Lillian Francis Smith---Sharpshooter and The California Huntress

Lillian Francis Smith (3 Feb 1871– 3 Feb 1930)  PBS Bio

Lillian was born in Coleville, California, six years after Annie Oakley. At the age of seven, she became bored with dolls and asked her father for a little rifle instead. She was performing in San Francisco by age 10, and her father offered a $5000 wager that no one could beat her. She challenged Doc Carver, one of the era's best-known marksmen, to a competition in St. Louis, and he never showed up. Buffalo Bill Cody discovered her while touring in California, and she joined the his Wild West show in time for its summer 1886 run on Staten Island. The 15-year-old Smith became billed as "The champion California huntress."
As you can imagine, the younger Smith brought out the claws in Annie Oakley. Mote @ Legends of Jim Kid
The two women were experts in different weapons, Oakley favored the shotgun, while Smith preferred the rifle. But relations between the two quickly went south. One reason was Smith's personality, she liked to brag and could be heard declaring "Annie Oakley was done for" now that Smith was part of Cody's show. Smith spoke coarsely and wore flashy clothing, this was appalling to the more conservative Oakley. In addition, Smith was apparently a bit of a flirt, perhaps promiscuous. Smith was also younger, and that may have threatened Oakley. Her actions certainly suggested that Oakley felt some pressure, that summer she started telling people that she was born in 1866, chopping six years off her real age and narrowing the gap with 15-year-old Smith. She also had a flashy new outfit made for the Wild West's opening parade, one that said "Oakley" on both sides.
The growing feud between the two intensified when Cody's show went to London in the spring of 1887. Oakley was criticized in the press for shaking the hand of Prince Edward's wife first, while Smith, who had done the same thing, was not singled out. Can we say "Meeoow"?
Because of the rivalry and Cody's reluctance to moderate it (He probably thought it good for the show)The relations between Buffalo Bill and Oakley soon deteriorated to the point that Oakley decided she could no longer go on with the Wild West show, and she left it at the end of the London season.

After Oakley departed, Smith was married to Jim 'Kid' Willoughby. Her fortunes began to decline. After a disastrous shoot at Wimbleton, the fickle papers began to criticize her and mock her speech. Allegations also surfaced that Smith was cheating in her Wild West act. This was rejected as false by Cody and he would snub Oakley and talk up Smith in his later account of the meeting with Queen Victoria. But, he must have realized that Smith would never be the draw that Oakley was. Smith left Buffalo Bill's show just in time for Oakley to rejoin it in 1889.

Smith turned up a year later, in "Mexican Joe's Wild West" show with her skin darkened and her stage name changed to "Princess Wenona, the Indian Girl Shot." She and Oakley did meet once more, both competing in the 1902 Grand American Handicap. Oakley out shot Smith that day, and then they went their separate ways, Oakley onward into historic fame.

The few records that still exist concerning Lillian Smith states that she performed her sharpshooting act for various other western touring shows that sprang up after Cody's success. These included the 101 Ranch wild West Show and Pawnee Bill's Wild West. History also shows that Smith was involved with a few more romances and marriages in the early 1900's. Ultimately, Smith sank down into obscurity. So much so that most of us reading this have never heard of her.

A tintype portrait of a woman identified as Lillian Smith, the celebrated California sharpshooter, armed with a Stevens Tip-Up Rifle, ca 1875-1885, 2.5 x 3.1 in. Smith was hired by Cody to appear with his troop in 1886. Almost immediately, she was seen to be Annie Oakley's rival. During Cody's tour of Europe the following summer, the rivalry became public over perceived slights by European royalty. Smith left the show in 1889, and faded into obscurity.

 

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Cassius D Phelps & A CURIOUS FIND IN WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS

For my Phelps Genealogy Group and check out Sweet Brook Farm still operating today. From American Journal of Numismatics, Volume 44 The newspaper reporters have given us the following interesting item, under date of October 24, instant: —

Coin Made In 1652 is Found In Field. 

