The Marine room of the Peabody Museum of Salem (1921)
Robinson, John, 1846-1925, comp, Peabody Museum of Salem · Salem, Mass., Peabody Museum · leaf 270
lemships. Thatcher Magoun (1775 - 1856), who built the Henry Tuke,Brookline and other Salem vessels, was born in Pembroke, Mass., fromwhence so many ship-builders have come. After serving five yearswith Enos Briggs in Salem, he started business for himself in Medfordwhere he built in all eighty… … I DESK USED BY DR. NATHANIEL BOWDITCHAt which he translated La Place= Mechanique Celeste. The Ocean Express was the largest ship built at Medford, 2000tons, in 1854, and John Foster built the last ship in Medford in 1873.[See Brooks, History of Medford, p. 357; also, Ship-building atMedford in the…
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