The Brewster Historical Society

Special Exhibition: “Brewster Travels”

This exhibit, featuring rare antique photographs and travel accessories, will be on view until July.

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

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

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, thus officially dividing North Harwich Parish from Harwich, thereby creating the town of Brewster.

Barque Kedar	The 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.


The 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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