Cassius Daniel Phelps, a South Williamstown merchant, while plowing a field, found one of the rarest of American coins, a Massachusetts Pine Tree Shilling, for which he has refused 5300. It is one of the first coins which was minted in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and is dated 1652, thirty-two years after the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth. There are only two others like it in existence, and neither is as good a specimen as this one. One is owned by a Boston collector and cost him $212, and the other is owned in Albany, and no price will be placed upon it. Before accepting the reporter's estimate of its value and rarity it will be best to wait for a further description of the piece. From the price named, it has been suggested by a correspondent, that it is perhaps an impression of the so-called "Good Samaritan " piece, one of which, in the Parmalee collection, was sold in June, 1890, for $210. As no "Pine-tree Shilling," so-called, has ever brought so high a price, the suggestion seems probable.
In this connection we may note that there is a good deal of uncertainty about the history of the "Good Samaritan shilling." Dr. Green, in the Journal—then one of its editors— VII (1870): p. 40, said that the original was "undoubtedly the work of some English apothecary, who without any special object in view, stamped the piece with his trade-mark. It is figured in Felt's Account of ' Massachusetts Currency,' (plate, p. 38)." The "Good Samaritan Shilling " attracted attention as early as 1767, when Thomas Hollis wrote about it to the Rev. Andrew Eliot, D. D., of Boston, and in his letter said: "Shilling, No. 10, Massachusetts in Portraiture of the good Samaritan. Over it FacSimile No Reverse If the shilling, No. 10 can be procured for T. H. in fair, unrubbed, uncleaned condition, he will be glad of them at any price." To this Dr. Eliot replied: "The portraiture of the good Samaritan no one among us ever heard of. I am persuaded that it was not a current coin; but a medal struck on some particular occasion." It will be noted that the piece Hollis asked for, nearly a century before Wyatt, had "no reverse," and was a facsimile copy of an earlier issue.

In 1856 counterfeits of the piece appeared, and in a sale by Bangs, Merwin & Co., Sept. 24, 1874, a "Samaritan shilling" was offered with a Pine tree reverse. This example was struck in gold, and was at once recognized as a fraud. The editor of the Journal (then Mr. W. S. Appleton) said at that time, "We have no doubt this is one of Wyatt's fabrications. It is well known that the Good Samaritan piece was not a coin, and all which were ever struck in gold (and no one knows how many beside) came from the same unscrupulous hand." For a further account of the piece see " Crosby's Early Coins." Mr. Appleton, in commenting on the piece in the Parmelee collection said he had not changed his opinion frankly expressed some years ago, "as to its genuine character," and still thought it sold "for a great many times its value." If however the Williamstown specimen should chance to be a genuine "Pine Tree Shilling," and not one of Wyatt's counterfeits, a detailed description of the particular variety, of which we are told there are only two others like it in existence, etc. — one valued at $212, or more, and the other at — nobody knows what — would be interesting to many collectors. We are tempted to inquire on what authority the reporter says that only two others like it are in existence, neither as good as this one. Monday, October 24, 1910 Paper: Boston Herald (Boston, MA)

C D Phelps Born in Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA on 25 Mar 1852 to Daniel H Phelps and Mary Elizabeth Tiffany. Daniel Phelps son of  Thomas Cooley Phelps (son of Daniel Phelps and Mary Hanes) and Lusina Hall (d. of James Hall and Susannah Hoxey) 

Cassius married Emilly Ella White and had 11 children. He passed away on 29 Oct 1925 in South Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA. Emilly E White Born on 9 Mar 1856 to William White and Lucretia Williams. Emilly Ella passed away on 9 Nov 1945 in South Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA. Cassius Daniel Phelps1880-1943 

Ella B Phelps1881-1885 

Thomas Cooley Phelps1882-1965 

Douglas Harry Phelps1883-1956 

Mildred Daisy Phelps1886-1952 

Robert Garfield Phelps1887-1954 

Daniel Harrison Phelps1889-1964 

Amos Leon Phelps1891-1891 

Frederick Hall Phelps1893-1951 

Myrtle Claribel Phelps1895-Unknown 

Harley Proctor Phelps1901-Unknown

More on C D Phelps
Sunday, May 19, 1918
Paper: Springfield Republican (Springfield, MA)

Inside the heart of Bronson Alcott — Louisa May Alcott is My Passion

Photo of Bronson Alcott on steps of Hillside Chapel (Concord School of Philosophy building) Concord Library Collections

Bronson Alcott’s Sonnets and Canzonets, published in 1882 and how they reveal the heart of the man. Each sonnet or canzonet is dedicated to his wife, daughters and many luminary friends such as Ralph Waldo  Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Margaret Fuller. But what about the lines not labeled? See what Susan Bailey author of Louisa May Alcott Illuminated by The Message (exploring the spiritual nature of Alcott’s works) and a spiritual memoir, River of Grace Creative Passages Through Difficult Times uncovers.......Click Inside the heart of Bronson Alcott

