Notes for Habakkuk Bowditch

Notes for Habakkuk Bowditch

!BIRTH/Death SOURCE: Five Genealogies of Bowdish and Bowditch Families in
America...by Cyrus and Maryella Bowdish
!DEATH CAUSE: apoplexy
Occupation: mariner and cooper

Mary's birth date has been estimated to be about 1738. She was born
at Salem, Essex Co., Massachusetts. She died December 16, 1783 at Salem,
Essex Co., Massachusetts after a long illness.
After the death of his father, Ebenezer, his mother, Mary lived
them for some time, until her death. Habakkuk was a mariner and was
spoken of as Captain Bowditch; after the Revolution he became a cooper.
Their home on Brown St. was standing when Harold Bowditch wrote his book,
also standing is the home they lived in at Salem, now part of Peabody.
There is a tablet at the home of Nathaniel as a child. Ill luck attended
Habakkuk as it did his father. On April 19, 1775, his sloop, the "Polly"
went aground on the Anguilla Reef, during a storm. The Salem Marine
was founded by the Habakkuk Family