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Note: N292 David Meriwether
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David Meriwether was born 5 Oct 1716 in Hanover County, the second son and child of David Meriwether and Anne Holmes. On 5 December 1734 Nicholas Meriwether II signed a deed granting land to his grandsons Thomas and David. This is the only known direct evidence that David was a direct descendant of Nicholas Meriwether.
David became a seaman, eventually commanding a number of merchant vessels sailing between Virginia and England. Apprenticeship records in Virginia and England have not been located, but by 1741 David was an acknowledged sailing master. In 1742 and 1743 he commanded the "Tiger" or "Tiger Galley". In 1745 he assumed command of the "Lillie" and from the last 1760s to his death he commanded the "York".
David married Mary Weaver on 20 Jun 1743 in Yazor Parish, Herefordshire, England, and they lived a number of years in Bristol, where the first few of their children were born. In the early 1750s they moved back to Virginia where the remainder of his children are believed to have been born, although his wife and several children returned to Bristol before her death in 1767.
David died 23 Aug 1772 on board his ship "York" sailing from Yorktowne, Virginia, to Bristol, England, and was buried at sea.
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Note: N298 The Boston Gazette (Boston, Massachusetts), 2 July 1759
Capt. Meriwether Arrives in Boston
Capt. Meriweather who arrived here last Friday, in 8 weeks and 2 days from Bristol, we have an English Print of the 28th of April, from which we have extracted the following…
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Note: N297 The Pennsylvania Gazette, 26 May 1768
Capt. Merriweather & The York Sail from Bristol
Bristol, March 5, Sailed, The York, Merriweather, for Virginia.
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Note: N299 Boston News-Letter and New England Chronicle, 13 October 1768
Capt. Merriweather's York Disabled
A letter from Capt. Brown, who is arrived at North Carolina from this place, mentions that on his passage thither, the 19th of August, in Lat. 38. 30. Long. 69. 46 he met with the ship York, Capt. Merriweather, bound from Virginia to Bristol, who in the morning of that day left his main and mizen mast, in a violent gale of wind, or rather, hurricane, and then lay as a wreck upon the water.
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