Alcott book is available on archive.org

A letter from Robert Pike to Judge Curwin Salem Witch Trials 1692

In 1892 John Nurse, a descendant of Rebecca Nurse who was executed for witchcraft in the Salem Witch Hysteria 1692 gave an address on the Salem Witchcraft Trials to the Nurse Family Association. Rebecca Nurse was the  daughter of William Towne and Joanna Blessing of Topsfield, Massachusetts. Rebecca’s two sisters, Mary Towne Esty/Easty and Sarah Towne Cloyse were also tried for witchcraft in 1692. Mary was executed and Sarah was released. See Three Sovereigns for Sarah Also See Post on Bible of Esty/Easty Family and What Ghost Hunters Found in Topsfield Hangers and Symbolism

Nurse Family Association, dedication of the Rebecca Nurse Memorial, erected July 1885. The tall granite memorial is located in the cemetery of Rebecca Nurse Homestead, Danvers, Massachusetts. Photograph housed at Danvers Public Library part of the Archive Collection. see also History of Massachusetts

One topic which John Nurse spoke on was the letter written in August of 1692 to Judge Jonathan Curwin (Photo below) singed with the initials “R P” which is agreed by most scholars to be Robert Pike, of Salisbury, Massachusetts. (Some believe this letter was written by Robert Payne).

I was intrigued by this article* published in The Springfield Republican 1879 entitled Our Boston Literary Letter. Puritans, Witches and Quakers The Life of Robert Pike The letter delivered to Judge Curwin was dated in Salisbury, Massachusetts and in the handwriting of Captain Thomas Bradbury, Recorder of old Norfolk County. Bradbury’s wife, Mary Perkins Bradbury, was arrested for witchcraft and was jailed at the time as Rebecca Nurse. Charles Wentworth Upham in his book Salem witchcraft; with an account of Salem Village, and a history of opinions on witchcraft and kindred subjects, Volume I and II provides a copy of the letter and is available on line University of Virginia site.

Pike was speaking for the victims, although many examples he refers to are his defense was gearing toward Mary Perkins Bradbury is probably correct. Pike was close with her family and he served in many civil positions with her husband Captain Bradbury.
It is certain that Justice Curwin took great stock in this letter as James Shepherd Pike points out, "the fact that Jonathan Curwin preserved this document, and placed it in the lilies of his family papers, is pretty good proof that he appreciated the weight of its arguments. It is not improbable that he expressed himself to that effect to his brethren on the bench, and perhaps to others.”
What is important to note is that Pike was extremely progressive and was under constant scrutiny despite his high position. (with exception of Rev Dane in Andover and Rev Hale in Beverly) he was a voice of reason and logic. Pike advocated for many including Thomas Macy, James Peaslee, and the three Quaker women of Dover made famous by John Greenleaf Whittier in The Three Women of Dover. Mary Perkins Bradbury was not the only one in the family tree under on the hit list, Lydia Perkins Wardwell was whipped in public for her Quaker belief. More on that below.
In a well written letter Pike brings into question the conduct of the judges, the validity of the hearings, and “controverts and demolishes the principles on which the Court was proceeding in reference to the “spectral evidence,” and the credibility of the “afflicted children” generally.
However, Rebecca Nurse’s case was definitely of interest. Her brother Joseph Towne married Phebe Perkins, daughter of Deacon Thomas Perkins and Pheobe Gould. Thomas Bradbury was the sister of Mary Perkins Bradbury.
One of the motivations to target Rebecca was her connection with Quaker families. Douglas Bowerman, a direct descendant utilized the research Margo Burns compiled to trace his family line. The archival records  from Burns work reveal  that on April 26 1677 “a guardianship decision by the court allowing John Southwick to chose Frances Nurse (husband to Rebecca Nurse) to be guardian of his son Samuel and Thomas Fuller to be Guardian to his son John.” Lawrence Southwick and his wife Cassandra were banished from Salem for their Quaker beliefs
Emerson Baker in A Storm of Witchcraft proposes that, “Suspicion may even have fallen on respected Puritan saint Rebecca Nurse because of Quaker ties,” when she assumed guardianship role for the Southwick children. In his earlier book, The Devil of Great Island: Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England, Baker also notes that many scholars have uncovered evidence that several accused of witchcraft in the Salem 1692 Witch trials were associated with Quakers. Bakers asserts, household members, neighbors, , that were Quakers.”
There were connections and definite conflicts with families that were tied to Quakers.  I have published two articles in Genealogy Magazine on the PERKINS line. The first is “The Witchcraft Trial of Mary Perkins Bradbury” and second, her relative Lydia Perkins Wardwell, daughter of Issac Perkins, brother of Jacob Perkin, Mary’s father. Lydia suffered from the Quaker persecutions and was targeted by families who provided testimony that lead to her conviction. Lydia’s story  “Seventeenth Century Quaker Sought Redress by Undressing” describes the ordeal. I plan to publish a third article on how these families lines continue to intertwine. Most of the feuds can be traced back to early settlements all through New England.

