My Revolutionary War Ancestors - Thomas Homan of Marblehead, Massachusetts

 

In memory of

THOMAS HOMAN

who died Jan. 17, 1832, AEt, 75.

His Wife

TABITHA HOMAN,

died March. 11, 1837. AEt, 73.

Also two Daughters

TABITHA died Aug. 24, 1812, AEt. 35

HANNAH died Feb. 2, 1818, AEt. 32 

[there is a verse under the grass that is illegible]

This is the 13th post I have written this year about a Revolutionary War Ancestor, on the anniversary of the 250th year since the American Revolution.  Thomas Homan was born 24 December 1758 in Marblehead, Massachusetts, the son of William Homan and Deliverance Gale.  On 28 November 1782, in Marblehead, he married Tabitha Glover.  She was baptized 10 February 1765 in Marblehead, the daughter of Daniel Glover and Hannah Jillings.  Her father, Daniel, was the brother of the famous General John Glover, who lead his contingent of Marblehead men to help General George Washington.  His regiment was made up entirely of mariners and fishermen, and they served in the battles of New York and New Jersey and helped General Washington cross the Delaware River.

Thomas served in the war early, before his marriage.  He was a private in the Massachusetts 5th Regiment under Captain Putnam in 1776.  This unit was raised by Colonel John Mansfield in May 1775 on the order of the Provincial Congress, and was composed of mostly coastal men and mariners from Danvers, Salem, Lynn, and Marblehead.  They were alongside General John Glover's unit during the Battle of Long Island in August 1776 and in the Defense of New York.  Thomas Homan enlisted on 1 January 1776 under Captain Enoch Putnam's Company and was stationed in Cambridge. In the spring they marched to New York.  They were driven out of New York by the British and when to New Jersey.  He was honorably discharged on 1 January 1777 at Fishkill, New Jersey.

In the Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775 - 1785 I found two mentions of Thomas Homan on page 203, "Homan, Thomas Marblehead.  Descriptive list of officers and crew of the ship "Junius Brutus" commanded by Capt. John Leach, dated Salem June 15, 1780; age 25 yrs, stature 5 ft. 7 in; complexion light, residence Marblehead" and also "Homan, Thomas. Seaman, sloop "Machias Liberty" commanded by Capt. Jeremiah Obrien; engaged Aug. 1, 1776; discharged Oct. 15, 1776; service 2 mos. 14 days; also Seaman, brigantine "Tyrannicide" commanded by Capt. Jonathan Harden; engaged March 4, 1777; discharged Aug. 29, 1777, roll sworn to in Suffolk Co."  These were statements that described his time as a privateer off the New England coast. 

There is a line in the manuscript US Revolutionary War Pension Payments Ledgers, 1818 - 1872, page 33 that Thomas Homan applied for and received a military pension "Massachusetts - Thomas Homan, private, monthly allowance $8, Yearly $48, commencing 23 June 1818, with a note in the margin  "died 19th Janry 1832".  This is confirmed by his death record in the Marblehead Vital Records. 

In the Essex Court records I found this line "For pension certification, T. H. swore to Circuit Court of Common Plea, Salem, "All his real estate is 1 rm in an old house much out of repair $70; 7 chairs w/canvas bottoms .42; 1 old desk $1; 1 maple table $3: $4.42. 1 pine table .75; 1 iron pot .50   1 kettle $1; 1 tea kettle .50; 1 pr tongs .17: $2.92. 1 pr andirons .67; 1 old looking glass .33: $1.00. Age 60, only occup is going out in the harbor fishing in a sm boat; wife a. 52, infirm & unable to do any labor of any conseq; 1 son a. 16."  On 17 July 1818 he swore to the court, Judge Wm Wetmore, the total value of his property (for pension evaluation?) was $78.34.

