Commodore Samuel Tucker, privateersman of Marblehead, Massachusetts, is said to have captured more British guns and British seamen than John Paul Jones or any other captain in the service of the thirteen states. After the Revolution, he lived in Bristol, Maine and died there in 1833. On June 27,1946, State Regent Barbara Weston Heywood marked the historic spot where once stood the home of Commodore Samuel Tucker in Bremer. The bronze tablet on a boulder of Maine granite was unveiled by Gail Griffin, a direct descendant of Commodore Tucker.
HERE STOOD THE HOME OF COMMODORE
SAMUEL TUCKER BORN MARBLEHEAD, 1747
DIED, BREMEN, 1833. CAPTAIN IN THE
CONTINENTAL NAVY, 1776-1781. IN 1778
COMMANDED THE FRIGATE BOSTON WHICH
CARRIED COMMISSIONER JOHN ADAMS
AND SON, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS TO FRANCE.
DURING WAR OF 1812, WITH AID OF LOCAL
SEAMEN, HE CAPTURED BRITISH PRIVATEER
CROWN OFF PEMAQUID, MEMBER OF CONVENTION
WHICH FRAMED CONSTITUTION OF MAINE, 1819.
“A MAN OF VIGILENCE, PRUDENCE AND ACTIVITY
WHO TOOK MORE PRIZES, FOUGHT MORE SEA
FIGHTS, GAINED MORE VICTORIES, THAN ANY
NAVAL HERE OF HIS AGE.”
ERECTED BY
MAINE SOCIETY, DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
JUNE 27, 1946
SAMUEL TUCKER BORN MARBLEHEAD, 1747
DIED, BREMEN, 1833. CAPTAIN IN THE
CONTINENTAL NAVY, 1776-1781. IN 1778
COMMANDED THE FRIGATE BOSTON WHICH
CARRIED COMMISSIONER JOHN ADAMS
AND SON, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS TO FRANCE.
DURING WAR OF 1812, WITH AID OF LOCAL
SEAMEN, HE CAPTURED BRITISH PRIVATEER
CROWN OFF PEMAQUID, MEMBER OF CONVENTION
WHICH FRAMED CONSTITUTION OF MAINE, 1819.
“A MAN OF VIGILENCE, PRUDENCE AND ACTIVITY
WHO TOOK MORE PRIZES, FOUGHT MORE SEA
FIGHTS, GAINED MORE VICTORIES, THAN ANY
NAVAL HERE OF HIS AGE.”
ERECTED BY
MAINE SOCIETY, DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
JUNE 27, 1946