Our Boston Literary Letter. Puritans, Witches and Quakers. The Life of Robert Pike - New Hampshire Wednesday, April 23, 1879 Springfield Republican (Springfield, Massachusetts)

Documents from The Salem Witch Trial Rebecca Nurse  The Petition Friends of Rebecca Nurse writing a letter on her behalf that all charges be dismissed against her, and Examination Document, 1692

• The New Puritan: New England Two Hundred Years Ago: Some Account of the Life of Robert Pike, the Puritan who Defended the Quakers James Shepherd Pike
• “Our Boston Literary Letter. Puritans, Witches and Quakers. The Life of Robert Pike – New Hampshire”  Springfield Republican Massachusetts Wednesday April 23, 1879
• The Trial of Rebbeca Nurse History of Massachusetts
• The Corwin genealogy : (Curwin, Curwen, Corwine) in the United States Edward Tanjore Corwin, 1834-1914
• Letter of Robert Pike, 1692 written at Salisbury, Mass., August 9, 1692 Peabody Essex Museum
• Full Account with transcribed documents Murder in Salem
• “Our Boston Literary Letter. Puritans, Witches and Quakers. The Life of Robert Pike” article published
• “The Broomstick Trail” Sarah Comstock Harper’s Magazine Volume 40
• The Petition for Rebecca Nurse  History of Massachusetts
• “Old Nurse House to be Bought by Historical Society ” December 11, 1905
• A Storm of Witchcraft Emerson Baker

1934 Eighth Grade Class of Jacob F Spaulding School Salisbury Massachusetts

Thanks to Donna Bartlett of Salisbury, Massachusetts and Bartlett Farm for sharing

1951 building bridge across Merrimack River by Chain Bridge & Salisbury Point

Stearns Family Photo Collection “Building new bridge across Merrimack R by Chain Bridge & Salisbury point  Nov 11, 1951.  Salisbury Pt in distance”

Trolley Station Massachusetts

Ruthie Stearns sent me this photo recently and I found two locations (researching another story! As this always seems to be the case). The Stearns family were in Amesbury, Salisbury, and Haverhill. Similar photos on the Amesbury City Forgotten Industries (and there are some great photos on this site).  One is Amesbury and the other Hampton. If anyone can help id this would appreciate it Thanks!

History of Witchcraft Haunts Old Saw Mill

From Peabody-Lynnfield Weekly News, October 26, 1995, p. 1   by S.M. Smoller and I added some court documents on a case with John Proctor vs Giles Corey, Thomas Maul page, and some sources.

