Jason

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Type: Schooner

Year: 1807

Builder: J. Hutton

Location: Baltimore

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Fetch?	Row ID	Media	Date	Vessel	Place	Related Places	Inscription/Marks	Subject	Notes	Archive Number
	1								SHORT DESCRIPTION: Oil painting depicting an eagle holding a banner in its beak and sitting on top of a globe, all above the title and eighty-eight individual flags. Handwritten identifications underneath each flag. NOTES: There is an illegible sentence written below the title and above the flags. Conservation took IR and flouresence photographs and were unable to discern what it said. In the process, they found a signature on the back of the stretcher that said R._. White A 31 NOTES: James and John Barr are the two oldest sons of Captain James Barr (1721-1803). James was born August 29, 1754 and worked as a mariner, married Eunice Carlton in 1779, and he died January 19, 1848. John Barr was also a captain, mariner, and merchant; married Sarah Pierce in 1784, he died April 3, 1832. From “The Essex Antiquarian” Vol. VI, No.4, Page 156, Oct. 1902. From Hartford Courant, 19 March 1792 James Barr owned a brig named Eunice. Doctor Barstow is Dr. Gideon Barstow, born in 1783. He was a physician, merchant, then politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Massachusetts state legislature before he died in 1852. See “History of Essex County, Massachusetts,” page 2111. Jacob Crowninshield was a member of the wealthy and prominent Crowninshield family in Salem. George Crowninshield started the shipping firm in 1790 to rival the Derby shipping firm (George's in-laws), then passed it along to his sons. George's second oldest son, Jacob (1770-1808), sailed on Crowninshield and Derby vessels before entering politics in 1799. One of George's grandsons, also Jacob (1801-1857) worked in the company offices handling insurance and spoliation claims. Pickering Dodge lived from 1778-1833, son of Israel and Elizabeth. He owned numerous ships including Bengal, Gentoo, Izette, Mandarin, Midas, and Rome; brigs Ganges, Governor Endicott, and Herald; and schooner Mary Jane. His oldest son was also named Pickering though he appears to not have followed his father’s footsteps and published books on art and sculpture. Endicott & Andrews was Samuel Endicott and John H. Andrews. William Fabens (1759-1828) was a grocer nicknamed King Fabens with a shop on High Street. He had a son named William (1782-1834) and another named Benjamin born in 1785. The brothers began a shipping company in 1816, but one of the William Fabens owned ships as early as 1809 (a schooner, Neutrality, built in 1804 and registered in 1809 with William Fabens as owner and Benjamin Fabens as master). From “Some of the Descendants of Jonathan Fabens of Marblehead” page 8, 1881 by George A. Perkins and also "Ship Registers of the District of Salem and Beverly, Massachusetts, 1789-1900" Butler Fogarty was an Irish school teacher before he came to America to work in a bank. He entered the shipping industry and came to be a partial owner of numerous ships (schooners Enterprise, Fair Trader, and Viper). He worked with William Gray and died in 1816. From Essex Institute Historical Collections, page 270. John Gardner (1771-1847) was a merchant and master mariner, had wholesale import business later. Owned ship Hazard that the British sloop of war Sylph captured in 1813, only to be recaptured by American privateer Montgomery. Company was ruined by War of 1812 but started another in 1818 with son John (1796-1870) who owned ships Commerce and Ceres, and brig Osgood. The 1796 John worked with his father from 1818-1828 as captain of Ceres and Commerce. William Rufus Gray (1750-1825) started his own business at age 28. He owned privateers during the Revolution, eventually owned 15 ships, 7 barks, 13 brigs, and 1 schooner. Gamaliel Hodges (1766-1850), his father was a sea captain, and he became master of Argonaut, Eliza, Neptune, Polly and Betsey. From 1798-1804 he partnered with Ichabod Nichols and Benjamin Hodges and owned ship Active. In 1806 he partnered with Jonathan Neal with schooner Jason and brig Edwin. J.J. Knapp is Joseph Jenkins Knapp, born about 1773. His sons, Joe (Joseph Jenkins Knapp Jr.) and Frank were hung in 1830 for their part in the murder of Captain Joseph White. Joe was married to White's grand-niece and hired two Crowninshield brothers to commit the murder. William Orne (1751/2-1815) son of Jonathan and Elizabeth, worked on privateers in Revolution, owned five ships by 1789 and 30 more later. Nephew Joseph Orne was onboard Essex in 1806 when all but cabin boy murdered by Arab pirates. Owned Orne’s Wharf. Josiah Orne (1768-1825) was a son of Josiah Orne. The 1768 Josiah worked in his father’s shipping business as an agent by 1785. He owned ship Sukey and brig Issac. He owned a few ships but was never very successful but ended up working as master of ships for other owners. Samuel Page appears as a co-owner with Endicott & Andrews. He was master of ship Diomede and Jeremiah Page is listed as a co-owner in 1815. See “Ship Registers of the District of Salem and Beverly, Massachusetts, 1789-1900” page 