Edward Bellamy
Sex: M
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Birth: 1850 - Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts
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A biography from the period reads:
"Utopian dreams of perfected socialism have not been few during the nineteenth century, but of all the schemes that have been proposed for the reorganization of society, none has attracted so much attention or received such serious consideration, because of its apparent practicability, as that embodied in Edward Bellamy's remarkable story, "Looking Backward." Mr. Bellamy is a writer of remarked ability. He was born in Chicopee Falls, Mass., in 1850, and was educated at Union College and in Germany. He studied law and was admitted to the bar, but never practiced that profession, as he preferred a literary life. During 1871 and 1872 he was on the staff of the New York "Evening Post," and for the five years following was an editorial writer and critic for the Springfield "Union." His health failing him, he made a voyage to the Sandwich Islands in 1876, and upon his return in 1877 became one of the founders of the Springfield "News." After two years more of journalism he abandoned it to devote himself entirely to literature. In addition to his many contributions to the magazines, he has published "Six to One: a Nantucket Idyl;" "Dr. Heidenhoff's Process," and "Miss Ludington's Sister."His greatest success, however, has been in his socialistic novel, "Looking Backward," published in 1888, of which more than three hundred thousand copies were sold in America within two years of its first appearance. Mr. Bellamy still resides at Chicopee Falls, and interests himself in advancing the ideas of nationalism advocated in his book. He is thoroughly in earnest in his beliefs, and is known as a profound thinker, as well as one of the most clever and vigorous writers of the age."
Captain Samuel Bellamy
Sex: M
AKA: Black Sam Bellamy
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Birth: 1689 - Devonshire
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Death: 26 Apr 1717 - galley Whidah at Eastham, Massachusetts
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1. *Maria Hallett (1690 - )
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There are 2 articles copied from web sites about Bellamy and the Whydah:
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by Jill Tattersall
Sam Bellamy was a big black-haired, intelligent and popular leader of men, with little respect for authority, whose reputation for being generous to his victims caused him to be remembered as the Prince of Pirates.
In the early 1700s Black Sam left his native Devon to seek his fortune in the West Indies, where he joined the British privateering fleet then at war against the Spaniards. He sailed under Captain Jennings on the sloop Barsheba, based at Port Royal in Jamaica.
When the war ended in 1713, many former privateers became pirates, and it was not long before Sam and his mate Paul Williams decided to 'go on the account'. They were taken aboard the sloop Postillion by Captain Leboose, who was cruising the Caribbean for prey, in company with the well-known pirate Ben Hornigold in the 10 gun sloop Mary Anne.
By May of 1716, Black Sam had become an elected officer of the Postillion. He made a dashing figure in his long deep-cuffed velvet coat, knee breeches, silk stockings, and silver-buckled shoes; with a sword slung on his left hip and four pistols in his sash. Unlike some of his fellows, Bellamy never wore the fashionable powdered wig, but grew his dark hair long and tied it back with a black satin bow.
The new pirate gang was soon capturing ships and crews. Leboose took a seaman named John Brown off an English vessel and this man became friendly with Black Sam, and seemed to bring good luck to him. Hornigold suddenly decided to retire, and his 90 man crew made Bellamy captain of the Mary Anne.
Bellamy and Leboose set off for St. Thomas to provision and make enquiries about a secluded place where they could careen their weed-grown ships. Beef Island was reputed to be the haunt of renegades and buccaneers, and when Bellamy realised that the deputy Governor of Tortola was Captain Hall, an old privateering acquaintance from Port Royal and a well-known desperado to boot, he lost no time in sailing up to Trellis Bay where Hall was living at that time.
Captain Hall was encouraging about Black Sam's prospects of preying on the fat cargoes passing almost daily down Sir Francis Drake's Channel, and he recommended that the pirates make their base on Blanco, the tiny islet in Trellis Bay known today as Bellamy Cay.
Black Sam was delighted with Blanco Islet, where an untidy settlement soon sprang up: a muddle of driftwood shacks, makeshift tents and palm frond shelters. Cannon were mounted to command the approaches to the cay, as careening would leave the crews vulnerable for several weeks. While some men cleaned the ships, the rest kept busy barbecuing the Beef Island cows and hogs, and smoking strips of meat to preserve them in the buccaneer fashion. Soon passing fishermen were stopping to trade with the pirates and, according to John Brown who later wrote of his experiences, Blanco Islet became a sort of market even before there was much pirate loot on offer.
When their ships were ready, Bellamy and Leboose began cruising the area looking for victims. Their first was the Sultana, an English man-of-war which Black Sam boldly captured as his flagship, giving the Mary Anne to Paul Williams to command. Their next prize fell into their hands like manna from heaven a merchant ship from Ireland with a cargo of ham, butter, cheese and other much-needed provisions.