PEABODY – Was it witchcraft that stopped the steady rhythm of the waterwheel at Pope’s saw mill on Norris Brook in West Peabody? That’s what the miller told the court during the Salem witch hunt of 1692, when the area around Crystal Lake was owned by two families intimately involved in the witch hysteria – one, an accuser, and the other, the accused.
“The miller here in 1692 was afflicted by the prevailing witchcraft,” wrote John Wells in The Peabody Story. The miller testified that his mill wheel was “unaccountably stopped and would not go, and no reason could be assigned except the demonical malice and power of some witch.”
The haunted mill may have been owned by the family of one of the persons who claimed to have been afflicted by witchcraft, 42-year old Bathshua Pope. She married Joseph Pope, Jr. in 1649 and was living with her widowed mother-in-law, Gertrude Pope, within the immediate vicinity of the farm of victims and martyrs, Martha and Giles Corey.
Bathshua Pope, a member of the Folger family from Nantucket, was the aunt of American patriot Benjamin Franklin. She and Joseph had eight children. According to the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, when Joseph died in1712, he named all his children in his will, except for the first two, “and notes that the eldest daughter was inferior mind, as probably had been her mother; at least, she was much afflicted in the witchcraft days.”
The localized witchcraft outbreak took on hysterical proportions by the fall of 1692, with more than 150 people examined and sent to prison. Nearly 50 people falsely confessed to being witches who had made a covenant with the devil to assist in assaulting people in the area. Nineteen persons who maintained their innocence, including the three accused by Bathshua Pope, were tried, found guilty and hanged.
“Mrs. Pope” accused Martha Corey, as well as Rebecca Nurse and John Proctor, of inflicting pain upon her body through witchcraft. At the trial of Martha Corey in March 2693, she joined with other afflicted women in calling Martha “a gospel witch”.
Marion Starkey, author of The Devil in Massachusetts,wrote, “Even while Martha proclaimed her innocence her devils had not been able to resist devising new tortures for the girls. What Martha did, now they all did. If she bit her lips, they yelled that she had bitten theirs, and came running up to the magistrates to show how they bled.”
The following month Rebecca Nurse was arrested and tried. During the examination, several afflicted persons reported seeing “a black man” whispering in Nurse’s ear. The judge stated, “What a sad thing it is that a church member here and now…should be thus accused and charged.” At which point, “Mrs. Pope fell into a grievous fit and cryed out a sad thing sure enough; And then many more fell into lamentable fits.”
Also in April, Elizabeth Proctor, the pregnant wife of John was accused. At her trial, John Proctor’s specter attacking Mrs. Pope. Chadwick Hansen in Witchcraft in Salem reported that “immediately Goodwife Pope fell into a fit.”
Earlier in this century, two postcards depciting the “haunted mill” were published. A color postcard prepared by D.F. Bresnahan of Peabody shows two wood-frame structures, 2 1/2 stories each, located on either side of a 10- to 12-foot-wide stream with a catwalk bridge connecting the two buildings.
One card also includes the following statement, “Site of Giles Coveys [sic] Mill who was pressed to death for refusing to plead in his trial for Witchcraft in1692.” Today at Crystal Lake, a conservation area, there are two stones which were placed in remembrance of Martha and Giles Corey during the witchcraft hysteria tercentenary in 1992.
City planner Judy Otto researched the history of Crystal Lake. She does not think the Pope sawmill was the haunted mill. She wrote, “At the head of Crystal Lake, at Goodale Street, on the west side, lived Captain Thomas Flint. The house was contained on the farm of Giles Corey, according to boundaries shown on the map. Giles himself lived further away on the other side of the property, on what is now Johnson Street, near Oak Grove cemetery. These two (Flint and Pope) were the only dwellings shown in the vicinity of Crystal Lake. Flint’s mill was built after the Pope mill by Thomas Flint on the opposite side of Lowell Street and closer to the pond. This mill, which existed until the 20^th century, is the mill Otto believes is the haunted mill pictured in the black-and-white post card that was printed by the Peabody Historical Society in 1905. It is titled “Haunted Mill near Phelps Station, Lowell Street, West Peabody, Mass.” Interestingly, Joseph Pope Jr.’s sister Gertrude married Eben Flint, a son of Thomas Flint. Phelps Station Peabody MA & Sidney Perley History of Salem MA Volume 3




In Salem History Volume III the Phelps saved John Proctor’s house from completely burning. Proctor brought charges against Giles Corey.



Court Documents from Records and Files of Quarterly Courts of Essex County Volume VII on the Fire John Proctor vs Giles Corey 




“A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience” which sets the Salem Witch Trials in the broader context of American history from the seventeenth century to the present, and will also describe the recent confirmation of the site of the executions in 1692.

• Emerson Baker A Storm of Witchcraft
• Nutfield Genealogy
• Peabody Essex Museum The Salem Witch Trials, 1692
• Sarah Phelps of Andover 
• The Quakers among us: 17th and 18th centuries
• Hannah (Baskel) Phelps Phelps Hill – A Quaker Woman and Her Offspring
• The Peabody story: events in Peabody’s history, 1626-1972

