George Claghorn

George Claghorn was an American patriot and shipwright. He served as an officer and was wounded in the American Revolutionary War. After the war, he was awarded the rank of colonel in the Massachusetts militia. Claghorn was the master shipbuilder of the USS160Constitution , which he built for the first American navy during the years 179497. The Constitution is the oldest naval vessel in the world that is still commissioned, afloat and seaworthy.

Claghorn was born in 1748, the ninth child of Experience and Shubael Claghorn in Chilmark, Massachusetts on Marthas Vineyard. As a family name, Claghorn appears in Scottish records as early as 1350 in Edinburgh, Cramond, Lothian and Corstorphine. His greatgrandfather, James, had been brought to New England in 1650 as a prisoner of war during the Scottish Rebellion, following the Battle of Dunbar. Claghorn married Deborah Brownell of Dartmouth on December 20, 1769, and they had eight children. He died in 1824 in Seekonk, Massachusetts.

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