"She Means to Fight Us" - The Newburyport Privateer "Thorn"
The HMS Thorn was built in Mistley, England and launched on February 17, 1779. She weighed over 305 tons, had eighteen guns, was coppered...
"Threatened to Destroy the Carriadge" - When Loyalists Arrived in Newburyport
William Jackson was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1731. By 1758, he partnered with his widowed mother, Mary Jackson, and opened a shop...
