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wife, Jane, settled in Medford for a few years after their marriage. Upon her death he moved to Boothbay, in the District of Maine, where he married Margaret Fullerton. March 11, 1770, the New Hampshire Legislature voted "giving leave to William McClintock, of Boothbay, in the State of Massachusetts, to export 70 bushels of corn for said Boothbay." He died June 3, 1779, aged 49 years, of yellow fever.

III. William McClintock, born in Boothbay September 26, 1778, commenced his sea-faring life at the age of seventeen and pursued that calling for forty years. In 1798 he was mate with Capt. Dickey, in the schooner Hester, bound to Bristol from the West Indies. She was captured August 18 by a French privateer and a prize crew put aboard. The vessel was recovered by her old crew, who overpowered their captors and completed her voyage to Bristol. The Frenchmen accepted the situation so gracefully and behaved so well that the intention was not to deliver them up to the authorities, but they were found out and lodged in Wiscasset jail. While there Capt. McClintock supplied the officer with clothing and made him as comfortable as possible. On a subsequent voyage, while master of the sloop Hunter, Capt. McClintock was overhauled by a French privateer, who boarded him in his own boat. The of ficer no sooner stepped on deck than he seized the captain, hugged and kissed him, and began to inquire for people in Bristol. He was his old friend, the prize officer of the Hester, who suffered him and his vessel to go in peace.

In October, 1800, while master of the sloop Hunter, from the West Indies to Bristol, Capt. McClintock providentially rescued from death a portion of the crew of the Galgo, a wrecked Brit

ish sloop-of-war. Of 121 but 29 were saved. A few days later, October 12, the Hunter was hove to by an armed vessel under Spanish colors that took two puncheons of rum from the cargo, robbed the vessel of spare cordage, twine, arms and other things, and left her. Next day the same cruiser hove the Hunter to again and took another puncheon of rum, leaving word that if he fell in with the vessel the next day he would take two more. What the real character of this queer craft was Capt. McClintock never knew, but he was certainly what the sailors call "a rum customer." Probably he was one of those cruisers that were either privateer or pirate, as opportunity offered. For some years Capt. McClintock sailed a sloop packet between Ireland and the United States.

Capt McClintock enjoyed the highest respect and confidence of all with whom he was associated in business, and was a remarkably successful commander. No vessel under his command was wrecked or seriously damaged. In the intervals of his sea life Capt. McClintock filled various offices of trust conferred by his fellow citizens. His proficiency in mathematics was such that when disputes arose between the proprietors of Bristol and the settlers he was selected as referee, and made a survey of the whole town, which quieted the differences and marks the boundaries of lots to this day. He held justice commissions from Gov. Gerry in 1810 and from Gov. Brooks in 1817. He was a member of the Massachusetts Legislature in 1809, 1810 and 1811. When Maine separated from Massachusetts in 1820, he was a member of the convention that formed a constitution for the new State. He was twice a member of the Maine Legisla

ture, the last time in 1835. He held a commission in the custom house under Collectors Farley and McCobb. Capt. McClintock was a man of deep religious feeling. It was his custom o have daily prayers on board his vessel, and to discourage profanity and every form of irreligion and vice. A man of temperate life and regular habits, he enjoyed vigorous health almost to his latest days, and his mental faculties were strong and clear to the last. To such a man death could have neither terrors nor pangs. In calmness he awaited the hour of dissolution. He died March 18, 1875, in his ninety-seventh year. [The above account of Capt. William McClintock is condensed from an article in the Republican Journal, of Belfast, Me.]

He was very much interested in historical subjects, and his retentive memory was stored with facts and traditions. A delegation of the Maine Historical Society visited him after he was eighty years of age and gained many impor. tant facts from oblivion. With his young grandson he would start off for a week's cruise over the winding roads of the old town of Bristol, and would make every moment interesting by stories and legends. Old Pemaquid was a source of never failing interest to him, and all the inlets and points about the bay were crowded with memories. He always maintained that the settlement founded at the old fort before Jamestown was settled was permanent and therefore first in the thirteen colonies. Many historians and antiquarians now believe as he did. The old tombstone at the fort dated 1694 is of one of his ancestors.