A Reversal of Fortune made Coachman a Millionaire

When the magnate financier James Hobart Moore son of Nathaniel Ford Moore and Rachel Arvilla Beckwith departed this earth July 17, 1916 the public learned that the wealthy tycoon had a very tender affection for those who were in his service. Although Moore’s generosity was well known by a multitude of charitable donations, it was the deep pockets of gratitude to one coachman that make this millionaire magnet stand out.
William Beattie, coachman for James H Moore was more than happy to clean out his bank account when Moore’s credit was over strained. Moore took a hit when his Diamond Match Company crashed and drained all his funds–he became a pauper over night.
Beattie came to his rescue Moore tells the Christen Journal.  “I was in an awful fix,” said Moore  and “I was worth less than nothing when Beattie came to me. He went to the bank and withdrew all his savings, $2,000.”
Beattie said “Take it…I got it from you and you’re welcome to keep it as long as you want it.” Moore accepted the sum and never forgot this kind gesture which served him through the crisis.
When Moore made his next round of millions he paid Beattie–so richly that the coachman was worth over $100,000.
The Sabath Recorder Volume 82 noted: “In these days of cold commercialism it is refreshing to see this instance of a servant’s fidelity and an employer’s gratitude. We find it hard to tell which is worthier of praise, but taken together these two give us the ideal relation of employer and employee sealed by mutual respect and loyalty. If this spirit might be universal our industrial world we should be nearer the millennium”
St. Paul wrote of sanctifying this common but high relationship: “Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters . . . with good will doing service. . . . And ye, ‘masters, do the same things unto them” (Eph6: 5-8).—Christian Herald
In his will Moore had left this bequest: “To William Beattie $10,000.” Despite his windfall Beattie remained coachman for widow Moore. According to the newspaper articles published after Moore’s funeral Beattie invested in a Tennessee plantation.


Brewster Records: The original Gig owned by James Hobart Moore housed at his summer mansion on Geneva Lake in southern Wisconsin. The Carriage Journal, fall 1995 references Moore’s many carriages and residence. Frey Carriage Company
article is a photograph of Mr. Moore driving what appears to be a Geneva Lake that could very well be this vehicle.

James H Moore left many more who where in his service $500 Let to Late Marshall Field. Will of James Hobart Moore Makes Numerous Interesting Bequests. He owned United States Steel, and also had a hand in the founding of the Nabisco corporation. Moore's brother and business partner was William Henry (Judge) Moore who married sister to James' wife Ada Small Moore. James H Moore married Lora Josephine Small, daughter of Edward Alanzo Small and Mary Caroline Roberts--d. of Benjamin Roberts & Clarissa Mitchell; George Roberts & Hannah Davis; Joseph Roberts & Ruth White; William White & Christian Simonton; John White & Lucy Wise; John Wise & Abigail Gardner; Joseph Wise & Mary Thompson; John Thompson & Alice Freeman.
Ada and Lora were members of the Daughters of the American Revolution and Society of Colonial Dames. Mother, Mary Caroline Roberts Small and sister Joanne Small Moore were also members. Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Book Volume 14 List Lora Small Moore (Member 3968) Ada Small Moore (Member 3969) Descendant of Corp. Edward Small, of Maine. Daughter of Edward Alonzo Small and Mary Caroline Roberts, his wife. Granddaughter of Edward Small and Rebecca Pratt, his wife. Gr.-granddaughter of Edward Small and Sarah Mitchell, his wife. Edward Small, (1751-1826), was detailed to work on 'the Fort at Falmouth, 1775. He served as corporal under Capt. John Wentworth and Col. Aaron Willard, at the alarms, 1777. He was born at Scarborough and died at Freeport.
Rachel Beckworth daughter of George Beckwith; Carolyn Ford daughter of Nathaniel Ford and Caroline Reese; Lucy Churchill daughter of Samuel Churchill and Elizabeth Curtis.

There is also Mayflower Ties: 

A business profile from 1921 noted that if the Moore brothers “had been the owners of Aladdin’s lamp, they could not have transformed defeat into victory more magically.” Hebert Casson in “Harvest of Gold,” The Romance of Steel and Iron in America,” noted the during fallow times the Moore boys never sweat the small stuff: “With cheerful indifference they had made and lost millions. Having promoted the Diamond Match Company, they went down with it when it foundered, losing four millions or more. In a single year, by floating the National Biscuit Company and the American Tin Plate Company, they paid their debts and had millions left.” In “Prominent and Progressive Americans,” a synopsis of their reputation and notoriety. “Do you know Moore Brothers?” a Chicago business man was asked. “Who does not” was his reply. “Their vast and successful operations are the wonder of the business world.” The tribute was none too high for a firm that, after being caught in one of the most overwhelming panics of modern times, within a year paid off, in full, debts of more than $4,000,000, and continued in business with a clean record, a big bank-account, and the unhesitating confidence of the community. However, the Judge had more than the Midas touch. He possessed a formidable, independent spirit, known as “Yankee Iniquity.” His instinct to succeed was bred in him from the sturdy stock of his Mayflower ancestors. Mrs William Henry Moore Massachusetts Mayflower Society Member Number 2753.