41. David Pingree and T.P. Pingree were father and son, Thomas Perkins was David Pingree’s uncle and the namesake of his son. David was born in 1795, Thomas Perkins Pingree was born in 1830-1876 (Peabody Essex Museum finding aid) Benjamin Pickman (1763-1843) traded with India, China, East and West Indies, and Europe. His father was also Benjamin Pickman (1740-1819), whose father Benjamin Pickman (1707/8-1773) owned a successful shipping company. The 1740 Benjamin joined his father’s company after graduating from Yale and Harvard in 1759. The 1763 Benjamin worked with his brother, William, as an agent for Elias Hasket Derby and John Derby from 1790-1796. “Between 1789 and 1822, he was the sole or partial owner of thirty-three mercantile vessels…” and partial owner of whaling ships Bengal and Catherine. Stone, Silsbee, & Pickman formed in 1798 by Nathaniel Silsbee (1773-1850) Robert Stone, and Dudley Leavitt Pickman (1779-1846) to purchase ships and sell imported goods. Became Silsbee & Pickman in 1860 when brothers Benjamin W. Stone and William Stone left the company, then Silsbee, Pickman, & Allen in 1863 when George Henry Allen became a partner. Dissolved in 1898. Israel Thorndike born in Beverly April 30, 1755. Partnered with Moses Brown (Brown & Thorndike) in 1772 for 20 years. Earned small fortune as a privateer in American Revolution. Entered China trade in 1790s and earned a larger fortune. Invested with Francis Cabot Lowell in Boston Manufacturing Company, became even wealthier in textile business as president of company from 1817-1831. Died 1832. Wait & Pierce, partnership of Aaron Wait and Jerathmael Pierce traded coffee, pepper, indigo from the East Indies. By 1798 were among the largest of a group of subscribers who loaned money to government to create a navy to protect American commerce. Madeira Packet was a 114 ton schooner, registered April 20, 1819 with Emery Johnson as owner and master. From page 111 of “Ship Registers of the District of Salem and Beverly, Massachusetts, 1789-1900” published 1906. Two brigs named America are listed in “Ship Registers of the District of Salem and Beverly, Massachusetts, 1789-1900” page 8. The first was 157 tons built in Newbury in 1801, registered April 6, 1821 with Daniel Abbott as owner and Josiah Dewing as master, she wrecked on her way to Key West in 1824. The Crowninshield family papers finding aid from Peabody Essex Museum state that ship America had an 1801 voyage for pepper from Sumatra. The Crowninshields owned the ship that’s represented by the flag on this painting. Brig Argus was 125 tons built in Barnstable in 1800, registered Nov. 2, 1803. John Dutch and Thorndike Deland were owners with David Tucker as master. Registered May 2, 1804 with John Dutch Jr. and Thorndike Deland as owners and David Tucker as master. Registered Sept. 30, 1807 with Benjamin Chapman and Henry King as owners, and Benjamin Chapman as master. Registered August 8, 1808 with Benjamin Chapman as owner and master. Registered July 31, 1809 with Benjamin Ropes and Timothy Wellman, Jr. as owners and Benjamin Chapman as master. More registrations and names until sold to Portsmouth owner in December 1818. From “Ship Registers of the District of Salem and Beverly, Massachusetts, 1789-1900” The ship Belisarius launched in October, 1794 from shipyard of Enos Briggs at Stage Point, South Fields. 209 tons, enlarged to 261.5 tons 94.5 feet long, 25 feet beam, carried valuable cargoes. One of the early copper sheathed ships and launched with masts standing. First voyage ended July 26, 1795 with cargo of tea, coffee, and indigo. July 6, 1809 she left Salem headed for Lisbon but went ashore in Bay of Tunis and wrecked, though they were able to save the crew and cargo. From The Boston Globe, January 7, 1917, page 64. Owned by Crowninshield family from at least 1797-1798, from ship log in collection of Peabody Essex Museum. Ship Diomede: there are two Diomedes from the early 1800s and the Crowninshield family. The Peabody Essex Museum finding aid for the Crowninshield family papers references paperwork relating to the construction of the brig Diomede between 1809-1810; it also refers to paperwork of the construction of the privateer schooner Diomede and the prizes it captured during the War of 1812 but do not provide dates. -The British book "The Naval Chronicle for 1813," volume 30, page 252 states “American brig Diomede, of 2 guns, 232 tons, and 8 men, laden with sugar and indigo from Manila, bound to Salem, captured by the La Hogue, May 11, 1813; sent to Halifax.” -In "John Crowninshield and the Building of the Privateer Diomede" (Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, October 1943, pages 163-218) Howard Corning writes that Retire Beckett of Salem built the Diomede for John Crowninshield in the summer of 1809. She was captured by the British after three trips. There is no date given for the capture, but Corning states that it was important for the Crowninshields to rebuild quickly and then quotes letters regarding construction of the new Diomede dated 1813. The new Diomede launched November 8, 1813 and went on to capture quite a few British ships before the British caught her in May 1814.	CL12614