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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 10: trade. (search)
Freedom's calendar. He early chose the trade of a ship-carpenter, and served his time with Mr. Enos Briggs, at Salem, where he worked five years. He was fond of being in the mould-room, and soon shoThe present owners' names are given in all cases. This yard was owned first by Messrs. Turner & Briggs, then by Mr. Turner, afterwards by Messrs. Rogers, and now by Mr. Lapham.C. Turner & E. BriggsJoE. BriggsJohn C. JonesBoston237.74 3 ShipOtisT. Magoun'sT. MagounJames ErvingBoston291.82 4 BrigHopeT. Magoun'sT. MagounSamuel GrayBoston165.18 51805ShipEclipseT. Magoun'sT. MagounThomas H. PerkinsBoston343.49 61806ShipGeorge AugustusS. Lapham'sC. Turner & E. BriggsNathaniel GoddardBoston246.92 7 BrigPedlarT. Magoun'sT. MagounTimothy WilliamsBoston224.82 8 BrigGulliverT. Magoun'sT. MagounJoseph Lee, jun.Boston247.80 91807Sch.Eliza & LydiaS. Lapham'sC. Turner & E. BriggsJohn BanisterBoston100.04 10 ShipCommerceS. Lapham'sC. TurnerJohn HollandBoston377.85 11 BrigCreoleT. Magoun'sT. MagounJohn W<
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 1., Notes. (search)
Pembroke, Mass., June 17, 1775, the day on which the battle of Bunker Hill was fought. He early took up the trade of a ship-carpenter, and served his time with Enos Briggs, at Salem, where he remained five years. From Salem he went to Mr. Barker's yard, in Charlestown (now the Navy Yard), where he worked and studied two years, ass & J. O. Curtis, F. Waterman & H. Ewell, and Hayden & Cudworth. 3. Yard on Riverside avenue, opposite end of Cross street. Occupied in 1805 by Calvin Turner & E. Briggs, and at successive periods by Calvin Turner, E. & H. Rogers, G. B. Lapham, and S. Lapham. 4. Yard off Swan street, site of present city stables. Here James Owill now give you the aggregate results of the shipbuilding of the town as shown by Mr. Usher's tables: builders.No. vessels. Thatcher Magoun84 C. Turner & E. Briggs3 Calvin Turner25 James Ford2 Sprague & James66 George Fuller29 E. & H. Rogers9 John Sparrell1 Samuel Lapham20 Jotham Stetson32 Curtis & Co.2 P. & J. O.
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 25., Old ships and ship-building days of Medford. (search)
uilt. In 1802 was laid the keel of the first of the merchant ships which were known in every sea on the globe. Thatcher Magoun was born at Pembroke, Mass., June 17, 1775. He early chose the trade of ship carpenter and served his time with Enos Briggs at Salem, where he worked five years. From Salem he went to Mr. Barker's yard in Charlestown (the present Navy Yard), where he worked and studied two years and assisted in modelling. There he made the model of the first vessel he built, whichng river which later had ten ship yards within a mile's distance, and where one to three vessels could often be seen at one time on the stocks. Brooks. History of Medford. Following Mr. Magoun the next year Calvin Turner of Pembroke and Enos Briggs of the Essex county family of that name built the ship Medford of two hundred and thirty-eight tons for John C. Jones of Boston. After them came Sprague & James, Lapham, Fuller, Rogers, Stetson, Waterman, Ewell, Curtis, Foster, Taylor, Hayden