After visiting the U.S.S. Constitution we took a turn through the
Charlestown Navy Yard
Museum that showed the history of the boat yard, the boats it had built and repaired. The yard had the first dry dock in North America and is still in use today. One of the things I discovered was a shipwright's tool chest from the 1830 to 1878 period. My sister Rose has one exactly like it with the tools inside. It belonged to one of our great, great uncles who came from Elstow, Bedfordshire, England, worked in Boston for a time, we believe ship building, then moved onto New Zealand, in the late 1800's. They farmed in Te Aroha, then both Uncles won side by side ballots for the Firth Estate ballot in 1904 and moved to Peria, Matamata.
After visiting the U.S.S. Constitution we took a turn through the Charlestown Navy Yard Museum that showed the history of the boat yard, the boats it had built and repaired. The yard had the first dry dock in North America and is still in use today. One of the things I discovered was a shipwright's tool chest from the 1830 to 1878 period. My sister Rose has one exactly like it with the tools inside. It belonged to one of our great, great uncles who came from Elstow, Bedfordshire, England, worked in Boston for a time, we believe ship building, then moved onto New Zealand, in the late 1800's. They farmed in Te Aroha, then both Uncles won side by side ballots for the Firth Estate ballot in 1904 and moved to Peria, Matamata. 
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