Fairhaven, originally a part of New Bedford, was incorporated as a separate township in 1812.
Grue, proprietors of the Wisconsin Grocery, rank as the foremost merchants of Fairhaven.
Half of Fairhaven was made up of fishermen, and the rest were widows and the usual village contingent.
He also reduced part of the towns of Bedford and Fairhaven to ashes, in which some military and naval stores had been collected.
He rode through the gale into Fairhaven, thinking nothing of Mrs. Valentine's house, waiting on fate to show him the way.
