Charles Joseph Shackford was the youngest son of William and Mary Cutter (Lincoln) Shackford. His father William retired as a sea captain in 1833 at the age of 50 and started a family with his second wife, Mary Cutter Lincoln. His children most likely heard many stories about his adventures at sea.
Charles' birth record can also be found in the Maine, Births and Christenings, 1739-1900," index and he is found on June 18, 1860 at age six in is father's home in the 1860 census, but we have not yet found any other documents that mention what ship he was aboard when he died at sea or when in 1870 he died. We do know from this same source that his father, William died in March of that same year. We'll keep looking for old newspaper articles that may mention more about Charles' death.
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REFERENCES:
1860 United States Federal Census, Washington, Maine, population schedule, Eastport, Page 28 (penned), Dwelling 167, Family 191, William Shackford; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 9 August 2013).
Little George Thomas, Rev Henry S. Burrage, and Albert Roscoe Stubbs, Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine Volume II (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1909), page 838; digital images, Google Books (http://books.google.com/ : accessed 2 March 2014
Maine State of Maine, "Maine, Births and Christenings, 1739-1900," index," database index, FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org : accessed 29 August 2013), Charles J Shackford b. 5 May 1854
Note: There is another Charles Joseph Shackford (1834-1894), son of Josiah Ring Shackford and Mary Garland who lived in Barnstead and moved to Lynn.
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