While on their way back for a further spell of careening and carousing on Blanco Islet, Bellamy seized the St. Michael as she was passing through the Sir Francis Drake Channel, and put a prize crew of his own men aboard. When the pirates were ready for their next cruising venture they took the St. Michael with them, leaving her original crew marooned on the tiny cay to wait for their return. But Black Sam found the St. Michael too slow and gave the sloop back to her captain, allowing him to leave Trellis Bay at last.
A friend in Virgin Gorda sent Bellamy news of another gang of pirates which had roared into Spanish Town that winter, led by the vicious Charles Martel. Their behaviour inspired a Mr. Hornby to write a complaint to Governor Hamilton about the dealings of unscrupulous Virgin Islanders with such renegades. It is probable that Martel and Black Sam spent that holiday together, as pirate crews took every opportunity to meet and drink in company with their fellows. Another infamous pirate of the day who was in the area and never could resist a wild party was Blackbeard. The hills around Trellis Bay must have echoed with music, raucous shouts and drunken laughter throughout that Christmas of 1716.
In January, Governor Hamilton responded to Hornby's letter by sending Captain Hume in HMS Scarborough to Virgin Gorda with orders to apprehend the offending pirates. While Bellamy and his mates laid low in Trellis Bay, the Scarborough chased Martel to St. Croix, and then was itself driven out of the area by Blackbeard, leaving Bellamy and his men to resume their relentless patrol of the Virgins' Channel.
The Prince of Pirates is said to have taken more than fifty prizes in the Virgin Islands that winter; but he eventually decided it was too dangerous to linger there now that the Navy knew where he was based. He was leaving the Caribbean when his predatory eye fell on the finest ship he had ever seen. He was determined to take her for his own, but because the Whidah was a ship of such quality, Bellamy knew he would need the Devil's luck to capture her.
For three days Black Sam pursued the alluring Whidah. As he slowly gained on her, she fired off her stern guns and Bellamy prayed to the Black Powers that she would not force him to fire back and damage her. The Dark Forces may have heard him, for the 18- gun Whidah mysteriously surrendered without any further struggle still unscathed.
But the devilish luck of the Prince of Pirates was about to change, perhaps because he had left John Brown behind in Trellis Bay. At the end of April, Sam Bellamy set the Whidah on a northeasterly course which sent her straight into dense fog. The cold mist grew even thicker as night fell, and it was raining so hard that nothing could be seen. At midnight on April 26th, Sam Bellamy's pact with the Devil ran out as the increasing turbulence of breaking seas warned too late of danger. The beautiful ship was torn apart and Black Sam and all but two of her crew were drowned in the thundering surf.
These survivors testified at their trial that the Whidah had been carrying three million dollars' worth of gold, silver, jewels and ivory tusks: the plunder taken by her captain during his time in the Caribbean.
Perhaps Black Sam Bellamy's last thoughts when he went down with the Whidah were of the clear warm waters of Trellis Bay, and those triumphant celebrations of his pirate victories on Blanco Islet in the Virgin Islands.
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The Whydah's story begins in London in 1715 when the hundred-foot [31-meter] three-master was launched as a slave ship under the command of Lawrence Prince. Named for the West African port of Ouidah (pronounced WIH-dah) in what is today Benin, the 300-ton [272-metric-ton] vessel was destined for the infamous "triangular trade" connecting England, Africa, and the West Indies. Carrying cloth, liquor, hand tools, and small arms from England, the Whydah's crew would buy and barter for up to 700 slaves in West Africa, then set out with them on three to four weeks of hellish transport to the Caribbean. Once there, the slaves were traded for gold, silver, sugar, indigo, and cinchona, the last being a source of quinine, all of which went back to England.
The Whydah was fast-she was capable of 13 knots-but in February of 1717, on only her second voyage, she was chased down by two pirate vessels, the Sultana and Mary Anne, near the Bahamas. Led by Samuel "Black Sam" Bellamy, a raven-haired former English sailor thought to be in his late 20s, the pirates quickly overpowered the Whydah's crew. Bellamy claimed her as his flagship, seized a dozen men from Prince, then let the vanquished captain and his remaining crew take the Sultana.
By early April the pirates were headed north along the east coast, robbing vessels as they went. Their destination was Richmond Island, off the coast of Maine, but they diverted to Cape Cod, where legend says Bellamy wanted to visit his mistress, Maria Hallett, in the town of Eastham near the cape's tip. Others blame the course change on several casks of Madeira wine seized off Nantucket. Whatever the reason, on April 26, 1717, the freebooter navy sailed square into a howling nor'easter.