Thomas and Tabitha had seven children:

1. Hannah, born about 1783, died 1 February 1819 (see tombstone above), unmarried?

2. Thomas, born about 1785, died at sea (served on board the USS Constitution in 1812), married Sarah Bowden Dolliber and had two daughters. died in either 1820 or later as a merchant seaman

3. Tabby, born about 1787, died 26 August 1812 (see tombstone above), unmarried?

4. Polly, born about 1790, died 23 February 1800, unmarried?

5. Betsey Jillings, baptized 14 October 1792, died 6 April 1874, married Jabez Treadwell (my 4th great grandparents).  She had seven children with Jabez, and he died in 1840. She married second to John Russell of West Cambridge.  He was a cordwainer (shoemaker).  

6.  Jonathan Glover, born about 1795, died 1813 at sea on board the Privateer Polly 

7. Captain William, born 10 November 1803, died 19 November 1853, married to unknown and had a son George W. Homan in 1833.  Captain George W. Homan served at sea from 1847 as a boy on board his father's ship Atlas, until 1871 as the captain of the ship Lincoln to Peru and the Puget Sound. 

Thomas died on 20 January 1832 in Marblehead.  Thomas Homan's probate papers (died intestate) are filed in Essex County 3 July 1832, Case number 13757.  Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.)  

https://www.americanancestors.org/DB515/rd/13767/13757-co1/245366433    His probate packet runs for over 45 pages with inventories, affadavits, and it was finally settled 21 May 1839, well after his death, and a few years after his wife's death!  His son, Capt. William Homan, was the last petitioner in the case. 

Tabitha Glover Homan is listed as the head of the household in the 1830 Federal Census of Marblehead.  She outlived her husband, dying on 13 March 1837.  Thomas and Tabitha are buried at the Old Burial Hill in Marblehead, Massachusetts.  She died testate and her probate records were recorded on 18 April 1837.  

For the truly curious:

Surname Saturday, HOMAN of Marblehead, 2027:    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/10/surname-saturday-homan-of-marblehead.html 

Surname Saturday, GLOVER of Salem and Marblehead, 2017:   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/09/surname-saturday-glover-of-salem-and.html 

Other blog posts about my Revolutionary War Ancestors: 

#1 Colonel Joshua Burnham of Milford, NH:  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/02/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-colonel.html  

#2  Major Andrew Munroe of Lexington, MA:  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/03/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-major.html  

#3 Jonathan Flint of Reading, Massachusetts:    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/03/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-jonathan.html   

#4 Daniel Glover of Marblehead, Massachusetts:    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/04/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-daniel.html  

#5 Levi Younger of Gloucester, Massachusetts:    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/04/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-levi.html  

#6 Nathaniel Treadwell of Ipswich, Massachusetts:    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/04/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-nathaniel.html 

#7 Captain Westley Burnham of Essex, Massachusetts:   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/04/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-captain.html  

#8 Abner Poland, Sr. of Essex, Massachusetts    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/05/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-abner_02014071889.html   

#9 Abner Poland, Jr. of Essex, Massachusetts    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/05/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-abner_02014071889.html  

#10  Robert Wilson of Danvers, Massachusetts    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/03/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-robert.html   

#11  Amos Burnham of Ipswich, Massachusetts   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/06/my-revolutionary-war-ancestors-amos.html   

#12 George Flint of Reading, Massachusetts    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/07/my-revolutionary-war-ancestors-george.html  

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To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "My Revolutionary War Ancestors - Thomas Homan of Marblehead, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted August 19, 2026, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/08/my-revolutionary-war-ancestors-thomas.html: accessed [access date]). 

Wachau Valley, Danube River, Austria for Weathervane Wednesday

This weathercock is above the Durnstein Abbey, famous for the blue and white tower.  The weathercock above the church is typical of European weathervanes, since the 9th century when there was a Papal decree for each church to feature a rooster in honor of St. Peter's denial of Christ three times before the cock crowed on Good Friday. The original chapel was built in 1372, and in the 15th century an Augustinian Abbey was founded here.  In the 17th century it was renovated into this baroque style complex. 

