New Castle, New Hampshire Memorial to Those Lost at Sea

 

This monument is located at the park called Great Island Common in New Castle, New Hampshire. This is the only town in New Hampshire made up entirely of islands off of the city of Portsmouth between the Piscataqua River and the Atlantic Ocean.  It is also one of the smallest towns in our state, with about 1,000 people. New Castle was founded in 1623 and originally called "Great Island", and was a parish of Portsmouth.  

(front of the obelisk)

TO THE

MEMORY OF

CITIZENS OF

NEW CASTLE

LOST AT SEA

(next side)

EBENEZER YEATON

age 52

EDWARD MARTIN

age 51

WILLIAM AMAZEEN

age 49

JOHN H. GERRISH

age 33

JAMES P. BAKER

age 30

ROBERT T. MARTEN

aged 21 yrs

SAMUEL HALL

aged 15 yrs

lost with the

Inez near the

Isle of Sable

April 1847

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JOHN YEATON

aged

Lost from the Nebraska

on Georges Banks

Feb, 15, 1861

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JOHN TARLETON

age 31

Lost from the Helen Eliza

off the coast of Nova Scotia

May 4, 1864

(next side)

BENJ. TREFETHEN

aged 34 yrs

BENJ. HUNT

aged 33 yrs

WM. AMAZEEN

aged 27 yrs

NATH. B. DAVIS

aged 20 yrs

Perished on the 

Balerma near Prince

Edward Island in the storm of

Oct. 3, 1851

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CHARLES SMITH

Aged 20 yrs

Lost from the

Mexico from Boston

for Westport, N.S.

Oct. 1, 1851

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CALVIN D. WHITE

aged 21 yrs

Lost from the

Eliza from Boston

for Baltimore

Nov. 17, 1854

(next side)

SAMUEL BATSON

aged 46 yrs

GILMAN HILLIARD

aged 34

HENRY YEATON

aged 27

RICHARD THOMPSON

age 24

JOHN MELOON

aged 20

ELIAS J. HUBLEY

aged 20

MESHACH B. COUSINS

aged 17

Lost with the Nile off the

coast of Nova Scotia

April 16, 1860

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HORTON O. CARD

aged 26

Lost with the Portsmouth

from Ireland

Oct 1867

According to the placard mounted next to this marble obelisk:

"In 1856, under the direction of then minister, Rev. Lucius Alden, this marble obelisk, created by J. Wentworth & Co., was placed in the New Castle Congregational Church's garden plot east of the present-day church.  It was described like this: "Here is the neat little church edifice, around which is a white open fence, enclosing a refreshing green spot, handsomely laid out with gravel walks, mounds, flower beds, and ornamented with trees, shrubs, vines and flowers.  And in its midst a handsome marble monument."

By 1916 the garden no longer existed and the obelisk had been moved to Riverside cemetery.  In 1997 the obelisk was moved to this location on the New Castle Town Common.  This is unfortunately, only a small sample of the New Castle men who have been lost at sea." 

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To Cite/Link to this post:  Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "New Castle, New Hampshire Memorial to Those Lost at Sea", Nutfield Genealogy, posted May 11, 2021, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2021/05/new-castle-new-hampshire-memorial-to.html: accessed [access date]).