Interred 4/4/1859
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From this union three (3) survived:
MARIANNE CLARKE (MACKINTOSH), 1882
HENRY BURDITT MACKINTOSH, 1902
SARAH BURDITT MACKINTOSH, 1907
Contributor: Aaron Furtado Baldwin (50965906)
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HAWAII'S FIRST ENGLISH NEWSPAPER AND ITS EDITOR BY HELEN P. HOYT
"Many people take newspapers, but few preserve them; yet the most interesting
reading imaginable is a file of old newspapers. It brings up the very age, with all its bustle and everyday affairs, and makes its genius and its spirit more than the most labored descriptions of the historian ... It's easy to preserve newspapers, and they will repay the trouble, for like wine, their value increases with their years."
It would be difficult to find a better introduction co a study of Hawaii's first English newspaper than chis direct quotation from its editorial page of January 21, 1837. The Sandwich Island Gazette and Journal of Commerce was then six months old, and Stephen Davis Mackintosh, the twenty-two-year-old editor, publisher and owner, was trying to lengthen the list of his subscribers. To publish even a weekly newspaper in the 1830's in a small, isolated island town whose total population of approximately six thousand, contained about four hundred English-speaking residents, required the great energy, ambition, and temerity of youth. Stephen Mackintosh had all of these characteristics.
He was born in Boston, February 26, 1814, the oldest son of Peter Mackintosh, Jr. and Dorcas Burditt Mackintosh. His maternal grandfather, Ebenezer Burditt, was a lumber merchant and wharfinger, owning several wharves in North Boston, as well as blocks of flats in the city. When his estate was divided, Stephen's mother became comparatively wealthy. Peter Mackintosh, Jr., Stephen's father, had been a successful dry goods merchant, but after his wife inherited money, he sold his dry goods business, and became a schoolmaster at the old Hancock School on Hanover St. in Boston.
With uncles on both sides of the family who were booksellers and merchants in Boston, with wharves owned by the family, it was only natural that trade overseas in a warmer climate was considered a career for Stephen, who was a slight, frail boy, and, as he himself expresses it, was "of pulmonary habits." (Aug. 20, 1836).
Captain William Sturgis Hinckley, whose wife, Charlotte Andrews, was a sister-in-law of Stephen's Uncle Henry Burditt, was considering a trading venture in the Sandwich Islands, and Stephen was given the opportunity to accompany him as junior clerk. A second junior clerk, another relative of Mrs. Hinckley, Samuel Andrews Cushing, was also engaged, and as a companion for Mrs. Hinckley, Miss Harriet Davis of Newburyport, was included in the party. Harriet had a sweetheart in Honolulu, Charles Rand Smith, to whom she was married several months after her arrival.
63rd Annual Hawaiian Historical Society Annual Report
NOTE: This was the beginning of the Mackintosh/McIntosh Family in Hawaii, most note-worthy Peter Cushman Jones, son of Jane MacIntosh Baldwin, whose grandfather Capt. Isaac Baldwin (1738–1775) died in the Battle of Bunker Hill.
I'm the 9th great-grandson of Deacon Henry Baldwin (Memorial ID # 20524479) of Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
Contributor: Aaron Furtado Baldwin (50965906)
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From this union three (3) survived:
MARIANNE CLARKE (MACKINTOSH), 1882
HENRY BURDITT MACKINTOSH, 1902
SARAH BURDITT MACKINTOSH, 1907
Contributor: Aaron Furtado Baldwin (50965906)
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HAWAII'S FIRST ENGLISH NEWSPAPER AND ITS EDITOR BY HELEN P. HOYT
"Many people take newspapers, but few preserve them; yet the most interesting
reading imaginable is a file of old newspapers. It brings up the very age, with all its bustle and everyday affairs, and makes its genius and its spirit more than the most labored descriptions of the historian ... It's easy to preserve newspapers, and they will repay the trouble, for like wine, their value increases with their years."
It would be difficult to find a better introduction co a study of Hawaii's first English newspaper than chis direct quotation from its editorial page of January 21, 1837. The Sandwich Island Gazette and Journal of Commerce was then six months old, and Stephen Davis Mackintosh, the twenty-two-year-old editor, publisher and owner, was trying to lengthen the list of his subscribers. To publish even a weekly newspaper in the 1830's in a small, isolated island town whose total population of approximately six thousand, contained about four hundred English-speaking residents, required the great energy, ambition, and temerity of youth. Stephen Mackintosh had all of these characteristics.
