The Eagle Harbour Reporter (Winter 2009/2010) stated "He learned the trade of shipwright at a time when Cohasset was build-ing a mackerel fishing fleet that numbered more than 50 schooners by the 1850s.
He spent a great part of his youth going to sea where he learned to be a skillful navigator. "
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