According to eyewitness accounts, gusts topped 70 miles [113 kilometers] an hour and the seas rose to 30 feet [9 meters]. Bellamy signaled his fleet to deeper water, but it was too late for the treasure-laden Whydah. Trapped in the surf zone within sight of the beach, the boat slammed stern first into a sandbar and began to break apart. When a giant wave rolled her, her cannon fell from their mounts, smashing through overturned decks along with cannonballs and barrels of iron and nails. Finally, as the ship's back broke, she split into bow and stern, and her contents spilled across the ocean floor.
The following morning, as farmers and other locals arrived at the wreck site, more than a hundred mutilated corpses lay at the wrack line with the ship's timbers. To halt looting, colonial governor Samuel Shute sent Cyprian Southack, a cartographer and sea captain, to recover what might be salvaged for the crown. When Southack arrived, he reported "at least 200 men from several places at 20 miles [32 kilometers] distance plundering the Pirate Wreck of what came ashoare [when] she turned bottom up."
Of the Whydah's crew of 146, only two men survived: John Julian, a half-blood Indian who soon vanished, and Thomas Davis, a Welshman who was captured and put on trial in Boston. There he testified that the amount and variety of stolen booty on the Whydah were dizzying, including 180 bags of gold and silver that had been divided equally among the crew and stored in chests between the ship's decks.
After Southack issued public demands for the return of items salvaged from the wreck, the cape's locals handed back some wooden beams, guns, and a few gem-studded rings cut from the fingers of dead pirates. But Southack recovered little of the Whydah's legendary booty. He did, however, note the location of the shipwreck on one of his maps. This map, along with Southack's journals and letters, became Barry Clifford's most valuable tool in his search for the lost treasure.
Florence R Belyea
Sex: F
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Birth: 19 Nov 1893 - Brookline, Massachusetts
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Death: Feb 1968 - Woods Hole (Falmouth), Massachusetts
Burial: in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Wellfleet 1
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Father: Dr Frederick S Belyea (Est 1860- )
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1. *Ralph Harrison Hopkins M.D. (27 Aug 1891 - 24 Feb 1956) 2
Marriage: 30 Jul 1917 - Brookline, Massachusetts 3
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Children:
1. Mary Jaqueline Hopkins (1923-1935) 2
2. William Robert Hopkins (Est 1924- ) 2
Dr Frederick S Belyea
Sex: M
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Birth: Est 1860
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Children:
1. Florence R Belyea (1893-1968)
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1917 of Brookline
John Bemis
Sex: M
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Birth: 1837 - South Boston, Massachusetts
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1. *Lizzie A Langley (1843 - )
Marriage: 11 Jun 1865 - South Braintree, Massachusetts 4
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s/o John & Mary
1865 seaman, Wellfleet
Mary Bemis
Sex: F
AKA: Molley Bemis
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Birth: 29 Jan 1770 - Spencer, Massachusetts 5
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Death: 4 Aug 1828 - Brookfield, Massachusetts 6
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Spouses and Children
1. *Captain Simeon B Draper (29 Mar 1765 - 27 Dec 1848)
Marriage: 24 Aug 1786 - Spencer, Massachusetts 7
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Children:
1. Sophia Draper (1799-1870)
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d/o Benjamin jr & Rebecca
Louisiana Adelaide Benard
Sex: F
AKA: Adelaide L Barnard
Louzana Adelaide Barnard
Individual Information
Birth: 7 Mar 1864 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 9
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Death: 19 Apr 1933 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Burial: in Oak Dale Cemetery, Wellfleet
Cause of Death: valvular disease of heart
Parents
Father: Captain Solomon Harding Barnard (1839-1879) 10
Mother: Susan Ann Stubbs (1842-1909) 11
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1. *Wilmer Leslie Newcomb (3 Feb 1859 - 29 Oct 1951) 12
Marriage: 1 Nov 1882 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 13
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1. Leslie E Newcomb (1883-1928) 14
2. Mildred F Newcomb (1885-1964) 15
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Father: Solomon H. BarnardMedical:
Mother: Susan A. Stubbs
age 69-1-12 16
Hannah Maria Benchley
Sex: F
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Birth: 22 Oct 1826 - Providence, Rhode Island
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Death: 4 Oct 1910 - Marlborough, Massachusetts 17
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1. *James Brown (20 Dec 1817 - 2 Nov 1902) 18
