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Historic leaves, volume 8, April, 1909 - January, 1910, Our Seal. (search)
mber, cut on the farm, and was built by subscription at a cost of £ 145. In 1632 she was converted into a cruiser to suppress piracy on the New England coast. Her energies were to be particularly directed against one David Bull, who, with fifteen Englishmen, had committed acts of piracy among the fishermen and plundered a settlement. She therefore may lay claim to the honor of having been the first American vessel of war. Mention of the ship is made several times in the Colony Records up to 1692. The Cambridge Chronicle in 1852 stated that the identical ways on which the Blessing of the Bay was built were still in existence and in fair preservation. James R. Hopkins, chief of the Somerville Fire Department, who was familiar with the locality, and John S. Hayes, master of the Forster School, together with two firemen, William A. Perry and William A. Burbank, in May, 1892, secured a portion of the ways from which the bark was launched. Three vases and two gavels were made of the w