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CHARLES D. PRESCOTT (1848-1927) PAPERS, 1880-1921, 1930, 1951
Collection Summary | |
Repository: | The Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum 132 Essex Street Salem, MA 01970 Phone: 978-745-9500 Fax: 978-531-1516 |
Creator: | Prescott, Charles Dumont, 1848-1927 |
Title: | Charles D. Prescott (1848-1927) Papers |
Dates: | 1880/1921, 1930, 1951 |
Quantity: | 1 linear foot (2 boxes) |
Abstract: | The Charles D. Prescott papers document the activities of this Maine ship captain and his family. |
Collection Number: | MH 189 |
Series List
SERIES I. Shipping Papers
SERIES II. Family Papers
Scope and Content Note
The Charles D. Prescott papers document the activities of this Maine ship captain and his family. It has been organized into two series.
Subseries A. Shipping Papers contains letters,
account books, and logbooks for various ships that Prescott sailed on. Of interest
is the 1882 letter from Enoch Soule to Captain Prescott, giving him permission to
take his wife on voyages as he had "never had one disposed to make trouble yet." Box
3 contains a scrapbook made by Prescott's son, Worrall, which includes annotated
original manuscript material such as ships' papers, telegrams, letters, bills and
receipts, transcripts of letters, a birth certificate, Hong Kong business cards, a
notebook created while Prescott was captain of the S. S. El
Oriente, and news clippings. It appears that the scrapbook was created in
1950-1951. The series also includes an empty card case that once belonged to
Prescott.
Subseries B. Family Papers includes letters, a
photograph, and a copy of the book A Day in a Colonial
Home written by Della R. Prescott.
Biographical Sketches
Charles Dumont Prescott was born in Woolwich, Maine, on October 18, 1848, the son of Joseph and Rebecca (Gray) Prescott. He became captain of the ships Tam O'Shanter, Paramita, and El Oriente, and the S. S. Siglo. In 1903, while captain of the El Dorado, he rescued a young Cuban boy who was found floating in a small dugout off the coast of Georgia.
In 1882 he married Mary Jane Reed (1855-1943) and they had five children: Della
Reed (1884-1943); Corinna Carlton (1886-1985); Samuel R. (born 1888); Charles E.
(1892-1893); and Worrall Dumont (1900-1976). Della sailed with Captain and Mrs.
Dumont on the Tam O'Shanter on a voyage from San
Francisco to Antwerp. She was born in Oakland, California, at the home of relatives
of Mrs. Prescott. Corinna was born on board the Paramita in 1886.
Prescott died in South Gardiner, Maine, on December 23, 1927.
Enoch D. Soule built and owned the ships Tam O'Shanter and the Paramita. He moved from Freeport, Maine, to Newton, Massachusetts, in
1879 and died in 1894.
Index Terms
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Restrictions
Restrictions on Access
This collection is open for research use.
Administrative Information
Copyright
Requests for permission to publish material from the collection must be submitted in writing to the Manuscript Librarian in the Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum.
Preferred Citation
Charles D. Prescott (1848-1927) Papers, MH 189, Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass.
Provenance
This material was donated by Worrall D. Prescott on March 27, 1956, April 3, 1956, March 24, 1961, and August 28, 1967 (acc #13,779, 13,805, 13,820, and 15,416).
Processing Information
Collection processed by Tamara Gaydos, October 2016.
Related Material
Ancestry.com. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
Prescott, Worrall Dumont. A Genealogical Record concerning
Captain Samuel Reed and Mary Winship Reed and All Their Descendants to January
1, 1953. Captain Samuel Reed and Mary Winship Were Married, November 30, 1783,
Woolwich, Maine. New York?: W. D. Prescott, 1953.
Tam O'Shanter (Ship) Logbook, 1883, Log 2019
El Oriente (Ship) Logbook, 1910-1912, Log 1826
El Oriente (Ship) Logbook, 1914-1916, Log 1827
El Oriente (Ship) Logbook, 1916-1917, Log 1828