This banner style weathervane is above a tower near the Danube and the town of Emmersdorf an der Donau. You can see the Emmersdorf Railway Viaduct (Bahnviadukt Emmersdorf) in the first photo. The tower is above the Rothenhof Castle. This castle dates from the 16th century, with 18th century renovations.  It is open for events and as a hotel.     

The Wachau Valley of the Danube River runs 22 miles from Krem,  just west of Vienna, to Melk, home of the famous Benedictine Abbey with the fantastic library. We cruised along this stretch of the river in May earlier this year, and photographed many villages, vineyards, castles, abbeys, and monuments. There were a few more weathervanes than these two, but they were too far away to zoom in with our cameras.  One of the most interesting places we passed was Durnstein, where Richard the Lionheart was captured and imprisoned in a castle on top of a mountain in 1192.  

This monument marks the spot where Richard I "Lionheart" was captured on 20 December 1192

For the truly curious: 

Wachau Valley at Wikipedia:   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wachau  

Click here to see over 550 more weathervanes featured on Weathervane Wednesday:   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/search/label/Weathervane%20Wednesday  

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To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Wachau Valley, Danube River, Austria for Weathervane Wednesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted August 12, 2026, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/08/wachau-valley-danube-river-austria-for.html: accessed [access date]). 

The 136th Locke Family Association Reunion

The Locke Family Association

Center Cemetery, Rye, New Hampshire

On August 25, 1891 the descendants of John Locke (1627 - 1696) of Rye, New Hampshire gathered in the town hall for a family reunion.  The next day was the 195th anniversary of John Locke's death, and the meeting continued at the town hall to organize a permanent organization. This was the birth of the Locke Family Association, which continues to hold annual family reunions, even through war times.  It is considered to be the oldest family association in the United States.  

Last week the Locke Family Association met again in Rye, Raymond, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire for the annual family reunion.  We cruised Portsmouth Harbor in the gundalow "Piscataqua", held a family business meeting in the VFW hall in Raymond followed by a cookout lunch and catered barbecue dinner at Pawtuckaway State Park, and a Sunday trolley ride past historic and family sites in Portsmouth and Rye with our cousins. 

The gundalow "Piscataqua" in Portsmouth Harbor

The Locke Family Association business meeting,

new business, swearing in new officers, financial reports and more. 

At beautiful Pawtuckaway State Park we enjoyed an afternoon of burgers and hot dogs, lawn and board games, swapping family stories, a catered dinner, and no mosquitos! 

On Sunday we all enjoyed the trolley ride through Portsmouth and Rye, seeing historic sites and lots of Locke family homesteads and burial places.  We ended the tour with the annual family photo at the Locke memorial in Central Cemetery. 

For the truly curious:

The Locke Family Association website:  https://www.lockefamilyassociation.org/  

Locke Family Association on Facebook:   https://www.facebook.com/groups/lockefamilyassociation  

Other Locke related blog posts:

An Indian without a nose   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/01/indian-without-nose.html 

also https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/07/john-locke-he-cut-off-indians-nose-with.html  

Surname Saturday - Locke of Rye, New Hampshire   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/05/surname-saturday-locke-of-rye-new.html   

2021 Locke Family Reunion   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2021/08/2021-locke-family-reunion.html 

2013 The 123rd Locke Family Reunion   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-123rd-locke-family-reunion-concord.html   

Locke Burial Ground, Rye, New Hampshire   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/07/tombstone-tuesday-locke-burial-ground.html  

My ancestor Richard Locke, buried in Chichester, New Hampshire     https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2010/06/tombstone-tuesday-leavitt-cemetery.html  

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To cite/link to this blog post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "The 136th Locke Family Association Reunion", Nutfield Genealogy, posted August 8, 2026, (  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-136th-locke-family-association.html: accessed [access date]). 

