RARE HAVERHILL MASS. MORTGAGE RECEIPT 1747, CAPT EDWARD TYNG,RICHARD HAREN,SALEM

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Massachusetts Bay Colony Document....
"Salem Jan 19 1747
Recd of Joseph Bowditch Two deed of Mortgage   one from Richard Haren to Edward Tyng Esq.
for Certain Land, in Haverhill and the other from the Sd Richard Haren + Richard Haren Junr for
other Land, in Haverhill  made also to the Sd Edward Tyng.  both Said deed, are Recorded in the
Record of the County of Essex in Libr 91.......I say Recd in behalf of the Sd Edward Tyng
pr  John Coudrey"
Tyngsborough Massachusetts named for Edward Tyng.
written on reverse...."Cap Tyng  Recd for his Mortgage deed,  1747"
WATERMARK at lower left, large "G R" n partial ornate circle.
CAPTAIN TYNG was a distinguished Colonial Naval Officer, 1683-1755.
HIS BIO. BELOW.........
add .50 for 1st class/Insured to U.S....
TYNG (Ting), EDWARD
, merchant and naval officer; b. 1683 in Falmouth (now Portland, Maine), eldest son of Colonel Edward
Tyng*
and Elizabeth Clarke; married Elizabeth Parnel, a widow (daughter of Cyprian
Southack
), on 8 Jan. 1725 (
o.s.
); his second wife, Ann Waldo (sister of Samuel Waldo), whom he married on 27 Jan. 1731, bore him six children, only three of whom lived to maturity; d. 7 Sept. 1755 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Edward Tyng went to sea at an early age. He sailed as a merchant seaman and engaged in mercantile pursuits in Boston. In 1736 the General Court of Massachusetts granted him a tract of land on the Merrimack River, in consideration of his father’s services and tragic demise in a French prison.
On 16 April 1740 Governor Jonathan Belcher appointed Tyng captain of the batteries and fortifications of Boston, and on 26 August Tyng assumed command of the province’s new snow,
Prince of Orange
. For the next two years he cruised the New England coast in search of Spanish and French privateers. In the spring of 1744 Captain Tyng was sent to Annapolis Royal with news of the outbreak of war with France. He returned to Boston on 27 May, carrying 26 women and children refugees, as the Annapolis garrison feared an attack by the French and their Indian allies. In June Tyng set out in search of French privateers off the New England coast. While cruising off Cape Cod he met a French sloop, commanded by Captain Joannis-Galand
d’Olobaratz*
, and after a 12-hour engagement disabled the smaller vessel and brought it into Boston as a prize. In July he carried reinforcements to Annapolis Royal, breaking the siege of that fortress by Micmac and Malecite Indians. The rest of the year he spent in convoy duty between Boston and the Grand Banks of Newfoundland.
On 27 Jan. 1744/45, Captain Tyng was elevated to the command of a new, larger vessel, the
Massachusetts
. He sailed from Boston on 16 March 1745 as commodore of the colonial flotilla of 13 armed and about 90 transport vessels engaged in the expedition against Louisbourg, Île Royale (Cape Breton Island). During this campaign he performed blockade duty and was involved, along with ships commanded by Peter
Warren
, in the early stages of the chase that led to the capture of the French man-of-war
Vigilant
, commanded by Alexandre de
La Maisonfort
Du Boisdecourt. He participated in the destruction of Port-Dauphin (Englishtown, N.S.) and in June went to relieve Annapolis Royal which had been briefly besieged by the French and Indians in May. Tyng was still commanding the
Massachusetts
in April 1747.
One of the leading American naval officers of the colonial period, Tyng died in Boston on 7 Sept. 1755, after suffering for six years the effects of a paralytic stroke.
Robert L. Wagner