3l8 HISTORY OF COHASSET. 



account of the compassion and hospitality he had experienced 

 from the people of Cohasset. When arrived in Denmark, he 

 gave to the king such a representation of the people here, as 

 induced his majesty to order the College of Commerce to send in 

 his majesty's name four large medals of gold, and ten of silver, 

 with the likeness of himself impressed on one side, and with 

 Danish words on the other, importing, Reward of Merit — Noble 

 Deeds. 



With the medals of gold came directions — one for Rev. 

 Josiah C. Shaw — one for Elisha Doane, Esq.* — one for Captain 

 John Lewis t — and one for Captain Levi Tower. J The silver 

 medals were designed for other citizens,§ who had been most 

 active in giving relief to the sufferers. Honorable notice was 

 likewise taken by the Humane Society, of the commendable 

 humanity, here manifested to strangers in distress, and a pecun- 

 iary donation was granted to the deserving agents. The governor 

 of the Island of St. Croix manifested also the high sense he 

 entertained of the benevolence of the people here, by his extraor- 

 dinary kindness, on that account, to a gentleman from Boston. 

 Mr. Daniel Hubbard, a respectable merchant of that town, was 

 taken dangerously sick, on his passage home, from abroad, and 

 put into the harbor of St. Croix, with a view to obtain medical 

 aid and other assistance, which his perilous condition required. 

 At first he was refused admission, prohibited by the laws of the 

 place, lest he should communicate his sickness. But as soon as 

 it was made known to the governor, that he was from Boston, 

 he was removed on shore, and the best medical aid and every 

 assistance and courtesy granted him, till he was recovered ; for 

 which all compensation was refused — the governor alleging 



* The one given to Elisha Doane was stolen in a box of silver. 



fTwo communion cups of the First Parish Church have the following inscrip- 

 tion : " This cup is the gift of the Widow Susanna Lewis, it being the proceeds of a 

 gold medal from the King of Denmark to her late husband Capt. John Lewis 

 1824." 



The rest of the value of the gold medal was used to make a silver porringer for 

 Rev. Jacob Flint by his wife, the daughter of Captain Lewis. 



The porringer is now owned by Abraham H. Tower. 



;JThe Levi Tower medal has been lost. 



\ One of the silver medals came to Abraham H. Tower, and it is said to have 

 been remelted and made into six silver tablespoons, of which Miss Annie A. 

 Souther has one. 