Marriage: 13 Aug 1848 - Malden, Massachusetts 19
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Children:
1. Benjamin F Brown (1859-After 1900)
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parents:Marriage Notes (James Brown)Stafford Benchley, Rhoda Eldridge
unsure
1900 US census, Fitchburg
James Brown, dec 1817 Ma, m 52 y
Hannah M Brown, oct 1826 RI, m 52 y
Benjamin F Brown, may 1859 Florida, son, single
Grace E Brown, jun 1877 Ma, gdau
Elizabeth Bender
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 10 Sep 1776 - Marlborough, Massachusetts
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Death: 11 Jan 1866 - Cambridge, Massachusetts
Burial: in Mount Auburn cemetery, Cambridge
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1. *David Greenough (24 Jun 1774 - 27 Jul 1836) 20
Marriage: 21 Oct 1799 - Marlborough, Massachusetts
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Children:
1. Mehitable Greenough (1800-1801)
2. John Greenough (1801-1852)
3. Laura Ann Greenough (1803-1816)
4. Horatio Greenough (1805-1852)
5. Henry Greenough (1807-1883)
6. Alfred Greenough (1809-1851)
7. Louisa Greenough (1809-1892)
8. Amelia Greenough (1811-1878)
9. Ellen Greenough (1814-1893)
10. Charlotte Greenough (1815-1859)
11. Richard Saltonstall Greenough (1819-1904)
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Marriage Notes (David Greenough)
Biography,
Elisabeth "Betsey" Bender was born on September 10, 1776. She was the fifth of nine children born to Peter Bender (1745\endash 1832) and his first wife, Abigail Brigham (1745\endash 1805), of Marlborough, Massachusetts.1 Elisabeth's father was the son of German immigrants who settled in Boston in 1750. He was a merchant prior to his arrival in 1764 to Marlborough, where he became a carpenter.2
On October 21, 1799, in Marlborough, Elisabeth Bender married David Greenough (1774\endash 1836), of Boston.3 David Greenough was the fourth of seven children born in Welfleet, Massachusetts, to John Greenough (1742\endash 1781) and Mehitable Dillingham (1747\endash 1798).4 John Greenough, a Yale graduate, taught school and operated a store in Welfleet, where his political sympathies were questioned during the Revolution after he admitted to selling tea. In 1781 Greenough moved his family to Boston, where he died in July of that year, when David Greenough was only seven.5 David Stoddard Greenough (1752\endash 1826), his father's half brother became the guardian of David Greenough and his siblings, although their mother was still alive.6
David Greenough became a builder and a real estate developer in Boston.7 Between 1810 and 1814, he built two houses on Colonnade Row, designed by the architect Charles Bulfinch (1763\endash 1844), and in 1818 he was involved in the erection of a block of buildings with stone facades on Brattle Street.8 His transactions were noted frequently in the Boston records. For instance, in exchange for the purchase of part of a lot on West Street owned by the school house in 1814, Greenough was asked to build a new school house to replace the old one.9 On another occasion, Greenough was the leader of a petition to build a new market house near Dock Square. The petition was rejected in 1819 because "the rights and interests of the Town would be injuriously affected by the erection of any new Market in the vicinity of the old Market near Faneuil Hall by any individual citizens and for their private benefit.10 In addition to real estate, it appears that Greenough invested in ship building and in a cotton mill in Clinton.11
Elisabeth and David Greenough had eleven children. The eldest daughter, Mehitable, died in infancy in October 1801, and the third child, Laura Ann, died at thirteen.12 They were the parents of the renowned sculptors Horatio Greenough (1805\endash 1852), their fourth child, and Richard Saltonstall Greenough (1819\endash 1904), their youngest. Their fifth child, Henry Greenough (1807\endash 1883), was best known for his work as an architect, and their oldest son John Greenough (1801\endash 1852) was a portrait and landscape painter. Although Elisabeth's daughter-in-law Francis Boott Greenough stated that Elisabeth had "neither knowledge nor appreciation of art," her sons wrote to her about art, and she was proud of their accomplishments.13 For instance, after Horatio Greenough's commission for James Fenimore Cooper, Chanting Cherubs (1828, unlocated), arrived in Boston in May 1831, Elisabeth wrote to her son Henry in Florence, "Alfred no doubt has informed you how the Cherubs have been received; has he told you how much your mother admires them? Congratulate Horatio on his flattering prospects." Her letter also reported Washington Allston's comments to her in praise of the sculpture.14
The Greenoughs moved frequently. In 1805 they resided at Green Street, and from about 1810 to 1819 they lived in the houses that David Greenough had built at Colonnade Row. In 1819 they moved to Jamaica Plain, where David Stoddard Greenough, Jr. (1787\endash 1830), noted their social visits and business dealings in his diary.15 They moved back to Colonnade Row about 1824 and later moved to Chestnut Street and Beacon Street.16
