sailed from Newburyport, June 7, in the brig Yankee Hero, carrying twelve guns and twenty-six men, including officers. He expected to get more men at Boston. Off Cape Ann the captain sighted a sail which he determined to chase, and here he received a reinforcement of fourteen men who came out from the shore in boats; with forty, he still had only a third of his complement. Tracy then bore away for the sail, which was five leagues distant, to the east-southeast; when too late he discovered the chase to be a man-of-war. He now put about for the shore with the ship, which turned out to be the frigate Milford, in pursuit. The wind, which had been westerly, died away, and in an hour and a half the frigate, having taken a fresh breeze from the south, was within half a mile and began to fire her bow chasers. The wind shifted to the west again. Tracy reserved his fire until the enemy should be within close range. She soon came up on the Yankee Hero's lee quarter within pistol-shot and the unequal contest became warm. The account of the affair was "chiefly collected from those who were in the engagement." "After some time the ship hauled her wind so close, which obliged the brig to do the same, that Capt. Tracy was unable to fight his lee guns; upon this he backed under her stern, but the ship, which sailed much faster and worked as quick, had the advantage and brought her broadside again upon him, which he could not evade, and in this manner they lay not an hundred feet from each other yawing to and fro for an hour and twenty minutes, the privateer's men valiantly maintaining their quarters against such a superior force. About this time the ship's foremast guns beginning to slack fire, Capt. Tracy tacked under his stern and when clear of the smoke and fire, perceived his rigging to be most shockingly cut, yards flying about without braces, some of his principal sails shot to rags and half of his men to appearance dying and wounded." The first lieutenant was among the wounded. The frigate having sheared off there was a short lull, during which the wounded were carried below and the crew began to repair the rigging. They were getting nearer shore and Tracy hoped to be able to escape. Before things could be put to rights, however, the frigate "again came up and renewed the attack, which obliged Capt. Tracy to have recourse to his guns again, though he still kept some hands aloft to his rigging, but before the brig had again fired two broadsides, Captain Tracy received a wound in his right thigh and in a few minutes he could not stand; he laid himself over the arm chest and barricadoe, determined to keep up the fire, but in a short time, from pain and loss of blood, he was unable to command, growing faint, and they helped him below. As soon as he came to, he found his flring had ceased and his people round him wounded, not having a surgeon with them, in a most distressed situation, most of them groaning and some expiring. Struck severely with such a spectacle, Capt. Tracy ordered his people to take him up in a chair upon the quarter deck and resolved again to attack the ship, which was all this time keeping up her fire; but after getting into the air, he was so faint that he was for some time unable to speak and finding no alternative but they must be taken or sunk, for the sake of the brave men that remained he ordered them to strike to the ship." (Mass. Spy, September 11, 1776.) The action lasted over two hours and the Yankee Hero lost four killed and thirteen wounded. On the Milford were thirty American prisoners who had been impressed and were forced to fight against their countrymen. The frigate took her prize to Halifax (Ibid., June 21, September 11, 1776; Am. Arch., IV, vi, 746-749; Mil. and Nav. Mag. of U. S., May, 1835.)

Individual Notes

Note for: George Parkhurst, 29 MAY 1814 - Index

Occupation:
     Date:   1849
     Place:   Mariner

Occupation:
     Date:   1834
     Place:   Trader as listing in Gloucester Vitals 3/504