Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston (1901)
Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905 · Boston : Little, Brown, and company · leaf 213
hborhood. The first mention ofship-building in Boston occurs in1640, and a hundred years laterANCIENT SHIP. there were on the stocks at the same time forty topsail vessels with seven thousand tons capacity. As early as 1645 Captain Thomas Hawkins built the Seafort,a fine ship of four hundred tons,… … A VISIT TO THE OLD SHIPYAEDS. 179 Gee had a shipyard at the foot of Copps Hill, and fourteenyears later there were no less than six yards lying around thebase of the hill, two below Fort Hill, and another beyond thecauseway at West Boston. In 1745 was built the Massachu-setts Frigate, which, under…
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