Person:Stephen Synnott (1)

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Stephen Campbell Synnott
m. 13 Dec 1837
  1. Edward A SYNNOTT1839 -
  2. Stephen Campbell Synnott1843 - 1914
  3. Hannah E Synnott1847 - 1933
  4. Jane M SynnottAbt 1849 -
m. 29 Mar 1873
  1. Victoria May Synnott1873 - 1953
  2. LYDIA GERTRUDE SYNNOTT1875 - 1960
  3. Edward Archibald SYNNOTT1877 - 1972
  4. Eugene Jackson Synnott1880 - 1966
  5. Leta Florence Synnott1886 -
Facts and Events
Name[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] Stephen Campbell Synnott
Gender Male
Birth[10][11][12] 8 Feb 1843 Georgetown, Sagadahoc, Maine, United States
Residence? 1850 Georgetown, Sagadahoc, Maine, USABefore 1854, part of Lincoln County. Before 1720, part of York County
Occupation? 1860 Georgetown, Sagadahoc, Maine, USA Fishing
Residence? 1860 Georgetown, Sagadahoc, Maine, USA
Military? Bef 1865 USS Montgomery, patrolling North Carolina etc.
Military[6] Bet 1865 and 1866 Private, Company G, 12th ME Infantry, 14 Feb 1865 - 6 Mar 1866
Occupation? 1870 Georgetown, Sagadahoc, Maine, United States Fisherman
Residence? 1870 Georgetown, Sagadahoc, Maine, USAWith mother and John Mains, age 13.
Marriage Notice 24 Mar 1873 Georgetown, Sagadahoc, Maine, United Statesper vital records
to Anna Francena Blaisdell
Marriage 29 Mar 1873 Georgetown, Sagadahoc, Maine, USAto Anna Francena Blaisdell
Occupation? 1880 Georgetown, Sagadahoc, Maine, United States Fisherman
Residence? 1880 Georgetown, Sagadahoc, Maine, USA
Residence? Jun 1890 Sagadahoc, Maine, USA
Residence? 1900 Bath, Sagadahoc, Maine, USA
Residence 29 Apr 1909 Kittery, York, Maine, United StatesFernald house on Whippie street
with Anna Francena Blaisdell
Residence? 1910 Kittery, York, Maine, USA
Occupation? Bef 1914 Rigger
Death[13] 13 Feb 1914 Kittery, York, Maine, United States
Burial[11] 1914 Kittery, York, Maine, United StatesOrchard Grove Cemetery

United States Navy, during Civil War

USS Montgomery

(ScStGbt.: t. 787; l. 201'6"; b. 28'7"; dr. 15'6"; s. 8 k.; a. 1 8", 4 32-pdrs.)

Montgomery, a wooden screw steamer, was built at New York in 1858; chartered by the Navy in May 1861; purchased at New York 28 August 1861; and commissioned 27 May 1861 at New York, Comdr. O. S. Glisson in command.

From June to November, Montgomery blockaded Apalachicola, Fla., off which she captured Finland, lacking proper papers, 29 August. In November, she began patrolling the coast from Washington to Cape Fear River, and on the 8th had a running fight with Tallahassee, the Confederate iron propellor. After temporary duty off Ship Island 2 December, she was attacked off Horn Island Pass 2 days later by Florida and Pamlico, but was not damaged.

Joining the East Gulf Blockading Squadron 20 January 1862, Montgomery reported off Ship Island 3 days later. She took schooner Isabel (formerly W. R. King) off Atchafalaya Bay 1 February, then carried dispatches to Tampa before joining the West Gulf Blockading Squadron to hunt for schooner Columbia off San Luis Pass, Tex., 5 April. Finding the schooner abandoned, Montgomery burned her, then captured a large sloop. Cruising the Mexican and Texas coasts, she helped free American citizens held in Mexico the latter part of April and took British schooner Will-o’-the-Wisp of the Rio Grande 3 June.

Further prizes were Blanche, chased ashore at Havana 7 October; British steamer Caroline, taken off Mobile 28 October; and sloop William E. Chester, taken 20 November. She continued to blockade Mobile into 1863, then joined the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, searching for Confederate cruiser Tacony off Nantucket Shoals in June and Confederate armed cruiser Florida in the same area in July. In August she joined the Wilmington Blockade for the remainder of the year.

Among her 1864 operations in this area were the capture of Pet 11February; the destruction of blockade running steamer Dove 7June; the capture of Bendigo, aground on Wilmington Bar 13 June; and the seizure of Bat off Western Bar 11 October. Other ships of the blockade aided in these captures. In December and January she joined in the attack on and capture of Fort Fisher.

In February 1865, Montgomery patrolled off Cape Fear River, engaging Half Moon Battery the 11th, then beginning a coastal patrol from Wilmington to Georgetown, S.C., 24 February. Decommissioning at Philadelphia Navy Yard 20 June 1865, she was sold at public auction 10 August 1865, redocumented 1 April 1866, and had merchant service into 1877.


Source: Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, Department of the Navy, Naval Historical Center, Washington Navy Yard, Washington, DC.