Elisabeth's granddaughter Laura Huntington Wagnière (b. 1849) described her grandmother as "a great lover of Nature, flowers, birds, and books.17 Her daughter-in-law Frances, however, indicated that Elisabeth "always tended to look on the dark side" and was "with the best intentions . . . subject to jealousies and suspicions," which made her "a thorn to herself, and those about her.18
Elisabeth wrote poetry throughout her life, and near its close she had a small collection of her poems dating from 1798 until 1864 privately printed and published under the title Occasional Verses.19 She wrote "To Little Hetty" after the death of her first child in 1801 and "To Laura in Heaven" after her thirteen-year-old daughter died in 1816.20 In an untitled poem also lamenting the loss of her daughter, she announced that she would change the name of another daughter to Laura Ann so that, "when I hear her sisters call / That dear and well-known name / The sweet delusion I'll embrace / and think it is the same.21 Still mourning Laura's death two years later, she wrote "On Seeing Children on the Common" and "On Hearing my Bird Sing in Winter.22 Finding a measure of comfort in her spiritual beliefs, in 1838 she instructed the transcendentalists to "boast not of superior light, nor of some new-born sense" in her five-stanza poem "Transcendentalism."23 Some of her later poems reflect her thoughts on her own mortality and her faith in God. "On Seeing a Leaf Fall in Autumn" was dated two years before her death. In the final stanza she wrote, "Then hushed be every anxious thought, / Though we like vegetation die, / And this frail body turns to nought, / the Spirit soars to God on high.24
Elisabeth's husband, David, died in Boston on July 27, 1836.25 A probate inventory revealed his real estate holdings totaled $149,000 and his personal estate $10,017.50, but his estate was heavily mortgaged.26 By 1845 Elisabeth had moved to Cambridge, where she remained in her son Henry's house while he and his family spent five years in Europe.27
Elisabeth Bender Greenough died on January 11, 1866, at age ninety. Her obituary appeared the following week in the Boston Daily Evening Transcript."28 She was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, where here husband had been interred. A large marble monument contains the inscription "Elisabeth/wife of/David Greenough/Born Sept. 10th 1776/Died Jan. 11th 1866/Loved and Honoured.29
1. Brigham 1907, 124\endash 25, and Hudson 1862, 42.
2. Peter Bender was the son of Jacob and Abigail Bender, of Eschelbach, Baden, Germany. Jacob Bender's funeral was held at Trinity Church in Boston on June 29, 1783, and Abigail Bender's on March 2, 1800. See Oliver and Peabody 1982, 796, 815; Marsh and Parker 1902, 64; and Wright 1963, 21.
3. Marlborough Vital Records 1908, 22.
4. Marsh and Parker 1902, 63\endash 65.
5. Greenough 1969, 35\endash 36, and Lawrence VI, n.d., 121\endash 22.
6. Greenough 1969, 36.
7. David Greenough's son Alfred wrote to his brother Henry about his father's success as a builder and real estate dealer in August 1830. Quoted in Greenough 1887, 68.
8. See ibid., 14; Greenough 1969, 37; and Brown 1947, 67\endash 69.
9. Boston Town Records 1908, 114\endash 15.
10. Boston Town Records 1906, 95\endash 96, 127\endash 28.
11. The ship built by Caleb Turner in 1815 was jointly owned by Greenough, Samuel Parkman, Jr., and Alden Briggs, but it was called the Laura Ann in honor of David and Elisabeth Greenough's daughter. See Briggs 1975, 193, and Ford 1896, 151\endash 53.
12. Lawrence IV, n.d., 122\endash 23.
13. Greenough 1887, 14. Elizabeth's son Henry wrote to her from Europe in May 1848 to inform her that he had sent her two copies of an engraving and a portrait of himself. Henry Greenough to Elisabeth Bender Greenough, Cambridge, May 21, 1848, Greenough Family Letters, Archives of American Art, microfilm reel 1215.
14. Elizabeth Greenough to Henry Greenough, quoted in Greenough 1887, 70\endash 71.
15. See, for instance, diary of David Stoddard Greenough II, box 41, vol. 70, 213\endash 16, 222, 228\endash 30, 233\endash 34, 253, 272 in David Stoddard Greenough Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Mass.
16. Wright 1963, 21\endash 22. Elisabeth recorded her address as Beacon Street in her poems from 1838 and 1839 published in Occasional Verses. Greenough n.d., 12\endash 14.
17. Wagniere-Huntington [1929?], 13.
18. Frances B. Greenough to Harriet B. Loring, January 10, 1846, in the collection of David Richardson, Washington, D.C., quoted in Wright 1963, 21.
19. There are several copies of Occasional Verses at the Boston Public Library, in the Research Collection and in Rare Books.
20. Greenough n.d., 4\endash 5.
21. Ibid., 8\endash 9.
22. Ibid., 6\endash 7, 10\endash 11.
23. Ibid., 13.
24. Ibid., 17.
25. Columbian Centinel (Boston), August 3, 1836. His death date was recorded on his tomb in lot number 2525 on Mistletoe Path in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass. Horatio Greenough had received news of his father's illness in Florence in March 1836. See Greenough 1887, 110.
