Crew of Lost Privateer "Gloucester"
Privateer "Gloucester" Sailed about July 1, 1777-had 18 guns
and a crew of 130. {Gloucester Vital records on Burns and Webster report 60 men}. Took 2 prizes: "Two Friends" which was brought in by John McKean and brig "Spark" which was brought in by Isaac Day {Babson.p.413} {Other years given for loss is 1776 {Lamson.p.84} and 1779 {Babson}
From: "History of the town of Gloucester: Cape Ann
By John James Babson" 1860:
P.413:
Colson, John, Captain {genealogy in "Putnam's monthly historical magazine, Volume 4 By Eden Putnam" 1896 .p.163}
From: "History of the town of Manchester, Essex County, Massachusetts, 1645-1895 By Darius Francis Lamson"
.p.84-85 & .p.360:
Surgeon: Whipple; Dr Joseph
Allen, Amos
Allen, Azariah
Allen, John
Babcock, Nicholas
Brown, Andrew
Brown, David
Carter, John
Lendell, Jacob
Morgan, Daniel
Morgan, James
Ober, Daniel
Pittman, James
Tucker, -----
Weber, Simon
From: "The Essex antiquarian: an illustrated ... magazine devoted to ..., Volumes 3-4 By Sidney Perley" 1899.p.24:
Allen, Zerubbabel born Oct 25, 1756 {posthumous-his father also named Zerubbabel Allen born June 2, 1729 had been lost at sea 1756}
From: "Notes and additions to the history of Gloucester
By John James Babson" 1909 page 7:
Babson, William. Born Oct 25, 1745; married Elizabeth Wallis
November 7, 1769{Also listed in DAR Lineage Book 1909
Vol 27.p.311}
From: "Vital Records of Gloucester, Massachusetts to the end of the Year 1849-Volume III":
p.85: Burns, John
p.319: Webster, William
From: "History of the town of Gloucester: Cape Ann
By John James Babson" 1860:.p.286
Stacy, Philemon, Havard College graduate 1765-schoolmaster
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