-- From the Vermont Civil War Website: http://www.vermontcivilwar.org/units/navy/ships/montgomery.php

See also Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Montgomery_(1861)

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References
  1. Sagadahoc, Maine, United States. 1880 U.S. Census Population Schedule
    Census Place: Georgetown, Sagadahoc, Maine; Roll: T9_488; Family History Film: 1254488; Page: 123.1000; Enumeration District: 148; Image: 0255., 1880.

    Name: Stephen C. SynnottBirth: abt 1844MaineResidence: 1880Georgetown, Sagadahoc, Maine, United States

  2. Sagadahoc, Maine, United States. 1870 U.S. Census Population Schedule
    Census Place: , , ; Roll: M593, 1870.

    Name: Stephen SynottBirth: abt 1843MaineResidence: 1870Georgetown, Sagadahoc, Maine

  3. York, Maine, United States. 1910 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington, DC: United States Census Bureau, 1910)
    Census Place: Kittery, York, Maine; Roll: T624_548; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 247; Image: 204., 1910.

    Name: Stephen C SynnottBirth: abt 1843MaineResidence: 1910Kittery, York, Maine

  4. Lincoln, Maine, United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedules. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication M432)
    Census Place: Georgetown, Lincoln, Maine; Roll: M432_261; Page: 115; Image: 18., 1850.

    Birth date: abt 1843Birth place: MaineResidence date: 1850Residence place: Georgetown, Lincoln, Maine

  5. Ancestry.com. 1890 Veterans Schedules. (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Special Schedules of the Eleventh Census (1890) Enumerating Union Veterans and Widows of Union Veterans of the Civil Wa;)
    Year: 1890; Census Place: Georgetown and Arrowsic, Sagadahoc, Maine; Roll: 6; Page: 2; Enumeration District: 166.

    Name: Stephen C SynnottResidence Date: June 1890Residence Place: Sagadahoc, Maine, United States

  6. 6.0 6.1 National Archives and Records Administration. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934. (Name: Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2000;).

    Online publication - National Archives and Records Administration. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2000.Original data - General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, T288, 544 rolls.

  7. Sagadahoc, Maine, United States. 1860 U.S. Census Population Schedule
    Census Place: Georgetown, Sagadahoc, Maine; Roll: M653_448; Page: 0; Image: 390., 1860.

    Name: Stephen SynnottBirth: abt 1842MaineResidence: 1860Georgetown, Sagadahoc, Maine

  8. National Park Service. U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865. (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2007.Original data - National Park Service, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, online <http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/>, acquired 2007.Original data: National Park Service, Civil Wa;).
  9. Synnott, Stephen C, in Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System: aka CWSS. (National Park Service).

    Synnott, Stephen C. Union Infantry, 12th Regiment, Maine Infantry
    Synnott, Stephen C. Union Infantry, 7th Unassigned Company, Maine Infantry

    Information on the 12th Regiment, Maine Infantry can be found at the National Park Service site.

    There is no information on the 7th Unassigned Company, Maine Infantry at the National Park Service site.

  10. Sagadahoc, Maine, United States. 1900 U.S. Census Population Schedule
    Census Place: Bath, Sagadahoc, Maine; Roll: T623 599; Page: 14B; Enumeration District: 206., 1900.

    Name: Stephan C SynnottBirth: abt 1843MaineResidence: 1900Bath, Sagadahoc, Maine

  11. 11.0 11.1 Orchard Grove Cemetery
    30 May 2009.

    email from Virginia Blaisdell Coursen re her visit to Kittery's Orchard Grove Cemetery, where she found stones for Stephen and Anne Synnott, and Victoria and Frederick Dodge.

  12. Stephen Campbell Synnott, in Hill, Mary Pelham. Vital records of Georgetown, Maine, to the year 1892. (Maine Historical Society, 1939-1941)
    Online database, FamilySearch Record Search, Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900, Accessed 8 Sep 2010.

    Name Stephen Campbell Synnott
    Gender Male
    Birth Date 08 Feb 1843
    Birthplace GEORGETOWN,SAGADAHOC,MAINE
    Father's Name Edward Synnott
    Mother's Name Mary
    Indexing Project (Batch) Number C50302-1
    System Origin Maine-ODM
    Source Film Number 873976

  13. Stephen C Synnott, in Maine, United States. Maine Death Records, 1617-1922. (Augusta, ME: Maine State Archives)
    Online database, Accessed 24 Mar 2011.

    Record of a Death: Stephen C Synnott
    Place of Death: Kittery, ME
    Date of Death: 1914 Feb 13
    Age: 71 years 5 days
    Born: Bath, ME
    White, Male, Married. Occupation: Rigger
    Father: Edward Synnott, born England
    Mother: Mary Campbell, born Maine
    Father's occupation: Laborer
    Cause of Death: Valvular Heart Disease
    Doctor: EE Shapleigh of Kittery
    Burial: Kittery Maine
    Undertaker: H W Nickerson of Portsmouth, NH
    Clerk: C M Prince, Kittery, Me.