26. Inventory of the estate of David Greenough, Suffolk County no. 31307. According to David Greenough's daughter-in-law Frances, "At one time he owned the greater part of Brattle Street, the Province House estate, and parts of Chestnut, Summer, and other streets . . . encouraged by these flattering prospects, he extended his business too far, and on the eve of insuring wealth met with an untoward reverse. He died at the age of sixty-two years, leaving his estate, heavily mortgaged, to the care of his son Henry, who gradually redeemed it from and apparently hopeless condition." Greenough 1887, 14. See also Wright 1963, 111.
27. Henry Greenough to Elisabeth Bender Greenough, Cambridge, May 21, 1848, Greenough Family Letters, microfilm reel 1215. See also Lawrence VI, n.d., 124; Florence Boott Greenough to Elisabeth Bender Greenough, Cambridge, December 2, 1845, Greenough Family Letters, microfilm reel 1215; and Greenough 1887.
28. Boston Daily Evening Transcript, January 17, 1866.
29. Lot no. 2525 on Mistletoe Path was owned by Elisabeth Bender Greenough's son Henry Greenough. 21
Benson V Beneker
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1914 - Provincetown, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 1 May 2007 - South Dartmouth, Massachusetts
Burial: in Pine Grove Cemetery, South Truro
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Father: Gerrit Albertus Beneker (1882-1934)
Mother: Flora Van Vranken (1883-1973)
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Provincetown Banner obit:
Benson V. Beneker, 93
Renowned artist’s son was WW II vet & advertising manager
Benson V. Beneker, 93, of Padanaram Village, South Dartmouth, died peacefully May 1 at St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford, following a brief illness. He was the beloved husband of the late Alberta Ormsbee (Gibbs) Beneker, to whom he had been married since 1941.
Born in Provincetown, he was the son of renowned painter Gerrit A. Beneker and Flora (Van Vranken) Beneker. As a young man, Mr. Beneker attended Loomis Chaffee, Bowdoin College and New York University, where he majored in journalism.
In 1934, Mr. Beneker began a career in reporting and public relations at the Cape Cod Colonial and Millerton, N.Y. News. He was staff writer and copy editor at the Providence Journal when war broke out in 1941. He served in Naval Intelligence in New Bedford before shipping out to the Pacific as a communications officer. He participated in the invasions of Tarawa, Kwajalcin, Guam, Siapan, Leyte and Iwo Jima. In 1946, he resumed his public relations career at AT&T, later serving as general advertising manager at Michigan Bell.
He will be remembered for his undying optimism, straightforward manner, pursuit of excellence, kindness and devotion to his family. He loved sailing and New Orleans Jazz. Memberships included Advertising Club of Detroit, Crescent Sail Yacht Club and Bayview Yacht Club Race Committee. In 1976, the Benekers retired to Padanaram Village.
He is survived by three children, his son Gerrit, of Lake Orion, Mich., daughter Katrina, of Padanaram, and son Jan Nicholas; one sister, Helen Menin, of Brewster; two grandsons, Andrew and Benson, of Bloomfield, Mich. He was predeceased by one daughter, Cornelia Ann, of Quadra Island, B.C., and two sisters, Katherine Murphy, of Wellfleet and Jean Kubik, of Beverly Hills, Mich.
Services were held Sunday at Seaman's Bethel. A viewing was held Monday at Nickerson Funeral Home, Wellfleet, followed by burial at Pine Grove Cemetery, Truro. Flowers are acceptable, or donations may be made to Community Nurse & Hospice Care, 62 Center St., Fairhaven, MA 02719. For details on where to send flowers, call Nickerson Funeral Home at (508) 255-0259.
Gerrit Albertus Beneker
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1882 - Grand Rapids, Michigan
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Death: 1934 - Truro, Massachusetts
Burial: in Snow cemetery, Truro
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Flora Van Vranken (21 Mar 1883 - Mar 1973)
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Children:
1. Katherine Beneker (1909-1979)
2. Benson V Beneker (1914-2007)
3. Jean Beneker (1922-1992)
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In 1905, Gerrit Beneker began his art career as an illustrator. He married Flora Judd, his high school sweetheart from Grand Rapids and they moved to Brooklyn, NY. Gerrit's early passion was to create an art that would inspire and provide honor to the workingman. As such, he had no interest in painting portraits of pretty women, which were so often seen on the magazine covers of the day. Rather he wanted to seek out workingmen on the bridges, tunnels and skyscrapers of NYC, and paint them in their environments. He completed over 150 magazine covers, numerous ads including many for Ivory Soap and over 50 illustrations for magazine stories. Beneker was an idealist and an optimist. His early work reflects his connection to the hope and industrial energy of early 20th century America.
