The redistricting of Essex county into two separate State House districts had led to the term gerrymander,[4] with Crowninshield, who had lost the previous year's Senate seat in a combined Essex County,[5] being placed in the new district specifically designed to favor Republicans over Federalists.

[6] However, Crowninshield lost his seat in the State House the next year, with the Newburyport Herald printing an editorial cartoon of a dead gerrymander and listing "B.W.C."

[9] This included implementation of the new Board of Commissioners administrative system and the building of several ships of the line, the backbone of a much enhanced Navy.

[1] Together, they were the parents of: On his death in Boston 1851, Benjamin Williams Crowninshield was interred in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Located next to the Salem Maritime National Historic Site, the house is now called the Brookhouse Home for Aged Women.