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# Stephen Higginson (Continental Congress)

Stephen Higginson (November 28, 1743 – November 28, 1828) was an American merchant and shipmaster from Boston, Massachusetts. He was a delegate for Massachusetts to the Continental Congress in 1783. He took an active part in suppressing Shays' Rebellion, was the author of the Laco letters (1789), and served the United States government as navy agent from May 11 to June 22, 1798. Although he was a privateer during the American Revolutionary War he became a "blue light", extreme-Federalist during the War of 1812 and was one of the members of the Essex Junto.

## Early life

Stephen Higginson was born on November 28, 1743, in Salem, Massachusetts, to Elizabeth (née Cabot) and Stephen Higginson. He attended common schools in Salem. He began work as a merchant in the counting room of Deacon Smith of Boston.$^{:13–15}$ His great-great-great-grandfather was reverend Francis Higginson.$^{:10–13}$ His double first cousin was George Cabot.$^{:40}$

## Career

Higginson worked in mercantile and was a shipmaster from 1765 to 1775. In 1778, he moved from Salem to Boston to become a partner with Jonathan Jackson. He served in the Massachusetts legislature in 1782 and was a delegate for Massachusetts to the Continental Congress in 1783. Along with his fellow Massachusetts delegates Holten and Gorham, he signed a protest against the denial of Elbridge Gerry's right in calling for ayes and nays.$^{:52}$ He was part of a group of Federalists called the Essex Junto, which included his cousin George Cabot and Theophilus Parsons.$^{:41–42}$ He was the author of the Laco letters in February and March 1789.$^{:125}$ He became justice of the peace in Massachusetts in 1782 and of the Quorum in 1788.$^{:233}$
In February 1784, he became a director of a bank in Boston led by Governor James Bowdoin.$^{:233}$ Higginson served as a naval officer at the Port of Boston from 1797 to 1808. He took an active part in suppressing Shays' Rebellion and served as lieutenant colonel in the Boston regiment.

## Personal life

Higginson married Susanna "Susan" Cleveland, a second cousin and daughter of Aaron Cleveland, on October 20, 1764.$^{:15–16}$ They had a son, John.$^{:259}$ After marrying, they moved to a home at the corner of Main and Central streets in Salem.$^{:21}$ His wife died in 1788. He married Elizabeth Perkins, daughter of an English merchant, on May 15, 1789. They had one son, James Perkins. His second wife died and he married again in September 1792 to Sarah Perkins, sister of his former wife.$^{:252–253}$ He lived at 10 Gower Street in London in 1800 and lived in England from 1806 to 1812 and in 1818.$^{:255–256}$
Higginson died on November 28, 1828, in Boston. He was buried in the Central Burying Ground in Boston.
# Charles Gore (artist)

Charles Gore (5 December 1729 – 23 January 1807) was an English marine artist. He married well and travelled throughout Europe and knew royalty, Goethe and the artist Johann Zoffany. He settled and died in Germany.

## Life

Gore was born in Horkstow Hall in Horkstow in North Lincolnshire in 1729.
He attended Westminster School before working with his father's brother in a London trading company. In 1751 he married Mary (born Cockerill), whose wealth meant that Gore did not need to work again. After his father died he moved with his family in 1759 to Southampton, where he spent many days creating watercolours of naval scenes at the Portsmouth shipyards. He designed his own cutter, which he named Snail when she was launched. His social circle included the Duke of York, the Duke of Gloucester and the Duke of Cumberland, who were all brothers of King George III.
He toured Europe where he was influenced by the Old Duch Masters. He painted for some time with Jacob Philipp Hackert and they sketched together. He developed his own style with marine subjects but he was also known to complete the drawings of other artists and to copy other artist's paintings.
In 1775 George Clavering-Cowper, the presumptive 3rd Earl Cowper married Gore's sixteen-year-old daughter Hannah Anne Gore on 2 June. Their betrothal was commemorated with a painting by Johann Zoffany, commissioned by Gore. In 1780, his daughter went on to live in the Villa Palmieri in Fiesole and to have three children, two of whom became earls.
His daughter Elizabeth Gore married Rev. Henry Wood D.D (Cambridge), son of Francis Wood JP. of Monk Bretton, Yorkshire, and brother of Sir Francis Wood and of Sir Charles Wood.
"A widely travelled, cultured gentleman with artistic tastes", Gore settled in Weimar in 1792, "presumably at the instance of Karl August who had fallen in love with the second daughter, and Goethe was a constant visitor at their house". He died there in 1807.
# Flyer (yacht)

Flyer (also known as Alaska Eagle 1981–2013) is a 20-metre (65 ft) one-off aluminium ocean racing ketch designed by Sparkman & Stephens and built by Jachtwerf W. Huisman. She won the 1977–78 Whitbread Round the World Race skippered by Conny van Rietschoten.

## 1977–78 Flyer crew

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* Conny van Rietschoten – Skipper
* Gerard (Gerry) Dijkstra – Navigator/Watchleader
* Aedgard Koekebakker – Watchleader
* John Anderson
* Bruce Ashwood
* Bert Dykema – Doctor
* Adrian Ford – Sailmaker
* Billy Johnson
* Marcel Laurin – Cook
* Chris Moselen
* Ari Steinberg
* Rod White
* Hugh Wilson – Shipwright