Weldon
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, Uncurated Search Results
Type: Pungy
Year: 1870
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| Fetch? | Row ID | Catalog # | Object Name | Title | Artist/Maker | Date Made | Place Made | Description | Full Image | CBMM Cat. Page |
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| 1 | 8888.0076.0000.00 | documents | Elmer Burrows Statements:The statements are co | Exact 03/16/1965 - | Elmer Burrows Statements:The statements are comprised of five pages of handwritten text clarified and expanded from three pages of interview notes from a conversation on March 16, 1965 between Terrence Burrows (age 68) and his uncle Elmer Burrows (age 89). Pages are stapled together and include a piece of notepaper from the Sheraton-Belvedere in Baltimore. Material was found in the vertical file and was originally given to the museum by Terrance Burrows, who transcribed them. Subjects include steamboats that ran to St. Michaels, boatbuilding and boatbuilders in St. Michaels, vessels owned at St. Michaels and some of their stories, harvesting oysters in the pre-motor days, working in the shipyards, and a list of some of the last vessels built by Thomas Kirby. Biographical BackgroundMr. Elmer Burrows, born 1875/1876, lived on Bodkin Island (3.5 nautical miles north of Claiborne) until he was 6 years old (1882). At this time the family moved to St. Michaels so he could enter school along with his brother Denny. In later years he worked a variety of jobs, including as a waterman dredging and tonging for oysters, as a caulker in Thomas Kirby's boatyard where he learned the trade in addition to sawing timber and other shipyard jobs, and as captain of the bugeye Anna Ellis hauling oysters and grain for owner Crit Harper. Vessels mentioned: Adelaide (log canoe) later Valiant LadyAnna Ellis (bugeye)Belle M. Crane (log canoe)Bohemia (schooner)C. C. Wheeler (schooner)Damascus (schooner)Dorchester (steamboat)Ella Cripps (schooner)Emma Giles (steamboat)Emma K. Reed (steam barge)Ernelia Price (pungy)George S. Cripps (schooner)George W. Lambdin (log canoe)Girty (log canoe)Gypsy (schooner)Harry P. Ford (pungy)John C. White (pungy)"Loon" [?] (ram schooner) Maggie Philips (schooner)Magic (log canoe)Martha Jones (schooner)Nellie White (steamboat)Olive (steamboat)R. A. Dodson (schooner)Sparkling Sea (pungy)St. Michaels (steamboat)Thomas Blades (bugeye)Valiant Lady (log canoe) ex-AdelaideWarden Evans (schooner)Weldon (pungy)Individuals mentioned:Burrows, Edwin (captain and owner of Thomas Blades)Burrows, Elmer (waterman, ship carpenter, captain)Burrows, Girty (wife of Elmer)Burrows, Terrence (deepwater sailor, log canoe owner, nephew of Elmer)Burrows, William (waterman, father of Elmer)Caldwell, Thomas (African-American preacher)Calk, George (oyster packer)Cox, Daniel (boatbuilder)Galloway, ? (captain of Warden Evans)Harper, Crit (owner of Anna Ellis)Johns, Lev (boatbuilder)Jones, Jack (captain)Jones, Ned (owner, captain of Sparkling Sea)Kirby, Thomas (boatbuilder)Lambdin, George W. (boatbuilder, son of Robert)Lambdin, Robert Sr. (boatbuilder)Shanahan, Samuel (owner of Valiant Lady)Shockley, ? (captain and owner of Weldon)Shores, Elmer (captain of Maggie Philips)Spurry, Frank (farmer?)Tarr, Charles (boatbuilder)Tyler, George (captain of Harry P. Ford)Wilson, Robert (owner of Magic in 1965)Coffin, Greenbury (boatbuilder)Blades, Samuel (boatbuilder) Subject: Elmer Burrows | No image URL. | View | |||
| 2 | 8888.0061.0000.00 | documents | Jane Foster Tucker<CR><CR>Bioeraphical Background<CR>Jan | Jane Foster Tucker<CR><CR>Bioeraphical Background<CR>Jane Foster Tucker was born in Sparks, MD and attended Goucher College and George Washington University. She married Ernest Tucker, Jr., boat designer and sailor and moved to Oxford in 1962. She has been active in county organizations such as, the Oxford Museum, Oxford Library, Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, Historical Society of Talbot County, Easton Memorial Hospital, and other local groups. Mrs. Tucker was given the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, Community Service Award by the General Perry Benson Chapter in 1996 and was given the county and state award for "Maryland You Are Beautiful" program in 1993 