1778 - 1857 (79 years)
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Name |
Alexander Douglas |
Prefix |
Capt. |
Birth |
3 Oct 1778 |
New London County, Connecticut, USA |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
16 Dec 1857 |
USA |
Person ID |
I126094 |
My Genealogy |
Last Modified |
30 Aug 2023 |
Family 1 |
Lydia Treby, b. 17 Oct 1779, Rhode Island, USA d. 12 Feb 1866, USA (Age 86 years) |
Children |
| 1. Alexander Douglas, b. 1805 d. Yes, date unknown |
| 2. Ann Mary Douglas, b. 1808 d. Yes, date unknown |
| 3. Lydia Douglas, b. 1810 d. Yes, date unknown |
| 4. Louise Douglas, b. 1812 d. Yes, date unknown |
| 5. Elizabeth Douglas, b. Abt 1814 d. Yes, date unknown |
| 6. Luke Alexander Douglas, b. 1816 d. Yes, date unknown |
| 7. Peter Douglas, b. 1818 d. Yes, date unknown |
| 8. Nancy Douglas, b. 1820 d. Yes, date unknown |
| 9. Richard Douglas, b. 1823 d. Yes, date unknown |
| 10. Thomas Peck Douglas, b. 3 Dec 1826, Pittsford, Pittsford, Monroe, New York, United States d. Abt 1905, Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri, United States (Age 78 years) |
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Family ID |
F79113 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
26 Apr 2023 |
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Notes |
- Alexander eventually became a whaling captain, then whaling master working in the firm of Benjamin Brown of New London as well as for the Williams & Havens firm. He received property in upstate New York from a war grant from his father's service in the war eventually retiring there after his last whaling voyages in about 1838.
Alexander was the captain to many of the most successful early whaling voyages out of New London. A yet unconfirmed story about him is his ship eventually rescued stranded survivors of the Pequod
- (Research):"A yet unconfirmed story about him is his ship eventually rescued stranded survivors of the Pequod"
This seems unlikely as the Perquod was a fictional ship in the novel 'Moby Dick'.
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