The Brewster Historical Society

Special Exhibition

This exhibit features antique home and garden accessories from yesteryear Brewster homes.

Portraits of Captain Freeman H. Bangs and wife, Susan, circa 1840.

Born in 1809, Freeman Bangs first went to sea as a boy. By 1835 he had command of the ship Roxanna
and was engaged in the Mediterranean trade. Susan, also born in 1809, was a Griffith of Brewster.

Items from the reception area and Main Gallery.

18th Century Block Front Desk

This mahogany desk belonged to the Clark family of Stoney Brook Road. Upon this desk the articles of separation
were signed in 1803, officially dividing North Harwich Parish from Harwich, thereby creating the town of Brewster.
The desk is currently on loan to the Winterthur Museum & Country Estate in Winterthur, Delaware.
It is part of their exhibit "Harbor and Home Furniture of Southeastern Massachusetts, 1710 - 1850",
March 21 - May 25, 2009.

Barque Kedar	Mountain Wave

This watercolor painting by the French artist, Honore Pellegrin, depicts the Barque Kedar entering the port of Marseilles in June 1855. Benjamin Fessenden was her Shipmaster.	This 1854 watercolor was painted by Nicolas Cammillieri, a Maltese port artist. Captain Isaac Fessenden was Shipmaster of this Boston vessel.


Undaunted

	This oil painting of the ship, Undaunted, was executed by the Belgian artist Egide Linning in 1857. In 1859, part of Captain William Freeman’s crew mutinied and the Captain was severely wounded. However, he remained with the ship and turned the mutineers over to the U.S. Consul at St. John, Nova Scotia.

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