IV. John McClintock, born in Bristol, Maine, April 9, 1807, died in Chelsea, September 8, 1886. He was the second son of William and Francis

(Young) McClintock, and on his mother's side a direct descendant of John Rogers, the martyr. His boyhood was passed on his father's farm and on the adjacent ocean, and he was at home on either. His education was received at the district schoolhouse, and so well. did he improve his opportunities that he taught school seven winters while a young man. His natural bent was to follow the sea, and soon after he was twenty-one he was in command of a coaster. In 1833 he bought an interest in the Eliza, the first of a long list of vessels of which he owned a part. There was the Increase, the Mary and Susan, Araxene, Briganza, Genesee, Narcoochee, Roderick Dhu, Medalhon, Dashaway, Harry Hammond, Clara and Hattie-making his last voyage in the latter vessel in 1880,-an almost continuous sea service of fiftythree years. During those years he had several times circumnavigated the globe and has been into nearly every foreign and domestic port. He was a very fortunate ship master, never having lost a vessel.

He was a skilful navigator and appreciated the science of taking advantage of winds and currents to help him on his way. He was popular with his brother sea captains and generous to all in distress. He was a very modest man, shunning evil, honorable in all his dealings, scrupulously honest in all his business relations. He was fond of music, a game of whist, a good story, and good company generally. He was deferential in his treatment of iadies, his manner being courtly, if a little oldfashioned. He reveled in good books. The standard authors, from Herodotus to Dickens, were familiar to him. He found delight in the conceptions of the poets, and had such a retentive mem

ory that he would quote page after page ton's Encyclopædia. As a citizen he

from his favorite author. His voyages up the Mediterranean Sea gave life to the ancient writers whose works he eagerly read from the best translations, and he was a critic on classical literature. As a matter of course he was an advanced student in mathematics. One winter, when he was ice-bound, he attended for several weeks the lectures at a Connecticut college, and always regretted his lack of opportunity to take the whole course.

As a ship master he was kind to his men and to his junior officers, helping them to become thorough sailors and navigators. Young men up the Kennebec River considered it a great privilege to ship for a voyage with Capt. McClintock, and sometimes half a dozen youths of good families would be in his crew. In his prime he was a very athletic and powerful man physically; his muscles were of iron. His chief officer once said that the captain could, single-handed, handle the whole crew of a score or more of men. He was a very strong man. He was an indefatigable reader as shown by his reading consecutively the whole of Apple

was highly respected in Hallowell where he passed the most of his married life. He was liberal to the church, to fellowmariners, to all in need of aid. He gave first and made inquiries afterwards. In the domestic relations Capt. McClintock was a dutiful and respectful son, a brother ever thoughtful of his sisters and brothers, a devoted and affectionate husband, proud of his home, considerate in every act, and a model father, tender, loving, indulgent and forgiving. He gave his children the benefit of true counsel and prudent example, and early inculcated in them the principles of truthfulness, sobriety, manly courage, honor and honesty. He placed a good name above riches. He encouraged each of them to obtain a liberal education.

He was of high rank in the Masonic fraternity, a Knight Templar well skilled, and an authority in the usages and in several of the mystic rites. For many years he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, but very liberal in his creed, believing in the goodness and justice of his Heavenly Father. (Continued on page 240.)

which he expects his trade. We try to conform ourselves to facts, and when we assure our readers that E. W. Willard & Co., Concord, have an extra nice stock, we speak the plain, unvarnished

In this age of sharp competition, when every line of business is crowded to its utmost capacity, the merchant must not only fill his stores with wares calculated to please the people, in both quality and price, but he must announce truth. Read their advertisement in this his bargains and inducements clearly number.

and forcibly to the community from

THE OLD STORES AND THE POST-OFFICE OF GROTON. BY THE HON. SAMUEL ABBOTT GREEN, M.D.

TRADITION has preserved little or nothing in regard to the earliest trading stores of Groton. It is probable, however, that they were kept in dwellinghouses, by the occupants, who sold articles in common use for the conven

ience of the neighborhood, and at the same time pursued their regular vocations.

Jonas Cutler was keeping a shop on the site of Mr. Gerrish's store, before the Revolution; and the following notice, signed by him, appears in The Massachusetts Gazette (Boston), November 28, 1768:

A THEFT.

Whereas on the 19th or 20th Night of November Instant, the Shop of the Subscriber was broke open in Groton, and from thence was stollen a large Sum of Cash, viz. four Half Johannes, two Guineas, Two Half Ditto, One Pistole mill'd, nine Crowns, a Considerable Number of Dollars, with a considerable Quantity of small Silver & Copper, together with one Bever Hat, about fifteen Yards of Holland, eleven Bandannas, blue Ground with white, twelve red ditto with white, Part of a Piece of Silk Romails, 1 Pair black Worsted Hose, I strip'd Cap, 8 or

10 black barcelona Handkerchiefs, Part of a Piece of red silver'd Ribband, blue & white do, Part of three Pieces of black Sattin Ribband, Part of three Pieces of black Tafferty ditto, two bundles of Razors, Part of 2 Dozen Penknives, Part of 2 Dozen ditto with Seals, Part of I Dozen Snuff Boxes, Part of 3 Dozen Shoe Buckels, Part of several Groce of Buttons, one piece of gellow [yellow?] Ribband, with sundry Articles not yet known ofWhoever will apprehend the said Thief or Thieves, so that he or they may be brought

to Justice, shall receive TEN DOLLARS Reward and all necessary Charges paid.