Matthias Church on the Castle Hill in Budapest, Hungary for Weathervane Wednesday

 

It is difficult to see in the photo below, but there are three weathervanes on the facade of the Matthias Church.  Above the main door to the entrance there is a weathercock, and to the left are two banners. The rooster is a common weathervane above churches, ever since the 9th century Papal degree by Nicholas I stated that all churches display a rooster as a Christian symbol (acknowleging repentence for St. Peter's denial of Jesus three times before the cock crowed). The banner weathervanes were probably once painted with some sort of symbol or crest or royal standard. 

The Matthias Church is inside the Buda Castle complex above the city of Budapest, Hungary. This church dates back to 1015.  The official name is the Coronation Church of Our Lady, and it was founded by St. Stephen, the first king of Hungary.  There is a statue to St. Stephen next to the church. The name of the church doesn't refer to St. Matthias, but to King Matthias Corvinus the Fair, who expanded the church in the 15th century to include the featured weathervanes and facade. It was restored again the 19th century. 

The roof of the church is very colorful, and the peaks and towers all have finials, but only the two featured weathervanes on the front are true wind indicators. 

One of the more interesting finials atop a Matthias Church tower is the raven with a ring in its mouth (see above).  It is not a weathervane.  King Matthias has a legend that a raven once stole his golden ring.  The raven was found and the ring returned to the king, and that raven became the symbol of the Hunyadi family, as an emblem of royal destiny and divine rule. You can see this symbol in several other places in Budapest, including the Beggar's gate. King Matthias was known as the "Raven King".  

Interior of the Matthias Church

For the truly curious:

The Buda Castle website:   https://budacastlebudapest.com/matthias-church/  

Matthias Church on Wikipedia:   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Church  

Click here to see over 550 other weathervanes featured at Weathervane Wednesday:   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/search/label/Weathervane%20Wednesday   

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To cite/link to this blog post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Matthias Church on the Castle Hill in Budapest, Hungary for Weathervane Wednesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted August 5, 2026, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/08/matthias-church-on-castle-hill-in.html: accessed [access date]). 

"Our Lady Beneath the Chain" for Weathervane Wednesday

 Today's weathervane was photographed in Prague, Hungary.

This Maltese Cross weathervane was photographed at the Our Lady Beneath the Chain church in the Malá Strana neighborhood of Prague in Hungary.  It is very close to the Charles Bridge on Lazenska Street, and around the corner from the John Lennon Wall.  This church was built betweeen 1158 and 1182 and was the headquarters for the Sorvereign Military Order of Malta.  So the Maltese Cross weathervane is very appropriate.

This church got it's strange name for the chain that was placed across the Vltava River (the Moldau) and boats had to pay a toll to the Knights of Malta. This church was once part of a large Gothic fortress.  

This church was one block from our hotel in Prague earlier this summer.  We walked by it several times. It is a few blocks from the Church of Our Lady of Victories, which is also the Shrine of the Infant Jesus of Prague, another historic site.

The Maltese cross is also the symbol of firefighters, the national symbol for Malta, and the crusaders. 

For the truly curious:

Click here to see over 550 more weathervanes: 

https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/search/label/Weathervane%20Wednesday   

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To cite/link to this blog post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, " "Our Lady Beneath the Chain" for Weathervane Wednesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted July 29, 2026, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/07/our-lady-beneath-chain-for-weathervane.html: accessed [access date]). 

Seventeen Years of the Nutfield Genealogy Blog

 

Seventeen years ago I was writing short sketches on local history for a Londonderry website.  I submitted the stories each month, and learned that I was part of something called a community "blog".  It was easy to do, and I thought "I can do my own blog" and so I started Nutfield Genealogy on July 27th, 2009.  The first story I wrote was about my long time brickwall ancestor project that started in the 1970s when I was in high school - all about my great grandmother's stories that we were related to a Queen in Hawaii. I remember being very nervous about pushing the publish button.  The rest is history (pun intended). 

The first people to read my blog were my mother and other other family members.  I remember being quite shocked to learn that complete strangers were reading and commenting on my blog posts. Who were these people? That experience was weird, but fun.  And even more fun to learn that some of these strangers were distant cousins.  Making cousin connections is still my favorite part of genealogy blogging. 

