"Born in New Bedford, died in San Francisco. Died or buried July 28, 1859, aged 42 years. Drowned. Buried in Lone Mountain Cemetery, San Francisco, Cal., grave no. 10, tier 13, public plot."
WHOEVER IS BURIED IN THIS LOT IS NOT AMOS HASKINS.
Memorial created to represent cemetery record and hopefully to provide clues as to the circumstances of this burial record. See gravestone in New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts here. Amos died, lost at sea, two years after his reported drowning in San Francisco.
Amos Haskins (1816-1861) was a Wampanoag Indian of the Gay Head tribe who rose through the whaling industry to become a master mariner and is believed to have been one of few American Indians ever to have achieved that rank.
Born and raised in rural Rochester, Massachusetts, Haskins appears to have taken out his first seaman’s protection paper in New Bedford at the age of eighteen. He may have shipped on coastal trading and other vessels immediately afterward, for he is not found among the crew of a whaling vessel until April 1841, when he signed as second mate of the Mattapoisett brig Chase.
The Chase was abandoned at sea a week later, but throughout the 1840s Haskins went whaling frequently, usually as second or first mate, on Mattapoisett whaling vessels — the brigs Annawan (1843-44) and Willis (1847-48), the ship Cachalot (1845-47), and the bark Elizabeth (1849-50).
On 31 October 1844, between the voyages of the voyages of the Annawan and Cachalot, Haskins married Elizabeth P. Farmer (1824-90), the African American daughter of the widow Dianna Farmer, who had lived in New Bedford at least as early as 1826. In that year Farmer was recorded as one of the founding members of the African Christian Church, the village’s first church founded by and for people of color. Between 1846 and 1858 Amos and Elizabeth Haskins had five daughters — Margaret K., who married Charles F. Tilghman; Hannah F.; Caroline W., who married Thompson Hill); Mary L. E.; and Elizabeth R.
In 1851 Haskins attained his first command of a whaler with the Mattapoisett bark Massasoit, whose crew of 22 included 12 people of color, including its first, second, and third mates and three of its boatsteerers. Haskins also was captain of the Massasoit on its 1852 whaling voyage in the Atlantic.
In 1857 Haskins shipped out aboard the Mattapoisett bark Oscar, a four-year cruise to the North Pacific and his first beyond the Atlantic. Two years into the voyage the New Bedford Republican-Standard reported that Haskins had drowned and his body found near a San Francisco dock. A month later, though, the newspaper reported its mistake: Haskins had returned to his family in New Bedford.
In retrospect the report seemed portentous: Haskins shipped out once more and died at sea in 1861. He is buried in a family plot in New Bedford’s Rural Cemetery.
[from nbhistoricalsociety.org important figures aka New Bedford Historical Society]
Mr. Amos Haskins, of the barque Oscar, who was sometime ago reported as drowned at San Francisco, has returned to his home in New Bedford, much to the delight of a sorrowing wife and family.
[published Saturday, October 1, 1859 in The Boston Traveler, Boston, Mass.]
The family and friends of Mr. Amos Haskins, of New Bedford, received information sometime ago that he had been drowned at San Francisco. A body, supposed to be that of the defunet Haskins, was found and decently interred, and the bill for the funeral expenses duly forwarded to his wife, to be paid. His friends met and passed resolutions of condolence but to the great relief of family and friends Mr. Haskins returned home safe in the last California steamer.
[published Saturday, October 1, 1859 in The Providence Evening Press, Providence, R.I.]
Brig March, Capt. Henry Lewis, of New Bedford, sailed from Mattapoisett May 29th, for the Atlantic Ocean. The following persons compose her crew:- Amos Haskins, of New Bedford, ...
[published Tuesday, June 5, 1860 in The Whaleman's Shipping List and Merchants' Transcript}
The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) is a federally recognized tribe of Wampanoag people based in the town of Aquinnah on the southwest tip of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. The tribe hosts an annual Cranberry Day celebration.
The tribe received official recognition in 1987, the same year that their land claim on Martha's Vineyard was settled by an act of Congress, with agreement by the state and the United States Department of Interior. The government took into trust on behalf of the tribe 485 acres of Tribal Lands purchased (160 acres private and approximately 325 acres common lands). In 2011 the state of Massachusetts passed a law allowing legalized gambling, and federally recognized Native American tribes began to develop proposals to develop casinos.
Faced with state opposition to a Class III facility on its land, in 2013 the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head proposed a Class II facility to be developed on its property. The state and town filed suit against it in federal district court, and the judge ruled in their favor. The tribe, together with the Department of Interior, appealed to the US Court of Appeals, First Circuit, defending its case in December 2016.
