Nathaniel Meserve
Nathaniel Meserve (1704–1758) was an American shipbuilder.
Meserve was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to Clement Maserve and his wife Elizabeth Jones.
On December 16, 1725, aged 21, he married Jane Libby and together they had ten children. Nathaniel Meserve would become a
shipwright
in his native Portsmouth, a hub of early American shipbuilding.
During
Halifax, Nova Scotia
.
In 1758 Col. Nathaniel Meserve was with
Fortress Louisbourg because of his service in the 1745 capture of the fort. Here he contracted smallpox
and died along with his eldest son.
Sources
- Louisbourg: From its Founding to its Fall by J.S. McLennan, Macmillan and Co. LTD London, UK 1918
- The Taking of Louisburg 1745 by Samuel Adams Drake, Lee and Shepard Publishers Boston Mass. USA 1891 (reprinted by Kessinger Publishing ISBN 978-0-548-62234-6)
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