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Retire Becket were building at Salem at 

 the yard where for one hundred and forty- 

 five years the family had followed their pro- 

 fession. 1 Enos Briggs, one of the most 

 noted ship-builders in New England, was 

 also located in Salem at the yard near the 

 site now occupied by the Naumkeag Cotton 

 Mills, where, up to the time of his death, he 

 had built fifty-one vessels of 11,500 tons 

 burden. 2 Ebenezer Mann and Christopher 

 Turner as well as Magoun and Barker were 

 also well-known master ship-builders of 

 Salem. 



Thatcher Magoun was building at Med- 

 ford, and Josiah Barker at Charlestown, 

 the Hackets at Salisbury, the Crosses and 

 Merrills at Newburyport, the Westons and 

 Halls at Plymouth, Alden and Elisha 

 Briggs and Jonathan Sampson at Pem- 

 broke, Samuel Rogers at Scituate and 

 Edward and Henry Rogers in Boston. 

 Boston, which previous to the Revolution- 



1 Hist. Coll. Essex Institute, vol. 6, p. 132. 



2 Hist. Coll. Essex Institute, vol. 6, p. 207. 



