Of her grandfather, Marion Estella Lewis wrote, "Peregrine White, who had been the child born on the Mayflower, settled his family in Marshfield, and two centuries later my grandfather, Albert Lewis, bought the land for his house and a very small farm from the Peregrine White estate. It was a beautiful location, on what was called Telegraph Hill, overlooking the salt marshes, South River, the sand dunes, the beach, and finally straight across Massachusetts Bay to Cape Cod. As a young man, Albert Lewis was a sailor, sailing round and round the world in the "Clipper" ships, doing a brisk trade especially between the old cities of the East and the new cities of the west coast. There was no Panama Canal in those days, remember, and the railroad did not yet cross the continent. It was the time of stagecoaches, covered wagons and the pony express. Therefore a good deal of the merchandise from the East, much needed on the Pacific coast, had to make the long voyage around Cape Horn, at the tip of South America. If the timing of the voyage was not just right, such fierce winds and tides swept from the Pacific to the Atlantic at that point that the ship could not move. My grandfather told how his ship was once held back ninety day. Ninety days on hard tack, also called sea biscuits, dried beans, potatoes, apples, onions, dried beef, and salt cod! Water from snow and rain. That was about it. You could survive if you were 'tough'. Once, as they were returning from a long voyage and coming up the eastern coast, they found there a was a war going on, and were chased by a rebel ship. But the Clipper could outsail anything in those days. The captain did not return to his home port in New England, however. He had no idea of allowing both his ship and his crew to be commandeered by the government for warlike purposes. He headed across the Atlantic for the Mediterranean, where he did a brisk business carrying fruit from north Africa to the southern European cities: bananas and oranges. After the Civil War was over, he sailed around Africa to China, and came home with a big load of tea.
"My grandfather stopped sailoring when he was about 30, married Caroline Williamson, of definitely English origin (we 'think' the Lewises were Welch), bought his farm as I have said, and they had two children, Bertha and Howard, my father."
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Following his years as a Mariner, and in addition to Farming, Albert Lewis worked as a House Painter, Shoemaker, and in a Shoe Shop.
"My grandfather stopped sailoring when he was about 30, married Caroline Williamson, of definitely English origin (we 'think' the Lewises were Welch), bought his farm as I have said, and they had two children, Bertha and Howard, my father."
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Following his years as a Mariner, and in addition to Farming, Albert Lewis worked as a House Painter, Shoemaker, and in a Shoe Shop.
Of her grandfather, Marion Estella Lewis wrote, "Peregrine White, who had been the child born on the Mayflower, settled his family in Marshfield, and two centuries later my grandfather, Albert Lewis, bought the land for his house and a very small farm from the Peregrine White estate. It was a beautiful location, on what was called Telegraph Hill, overlooking the salt marshes, South River, the sand dunes, the beach, and finally straight across Massachusetts Bay to Cape Cod. As a young man, Albert Lewis was a sailor, sailing round and round the world in the "Clipper" ships, doing a brisk trade especially between the old cities of the East and the new cities of the west coast. There was no Panama Canal in those days, remember, and the railroad did not yet cross the continent. It was the time of stagecoaches, covered wagons and the pony express. Therefore a good deal of the merchandise from the East, much needed on the Pacific coast, had to make the long voyage around Cape Horn, at the tip of South America. If the timing of the voyage was not just right, such fierce winds and tides swept from the Pacific to the Atlantic at that point that the ship could not move. My grandfather told how his ship was once held back ninety day. Ninety days on hard tack, also called sea biscuits, dried beans, potatoes, apples, onions, dried beef, and salt cod! Water from snow and rain. That was about it. You could survive if you were 'tough'. Once, as they were returning from a long voyage and coming up the eastern coast, they found there a was a war going on, and were chased by a rebel ship. But the Clipper could outsail anything in those days. The captain did not return to his home port in New England, however. He had no idea of allowing both his ship and his crew to be commandeered by the government for warlike purposes. He headed across the Atlantic for the Mediterranean, where he did a brisk business carrying fruit from north Africa to the southern European cities: bananas and oranges. After the Civil War was over, he sailed around Africa to China, and came home with a big load of tea.
"My grandfather stopped sailoring when he was about 30, married Caroline Williamson, of definitely English origin (we 'think' the Lewises were Welch), bought his farm as I have said, and they had two children, Bertha and Howard, my father."
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Following his years as a Mariner, and in addition to Farming, Albert Lewis worked as a House Painter, Shoemaker, and in a Shoe Shop.
"My grandfather stopped sailoring when he was about 30, married Caroline Williamson, of definitely English origin (we 'think' the Lewises were Welch), bought his farm as I have said, and they had two children, Bertha and Howard, my father."
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Following his years as a Mariner, and in addition to Farming, Albert Lewis worked as a House Painter, Shoemaker, and in a Shoe Shop.
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