After James Moore's death Lora married Harry French Knight, a stockbroker. The Knight’s were prime financial backers of Lindbergh’s flight across the Atlantic.

Son of James Moore and Lora—Nathaniel Ford Moore (1884-1910) featured in the Book of Sport. Nathaniel was a champion golfer

Nathaniel Ford Moore Olympic Golf Team Gold Medalist in the 1904 Olympics. He was the husband of Helen Wells Fargo daughter of  William Congdell Fargo and Mary Stockwell Preston. (Record of Fargo Family)

• The Book of Sport, Volume 2
• Muskegon Chronicle (Muskegon, Michigan) June 21 1916
• “Richest Coachman in World Chief Mourner for Millionaire.”Sacramento Union, Number 21, 21 July 1916

New England Family Photo Collection Images of Yore

Jeffrey Gorman Photo Collection of New England families. Check out Images of Yore for other photo collections

Clarence H. Coffin 1846-1921 born in Barrington NS to Joseph Homer Coffin and Elizabeth Gorham Moved to Barnstable around 1848, then to Boston in the early 1870 where he married his wife Eudora Bassett and had 3 children Stanley, 1875, Frederic in 1886 and Elsie in 1892.

Eudora Bassett Coffin 1875-1952 Wife of Clarence Coffin. Daughter of Theodore Bassett and Lucy Ellis.

Stanley H. Coffin Son of Clarence Coffin 1875-1952 and Eudora Bassett. Born in Boston, Married Esther Smith Coffin in 1902 and had one daughter Irma B Coffin 

Irma B. Coffin 1908-1942? Daughter of Stanley Coffin and Esther Smith Coffin. She lived in Boston up to 1942 and no record of marriage of children.

A group photo with both Bates as well as Coffins. The back L to R. Ellen Bates 1855-1919 wife of Alba Smith mother to Esther Smith Coffin, Daniel Bates 1830-1916 Husband to Mary Bearse father to Ellen Smith Coffin. Ellen Smith Coffin 1876-1971 wife of Stanly H. Coffin and Esther Johnson 1800-1882 Mother to Daniel Bates.

Herbert S. Coffin 1849-1908 born in Barnstable to Joseph Homer Coffin and Elizabeth Gorham. He never married, no known children died in Somerville, Massachusetts. 

Two Photos of Esther Coffin 1854-1907, daughter of Joseph Coffin and Elizabeth Gorham. Born and Died in Barnstable. She also did not marry.  

Edgar Homer Coffin 1859-1949 born in Barrington NS to Thomas Homer Coffin and Sarah Doane. He moved to Boston in 1859.  He married Eva Crowell in 1859 she died in 1907 they had no children, He later married 2nd Henrietta Burbridge in 1909 and they also had no children.

Ella Sarah Coffin 1866-1886 daughter of Thomas Homer Coffin and Sarah Doane. She was born in Barrington NS and did not marry.

Below Photos of The MAYO Line

Elizabeth C. Mayo 1806-1880 she was the daughter of Herman Mayo and Elizabeth Crosby of Eastham MA. She married Nathan Smith Knowles in 1829 and together they had 11 children. She died in Eastham in 1880

Elizabeth Mayo 1864-1933 she was born in Provincetown MA to Joseph Mayo and Eliza Turner. She married Augustus Aiken in 1885 and had 2 children. she died in Saugus in 1933.

Elisha Cobb Mayo 1848-1899 Born in Eastham to Matthew Mayo and Martha Snow. He married Louise Doane Brown in 1868. He was a life long Cape Cod fisherman. He and his wife had no children.

Edwin Mayo 1825-1899 and his wife Alexandrina Kamp 1842-1920. He was born in Provincetown to Stephen Mayo and Jerusha Sawtell. She was born in Richmond Nova Scotia to Hector Kemp and Mary Matheson. Edwin and Alexandrina were married in 1862 and had two children. He was employed as a sailor. Both died in Provincetown.