[from From Wikipedia]
[California, Mortuary and Cemetery Records, 1801-1932 avail on ancestry.com; N. Gray & Co. Funeral Records California, San Francisco Area Funeral Home Records, 1835-1931 on ancestry.com]
WHOEVER IS BURIED IN THIS LOT IS NOT AMOS HASKINS.
Memorial created to represent cemetery record and hopefully to provide clues as to the circumstances of this burial record. See gravestone in New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts here. Amos died, lost at sea, two years after his reported drowning in San Francisco.
Amos Haskins (1816-1861) was a Wampanoag Indian of the Gay Head tribe who rose through the whaling industry to become a master mariner and is believed to have been one of few American Indians ever to have achieved that rank.
Born and raised in rural Rochester, Massachusetts, Haskins appears to have taken out his first seaman’s protection paper in New Bedford at the age of eighteen. He may have shipped on coastal trading and other vessels immediately afterward, for he is not found among the crew of a whaling vessel until April 1841, when he signed as second mate of the Mattapoisett brig Chase.
The Chase was abandoned at sea a week later, but throughout the 1840s Haskins went whaling frequently, usually as second or first mate, on Mattapoisett whaling vessels — the brigs Annawan (1843-44) and Willis (1847-48), the ship Cachalot (1845-47), and the bark Elizabeth (1849-50).
On 31 October 1844, between the voyages of the voyages of the Annawan and Cachalot, Haskins married Elizabeth P. Farmer (1824-90), the African American daughter of the widow Dianna Farmer, who had lived in New Bedford at least as early as 1826. In that year Farmer was recorded as one of the founding members of the African Christian Church, the village’s first church founded by and for people of color. Between 1846 and 1858 Amos and Elizabeth Haskins had five daughters — Margaret K., who married Charles F. Tilghman; Hannah F.; Caroline W., who married Thompson Hill); Mary L. E.; and Elizabeth R.
In 1851 Haskins attained his first command of a whaler with the Mattapoisett bark Massasoit, whose crew of 22 included 12 people of color, including its first, second, and third mates and three of its boatsteerers. Haskins also was captain of the Massasoit on its 1852 whaling voyage in the Atlantic.
In 1857 Haskins shipped out aboard the Mattapoisett bark Oscar, a four-year cruise to the North Pacific and his first beyond the Atlantic. Two years into the voyage the New Bedford Republican-Standard reported that Haskins had drowned and his body found near a San Francisco dock. A month later, though, the newspaper reported its mistake: Haskins had returned to his family in New Bedford.
In retrospect the report seemed portentous: Haskins shipped out once more and died at sea in 1861. He is buried in a family plot in New Bedford’s Rural Cemetery.
[from nbhistoricalsociety.org important figures aka New Bedford Historical Society]
Mr. Amos Haskins, of the barque Oscar, who was sometime ago reported as drowned at San Francisco, has returned to his home in New Bedford, much to the delight of a sorrowing wife and family.
[published Saturday, October 1, 1859 in The Boston Traveler, Boston, Mass.]
The family and friends of Mr. Amos Haskins, of New Bedford, received information sometime ago that he had been drowned at San Francisco. A body, supposed to be that of the defunet Haskins, was found and decently interred, and the bill for the funeral expenses duly forwarded to his wife, to be paid. His friends met and passed resolutions of condolence but to the great relief of family and friends Mr. Haskins returned home safe in the last California steamer.
[published Saturday, October 1, 1859 in The Providence Evening Press, Providence, R.I.]
Brig March, Capt. Henry Lewis, of New Bedford, sailed from Mattapoisett May 29th, for the Atlantic Ocean. The following persons compose her crew:- Amos Haskins, of New Bedford, ...
[published Tuesday, June 5, 1860 in The Whaleman's Shipping List and Merchants' Transcript}
The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) is a federally recognized tribe of Wampanoag people based in the town of Aquinnah on the southwest tip of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. The tribe hosts an annual Cranberry Day celebration.
The tribe received official recognition in 1987, the same year that their land claim on Martha's Vineyard was settled by an act of Congress, with agreement by the state and the United States Department of Interior. The government took into trust on behalf of the tribe 485 acres of Tribal Lands purchased (160 acres private and approximately 325 acres common lands). In 2011 the state of Massachusetts passed a law allowing legalized gambling, and federally recognized Native American tribes began to develop proposals to develop casinos.
Faced with state opposition to a Class III facility on its land, in 2013 the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head proposed a Class II facility to be developed on its property. The state and town filed suit against it in federal district court, and the judge ruled in their favor. The tribe, together with the Department of Interior, appealed to the US Court of Appeals, First Circuit, defending its case in December 2016.
[from From Wikipedia]
[California, Mortuary and Cemetery Records, 1801-1932 avail on ancestry.com; N. Gray & Co. Funeral Records California, San Francisco Area Funeral Home Records, 1835-1931 on ancestry.com]
"Born in New Bedford, died in San Francisco. Died or buried July 28, 1859, aged 42 years. Drowned. Buried in Lone Mountain Cemetery, San Francisco, Cal., grave no. 10, tier 13, public plot."
