Tate Affinities


Portuguese coin, Portland, 1752

Portuguese coin, Portland, 1752
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Tate House Museum

While Tate is best known for his role as a mast agent, he also worked a more typical job as a merchant, selling products such as lumber, including clapboards, shakes and staves, as well as fish, rum, and molasses.

He and his peers, including Jedediah Preble, Francis Waldo, and Sheriff William Tyng, became principal merchants of the colonial seaport and saw the growth of Falmouth in Casco Bay as a thriving center for the lumber trade.

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