Sewall Short Inventions and Patents

Sewall Short (1796-1857) born in Newburyport, Massachusetts to William Short and Elizabeth "Betsy" Pike ( 1775-1839) Sewall's gr. grandfather was cabinet maker Joseph Short. In December 1821 he married Eunice Jenkins. I found some inventions and patents Sewall was credited for. This is beginning research and more on this, but sharing what I have found so far.

In 1830, Sewall Short and Noah Bradford submitted a patent application for the submarine explorer. In their application, they claimed that they had created a water-tight suit, different from any diving apparatus known before.
Drawing of Submarine Explorer National Archives

Nantucket Inquirer Saturday, Feb 03, 1838 Nantucket, MA Page: 3
 

Nantucket Inquirer

Sewall Short patent Furnaces through which the charge is moved mechanically, e.g. of tunnel type; Similar furnaces in which the charge moves by gravity heated without contact between combustion gases and charge; electrically heated heated by hot air or gas

1837-09-06 Application granted

1837-09-06 Publication of US421A

1854-09-06 Anticipated expiration

2019-08-28 Application status is Expired - Lifetime

New York Daily Whig; Mr. S. Short; Invented; Operation: Nantucket Inquirer Wednesday, Sep 12, 1838  Nantucket, MA Vol: XVIII Issue: 72 Page: 2

Nantucket Inquirer Saturday, Aug 10, 1833 Nantucket, MA Vol: XIII Issue: 63 Page: Copy of 3

Nantucket Inquirer Tuesday, Nov 11, 1823 Nantucket, MA Vol: III Issue: 46 Page: 4

Newburyport Herald Friday, Dec 18, 1829 Newburyport, MA Page: 1 

 

Improvement In Stringed Instruments Boston Recorder Thursday, Feb 02, 1854 Boston, MA Vol: XXXIX Issue: 5 Page: 20

  

Nantucket Inquirer Saturday, Dec 01, 1832 Nantucket, MA Vol: XII Issue: 48 Page: 3 

Samuel Foster Jaques of Newburyport Massachusetts

From R-L Samuel Foster Jaques (1865-1916) and J R McColl, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville from 1896-1902.  Ca. 1891-92 C.M. McClung Historical Collection, Knox County Public Library

Samuel Foster Jaques born in Newburyport, MA on November 29, 1865 son of Edmund Jaques (1826-1899) and Rachel Ann Foster (1826-1906).

Edmund Jaques (1826-1899) son of William Jaques (18-00-1832) and Elizabeth Savory (1801-1876) of Newbury, Massachusetts

 

Captain Richard Jaques (1771-1851) grandfather of Samuel Foster Jacques

Samuel married Abbie Parish Noyes (1861-1957) daughter of Joseph Hale Noyes (1825-1896) and Abbie Maria Young (1828-1871) Below from 'Obituary record of the graduates of Bowdoin College.."

 
Abbie was a teacher with the New West Education Commission and she is in the photo below taken in 1890 from the project of the Utah Women's History Association and cosponsored by the Utah State Historical Society (see Abbie Parish Noyes Papers -Utah State Historical Society and Newburyport Blog)

 

Samuel Foster Jaques

 According to an obit published in "Journal of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers," Mr. Jaques was educated in the public schools of Newburyport and then started to learn the engraver's trade. In 1886 he entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he remained two years. From I887 to I891 he was with Wm. H. Whitney, of Boston, Mass., and from there went South to Tennessee and Georgia on engineering work. During 1892 he was engaged on preliminary sewer work in Brockton, Mass., and after a short engagement with Aspinwall & Lincoln, of Boston, in 1893, he returned to Brockton.
Jaques entered the engineering service of the United States Government at Portland Head, Maine and went from there to Dover, N. H. During I895 he was in the employ of F. Herbert Snow, then city engineer of Brockton, Mass. In 1896 Mr. Jaques was with George A. Kimball on sewer construction in Arlington, Mass., and with Percy M. Blake in 1897-98, at Hyde Park, Mass. From I898 to 1903 Mr. Jaques was in the city engineer's office at Worcester, Mass., and from there went to Dover, N. H., where he was engaged in private engineering practice until I905. He went to Lestershire, N. Y., to construct a sewer system for Morrison & Farrington, of Syracuse, N. Y., and entered the employ of the city of Binghamton, N. Y., as assistant city engineer in I905, which position he held until his untimely death. Mr. Jaques joined the Boston Society of Civil Engineers in I903. He was a member of the Binghamton Engineering Society; Binghamton Lodge No. 77, F. & A. M.; Binghamton Chapter No. 139, R. A. M., and Malta Commandery No. 21, Knights Templar. In his religious life he was a Congregationalist, and was a very active and faithful worker in the church. He was a man of quiet tastes, and was very devoted to his family and profession. Uniformly kind, courteous and considerate of others, he enjoyed a wide circle of friends.

