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Maritime CAPTAINS, MASTERS - Mississippi Gulf Coast-Mississippi Sound, compiled by Else J. Martin
Elizabeth was the daughter of William Marcus, a barge builder of South Carolina. Moses Broadus moved to Mobile Co., Ala., where Moses was an established barge builder. They first lived in the area of Grand Bay and Bayou La Batre. In 1832 they moved to the Pascagoula and Escatawpa River area and continued building barges and schooners. Broadus Family History.
BROWN, Capt. Frank W.
•	1899 - "Capt. Frank W. Brown, of the three masted schooner Sarah A. fuller, which is loading with lumber in the bay for Boston, has made many friends in Scranton by his genial and liberal friendship toward those who have had the good fortune to meet him. He will carry with him the good wishes of all for a bon voyage. DStar, Jan. 20, 1899.
BROWN, John H.
•	1856 - Steamboat Pascagoula, built 1847 in Jackson Co., Miss. Enrolled No. 9, April 16, 1847 at Shieldsborough, Miss. Enrolled No. 133, Oct. 8, 1856 at New Orleans. Owners were John H.
Brown and Thomas Hawkins, New Orleans, La.; and Emile A. Porche of Pointe Coupee, La. Master, John H. Brown. NOSRE 5. Editor's Note: Thomas Hawkins is most likely the Thomas Hawkins married to Evelina Krebs of Pascagoula, the daughter of Helaire and Irene Bermuchand Krebs.
BRYANT, George
•	1900, Tug boat captain, lived in Court House St., Scranton, born in Georgia. 1900 U. S. Census.
BRUCE, Capt. C. H.
•	On an afternoon recently the Democrat-Star reporter went aboard the staunch three-masted schooner, Lena R. Storer, Capt. C. H. Bruce, Master, which arrived from Matanzas, Cuba, and moored at Capt. Geo. Frentz's Shipyard wharf when he met Mr. Olaf Petersen, the mate, from whom he learned the vessel rode through several rough northers, and made, not withstanding the quickest passage on record between that port and this. Matanzas is a typical seaport town on a beautiful though small open bay, in which vessels anchor and unload their cargoes on lighters to be conveyed up the Matanzas river a short distance where they are discharged. One of the pretty sights as you enter the river are the rugged walls of rock, on a most prominent one of which stands a church. DStar, Mar. 16, 1899.
BUCHANAN, Capt. James
•	1874 - Texas Ranger. In the big 1874 Gulf of Mexico Hurricane, four of Moss Point/Pascagoula schooners were damaged or lost. The Texas Ranger was built at Moss Point last winter, Messrs Denny & Co., being the principal owners; partly owned by Capt. Buchanan, her builder and Captain. Last May she was sunk in the Mississippi river and badly injured, was repaired at much expense, and on her first trip thereafter, bound for Indianola, from here, with a load of lumber for Westhoff & Co., encountered the storm, and now lies bottom up, one half mile north of Brazos bar, on Padre Island. Of the ten persons on board, only two, Juan Tarana and Robt. Leffy, were saved. Capt. Buchanan's body was recovered and buried. The Capt's son, a youth of fifteen just form school, was also lost, and the mate, Perrine, had just married here to Mary ?, both of whom were lost. The vessel was uninsured. The PStar, Sept. 19, 1874.
•	1874 - The Katie Buchanan, owned by Capt. Jas. And Chs. Buchanan, Wilson, Master, from New York to Houston, with cargo of cement, went ashore on 6th and is high and dry off Saluria, but can probably be gotten off, states the Indianola Bulletin. This is the first vessel, we understood, that ever cleared from New York for Houston.. The PStar, Sept. 19, 1874.
BUDDIG, Henry
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