1843 U.S. Supreme Court decision: Smith v. Condry

U.S. Supreme Court

Smith v. Condry, 42 U.S. 1 How. 28 28 (1843)

Smith v. Condry
42 U.S. (1 How.) 28
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED
STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Syllabus
When a collision of vessels occurs in an English port, the rights of the parties depend upon the provisions of the British statutes then in force, and if doubts exist as to their true construction, this Court will adopt that which is sanctioned by their own courts.
By the English statutes as interpreted in their courts, the master or owner of a vessel, trading to or from the port of Liverpool, is not answerable for damages occasioned by the fault of the pilot.

Dennis Condry abt 1695-1760, Gosport & Newburyport Records

The earliest Dennis Condry records thus far located that connect to the sailing Condry families of Newburyport, Massachusetts come from an island in the Isles of Shoals about 10 miles Northeast of Newburyport (formerly Newberry or Newberry Plantation) or due East of Portsmouth and the Hamptons in modern day New Hampshire.

Here also is a Dennis Condrey secondary record of marriage to Mary Kreswell, widow of Robert Kreswell, Isle of Shoals, from the records or Gosport, suggestive of some time spent on this tiny island sometime between 1725 to 1731.

A son, Timothy Condre, was born December 25th, 1731 or alternately January 30th, 1732, possibly in Newburyport (according to online Essex County, Massachusetts records).

The New England historical and genealogical register, Volume 67, Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 1912, p. 244.

A Mary Condry is listed as a part of the "Later Membership of the Church of Gosport" on pages 59-61 of
"A Record of Communicants Admitted by " [the words
" Rev  John Tucke(ed: see John Tucker) " being erased]. In an abbreviated form the
list is this :

March 4' 1732/33. - Mary Condry & -f Dorothy Valpy.

Source:  The New England historical and genealogical register, Volume 66, Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 1912. p 142.