WHOEVER IS BURIED IN THIS LOT IS NOT AMOS HASKINS.
Memorial created to represent cemetery record and hopefully to provide clues as to the circumstances of this burial record. See gravestone in New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts here. Amos died, lost at sea, two years after his reported drowning in San Francisco.
Amos Haskins (1816-1861) was a Wampanoag Indian of the Gay Head tribe who rose through the whaling industry to become a master mariner and is believed to have been one of few American Indians ever to have achieved that rank.
Born and raised in rural Rochester, Massachusetts, Haskins appears to have taken out his first seaman’s protection paper in New Bedford at the age of eighteen. He may have shipped on coastal trading and other vessels immediately afterward, for he is not found among the crew of a whaling vessel until April 1841, when he signed as second mate of the Mattapoisett brig Chase.
The Chase was abandoned at sea a week later, but throughout the 1840s Haskins went whaling frequently, usually as second or first mate, on Mattapoisett whaling vessels — the brigs Annawan (1843-44) and Willis (1847-48), the ship Cachalot (1845-47), and the bark Elizabeth (1849-50).
On 31 October 1844, between the voyages of the voyages of the Annawan and Cachalot, Haskins married Elizabeth P. Farmer (1824-90), the African American daughter of the widow Dianna Farmer, who had lived in New Bedford at least as early as 1826. In that year Farmer was recorded as one of the founding members of the African Christian Church, the village’s first church founded by and for people of color. Between 1846 and 1858 Amos and Elizabeth Haskins had five daughters — Margaret K., who married Charles F. Tilghman; Hannah F.; Caroline W., who married Thompson Hill); Mary L. E.; and Elizabeth R.
In 1851 Haskins attained his first command of a whaler with the Mattapoisett bark Massasoit, whose crew of 22 included 12 people of color, including its first, second, and third mates and three of its boatsteerers. Haskins also was captain of the Massasoit on its 1852 whaling voyage in the Atlantic.
In 1857 Haskins shipped out aboard the Mattapoisett bark Oscar, a four-year cruise to the North Pacific and his first beyond the Atlantic. Two years into the voyage the New Bedford Republican-Standard reported that Haskins had drowned and his body found near a San Francisco dock. A month later, though, the newspaper reported its mistake: Haskins had returned to his family in New Bedford.
In retrospect the report seemed portentous: Haskins shipped out once more and died at sea in 1861. He is buried in a family plot in New Bedford’s Rural Cemetery.
[from nbhistoricalsociety.org important figures aka New Bedford Historical Society]
Mr. Amos Haskins, of the barque Oscar, who was sometime ago reported as drowned at San Francisco, has returned to his home in New Bedford, much to the delight of a sorrowing wife and family.
[published Saturday, October 1, 1859 in The Boston Traveler, Boston, Mass.]
The family and friends of Mr. Amos Haskins, of New Bedford, received information sometime ago that he had been drowned at San Francisco. A body, supposed to be that of the defunet Haskins, was found and decently interred, and the bill for the funeral expenses duly forwarded to his wife, to be paid. His friends met and passed resolutions of condolence but to the great relief of family and friends Mr. Haskins returned home safe in the last California steamer.
[published Saturday, October 1, 1859 in The Providence Evening Press, Providence, R.I.]
Brig March, Capt. Henry Lewis, of New Bedford, sailed from Mattapoisett May 29th, for the Atlantic Ocean. The following persons compose her crew:- Amos Haskins, of New Bedford, ...
[published Tuesday, June 5, 1860 in The Whaleman's Shipping List and Merchants' Transcript}
The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) is a federally recognized tribe of Wampanoag people based in the town of Aquinnah on the southwest tip of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. The tribe hosts an annual Cranberry Day celebration.
The tribe received official recognition in 1987, the same year that their land claim on Martha's Vineyard was settled by an act of Congress, with agreement by the state and the United States Department of Interior. The government took into trust on behalf of the tribe 485 acres of Tribal Lands purchased (160 acres private and approximately 325 acres common lands). In 2011 the state of Massachusetts passed a law allowing legalized gambling, and federally recognized Native American tribes began to develop proposals to develop casinos.
Faced with state opposition to a Class III facility on its land, in 2013 the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head proposed a Class II facility to be developed on its property. The state and town filed suit against it in federal district court, and the judge ruled in their favor. The tribe, together with the Department of Interior, appealed to the US Court of Appeals, First Circuit, defending its case in December 2016.