In 1912 Gerrit went to Provincetown to attend Charles Hawthorne's painting classes. Art works done during the next few years, demonstrate a skill in impressionist landscape techniques. Meanwhile, his studio works retained a traditional, representational style and he continued to do illustrations for the NYC art editors. Gerrit was a founding member of the Provincetown Art Association and was very active in the development of the art colony.
In 1918 Gerrit was asked to come to Washington DC to paint posters for the US Navy. The objective of the assignment and the posters was to foster support for the war effort among workingmen. His most famous poster, "Sure We'll Finish the Job", sold over 3 million copies.
The next year Hydraulic Pressed Steel Co., Cleveland, Ohio, hired Beneker as an artist in residence. His job was to paint the men in the factories and steel mills - to improve the relationship of labor and management. The assignment lasted four years. The family, now including four children, Katharine, Benson, Helen and Jean, returned to Provincetown for the summers. In 1920 they bought a summer home in Truro. They moved 21 times during Gerrit's career.
The "Industrial" paintings, as they were known, went on tour across the country for 12 years, until 1934 when Gerrit died, and they were stored in the summer home. In the early 1920's Gerrit became known as the foremost painter of American industry. Later he also painted on site at General Electric in Schenectady, NY. and at Rohm & Haas in Philadelphia.
Beneker was primarily a man of ideas, believing as Ralph Waldo Emerson did, that the highest purpose of art was to create character. It is not possible to separate the art from his beliefs, as they are one in the same. To promote his ideas and paintings, Gerrit traveled across the country, giving over 200 lectures. Speaking mostly on the role of art in our everyday lives, he would modify the topic to fit his audience, resulting in talks such as "Art in Business", "Art and Education", "Art as a Constructive Force" and so forth.
Beneker's works were published in 80 plus publications, including Scientific American, American Magazine of Art, Pearson's, The Mentor, Baseball and Ambition magazines. Art works included the opening of the Panama and Cape Cod canals, the building of the Manhattan bridge, the laying of the Atlantic cable, and over 30 Baseball covers.
Beneker's works were shown in over 250 exhibits, from the Midwest to the Northeast and Southern states. Nearly 90 magazine and newspaper articles mention his artwork, many focusing on his role as a champion of the workingman, and several written by Gerrit himself.
Beneker painted about 500 oil paintings over his nearly 30 year career, not including those done for magazine illustrations. His primary expertise lay in his portraits, which included not only the industrials but also many paintings of friends and family and several of Cape Cod fishermen. These represent about a third of his paintings. His landscapes and marine paintings together represent more than half of his painting and include a majority of harbors scenes. He also painted around several still life pictures and a few paintings of the mountains in New Hampshire and Vermont.
(lirosgallery.com)
Jean Beneker
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 6 Feb 1922
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Death: 22 Feb 1992
Burial: in Snow cemetery, Truro
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• Social Security Number, 011-24-3306, Massachusetts in Massachusetts
Parents
Father: Gerrit Albertus Beneker (1882-1934)
Mother: Flora Van Vranken (1883-1973)
Katherine Beneker
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1909
Baptism:
Death: 1979
Burial: Snow cemetery, Truro
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Parents
Father: Gerrit Albertus Beneker (1882-1934)
Mother: Flora Van Vranken (1883-1973)
Spouses and Children
1. *John Franklin Murphy (1906 - )
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Mary V Benevides
Sex: F
AKA: Mary V Benvenides
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Birth: 1894 - (Falmouth, Massachusetts)
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Spouses and Children
1. *George Edward Berrio (21 Jan 1908 - Nov 1994) 22
Marriage: 14 Feb 1931 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 23
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Children:
1. William Murdock Berrio (1933- ) 24
Carrie O Benjamin
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 27 Dec 1830 - Winthrop, Maine
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Spouses and Children
1. *Marshal Doane (13 Jun 1828 - 7 Mar 1889)
Marriage: 14 Feb 1862 - Eastham, Massachusetts 25
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parents Saml & Olivia
Father: Samuel BENJAMIN b: 7 SEP 1786 in Livermore, Androscoggin, Maine
Mother: Olivia METCALF b: 30 JUL 1794 in Franklin, Norfolk, Massachusetts
John Benjamin
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1682 - Preston, Connecticut
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Death: 2 Aug 1716 - Preston, Connecticut
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Father: Joseph Benjamin (1633-1704) 26
Mother: Sarah Clark (1639-1716)
Joseph Benjamin
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 16 Sep 1633 - Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay
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Death: 1704 - Preston, Connecticut
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• Alt Death, , New London, Connecticut in New London, Connecticut
Spouses and Children
