Samuel Drinkwater

[1] Along with William Burrows, who was forty years his junior, a 69-year-old Drinkwater captained the USS Enterprise during the War of 1812.

The house passed to his brother, Joseph,[4] after Samuel moved to Portland, Maine's largest city, in 1810.

[1] Joseph Drinkwater gifted the house to his granddaughter Martha (daughter of Sewall) prior to his 1822 death.

[5] In 1825, Drinkwater applied for a military pension, but was initially denied because deafness was not considered to be a war wound.

He was awarded the pension after an act of Congress, largely the work of John Anderson, Maine Republican.