[from From Wikipedia]
[California, Mortuary and Cemetery Records, 1801-1932 avail on ancestry.com; N. Gray & Co. Funeral Records California, San Francisco Area Funeral Home Records, 1835-1931 on ancestry.com]
WHOEVER IS BURIED IN THIS LOT IS NOT AMOS HASKINS.
Memorial created to represent cemetery record and hopefully to provide clues as to the circumstances of this burial record. See gravestone in New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts here. Amos died, lost at sea, two years after his reported drowning in San Francisco.
Amos Haskins (1816-1861) was a Wampanoag Indian of the Gay Head tribe who rose through the whaling industry to become a master mariner and is believed to have been one of few American Indians ever to have achieved that rank.
Born and raised in rural Rochester, Massachusetts, Haskins appears to have taken out his first seaman’s protection paper in New Bedford at the age of eighteen. He may have shipped on coastal trading and other vessels immediately afterward, for he is not found among the crew of a whaling vessel until April 1841, when he signed as second mate of the Mattapoisett brig Chase.
The Chase was abandoned at sea a week later, but throughout the 1840s Haskins went whaling frequently, usually as second or first mate, on Mattapoisett whaling vessels — the brigs Annawan (1843-44) and Willis (1847-48), the ship Cachalot (1845-47), and the bark Elizabeth (1849-50).
On 31 October 1844, between the voyages of the voyages of the Annawan and Cachalot, Haskins married Elizabeth P. Farmer (1824-90), the African American daughter of the widow Dianna Farmer, who had lived in New Bedford at least as early as 1826. In that year Farmer was recorded as one of the founding members of the African Christian Church, the village’s first church founded by and for people of color. Between 1846 and 1858 Amos and Elizabeth Haskins had five daughters — Margaret K., who married Charles F. Tilghman; Hannah F.; Caroline W., who married Thompson Hill); Mary L. E.; and Elizabeth R.
In 1851 Haskins attained his first command of a whaler with the Mattapoisett bark Massasoit, whose crew of 22 included 12 people of color, including its first, second, and third mates and three of its boatsteerers. Haskins also was captain of the Massasoit on its 1852 whaling voyage in the Atlantic.
In 1857 Haskins shipped out aboard the Mattapoisett bark Oscar, a four-year cruise to the North Pacific and his first beyond the Atlantic. Two years into the voyage the New Bedford Republican-Standard reported that Haskins had drowned and his body found near a San Francisco dock. A month later, though, the newspaper reported its mistake: Haskins had returned to his family in New Bedford.
In retrospect the report seemed portentous: Haskins shipped out once more and died at sea in 1861. He is buried in a family plot in New Bedford’s Rural Cemetery.
[from nbhistoricalsociety.org important figures aka New Bedford Historical Society]
Mr. Amos Haskins, of the barque Oscar, who was sometime ago reported as drowned at San Francisco, has returned to his home in New Bedford, much to the delight of a sorrowing wife and family.
[published Saturday, October 1, 1859 in The Boston Traveler, Boston, Mass.]
The family and friends of Mr. Amos Haskins, of New Bedford, received information sometime ago that he had been drowned at San Francisco. A body, supposed to be that of the defunet Haskins, was found and decently interred, and the bill for the funeral expenses duly forwarded to his wife, to be paid. His friends met and passed resolutions of condolence but to the great relief of family and friends Mr. Haskins returned home safe in the last California steamer.
[published Saturday, October 1, 1859 in The Providence Evening Press, Providence, R.I.]
Brig March, Capt. Henry Lewis, of New Bedford, sailed from Mattapoisett May 29th, for the Atlantic Ocean. The following persons compose her crew:- Amos Haskins, of New Bedford, ...
[published Tuesday, June 5, 1860 in The Whaleman's Shipping List and Merchants' Transcript}
The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) is a federally recognized tribe of Wampanoag people based in the town of Aquinnah on the southwest tip of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. The tribe hosts an annual Cranberry Day celebration.
The tribe received official recognition in 1987, the same year that their land claim on Martha's Vineyard was settled by an act of Congress, with agreement by the state and the United States Department of Interior. The government took into trust on behalf of the tribe 485 acres of Tribal Lands purchased (160 acres private and approximately 325 acres common lands). In 2011 the state of Massachusetts passed a law allowing legalized gambling, and federally recognized Native American tribes began to develop proposals to develop casinos.
Faced with state opposition to a Class III facility on its land, in 2013 the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head proposed a Class II facility to be developed on its property. The state and town filed suit against it in federal district court, and the judge ruled in their favor. The tribe, together with the Department of Interior, appealed to the US Court of Appeals, First Circuit, defending its case in December 2016.
[from From Wikipedia]
[California, Mortuary and Cemetery Records, 1801-1932 avail on ancestry.com; N. Gray & Co. Funeral Records California, San Francisco Area Funeral Home Records, 1835-1931 on ancestry.com]