He was born in Boston, February 26, 1814, the oldest son of Peter Mackintosh, Jr. and Dorcas Burditt Mackintosh. His maternal grandfather, Ebenezer Burditt, was a lumber merchant and wharfinger, owning several wharves in North Boston, as well as blocks of flats in the city. When his estate was divided, Stephen's mother became comparatively wealthy. Peter Mackintosh, Jr., Stephen's father, had been a successful dry goods merchant, but after his wife inherited money, he sold his dry goods business, and became a schoolmaster at the old Hancock School on Hanover St. in Boston.
With uncles on both sides of the family who were booksellers and merchants in Boston, with wharves owned by the family, it was only natural that trade overseas in a warmer climate was considered a career for Stephen, who was a slight, frail boy, and, as he himself expresses it, was "of pulmonary habits." (Aug. 20, 1836).
Captain William Sturgis Hinckley, whose wife, Charlotte Andrews, was a sister-in-law of Stephen's Uncle Henry Burditt, was considering a trading venture in the Sandwich Islands, and Stephen was given the opportunity to accompany him as junior clerk. A second junior clerk, another relative of Mrs. Hinckley, Samuel Andrews Cushing, was also engaged, and as a companion for Mrs. Hinckley, Miss Harriet Davis of Newburyport, was included in the party. Harriet had a sweetheart in Honolulu, Charles Rand Smith, to whom she was married several months after her arrival.
63rd Annual Hawaiian Historical Society Annual Report
NOTE: This was the beginning of the Mackintosh/McIntosh Family in Hawaii, most note-worthy Peter Cushman Jones, son of Jane MacIntosh Baldwin, whose grandfather Capt. Isaac Baldwin (1738–1775) died in the Battle of Bunker Hill.
I'm the 9th great-grandson of Deacon Henry Baldwin (Memorial ID # 20524479) of Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
Contributor: Aaron Furtado Baldwin (50965906)
Interred 4/4/1859
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From this union three (3) survived:
MARIANNE CLARKE (MACKINTOSH), 1882
HENRY BURDITT MACKINTOSH, 1902
SARAH BURDITT MACKINTOSH, 1907
Contributor: Aaron Furtado Baldwin (50965906)
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HAWAII'S FIRST ENGLISH NEWSPAPER AND ITS EDITOR BY HELEN P. HOYT
"Many people take newspapers, but few preserve them; yet the most interesting
reading imaginable is a file of old newspapers. It brings up the very age, with all its bustle and everyday affairs, and makes its genius and its spirit more than the most labored descriptions of the historian ... It's easy to preserve newspapers, and they will repay the trouble, for like wine, their value increases with their years."
It would be difficult to find a better introduction co a study of Hawaii's first English newspaper than chis direct quotation from its editorial page of January 21, 1837. The Sandwich Island Gazette and Journal of Commerce was then six months old, and Stephen Davis Mackintosh, the twenty-two-year-old editor, publisher and owner, was trying to lengthen the list of his subscribers. To publish even a weekly newspaper in the 1830's in a small, isolated island town whose total population of approximately six thousand, contained about four hundred English-speaking residents, required the great energy, ambition, and temerity of youth. Stephen Mackintosh had all of these characteristics.
He was born in Boston, February 26, 1814, the oldest son of Peter Mackintosh, Jr. and Dorcas Burditt Mackintosh. His maternal grandfather, Ebenezer Burditt, was a lumber merchant and wharfinger, owning several wharves in North Boston, as well as blocks of flats in the city. When his estate was divided, Stephen's mother became comparatively wealthy. Peter Mackintosh, Jr., Stephen's father, had been a successful dry goods merchant, but after his wife inherited money, he sold his dry goods business, and became a schoolmaster at the old Hancock School on Hanover St. in Boston.
With uncles on both sides of the family who were booksellers and merchants in Boston, with wharves owned by the family, it was only natural that trade overseas in a warmer climate was considered a career for Stephen, who was a slight, frail boy, and, as he himself expresses it, was "of pulmonary habits." (Aug. 20, 1836).
