Joseph Meigs
American
Architect - AsNotedIn
Architect - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1776/09/11 | Joseph Meigs is born of Puritan stock on a Rochester farm to Joseph Meigs and Alice Dexter. | Born | |||||
| 1779/00/00 | Joseph Meigs opens the Meigs Tavern, a general store and his own shipyard. His boat building business would become world renowned for its quality workmanship. | Owner | Inn on Shipyard Park | Mattapoisett | |||
| 1794/00/00 | Meigs starts working in local shipyards (lost, along Water St) as an apprentice caulker, pounding hemp and other materials into the seams of the wooden hulls. Seven miles of material was used in an average whaling boat. | Work | Mattapoisett | Massachusetts | |||
| 1816/00/00 | Meigs earns a law degree and practices before the Great and General Court of Plymouth. Joseph Meigs would become a judge at the same court. | Work | |||||
| 1829/00/00 | Mr Meigs becomes a Representative in the Massachusetts House. | Work | Massachusetts Statehouse | Boston | |||
| 1837/03/00 | Ned's Point lighthouse begins operating in 1837. The station was built after shipbuilder Joseph Meigs and Congressman John Q Adams convince Congress to approve $5,000 for its construction. | Work | Ned Point Light | Mattapoisett | |||
| 1838/00/00 | Joseph Meigs is elected to the Massachusetts State Senate. | Work | Massachusetts Statehouse | Boston | |||
| 1840/00/00 | The wooden hulled whaler bark, LYDIA, is built by Meigs, Joseph and Sons of Mattapoisett, Massachusetts. | Naval Architect | The Lydia | San Francisco | |||
| 1841/00/00 | Joseph Meigs eldest son, Joseph Jr, dies at 32 years old of pneumonia. | Life | |||||
| 1844/09/24 | Loring Meigs, son of Joseph Meigs, buys insurance from the Sun Mutual Insurance Co for the whaling vessel JOSEPH MEIGS and her tackle for the duration of a voyage till moored at the Warf 24 hours in good safety. Her cargo is insured until safely landed. | Owner | |||||
| 1846/06/20 | Built in 1842, Meigs' whaling ship, the JOSEPH MEIGS, too loaded with cargo to safely dock is anchored just inside Mattapoisett Light for seven or eight days while lighters unload her. | Owner | Ned Point Light | Mattapoisett | |||
| 1846/06/27 | The JOSEPH MEIGS catches fire, barrels of whale oil explode like bombs and the vessel burns to the water's edge. | Owner | Ned Point Light | Mattapoisett | |||
| 1846/09/00 | Squire Joseph Meigs Sr dies at 70 years old. | Died | |||||
| 1847/06/00 | Jury awards the Meigs Company 10,500 dollars the full amount of the insurance policy from Sun Mutual Insurance Company by the Circuit Court S D New York. | Owner |
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