1. *Jemima Lombard (Jul 1636 - Cir 1664)
Marriage: 10 Jun 1661 - Boston, Massachusetts Bay 27
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2. Sarah Clark (1 Aug 1639 - 27 Oct 1716)
Marriage: 12 Dec 1665 - Barnstable, Plymouth Colony
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1. John Benjamin (1682-1716)
2. Mary Benjamin (Est 1670-Cir 1708)
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Joseph removed to Cape Cod and settled first at Yarmouth abt 1680 he removed to Barnstable and then in 1690 to Preston, CT where he died in 1704. He married first Jemima Lumbart and second by 1668 Sarah Clark when he was left all of William Clark's estate. Clark died l Feb 28, 1668 [date of will?].Marriage Notes (Jemima Lombard)
s/o John Benjamin & Abigail Eddy
ChildrenMarriage Notes (Sarah Clark)
Abigail BENJAMIN b: 1664 in Barnstable Co, MA
Joseph BENJAMIN b: 1666 in Barnstable Co, MA
*Jemima BENJAMIN b: FEB 1666 in Barnstable Co, MA
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Mary Benjamin
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1670 - of Barnstable
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Death: Cir 1708 - Harwich, Massachusetts
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Father: Joseph Benjamin (1633-1704) 26
Mother: Sarah Clark (1639-1716)
Spouses and Children
1. *John King (1649 - Jan 1753)
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1. Bathshua King (1708- )
2. Marcy King (1713- )
2. John Clark (Est 1670 - )
Marriage: 16 Aug 1695 - Barnstable, Massachusetts 28
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Children:
1. John Clark (1697- )
2. Elizabeth Clark (1701- )
3. Lancelot Clark (1703-After 1775)
Molly Benjamin
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 1946 - Seaford, New York
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Death: 13 Dec 2006 - Provincetown, Massachusetts
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Provincetown Banner obit:
Molly ‘Benjy’ Benjamin — an emblematic loss
By Alix Ritchie
BANNER STAFF
There are emblematic losses — the last veteran of a war, the last member of a tribe, the last wooden bucket — that mean the passing of an era, a point in time that symbolizes a larger change. So it was last week when Molly Benjamin — known to most as “Benjy” — passed away at 60 on Dec. 13.
She died only a short five days after a benefit for her at the Provincetown VFW that brought 300 of the kind of mix of folks that you just don’t see in one room anymore. It was Benjamin who brought them all there, a reunion of sorts, a memorial gathering that she could enjoy. While she was still there to enjoy it — as only Benjy would do.
Born Bonnie Benjamin in Seaford, Long Island, to Carlotta Cooper and Charles Smith Benjamin, she studied zoology at the University of Colorado in Boulder. She spent some of her life in Maine, as anyone who was within earshot could quickly tell, and moved to the Cape in 1973. She came here with her daughter, the real Molly, whose name she appropriated when she started writing for the Cape Cod Times. She covered news on the Outer Cape, but mostly she covered fishing — fisherfolk, fish, fisheries management (“fishcrats”), where fish were biting and where they weren’t, and just the plain joy of fishing.
And no one could call her unbiased about it. She was an advocate for allowing fisher men and women, whether casting a rod or tending a shellfish grant, to go about their business unfettered by land-based regulators. And she didn’t think much of a lot of preservationists, except when it came to keeping the waters safe for the fish, as happened when she was one of a group who organized a boat “blockade” from Provincetown to Plymouth to protest the Boston Harbor Outfall Pipe.
She was her own antithesis of a fashion statement. From her eye patch (the result of a fishing accident) to a truck that was the victim of far too many stories, she assiduously eschewed anything resembling stylish.
And she could laugh — a big, wide-open crackle of a laugh. You knew who it was when you heard it, infectious and irresistible. It came with a tweak-the-tail sense of humor — such as the time she walked into the Provincetown Town Meeting several days in a row dressed as other people in town, from the town manager on down. (After three days of that, the second row greeted her with black eye patches — and how she laughed.)
Benjamin had a way with words. She was a writer with a turn of phrase that could catch you as sure as a perch hook. Over and over again in the last few days, people have said that they didn’t fish or necessarily care all that much about fishing, but they read her column because the writing was just so doggone (she would have used a different word) good.
She had a heart as big as the bay and didn’t much care for judgmental types. Except maybe those who saw things her way when it came to shellfishing. She loved tending to her grant in Provincetown and was devastated when the quahogs were wiped out by QPX. She moved on to a grant in Wellfleet and became an outspoken advocate of planning that involved those who actually worked the flats.
Most of all, you could count on Benjy to be Benjy. As full of local color and as proud of it as the grand marshal of a parade — one that has now passed us by, along with a certain sense of how things used to be. We are much the better for having laughed and waved it along and much the worse for the loss.
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Cape Codder obit in Research Notes
William Benneck
Sex: M
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Birth: Est 1775
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