{"id":11354,"date":"2015-09-02T11:16:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T15:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=11354"},"modified":"2015-09-02T11:16:11","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T15:16:11","slug":"william-halsall-artist-of-mayflower-in-plymouth-harbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/william-halsall-artist-of-mayflower-in-plymouth-harbor.html","title":{"rendered":"William Halsall: Artist of \u2018Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marine artist William Formby Halsall\u2019s<\/a> 1882 \u201cMayflower in Plymouth Harbor\u201d painting is a favorite of New Englanders and Mayflower descendants. What do we know about the painter \u2013 was he also a Mayflower descendant?<\/p>\n

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Painting: \u201cMayflower in Plymouth Harbor\u201d by William Formby Halsall, 1882. Source: Wikipedia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

William Halsall was born 20 March 1841 in Kirkdale, Lancashire, England, and came to America in 1858 at age 17.<\/p>\n

During the Civil War, Halsall enlisted in the U.S. Navy. His naval experience clearly shows in the theme of his paintings.<\/p>\n

Following the war he married Josephine A. Nickerson (1841-1915) in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. He was naturalized a U.S. citizen on 24 January 1872 at the U.S. District Court in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. He died 7 November 1919 in Winthrop, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

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While William was not a descendant of the Mayflower Pilgrims, his wife Josephine was. She was a descendant of Pilgrim Stephen Hopkins<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are many newspaper articles in GenealogyBank about William Halsall, including this one published a few weeks after his death.<\/p>\n

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Momento (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), 15 November 1919, page 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The old 1900s news article describes the hanging of his painting \u201cThe Arrival in Boston Bay of the Fleet Bearing Governor John Winthrop\u2019s Company of Colonists,\u201d saying that it \u201c\u2026is a large canvas, in which the light of the early morning is flooding the spaces of the sea and sky with a rosy tone.\u201d<\/p>\n

GenealogyBank is your go-to source for thousands of newspaper articles and historical documents about the Mayflower Pilgrims and their descendants.<\/p>\n

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