Voyage: 1843
Ship: Manteo
Marinda Wadsworth was the daughter of Capt. Ahira Wadsworth and his first wife, Deborah Sprague. She was raised in her family’s home at 338 Washington Street. In 1828, she married Capt. Joshua Drew (1798-1763) and they had three children together. In 1843 Sally Freeman Dawes wrote her husband, “Capt Joshua Drew has took his wife and one child with him, in fact most of the women have gone to sea.” At that time, Joshua Drew was the captain of E. Weston and Sons ship, Manteo, a merchant ship that primarily brought cotton from New Orleans to Liverpool, England. The child could have been the couple’s young daughters, ten-year-old Emma or four-year-old Flora. Marinda was pregnant on this voyage; son Joshua was born in Alabama.
Capt. Drew died at age 65 in 1860. Marinda lived another 31 years, dying in 1894. She is buried in Mayflower Cemetery, Duxbury, MA. Her sister, Catherine Wadsworth Drew Ford, and sister-in-law, Beulah Holmes Wadsworth, also appear on this list.
Sources:
Dawes Family Collection, DALMSS.004, Drew Archival Library
