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Postmasters and Collectors of Customs of Plymouth, Massachusetts


Postmasters at Plymouth, 1792-1981 (may be incomplete!)
William Watson 1792-98 William Goodwin 1798-1803 James Warren, Jr. 1803-21 William Brown 1821-32 Bridgham Russell 1832-40 Jeremiah Farris 1840-41 Ephraim Spooner 1841 Joseph Lucas 1841-43 Ephraim Spooner 1843-54 Moses Bates, Jr. 1854-57 Charles A. S. Perkins 1857-61 George F. Weston 1861-81 George H. Chase 1881-85 William Burns 1885-89 Winslow W. Avery 1889-94 Frederick L. Churchill 1894-98 Allen T. Holmes 1898-1905 George V. Bennett 1905-14 Michael E. Comiskey 1914-23 Howard M. Douglas 1923-35 William F. Goodwin 1935 William F. Goodwin 1935-61 Francis P. Shea 1965 Francis P. Shea 1965-81


Collectors of Customs at Plymouth, 1789-1909 (may be incomplete!)
William Watson 1789-1803 Henry Warren as of 1816 Zabdiel Sampson 1820-28 Edward Preble Little as of 1854 Thomas Loring 1874-77 Samuel H. Doten as of 1879-81 Herbert Morissey as of 1909

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1828 Jul 19: Zabdiel Sampson, died in office.

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