and the county award again in 2001. Jane Tucker has authored and published, Port of Entry, Oxford Maryland; Perdita; Half Pint; The Oxford Library; Jeremiah Banning, Mariner and Patriot and W. Barry Wood, MD, A Personal Glimpse.Scope and ContentThe following documents were housed in a scrapbook and consists of letters, photocopies of documents, transcriptions of some of these documents, publications, newspaper articles and other assorted items. Most of these documents are related to and are supporting information for the publication A Port of Entry, Oxford, Maryland.SubjectsAmbrose, Stephen E. (historian) Ann ArundellArnett, Earl, Journalist Banning, JeremiahByron, Gilbert, Writer Calvert, CharlesFoster Tucker, Jane (writer, historian) Hingst, William J. (journalist)Litsey, Weldon, American Consul General Maryland GazetteMaryland You Are Beautiful Program Morris, RobertNational Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, General Perry Benson ChapterNational Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, Community Service AwardOxford, MDOxford TercentenaryOxford MuseumOxford LibraryPaget-Tomlinson, E. W. PerditaPreston, Dickson J. (writer) Talbot CountyThe BannerJane Foster TuckerThe Star-DemocratThe Church of the Holy Trinity, Oxford, MD Tucker, Ernest Jr. (boat designer and sailor) Valliant, John R. Subject: Jane F Tucker | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 3 | 1966.0062.0001.00 | fossils | 14 shark teeth from Calvert Cliffs. | 14 shark teeth from Calvert Cliffs. | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 4 | 1966.0062.0002.00 | fossils | 14 shark teeth from Calvert Cliffs. | 14 shark teeth from Calvert Cliffs. | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 5 | 1966.0062.0003.00 | fossils | 14 shark teeth from Calvert Cliffs. | 14 shark teeth from Calvert Cliffs. | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 6 | 1966.0062.0004.00 | fossils | 14 shark teeth from Calvert Cliffs. | 14 shark teeth from Calvert Cliffs. | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 7 | 1966.0062.0005.00 | fossils | 14 shark teeth from Calvert Cliffs. | 14 shark teeth from Calvert Cliffs. | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 8 | 1966.0062.0006.00 | fossils | 14 shark teeth from Calvert Cliffs. | 14 shark teeth from Calvert Cliffs. | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 9 | 1966.0062.0007.00 | fossils | 14 shark teeth from Calvert Cliffs. | 14 shark teeth from Calvert Cliffs. | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 10 | 1966.0062.0008.00 | fossils | 14 shark teeth from Calvert Cliffs. | 14 shark teeth from Calvert Cliffs. | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 11 | 1966.0062.0009.00 | fossils | 14 shark teeth from Calvert Cliffs. | 14 shark teeth from Calvert Cliffs. | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 12 | 1966.0062.0010.00 | fossils | 14 shark teeth from Calvert Cliffs. | 14 shark teeth from Calvert Cliffs. | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 13 | 1966.0062.0011.00 | fossils | 14 shark teeth from Calvert Cliffs. | 14 shark teeth from Calvert Cliffs. | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 14 | 1966.0062.0012.00 | fossils | 14 shark teeth from Calvert Cliffs. | 14 shark teeth from Calvert Cliffs. | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 15 | 1966.0062.0013.00 | fossils | 14 shark teeth from Calvert Cliffs. | 14 shark teeth from Calvert Cliffs. | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 16 | 1966.0062.0014.00 | fossils | 14 shark teeth from Calvert Cliffs. | 14 shark teeth from Calvert Cliffs. | No image URL. | View | ||||
| 17 | 1985.0005.0001.00 | steering wheels | Wood steering wheel reportedly from the sidewheel | Wood steering wheel reportedly from the sidewheel paddle steamer RIVER QUEEN. The wheel has 10 spokes connected to the metal brass hub. On the outer ring there are 10 inlaid metal stars and 10 inlaid wood diamonds. The RIVER QUEEN was built in 1864 and was used by President Lincoln during the Civil War. Condition: The ends of 3 spokes are loose and had been repaired at an earlier time, heavily varnished & discolored. Material: Oak? with metal hub, brass. |  | View |
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