• Jaques Family Genealogy Roger Jaques R. Jaques and P. Jacques, 1995 
• Noyes Genealogy http://noyesgenealogy.com/ 
•  The Sons and Daughters of the First Settlers of Newbury MA https://www.sonsanddaughtersofnewbury.org/

Portrait Mary Davenport and Charles Coffin by John Brewster JR

Mary Davenport (1783-1852) and Charles Coffin (1779-1851) painted by John Brewster JR (1766-1854) Mary was daughter of Anthony Davenport (1752-1836) and Elizabeth Woodburn (1755-1785). Charles son of Paul Coffin (1736-1821) and Mary Gorham (1739-1803)

A Deaf Artist in Early America: The Worlds of John Brewster, J  Harlan L. Lane, John Brewster Beacon Press, 2004

Benjamin Coates Welch and Mary Ann Holm

Benjamin Coates Welch (1835-1931) son of Richard Welch and Harriet Johnson with wife Mary Ann Holm (1835-1930) daughter of George Holm and Ann Davis

The couple is listed as living on 40 Middle Street, Newburyport and Rolfe's Lane Newbury, Massachusetts in the census and city directory. Children Benjamin Stover Welch married Mary Ella Berry--Lived in Lanconia, New Hampshire, May M Welch married Walter Irvin Perry, and George H Welch married Georgia Colby.

Benjamin enlisted in Newburyport, Massachusetts and mustered in at Yonkers, as Sergeant in Co. B, June 14, 1861. Promoted to First Sergeant, Sept. 3, 1861, to Second Lieutenant, Feb. 5, 1862, and to First Lieutenant, Aug. 7, 1862. Discharged, Mar. 1, 1863. Again enlisted, Mar. 7, 1864, as Private in the 13th Mass. Light Artillery. Promoted to Corporal, Nov. 2, 1864. Discharged, Aug. 1, 1865. He was a member of the St Mark's Masonic Fraternity, and for many years a prominent and influential member of AW Bartlett Post 49, Grand Army of the Republic, but when the Union Veterans Legion was instituted, also served as Adjutant of Encampment No. 79.

Newburyport Daily News and Newburyport Herald Wednesday, January 21st, 1931

Obit January 10 1930 for Mary Ann Holm Welch

Obit May 20, 1897 for Edmund Welch brother of Benjamin Welch

Mayor Alderman and City Clerk Newburyport 1906

Boston Globe Article 1906 Bribery Investigation 86,800 Embezzled and these men where making a thorough investigation. Please request full PDF  

Hook's Ferry Amesbury Massachusetts and History of the Hook Family

Photo from "The Ancient Ferry ways to the Merrimack" by William D Lowell Read at the Annual Meeting of the Historical Society of Old Newbury (Now Newbury Museum) October 26, 1893, by Miss E. A. Getchell

Fiery Family Feud over Ferry Rights 

According to records Capt. Humphrey Hook, son of William Hooke and Elizabeth Dyer was the ferryman about the time of his marriage to Judith March, daughter of Capt. John March and Jemima True, daughter of Henry True and Israel Pike of Salisbury, Massachusetts.
Captain John March was granted the ferry on Oct. 25, 1687 through a petition he filed March, Sept. 23, 1687. James Carr, whose family controlled the ferry rights remonstrated against it, stating that the first bridge at Carr's island cost more than £300; that the ferry at George Carr's death (1683) was worth near £400, and that the injury to him by March's ferry was £50 or £60 a year. Mr. March in a letter to the town of Salisbury offered to be at one half the expense of making their part of the road passable to the ferry.
Captain March was a prominent figure and the leading petitioner for the “Iron Works” of Amesbury and Salisbury, granted in 1710. 

From History of Amesbury Joseph Merrill 

November 9 1730

 Mentioned in 1732

Again in 1735

 September 1766 Town Meeting and in 1782

Capt John March was son of Captain Hugh March and Sarah Moody, daughter of Caleb Moody and Sarah Pierce, Hugh March was son of Hugh March and Judith Knight one of the settlers of Newbury, Massachusetts.  American Ancestors has all the probate records

Children of Capt Hook and Judith March:
Daughter Jemina Hook (1703-1740) married Jacob Blaisdell, son of John Blaisdell (s. of Henry Blaisdell and Mary Haddon) and Elizabeth Challis (d. of Philip Challis and Mary Sargent) 
Daughter Judith March (1705-1747) married Timothy Currier, son of Thomas Currier (s. of Thomas Currier and Mary Osgood) and Sarah Barnard (d. of Nathaniel Barnard and Mary Barnard).  
John Hooke (1708-1749)  Any information please post 

Map of Salisbury, Massachusetts Check out History of Massachusetts Blog for more information

William Hook is son of William Hooke and Eleanor Knight, widow of Lt Col. Walter Norton killed by Pequot Indians while on a trading expedition

  
From Colonial Soldiers and Officers in New England, 1620-1775

Humphrey Hook, William Hook, Thomas Hook and Giles Elridge named, among others, for " planters and undertakers " of Agamenticus and Cape " Nedock. The following is from the History of Amesbury by Joseph Merrill 1880

 

 1776 Record from Town Records in 

The following pages are from History of Newbury, Massachusetts John James Currier