THE SCHOONER CHARMING MOLLY – NEWBURY, MA

Titcomb, Col. Moses. Two documents concerning the Schooner Charming Molly. The first being titled The Schooner Charming Molly her Outfits and Cargo and dated 1747. Written in ink, 4 pages (12 ¾ x 16 inches) and legible. The second document (8 x 13 inches) is a 1 and ¼ page bill of sale for 1/8 ownership of the Schooner Charming Molly to Benjamin Rol. The document is signed by Titcomb and dated Nov. 17, 1747.

Col. Moses Titcomb was born on 8 July 1707, in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. He married Miriam Currier about 1727, in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. Moses was the Colonel of the 2nd Massachusetts Provincial Regiment. He died at the Battle of Lake George during the French & Indian War, 8 Sep. 1755 and was buried on the field of battle, Lake George, New York.

He was a member of the First Church of Newburyport, and the Rev. John Lowell preached a funeral sermon from the text, "Moses, my servant, is dead,” in which be pronounced the following eulogistic words, which only the greatness of the man and the deep love the people bore him would justify: —

"I question whether there has been for a great while any death in this land so justly and universally regretted; people of all ranks have been ready to drop a tear or a sigh. In the language of David's elegy, ‘How are the mighty fallen!’ Seldom was any man more generally beloved, and the whole country shows that his death is a great public loss; especially in such a day as this, such a here will be very much missed.”

Source: Wikitree

Very readable and in vg cond.