Charles F. Mayo 1858-1940, he was the son of Isaac Mayo and Esther Small of Provincetown MA. He married his wife Bird V. (LNU) in 1868. He moved to the Dakota territories and was a farmer in 1880 where he raised 7 children. He later in life moved to Los Angeles CA in the late 1930’s.

Marietta Mayo 1836-1879 born in Brockton MA to Watson Gould Mayo and Elizabeth Cambridge. She married a shipping merchant Thomas S. Knowles in 1866 and together had 3 children.

John Mayo 1833-1900 and Ellen Commons 1834-1890. He was born in Provincetown to Joshua Atkins Mayo and Elizabeth Small. She was born in Ireland to Robert Commons and Alice Dunn. John and Ellen married in 1855. The later moved to  Big Stone Minnesota where he worked as a farmer. Ellen and John had 1 daughter Adelaide. 

Izetta Mayo 1854-1873 Georgiana Mayo 1850-1932 they were the daughters of Isaac Mayo and Esther Small of Truro MA. Izetta married a sailor, Richard Arrow Smith Rich in 1872. The had one child before her death in 1873. Georgiana married a insurance salesman, Wallace Collins in 1881 they later moved to Orange NJ. They had no children.

Izetta Mayo, Geogianna Mayo (see above) and their cousin Adelaide Mayo 1856-1945. Adelaide was the daughter of John Mayo and Ellen Commons of Provincetown. She married Johnathan Sparrow Jr. in 1878 and they had 8 children.

Isaac Mayo 1826-1912 and Esther Small 1820-1914. He was the son on Joshua Atkins Mayo and Elizabeth Small. She was the daughter of Nathaniel Small and Peggy Goddard. the married in 1848 and had 4 children. Isaac was a surfman of the United States Life Saving Service (pre Coast Guard)

On April 4, 1879, he led multiple and eventually successful efforts to rescue seamen stranded in an offshore wreck at the height of a violent storm.

The schooner Sarah J. Fort was wrecked on a sandbank just off Cape Cod Initial attempts to row a rescue boat out to the wrecked and disintegrating schooner failed, with two boatmen lost overboard. By the time the tide had gone out the initial rescue crew was exhausted, and Mayo was part of a second boat crew. The boat was swamped and wrecked. Mayo rallied and led a third rescue attempt in a smaller rescue boat that was ultimately successful at rescuing the last four survivors of the schooner’s crew.

To honor his bravery and leadership, the Life-Saving Service honored Mayo with a Gold Lifesaving medal The Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts awarded Mayo and the rest of the rescue boat’s crew Silver Medals.^[7] As the captain of the rescue boat, Mayo was also awarded what the Humane Society called a “Diploma.”

Esther and Isaac later moved to Oriska North Dakota where he took up farming. In 2010 the Coast Guard named one of their new Sentinel cutters after him.

Herman Lester Mayo. He was born in Provincetown to Joseph Mayo and Eliza Turner. He marries Annie McKenzie in 1887 and had 4 children He was employed as a lifelong Cape Cod fisherman.

Betsy Mayo 1860-1931. She was the daughter of Joseph Mayo and Eliza Turner of Provincetown MA She married Hollis Perkins a sailor from Maine 1880. 

Stephen Atwood Mayo 1796-1876 He was the son of Joshua Atwood Mayo and Martha Nickerson of Provincetown MA. He married Jerusha Sawtell in 1824 and had 5 children.

Reuben Mayo 1840-1916 and Selina Doggett 1846-1914. He was the son of Matthew Mayo and Martha Snow of Eastham MA. She was the daughter of Lathrop Doggett and Janet Huphman of Liverpool Nova Scotia. They married in 1869 and had 4 children.

Matthew Frank Mayo 1840-1916. He was born in Eastham and was the son of Matthew Mayo and Martha Snow. He married Sarah Brown in 1870 and had 3 children. He was a lifelong fisherman.

Mary Malvina Mayo 1841-1892. She was born in Eastham MA and was the daughter of Matthew Mayo and Martha Snow. She married Henry Harrison Paine, a sailor from Wellfleet in 1862 and together had 1 child. 

Joseph A Mayo 1822-1886. He was born in Provincetown to Joseph Mayo and Eliza Turner. He was a lifelong fisherman. He married twice once to Adeline Sears in 1885 and they had one son Charles and again to Elizabeth Young in 1901 they had no children.