Years ago I joined the genealogy blogging community and made friends with genealogy bloggers from all over the USA and the world.  It was fun to meet up with these people at genealogy workshops and genealogy conferences in New England, Salt Lake City, and all over.  We currently still have communities on Facbook, Substack, Threads, and we used to have converstations on Twitter and Google+  (remember Twitter and G+?).  My favorite genealogy blogging memories from before COVID are events held by the New England Genealogy Bloggers group that used to meet up once or twice a year.  I miss those days.  

I've gone from posting about 25 times a month to just a few times a month. But I'm not stopping, and I'm still researching in the background.  You might run across me at your favorite archive or library in New England, while I stil plug away at my family history after more than fifty years of research.  It's a never ending story. 

Thank you for reading, commenting, and following Nutfield Genealogy!

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For the Truly Curious:

17 years, first post was July 27, 2009 "Hawaii - the Boston connection to a royal lineage"   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/07/hawaii-boston-connection-to-royal.html  

3,525 Blog posts and pages written and published

6913 Comments (I've noticed that comments are down in the past five years. I get maybe one or two comments each month. No idea why this trend is happening!)  I've deleted an almost equal number of spammy comments, too. 

Most popular blog post "A Favorite Christmas Gift! You might want one, too!" published December 30, 2012 with over 250,000 reads  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-favorite-christmas-gift-you-might.html   

I have the links to five permanent pages (look up under the image at the top of this blog page to see the links) on my home page.  The most popular page is the first one "Surnames from my Family Tree"  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/p/surnames-to-9-generations.html  There are hundreds of surnames listed in two groups (my Paternal lineage and my Maternal lineage) with links to the "Surname Saturday" post for that surname.  This page has received many hits and lots of email as folks make cousin connections.  Take a peek and see if we have a common ancestor!

 All time number of page views as of 7:00 AM today (July 26, 2026):   8,891,947  

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To cite/link to this blog post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Seventeen Years of the Nutfield Genealogy Blog", Nutfield Genealogy, posted July 26, 2026, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/07/seventeen-years-of-nutfield-genealogy.html: accessed [access date]). 

My Revolutionary War Ancestors - George Fint of Reading, Massachusetts

 

The George Flint House in North Reading, Mass.

This is the 12th post I have written about a Revolutionary War veteran ancestor.  George Flint, my 5th great grandfather, was the son of George Flint (b. 1686) and Jerusha Pope, born on 16 November 1728 in what is now the town of North Reading, Massachusetts.  His mother, Jerusha, was the daughter of Joseph Pope and Bethshua Folger (the sister to Abiah Folger, Benjamin Franklin's mother).  Joseph and Bethshua Pope were notorious witnesses in the 1692 Salem witch trials, and accused their neighbors John Proctor, Martha Corey, and Rebecca Nurse of witchcraft.  

On 13 November 1753 George Flint married Hannah Phelps in Andover, Massachusetts.  Hannah is a "brickwall ancestor", and I have not been able to identify her parents or her ancestors. Phelps is a very common name in Andover, Massachusetts.  George and Hannah had seven children between 1755 and 1770, including my 4th great grandmother, Phebe Flint, born on 8 March 1763 in North Reading.  Phebe married her cousin, John Flint, who was the son of Jonathan Flint and Lydia Proctor.  Jonathan Flint is the son of Mary Collston, also imprisoned for witchcraft along with her mother and grandmother.  Lydia Proctor is the granddaughter of John Proctor, who was accused by the Pope (see the paragraph above) and hanged as a witch on 19 August 1692.  This family tree is full of people who both survived and also died during the 1692 hysteria.  

George Flint served in the American Revolution as a Sargent.  He first answered the Lexington Alarm under Colonel David Green in the 2nd Middlesex County Regiment. David Green is the great grandson of my ancestor Thomas Green of Malden, Massachusetts.  He later served under Captains Amos Upton and John Flint (a cousin) in the 3rd Reading Company.  

