Lemuel Moody/Portland Marine Society account book, 1837-1846.

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Lemuel Moody/Portland Marine Society account book, 1837-1846.

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Accounts, kept by Moody, for the Portland Marine Society, which was incorporated for the promotion of navigation and seamanship, the relief of decayed and disabled seamen, and the poor widows and orphans of deceased seamen.

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Maine Historical Society Library

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Marine Society (Portland, Me.)

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Moody, Lemuel, 1767-1846

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Ship captain, of Portland, Me.; master of schooner Betsey which was captured by the French in the 1790s and Moody imprisoned; member of Portland Monument Ground (association) which built the Portland Observatory (also known as Brown Tower) in 1807, on the highest hill in the city and used, chiefly to signal ships; eventually the Moody family bought the property which remains today an historic landmark; active in the formation of the Portland Marine Society (founded 1796 and still active today). ...