Pane-Joyce Genealogy
Family of Rachel Kent (32077) & Perkins Clap (35799)
36463. Rachel Clap. Born on 17 Feb 1807.7 Rachel died in Scituate, MA, on 8 Jul 1870; she was 63.7
On 21 Dec 1827 when Rachel was 20, she first married Capt. Seth Gardner.279 Seth died in 1830.
Captain Seth Gardner was shipwreaked and lost off Cape Cod in the Cyprus in Aug. 1830.7
On 14 Jul 1836 when Rachel was 29, she second married Henry Briggs (31388) , son of Thomas Barker Briggs (21121) (13 Jul 1757-26 Oct 1806) & Lucy Otis (33027) (15 Jun 1763-25 Dec 1832), in Scituate, MA.116 Born on 11 Mar 1789 in Scituate, MA. Henry died in Scituate, MA, on 4 Dec 1837; he was 48.116 Buried in South Parish Cem., Norwell. Occupation: shipbuilder.7
Henry “followed the art of shipbuilding, at first with his father and brothers at Hobart’s Landing, and completed his apprenticeship with the Fosters at the Wanton Ship Yard, where he was working in 1810 when he reached his majority. In the War of 1812 he was enrolled in Capt. Luther Tilden’s Company of Militia, which was in service at Scituate. In 1813 he began building vessels with his brother, Cushing O. Briggs, at Hobart’s Landing.
“The brothers dissolved partnership about 1830, and built separately at Hobart’s Landing. Henry Briggs built in 1831 the bark Avon, 299 tons, of Boston, for Nathaniel Emmons, Thomas B. Wales, and others; in 1833 he was master carpenter of the brig Oak, 208 tons, for the same owners; and in 1836 the bark Verona, 238 tons, also for Emmons and Wales. The last vessel built by Henry Briggs was the brig Star in 1837, which was begun by him but was not completed when he died in December of that year. It was launched in the spring of 1838 by his son, George Henry Briggs, and his son-in-law, Elijah Barstow, who, although he was building a vessel at his Hanover yard at the same time, went ot the Briggs yard nearly every day and supervised her completion, as he had promised his father-in-law, on his death bed, that he would do.
“When Henry Briggs married in 1813 he built his residence on the main road, upon a part of the Briggs property that was set off to him by the division deed between Henry and his brother, Cushing O. It appears to have been built on that piece of land known as the ‘Neal Orchard,’ and it is yet standing a little west of Neal Gate Road, on the north side of the highway. It was sold a few years after Henry Briggs’ death to Francis Dana, or his father Henry Dana, who had purchased the Walnut Tree Hill estate of Judge William Cushing. ...”7
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