George Flint died on 31 August 1808 in North Reading.  His wife, Hannah, had died three years earlier on 5 May 1805. I have not been able to locate a gravestone or burial site for either George or Hannah Flint. He apparently died intestate. 

For the truly curious:

Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, by William Richard Cutter, Volume 1, page 267.  

Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, Volume 16, page 226. 

Other blog posts about my Revolutionary War Ancestors: 

#1 Colonel Joshua Burnham of Milford, NH:  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/02/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-colonel.html  

#2  Major Andrew Munroe of Lexington, MA:  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/03/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-major.html  

#3 Jonathan Flint of Reading, Massachusetts:    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/03/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-jonathan.html   

#4 Daniel Glover of Marblehead, Massachusetts:    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/04/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-daniel.html  

#5 Levi Younger of Gloucester, Massachusetts:    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/04/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-levi.html  

#6 Nathaniel Treadwell of Ipswich, Massachusetts:    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/04/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-nathaniel.html 

#7 Captain Westley Burnham of Essex, Massachusetts:   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/04/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-captain.html  

#8 Abner Poland, Sr. of Essex, Massachusetts    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/05/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-abner_02014071889.html   

#9 Abner Poland, Jr. of Essex, Massachusetts    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/05/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-abner_02014071889.html  

#10  Robert Wilson of Danvers, Massachusetts    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/03/my-revolutionary-war-patriots-robert.html   

#11  Amos Burnham of Ipswich, Massachusetts   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/06/my-revolutionary-war-ancestors-amos.html   

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To cite/link to this blog post: Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "My Revolutionary War Ancestors - George Fint of Reading, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted July 21, 2026, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/07/my-revolutionary-war-ancestors-george.html: accessed [access date]). 

A New Bedford Whale for Weathervane Wednesday

 Today's featured weathervane was photographed in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

This two dimensional sperm whale weathervane is located on the cupola over the front door of the Fairfield Inn on the waterfront in New Bedford harbor.  It is a very appropriate weathervane for the location, since New Bedford is famous as a whaling seaport and home to Herman Melville, the author of the novel Moby Dick: or, The Whale, published in 1851.  The New Bedford Whaling Museum is situated a few blocks from the hotel. 

Although this weathervane is only two dimensional, I liked the details including the teeth inside the whales mouth, and the fins on the tail.  Below I have listed links to nine other whale weathervanes we have photographed, and most are sperm whales located near historic whaling ports or other locations related to the whaling industry. 

Once we checked into the hotel, we saw that our guestroom was right behind the weathervane!  This is the view of the whale weathervane through the hotel window. 

For the truly curious:

Click here for over 550 Weathervane Wednesday posts:   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/search/label/Weathervane%20Wednesday  

More whale weathervanes:

2026 Peaks Island, Maine    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-whale-of-weathervane-for-weathervane.html  

2025 Krimpen aan de Lek, The Netherlands   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2025/06/krimpen-aan-de-lek-netherlands-for.html  

2023  Lunenburg, Massachusetts   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2023/08/a-whale-of-car-wash-for-weathervane.html  

2022 New Bedford Whaling Museum   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2022/04/new-bedford-whaling-museum-weathervane.html  

2018  Seabrook, New Hampshire   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/10/weathervane-wednesday-whale-of.html  

2017 Wells, Maine    https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/01/weathervane-wednesday-three-from-one.html  

2014 Salem, New Hampshire   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/07/weathervane-wednesday-in-new-england.html  

2013 Cold Spring Harbor, New York   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/05/weathervane-wednesday-whale.html  

2013 Hampton Beach, New Hampshire   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/09/weathervane-wednesday-seen-by-beach.html  

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To cite/link to this blog post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "A New Bedford Whale for Weathervane Wednesday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted July 15, 2026, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2026/07/a-new-bedford-whale-for-weathervane.html: accessed [access date]).