Groton, Nov. 22, 1763 [81].

JONAS CUTLER.

above mentioned Sail, it is desired

If any of the
Articles are offered to
they may be stop'd with the Thief, and
Notice given to said Cutler or to the
Printers.

On October 21, 1773, a noted burg-
lar was hanged in Boston for various
robberies committed in different parts
of the State, and covering a period of
some years. The unfortunate man was
present at the delivery of a sermon,
preached at his own request, on
the Sunday before his execution; and
to many of the printed copies is ap-
pended an account of his life. In it
the poor fellow states that he was only
twenty-one years old, and that he was
born at Groton of a respectable family.
He confesses that he broke into Mr.
Cutler's shop, and took away "a good
piece of broad-cloth, a quantity of silk
mitts, and several pieces of silk hand-
kerchiefs." He was hardly seventeen
years
of age at the time of this burg-

lary.

To the present generation it would seem cruel and wicked to hang a misguided youth for offences of this character.

Mr. Cutler died December 19, 1782; and he was succeeded in business by Major Thomas Gardner, who erected the present building known as Gerrish's block, which is soon to be removed. Major Gardner lived in the house now owned by the Waters family.

Near the end of the last century a store, situated a little north of the late

Mr. Dix's house, was kept by James Brazer, which had an extensive trade for twenty miles in different directions. It was here that the late Amos Lawrence served an apprenticeship of seven years, which ended on April 22, 1807; and he often spoke of his success in business as due, in part, to the experience in this store. Late in life he wrote that "the knowledge of every-day affairs which I acquired in my business apprenticeship at Groton has been a source of pleasure and profit even in my last ten years' discipline."

The quantity of New-England rum and other liquors sold at that period would astonish the temperance people of the present day. Social drinking was then a common practice, and each forenoon some stimulating beverage was served up to the customers in order to keep their trade. There were five clerks employed in the establishments; and many years later Mr. Lawrence, in giving advice to a young student in college, wrote:

Thinking the habit might make trouble if allowed to grow stronger, without further apology to my seniors I declined partaking with them. My first resclution was to abstain for a week, and, when the week was out, for a month, and then for a year. Finally, I resolved to abstain for the rest of my apprenticeship, which was for five years longer. During that whole period, I never drank a spoonful, though I mixed gallons daily for my old master and his customers."

The following advertisement is found in the Columbian Centinel (Boston), June 8, 1805:

James Brazer,

Would inform the public that having dissolved the Copartnership lately subsisting between AARON BROWN, Esq. SAMUEL HALE and the subscriber; he has taken into Copartnership his son WILLIAM F. BRAZER, and the business ir future will be transacted under the firm of

JAMES BRAZER & SON;

They will offer for sale, at their store in Groton, within six days a complete assortment of English, India, and W. India GOODS, which they will sell for ready pay, at as low a rate as any store in the Country.

Groton, May 29, 1805.

669

"In the first place, take this for your motto at the commencement of your journey, that the difference of going just right, or a little wrong, will be the difference of finding yourself in good quarters, or in a miserable bog or slough, at the end of it. Of the whole number educated in the Groton stores for some years before and after myself, no one else, to my knowledge, escaped the bog or slough; and my escape I trace to the simple fact of my having put a restraint upon my appetite. We five boys were in the habit, every forenoon, of making a drink compounded of rum, raisins, sugar, nutmeg, &c., with biscuit, -all palatable to eat and drink. After being in the store four weeks, I found myself admonished by my appetite of the approach of the hour for indulgence. 24, 25.

JAMES BRAZER.

"'Squire Brazer," as he was generally called, was a man of wealth and position. He was one of the founders of Groton Academy, and his subscription of £15 to the building-fund in the year 1792 was as large as that given by any other person. In the early part of this century he built the house now belonging to the Academy and situated just south of it, where he lived until his death, which occurred on November 10, 1818. His widow, also, took a deep interest in the institution, and at her

*Diary and Correspondence of Amos Lawrence, pages

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