Captain William Sturgis Hinckley, whose wife, Charlotte Andrews, was a sister-in-law of Stephen's Uncle Henry Burditt, was considering a trading venture in the Sandwich Islands, and Stephen was given the opportunity to accompany him as junior clerk. A second junior clerk, another relative of Mrs. Hinckley, Samuel Andrews Cushing, was also engaged, and as a companion for Mrs. Hinckley, Miss Harriet Davis of Newburyport, was included in the party. Harriet had a sweetheart in Honolulu, Charles Rand Smith, to whom she was married several months after her arrival.
63rd Annual Hawaiian Historical Society Annual Report
NOTE: This was the beginning of the Mackintosh/McIntosh Family in Hawaii, most note-worthy Peter Cushman Jones, son of Jane MacIntosh Baldwin, whose grandfather Capt. Isaac Baldwin (1738–1775) died in the Battle of Bunker Hill.
I'm the 9th great-grandson of Deacon Henry Baldwin (Memorial ID # 20524479) of Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
Contributor: Aaron Furtado Baldwin (50965906)
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From this union three (3) survived:
MARIANNE CLARKE (MACKINTOSH), 1882
HENRY BURDITT MACKINTOSH, 1902
SARAH BURDITT MACKINTOSH, 1907
Contributor: Aaron Furtado Baldwin (50965906)
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HAWAII'S FIRST ENGLISH NEWSPAPER AND ITS EDITOR BY HELEN P. HOYT
"Many people take newspapers, but few preserve them; yet the most interesting
reading imaginable is a file of old newspapers. It brings up the very age, with all its bustle and everyday affairs, and makes its genius and its spirit more than the most labored descriptions of the historian ... It's easy to preserve newspapers, and they will repay the trouble, for like wine, their value increases with their years."
It would be difficult to find a better introduction co a study of Hawaii's first English newspaper than chis direct quotation from its editorial page of January 21, 1837. The Sandwich Island Gazette and Journal of Commerce was then six months old, and Stephen Davis Mackintosh, the twenty-two-year-old editor, publisher and owner, was trying to lengthen the list of his subscribers. To publish even a weekly newspaper in the 1830's in a small, isolated island town whose total population of approximately six thousand, contained about four hundred English-speaking residents, required the great energy, ambition, and temerity of youth. Stephen Mackintosh had all of these characteristics.
He was born in Boston, February 26, 1814, the oldest son of Peter Mackintosh, Jr. and Dorcas Burditt Mackintosh. His maternal grandfather, Ebenezer Burditt, was a lumber merchant and wharfinger, owning several wharves in North Boston, as well as blocks of flats in the city. When his estate was divided, Stephen's mother became comparatively wealthy. Peter Mackintosh, Jr., Stephen's father, had been a successful dry goods merchant, but after his wife inherited money, he sold his dry goods business, and became a schoolmaster at the old Hancock School on Hanover St. in Boston.
With uncles on both sides of the family who were booksellers and merchants in Boston, with wharves owned by the family, it was only natural that trade overseas in a warmer climate was considered a career for Stephen, who was a slight, frail boy, and, as he himself expresses it, was "of pulmonary habits." (Aug. 20, 1836).
Captain William Sturgis Hinckley, whose wife, Charlotte Andrews, was a sister-in-law of Stephen's Uncle Henry Burditt, was considering a trading venture in the Sandwich Islands, and Stephen was given the opportunity to accompany him as junior clerk. A second junior clerk, another relative of Mrs. Hinckley, Samuel Andrews Cushing, was also engaged, and as a companion for Mrs. Hinckley, Miss Harriet Davis of Newburyport, was included in the party. Harriet had a sweetheart in Honolulu, Charles Rand Smith, to whom she was married several months after her arrival.
63rd Annual Hawaiian Historical Society Annual Report
NOTE: This was the beginning of the Mackintosh/McIntosh Family in Hawaii, most note-worthy Peter Cushman Jones, son of Jane MacIntosh Baldwin, whose grandfather Capt. Isaac Baldwin (1738–1775) died in the Battle of Bunker Hill.
I'm the 9th great-grandson of Deacon Henry Baldwin (Memorial ID # 20524479) of Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
Contributor: Aaron Furtado Baldwin (50965906)
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