People of the 18th Century
In the 1700s, Berwick, South Berwick and North Berwick were still all one town called Berwick, and the Province of Maine was part of Massachusetts. The population center of the community stood in what became known as the Old Fields part of town, near today’s Brattle and Vine Streets and Oldfields Road. Nearby, tall ships were constructed at the shipyards of Pipe Stave Landing, where the Hamilton House stands today. Farming and lumbering were many people’s means of support.
Meet some the 18th century people of old Berwick.
Parson John Tompson
- Judge Benjamin Chadbourne (1718-1799)
- Berwick Soldiers at Siege of Louisbourg by Nathan Gould
- Micajah Currier (1774-1818), postmaster and merchant
- Dr. Nathanael Low (1740-1808), physician and almanac publisher
- Northend Cogswell (1762-1828), merchant; Charles Northend Cogswell (1797-1846), attorney; William Lambert Cogswell (1803-1879), New York distiller and financier
- William Lambert (b. 1772), lawyer; Rev. Ebenezer Little Boyd (b. 1768), Baptist minister; and Dennis Ferguson (1815-1900), tanner
- Citizen, Merchant, Community Leader: A New Interpretation of Jonathan Hamilton by Margaret Kugelman Hofer
- Jonathan Hamilton (1745-1802)
- Dr. Ivory Hovey (1748-1818), physician and merchant
- The Cushings and the Cushing Mansion
- Gen. Ichabod Goodwin (1743-1829), militia leader and sheriff by Paula Bennett
- Master John Sullivan and A Wife’s Apology
- Black Sara, citizen of Berwick
- The Furness Family
- James Sullivan, son of old Berwick, by Daniel Breen
- Timothy Ferguson (1788-1839), merchant and investor
- Frost Family
- Alexander McGeoch (d. 1824)
- Gen. John Lord (1765-1815), merchant; Isaac L. Moore (1826-1886), Joseph Maddox (1847-1916) and Albert Maddox (1873-1954), shopkeepers
- Early Chadbourne Family
- Tilly Haggens, a father of South Berwick